Malvern Priory £1.00 Magazine July / August 2020 ISSUE The Parish Church of St. Mary & St. Michael BLACK LIVES MATTER

On 15 June, the Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge and outside the Cathedral, remembering the amount of time the Dean of Worcester, Peter Atkinson ‘took the knee’ that George Floyd lay unable to breathe. At the start outside the Cathedral to pray for all those affected by of the prayers, Dean of Worcester, Peter Atkinson said: repression, discrimination and injustice in a special “The Gospel of Jesus Christ tells us that every person video (https://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/ is our neighbour. Yet the Church has often oppressed, blacklivesmatter.php) ahead of the protest planned in marginalised, or forgotten people. The Church has been Worcester over the weekend of 20/21 June. complicit in making slaves of black people, persecuting Bishop John said: “Since 25 May, when George Floyd Jewish people, waging crusades against Muslim people, lay dying with a policeman’s knee on his neck, his cry criminalising gay people, oppressing women, and ‘I can’t breathe’ has gone round the world. That dying abusing children. God breathed into all people the cry captures the despair of so many people for whom breath of life, but so often ours has been the knees that the world is a place of repression, discrimination, and have squeezed the life from others.” injustice. It captures the cry of so many black children, After remembering the long history of oppression women, and men; so many black communities all over and suffering for black people and giving thanks for the world. George Floyd’s dying cry has provoked anger the witness of black Christians and for all whose work and protest, summed up in the words, Black Lives is a celebration of black culture, the Bishop and Dean Matter. I ask you to join me in praying for a world in concluded with the Lord’s Prayer. They also asked God which Black Lives Matter.” to grant peace to the Church, peace among nations, The Bishop and the Dean prayed for nine minutes peace in our dwellings, and peace in all our hearts.

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T sshiitt euinvitedraett ihioanvsse everyone a bnede InI rr etigmu toellas r rjoinwllyh ssee in.ree cccRobineerrrtttaaiiinn thanked ffoaffccesns bdae crChristinecsk h iina vcceo uforr Wellstut.. n Tdh iitss hfor iiess m w hersheel rvrees Apartments from only £165,000 iitnhJune, ew pourros sbandebl iassciti tt biuinvitedoyan trt iseioehnravss b ieveryone acilneit dsa e tIIi e rnremgg sou totfflloae r rjoinsnllyud pssee pin.reso rca cRobinten trrdhtt aeii nno c thanked ffffoaeuccnerdass ge bria,n ocgChristinecku t rihin oe vccmoe ruaarwr lWellsttl. .a Tyihm fiirss oifor siimss t wo herc hprierm orreete. c t Apartmentswhere people from comeonly £165,000 first. mtinhJune,worky ew ffpaouiirtt sbhasandel ii scsPCCi tm binviteduyoa rtsSecretary,seitto h anaffs beveryonee aiclcnittedad tI i fromn rbegug tot u to aff lwhichalles srjoinonly d m se eoin.r sheesss ta tcRobin nieim wasdrtp aeoinnr rnowcthanked ttfoaanuctret .a.retirings IgI bbinae gChristineclliik et vhi neaftere cmeov uae wr arWellsty .atotalo Tynh feirs o ford ofimse sws 17hercehrrri vem eress . a Apartments from only £165,000 that mimakenwork yw ffoairitts h aseeach iis ssPCCi tmuao tonesSecretary,sitot anffs eunique,accnttde dI from r beugttu anda lwhichallssroly m sthereeo eshess tct eiim rwas thavepaion rrnow tfta ncbeenett ..sretiring I I b baec llaikie ivmyriadn eafter c eovue rrarty .total oT ofnheis them diofse w ss17ehrr ve eress a Discover independent living within a mthIy ea fsfpakuii ttfbhol rii scsp mbeyoo prsseltte h a atffobe ipcclitrteadyti nfbogur tot affllesson d meorrsss tatw inimhdop e osntrrrcttuoagnugtrt.a.l eIgI b iwneiglltiih etv hcee mertva aeinwrry aoysnp fere o dcmtesss ocerrfri vmtehess . ia r DiscoverApartments independent from living only within £165,000 a chyears.I anskc efo Nicktro p ceh oJacksonapnlge et oa np expresseddra pyu fot r iogffhet thanks nthdeeirrs w w torho onRod gsstr. uforSgogm allle twthatimiteh s hec, eth rhadtoauing broughthas, pI seict tisn oincfo tuhretir Discoversupportive independent community living environment. within a cmhyears.workI yaa nsfakci etf asoh Nicktr oi sPCCp c meh oJacksonaop nSecretary,slgte ea tff oae npc dexpressedrta epyd u from fbto urri tgo a hffwhichltes thanksotnh dmeeio rshe ssw tw to rio hmwas noRodpg sost r.nowr tuSforaognmg tall .lretiring eI t bwthatimeilteihes hev,c aftereteh rehadtovauei ngar y broughthatotalo,s nIp seei t cdof tiens s 17 ocineofr vtuherest iar supportive community environment. cmchyears.ya nfaccieth Nicktt ois ccmh Jacksonaonstg aeff aenc dexpressedte pdu btt urriitg ahltst thanks otth meiiorr s wt torirmo nRodpgossr.. t Sforaonmt all. eI tb tthatiimeliees svhe,, e tt h ehadovuegr ybroughtho,, n II essi itdt ieins ecincor vuerrstt a supportive community environment. day toclcihfIe aaday. nsokcc efto h t tSmallroa p t cc tehhoaepny lge actsne to oat n po dofrna ply ukindness fgtot e rrit igo ahff ctet h tnthadnee icimakerre s w tworroh cnoh g forsasstn..r Sug aogem gbbiggerluet twi itmhiteahsts ,c,t picture; tethhreotyau itnga hka,es, IpI t thessehiitcta titins c ochcofa tunhrcrettei.r I WhistonDiscover Courtindependent is a quality living new within assisted a laifntheed s fio lastn tdh a itentt dthi ffimonths.eyc unlot tt o nsRodelye g w eandht ear ceRitah tahna hadcte c hto aformed nchgaen ing estronga nb uint dthi vrelationshipsaidt uthael yis t caokme ti withnhgat f rc ohman. ce. 