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Fresford, Limpley Stoke and Hinton Charterhouse Magzine The Parish MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 2021 • • ST PETER’S, FRESHFORD • ST MARY’S, LIMPLEY STOKE • • ST JOHN’S, HINTON CHARTERHOUSE • FREE FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 1 19/01/2021 16:37 Contacts & Local Groups WEDDINGS, FUNERALS AND MAGAZINE ADVERTISING BAPTISMS - ARRANGEMENTS Contact: [email protected] Priest in Charge: Revd Mike Taylor For a PDF version, email [email protected] (01225 723570) Day Off Fridays. [email protected] Website: http://flshc.co.uk/ FRESHFORD CHURCH SCHOOL Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Head Teacher, Andrew Wishart (01225 723331) freshfordlimpleyhintonchurches/ FRESHFORD PRE-SCHOOL PARISH TREASURER Mon, Tues, Wed 9.00am - 3.00pm, Malcolm Chatwin (01225 722624) Thurs Forest School 9.00am - 1.00pm. Freshford Memorial Hall PARISH OFFICE/OLD BAKERY BOOKINGS www.freshfordpreschool.co.uk Deborah Jones (01225 720347) [email protected] [email protected] BABY & TODDLER GROUPS CHURCHWARDENS For details of potential meetings in Freshford St Peter’s: Rachel Moore (01225 723139) this term contact: Alison Sellers Penny Murray (01225 722355) [email protected] St Mary’s: Kathy Tucker (01225 834438) David Sibley (01225 722026) Hinton Charterhouse: Contact Liz Wordsworth St John’s: Liz Wordsworth (01225 722520) with any inquiries (01225 722520) Karen Grattage (01225 720364) 15TH BATH SCOUTS (FRESHFORD): ROMAN CATHOLICS Beavers, Cubs and Scouts sections: Check the Downside Abbey website for latest Thursday evenings. Contact: Group information on mass times downsideabbey.co.uk Scout Leader (Sam Lascelles) [email protected] MAGAZINE MANAGER VISIT VILLAGE WEB SITES AT Mark Baines: [email protected] www.hintoncharterhouse.com MAGAZINE SECRETARIES www.limpleystoke.org Limpley Stoke: Anne Jarrett (01225 722309) www.freshfordvillage.com [email protected] Hinton Charterhouse: Liz Wordsworth (01225 SUBMISSIONS FOR NEXT MONTH, 722520) [email protected] PLEASE NOTE - NO LATER THAN: MAGAZINE EDITOR TH 12 FEB Contact: [email protected] [email protected] Karen Grattage Front cover image : Snow in St John’s Churchyard in winter 2019. Photo by Howard Jones. 2 FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 2 19/01/2021 16:37 Welcome from Revd Mike Taylor Dear friends, was so grateful to be able to You can’t see a Icelebrate the great festival of Christmas with all of you who felt able smile or a scowl to come out and join us in one of our behind a mask... The services. Thank you for coming and celebrating the gift of Jesus to our church thrives on world. We looked at the story as it community... unfolded and then at what it meant and continues to mean that God is with us – a saving to the environment, but after a Immanuel. For us now in this New Year while there was fatigue from staring at and another lockdown, we need, more a screen for any length of time. There than ever, to know that we are never were no real opportunities just to speak truly alone. to each other, people you hadn’t seen Elsewhere in this edition we will for a while, just to meet and chat over a read some reflections on lockdown. I cuppa, and those you have never met in thought rather than do that in another person you didn’t really get a chance to place I would share a little here. I am know on a screen. We managed, when an introvert and I thought being locked we could, to start Sunday services, down would be something that I would initially outside, then as the weather find easy to cope with. However, like deteriorated inside, now distanced the rest of the world it is not as easy from each other, wearing masks and as I had hoped. Not being able to see listening to music, or more latterly to other members of the family, or spend an organist playing the songs while we quality time with friends, or even to quietly hummed or sang softly into our travel as and when we wish. masks. It finally struck me last week (3rd Jan) that this is not what church is At first the idea of ‘remote’ meetings about. People were sat apart from each seems a great joy. I didn’t need to other; there was no community except travel for 45 minutes or longer to get that we were all present in the building. to Wells or Salisbury and actually we For me there was no visual feedback were able to meet more people in some from anybody. You can’t see a smile or of those meetings than I would ever scowl behind a mask and without even meet in person. I think the largest one the chance to share over a cuppa at the I attended was over 200. You had