THE LINK 50P March 2020 Tarporley Parish Magazine
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THE LINK 50p March 2020 Tarporley Parish Magazine Join a Lent Course in 2020 1 Chronicles 16:11 Look to the Lord and his strength. Seek his face always Page 2 ANDREW P. DEAN Dip N.T.C., C.G.L.I., A.V.C.M. PIANO TUNING REPAIRS and RESTORATION We’re here to help you. Your professional local service. Please call Joanne 01829 730969 0784 152 9960 [email protected] www.mollymopcleaning.co.uk (01829) 261222 Hibberts llP SOliCitOrS For all your Legal Services - Private and Commercial avenue Buildings, High Street, tarporley, Cheshire CW6 0aZ tel: (01829) 733338 Fax: (01829) 733055 email: [email protected] Advertising space Phoenix Accounting Services available. Tax and VAT Returns Revenue Accounts If you would like to Book-Keeping advertise here please Administration of Will Estates contact The Link Editor 55 Woodlands Way, Tarporley, on Cheshire CW6 0TP [email protected] t: 01829 733552 m: 07966 405314 W: www.hinchliffeholmes.co.uk Page 3 A. W. 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Rector: Georgina Watmore, The Rectory, High St, Tarporley CW6 0AG 732491 e-mail: [email protected] Assistant Curate: Julian Osborne,3 Dingle Way, Cuddington, Cheshire, CW8 2UW 07421 323699 e-mail: [email protected] Associate Minister: Trevor Davies, 5 Allansford Avenue, Waverton, CH3 7QH 0 1 2 4 4 332106 e-mail: [email protected] Tarporley: St Helen Churchwardens Phillip Posnett, Haughton Hall,. Tarporley CW6 9RH 260251 Liz Neely email [email protected] 07890 470899 Treasurer Anita Langford, 7 The Crescent, Utkinton, CW6 0LT 458351 P.C.C Secretary Marion Moss, 2 Torr Rise, Tarporley, CW6 0UD 733382 Organist Chas Hardern 732595 Bellringers Jenny Christian 732412 Cotebrook: St John Wardens Bill Spiegelberg, Oulton Park House, Tarporley, CW6 9BL 760336 Peter Copland, Moss Cottage, 732618 Utkinton Lane, Cotebrook, CW6 0JH Organist Katrina Copland, 732618 Eaton: St Thomas Wardens Rosemary Lilley, Windward Mark, Eaton Lane, Eaton, Tarporley CW6 9AG 732948 Michael Scott, Shire Barn,Moss Hall Lane, Rushton, Tarporley CW6 9GJ 760750 Organist Marjorie Rathbone 732655 LINK Editor Andy Jobson, Plessington House, Huxley Lane, Brassey Green, Tarporley, CW6 9UG 732437 Electoral Roll Mike Kiddle, 1 Woodlands Way,Tarporley, CW6 0TP 733431 Safeguarding Officer Liz Neely email [email protected] 07890 470899 Sunday Sheet email [email protected] Tarporley C.E. Primary School Mrs Kerry Forrester 01244 981230 Utkinton C.E. Primary School Ms Lorna Pleavin 732322 Done Room Booking Secretary Kathryn Palmer 733040 CONTACT POINTS: Please do not hesitate to report cases of sickness or pastoral need to the Rector 732491 To make arrangements for a Funeral please contact the Rector 732491 To ask about Wedding arrangements, baptisms or general enquiries please contact Jan email: [email protected] Website: www.tarporleyparishchurch.org e-mail: [email protected] Items for ‘The Link’ should be e-mailed to [email protected] or posted to the Link Editor by the 16th of each month. Page 5 SERVICES FOR THE MONTH March 1st THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT St Thomas 9.00am Open Worship St Helen 10.00am Open Worship St John 11.15am Holy Communion St Helen 6.30pm Evensong 6th St Helen 7.30pm World of Prayer Service See page 10 for details 8th THE SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT St Thomas 9.00am Holy Communion St Helen 10.00am Holy Communion St Helen 4.00pm Messy Church Theme ‘A lost coin and Sheep’ 15th THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT St Thomas 9.00am Holy Communion St Helen 10.00am Holy Communion 22nd THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (Mothering Sunday) St Thomas 9.00am Holy Communion St Helen 10.00am Holy Communion 29th THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT St Helen 10.00am Holy Communion St Helen 6.30pm Holy Communion April 5th PALM SUNDAY St Thomas 9.00am Open Worship St Helen 10.00am Open Worship St John 11.15am Holy Communion St Helen 6.30pm Evensong Every Wednesday at 10.00am at St Helen’s there is a service of Holy Communion. At all our Eucharist services we welcome everyone to come forward