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I am writing this letter in my study. Underneath my desk is our dog Jack – asleep. No surprise there. EIGHT HUNDRED CHILDREN PRIORYJack spends PARISH a large proportionOFFICE of this day in blissful Churchslumber. House, His Church day Street, works Malvern out WR14 something 2AY like this: Parish Administrator: Mary Weatherill COMING TO LIFEPATH Tel: (01684) 561020 (answerphone) Email: 7 pm [email protected] to 5.30 am The Great Sleep. Including Almost 1,000 people will be participating in the annual Lifepath event at Malvern Open to Public: snoring and no alertness at all. Priory this year with just under 800 children attending from 20 local schools and up Monday 11:00am-12:00 noon; to 150 volunteers from 21 churches in Malvern and beyond helping out. Tuesday 10:00am-12:00 noon;Dead to the world. Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 9:30am-1:00pm In a day off from regular lessons the children will take part in a number of 5.30 am to 8 am Food and Exercise different activities. They will have the opportunity to dress up as monks and 8 am to noon The Big Sleep. Usually with experience the daily rhythm of work and prayer, they will prepare, cook and GREAT MALVERNenough PRIORY alertness to hear and sample a monk’s meal and they will take part in hand-bell ringing and learn about WEBSITE bark at the postman. www.greatmalvernpriory.org.uk the importance of bells in the routine of monastery life. There will also be the Noon to 5 pm The Afternoon Nap. A light doze chance to learn about medieval medicines, have a go at brass rubbing and ancient Webmaster: [email protected] tile decorating, and to become archaeologists, finding and identifying hidden in the warmest part of the house For information on services, events, outreach, people, treasures. history and much more. Members’or sectiongarden. gives Instantly alert if God says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I The days will include many other activities plus discussion and collective worship access to the notice sheet and otheranyone information comes. not will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted publicly available. Register or Login to access (link at with action songs and stories, giving children and staff the chance to reflect on top of all5 pages pm exceptto 7 thepm Home Food page). and fuss the family time. in the earth.” their own ‘lifepath’. The aim behind the week-long event is to provide a day to explore Malvern’s Christian heritage by telling the story of the Benedictine monks Repeat every day. Often our activity seems godly and worthy, but we who founded the Priory in 1085, almost 1,000 years ago. LYTTELTON WELL forget to sit and listen -to be still in God’s presence. (Christian Centre at entrance to Priory) For the first time in the twelve-year history of Lifepath at the Priory there is to be Tel:That 01684 totals573702 approximately 21 hours of sleep per So Rita and I are going to try to build a little more a Community day on Saturday 29th June, from 10.00am – 3.00pm. “I wish my Mum Email:day. o It’[email protected] a dog’s life! space for God and ourselves as things get back to Enquiries about Priory bookings of the Lyttelton and Dad (or brother or sister) could see this!” are words sometimes said by school There is no doubt that Rita’s and my life includes normal. I wonder what other ‘lessons form lockdown’ children at the end of a Lifepath day. Others also ask what it is all about so this Rooms should be made at the Priory Parish Office (details above) year, there is the opportunity for anyone and everyone to come to the Community much more activity than Jack’s! Some times we have we can learn? What will the ‘new normal’ that folk are Day, to stay as long as they want, to join in as much as they want, and to see and THEthe opposite WELL COUNSELLINGproblem. Too much activity and not predicting look like? Will it be more God centred? I www.thewellcounselling.co.uk experience just what it’s all about. All the activities will be going on within the Tel:enough 01684 563456 rest. wonder. Priory building—hand bells, tower bells, medieval medicine, tile-making, brass- Email:The [email protected] Lockdown has been very challenging for many Looking down at Jack, under rubbing, spinning, archaeology, medieval cooking, calligraphy, architecture, of us, and most of us are relieved that it is being my desk, he is three-quarters of a medieval maths, the daily life of a monk, and the different aspects of the prayer BOOK REVIEW journey—love, sorry, thanks and please. There will be upfront explanations on the Deased.iana HowS However,toc Notkfo tord Totallyit has helpedPut Your RitaChildren and OffI to slowGod way through the Big Sleep. hour, short silences and Lifepath songs—and there will be refreshments. Visitors C odownu n s e l l o r , M –aB A alittleC Pconversation and enjoy on moreChristian evenings parenting together. “Lockdown? What Lockdown?” will be invited to add their stone to the cairn that we’ll have been building all week. Sometimes,between our a father activity and hisgets sons in the way of our Attentive listening, supportive he seems to be saying, and I smile Rod Corke, If you have often heard Lifepath spoken of, but have never witnessed it, this is chrelationshipallenge, creaBytive Howardchoi cwithes Worsley, God. Monarch,We read £8.99 in Psalm 46v10: and rub his ears. Vicar your opportunity to do so! Come and see what 800 primary school children will Parenting can be the best or worst of times. It can 0 7 5 8 1 0 4 2 1 2 4 have experienced during the past week. All are welcome, from people visiting d c m s t o c k fbeo r d a@ roleg m a iwel . c o lovem best, or one that causes us great Malvern to members of our community who have wondered what is happening •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••w w w . m a l vinsecurity.e r n l i n k c o u n Theres e l l i n gis. c noo m formal training for parenthood. each year in Malvern when they see so many ‘Monks’ around the Priory! We hope to There are no clear benchmarks of success and yet it demands all our resources, skills and attention. see you there. This book is the merging of the author’s deep Lifepath at the Priory starts on 24th June. Volunteers are always