October 2018 Ambassador Morning Prayer every Wednesday at 9.30 am. Metton Church zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA NB Except October i"* No Service October 2018 45p 7'^ October Trinity 20

9.30 am Holy Communion Book of Common Prayer 11.00 am All Age Worship Roughton

Tuesday 9'^ October

2.00 pm School Harvest Festival Service Roughton

14*^ October Trinity 21

9.30 am Holy Communion Common Worship Hanworth 11.00 am Harvest Metton with Felbrigg 3.15 pm Sing For Joy St. David's Nursing Home

Wenesday 17^'' October

2.30 pm Mothers' Union Communion Service Roughton

2V' October Trinity 22

9.30 am Morning Prayer Book of Common Prayer Sustead 11.00 am Holy Communion Common Worship Roughton Parish magazine of the Roughton Benefice - comprising Roughton, 28'' October Trinity 23 Bessingham, Felbrigg, Sustead, Metton and Hanworth with Gunton

11.00 am Holy Communion Metton with Felbrigg Felbrigg Rector, Reverend Janet Frymann 01263 768075 zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA 3.15 pm Sing For Joy St. David's Nursing Home Sheringham www.roughtonbenefice.uk 3.30 pm Harvest Gunton Churchwardens Metton Who'zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAs Who None (contact Revd Frymann) in our Benefice Churchwardens Roughton NATIONAL TRUST - FELBRIGG HALL Rector: Revd Janet Frymann Helen Mortimer 01263-511132 OPENING TIMES Dave Wiltshire 01263-768104 The Rectory, Until 28 October Church Loke Prayer Group Co-ordinator Roughton. Helen Mortimer 01263-511132 Hall - daily, 12 noon - 5pm NRll 8SZ Mothers Union Gardens, Shop, Tearoom & Second Hand Bookshop - daily, 11am -5pm Telephone number 01263 768075 Dorothy Kendall 01263-513038 Mobile 07766712545 Ambassador Newsletter Contacts 01 November to 30 December Email [email protected] General Enquires - Ron Mortimer Hall (Service Wing only) & Second Hand Bookshop 01263-511132 - Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 3pm Please contact Janet in the first [email protected] Gardens, Shop & Tearoom instance for Baptisms, Weddings - Thursday to Sunday, 11 am - 3pm or Funerals Editor Barbara Chinnery 07500708677 Estate Grounds - daily, all year, dawn till dusk Hon Assistant Minister Email [email protected] Car Park charge £3.00, free to National Trust Members Revd Stephen J G Seamer Advertising - Derek lanson General Enquiries Tel. 01263 837444

