Cyprian Easter brings New Life The Magazine of St Cyprian’s Church, Lenzie April 2010 1 Scottish Episcopal Church Vestry Rector@ (Vacant) Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway Lay Representative@ Paul Hindle 40 Garngaber Avenue, Lenzie G66 4LL. Bishop Elect: ) 776 3237 The Very Revd. Dr. Gregor Duncan Secretary@ Mary Boyd, 9 Northbank Road, Bishop’s Office, Diocesan Centre Kirkintilloch, G66 1EZ ) 776 2812 5 St Vincent Pl., Glasgow G1 2DH ) Treasurer@ Maxine Gow,12 Alder Road, 0141-221 6911 fax 0141-221 6490 Milton of Campsie G66 8HH ) 01360 email: [email protected] 310420 Property Convenor@ (& Chairman) Sandy Jamieson, 5 Pinewood Place, Lenzie, Glasgow, G66 4JN ) 775 1161 Elected Members Gavin Boyd, Cyprian Adrian Clark, Avril Critchlow, Catherine Gunnee, Eric Parry, Kathryn Potts, Vivienne Provan. Contacts 3C Group@ Susan Frost 776 4135 The News Magazine of Altar Guild@ Anne Carswell 776 3354 St. Cyprian’s Church, Altar Servers Eric Parry 776 4991 Beech Road, Lenzie, Glasgow. G66 4HN Alt. Lay Rep@ Glennis Tavener 775 2895 Scottish Charity No. SC003826 Bible Rdg Fellowship Prim Parry 776 4991 The Scottish Episcopal Church is in full Car Pool Eric Parry 776 4991 communion with the Church of England and Fair Trade@ Vivienne Provan 776 6422 all other churches of the Anglican Gift Aid@ Aileen Mundy 578 9449 Communion throughout the world Hall Bookings@ Gavin Boyd 776 2812 Link@ Kathryn Potts 578 0734 Rector Magazine@ Paul Hindle 776 3237 Vacancy fax 578 3706 email: [email protected] MU@ Any committee member Interim Priest Pastoral Visiting@ The Dean, The Very Revd Dr Gregor Duncan Moira Jamieson 775 1161 ) 0141-423 1247 Protection Officer@ Kathryn Potts 578 0734 email: [email protected] Rotas@ Gavin Boyd 776 2812 Curate: Scottish Bible Society@ Revd. Moira Jamieson ) 775 1161 Glennis Tavener 775 2895 email: [email protected] Social@ Andy Robb 578 1220 Sunday Coffee@ Avril Critchlow 776 1404 Pastoral Assistant: ) Tear Fund@ Vivienne Provan 776 6422 Eric Parry 776 4991. Youth Vacant Music Team @ These people can be contacted through Fred Gunnee ) 578 1937 email @stcyprianslenzie.com by using the email: [email protected] job/group name before the @ without any spaces, e.g., [email protected]. 2 Curate’s Corner Dear Friends, As I sat down to write for this edition of this ‘gift’ that he brings us, the gift of salva- our magazine, I found my mind taken tion. Holy Week takes us on a wonderful jour- up with thoughts of Holy Week and all ney from Jesus’ triumphal entry through the the preparation that I still had to do. gates of Jerusalem to the events which led to Such is human nature that we often find him being crucified on a cross. We can only ourselves worrying over things that imagine the suffering and pain that Jesus went might happen in the future instead of through in that terrible week when he was ar- concentrating on and enjoying each day rested, tried, flogged and humiliated. His as it comes. disciples, fearing for their own lives, were not much support to Jesus. They fell asleep when There is a wonderful quote from the film they should have been awake as Jesus prayed “Kung Fu Panda” which I overheard in one of to his Father in the Garden of Gethsemane. the primary seven classes the other day and Peter denied knowing Jesus three times. And which stuck in my mind. The wise tortoise of course Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of says to the Panda, “Yesterday is history, to- silver. morrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. When we sin or turn away from Jesus, not That’s why it’s called the present.” What a paying attention to our prayer lives or failing wonderful play on words, and the message is to give thanks to God for all he gives us, we something we should always try to remember. are as guilty as the disciples of not supporting I am as guilty as the next person of being so Jesus, of not being there for him. Keeping our- busy “doing” all the time that the day passes selves busy all the time leaves no time for before I have even had time to take it all in. quiet reflection or for just being still with God, Sometimes I can’t even remember if the sun in tune with his creation all around us. Mak- has shone or if it rained. However, despite the ing time to take stock of our lives and the business of preparing for Holy Week, when it things that we are doing is a very good exer- happens, I find it a peaceful, moving and re- cise to help us see how our lives are shaping flective time. Journeying