needed so if you convictions of parenting with examples of both feel you might be able to help, Ros Ponting can be contacted on 01684 572165, or “When it worked” and “When it did not work”. He email the Parish office via the website – greatmalvernpriory.org.uk has also elicited the help of his sons to write their Mary Rowswell perspectives on how their experiences and memories connect (or differ from) his own. This book will share stories of parenting success, but is honest about the times of failure, too. FAMILY BARN DANCE Pre Theatre Dinner (with HOT supper) at The Abbey Saturday, 8th June 7.00 – 9.00pm Two courses at in Great Malvern Priory church The Priory View Restaurant Tickets: Adults £7, Children £4 £21.95 per adult Available from 6pm - 7pm MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS Book on our website today! Please send all contributions for the magazine by email whenever possible to mag@greatmalvernpriory. org.uk with the deadline of the 10th of the previous month at the latest. Written articles should be Abbey Road, Great Malvern WR14 3ET clearly marked “Magazine” and placed in the “M” pigeonhole at the back of the Priory. The deadline for t 01684 878248 e [email protected] w sarova.com these is the 8th of the previous month. Contributions should be limited to a maximum of 500 words Terms and Conditions apply. Subject to availability. and, where accompanied by relevant photographs, reduced accordingly. Where photographs of young people are provided, please confirm that parental permission has been obtained to publish in this Page 3 magazine. Articles will also be considered for inclusion on the Priory web site - if for any reason this is not acceptable, please mention when submitting articles. Some photographs, especially of young Priory Magazine Design & Print by people, may not be published on the web pages. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any �������������� ���������� means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission from Malvern Priory 01684 540809 �������������������������� Page 11 You may have read an appeal in recent Priory magazines for hosts to � ������������������������ look after children from Belarus during their health-giving holiday. All ������������� ������� children in an extended area of that country continue to be affected by ������������������������������� the contamination from the Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986. Thank you ������������������������ very much for your concern, for your prayers, your encouragement and ��������������������������� financial help. We need to raise over £7,000, mostly for travel and visas. Much is generously given ‘in kind’ eg. dentist, optician, occasional days ���������������������������� ��������������������������������� out and local barbecues. The families enjoy the Three Counties Show and �������������������� the children enjoy Lifepath and also a day at a local school. We do have the host families for this year and some already asking about next year! ���������������������������������� ����������������������� So why do we, a dedicated committee, invite children every year? We know that the need remains and will not go away for generations. The Chernobyl Children’s Life Line is a national charity which, since 1996, has supported us by working with the local education department to select ������������������������������������� a leader and children, and arrange their travel and visas. Each year since �������������������������������������� 2009 we have welcomed Olga, an English teacher, bringing ten different children from her town of David Gorodok, on the borders of Ukraine. Now, as we prepare for four boys and six girls to arrive, after a very long journey, we know that they particularly enjoy the joint activities. The first day they will play and relax in Malvern gardens—weather permitting! Thank you for enabling this life changing experience for the children and their families. They are so appreciative—the photo shows Olga and children preparing to give their farewell concert—and Thank you very much resounds across Malvern. We say to them Spaseeba!! Thank you for visiting us. Dorothy Knights Page 9 GOD IN ART: THE INCREDULITY OF ST THOMAS ‘MY LORD AND MY GOD’

The calendar allows us to hand of Jesus. He is there celebrate St Thomas the with a youthful St John Apostle in this month of and another disciple, who July as well as traditionally is looking at the face of in December. Thomas is the Lord. The light in the mentioned with the other canvas comes from the disciples in all the Gospels, risen body of Jesus, and but it is in the fourth Gospel the disciples move from that he moves into the the shadows into that light centre of the stage in his as their faith in the risen own right. In chapter 14, he Lord grows and matures. queries the words of Jesus In a moment, Thomas will that evoke the confession raise his head and look up ‘I am the way and the truth to Jesus. It is a momentous and the life’ from our Lord. occasion in John’s Gospel, Then after the resurrection, House for this meeting of master VIEL GLÜCK, ALI… when unconvinced Maintenance by the and servant, of Lord and accounts of the others, disciple, is not just an MALVERN CHRISTIANS UNITE Living on & Earth Decorating Hundreds of local Christians will be joining forces during a worldwide eleven day Thomasis expensive, has that memorable but exercise in overcoming and moving encounter Specialist with doubt. It is an affirmation prayer-athon for local communities and for the world. The international initiative is called theit risendoes Lord. include In chapter a 20, Jesus meets him in his doubts that only God can raise or be raised from death. Thy Kingdom Come and local participation takes place in the Priory grounds from 30th May – Free advice & and his faith is restored. Only God has the key to life. Thomas recognises 9th June. It involves hundreds of Christians and churches from across the diocese, including free trip quotation ‘The Incredulity of St Thomas’ is the subject of this Jesus fully and completely as he utters the words the Priory itself, St Mary’s, Source, St Andrews and All Saints, the Baptist Church, Lansdowne month’saround painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens (1577- ‘My Lord and my God.’ All forms of household maintenance Methodist Church, Lyttelton Well Chaplaincy, Holy Trinity and the Guarlford and Powick 1640) lived mainly in Antwerp, but his work displays a John ends his Gospel by saying, Yes, there was the Hsunonest and dependable Churches. delight in sumptuous colour and the human form, which this moment of personal encounter, but believing 10 years in the trade A marquee will be set up in the grounds of the Priory and laid out with prayer stations for heevery would have learnt from his studies in Italy. Rubens was without seeing is testimony to a more profound topics like blessing our world, our community, our youth and children and ourselves, with a year.good-humouredCALL PAUL ON and genial person, and as a Roman faith. Then it is not we who are invited to touch our body, mind and spiritual healing. There will be an adventure prayer walk in the grounds of Catholic,01684 he 439722 cherished his religion and faith. This painting Lord, but Jesus who can touch us. In the painting, the Priory for children over the half term weekend and opportunities for prayer throughout is from07597 1614 272178 and is part of a triptych. The two outer panels one hand is turned towards the disciples, the other each day with short services at 9.00am, 12.00 noon, and 5.00pm plus a workshop on prayer at [email protected] the patrons who commissioned the work for their reaches out to us. We may come to Jesus, like 12.30pm. All the workshops will be different and there will be a full programme available. chapel in the Franciscan church in Antwerp—Nicholaas Thomas, with doubts and concerns, with worry Rockox and his wife. and anxiety. Jesus will meet us in the honesty and This global prayer movement invites Christians across the world to pray between Ascension In this central panel, openness of our faith to reassure us that He is, and Pentecost so that more people may get to know the Christian Church. ‘We want people Thomas gazes in as He was for Thomas, the way, the truth and the to pray for the worldwide Christian family and for themselves,’ said the Rev. Rod Corke, vicar of wonder at the marked life—our Lord and our God. Malvern Priory. ‘Everyone is welcome to join us.’

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As I write this piece for you, at the House very end of May, life is still full of David T. Spilsbury, Georgia A. Spilsbury VIEL GLÜCK, ALI… Maintenance uncertainty, and I have no idea what MALVERN CHRISTIANS UNITE Living on & Earth Decorating the situation in our country, or in our Hundreds of local Christians will be joining forces during a worldwide eleven day is expensive, Specialist but churches, will be like by the time you prayer-athon for local communities and for the world. The international initiative is called it does include a read my words. The year to date has Thy Kingdom Come and local participation takes place in the Priory grounds from 30th May – Free advice & been one of unprecedented change— 9th June. It involves hundreds of Christians and churches from across the diocese, including free trip quotation much that we now regard as ‘normal’ the Priory itself, St Mary’s, Source, St Andrews and All Saints, the Baptist Church, Lansdowne around would have been unimaginable this Methodist Church, Lyttelton Well Chaplaincy, Holy Trinity and the Guarlford and Powick All forms of household maintenance time last year. We have adapted our Churches. the Hsunonest and dependable life styles, followed the guidelines, 10 years in the trade practised social distancing, closed our A marquee will be set up in the grounds of the Priory and laid out with prayer stations for every Nikki Groarke topics like blessing our world, our community, our youth and children and ourselves, with year.CALL PAUL ON church buildings and endeavoured to body, mind and spiritual healing. There will be an adventure prayer walk in the grounds of 01684 439722 stay alert to slow the spread of a global pandemic and save lives. the Priory for children over the half term weekend and opportunities for prayer throughout 07597 272178 I wonder what you have most missed during these months of lockdown. each day with short services at 9.00am, 12.00 noon, and 5.00pm plus a workshop on prayer at [email protected] And I wonder how long we will consciously treasure those things when • 24 Hour Service we eventually have them back in our lives. Because we take so much for 12.30pm. All the workshops will be different and there will be a full programme available. • Pre-Paid Funeral Plans granted until it’s suddenly not there, or not allowed. For me, it’s been This global prayer movement invites Christians across the world to pray between Ascension all about people—my family and friends. Throughout April and May, and Pentecost so that more people may get to know the Christian Church. ‘We want people • Private Chapels of Rest there were many things we could only do with ‘members of our own to pray for the worldwide Christian family and for themselves,’ said the Rev. Rod Corke, vicar of • Traditional Funerals household’. I, along with over eight million other people in the uK, live Malvern Priory. ‘Everyone is welcome to join us.’ alone so until late May I couldn’t do anything with anyone! Apart from my Thy Kingdom Come is an initiative inviting international churches to join in prayer together and Natural Burials virtual encounters which fi ll most days—the wonders of technology have to help others and to invite people to pray, to ask for prayer and to act as witnesses to their enabled meetings to go on, so the world hasn’t ground to a complete halt. faith. The event opens on Thursday 30th May and continues daily until 9th June. Full details Tel: 01684 892777 How I have missed being with my Mum and Dad, my wider family, sharing can be found on the Priory website greatmalvernpriory.org.uk. There will also be a display of wwwwww.fwspilsbury.co.uk.fwspilsbury.co.uk a meal and a hug. How I have craved a face-to-face chat with a friend. How Morgan cars in the Priory grounds. EmEmail:ail: fw [email protected]@btinternet.com I have longed to mingle with others over a coff ee at the end of a church Mary Rowswell service, after having sung our hearts out in praise and shared communion, and a sign of peace together. 