01263-479616 01263-712159 Registered Charity No 205846 Readers [email protected] Elizabeth Ranger 01263-761750 Website manager Peter Frymann 01263 768075 Peter Frymann 01263 768075 Authorised Worship Assistant Roughton Church School Simone Hume Church member Governor Prize Bingo Churchwarden Bessingham David Wiltshire 01263-768104 None (contact Revd Frymann) Clerk to the School Govemors Friday 28* September Churchwardens Felbrigg Donald Mayes 01263-761392 Mary Llewellyn 01263-513072 Robert Brown Trust - Trustees Felbrigg Village Hall Churchwardens Hanworth with Revd Janet Frymann 01263-768075 2.00 pm. start Gunton Helen Mortimer 01263-511132 Elizabeth Ranger 01263-761750 David Wiltshire 01263-768104 Good Raffle Richard Harbord 01263-768732 Dorothy Kendall 01263-513038 Free tea/coffee and piece of cake. Churchwardens Sustead Clerk to the Trustees Priscilla McDougall 01263-577247 Nina Chapman 01263-577782 In aid of Felbrigg & Metton Village Hall Glenn Davenport 01263-768877 13062018 Your Local September, time for the magazine again Where did the months disappear to? Directory Cont. ELECTRICAL LIMITED Well let me tell you what's been happening For all electrical installation and RAPTOR HOUSE maintenance work including over the last few months in the Rectory \ CATTERY electrical equipment testing, fire household. We have been watching the pond ^ alarms and emergency lighting develop and mature a little. \ ,,. Quiet surroundings - systems. Tele:- 01263 513681 We planted six plants into the pond last year ^^If 'y NO DOGS. • when we first had it zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAreintroduced to the garden. \1* /' ^ Heated accommodation outside Five have survived and it has been interesting runs. 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Tuesday 9th October at Hotspur, the foundations of the previous temple. If that is the case, it would Please do join us, if at all possible. Old Turnpike Road, Roughton led probably make Caister Church the oldest in . by Dave. After the mission to Kent by St Augustine in zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA597 AD, the Christian Tuesday 23"* October at 13 The church expanded northwards. It was helped by a culture Craft Workshop Green, Felbrigg led by Mary introduced by the Anglo-Saxon settlers whose custom was to live in nucleated settlements rather than the dispersed pattern of the 1st, 3"" & 4* Monday from 10.0am earlier period. This helped the missionaries to plant churches in MOTHERS' UNION - 12.30pm at Roughton Village the new villages, protected by a headman and to build a new Wednesday 3"* October - Annual Hall. £2.50 including ,coffee. landscape of self sufficiency around them. By the 8thc AD, a Festival Service at Norwich Some materials provided. Christian landscape had been achieved across most of Norfolk Cathedral at 11am. Quilting, crochet and much but ail that began to change in more recent times during the Wednesday zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAIT^ October - more..For further information Agricultural Revolution when the land was adapted to suit modern Communion Service at Roughton please contact Simone on: 01263 farming. It moved us towards a more material age presenting the Church at 2.30pm followed by tea. 711346 church with yet a new sort of challenge in the community. It Thursday 18* October - Members reminds us how important the network of rural and urban Day at St. Luke's Norwich Next edition of the churches are in stapling Christianity to the all-embracing 10.00 am-2.30 pm Ambassador: November 2018. landscape. Copy to Barbara on 15* Richard, in Gunton 'HANWORTH: A HUNDRED YEARS ON' October please This year we are privileged to Disclaimer: SEPTEMBER'S QUIZ ANSWERS commemorate Armistice Day on The views expressed by the centenary of the end of the individuals in this Magazine are Hell Drivers - Sid James - Cambell's Kingdom - Dirk Bogarde - First World War Our annual Act not necessarily the views of the of Remembrance takes place this Darling - Julie Christie - Dr. Zhivago - Alec Guiness - The group of churches in this year at 10.50 am on Sunday, 11th Ladykillers - Peter Sellers - What's New Pussycat - Peter O'Toole Benefice. Advertising in this November, at Hanworth Memorial -The Lion In Winter - Anthony Hopkins - 84 Charring Cross Road - magazine does not imply an Hall. The ceremony is likely to endorsement or promotion of the Anne Bancroft - The Graduate - Dustin Hoffinan - Rain Man - Tom take 20 minutes at the most, and Cruise - Top Gun - Meg Ryan - Sleepless In Seattle - Tom Hanks advertisement, nor its content, will offer the opportunity to lay products or services. Errors and -Saving Private Ryan - Matt Damon - The Bourne Identity - Clive wreaths commemorating those omissions, whilst regrettable, may Owen - Gosford Park - Helen Mirren - The Long Good Friday - whose lives were sacrificed in the occur. Please advise the editor Bob Hoskins - Mrs Henderson Presents - Judy Dench - Pride And wars of the last century. The and appropriate action will be Prejudice Memorial Hall Committee hope to taken. offer refreshments following the ceremony, whilst taking the Doorway of Hope Service as an institution disintegrated across most of . Tribes Felbrigg Harvest Festival 18* October 2018 @ 7.30 invaded Norfolk from the Danish-German edges of the Continent, Norwich Cathedral Sunday 14* October zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA@ 11am reinstating the native gods and pagan religion. Why did that Felbrigg Church happen so easily? Join us for a service of Since the Bronze Age the people of Norfolk had looked up to the Join us for a service of Praise and remembrance for all who have lost heavens and seen the night-sky full of sparkling stars, thinking Prayer as we hear about the a baby however long ago, whether each one represented an ancestor They figuratively joined farming year here in Felbrigg and through miscarriage, termination, heaven and earth by building a huge number of burial mounds to in Nicaragua. We also welcome stillbirth, as well as during the the dead. These 'tumuli' were visible on the ground where ever the Gospel Choir. early months of life. there was a rise in the land - they were everywhere. The pagan During this time there will be an religion created a 'holy' countryside so for the Christians to Mothers Union opportunity to light a candle as we establish themselves they not only had to reach hearts and minds Trustee required remember our litde ones. but also to create a new Christian landscape; a task that would Mothers' Union Norwich Diocese take centuries. Felbrigg News is looking to co-opt a trustee Only a dozen of the many Roman temples