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ST. PETERS CHURCH MAGAZINE

SERVICES AT ST. PETER’S

Sunday 24th March – 3rd Sunday of Lent

9.30am Eucharist

Sunday 31st March - Mothering Sunday

9.30am Mothering Sunday service

Sunday 7th April - Passiontide Begins

10am Family Service

Sunday 14th April - Palm Sunday

9.30am Palm Sunday Eucharist

Sunday 21st April - Easter Day

9.30am Easter Eucharist

Sunday 28th April - 2nd Sunday of Easter

9.30am Eucharist Sunday 5th May - 3rd Sunday of Easter 10am Family Service Sunday 12th May—4th Sunday of Easter 9.30am Eucharist Sunday 19th May—5th Sunday of Easter 9.30am Morning Prayer

For more information about St Peter’s please log on to dqowbenefice.co.uk The website contains a calendar of services and events and you can access the weekly pew sheet even if you miss the service! Next edition of Quernmore2 Link—June 2019

From the Editor

I hope that you enjoy the Spring 2019 edition of the Quernmore Link. Please feel free to share it with friends and neighbours. The Link is also available in glorious colour on the Church website . If you haven’t discovered it yet you can find the website at

Dqowbenefice.co.uk

You will find lots of up-to-date information on the website about church services and events . Make sure you look at the ‘Blog’ section to access the weekly Pew Sheet. You can subscribe to the Pew Sheet with a single click!

The schedule of publication for the Link for 2019 is

Summer/Pentecost edition - early June

Autumn/Harvest edition - early September

Winter/Advent edition - mid November

Particular thanks for contributions in this edition to

Stephen and Audrey Potter Margaret Standen David Curwen Cindy

The cover displays the banner ‘Village Churches School Sports’ and all contributions, written pieces, photographs, reviews, adverts, notices, will be gratefully received and there will always be space…….

Graham [email protected]

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View From the Vicarage

Dear Friends

A few years back I tried to buy some mini eggs on Easter Sunday but was told by the shop keeper that 'Easter is over', as if I was some sad hanger on! This particularly drives me a bit crazy with Easter because the run up to Easter is, of course, Lent. As soon as the moment of celebration and indulgence arrives on Easter Sunday, it is pronounced as over by society. How unfair is that? Weirdly enough church sort of does that too and I've never really understood it. We spend forty days, quite rightly, thinking about the journey of Lent and reflecting on some of the tougher points of life as we follow the story of Jesus on his way to the cross. This is all incredibly meaningful. But the story doesn't end there and the overwhelming story of Christianity is one of hope. Jesus doesn't stay locked in the tomb and we don't have to stay locked in our darkness. There is light, there is life, there is joy, there is hope, there is beauty - and celebrating Easter is all about that. The Easter season actually lasts right up until Pentecost but it rarely seems to be marked that much. I get so excited about it and find it such a refreshing time that I wander round with a spring in my step and a big old grin on my face. And for me Easter really is about that, about life. The story of the resurrection is about the unwavering, unstoppable, unquenchable power of life. And being a person of faith is about seizing that life, loving it, upholding it in all that you do. So even though the rest of the world might think it is over I still say Happy Easter! right up until Pentecost and may the season bring life abundant to you! Wishing you a joyful Easter, when it comes!

Cindy & Family xx

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Spring was definitely in the air last week albeit a little early! The flowers may be regretting their decision to poke their heads through the ground so early.

At Christmas we had a break with traditional and had a disco rather than the usual Fair which the children thoroughly enjoyed. In addition, children were invited to design their own Christmas Cards and we also held the obligatory raffle. All events were organized by parents and we continue to be extremely grateful for their support. The 3 events combined raised in excess of £1400 – WOW!! Year 6 raised £159.25 at their fair which they donated to CancerCare. We donned our Christmas jumpers once again, raising £80 for Save the Children. The staff donated £60 to the Alzheimer’s Society instead of sending cards to each other (a charity very close to some staff members’ hearts!). School really was fundraising heaven this year, the whole school took part in the Elf Run for St John’s Hospice. Children and staff donned their elf hats and completed the run, raising a whooping £875.23.

