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CLAPHAM & DISTRICT NEWSLETTER Number 88, April, 2014 Clapham Community Shop Steering Group Following the overwhelming backing of the community, the Steering Group has begun to look into the feasibility of the village store becoming a community-owned and run business. However, Terry had to make the difficult decision to close the shop on 24 May, despite last-minute efforts initiated by a villager to rally support. We wish Terry well for the future and for his other business interests. As a newly-formed voluntary group we are not in a position to immediately step in and take on the shop, but we will be continuing with the feasibility study, once we have reviewed what we now need to do and the timetable for doing it. An immediate task is to liaise with the Post Office about the possibility of a temporary ‘outreach facility’ being set up in the village. The Steering Group comprises Nick Burton, John Dawson, Diane Elphinstone, James Innerdale, Wendy Jennings, Eddie Leggett, Sue Mann, Esther Pugh, Denise Wilson and me. We’ll keep you informed through the village newsletter and other means but if you’d like to be added to an emailing list please email Wendy on [email protected]. Don Gamble (Chair) KEVIN CHADWICK Agricultural Engineer On-Site Welding Farm Buildings etc. www.brookhouse-clapham.co.uk 4x4 Repairs and Saturday Night Plant Repairs Dining 6pm – 8pm UNIT 1, DALES VIEW Booking advisable OLD ROAD CLAPHAM LA2 8JH Here at Brookhouse we combine rustic Telephone 07779 081388 dishes using locally sourced ingredients with modern presentation in order to provide a truly As well as Saturday unforgettable dining night dining we are often open mid-week – If you wish to advertise in the Newsletter experience. please give us a ring please contact: Ray Hull at All rooms en-suit. All rooms en-suite.en-suit. 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A good starting point is Moses Church Services in June Sunday 1st, 9.30 am Holy Communion at Austwick some 3500 years ago. He did not discover God in a and Eldroth theological assertion, but in a spontaneously burning 11.00 am Holy Communion at Clapham and and unconsumed bush. Hidden in this is a powerful Keasden Trinitarion image that speaks now. Sunday 8th, 9.30 am Holy Communion for Pentecost God the Father is the fire, the incandescent at Austwick centre of all that is. Christ is the light flowing out 11.00 am Holy Communion at Clapham from the crackling thorn bush, engulfing the world’s 2.00 pm Holy Communion at Keasden darkness. The Holy Spirit can be discerned in the 6.30 pm Holy Communion at Austwick smoke hovering mercifully over the universe. The Sunday 15th, 9.30 am Holy Communion for Trinity punch lies in God’s words to Moses: ‘Put off your at Austwick shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are 11.00 am Holy Communion at Clapham standing is holy ground’. The essence of God the 6.45 pm Evensong at Keasden Trinity is not a linguistic formula, but holiness. 7.00 pm Evensong at Eldroth This opens the gate to a tranformative spirit- Saturday, 21st, 11.30 am Wedding at Austwick uality. 2.00 pm Wedding at Clapham Home is in the world, search for the pearls of Sunday, 22nd, 9.30 am Holy Communion at Austwick holiness there, and you will find God. The poet and 11.00 am Holy Communion at Clapham priest, Gerald Manley Hopkins, sums it up inimitably: 2.00 pm Evensong at Keasden ‘The world is changed with the grandeurs of God. It 7.30 pm Open Event at the New Inn, Clapham will flame out, like shining from shook foil’. This sets Sunday, 29th, 10.30 am United Service at Eldroth us off on a thrilling and often surprising pilgrimage, a Holy Communion is held in Austwick Church every journey during which we are constantly on the look- Wednesday at 10.30 am. out for the Holy One. So all becomes grist for the spiritual mill, for the uncovering of the Trinity in landscape, people, Diary Dates for June tragedy, joy, despair, the unfolding of each day, and Thursday, 12th – Clapham PCC at the Vicarage at the vast sweep of nature. It may not be all plain 7.30 pm sailing – like the gold-panner in the remote hills, there Saturday, 14th – Parish Walk to Bolton Abbey and may be days, months even, when all we find is sour visit to Parceval Hall – meet at the Church at 8.30 dust and hard bleak rock. There seems to be no joy, am. visit to Parceval Hall and grounds and walk no hope in the world. Persevere, and one morning to Simon’s Seat - morning coffee and tea and cake we might unearth a nugget of gold and come face to on arrival and before we leave. All welcome face with the Eternal, as Moses did. Tuesday, 17th – Deanery Synod at Austwick Church We can go a step further and transpose all this at 7.30 pm into prayer. As the hymn-writer, David Evans, put Saturday, 21st – Eldroth Church Cream Teas on the it, drawing on Psalm 37 v.7: ‘Be still for the presence lawn – 2.00 – 4.00 pm of the Lord, the Holy One is here …. Be still, for Sunday, 22nd – Open Event at the New Inn, Clapham the glory of the Lord is shining all around’. This – a special evening of music and sharing 7.30 – is truly soul-shaking – a conscious moving into 9.30 pm – all welcome that place of silence, where the holiness of God the Wednesday, 25th – Afternoon Church Fellowship – Trinity pulsates, enfolds, and leaves us breathless Afternoon Teas at the Vicarage 2.00 to 4.00 pm with wonder. Saturday, 28th – Family Garden Party for all at Beck Words become superfluous, we simply rest in that House, Austwick from 2.00 – 4.00 pm warming fire, and come away renewed and inspired, continued on page seven 3 L. PRESTON & SONS Proprietor: iaN PreSTON New & Used Car Sales M.O.T. 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