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Halo Magazine News and Views for the Parishes of Claverley and Tuck Hill Halo Magazine News and Views for the Parishes of Claverley and Tuck Hill www.claverley-tuckhill.co.uk March 2014 The Revd. Garry Ward The Vicarage, Lodge Park Claverley, WV5 7DP Tel: 01746 710304 Email: [email protected] CHURCH SERVICES Claverley Tuck Hill 2nd March Sunday Before Lent 8.00am - Holy Communion 9.30am – Holy Communion 4.30pm - Evensong 6.30pm – Evensong 5th March Ash Wednesday 9.00am – Holy Communion 7.30pm – Cluster Service 9th March 1st Sunday of Lent 8am – Holy Communion 9.30am – Holy Communion 6.300pm – Evensong 16th March 2nd Sunday of Lent 8.00am – Holy Communion 9.30am – Holy Communion 11.15am – Matins 6.30pm – Evensong 23rd March 3rd Sunday of Lent 8.00am – Holy Communion 9.30am – Holy Communion 11.15am – Holy Communion 6.30pm – Evensong 30th March Mothering Sunday 8.00am – Holy Communion 9.30am – Joint Communion with Tuck Hill 6.30pm – Evensong 6th April 5th Sunday of Lent / Passion Sunday 8.00am - Holy Communion 9.30am – Holy Communion 4.30pm - Evensong 6.30pm – Evensong Parish Registers February 2014: th th th th Funerals: Francis Palmer (10 ), Jane Isaacson (11 ), Tony Blower (20 ), John Jones (28 ) Holy ComMunion is celebrated every Wednesday, 9am at Claverley. Parish Newsletter Items Please deliver any items for the parish newsletter to The Vicarage, Post Office or Email them to [email protected] for the attention of Garry: Magazine. The deadline for the next newsletter is 15th March 2014 The next Messy Church will be Tuesday 4th March watch out for more information at school The Bishop’s Letter As I write the General Synod has just completed its February Group of Session. Overwhelmingly it has voted to move towards agreeing the next stages in the legislative process to allow women to be consecrated to the Episcopate. Many wonder at the rapid transformation from mistrust and party faction to a place where those sincerely holding opposing views believe that they can find a place with integrity within the one church. There are still stages to complete but the degree of trust is remarkable. This is due in a very great measure to the 5 guiding principles set out by the House of Bishops. (Listed Below). The Bishops are clear that the principles need to be read one with the other and held together in tension, rather than being applied selectively. The legislation is now referred back to the Diocese under what is known as Article 8 business. For us in Hereford this means that at our Diocesan Synod on the 29th of this month we will be required to express our view. I fully expect a resounding endorsement and if achieved will be one in which I deeply rejoice. Please do continue to keep this matter in your prayers. Among the reasons why this process has created such a rapid change of climate is simply because it has allowed enough respect and space for those who disagree to know that they each have a hope and a future. We have learned something of what it means to work with simplicity, reciprocity and mutuality. As a diocese I think that we are unique, in that we have no parishes with alternative Episcopal oversight. The ministry of women is widely and deeply affirmed. Long may it be so. However that does not mean that we have no faithful Anglicans who with integrity hold a different view. It would be all too easy for us as a diocese to ignore this. How we ensure that all may flourish is as much about how we respond in our hearts as it is in our processes. Seeing all as loved by Christ and held within the love of God will be important. As the future unfolds may we be able to do so with generosity as well as hope. +Alistair The 5 Guiding Principles: • Now that legislation has been passed to enable women to become bishops the Church of England is fully and unequivocally committed to all orders of ministry being open equally to all, without reference to gender, and holds that those whom it has duly ordained and appointed to office are the true and lawful holders of the office which they occupy and thus deserve due respect and canonical obedience; • Anyone who ministers within the Church of England must be prepared to acknowledge that the Church of England has reached a clear decision on the matter; • Since it continues to share the historic episcopate with other Churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church and those provinces of the Anglican Communion which continue to ordain only men as priests or bishops, the Church of England acknowledges that its own clear decision on ministry and gender is set within a broader process of discernment within the Anglican Communion and the whole Church of God; • Since those within the Church of England who, on grounds of theological conviction, are unable to receive the ministry of women bishops or priests continue to be within the spectrum of teaching and tradition of the Anglican Communion, the Church of England remains committed to enabling them to flourish within its life and structures; • Pastoral and sacramental provision for the minority within the Church of England will be made without specifying a limit of time and in a way that maintains the highest possible degree of communion and contributes to mutual flourishing across the whole Church of England. The House believes that the outworking of these principles needs to be accompanied by simplicity, reciprocity and mutuality. Thoughts from the Vicarage The headlines recently have screamed about the injustice of David Cameron and the coalition government’s plans to reform the benefit & welfare system of this country. We have heard how 27 Bishops from the Church of England have written an open letter of complaint, to Mr Cameron, attacking his reforms and stating that the changes will leave genuinely needy people in poverty, not being able to heat or feed their families. This is a real crisis in our welfare system and is the erosion of an institution that helps many of the less fortunate in our society. There have been many calls for those who have no will to work to be taken off benefits, there have been worries that welfare pays some families to much to give them any incentive to work. Well yes these stories exist but in a poll by the Guardian these stories are very few and far between. Most people on benefits would like to work and to make their own way in the world, but they can’t due to disability, circumstance or through the crushing economical disaster, which was not their fault. Ten years ago no one had ever heard of food banks. Five years ago food banks could only be found in very deprived areas of the country, today food banks are in most communities and yes we have one for this area based in Bridgnorth. People needing hand-outs of food in leafy Shropshire, who’d have thought it, but yes it exists and is doing brisk trade providing food to hungry and struggling families, old people and those who can’t find work in our neighbourhoods. All our harvest festival foods from school and food parcels donated at the services went to Bridgnorth food bank. We now have a box at the back of church where food can be donated for the food bank. I would ask you to pop in every week, if you can, and just deposit a tin or a packet of something non-perishable. I’m not asking for a week’s groceries from everyone, but just a tin a week or a packet every fortnight, to help someone somewhere get a meal ready for themselves and their family. I would like to think that our caring community could help those in need just a little. And before you say that food banks are where anyone can go and choose food, just like shopping in a free supermarket – then let me give you the facts. Everyone who claims food from the food bank must be referred by a sponsoring agent, housing association or social worker and must prove they are struggling financially – then they are issued with a voucher to claim food. They are given food which is basic and nourishing - not luxurious and certainly not junk. It is not a free for all that offers fillet steak to those who turn up, but a vital service for those genuinely in need of basic healthy food within our communities. So let’s join together to help our neighbours – it is the Gospel imperative. Just drop some tins and packets into church when you can – the box is on the rear pew, you can’t miss it. Yours in Christ, Garry. Lent Lent is the period of 40 days which comes before Easter in the Christian calendar. Beginning on Ash Wednesday (5th March this year), Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. Lent is marked by fasting, both from food and festivities. Whereas Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus after his death on the cross, Lent recalls the events leading up to and including Jesus' crucifixion by Rome. This is believed to have taken place in Roman occupied Jerusalem. The Christian churches that observe Lent in the 21st century (and not all do significantly) use it as a time for prayer and penance. Only a small number of people today fast for the whole of Lent, although some maintain the practice on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
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