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Hambledon Parish Magazine St Peter’s Church & Village News June 2018 60p www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk Hambledon Parish Magazine, June 2018 Page 1 Hambledon Parish Magazine, June 2018, Page 2 PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev Simon Taylor 01483 421267 [email protected] Associate Vicar Position advertised Assistant Vicar The Rev David Jenkins 01483 416084 6 Quartermile Road Godalming GU7 1TG Curate The Rev David Preece 01483 421267 2 South Hill, Godalming, GU7 1JT [email protected] Churchwarden Mrs Elizabeth Cooke 01483 208637 Marepond Farm, Markwick Lane Loxhill, Godalming, GU8 4BD Churchwarden Alan Harvey 01483 423264 35 Maplehatch Close, Godalming, GU7 1TQ Assistant Churchwarden David Chadwick, Little Beeches, 01252 702268 14 Springhill, Elstead, Godalming, GU8 6EL Pastoral Assistant Mrs Jacqui Rook 01428 684390 1 Hambledon Park, Hambledon GU8 4ER Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Andrew Dunn 01428 482113 The Cottage, Lane End Hambledon GU8 4HD Sunday Services Full details of these and any other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month, which is shown on page 5 The Church has a number of Home Groups which meet regularly during the week at various locations. Details from Bryan Silletti Tel: 01483 421267 Alpha details and information from Tel: 01483 421267 Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals contact Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel No: 01483 421267 (Mon – Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm) Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, Copy deadline for contact the Church Wardens The Rector is normally off duty on Fridays the July magazine The Associate Vicar is normally off duty on Fridays The deadline is Thursday, 14 June The nearest Roman Catholic churches are St Teresa of Avila, Chiddingfold (Fr Irek Stadler, 01428 643877); Please send your copy to St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming and St Joseph’s, Jane Woolley Milford (Fr David Parmiter, 01483 416880) Cobblers, Woodlands Road Hambledon GU8 4HL 01428 684213 TO SUBSCRIBE AND HAVE email: [email protected] THE MAGAZINE DELIVERED, £6 per year Advertisers, please contact PLEASE CONTACT: MARY PARKER Derek Miller, 2 Church Lane, Telephone: 01428 682545 Hambledon, GU8 4DS 01428 684362 email: [email protected] Hambledon Parish Magazine, June 2018 Page 3 Reader’s Review – June Dear all ilgrimages are growing in popularity. A few weeks ago, BBC 2 ran a series of programmes about seven celebrities walking the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. It so happens P that almost exactly a year ago, a friend and I walked the Camino Inglés from Ferrol in the north- west corner of Spain to Santiago. And it wasn’t just us. We met a dog that wanted to walk to Santiago. Let me explain. On our penultimate day, in a village called Carballeira, a small dog was waiting for us in the middle of the road, ran to greet us, tail wagging but making no noise, and proceeded to accompany us for a good five or six kilometres. Sometimes he was ahead, sometime behind, but always close. As the route left the road to turn right into a wood,he turned right and looked back to make sure we were follow- ing. When we stopped at a bar for a coffee he sat in the door, patiently waiting for us to take up our packs and move on. We were just beginning to wonder what to do about him – and what we would do if he got run over, as he displayed little road sense – when a car drew up, a man got out, the dog cowered in the road, the man grabbed him, smacked him over the nose and drove off with him, muttering imprecations. It was obvious that this was not the first time our little friend had tried to make it to Santiago, and probably not the second time either. He was a seasoned peregrino, only prevented from reaching his goal by a furious owner who had to get into the car at regular intervals and pursue his pet down the Camino. And I was wondering how far my life is like that of the little canine. How often do I set out with enthusiasm on some quest, pursue it for a bit and then something pulls me back, distracts me and brings me back near to where I started? Fortunately for me the distraction is not usually a man who smacks me on the nose. The (metaphorical) smacking I do to myself when I realise that another one of my plans or good intentions has run into the sand. Which brings me to a second and precious memory of our pilgrimage. In the Cathedral of Santiago there is a side chapel. It has all the usual furnishings of a Roman Catholic chapel – an altar, candles, a statue of the Madonna – and then it has, rather incongruously, a table and two chairs arranged opposite each other. I wondered about this when I spotted the name of the chapel, mounted on a sign on the grille: ‘CAPILLA DE LA MISERICORDIA Dejaos reconciliar con Dios’. ‘Chapel of mercy. Let us be reconciled with God.’ There in Santiago, and surely not just there but all along our pilgrimage, God sits at a table with an empty chair, waiting for us to come and have a chat. However far we have made it on our quest, however many times we have tried and failed, hauled back by our own weakness or misguided desires, he is there, longing for us to join him at the table. God bless, Gertrud Gertrud Sollars, Reader Hambledon and Busbridge Hambledon Parish Magazine, June 2018, Page 4 CHURCH CALENDAR June 2018 Sunday 3rd June 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 1st Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Café Church: relaxed worship – coffee/tea, discussions and other activities for adults and children; songs, a talk and some prayers. All very welcome. ____________________________________________________ Thursday 7th June 9.00 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ Sunday 10th June 9.00 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 2nd Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Holy Communion (CW) ____________________________________________________ Thursday 14th June 9.00 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ Saturday 16th June 8.30 to 10 am Prayer Breakfast A time to meet together for prayer. All are welcome. ____________________________________________________ Sunday 17th June 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 3rd Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Morning Worship and Children’s Groups Father’s Day ____________________________________________________ Thursday 21st June 9.00 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ 24th June 10.00 am Benefice Service on the Green 4th Sunday after Trinity ____________________________________________________ Thursday 28th June 9.00 am Morning Prayer ____________________________________________________ Sunday 1st July 9.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 5th Sunday after Trinity 10.30 am Messy Church _ Services at St. John’s, Busbridge in June 8.00 am Holy Communion (said) 10.00 am Classic service in Church: Morning Worship: 1st and 3rd Sundays Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday 10.00 am Contemporary service in School Morning Worship: 1st Sunday Holy Communion: 2nd and 3rd Sundays Groups for children of all ages in various locations: turn up and ask! 6.30 pm Benefice Evening Worship Holy Communion 1st Sunday, Unplugged 3rd Sunday Evening Worship: 2nd and 4th Sundays Hambledon Parish Magazine, June 2018 Page 5 PARISH & PEOPLE ot one but two engagements have recently child Natasha and her husband Andy. Very many been announced in the Grove family. The congratulations and good wishes to them all. N congratulations of us all go to Becky (Grove) The village has been saddened by the sudden and James Kenney and to Vicky (Grove) and Oliver death of Tony Strudwick: as Arthur Blackman reports Porter. Vicky and Oliver will be marrying in elsewhere, a full tribute to Tony will appear in the Hambledon in September. next issue of the magazine. Meanwhile our loving The wedding takes place in France this month sympathy goes to Sue and the family. between Tom Kiley and Tabitha Mathew. Also Bruce Pearson also died recently – he lived in marrying this month, but in Hambledon, are Amber de Busbridge but was a loyal supporter of Hambledon Savary and Angus Symondson. The village sends its Church. good wishes to both couples for their future The Hambledon Village Shop team did a happiness. wonderful job in keeping us well supplied during the Mary and Michael Proffitt have welcomed their absence of Gill following the death of her father. Gill first granddaughter, Elizabeth Alice, whose parents knows just how much she means to us all and we are are Fiona and Malcolm Fisher. Elizabeth Waring has so pleased to see her back in Hambledon after time a great-granddaughter, Sophie, born to Emma Louise spent with her family down in Cornwall. and David and who will be a younger sister for Rosie. And what a fantastic result from the Jumble Sale Elizabeth also has a step-great-granddaughter, with in April. Many thanks to everyone involved in raising the arrival of Hermione, a daughter for Tom’s grand- these much-needed funds for the Village Hall. Defibrillator and Emergency Resuscitation Course lison Martin kindly organised for Bart’s City Life Savers to repeat their three-hour course in Hambledon. Under the expert tuition of a doctor from St Barts, eight participants had the opportunity to learn how to A go through the DRS (danger, response, shout) and ABCD (airway, breathing, compressions, defibrillation) steps in the event of finding someone who had collapsed. We all had a chance to use the defibrillator (like the two in the village – at the Church and the Village Shop) and to practise resuscitation on a mannequin; and we came away feeling more confident in coping with such a situation.