are now known in willing to work within our aims Norfolk and half of them are in and around the Roman town of The Plant Sale on August Bank and objects who will have Caister-by-Norwich. They all have a square plan. This was a Holiday raised the sum of £172. oversight of the administration of single room, a 'cella' that rose up like a tower with a conical roof Thanks to all who participated in our charity and advise the Board Around it was a lower, open ambulatory. Beyond that was a any way. of its legal obligations for the 'temenos' or a sanctuary for ceremonies and festivals, enclosed Roughton & District W.I. Triennium 2019-2021. by an outside wall and gateways. The central positioning of the Craft Group We are based at Diocesan House, temple had to give way to 'sacred' trees such as great venerable 109 Dereham Road, Easton, oaks. In an age when timber was scarce they had to be specially Meet on the second Monday of Norwich NR9 5ES where we protected by the druidic priests. We have no idea what dedication each month (10am-12 noon) at employ a paid administrator was given to any of these temples or what was in the cella. Their Roughton Village Hall. We This is a voluntary trustee post for doors and contents are closed to us - all except that is, the one in warmly welcome WI members and a term of 3 years which could be Felmingham - more of that later. A kindly attitude towards visitors alike, and charge £3 per extended for a further 3 years. paganism is to see it as the precursor of the Old Testament just session which goes towards Details of our aims and object, our as that was the precursor of the New Testament. Jupiter could be arranging outings/ visits/day work and our projects and seen as an expression of the one God's innate strength and so regulations can be found on our on. A less benign view says that ancient cities in the Roman schools etc. website: Empire had poor morals both public and private. Also in Caister a Coffee, Tea and biscuits are http://muenterprises.org/norwichm 'curse tablet' was found near one of the temples where provided. u/ someone's goods had been stolen and it was aimed at the thief You can speak to Angela Newton For further information, to request Only priests were allowed into the 'cella' of the Roman temple so (01263 514476) for further a role description and to indicate those buildings could not be adapted for Christian worship with a information. your areas of expertise, please congregation. They all seem to have been demolished. Caister- The origins of Christianity in contact the Mothers' Union Office people feel hopeless' he says. 'But (01603 882330) or e-mail: the Gospel brings hope.' It took over 600 years for Christianity to become established in munorwich(g),googlemaiLcom Patrick and his colleagues have given away at least 50 Bibles a North Norfolk - why so long? The good news of Jesus was (staffed TueSf Thursday probably first carried to England by traders and Roman soldiers in year to detainees in a vast range of the 2nd c AD, but it was competing against new cults from the and Friday mornings.) languages from Farsi to Tamil, East such as Mithras, Cymbeline and Isis; the established native Urdo to Nepalese. And, thanks to pagan religion and the ever present Judaism. Across Britain there Bible a Month your support, we're able to keep were over a hundred pagan gods, many of which were local cults. their chapel stocked with a good Their names in North Norfolk have become lost because very few Bringing hope to the hopeless supply of Bibles so that anyone contemporary mosaics or inscriptions in stone in this county can drop by and read them. Over the last year, thanks to your survive, which might have illustrated them. After the failure of Some of Patrick's flock remain in gifts, we've been able to provide Queen Boudicca's rebellion in 61 AD against the Romans, her detention, in a state of uncertainty, over 4,400 Bibles in 26 different tribe in Norfolk - the Iceni were disarmed and they were refused for as much as a year. In the end languages to over 90 organisations permission to use the names of their pagan gods. Instead the three quarters will be deported. at home in this country, including Roman amalgamated the names of their own with the local gods. Patrick is aware of the perilous prisons, young offender This 'syncretising' changed Sullis to Minerva; Cuno-Magius to future awaiting some detainees, institutions and immigration Apollo and so on. In 260 AD the Emperor Gallienus T see this as a mission field, a removal centres. decriminalised the practice of Christianity and local groups were place God has called me to' says even allowed to own places of worship. This intensified the Patrick. 'My role is to impart The Revd Patrick Wright is one of competition with pagan worship so several early Christian hope, and the Bible is full of the chaplains at Heathrow's missionaries were martyred around 290 AD; including Saints hopeful stories. My favourite is the Immigration Removal Centre and Alban, Aaron and Julius. In 313 AD, Emperor Constantine issued story of Joseph, where at the end can testify to the importance of the Edict of Milan making Christianity the official region of the he is able to look back and this work. 'Our job is to give empire. Five priests on the Continent were appointed as English say:'God was in it.' people hope.' He said. Here, bishops and in that role they attended various councils in Italy on I have to give a genuinely roughly 1,000 men and a couple of church doctrine. A wonderful collection of silver plates, engraved biblical hope, which isn't that dozen women, are awaiting news with the early symbols of Christianity were in modern times found life will be without pain or of if and when they will be buried on the site of the Roman town near Peterborough. One of sorrow, but that we can see deported from the UK. the early bishops may have been based there and his diocese God's purposes for us, even it The reasons could be many and could have extended into Norfolk. Another similar 'hoard' was means walking a difficult path various: overstaying a visa, having found at Mildenhall on the Norfolk/ Suffolk border. In 391 AD, and facing choices that we would arrived in the UK illegally, having Emperor Theodosius banned pagan religions but by then the rather not make/ committed a crime, or simply Romans had lost their grip on their empire. The Roman army and making a series of mistakes. Tt their auxiliaries (soldiers from the empire In general, stationed in definitely is a place where a lot of Britain) returned to the Continent in 410 AD. The Christian church REMEMBRANCE AT ROUGHTON CHURCH World Vision Sunday 11*^ November at 10.50 am