Swimming lessons continue at 315 Fitness for Years 3, 4 & 5. Keith Singleton continues to run his football clubs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with additional ‘Good sportsmanship’ clubs at lunchtimes. Andrew Pye runs Multi-Skills on Mondays and Golf on Wednesdays, we remain hopeful that a future British Open Champion may be in our midst!!

Thanks go to David Kent of Progressive garage who will welcome Class 1 once again. This visit really is a school tradition.

Class 4 visited the People’s Museum in Manchester, Class 3 visited Leighton Moss, are going to the RNLI in and participated in a tag rugby event in .

The whole school was entertained when M&M Production Theatre visited school and performed ‘A Little Princess’. An exciting time was had by all. Class 1 visited the Grand Theatre to watch a performance of ‘Tabby McTat’.

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Music continues to play a big part in the school day with woodwind, guitar, ukulele, piano and singing lessons available.

We have competed in a few sporting events, including the EFL U11 6-a-side Cup, a 7-a-side Cup at and a football event for girls only at the University of Cumbria. We may not have been triumphant but it really is the taking part that is important! Winning may be nice too, we can dream….Update – the swimming team won the cup in the Small Schools Swimming Gala – congratulations to all the children who participated!

As well as all the above we continue to provide all the children with a terrific learning experience and environment in which to do it.

Hopefully Spring will soon reappear for us all to enjoy, fingers crossed.

All in all, life at Quernmore School continues to be as interesting and varied as always

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St Peters Building Project

We are very excited to announce that plans for upgrading the church building are well advanced and approval has been given to start work after Easter. The purpose of this upgrade is to make the church more welcoming and accessible for both young and old and make it a building fit for the 21st century not only as a worship space but also for the benefit of the wider Quernmore community. What does the Project consist of?

Starting with the present outer door which is in need of repair we want to improve the welcome into the church with a new door and handrails to assist people entering the building. Inside we are building a new internal Lobby which will exclude drafts and improve the entrance and include much needed storage rooms. We have been trialing the use of chairs in the side chapel for some time to create a space which can be used for Family Service Worship, children’s crèche, coffee mornings, café church and harvest suppers. This will be enhanced with new radiators to improve the heating and a new carpet to make this an area which can be used by both church and community for meetings and social events. The Tower and Kitchen area is to be blocked off with a partition which will extend above the present wooden screen. This will create a sound proof meeting room suitable for PCC and other church and community meetings. More importantly it will provide a sound proof room for use by the Children’s Church during church services. The storage rooms created within the new Lobby will allow us to clear the Tower room and with a new floor covering make it a much more comfortable space. 7 Finally, in order to build the partition and make the Tower room sound proof we need to move the existing organ pipes to a new position above the new Lobby. This will allow much needed refurbishment of the organ and improve the organ acoustics. Funding the work The main source of funding for this work has been the gift of a legacy from the late Rev Chris Sparks but we still need to raise funds in order to complete the work. We have applied for a number grants but we would also like to give people in the community who have a connection with St Peters the opportunity to donate to this important project. We have set a target of £20,000 for Gifts, Donations and Fundraising. This is a big project for a small rural church community like St Peters and we need to get everyone on board.

The Vicar and Church Wardens would be very grateful to receive any gifts for the Church Building and Restoration Fund in strictest confidence either by cheque or paying direct into the church’s bank account (please use your name & ‘Restoration’ to enable us to identify your gift)

Please pay to: NatWest Bank plc Lancaster Branch Sort code 01-54-90 Account no: 02747332 Account name: St Peter’s Church Quernmore Payee Reference: Name (or anon) Restoration

If you would like your gift to be acknowledged we are planning to create a Donation board in the new lobby and tower room recognising the names of sponsors. Please let us know your wishes with your gift and also whether you wish to recognise a family member or loved one on the Donation Board. Finally you may wish to consider Gift Aiding your Gift if you are a UK Taxpayer which would increase it by 25%. Details and a declaration form are provided on page 10. Thank you for supporting St Peters Quernmore.