for a blessing or to receive communion. Page 6 The Rector Writes…………. An American decided to write a book about famous churches around the world, so he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to Rome. On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read ‘€100,000 per call' The American asked a priest who was passing what the telephone was used for. The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and for €100,000 you could talk to God. The American’s next stop was in Moscow. There, at a very large cathedral, he saw the same golden telephone with a similar sign that this was a direct line to heaven and that for a similarly large amount of money he could make a call directly to God. The American travelled on to Israel, Germany, Brazil,……. Everywhere he saw the same golden telephone with the equivalent of €100,000 per call sign. The American’s final destination was here in the UK where he went to York Minster. There was the same golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read '50p per call.' The American was surprised so he asked the priest about the sign. 'Reverend, I've travelled all over World and I've seen this same golden telephone in many churches. I'm told that it is a direct line to Heaven, but everywhere I went the price was the equivalent of €100,000 per call. Why is it so cheap here?' The priest smiled and answered, 'You're in Yorkshire now, - it's only a local call'. This joke is, of course, a play on the idea that Yorkshire is God’s own country but it expresses a truth about prayer. We do not need to travel somewhere special, spend lots of money, make elaborate preparations or spend vast amounts of time and energy to contact God. Prayer is simply talking to God, which can be done anywhere and in a huge variety of ways. Prayer is akin to a local telephone call or sitting chatting to a friend or going for a walk with them. And yet we all find prayer difficult. We think we don’t know how to pray, or that we are not very good at it. We worry about how we should pray and what we should pray about. The number of books about prayer is testament to what a complex and difficult subject this it – and a little later in the magazine you can read a Book Review by Walter Gibson one of our St John’s congregation, about one of the most recently published. All of this is why our Lent groups this month will focus on prayer (full details on pages 8 and 9). For each of the first four weeks we will look at various ways and forms of praying and then, for the final week (Wednesday 1st April), we will use St Helen’s for an Open Church session. For this session I have put together a total of 22 different ways to pray and these will be available in the church for Page 7 people to explore and try. It is so tempting to talk about prayer or read about prayer but there is no substitute for actually praying. I hope that this opportunity will introduce you to all sorts of new ideas and ways in which you can pray and deepen your relationship with God. The Poet George Herbert called prayer: “God's breath in man returning to his birth, the soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage”. Lent is traditionally a period of pilgrimage - a time to reflect upon our relationship with God and try, metaphorically, to draw closer to Him. I hope that this year as we journey together in worship and prayer that each of us will discover with rich new meaning how close God is to us, waiting for us to open our hearts to him With every blessing Georgina From the Parish Bookshelf:- As mentioned by Georgina above and in line with the prayer theme being studied by of one of the Lent groups, Walter Gibson offers his review of a book entitled ‘How to Pray’ by Pete Greig. “How to Pray” by Pete Greig. This new book on prayer, kindly lent by the Rector, is sub-titled “a simple guide for normal people”, which is what attracted me to it! And indeed it is very readable and full of suggestions on how we can pray more and pray differently – if like me you feel that your prayers have got a bit stuck in a rut then this will give you ideas for different approaches. The author pours into this book a lifetime of experience in praying and helping others to pray.