12 UPPER HOWSELL ROAD, Some of those joys are gradually being restored now. I can see my MALVERN WR14 1TL mum in the garden, but not hug her. I can run with a friend and chat to THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH my heart’s content, but running a marathon with thousands of others is off limits. Church buildings are likely to be closed for gathered worship WHY DON’T … WHO? for some time yet. My spirits have been lifted wonderfully by these new It is possible this article may never be published as it contains incitement to insurrection. If it GAYNOR-SMITH freedoms, and I want to keep that sense of thankfulness and joy, never is printed, and you, gentle reader, are of a nervous disposition, you may wish to turn the page O W E N & C O. again taking such things for granted. at once. S O L I C I T O R S In his letter to a small church in Colosse, Saint Paul urges his readers to ‘be thankful’, to ‘sing with gratitude’. It’s easy to forget thankfulness when For those still with me: have you ever heard, or much worse uttered, the dread words “Why Solicitors and we take things for granted, the freedoms most of us have as able-bodied don’t they… ?”? It may have been during your working day, at school, or socialising with people in a relatively affl uent part of the world. When the freedom to leave friends or even when discussing your church. It might concern something pretty radical Commissioners our homes, walk the hills, get a haircut, worship together, hug our family that has just occurred to you, or something much less momentous like a new way of doing for Oaths gets wrenched from us, we are perhaps prompted to realise how little we something. Whichever, have you then asked the next question “Who is/are ‘they’?”? And have 133, Barnards Green Road, Malvern Freephone: 0800 6191837 appreciated all that was good. I hope to have an attitude of gratitude long you had the uncomfortable feeling that ‘they’ might be you? Maybe on your own or with a www.gaynor-smith-owen.co.uk after this crisis is over. I want to be thankful for all the things I have missed, group of like-minded people whom you could bring together. [email protected] not just for the fi rst few weeks I have them back, but forever. If you’ve got that far, you may next consider “Is what I’m suggesting a good idea, and how WE COVER MOST SIL is a ‘not for profit’ organisation As we venture into whatever the new normal looks like, let’s cultivate would it affect what is already being done in that area?”Nomina tThated for Hneedsereford sthoughthire Care and prayer. From ASPECTS OF THE LAW thankfulness and grateful hearts, and never take our blessings for granted. there we progress into what often seems to be the stumblingEmployer 2018 block, especially where the Opening Hours: 9.00 – 5.30pm, church is concerned: “Mr/Mrs… has been doing something similar for years and I would hate MON – FRI. Out of hours: Saturday Nikki Groarke, mornings by appointment Archdeacon of Dudley to hurt his/her feelings”. Support Workers •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• So let’s consider those supposedly tender feelings Lofe thedb long-servingury, helper: how often Page 5 have I heard “I would like to step back, but if I do, whoHe willre ftakeord its on?”hir ewith the silent thought “and would they do it right?” I suggest we ask anotherRa tquestione of Pay: £preceding8.00 per h othatur ( uone:p to “Is what I am doing still necessary to the smooth running of the£28 ,body000 p I’mer a serving?nnum) Or has it run its course?” What seemed essential in 1990 may not be Lneededocation :today. Ledbu rSoy here we need more thought and prayer. Hours: Various over 7 days, rota basis The outcome of these parallel processes may be where the call to insurrection comes in. I Do you want to work somewhere where every day would like to suggest that if you are filling a voluntaryis d iroleffere nint? theWor kPriorying wit hand peo parele liagedving 70 or more, you should take a sabbatical, maybe for a fixedind eperiod,penden tlory inopen-ended. their own hom eThiss. would give everyone the opportunity to think “Why hasn’t that beenWe cu rdone?rently h aDove vweaca nneedcies f oit?r s hIfo rso,ter couldcalls of a I do it?” And from there would come a group of fresh–mindedfew hours, m peopleornings/e servingvenings a Thes we lLordl as 2 4in h oau rs 21st century way. shifts and experience is not always essential. Remembering “the body is one and has many members,TO AP andPLY all P LtheEA membersSE CON TofA CtheT: body, though many, are one body… now you are the bodyG eofm Christma: 0 and156 individually8 616653 members of it”, we ask “What is my role?” [email protected] Elizabeth Dunnett 2 Page 2 men and women in prison through A LAMENT FOR PRISONERS: our programmes and ministry of RAISING AWARENESS OF CURRENT CONDITIONS IN PRISON presence.” Please pray for the situation in our About a year ago I joined for volunteers, and re-launching our prisons during this diffi cult time, and Prison Fellowship. I go to letter link programme—a lifeline for HMP long lartin in particular. monthly meetings near to many at this time. We will be Thank you. Evesham to meet with ready as soon as the doors