with Christ through up. In February when we had our 4 studies Holy Week brings home the enormity of and a party day we had a great example of this. Christ’s suffering for us and the realisation of Continued overleaf 3 Magazine & Curate’s Corner DNS Deadline continued from page 3 It was only when we started to look at the things that we, as a church, are involved in and The next issue of Cyprian Life should be the things that we do, that we realised just how nd available in Church on Sunday 2 May much involvement there is between St. 2010. The deadline for material is 18th Cyprian’s and the community that we live in. April and the magazine will cover May Beforehand we thought that we didn’t really and June. do very much. During Holy Week, please do try to come Please pass notes, articles, photographs and along to as many of the services as you can. I anything else that may be of interest to other am sure that you will find it a good time to just members of the congregation to me by the be in the presence of God and to reflect on his deadline in order to give time for typesetting sacrifice for us. Then when we all come to- and printing. Electronic format is preferred gether on Easter Sunday to celebrate our since this is usually quicker and more accurate. Lord’s resurrection, it will be all the more joy- Please let me know about what is important ful and uplifting for us. to you. It is great to be able to report family events and things happening in our local com- May God keep you in His care and bless munity. Thank you. you this Easter. This issue includes selected items from the last issue of Diocesan News. The full Dioce- san News can be downloaded from the diocesan website: www.glasgow.anglican.org Moira Click on the link on the home page to ac- cess the current and earlier editions. If you don’t have Internet access, but would like to read DNS, please let me know. I’ll be happy to print you a copy. Diocesan News is published ten times per The Link year. If you have items that would be of inter- For the latest information about est across the Diocese, please send them to the events at St Cyprian’s, please check Diocesan News editor, Susi Cormack Brown, the Link each week in Church or on e-mail: [email protected] or by our web site: post to c/o Glasgow & Galloway Diocesan Centre, 5 St Vincent Place, Glasgow G1 2DH. www.stcyprianslenzie.com . Please send in prose text, i.e. not leaflets, ad- The Link in Word format and the colour verts, posters or PDFs. The deadline for the version of this magazine in pdf format can May issue will be Monday 12th April 2010. be downloaded by clicking on the links on The views expressed in Cyprian Life and the Publications page. the Diocesan News are not necessarily those of If you would like to add an event to the the Editor of either publication or the Diocesan Link and/or the website, please email the Information and Communications Group. details to [email protected] or Paul Hindle phone Kathryn Potts on 0141 578 0734. 4 The consecration of Very Revd Dr Gre- gor Duncan as Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway will be held in St Mary’s Ca- thedral, Great Western Road, Glasgow, at 6.30pm on Friday 23rd April. Due to the large number of official guests and the capacity of the Cathedral, admission will be by invitation only. Official guests will include people holding are quick. Please email the Diocesan Centre positions of responsibility in the diocese; all ([email protected]) if you would diocesan clergy; and all electoral synod mem- like to attend. bers (i.e. the Lay Rep in each charge who was There will be a special celebratory Even- involved in the electoral process, in St song in the Cathedral on Sunday 25th April at Cyprian’s case, Glennis Tavener). 6.30pm to which everyone is invited. This will When acceptance numbers are known, any be an opportunity for the whole diocese to cel- spare places will be balloted among other ebrate its new bishop. As well as letting the members of the diocese, including spouses of diocese celebrate our new bishop, the service those invited. The official date for applying will see the installation of the new Dean, Revd for the additional places has now passed, but it Ian Barcroft. may still be possible to obtain a ticket if you A conference celebrating Scotland’s Pastoral Care Cluniac heritage at the abbeys of Pais- One of the important purposes of ley and Crossraguel takes place in Christ’s church is to provide the love Paisley Town Hall on 15th May.