Another Wonderful Community Day
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Another wonderful Community Day Magazine of the Parish of St Matthew with St Paul, Winchester June 2019 £1.50 Services Monday 4.30 pm Evening Prayer St Paul’s Lady Chapel/vestry/parish rooms Tuesday 4.30 pm Evening Prayer St Paul’s Lady Chapel/vestry/parish rooms Wednesday 11 am [BCP] Holy Communion St Matthew’s Wednesday 4.30 pm Evening Prayer St Paul’s Lady Chapel/vestry/parish rooms Sunday 8 am [BCP] Holy Communion St Paul’s on 1st Sunday of month St Matthew’s on all other Sundays Sunday 9.30 am Family Communion St Paul’s on 1st Sunday of month Sunday 9.30 am Parish Eucharist St Paul’s on all other Sundays Sunday 11.15 am [BCP] Holy Communion St Matthew’s on 1st Sunday of month Sunday 11.15 am [BCP] Mattins St Matthew’s on all other Sundays Interested in meeting Children and young people people/getting involved? welcome Women’s group meeting monthly, 7 pm, at first Sunday of each month: 9.30 am Family the Roebuck for supper; please contact Communion for all ages with DIY crèche and band Julia Seal, [email protected], 854849 (opportunity for children to play in band) Tea with Friends on the second Monday of 2nd to 5th Sundays: 9.30 am Parish Communion the month, 2.30–4.30 pm; please contact with activities for children and young people (five Linda Russell-Smith, 853584, or Heather different age-groups) plus a DIY crèche Riley, 862867 St Paul’s @ 4: short, informal family service with St Paul’s Coffee Pot pop-up café, usually on craft activities at 4 pm every third Sunday of the the second Monday of the month, 10 am– month, with refreshments afterwards noon in St Paul’s; children welcome confirmation preparation for those of secondary- Daytime book group reconvenes in school age September and would welcome new baptisms: contact Canon Peter Seal, 844878, members; please contact Talia Hedstrom, [email protected] 868728, or Christine Bennett, 852681 regular weekday under-fives’ services with pre- Tuesday homegroup, meeting fortnightly; school and toddler groups new members welcome; please contact toddler group, 0–3 years, Thursdays 9.30–11.30 am James Clay, 852141 in the parish rooms Meditation group, Tuesdays, 7.30 pm in St Paul’s pre-school, 2 years 9 months to school age, the parish rooms; all welcome five days a week 9.15 am–2.15 pm in St Paul’s Hall Thursday homegroup, meeting fortnightly, 7.30 for 7.45 pm; please contact Peter and Please contact Mary Copping, 07921 886016, Irene Casey, 808776 [email protected] Useful phone numbers Out-of-hours medical help 111 Police non-urgent 101 St Paul’s medical practice 853599 To report a BT landline fault 0800 800 151 Friarsgate medical practice 871730 Winchester City Council offices 840222 St Clements medical practice 852211 Bus station 0345 121 0190 Royal Hampshire County Hospital 863535 National Rail enquiries 0800 5282 100 2 | From the rector Dear friends, How truly wonderful the Community Day was, with its imaginative circus theme. Huge thanks to everyone who was involved in any way (photos on centrespread). Julia and I much enjoyed clowning around. I’m still musing on the inner clown in me. Each week I value reading the International Catholic Weekly called The Tablet. A recent front cover has a picture of a seal caught up in a fisherman’s net with the heading ‘The cry of the earth’, and then inside a fascinating article titled ‘The empty sky’ in which the writer laments, ‘There is a swift- shaped hole in my heart and it is so painful I want to weep’. It continues to report on the United Nations biodiversity report published on 6 May, which highlights the loss of wildlife as equal to climate change as one of the biggest threats we face. It seems that we are being reminded repeatedly of the twin challenges of climate change and the loss of wildlife. There was encouragement too: ‘With such huge environmental destruction on a global scale, putting our own house in order is the right thing to do. Small, simple, holy steps give a big message.’ As church communities we are taking some small steps, and I sense a gradual growing engagement: recent switch to a green energy supplier and change to LED fluorescent lights in parish hall at a cost of over £1,200; possibility of replacing some spotlights in St Paul’s my ‘annoying’ insistence, when the church heating is on, that the main doors of both churches are not left open as people arrive and leave! positive response, especially by young adults, to my Easter sermon and the warnings by the modern-day ‘prophet’ David Attenborough use of biodegradable glasses at Community Day and use of china and metal cutlery (thanks, washers-up!) by the café team user groups of St Paul’s Hall and rooms urged to avoid single-use plastic splendid articles in this magazine by Max Priesemann each month, including that alarming picture of planet earth on fire, now one of our roadside posters pair of blue tits nesting in boxes put up at St Paul’s last year replanting of churchyard at St Matthew’s using appropriate, beautiful plants. Our Building for Life project also includes many eco-friendly elements and this is an integral part of the process of reviewing the tender prices. Anyone who has had a building project at home will know that the costs often come in higher than hoped. That is our experience. A strong and skilled team from our parish is working hard with Antony Feltham-King, our architect, to see what savings can be made and which elements of the project could be delayed whilst maintaining its integrity. It’s all very complex, but we’re making good progress and are hopeful. More news as the way forward becomes clearer. As you read this magazine the Church’s year will be moving through the season of Ascension, which completes the time of our Lord’s resurrection appearances to his first disciples. Now we move into the season of the Holy Spirit. God’s life and energy is now everywhere. Here’s to that! With every good wish and prayers, Sunday services: June Bible readings 2 June Acts 1: 1–11; Luke 24: 44–53 [p. 917] 9 June Acts 2: 1–21; John 14: 8–17, 25–27 [p. 925] 16 June Proverbs 8: 1–4, 22–31; John 16: 12–15 [p. 928] 23 June Isaiah 65: 1–9; Luke 8: 26–39 [p. 969] 30 June Acts 12: 1–11; Matthew 16: 13–19 [p. 1148] | 3 Diary dates Tues 18 Thurs 27 J U N E Faith development group Toddler group St Paul’s, 10.30 am Parish rooms, 9.30–11.30 am Tues 4 Olive Branch AGM and talk Sun 30 Christian meditation St Peter’s, 7 pm Parish rooms, 7.30 pm Ordination of Liz Stuart as Christian meditation deacon Wed 5 Parish rooms, 7.30 pm Cathedral, 10 am Deanery synod bring & share Wed 19 Taizé service supper Cathedral, 6 pm Stoke Charity, 6.30 pm Deanery children’s and youth work committee Winchester Camerata concert Thurs 6 St Paul’s, 7.30 pm St Paul’s, 6.30 pm Toddler group Thurs 20 Parish rooms, 9.30–11.30 am Clean Air Day 2019 J U L Y Sun 9 Baptism of Maisie Prestidge Toddler group Sun 7 Parish rooms, 9.30–11.30 am St Paul’s, noon We welcome Liz Stuart as our Mon 10 Sun 23 part-time curate St Paul’s, 9.30 am and Women’s group Baptism of Oscar St Matthew’s, 11.15 am Roebuck Inn, 7 pm Goode St Paul’s, noon Bring and share lunch Music committee St Paul’s, 12.45 pm Vestry, 7.30 pm Mon 24 Wed 10 Tues 11 Building for Life tender revision group ‘An evening with Peter Seal’ Christian meditation St Paul’s, 5.15 pm Friends event Parish rooms, 7.30 pm Churches Together in St Paul’s, 7.30 pm Thurs 13 Winchester AGM Deadline for magazine articles United Church, 7.30 pm S E P T E M B E R Toddler group Tues 25 Sat 14 Parish rooms, 9.30–11.30 am Mothers’ Union cream tea, Fri 14 raffle, sale Peter Seal’s Clarendon Way Walk St Paul’s Coffee Pot pop-up Lynford Avenue, 2.30 pm Cathedral, 8 am café Christian meditation St Paul’s, 10 am–noon Parish rooms, 7.30 pm Sun 16 Wed 26 We’re grateful to all who send in photographs; this month St Paul’s @ 4 family service Climate change march Westminster, 1 pm they are by Mary Copping, St Paul’s, 4 pm Harriet Hide, Megan Osborn and Mollie Stannard. Family feedback We welcome those who have We pray for all who are unwell: We offer our love, sympathy and worshipped with us for the first Caroline Behan, Janet Bird, Henry prayers to close family and friends time in recent weeks, and hope Drew, Vera Edwards, Liz Elsworthy, of those who have died recently, that you may feel at home and Judy Golding, Jan Gwynne Howell, including Ann Hall, Audrey Perris, encouraged to come again. Andrew James, Julia Jones, Laura Muriel Smith and Ann Wells. Liepins, Kate Morgan, Les Scott, Jane Seal and Nicki Smith. 4 | Coming up Olive Branch Christian Counselling Service, one of Pastoral Care of the Southern Health NHS the charities the parish supports, will hold its AGM Foundation Trust (Winchester).