re-open others, including the one of to continue showing Christ’s love to Sarah Chappell HMP long lartin’s Chaplains, to pray for our local Category PRISON LAMENT A prison. During lockdown How deserted lie the landings, the gym and recreation areas I have taken part in Prison … once so full of people! Fellowship Zoom meetings, How still she now is, with about 200 others, every … whose corridors once fl owed with the energy of life. fortnight. The meetings Bitterly she weeps at night, have highlighted the huge … tears are on her cheeks. problems for prisons, There is no one to comfort her. prisoners, chaplains, staff No visitors enter her doors – no wife, no husband, no children and, of course, for families … to soften the harsh walls with their love and comforting smiles. during the Covid-19 storm. Even the chore of our simple labour is missed. The lament (below) was written by Prison Fellowship The humble tasks which hid the ticking clock for just a few hours, have gone. CEO, Peter Holloway, Pride in a job well done is overtaken in the midst of distress. and is loosely based on 23 hours of the same. 23 hours only in my head. 23 hours in these four walls. lamentations One in the My prayers bounce back from the cell ceiling Bible. It is informed by the like sand on a pyramid’s mighty wall. current situation in prisons Are you there, god? Have you deserted me? where, in an attempt to Have you fi nally turned your face from me and left me to languish here? keep the coronavirus from My body aches and groans from my confi nement, spreading rapidly, men Oh how I wish to run, to stretch and to feel fresh air against my face, and women are currently But I sit. I just sit. confi ned to their cells for This invisible enemy has taken the remnant of humanity left to me in this place. 23 hours a day on average, Even the food consumed in this cell is a reminder most work, education of the trace of civility of past meals taken together. and social activities are The clanging doors, once grim reminders of imprisonment are stilled. suspended, and all outside But closed. visits have stopped. This is why I weep He says “While we … and my eyes overfl ow with tears. recognise the necessity of No one is near to comfort me, these changes to protect … no one to restore my spirit. men and women who My family are sorrowful – exiled from me live and work in prison, … this sickness steals the very fabric of connection with those I love – contact. we also wanted to give Despite this, space to lament the loss god, I think you are still there. of so many activities and I believe that you care. normalities that create Father, have mercy, the opportunity for real Take this burden from around my neck, rehabilitation. While most of Open the windows of heaven and pour out your love. our volunteers are currently Please be my comfort when no one else is near, unable to go into prison, Restore my spirit and do not let me be crushed, we are not passive. We look upon my suff ering and comfort me. are actively increasing our Wipe my eyes, strengthen my bones and lift my heart prayer together, training so that I may praise you again.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has obviously had a profound wrote: ‘This survey is an attempt to go beyond anecdote… effect on churches. The lockdown has severely restricted It will capture evidence of both excitement and fears for the ministry in areas such as pastoral care, fellowship groups, future, of where stress levels have changed, and whether and serving the community. On the other hand, for personal faith has weakened or grown.’ those with online access, worship has taken on new and This is an online survey, which we estimate will take you creative forms over the last few weeks. Many clergy and about 20-30 minutes to complete. Most of the questions ministry teams have risen to the challenge of operating simply require you to tick boxes, though there are options in the virtual environment. to specify your particular circumstances, and an opportunity As we pass the most severe period of lockdown, it at the end for you to tell us your views in your own words. seems a good time to assess how churchgoers have Alongside questions about the pandemic and ministry, responded to the experience, and what they think the there are sections which ask about you: these are important future might hold. How well have people coped with the because they will allow us to see how the lockdown is pandemic? Has it strengthened or weakened their faith? affecting different sorts of people in different contexts. How has it been for clergy and ministry teams trying to The survey can be completed on mobile phones, though work in this new environment? How have those receiving it is more quickly completed on devices with larger screens ministry found this novel experience? Will virtual ministry such as tablets or computers. You can access using the become part of the post-pandemic landscape, and will following link: https://tinyurl.com/ycsq9fy2. We should this be a good move for your church? have some initial results within a few weeks and will make We have developed a survey over the last few weeks these available as widely as we can. in discussion with bishops, clergy and lay people which The Revd Professor Andrew Village, we hope will enable you to record your experience of York St John University the pandemic, the ministry you have given or received, [email protected] and what you think will happen to churches in a post- pandemic world. In an article to launch the survey in the The Revd Canon Professor Leslie J. Francis, Church Times, the Bishop of Manchester, David Walker, Visiting Professor York St John University ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• MALVERN PRIORY FRIENDS OF THIS MAY LOOK LIKE A BOUTIQUE HOTEL…

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“Leave it better than you found it…” Lord Baden-Powell, Chief Scout.

