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Our Parish Magazine InSt Thomas of TCanterbury Woodfordouch Green Essex Issue 4 2017 £2.00 The reason for the season For back issues of InTouch go to myintouch.co.uk Make all your wishes Issue 4 2017 come true today. Make a Will. A Will is the only way to ensure that all your wishes are carried out after your death. Join the many people who protect their loved ones from financial hardship even after they have passed a way. Make a Will today with Y Bacchus & Co Solicitors and bring your affairs up to date before it’s too late. In Touch We are a local firm of solicitors specialising in: Wills Probate Deputy Orders Mental Health Divorce Family Law Property Lasting Powers of Attorney Contents Business Wills and Forward Planning 4 The view from the Editor’s Chair The Editor welcomes you to the Christmas Edition and takes a look back at 2017 5 The Church of the Holy Innocents Jane Begley is the Curate at this pretty church in the 226 Chingford Mount Road, Chingford London, E4 8JL forest, and tells us about her community Tel: 020 8524 9111 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.bacchuslaw.co.uk Authorised & Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority No: 282253 8 Canterbury Tales Social events take hold of the parish and we bid farewell to Doreen Ritchie after 30 years service to our Masses 10 Cardinal Cormac Murphy A man of political courage. We bring you a small snapshot of his legacy 14 A tribute to Sheila Ferrari The former Head Teacher and guiding light of Avon House School. 14 Christmas at St Thomas’s Pyjama day at St Antony’s School. See page 27 for other Details of new Mass times and a seasonal message highlights from the school year from Fr Austin 18 The future of our Diocese 27 Miss Christine Curtis as the Head Teacher of St Antony’s School retires, we William Yeung guides us through the proposals for thank her and wish her well our future. Please support William in his work and contribute your ideas 28 In the bleak midwinter 22 Keeping Christ in Christmas Adrian Lees reminds us of winter in Gallipoli 1915 Our budding journalists at Trinity High School 30 Christmas in the Choir loft tell us the ‘Reason for the season’ Is it all mirth and merriment in the upper stalls? Editor Proof Readers Advertising Manager In Touch is the parish Kathryn Wilson Patricia Donald Jerry Crowley magazine of the parish of [email protected] Coleen Carlile 020 8505 1689 St Thomas of Canterbury, [email protected] Woodford Green, Essex Design Editorial and Letters to (Served by the Order of Friars Ranjika De Silva The Editor Printed by Minor). The parish includes [email protected] The Parish office Promoworx Ltd Chigwell Convent Mass Centre 557 High Road, 28 High Road, & a Mass Centre at St James, Woodford Green, IG8 0RB South Woodford, Palmerston Road, [email protected] London, E18 2QL Buckhurst Hill. 020 8530 1500 This is issue 93 of In Touch www.promoworx.co.uk First published July 1992 IN TOUCH 2017 ISSUE 4 3 Our altar will never be quite the Confirmation: an astonishing figure From the same again. and an unexpectedly early date, We’ve also experienced farewells which has prompted hasty action Church of the Holy Innocents and sad losses: Chris Curtis, Head from the very excellent programme by Curate Jane Begley Editor’s Teacher at St Antony’s School, retires team. this term after twenty two years ser- The New Year will also prompt fur- vice and we wish her well in her ther thoughts from you regarding your he Church of the Holy all those visiting the forest. An open parish, worship at the church regu- future. Sheila Ferrari, former Head future. William Yeung, our Steward of Innocents is set in the air service is held for horses (and larly or have a connection through desk Teacher and owner of Avon House the Gospel, has provided us with a heart of Epping Forest, any other animals) in June each year baptism of themselves, their parents School sadly died in August and we very thought-provoking paper which between the Epping New and every Sunday between May and or grandparents. Looking back over the year, 2017 feature a tribute to her on page 14, looks into the next twenty years as Road and Sewardstone September, the church building is To mark the major festivals, the has contained many occasions and Doreen Ritchie, one of our Parish a Diocese and the effect on our own TRoad. Surprisingly the parish has open for visitors to enjoy prayer, tran- church organises “Activity Days” which have been outstanding and musicians, has recently retired after Parish. We must consider a future over 1,000 homes within its