Cyprianlife April 2020
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Cyprian Our Building is Closed, but the Church is Open The Magazine of St Cyprian’s Church,1 Lenzie April 2020 Scottish Episcopal Church Vestry Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway Rector@ Revd. Les Ireland Lay Representative@ Paul Hindle Bishop: 40 Garngaber Avenue, Lenzie G66 4LL Vacancy � 776 3237 Bishop’s Office, Diocesan Centre 5 St Vincent Pl., Glasgow G1 2DH Secretary@ Mary Boyd, 9 Northbank Road, � 0141-221 6911 fax 0141-221 6490 Kirkintilloch, G66 1EZ � 776 2812 email: [email protected] Treasurer@ Jacqui Stother, 11 Fern Avenue, Lenzie G66 4LE � 776 5330 Cyprian Property Convenor@ Vacant Elected Members Judith Beastall, Gavin Boyd, Tony Farnell, Janet Faughey, Maxine Gow, Sally Hadden, Aileen Mundy, David Taylor. The News Magazine of St. Cyprian’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Contacts Beech Road, Lenzie, Glasgow. G66 4HN Scottish Charity No. SC003826 Altar Guild@ Anne Carswell 776 3354 The Scottish Episcopal Church is in full Alt. Lay Rep@ vacant communion with the Church of England and Bible Reading Fellowship all other churches of the Anglican Glennis Tavener 775 2895 Communion throughout the world Fair Trade@ Glennis Tavener 775 2895 Gift Aid@ Aileen Mundy 578 9449 Rector Hall Bookings@ Gavin Boyd 776 2812 Revd. Les Ireland Link@ Rector 776 3866 58 Waverley Park, Kirkintilloch, G66 2BP Magazine@ Paul Hindle 776 3237 � 0141-776 3866 MU@ Maxine Gow 01360 email: [email protected] 310420 Day off: Friday Pastoral Visiting@ Rector 776 3866 Protection Officer@ Pastoral Assistant Aileen Mundy 578 9449 Glennis Tavener � 775 2895 Rotas@ Gavin Boyd 776 2812 (also Regional Council Rep.) Scottish Bible Society@ Music Team Glennis Tavener 775 2895 email: [email protected] @ These people can be contacted through Church Office email @stcyprianslenzie.com by using the � 776 0880 job/group name before the @ without any Facebook—search: St Cyprian Lenzie spaces, e.g., [email protected]. 2 From the Rector Dear Friends, This is the second time I have written a particular strain. “Rector’s Letter” for this magazine – a For everyone this is a difficult time. sign of how quickly the picture of this This time has affected our worship. We year, this month, has changed. I wrote have been instructed not to gather for worship the first a month or so ago, when and to close our building so that there is no temptation to gather even if we could comply Corona Virus was barely a mention on with ‘social distancing’. Our gathering is ‘not the news. Now it seems to have essential’. And we have found over the first overtaken our lives, and is likely to few days of the ‘lock-down’ that we can gather dominate our lives for a few more in new ways by using technology. months. So much so that even this is a The Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) is partial re-write of my second letter!! “broadcasting” worship on a Sunday at 11am, and if people are looking for worship that is These sorts of crises can have one of two streamed then we recommend using this responses in us, both of which are equally service, and details of how to access that valid as they simply reflect who God has made worship is on the SEC website: us. For some, it is a very frightening time, and www.scotland.anglican.org fears of what is happening, and what may For us at St. Cyprians, for the moment we happen to us, can overtake us. Some may think have decided not to stream worship from our we are over-reacting – but that is us! For church – suggesting people watch the SEC others, this sort of crisis brings out what many worship. Rather we are producing a weekly calls the British Spirit. We stoically carry on, worship video hosted on YouTube, which can often sharing in a wry humour. We repress the be accessed through our website, Facebook fears, and get on with how people tell us to live page, or through a link in the weekly E.mail. our lives, and how we should change those At the moment, it will last about 10 minutes. lives. We will also try to produce a video for For the vast majority of people, it does Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. We will reveal the warm-heartedness we have, as we also be able to add the link to other Facebook try to help friends and neighbours, those who pages, so people beyond our church will be are struggling in our society, who are under Continued overleaf 3 Magazine & From the Rector DNS Deadline able to join us in worship if they want. (I’m writing this on Mothering Sunday, and already The next issue of Cyprian Life should today the video has been watched by 80 be available, though probably not in people). Church, on Sunday, 26th April 2020. We also, through this time, intend to keep The deadline for material is Sunday 19th going with the Link, and this too will be April, though it would be good to get circulated through E.mail and social media. In these days, there is an assumption that things earlier, if possible. The magazine most people will be on the internet and social will be for May and June 2020. media. I know there are some who are not, and Please email notes, articles, photographs we would like to include them in our activities. and anything else that may be of interest to If that is you, please let us know and we’ll other members of the congregation to me by work out how to ensure you know what is the deadline in order to give time for happening at our church. typesetting and printing. For the time being, Finally, I do want to say that if you do electronic format is likely to be the only simply want someone to talk to, or are in need option. of anything, or need help in any way please get Please let me know about what is important in touch with me – I’m on 0141 776 3866. to you, especially if you have tips for coping What I do intend to do during this crisis with the Covid-19 situation. period is to continue talking about God. I incorporate items into this magazine from As a church, we will miss the usual events the Glasgow & Galloway Diocesan News that leading up to Easter and the grand celebration I hope might interest members of the of Easter itself this year. It will simply not be congregation. You can subscribe to receive the monthly news email from the diocese by going to glasgow.anglican.org, the diocesan home page, and entering your email address in Cover Picture the box at the bottom of the page. The email This cartoon, which has been widely newsletter takes the form of brief paragraphs circulated on social media in the with links to fuller articles on the diocesan website and, where appropriate, other sites. days leading up to the publication of The diocese is also on Facebook—search this magazine, is a new version of the ‘Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway’. ‘Where the church is’ cartoon We are encouraged to contribute by drawn by Dave Walker that he has sending any items for the email newsletter to reworked for the current times we [email protected]. There’s no find ourselves in. stated deadline, but they need to be in a few There are fewer people on the streets, days before the email comes out (usually on someone dropping off a food parcel, folk the second last Friday of the month). in self-isolation, etc. If you want to see the The views expressed in Cyprian Life are original version as well as lots more of not necessarily those of the Editor or of the Dave Walker’s insightful cartoons, please Scottish Episcopal Church. go to CartoonChurch.com. It’s worth a Paul Hindle look! Magazine Editor 4 continued from page 3 the same. One of my favourite replies when rose again. As we suffer, we know Jesus people say to me “It’s not the same as it used suffers with us. He shares in our suffering. He to be, is to respond, no, you’re right, it is much fills suffering with his love. He works with us better!!!!! I cannot claim it will be much so that we can be embraced by the heart of better! But it is still the time we remember God. And that is true in times when things are especially that Jesus, the Son of God suffered, going well. And it is true in times when things died, and he rose again. And we have to talk seem to be going badly, because the love of about it, and it is even more relevant as we live God never changes. through this crisis. Jesus suffered, died and This is a difficult time where the crisis seems to have taken over our lives, our country, even our world. But I am going to make a choice. I am going to choose to make the crisis second. I’m, going to make the death, the resurrection of Christ first. Quite simply KEEP because God and his love is first. CALM Best wishes, AND WASH YOUR HANDS Les The Link Pastoral Care For the latest information about One of the important purposes of events at St Cyprian’s, please check Christ’s church is to provide the the Link each week on our Link web love and care we all need. site: In the current circumstances, we are link.stcyprianslenzie.com having to change the way we work.