What have Marsabit and 15 Scout Leaders from Hereford and Worcester got in common? Not a lot at the moment… but we hope that after this summer and in the years to come, a lasting legacy. At the end of July this year, 15 Scout Leaders will set off to Marsabit, Kenya. Two years ago MartinPRIORY Bradley (Assistant OPENS County FOR Commissioner PRIVATE PRAYER H&W Scouts) contacted me, after seeing pictures of my time with a group from the Priory in Marsabit in 2015. He had the idea of organising a trip through Scouts to somewhereFollowing in East Africa. new G Withovernment the contacts guidelines, I’d made Malvern from Priory the isPriory trip, Bishop Rob Martin, Bishop Qampicha and Graham McClure (GoMAD),open to plans the public began once to form again. and The within hours aresix monthslimited and, we sohad 15 Leaders signed up for our trip this summer. It was decided that thefar, 2019 there trip is no would news beabout for servicesadult Leaders. starting If up successful again, but ,we the hope to have further trips in the coming years for the youth within Scoutingbeautiful 1,00016-18 year year old olds. building On the is onceway fromagain Nairobi available to for Marsabit, we pass close by to Nyeri, Baden-Powell’s resting place and lodge,private where prayer. he spent his final years. This will be quite a special visit for us. Onwards to Marsabit,The where Revd we Rod will Corke, be undertaking Vicar of Malvern, a number is delighted. of projects—repairs ‘The and completion of the Bubisa water catchment system; maintenancechurch is open of toLaisamis everyone, gutters not just and to waterour church tank; members,’ Wings school: teaching, and painting a classroom mural; building a water tankhe for said. Goro ‘This Rukesca is a step church; in the rightand educationdirection and and the promotion start, of menstrual health. On Sunday 9th June,hopefully, Bishop Rob of everything will be visiting slowly the getting Priory, back where to normal.’ we will here an update from Marsabit, and a commissioning The church opened on Monday, 15th June and will stay open service for our trip. “I’m in a strange mood… looking forward to going home, but alsoDuring not lockdown,wanting to the leave Priory Kenya. has been I do putting hope I from 11.00am until 1.30pm from Monday to Saturday with have the opportunity to return to Marsabit… the place and the people will remaintogether in my memories pre-recorded and morning my heart… and evening ” This from the exception of 20th and 26th June. However it will not be my diary on 15th October 2015! services online. It has been a hugely successful but the Church as we knew it. For the foreseeable future, there Dylan Farrier time-consuming enterprise. Up to 25 choristers will be no gathered prayer sessions or general sightseeing, have separately pre-recorded hymns which have and the interior has been re-designed to accommodate a been synchronised for virtual worship and the maximum of 20 socially-distanced people at a time. The music group has also been heavily involved. accessible area is restricted to wooden seats in the nave, the ‘These services will, of course, continue until we toilets will remain closed and there will be no parkingVISIT on the A FARM BRING ‘N’ SHARE are able to worship together again,’ said Rev. Corke. drive. ‘They have been thvery successful, with hundreds The first day of opening on Monday 15th attracted SUNDAYa number – 9 JUNE 2019 SUNDAY LUNCH of hits, and we, of course, have all been on a very of visitors, both from the congregation and people from rd steep learning curve.’ ON 23 JUNEother churches, indicating that it is fulfilling a need Somewithin local farms are the town. opening their gates to Mary Rowswell Grab some ready-cooked food from the supermarket visitors. They want folk to shelf and avoid the washing up on Sunday, 23rd June—join experience and learn how us for a bring ‘n’ share lunchDON’T in the FORGET: Lyttleton FREERoom fromNATIONAL PHONEthey produce LINE theBRINGING food we WORSHIP AND PRAYER 12 noon to 2.00pm. After lunch you will be able to enjoy buy in shops. 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Registered charity no 226064 Page 10 Page 9 WORCESTERSHIRE SCOUT LEADERS TO MARSABIT FROM THE VICARAGE “Leave it better than you found it…” If you could go back in When Jesus ascended into heaven he“Leave was no longer it visiblebetter than you found it…” time and meet me in my to the disciples. They must have missed him terribly. Yet,Lord Baden-Powell, Chief Scout. twenties, you would be in through the coming of the Holy Spirit, rather than beingLord Baden-Powell, Chief Scout. for a surprise. Instead of a disheartened and miserable, the disciples were emboldened What have Marsabit and 15 Scout Leaders from Hereford and Worcester got in common? bald head, you would see and Christianity spread rapidly. ByWhat the end have of Marsabit the fourth and 15 Scout Leaders from Hereford and Worcester got in common? Not a lot at the moment… but we hope that after this summer and in the years to come, a a wavy mane of brown century A.D. Christianity was theNot major a lot religion at the inmoment… the but we hope that after this summer and in the years to come, a lasting legacy. At the end of July this year, 15 Scout Leaders will set off to Marsabit, Kenya. hair reaching down almost