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Cyprian Remembrance Sunday 9th November 2014 Christmas Fayre Saturday 22nd November 2014 from 10am to 3pm The Magazine of St Cyprian’s Church,1 Lenzie November 2014 Scottish Episcopal Church Vestry Rector@ Revd. Les Ireland Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway Lay Representative@ Paul Hindle Bishop: 40 Garngaber Avenue, Lenzie G66 4LL ) The Right Revd. Dr. Gregor Duncan 776 3237 Bishop’s Office, Diocesan Centre Secretary@ Mary Boyd, 9 Northbank Road, ) 5 St Vincent Pl., Glasgow G1 2DH Kirkintilloch, G66 1EZ 776 2812 ) 0141-221 6911 fax 0141-221 6490 Treasurer@ Jacqui Stother, email: [email protected] 11 Fern Avenue, Lenzie G66 4LE ) 776 5330 Property Convenor@ Adrian Clark, Solsgirth Lodge, Langmuir Road, Kirkintilloch G66 3XN ) 776 2160 Elected Members Jacqui Barker, Pam Cyprian Bently, Eileen Ferry, Aileen Mundy, Dave Parfitt, Jill Taylor, Kevin Wilbraham Contacts Fundraising Group@ Susan Frost 776 4135 The News Magazine of /Kathryn Potts 578 0734 St. Cyprian’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Altar Guild@ Anne Carswell 776 3354 Beech Road, Lenzie, Glasgow. G66 4HN Alt. Lay Rep Adrian Clark 776 2160 Scottish Charity No. SC003826 Bible Rdg Fellowship Eric Parry 776 6422 The Scottish Episcopal Church is in full Fair Trade@ Vivienne Parry 776 6422 communion with the Church of England and Gift Aid@ Aileen Mundy 578 9449 all other churches of the Anglican Hall Bookings@ Gavin Boyd 776 2812 Communion throughout the world Link@ Rector 776 3866 Magazine@ Paul Hindle 776 3237 MU@ Maxine Gow 01360 Rector 310420 Revd. Les Ireland Pastoral Visiting@ Rector 776 3866 58 Waverley Park, Kirkintilloch, G66 2BP Protection Officer@ ) 0141-776 3866 Aileen Mundy 578 9449 email: [email protected] Rotas@ Gavin Boyd 776 2812 Day off: Friday Scottish Bible Society@ Glennis Tavener 775 2895 Social@ Andy Robb 578 1220 Pastoral Assistant Sunday Coffee@ Avril Critchlow 776 1404 Glennis Tavener ) 775 2895 Tear Fund@ Vivienne Parry 776 6422 (also Regional Council Rep.) Youth Vacant Music Team email: [email protected] @ These people can be contacted through Church Office email @stcyprianslenzie.com by using the ) 776 0880 job/group name before the @ without any spaces, e.g., [email protected]. Facebook—search: St Cyprian Lenzie 2 From the Rector Dear Friends, This month – on the second Sunday of allowed the magnitude of the horrors of the November – we have Remembrance war, able to shift huge numbers of people Sunday. This year has been particularly around quickly, able to shift around the stores poignant, in that we have remembered to sustain the fighting and armies involved. the 100th Anniversary of the beginning History would tell us how modern civilisation – a much more democratic civilisation – was of the First World War. While I some- created as a result of the great war. All of this times feel quite critical of the media, I is true. do believe this year that the TV compa- However, how history is done has changed. nies have been particularly good at Now the story is much more about the commemorating what was to become individual. This has been particularly one of the greatest / most awful / most represented in the media, as the focus has been transforming times in history. Of on the stories of individual men and women, course, the date of Remembrance Sun- and the war they experienced, and the impact day follows on from the end of the war, the war made on them, their families and their but it is the Sunday we particularly communities. There were heroes – awarded medals, recognised, showing amazing mark that great conflict, and appropri- heroism. Just this morning on the telly there ate to talk about the centenary at this was a story of the battle at Nery in France on time. 1st September 1914 where three Victoria How history is approached has changed Crosses were “won” in an hour of fighting. over the years, certainly since I studied history Other stories have been of unsung heroes; of at school, and changed for the better, I have to people both physically and psychologically say. When I was at school history was scarred by the war; of ancillary services not “Macro” – saw the big picture. In terms of the recognised at the time; of families left behind, great war, history would tell us that 9 million bereaved. So much more interesting and soldiers and 7 million civilians were killed. important – the stories of ordinary people. History would talk about how technology was Some remarkable. Some unrecognised. Most transformed. How human rights and views of not remembered. When we were down south humanity have changed. History would tell we ministered in a community of about 