I'm sure by now everyone is aware that this year is the centenary of the end of World War 1.

Helen Mortimer We hope to make this service an extra special one. St Miry's Church. Roujhron 195 Holt Road 6'* • CROMER You will find below a list of names on our memorials of the First Norfolk NR27 9JN and Second World Wars. If any of these people are your ancestors (and I know some of 17 August 2018 these names are still familiar in Roughton and the surrounding RECEIPT area) why don't you come and pay your respects to those who Dear Helen, thank you for your sttRwrt in helping to make a (JBferei^ died so that we might live.

Thank you so much for your recent donation on 17/08/2018, which will help WorW Vision to build a bri^iter fuojrefew man yfemilies and communities in the developing world. We From the 1^ World War are extremely thankfulfc>r th e support of the focal church. Please find betow details of your donation and thank you once again for your support of our work and be encouraged that you really are making a difference. Leonard Bower John H BuUen James Cossey Richard Hewitt John T Hoolhouse Sidney E Keeler Gift Code CHtltem Quamaty UirftCwt Total Co»t Stanley Lambert Thomas Lambert Charles Lawrence I8WT WaterzyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA treatment lot 6 £23.00 £138.00 George Lawrence John H Re5mo]ds Alfred W Turner I8WI> 100 Water purificaDon ablet 7 £16.00 £112.00 Cecil Tumer Herbert J C Wade Archie Ward Total received OSMo" Charles E Ward Robert J Ward Ernest Ward

Our founder Bob Pierce prayed "let my/>eo« be broken by the thinp th(R break the Cecil V^right God" This prayer continues to inspire our v«>rk to this very day. If you wouldftke more information about how your church can join us in standing with the From the 2"^ World War workf's most vulnerable children, then 1 wouM be del'^tad to hear from you. Frederick Clear Reginald Davies Robert Dew With every blessing Donald Everson Henry Hewitt John Rodwell Basil Spendlow Wilfred Spendlow

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On Sunday the 5* of August at our All Age Worship Service in St Mary's Church Roughton the theme being water it was suggest^ spontmeously agreed and Mondays 5'^ 12*, 19*', 26*^ 7.30 pm. in the Rectory announced that the collection would go towards "Qean Water" vrfiere it was most and/or needed in die world. A cheque was duly sent to World Vision. Wednesdays 7*^ 14*, 21^', 28*. 10.00 am. in the Rectory after morning prayer.