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Magazine April 2021 HOLY TRINITY TAUNTON April 2021 Holy Trinity Service Times During lockdown public services are as follows: Sunday 10.00am Saturday 6.00pm Services will also continue to be streamed: Sunday Tuesday – Saturday 10.00am and 6.30pm 10.00am Services for Holy Week and Easter are listed after the Calendar To access streamed services: @ Holy Trinity Taunton Holy Trinity Taunton Fr Julian can be emailed directly: [email protected] CALVERTS of Taunton For over 70 years we have enjoyed being your local furnishings specialist for Furniture, Beds, Carpets, Fabrics and Blinds Visit our extensive showrooms where you can view the most comprehensive selection of furnishings in Taunton. Closed Sunday / Monday 94/108 Station Road, Taunton, TA1 1PD Ample parking at rear of store off Canal Road Telephone: 01823 335823 Fax: 01823 336186 Email: [email protected] www.calvertsfurniture.co.uk Traditional MENSWEAR Extensive Stock of Sizes and Prices 38-60 Chest in Suits, Jackets, Blazers - Ranges from The Label, Gurteen, , of Taunton Bladen Douglas 32-60 Waist in Trousers - Ranges from Gurteen, Meyer Oakman, Douglas FREE shortening if purchased from us 15-22 Collar in Shirts – Ranges from Double Two, Peter England, Viyella Small to 6XL in Knitwear - Ranges from Franco Ponti, Massoti, Gabicci 70 Station Road, Taunton, TA1 1NX Tel 01823 333169 Freephone 0800 056 1766 Email: [email protected] Website: ww.gurds.co.uk Tuesday-Friday 8.45 to 1.00-2.00 to 5.30 Saturday 8.45 to 4.00 Closed Monday QUEEN STREET GARAGE Car repairs, Servicing and MOT We are a small family run business. Our staff have over 30 years experience. All our technicians are fully qualified and attend ongoing training. SERVICES AVAILABLE MOTS Servicing Repairs Diagnostic Checks Air Con Services and Repairs Brakes, Exhausts & Clutches Fleet Maintenance Tel: 01823 333385 Fax: 01823 323982 www.queenstreetgarage.co.uk Queen Street Garage, Queen Street, Taunton, TA1 3AX 2021 FR JULIAN WRITES… Easter is nearly upon us, and for many people, this will likely be the most pleasurable event for some months. Warmer weather, birdsong and spring flowers all make us feel better, after what has been a very hard and dark period of a winter lockdown. It may be that this could be relaxed in the coming weeks, but its cause will be with us for some considerable time. We have recently ‘held’ the first full Parochial Church Council (via Zoom) since January last year. Since then we have made decisions on an ad hoc basis. Although for some people, a PCC meeting isn’t the definition of joy unbounded, for me this has given me a sense of renewed hope. After a year of being reactive, I sense that we are all becoming used to the idea of being proactive again, actually doing, rather than being done to. This balance between activity and passivity, doing or being done to, is very much the basis of a marvellous book by W H Vanstone, ‘The Stature of Waiting’. In it, he points out that the verbs applying to Jesus in St John’s gospel are in the active – Jesus doing. Until… Until the moment in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus is ‘handed over’ (that’s really the meaning of the Greek verb, ‘paradidomi’). We may be more used to the translation ‘betrayal’. From that moment on, Jesus is in the passive, is done to. He is arrested. He is tried. He is flogged. He is mocked. He is taken to the crucifixion site. He is crucified. He dies. He is buried. But then, there is a triumphant return to Jesus’ being active – he rises from the dead. Vanstone points out that there are often many ‘paradidomi’ moments in our lives. These may be rites of passage as we get older, starting school. Getting a job. Getting married. Having children. Buying a house. But then there is that moment, or moments, as significant to us as for Jesus in the Garden. That might be changing circumstances due to health problems. Breakdowns in relationships. Loss of job. Retirement. All these things change who we thought we were; we may feel that we have lost control and that we are victims. For all of you, there is a tipping point, a ‘paradidomi moment’. Without doubt Covid 19 has been one such. It has adversely affected not only our own lives, but that of our nation’s and our world. No longer can we take previous expectations for granted, and we have had to re-think our lives. We have felt out of control, and that we were powerless. So let’s just think once more about the message of Easter, and Jesus’ return to being a ‘doer’. Too often our lives get out of control, sometimes without us even noticing. We get drawn along a certain route, and after a while we have no power, seemingly, to resist. And then it comes to a crunch – the ‘paradidomi moment’. The resurrection shows us that hope is unconquerable, and will always win out. However, hope does not turn the clock back to a rosy past which probably never existed. Hope enables us to embrace and live a renewed future. After his resurrection, Jesus wasn’t the same Jesus is some respects, and neither were his disciples. They had to adjust to a new relationship with Jesus but founded on the previous givens. Remember his words – ‘Don’t touch me!’ This renewal of life for him, for them, for us, is the result of our acceptance of being active and passive. None of us is either one or the other, and although I may have painted a black and white picture, I know that life is grey! However, we would often think of ourselves as one or the other. We have to have the grace to accept that God is working within us wherever we are, not just in physical terms. Psalm 139 tells us, ’If I go down to the grave you are there also’. Nowhere is outside the activity of God, as we can see in life around us at the moment, and resurrection of Jesus. Happy Easter! With my prayers and all good wishes Fr Julian CRY HARRY FOR ENGLAND AND ST GEORGE Perhaps you, like me, had to study Shakepeare’s Henry V at school, or have seen either Olivier or Branagh in the film versions. In which case you will recognise this title as the closing part of Henry’s rallying cry to his troops at Agincourt. It’s part of that speech, the beginning of which everyone knows – ‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends…’ We all know that St George is the patron saint of England. As we had Dewi Sant last month, it seems only right that we have quick peek at St George (apologies to Celts across the Irish Sea, but St Patrick does seem to have higher profile than either David or George!). However, St George isn’t quite the great nationalist saint that we might imagine. To begin with, St George only became our patron saint in 1350, when Edward III founded the Order of the Garter, a cult furthered by Henry V’s victory at Agincourt. Previously, England was under the patronage of St Edmund, a ninth century East Anglian king, who was martyred. St Edmund is the patron saint of kings, and also, appropriately for today, of pandemics. St George was commonly accepted in both Greek and Latin traditions as a Roman centurion who refused to accept pagan worship. He was of Greek descent (from Cappadocia, now in Turkey) with a Syrian mother who was from Lydda in Palestine. He was martyred by beheading in 303, on April 23rd. One of the witnesses to this was the Empress Alexandra, who converted and paid the same price. He was formally declared a saint by Pope Gelasius in 494, who claimed he was one of those 'whose names are justly revered among men but whose acts are known only to God'. He is also considered a prophetic figure in Islam, and is revered widely in the near Middle East, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Catalonia, Aragon, and Moscow by Roman Catholics, the Orthodox, Lutherans and the Druze. The infamous dragon only appeared around the 11th century, but has been the stuff of popular legend ever since, partly due to a translation of the story by William Caxton. Following his martyrdom the remains of George were taken to Lod (formerly Lydda) in Israel. The Church of St George in Lod became a major focus of veneration for centuries. Various relics of George reportedly are housed in both Western and Eastern churches worldwide. However, in April 2019, the parish church of São Jorge, Madeira Island, Portugal, solemnly received the relics of George, patron saint of the parish. During the celebrations, the 504th anniversary of its foundation, the relics were brought by the new Bishop of Funchal, Dom Nuno Brás. At least he’s getting physically closer to England! Fr Julian EASTER LILIES Once again, we have not been able to commemorate loved ones through Easter lilies, as they just are not available. Last year, churches were closed – clergy even couldn’t go in – so we are at least in a slighty better position today. In order that we may have some opportunity to remember our dear departed, cards are available at the back of church for you to write their names on. These will then be made into a suitable display for Easter. If you can’t get to church physically to complete a card, please email your names to the parish office, and they will be entered on a card for you, but please do so before Maundy Thursday.
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