8 Gift Aid declaration – for past, present & future donations Name of charity: ST PETER’S CHURCH QUERNMORE PCC Please treat as Gift Aid donations all qualifying gifts of money made

Today in the past 4 years in the future Please tick all boxes you wish to apply. I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax and / or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April to 5 April) that is at least equal to the amount of tax that all the charities or Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) that I donate to will reclaim on my gifts for that tax year. I understand that other taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify. I understand the charity will reclaim 25p tax on every £1 that I give after 6 April 2008. Donor’s details Title ------First name or initial(s) ------Surname ------Full Home address ------Postcode ------Date ------

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Please notify the charity if you: Want to cancel this declaration Change your name or home address No longer pay sufficient tax on your income and / or capital gains. If you pay Income Tax at the higher or additional rate and want to receive the additional tax relief due to you, you must include all your Gift Aid donations on your Self Assessment tax return or ask HM Revenue and Customs to adjust your tax code.

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Some miscellaneous observations on life…

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. - Will Rogers

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. - G K Chesterton

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction. - Thomas Jefferson

People will not care what you know until they know that you care. - Anon

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor. - Anon

Egotism is obesity of the head. - Anon

How amazing it is that we have so few tears these days when there is so much to weep about! - Isaac Ababio

Wars to end wars are an illusion. Wars, more than any other form of human activity, create the conditions which breed more war. - John Foster Dulles

Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want…. every- where in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear… anywhere in the world. – Franklin D Roosevelt

Where there's smoke, there's dinner.

Which came first, the chicken or the various things that taste like chicken?

At the rate things are changing, anyone nostalgic for the "good old days" is yearning for last week.

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Quernmore WI has had another successful year seeing a growth in membership and because last year marked one hundred years since women were given the vote we focused our speakers for the year on some of the roles women have today. Several of the speakers were from Quernmore village and included a vet, a child protection social worker, and an Antarctica pilot. The year culminated with us receiving a Women’s Vote Centenary grant. The purpose of the Women's Vote Centenary Grant Scheme was to allow organisations to ‘Celebrate, Inspire, Remember and to increase national awareness and mark 100 years since women got the right to vote’. On receiving the grant Quernmore WI decided on a series of events to mark the occasion. The proposed activities were to bring local communities together including rural men, women and young people. First we held a talk by Peter Barratt, great-grandson of inspirational suffragette Alice Hawkins. This was a free community event held in Quernmore School and included a buffet supper. A capacity audience of 60 participated. We then held a Film and Buffet (2 screenings) showing ‘The Suffragette’ film, followed by refreshments. Again this was a free community event held in the Gregson Community Centre, Lancaster. As usual Quernmore WI participated in St Peter’s Christmas Tree Festival, the theme of our tree was a "Suffragette Christmas Tree". Afterwards the tree was displayed in the Lancaster City Town Hall so a wider community were able to view it. Workshops for Years 5 and 6 were held at Quernmore School, these sessions raised awareness of the history of women’s suffrage and how the vote and issues impacted on their lives. Lastly all members of the community were invited to plant bulbs on the Village green. The colours of the bulbs represented the suffragette colours (Purple Green and White). The flowers each spring will be a lasting reminder of the suffragette movement. Quernmore WI are grateful for the Women's Vote Centenary Grant Scheme without whose generosity we would not have been able to hold these community events. So should you wish to be stimulated and educated along the way why not come and join us every third Tuesday of the month at 7.30 in the Methodist school room. A warm welcome awaits.

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News from St Peter’s

Annual General Meeting St Peter's AGM will take place on 28th April in Church after the service

4th APRIL 1.30pm at St Peter’s Quernmore School Easter Service

15th APRIL Monday of Holy Week 11am at St Peter’s Following on from the recent Morning Prayer session this Study Group will take a closer look at Jesus and his journey through Holy Week

18th APRIL MAUNDY THURSDAY FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST 7pm at St Peter’s Agape meal, incorporating Holy Communion {for those who wish it}. Beginning at 7pm at St Peter's. An 'Agape meal is a shared meal, cel- ebrating God's love for us & our love for God & one another. It is suit- able for all ages.

Don’t miss one of the highlights of the social calendar so put the date in your diary now! More details to follow….. 6th July 2019 Mrs Andrew Johnson at home Buffet Supper in aid of St Peter’s Quernmore

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BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

The Book of Remembrance is a permanent record in writing of our loved ones now departed.

There is also a 'YEARS MIND DIRECTORY' which is free of charge, whereby we can have our dear departed remembered in PRAYER on the anniversary of their death or perhaps on their birthday!

Why not take advantage of this facility and then come and hear the names being remembered on the Sunday nearest the appropriate date.

