Helston & Wendron Messenger June/July 2018 www.stmichaelschurchhelston.org.uk 2 THE PARISHES OF HELSTON & WENDRON Team Rector Canon David Miller, St Michael’s Rectory Church Lane, Helston, (572516) Email [email protected] Asst Priest Revd. Dorothy Noakes, 6 Tenderah Road, Helston (573239) Reader [Helston] Mrs. Betty Booker 6, Brook Close, Helston (562705) ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH, HELSTON Churchwardens Mr John Boase 11,Cross Street, Helston TR13 8NQ (01326 573200) Mr Peter Jewell, 47 Saracen Way Penryn (01326 376948) Organist Mr Richard Berry Treasurer Mrs Nicola Boase 11 Cross Street, Helston TR13 8NQ 01326 573200 PCC Secretary Mrs Amanda Pyers ST WENDRONA’S CHURCH, WENDRON Churchwardens Mrs. Anne Veneear, 4 Tenderah Road, Helston (569328) Mr. Bevan Osborne, East Holme, Ashton, TR13 9DS (01736 762349) Organist Mrs. Anne Veneear, -as above. Treasurer Mr Bevan Osborne, - as above PCC Secretary Mrs. Henrietta Sandford, Trelubbas Cottage, Lowertown, Helston TR13 0BU (565297) ********************************************* Clergy Rest Days; Revd. David Miller Friday Revd. Dorothy Noakes Thursday Betty Booker Friday (Please try to respect this) 3 The Rectory, Church Lane Helston June/July Dear Everyone, I write this article to you the same week as Flora Day, Ascension Day, the beating of the bounds of Helston parish to mark Rogationtide and the Archdeacon’s Visitation at which Churchwardens take their oaths of office for the coming year. We congratulate John Boase and Peter Jewell at Helston and Bevan Osborne and Anne Veneear at Wendron on their appointment and thank them for their important work which they have already done and pledge to continue to do. Particular mention must be made of Bevan who has recently been presented with Maundy Money by the Queen at Windsor Castle and the Cross of St Piran by the Bishop at Perrenzabuloe Church, a tremendous recognition by the church and wider society of the work Bevan and his dear wife Isabel have done in church and community in a wonderful fifty year marriage. We express our deepest sympathy and the assurance of our prayers as Bevan suffers the grief of bereavement as he mourns Isabel’s recent death. It is a fact that most of the church’s festivals occur in roughly the six month period from Advent Sunday (approximately December 1st) to Pentecost or Whitsun as it’s often called (approximately June 1st depending on whether Easter is late or early). Shortly after Pentecost the Church moves into the long summer and autumn months of Ordinary Time. 4 The name given to these many weeks reminds us that God is as very much involved in the day to day business of ordinary living as God is in the special events of life. We need the special events and many people in Helston have told me how they look forward to the next Flora Day from the moment that the last Flora day has finished. We all have our more quietly celebrated memorials, days that are special to us. Alongside these days of celebration public and private, John Keble in a well known hymn with the first line ‘New every morning is the love’, affirms: The trivial round the common task/will furnish all we need to ask/…a road to bring us daily nearer God. Another great poet and hymn writer George Herbert begins one hymn with the following words: ‘Teach me my God and King in all things thee to see’. May the path you travel daily lead you closer to God, may you find God’s presence in the world around you and may that presence sustain and guide you in the world you live in day by day. With my best wishes, David Miller, Rector of Helston and Wendron ********* Flag days for June/July June 4th………St Petroc “ 10th……..Duke of Edinburgh’s Birthday “ 11th ……..St Barnabus “ 12th …….HM The Queen’s Official Birthday “ 21st……..Prince William’s Birthday “ 24th …….John the Baptist “ 29th ……St Peter & St Paul July 3rd ……St Thomas “ 22nd …..St Mary Magdalene “ 25th ……St James 5 Services at St Michael’s 1st Sunday 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 All-age Worship with Holy Communion 2nd-5th Sunday 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 Parish Communion(CW) Monday to Thursday 9.00 Morning Prayer Thursday 9.30 Holy Communion Evening & other Services:-as advertised in the Pew- slip Services at Wendron 1st Sunday 10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) 2nd Sunday 10.30a.m Morning Worship rd th 3 - 5 Sunday 10.30a.m Holy Communion (CW) Other Services:-as announced in the Sunday Pew-slip In Memoriam- WW1 victims - 100 years ago William John Williams Died 30/6/1918 Ages 39 Private RMC Company Boulogne, Royal Marine Labour Corp ------------ Thomas John Charles Manning Died 29/7/1918 Aged 25 Bombardier 32nd