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February 2020 Magazine 2 PARISH of MOSSLEY February 2020 Growing, Nurturing, Serving 50p www.mossleyparishchurch.org.uk Rose Queen Shannon & Brownie Queen Tamsin Invite you to their “At Home” to be held on Saturday 14th March 2020 at St George’s Church At 2pm We look forward to seeing you there! Did you know Bank’s are advising their Customers to make sure they quote the year 2020 in full on cheques as 20 can be altered very easily – sound advice! 27 Parish Information St John’s Vicarage, Carrhill Vicar of Mossley Fr David Warner Road, Mossley OL5 0SA Phone: 01457 237667 or 07506 723946 Email: [email protected] www.mossleyparishchurch.org.uk @mossleyparish @mossleyparish For all enquiries (eg baptisms, weddings and funerals), and in an emergency at ANY time, please contact the Vicar Ian McConnell Veterinary Practice Limited Associate Priest 07742 558236 Mr T I McConnell BSc (Hons), BVM&S, MRCVS (Sunday, Tuesday – Fr Ian Brocklehurst [email protected] Thursday only) The Old Mossley Library, Wyre Street, Mossley OL5 0EU Telephone 01457 837900 also at 5 Saddleworth House, Tame Street, Uppermill, Oldham OL3 6BD “Local, independent, value for money, common-sense approach to pet care” From our modern premises in either Mossley or Uppermill, we offer the complete A-Z fear-free small animal veterinary service. Our fully qualified and trained team of veterinary surgeons use the most advanced in-house diagnostic facilities in the area and combine them with a personal client/pet-centred attention second to none. www.mcconnellvets.co.uk or follow us on social media: www.facebook.com/imcvets Twitter@imcvets 3 Mossley Cancer Committee Events 2020 Saturday 15th Feb Coffee Morning at Mossley Band Club 10.30am to 12.30pm Saturday 14th Mar Coffee Morning at Mossley Band Club 10.30am to 12.30pm Monday 16th Mar Trip – further details to follow Kathryn & Debbie would like to thank everyone who attended the Murder Mystery, Murder on the Dance Floor on 25th January, especially our chef Jimmy and our wonderful actors who gave sterling performances. It was great to see so many people there and thank you for your patience as we served around 50 people from that tiny kitchen. It was a wonderful social event and at the time of going to print £450.50p was raised for Church funds. Important News – the current £20 note is to be We are committed to the nurturing, protection and safeguarding of all: especially withdrawn at the end of February. children, young people and all who are vulnerable. Any safeguarding concerns should be raised immediately with the Vicar or with the relevant Parish Safeguarding Officer listed above. 25 From Fr David Rose Queen Shannon is appealing for donations of clothing for her New 2 You Fashion Show in April (see The new year is well under way, and this year, with another late(ish) Easter, we can enjoy a few weeks of Ordinary Time during February. Thank you to all who have below for details. Please pass any donations to Heather offered such kind words and prayers as Penny and Buddy finally moved into the or Shannon. Many thanks. Vicarage, and to all who supported Penny at her licensing at St George’s Stalybridge on 26th January. This isn't an article about giving something up for Lent - if you want to do that, and if it’s a helpful spiritual discipline then good, and if that helps you focus your prayers, even better. This is an article, and I hope for us as a community will be a Lent, about taking new things up - some of those things for the period of fasting before Easter, and hopefully spilling over into a longer lasting cycle and discipline. This Lent, we shall hold another study course on Wednesday evenings, beginning on 4th March, using another film as our conversation starter - this time, The Greatest Showman. I’d like to also remind you of the availability of spiritual MOTs - an opportunity to meet with Fr Ian or I for a conversation, in confidence, about whatever you like - to talk about where you are in your journey with God. It is a privilege to meet with people and talk about where they are, and where God may be calling. If you would like to have such a meeting, do please be in touch with us directly. There are lots of opportunities for worship in Lent, and you may like to think about coming to a different service, or making a particular time for prayer each day at home, or wherever you happen to find yourself. Details of our worship for Holy Week and Easter will be available in the March magazine. On Ash Wednesday (26th February) at St George’s, there will be school Eucharist at 2.30pm (to which all are welcome) and a United Eucharist