During the Month of March we shall be remembering in our prayers 2nd Rev Leslie John Hakes 6th Arthur Ayrton 16th Michael James White 18th Stephen Wilkinson 30th Lynn Ayrton

During the Month of April we shall be remembering in our prayers 9th Margaret Hart 15th Norman Curwen

During the Month of May we shall be remembering in our prayers 6th Norman Wareing 22nd Chris Sparks 28th Gordon Webster

During the Month of June we shall be remembering in our prayers 29th Doreen Mugford

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HOLY WEEK at ST PETER’S Holy Week is the most important week of the Christian year, when from Palm Sunday to Easter Day we follow Jesus in the last week of his life.

14th APRIL PALM SUNDAY Palm Sunday Eucharist at 9.30am including the blessing & distribution of the palms 15th APRIL MONDAY 11am at St Peter’s: Study group looking at Jesus and his journey through Holy Week—following on from the recent Morning Prayer 18th APRIL MAUNDY THURSDAY FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST Agape meal, incorporating Holy Communion {for those who wish it}. Beginning at 7pm at St Peter's. An 'Agape meal is a shared meal, celebrating God's love for us & our love for God & one another. It is suitable for all ages.

19th APRIL GOOD FRIDAY DYING WITH CHRIST Reflective Service at St Mark's, at 2.30pm 20th APRIL EASTER SATURDAY FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT Children's Easter Garden building and pre-Easter activities at Christ Church, 10am—noon

21st APRIL EASTER DAY RISEN WITH CHRIST Communion Service at 9.30am Followed by an Easter egg hunt and egg decorating competition. {for adults as well as children!} Get planning your egg designs now!

14 Curwen’s Corner Glory of the Garden by Rudyard Kipling OUR is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.

For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall, You'll find the tool- and potting-sheds which are the heart of all The cold-frames and the hot-houses, the dung-pits and the tanks, The rollers, carts, and drain-pipes, with the barrows and the planks.

And there you'll see the gardeners, the men and 'prentice boys Told off to do as they are bid and do it without noise ; For, except when seeds are planted and we shout to scare the birds, The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ; But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and loam, For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come.

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:-" Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives.

There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick, There's not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick But it can find some needful job that's crying to be done, For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one.

Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders, If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders; And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! And t he Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away !

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Understand church language

PROCESSION: The ceremonial formation at the beginning of the Service, consisting of altar servers, the celebrant, and late parishioners looking for seats. RECESSIONAL: The ceremonial procession at the conclusion of the Service, led by parishioners trying to beat the crowd to the parking lot. RELICS: People who have been going to church for so long, they actually know when to sit, kneel, and stand. TEN COMMANDMENTS: The most important Top Ten list. USHERS: The only people in the who don't know the seating capacity of a pew.

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? (Theological Version)

Billy Graham: The chicken was surrendering all. John Wesley: The chicken’s heart was strangely warmed. John Piper: God decreed the event to maximize his glory. OR . . . it was an act of Christian hedonism. The chicken realized that his greatest joy would only be found on the other side. C.S. Lewis: If a chicken finds itself with a desire that nothing on this side can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that it was created for the other side. N.T. Wright: This act of the chicken, which would be unthinkable in British barnyards, reeks of that American individualism that is destructive to community. Pluralist: The chicken took one of many equally valid roads. Universalist: All chickens cross the road. Tim LaHaye: The chicken didn’t want to be left behind. Emergent: For this chicken, it’s not the destination that’s important. It’s the journey itself.

Happy Ending

Comment from a parishioner: ‘Our vicar’s sermons always have a happy ending. The moment they’ve ended, everyone feels happy.’

Heaven

Seen in a parish magazine: “We shall be meeting on Wednesday when the subject will be ‘Heaven - how do we get there?’ Transport by bus is available at 6.45pm opposite the King’s Arms.

Murphy’s Laws of Work

1. Everything can be filed under 'miscellaneous.' 2 To err is human; to forgive is not company policy. 3 Important documents that contain no errors will get lost in the post. 4 There’s not enough time to do it right the first time, but there’s always time to do it over. 16 Dawn Chorus

A glow in the east, faint fingers of dawn A single bird wakes, and greets the dim rays His voice fills the air, as morning takes form And soon he is joined by a chorus of praise.