bound- quillity, tea/coffee and home-made where the children can enjoy differ- enjoyable: our Easter liturgies, over supporting our Saturday Mass for with fewer priests. We cannot ignore ary including three mobile home sites cake and often organ music. It is a ent craft linked with that festival and one hundred Holy Communion can- over thirty years. this thorny subject. We may have and it also has six pubs, one golf popular venue for concerts and also there is a running buffet for adults didates, seventy five Confirmation However, we greet some friendly become accustomed to believing course, one primary school, two cen- weddings. Couples can be married and children alike – which at Advent candidates and many other interest- and well known faces as we welcome that the priesthood is a commodity tres for nature studies but no shops, at Holy Innocents if they live in the and Lent includes pancakes made ing Masses celebrated for different Fr Isadore back to Woodford and Fr which is constantly available to us. no pavements, no street lighting and reasons. Brian to Stratford. We must contemplate change, so no night clubs! The Church is part of Social events have also been at Our budding journalists from Trinity please support William in his proj- the Waltham Abbey Team ministry, the forefront of our calendar and School have made a marvellous con- ect and forward your views to him. which includes St Thomas Upshire, in addition to the well established tribution to this edition – please con- [email protected] St Lawrence on the Ninefields Estate Garden Fete, Christmas Bazaar, template their essays, read their news Please continue to support In and Waltham Abbey, which is led Assisi lunch and Tuesday Group, flashes and enjoy their artwork. I look Touch with your views, letters, emails by the Rector, the Revd Peter there was the new excitement of forward to some of them becoming and articles. We can’t survive with- Smith. the Film Night ‘Zoomania’ and an future editors of the magazine. We out you. Designed by Sir Arthur International Meal, both of which will be in safe hands. Season’s greetings to all of our Blomfield and built in The church is were such resounding successes that Our social conscience has been readers, 1873, the church is dedicated to the little parishioners are already clamouring stirred by our TELCO team, our soup Kathryn dedicated to the little for repeat performances. run service and our local Branch of boys murdered by King boys murdered by As a musician, you would expect the Jumbulance, all of whom provide Herod when he was me to mention the summer concert first class and worthy support to a seeking to kill the baby King Herod when he which brought us the Rodrigo Guitar wide range of people, in the local Jesus. This unusual ded- was seeking to kill Concerto, [probably for the only time area and beyond. Let’s remember ication was at the request in our church history] and please see the volunteers and their clients this of the Baring family who the baby Jesus the review of the recent ‘Children in Christmas whilst we eat in the com- financed the building work Need’ concert within the Canterbury fort and warmth of our homes. and whose twin sons had died Tales section. If you haven’t seen Looking forward, 2018 begins of scarlet fever aged six. Being part a marimba in action, you’ve really with our Bishops visit and ninety of the banking family, the Barings missed an incredible experience. seven candidates making their spared no expense on the church. The organ is the smallest example of the work of Father Willis (who OUR LOCAL HISTORY The Fete photos - Identifications built in the organ in The Albert Hall) Lou McPherson and his young – Please HELP son Paul, on the Roll a Penny stall and the side chapel windows were The Montclair Players designed by Meyer & Co of Munich and London. Sadly the windows in A Parish Amateur the south chapel were blown out in Drama group which the 2WW when a crippled German was resplendent in bomber dropped its bombs in the for- the 1960s. est to gain enough height to fly home. The spire contains 13 hemi-spherical Who can tell us about bells which are rung by one person them? Are there any pressing levers – a carillon which visi- former actors still in tors are invited to play. The bells are the Parish? Lorna Whitaker and Edmund in D major and it is possible to play Staples (Edmund now lives over 200 different hymn tunes. Mrs Helen Crowsley in Kent and has a growing The Church seeks to serve not just attending to her young charges family of his own) the immediate community but also 4 IN TOUCH 2017 ISSUE 4 5 by our pancake queen, Sheila Green.