to end. Church is about community, being scroll through the various screens just all members of one body, that being to see people let alone find the ones the body of Christ. The church thrives you knew. Yes, there was a saving to on community and sharing life together my car journeying, and because of that as we journey – that, I felt, had gone. 3 FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 3 19/01/2021 16:37 Now we are back to trying to do their lives were not their own to live. It something using online resources, would have been a lonely birth for Mary recorded, written or maybe even live and Joseph except that God could not streamed from home. keep this news to himself and through angelic messengers announced it to I know I am one of the fortunate the shepherds. Put a strange light ones who already live in a family in the sky that would attract visitors unit. I wonder how all of this affects from distant lands. Why? Because, this those who live alone, or whose family was a birth unlike any other. This was members live too far away to be able God born in human likeness to reveal to just pop over to see or encourage God’s likeness and character to us. each other. Then there are those whose Through this child the problem of evil jobs are lost, or who never managed and separation would be resolved. The to get a job before the world went into problem of evil countered because we this lockdown spiral. Some have had can ask for forgiveness and we can to close their businesses with great say no to temptation, as we trust in heartbreak and fear for the future. his continuing presence with us. The Others have missed operations or separation that was revealed through appointments that may well have given the story of Genesis, is now resolved them an improved life, then there are because Jesus invites us to call God those whose loved ones have died, ‘Father’. He is not distant, he is present. whether through Covid or another He is not a cold aloof father but a cause, without the opportunity to caring dad who loves everything about say goodbye, or to express and show us even though he knows everything love at that moment. There is no about us. The invitation to all of us is doubt the toll to us all is more than to believe this for ourselves – to make just the inconvenience. So what can this truth yours and to put your trust in I say to those whose lives have been Him who is still Immanuel – God with devastated by this pandemic? The us. In this New Year and new lockdown, governments are saying there is an why not spend time and see if there is end in sight with the new vaccines, but anything in this faith that could bring that is a long process. This problem is you comfort and joy even in darkness. the feeling I have now, in yet another If you search on YouTube for the Alpha lockdown. film series you can go on a journey of When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, faith, or openness, and see if there is he was not born into plenty or something for you. Even for me the privilege, he was born into scandal constant nature of this life of restriction only mitigated by Joseph taking Mary has been a trial. But the best days, as his wife and Jesus as his son. He months and years are still ahead of us. was outcast, a refugee, far from home, without even a home, only a stable. Revd Mike Taylor His own people were under foreign [email protected] occupation with the constant reminder, (Day-off Fridays) even in the calling of a census, that 4 FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 4 19/01/2021 16:37 From the Registers e offer our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Patricia Moore, Wwhose ashes were interred along with her husband Ray’s, at St Mary’s churchyard, Limpley Stoke, on 4th December, and to the family and friends of Barbara Humble, whose funeral and burial took place at St Mary’s Church, Limpley Stoke, on 17th December. Limpley Stoke and Freshford Transport Link ven under the difficult conditions imposed by Lockdown Three we are very Epleased that, thanks to our willing volunteer drivers, we can still offer a service to anyone for whom public transport is not available or Inappropriate. For the present this is limited to hospital or medical appointments, trips to vaccination centres and the collection and delivery of prescriptions from the Combe Down surgery, the Winsley surgery and the Galleries for patients of the Beckington surgery. If you think we might be able to help you please call the Link coordinator on 07714 169216 at least 48 hours in advance.
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