They praise for their life, and the end of the night For perils survived, and hunters unfed. They praise for the day, and the beauty of light The praise for their flight; while we lay abed!

And yet, as we lay, and hear their fine song Our praises join theirs, our hearts lift with joy. We can’t match their skill, but yet sing along The birds and ourselves our voices employ

In worship of God, for gifts of new days A cadence of song, dawn chorus of praise.

By Nigel Beeton

Dawn chorus

If you sleep with your bedroom window open, you will know all about the dawn chorus around now! The birds are busy establishing their territorial rights, and the ‘early birds’ have probably already selected a nest site and started building.

The blackbird builds a solid cup of twigs, plant stems and leaves, lined with a thick skin of mud covered with finer grasses and leaves. The long tailed tit forms a soft hollow ball of mosses, hair and wool, with a tiny hole as entrance. The wrens do it differently, with the male wren sometimes building several nests before his finicky mate will accept one. He gets his revenge, though, because he sometimes installs a second wife in one of the rejected sites!

Leave Easter Alone!

Way back in 325 AD the Council of Nicaea decided that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox. Simple (!?!)

Now some people want a ‘fixed’ Easter. It would be more convenient. Holidays could be planned, school terms would be more sensible, and we could get rid of its old-fashioned religious implications. I suspect, however, that it won’t happen.

There’s something deliciously ridiculous about a national holiday that can swing dizzily from March to April and which can only be calculated with the help of a complicated Table in the Book of Common Prayer. !

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Happily, the still retains some singular parish clergy. Take the parish of St James-the-Least in the county of C- for example. Here the elderly Anglo-Catholic vicar, Eustace, continues his correspondence to Darren, his nephew, a low-church curate recently ordained…

On the perils of small study groups The Rectory St. James the Least

My dear Nephew Darren

So, you are about to run an Alpha course in your parish; I am sure your bishop will be delighted. I remember him from my Oxford days. He was just starting his course as a gangly undergraduate when I was finishing my doctorate on Eusebius.

I recall him as a keen rugby player who took early morning dips in the Isis, who led intense discussions on Saint Paul’s theology of “the body” over cups of cocoa in the evenings in his rooms and who spent his holidays laying paths for the National Trust in the Lake District while lodging in Youth Hostels. He’s exactly the sort of person who will empathise with your ministry – hearty, enthusiastic and overflowing with compassionate intensity. We were not close friends.

We tend not to go in for those sort of things here at St. James the Least of All, preferring matters a little more relaxed and understated. If we ever do hold discussion groups (and they are a regrettable necessity during Lent), they always start with a good lunch, finishing with coffee and one of Mrs French’s excellent Madeira cakes. Once we have removed from the table, those who manage to stay awake will start to tackle the chosen topic.

However, we always seem to veer off to discussing more interesting matters, such as why Col. is never allowed to sing solos in the choir any more, or who moved Mrs Cholmondeley’s flower arrangement from the font the previous week. Apparently she has given notice that her weekly contributions on the plate will be much reduced unless an appropriate apology is received.

These matters may not seem as important to you as deciding what the “white stone” in Revelation 4 is all about, but let me assure you that to members of our congregation, knowing why the second verse of the National Anthem is no longer sung at our Remembrance Services is of pivotal importance.

At 2pm we wake up those who have enjoyed an hour’s slumber and totter off home, knowing we have once again done our bit for faith in the parish.

I am sure your own group will also return home after your sessions - even if a digestive biscuit and weak tea is all that has been offered – invigorated and braced to tackle the heathen in the parish. We all take our pleasures in different ways.

Your loving uncle, Eustace 18

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United Benefice of

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Vicar Rev Cindy Rigney 793125 [email protected]

Reader to United Benefice Anne Brigg 751402

In case of illness or distress please get in touch with Rev Cindy Rigney or, if unavailable, your

Warden or Pastoral Assistant

St Peter’s Quernmore

Church Wardens Stephen Potter 66742 Andrew Johnson 770413 Asst Wardens David Curwen 417944 PCC Secretary Gillian Kelsall 63029 PCC Treasurer Lynn Lund 66941 Organist Barbara Stackhouse 65031 Sunday School Teacher—Janet Alexander Helper Sarah Fisher

Quernmore Link editor - Editor—Graham Rigney 01524 793125 [email protected]

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