with the imposition of ashes at 7pm. This powerful day with its special observances form a moment to stop and think as we join Jesus in the wilderness before the long journey to the cross, the tomb and the joy of Easter day. If you possibly can, do join us on Ash Wednesday and perhaps one of the things we could all take up for Lent, and take on from Lent, is pushing beyond the comfortable limits we set ourselves, and opening ourselves to the unexpected and limitless love and opportunity found in God. With my prayers and good wishes. Fr David 5 Flower Fund P. MULLANEY & SONS LTD Scrap Metal Since 1940 24th Jan In Loving Memory of my Daughter Elaine on her birthday SCRAP PROCESSORS – FERROUS AND NON FERROUS METALS from Mum xx £20.00 PLANT HIRE – CONTAINER SERVICE 18th Feb Loving Birthday Memories of my Husband Tom from Renee ALUMINIUM CAN RECYCLING CENTRE Birthday Memories of a Very Special Dad from Julie, Philip, Simon & Families £20.00 AUTHORISED TREATMENT CENTRE FOR END OF LIFE VEHICLES Millstone Farm, Broadcarr Lane, Mossley OL5 0JL Tel: 01457 832171 www.pmullaney.com Donations In Memory of Audrey Nield Wife, Mum & Gran from Terry, Michael, Helen, Robert Matthew, George & Stephen £40.00 From The Duchy of Lancaster Fund for our Archive Project £600.00 Carol Winterbottom Treasurer Please pass any items for inclusion in the Parish Magazine to Kathryn Malkin at St George’s Church or via email at [email protected] 23 This year’s Lent course will use the film ’The greatest showman’ and the booklet written by the Revd Dr Rachel Mann (Rector of St Nicholas’ Burnage in this diocese). The course will run on Wednesday evenings: 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March, 1st April, 7.30-9pm, at St George’s. Fr David, Fr Ian, our Churchwardens and PCCs. All are welcome to any and all of the sessions - if you’d like to buy the accompanying book for £6.50, Amy, our Curate in training. look out for the sign-up sheets in both churches (you can still come along and take part, with or without a St George, Milton St John and All Saints Micklehurst booklet!) primary schools, their children, staff and governors. Junior Church, our Uniformed Organisations and their leaders. The Revd Penny Warner in her new ministry in the parish of St. George Stalybridge. All undergoing or awaiting hospital treatment and investigations. The sick, frail and housebound. For Margaret Holroyd, Madge Woodhouse, Margaret Smith, Aileen Mather, Norman Mills, Joan Brogan and Margaret Kinder recently departed. Please forward any requests for this Prayer Page each month to Fr Ian 7 From Fr Ian Holy Relics Two of the Sunday gospel readings this There are many Holy Relics associated with the life of Jesus. Many were discovered centuries ago and are on display. Some are not on display but month come from the Sermon on the are still well known. I hope you enjoy this new series and if you want me to include any specifically in the coming months, do let me know. Mount. The full ‘sermon’ takes up three chapters of Matthew’s gospel, and is the longest of five of Jesus’ teaching discourses in that gospel. It is packed with guidance about how to live our lives, and much of it will be very familiar, even if you didn’t realise it is part of the Sermon The Seamless Robe of Jesus on the Mount. Also known as the Holy Robe, Holy Tunic, Holy Coat, Honourable Robe, and Chiton of the Lord, it is the robe said to have been worn by Jesus The opening section is often called the during or shortly before his crucifixion. Competing traditions claim that the robe has been preserved to the present day. One tradition places it in the Beatitudes, with its repeated ‘Blessed are Cathedral of Trier, another places it in Argenteuil's Basilique Saint-Denys and several traditions claim that it is now in various Eastern Orthodox the…’ statements. These statements churches, notably Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia. were, and are, radical. They turn ordinary According to the Gospel of John, the soldiers who crucified Jesus did not divide his tunic after crucifying him, but cast lots to determine who would human ideas about happiness upside keep it because it was woven in one piece, without seam. down. One legend states that Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, discovered the seamless robe in the Holy Land in the year 327 or 328 along with several other relics. According to different versions of the story, she either bequeathed it, or sent it, to the city of Trier where Constantine The next section tells us that WE are the had once lived for some time before becoming Emperor.
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