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February 2020 What’s on in the Heart of Eden? ?What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? What’s On? On What’s On?On?What’s What’s On? What’s On?On?What’s What’s On? What’s On?On?What’s What’s On? What’s On?On?What’s What’s On? What’s On? On?What’s What’s On? What’s On? What’s Date Time Where?? What?? January 27th 7pm St. Lawrence’s Church Reconciliation and Compline 30th 7:30pm Public Hall Supper Room Appleby-in-Westmorland Society – David Cross on Percy Kelly February 1st 9:30 – 11:30 Appleby Public Hall Coffee morning in aid of Seedlings Nursery 1st 10:30 Milburn Village Hall Coffee Morning in aid of village hall funds 2nd 6:30pm St. Lawrence’s, Appleby Candlemas 2nd (KO) 3pm Dufton Village Hall 6 Nations Rugby: England v France 2nd 4pm Kirkby Thore Memorial Hall Messy Church 3rd 10 – 12 Appleby Health Centre Cancer Info. Drop-in with Coffee 4th 2 – 4pm The Hub Bereavement Support Group 4th 7 – 9 pm Guide Hut Textile Group – Annual General Meeting 4th 7:30 pm Ormside Village Hall Ormside WI – Lesley Rowe – Artist 4th 2 – 4pm Long Marton Village Hall Carpet Bowls 5th 7:30pm The Hollies, Asby Asby Fellowship: Clive Hicks - Haggai 6th 2 – 4pm Public Hall Supper Room Inner Wheel Whist and Dominoes 6th 7:30pm Dufton Village Hall Book Club 7th 11:45 Sands Methodist Church Come 4 Lunch 7th 7 – 9 pm Guide Hut Friday Club Dominoes 7th 7:30pm Ormside Village Hall Country Dancing Class 8th 9:30 – 11:30 Appleby Public Hall Coffee morning in aid of Rainbows 8th (KO) 4pm Dufton Village Hall 6 Nations Rugby: England v Scotland 9th 5pm (meet at) St. Peter's, Asby Moonlight Walk – soup in St. Peter's on return 9th 10 - 12:30 Dufton Village Hall Big Breakfast 9th 7:30pm Appleby Public Hall North Westmorland Arts: - Jamal Aliyev (Cello) 11th 7:30pm Asby Village Hall Asby WI: "Bee keeping & Honey" 11th 10:30 – 12:15 Long Marton Village Hall Coffee Morning 12th 11am Market Hall The Arts Society – Jonathan Foyle on “Tudor Hampton Court” 12th 10am – 12 Ormside Village Hall Coffee Morning 12th Noon Long Marton Village Hall Lunch Club 13th 12.30 pm Eden River Café Asby Diners: 2 course meal + drink for £7.50 13th 1 – 3 pm Appleby Health Centre Eden Hearing Services – help, advice and batteries 13th Dufton Village Hall Village Hall Committee Meeting 15th 9:30 – 11:30 Appleby Public Hall Coffee morning in aid of Appleby Fire Service 15th 6 for 7pm Appleby Public Hall Lights, Camera Appleby – “Pond Life” 15th 9 - 12 Dufton Village Hall PCC Coffee Morning 15th 10:30 Milburn Village Hall Coffee Morning in aid of church funds 16th 12:15pm Sands Methodist Church Bring and Share Meal 17th 10 – noon St. Peter's Church Asby Messy Church – all ages welcome 17th 10 – 12 Appleby Health Centre Cancer Info. Drop-in with Coffee 18th 7:30 Dallison House Asby Asby MU 18th 2 – 4pm Long Marton Village Hall Carpet Bowls 19th 7.30 pm The Hollies, Asby Asby Fellowship: Donlad marston - Zephanaiah 19th 2pm Public Hall Supper Room Appleby Gardeners – Pat Dawson on flower arrangement 19th 9:30 am Pennine Room, Riverside Textile Group 19th 7:30pm Ormside Village Hall Craft Evening 19th 7:30pm Long Marton Village Hall Local History Grouup 20th 2 – 4pm Public Hall Supper Room Inner Wheel Whist and Dominoes 21st 7 – 9 pm Sands Methodist Friday Club – Sports with Rainbow Club 21st 7:30pm Appleby Hub Appleby Highlights “The Marriage of Figaro” 21st 7:30pm Ormside Village Hall Country Dancing Class 21st Long Marton Village Hall Pie Night 22nd 9:30 – 11:30 Appleby Public Hall Coffee morning in aid of Appleby Carnival Committee 22nd Dufton Village Hall High Cup Nick Fell Race: 23rd 2:15pm see article Nichiren Buddhism Discussion Meeting 23rd (KO) 3pm Dufton Village Hall 6 Nations Rugby: England v Ireland 26th 7:30pm St. Lawrence’s, Appleby Ash Wednesday communion with ashing 27th 7.30 pm The Hollies, Asby Asby PCC (for APCM) 28th 12:30pm Royal Oak Probus Club 28th 7:30 Milburn Village Hall Film Club – “The Affair of the Necklace” 29th 10:30 – 12:30 St. Peter's Church Asby Coffee, Cake and Chat in aid of Church Funds 29th 9:30 – 11:30 Appleby Public Hall Coffee morning in aid of Stepping Stones School of Dance 29th 7:30pm Appleby Public Hall Appleby Highlights “Nearly There Yet” 29th 7:30 pm Ormside Village Hall Quiz Night 29th 10 – noon Knock Mission Jumble Sale / Coffee Morning 29th Milburn Village Hall Spuds, Puds and Comedy Evening hat’s On? 