20,000 how that fantastic invention – the railways – Continued overleaf 3 Magazine & From the Rector DNS Deadline The next issue of Cyprian Life should be people. Almost 700 men from that community available in Church on Sunday 30th No- were killed in the First World War – the vember 2014. The deadline for material majority of young men between 18 and 35 – is 16th November and the magazine will each a story, a tragedy, each a family with cover December 2014 and January great pain, great suffering. For me, this emphasis on the stories of 2015. ordinary people is absolutely right. Even the Please pass notes, articles, photographs and most evil of people recognised that – even anything else that may be of interest to other Stalin said “one death is a tragedy, a million members of the congregation to me by the deaths is a statistic.” But as God’s people, that deadline in order to give time for typesetting emphasis on one person, the story of the and printing. Electronic format is preferred ordinary people is where we are. Each since this is usually quicker and more accurate. individual matters. The ordinary matters. Please let me know about what is important There are lots of different ways of looking to you. It is great to be able to report family at the gospels of Jesus. One way is to look at events and things happening in our local the people he dealt with. Often he was dealing community. Thank you. with individuals, or small groups, often The Diocese has now stopped producing dealing with an ordinary individual within the the regular Diocesan News Service. The crowd. Often he dealt with the person who was July/August 2014 issue was the last one. It and seen as lowly, as outcast in the society in many of the previous issues can still be which he lived. This type of event is far more downloaded from the diocesan website: www.glasgow.anglican.org. Click on the link on the right hand side of the home page to access them. I can arrange to print copies for those who don’t have internet access, though Cover Photo some copies are still available at the back of the church. There’s also a link there to the Gill Inglis has been the local news pages of the website, which continue to organiser for the Scottish Poppy be updated regularly. Appeal for over 50 years. This We are asked to keep sharing our news achievement was marked by a with everyone in the diocese by sending presentation made in front of family articles to the diocesan secretary, Chris and friends on Friday 3rd October Zochowski, who will arrange for them to be 2014 in our Hall. published by email and/or online. Email Chris at [email protected] or The photo shows Gill being presented post to c/o Diocesan Centre, 5 St Vincent with a framed certificate recording her Place, Glasgow G1 2DH. exemplary service. The views expressed in Cyprian Life are There’s more on this event and more not necessarily those of the Editor or of the photos on page 10. Scottish Episcopal Church. Paul Hindle 4 continued from page 3 frequent than his preaching to great crowds. At last history is seeing the story of the He dealt with a small group of lepers. An ordinary person as being central to the process “unclean” woman in a great crowd. A of understanding the past. It lines up with Samaritan woman, despised by both the Jews God’s ways. God sees the individual, each and her own people. He dealt with a Pharisee individual as being central to his love, his in the middle of the night. He dealt with a tax salvation, his calling. He sees you and your collector who’d climbed a tree, in the midst of story as central to his life. There is something a crowd. Each time bringing love to the to really rejoice in here! individual, love expressed in healing, acceptance, holding. To Jesus the individual mattered, the story of one person was a story Yours in Christ, he wanted to be part of. Sometimes in services with children, I have a box, and put a mirror in the bottom of it. I tell the children – in this box is a picture of the person God cares most about, that Jesus died for, that the Holy Spirit wants to share life Les with. I then pass the box around. It is wonderful to see faces light up as people see the picture of the person God cares most about – their own picture in the mirror! The Link Pastoral Care For the latest information about One of the important purposes of events at St Cyprian’s, please check Christ’s church is to provide the the Link each week in Church or on love and care we all need. our web site: If you, or anyone you know, would www.stcyprianslenzie.com like a visit from a priest or the opportunity for a confidential chat and a prayer, please The Link and the colour version of this contact the Revd.