Seige Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery ----------- Greater love hath no man than these That a men lay down their lives for their friends. As with all the local WW1 Service personnel who gave their lives in WW1, the St Michael’s Church bell will toll 100 times at 11am on the anniversary of their deaths ------------- 6 The Registers Helston Wendron Baptisms Emily Grace Field Amelia Rose Reddan Harry Charles Field Trudy Fishwick Hannaford Poppy Isla Felton Bailey May Felton Ethan Edward Percy Weddings Nil Funerals “May they Rest in Peace & Rise in Glory” Patricia Edith Evans May Noy June James Bryn Kendall Patricia Mary Chandlier Florence Isobel Osborne Doreen Cecilia Mary Howes Florence Margaret Fenwick Audrey Busby Ann Rosalind Winchcombe Brian William Pullen Interment of Ashes Muriel Alice Rudge (Lady Peggy) Margaret Patricia Allison 7 Ascension Day 10th May 2018 If you didn’t attend the morning service at St Michael’s on Ascension Day you may have heard the Daily Service broadcast on BBC Radio 4. If so you will have heard two of the best known and uplifting Ascension Day hymns sung by the wonderful voices of the BBC Singers. The first of these, “The head that once was crowned with thorns is crowned with glory now” was written by the Irish Hymn writer Thomas Kelly, who used his wealth to save many destitute families during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. The second, “Hail the day that sees him rise” is of course one of Charles Wesley’s most famous hymns. In 1738, Charles Wesley began reading Martin Luther’s volume on Galations whilst he was ill. Just three days before his brothers conversion, he wrote in his journal “the Spirit of God chased away the darkness of my unbelief. I laboured, waited and prayed to feel He who loved me and gave Himself for me. I now find myself at peace with God and rejoice in the loving hope of Christ”. His hymn “ Hail the day that sees him rise” was published in 1739, just a year later. This Month’s Cover In mathematics, rings linked in this way are called Barromean rings and if you look carefully you will see that no two rings are directly joined to each other. In other words, if any circle is cut away, the other two will be separate from each other. Such rings are sometimes used as a symbol of the Holy Trinity . A circle is an endless line, having no beginning and no end, which symbolises eternity or God. Three entwined circles represent the Trinity, with its eternal, distinct and unified nature. One other common symbol of the Trinity consists of various depictions of the Trefoil ( a three leafed plant) famously commented upon by St Patrick who pointed to the shamrock with three leaves from one stem. Similarly the Triquetra is a three-part interlocking fish symbol that also symbolizes the Christian Trinity. This year we celebrated Trinity Sunday on 27th May. It is the only major Christian festival that celebrates a church doctrine rather than an event in it’s sacred history. It is dedicated to the Christian belief in the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a mystery which theologians throughout the church’s history have sought to explain, often using symbols. *********** Are you willing to join The Friends of St Michael’s 500 Club? This is a monthly draw, Participants pay £5 per month and 20% of the income is paid out in prizes The remainder goes into the church building fund If you are willing to join please contact the treasurer Nicola Boase 01326 573200 Helston & Wendron Sister Veronica spoke to us about her life as a nun. Veronica means “True Image”. She went to a convent school & at the age of 9 she requested to be baptised. She became a Catholic when she was 20 and was confirmed by Jesuits. She went to Glasgow Universerity & had a wide social life. She felt the need to be “freed up for God” & at the age of 24 went on a Holy Week Retreat with the congregation of the Good Shepherd, & against her parents wishes, joined them & was with them for 25 years 9 She was drawn to religious life by a text from Ezekiel Ch 34 v16. “ I will seek that which is lost. Then she transferred to the Order of Consecrated Virginia in 1990 & renewed her vows of Poverty, Chastity & Obdedience. She lived with them for four years in residential care before working outside. The early church often admitted at Baptism, those to be consecrated virgins & was a preparation for martyrdom. With may qualifications in Theology. Counselling, Social Work, Karate, she worked in Lancashire, Scotland, Surrey & Sufflok with disadvantaged teenages, the sick. a housegroup, & was able to get help where necessary in areas where many of the aid agencies are no longer operating or much reduced.