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George Orwell in his famous novel Animal Farm spoke about "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". Whilst democracy speaks equal rights, be they religious or LGBT, some are more equal . Orwell used that as a parody of Communism and eventually he identified this as the fatal flaw which would bring about its downfall. This is because a system based not on Truth but on Power has a limited lifespan. It is built on sand, not reason. It is built on the will to power. In order to promote and assert the freedoms of certain individuals (e.g. minority rights), the state has become censorious of others. Where there is no acknowledgement of objective truth it all depends upon who shouts the loudest. The Christian church has the duty to propose the truth of the human person as revealed by Almighty God and which is consistent with human reason. The main problem is that fewer and fewer Christians believe or know what that teaching is, in order to propose it to the world. If there is going to be a new evangelisation there has also to be a new catechesis. Any renewal of the Church, the State and the World must be grounded in these two projects. G.K.Chesterton said, 'famously', that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, but it had never seriously been tried. Most Christians gently drift away from the faith, be it thought, word or action. They are not imbued with the necessary conviction to resist and withstand the modern secular state. The outside world is very insistent on the demands it makes on people, whereas we are very light in our demands (c.f. Muslims). There are many "isms" to be found outside the church, which she supposedly opposes, but which appear within the church nowadays: secularism, relativism, materialism, consumerism. It is naïve to think that the church is a fortress against the world. There are no real walls between Church and Society. Clergy and people live in and among these "isms". Secularism in particular is about finding solely human solutions to life's problems. We see this in plans, projects and strategies. Whereas the Gospel has said, for 2000 years, that the solution is prayer, penance and the person of Jesus. Everyone seeks happiness, quite naturally, but fewer and fewer people know how to reach this state. The church sees happiness as a fruit not a goal. This comes from following Christ and His teachings. If I follow them the fruit is happiness. I do not set out to be happy, I set out to follow Christ, who as a bi-product delivers blessedness. There are few more fulfilling feelings in life than helping other through life, by sacrificing something of ourselves. The more self-absorbed we become the less fulfilment we reach. Modern man is angry [ e.g. terrorist attacks, mass shootings]. He is angry because his life has no meaning, no purpose, no hope. The modern world says: all there is to life is to eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you will die. Man was made by God for more: a more noble purpose, but today man is fed on this very empty, unsatisfying diet. The young are anxious and we have a duty to assuage their fears. This can only be achieved by proposing to them a better way: The Christian Truth, which, if lived, gives witness to the values we are espousing through good example a serious way to living our faith is necessary if we are to channel the young's natural idealism into hope through commitment.