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BrininghamBriningham BeneficeBenefice CommunityCommunity InIn TouchTouch NovemberNovember 20202020 ChurchChurch && VillageVillage NewsNews THE BRININGHAM BENEFICE BRININGHAM St Maurice STODY St Mary BRINTON St Andrew SWANTON NOVERS St Edmund HUNWORTH St Lawrence THORNAGE All Saints www.brininghambenefice.org.uk Rector: Churchwardens: (01263) BRININGHAM: 862785 Miss Sylvia Took 860057 Mrs Karen Siddall BRINTON: Mrs Esme Bagnall-Oakeley 860247 860247 Mr Jeremy Bagnall-Oakeley HUNWORTH: 713306 Mrs Charlotte Crawley 861114 Ms Lucy Woodall STODY: 862247 Mrs Nicola Baker 860407 Mrs Morag Lloyd Advertising rates for the SWANTON NOVERS: ‘In Touch’ magazine: Mr Roger Langston 860163 1/8 page: £25 per annum THORNAGE: 1/4 page: £50 per annum Mr Joe Ashley 862298 1/2 page: £100 per annum Full page: £200 per annum Editorial Team: Invoices and receipts will be sent. BACS payments Teresa Anderson at; or cheques accepted. Contact: [email protected] [email protected] Views expressed in ‘In Touch’ are those of the individual contributor, and do not always reflect the official doctrine of the Church of England, nor necessarily the views of the Rector. Items for inclusion in the December magazine are welcomed and should be submitted by Saturday14th November please to Email: [email protected] 2 Prayer Prayers Following on from the last edition here are two more Celtic prayers from the books of David Adam. God is with you when the way is dark and life seems cold. God is with you when the body is weak and you feel old. God is with you when doubts arise and fears descend. God is with you forever, my friend. A prayer for peace of mind and spirit God of peace, relax the tensions of my body, calm the storms of my mind, still the anxieties of my heart, give me courage to wait. Let the peace of God flow through me, flow from me, flow in me. The deep, deep peace of God. 3 Remembrance Reflection This November’s acts of remembrance will be especially poignant given that 2020 has marked 75 years since the end of World War II. As a nation we were delivered from tyranny with our essential freedoms preserved. But as the Duke of Wellington once said, ‘only a battle lost is worse than a battle won’. The conflict hadn’t just redrawn political maps. It had cost the lives of over 450,000 Britons and caused an esti- mated 70 to 85 million deaths worldwide. And although we enjoy rela- tive peace and stability today, we can’t forget that a British soldier has died somewhere on active service in almost every calendar year since 1945. Conflict seems to be part of the human condition. The New Testament asks, ‘Where do wars and fights come from?’ And then gives the sobering answer, ‘from your desires for pleasure that battle within you’ (James 4:1). Jesus Himself said something similar, that evil acts like murder come from the human heart (Mark 7:21-22). Of course, that doesn’t mean that we’re all murderers – let alone all Hitlers or Stalins! – but Jesus went on to explain that even if we’ve been angry towards someone without good reason, then we’ve committed murder in our hearts (Matthew 5:21-22). So our thoughts, as well as our words and actions, fall far short of the holy standard of our Maker God. The good news is that Jesus was in the world to fight sin and death for us. He lived a perfect life in which He taught yet more radical things like ‘love your enemies, do good to those who hate you’ (Luke 6:27). His first recorded words in public were ‘Repent and believe the Gos- pel’ (Mark 1:15). That is, turnaround from going your own sinful way and head God’s way. Jesus even said that He was that only way to God (John 14:6). Yet He suffered and died when He was nailed to a cross, punished by God the Father in the place of all sinful people who would humbly be- lieve that He had done that for them – that He had to if they were to go free. And having paid for sin, Jesus rose again and defeated death once and for all, so that we could have eternal life. 4 That’s why the Bible can also say, ‘Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ’ (1 Corinthians 15:57). It is right that we thank God for historic deliverances and freedom, that we remember those whose lives were lost and acknowledge the sacrifice of so many. But it is better still to come to know the greater victory over sin and death that the perfect sacrifice, Jesus Christ – and He alone – has won for us, when we repent of our own sin and trust Him. Matthew Pickhaver - Briston 5 Editorial As you will see there is a change to the cover for this edition. This is be- cause we wish to emphasise the importance of Remembrance Day and reiterating our indebtedness to those who lost their lives in two World Wars. In our Benefice Hazel Mindham has diligently researched those from our parishes who made the ultimate sacrifice and has uncovered some whose names were not on memorials. These people will be in- cluded in the Memorial Service to be held at St. Maurice church Brin- ingham on Sunday 8th November. We do feel it is vitally important to pay tribute to the fallen lest we for- get. Turning to more parochial matters there have been meetings about the future of the Benefice, there have been no decisions finalised nor are there likely to be before the end of the year. In the meantime, In Touch will continue to produce editions online. As in previous years, the next edition will be for December/January. If you have received this edition by e-mail please consider if you can forward it to any friends who might be interested in reading it; or if you can, download it and print off a copy to pass on to those without e-mail facilities. In this regard, it is interesting that "The Magazine", the publication of the Diocese, has after six years and 32 editions, ceased to be. The reasons for this - difficulties in distribution, costs of production etc - are only too familiar to the In Touch team. In conclusion, we live in very uncertain times so long term planning is impossible but we will continue to do our best and hope that in time matters become clearer. Teresa Anderson and the editorial team [email protected] 6 Poem for the Month Forward by John Smart – Thornage This sonnet of Shakespeare's is an evocation of a season and of a time of life. The sonnet's 'twist' in the final couplet is a brilliant and surpris- ing reversal of the argument of the first ten lines. 'The bare ruined choirs' have been the subject of much argument. They are the autumnal trees and they are the ruins of churches despoiled by Henry VIII. The loss of the birds and the choristers make one sad la- ment for time past. That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. 7 Norfolk Life This Month’s Guest Recipe Huevos Revueltos Español Sobre Tostadas Scrambled Eggs Espaniol on Toast - This months recipe is from Dan Earp—Thornage Inspired by staying in a Spanish hotel, a few years ago, this recipe has become a family favourite. One of the treats of the day was to have your own individual Spanish omelette cooked in front of you. The chef had a range of ingredients in containers, to which I would point (as I don’t speak Spanish) at the various ingredients to be included. These were all put into a small hot frying pan and tossed around for a minute, whereupon beaten eggs were added. Once one side was cooked, it was tossed like a pancake and when the other side was done it was served to you. Delicious. We are lucky to have 5 lovely rescue battery hens, bred to produce one egg a day, and our lovely girls cleverly, and reliably, do just that. Re- lentlessly. So cook has to use them, boiled, scrambled, poached or ome- letted. Unfortunately, there is at least one home diner who does not like at least one of those. Mind you, they all like soufflé, (who doesn’t) but that is not a 15 minute meal, so is saved for when I have time and enthusiasm. No Cook likes seeing their efforts pushed to one side with a ‘I told you I don’t like that’ so one day I tried combining the Spanish omelette with scrambled eggs, and hit upon a winner. It has the beauty of not needing exact ingredients or amounts, and can also use up some of the annoyingly small leftovers that seem to loiter in the fridge! 8 It is only when I thought to look on the Internet I discovered others had had the same idea too.