Roman Empire and today two billionlasting people legacy. claim At the allegiance end of July this year, 15 Scout Leaders will set off to Marsabit, Kenya. Two years ago Martin Bradley (Assistant County Commissioner H&W Scouts) contacted me, to my shoulders. This was to Jesus. Two years ago Martin Bradley (Assistant County Commissioner H&W Scouts) contacted me, after seeing pictures of my time with a group from the Priory in Marsabit in 2015. He had the idea of organising a trip through the 1970s, and men wore You may be going through a hardafter time seeing at this pictures moment, of my but time with a group from the Priory in Marsabit in 2015. He had the idea of organising a trip through Scouts to somewhere in East Africa. With the contacts I’d made from the Priory trip, Bishop Rob Martin, Bishop Qampicha and their hair long. I can still life does compensate. Having a faith,Scouts gives to somewhere us strength into East Africa. With the contacts I’d made from the Priory trip, Bishop Rob Martin, Bishop Qampicha and Graham McClure (GoMAD), plans began to form and within six months we had 15 Leaders signed up for our trip this summer. remember my hair blowing see beyond ourselves and to haveGraham hope inMcClure Jesus. So (GoMAD), what is plans began to form and within six months we had 15 Leaders signed up for our trip this summer. in the wind… It was decided that the 2019 trip would be for adult Leaders. If successful ,we hope to have further trips in the coming years good in your life? What can you Itforcelebrate? was the decided youth What within that can the youScouting 2019 say trip 16-18 would year be olds. for Onadult the Leaders. way from If successful Nairobi to ,we Marsabit, hope to we have pass further close by trips to Nyeri,in the Baden-Powell’scoming years The truth is I miss having thank you to God for? for the youth within Scouting 16-18 year olds. On the way from Nairobi to Marsabit, we pass close by to Nyeri, Baden-Powell’s restingfor the youthplace andwithin lodge, Scouting where 16-18 he spent year hisolds. final On theyears. way This from will Nairobi be quite to aMarsabit, special visit we forpass us. close by to Nyeri, Baden-Powell’s a head of hair and, if I could resting place and lodge, where he spent his final years. This will be quite a special visit for us. THEBetween NORTH Pentecost PORCH and Ascension,WALLresting the place congregation and lodge, of where he spent his final years. This will be quite a special visit for us. have my long hair back Onwards to Marsabit, where we will be undertaking a number of projects—repairs and completion of the Bubisa water the Priory are joining with other churchesOnwards around to Marsabit, Malvern where we will be undertaking a number of projects—repairs and completion of the Bubisa water again, I would say ‘yes please.’ But, being a baldy does have catchment system; maintenance of Laisamis gutters and water tank; Wings school: teaching, and painting a classroom mural; to take part in ‘Thy Kingdom Come’.catchment This is the system; Archbishop’s maintenance of Laisamis gutters and water tank; Wings school: teaching, and painting a classroom mural; some advantages. For example, I don’t need to buy a comb, It prayerwas with initiative, joy that we encouraging heard the news us building to pray together a water tankand expectfor Goro Rukesca church; and education and promotion of menstrual health. my haircut at the barber’s is half price, I have no need of during the middle of June that our building a water tank for Goro Rukesca church; and education and promotion of menstrual health. to see God working within us. ThereOn willSunday be two 9th prayer June, Bishop Rob will be visiting the Priory, where we will here an update from Marsabit, and a commissioning conditioner, drying my hair takes moments, a hair-dryer is church was at last open for private prayerOn Sunday 9th June, Bishop Rob will be visiting the Priory, where we will here an update from Marsabit, and a commissioning marquees on the Priory grounds.service The first for ourwill trip.be a “I’mwelcome in a strange mood… looking forward to going home, but also not wanting to leave Kenya. I do hope I not required, and hair no longer falls in my eyes. ’though not yet for services, visitors, etc.service for our trip. “I’m in a strange mood… looking forward to going home, but also not wanting to leave Kenya. I do hope I Nottent, even encouraging a strange new people layout and from a thehave community the opportunity to come to in return to Marsabit… the place and the people will remain in my memories and my heart… ” This from have the opportunity to return to Marsabit… the place and the people will remain in my memories and my heart… ” This from What I experienced with my hair, happens in other parts queuingand experience system could prayer detract activities. from our my The diary second, on 15th a much October larger 2015! of my life. There are compensations and joys at every age. pleasuremarquee, at being will ‘home’hold prayer once more. stations my and diary prayer on 15th workshops. October 2015! Dylan Farrier Sometimes the vicarage seems rather quiet and empty as AndThere the will extra be pleasure, a sanctuary of course, was Dylan Farrier our children have grown up and left home. However, now thearea fi nalisation and an opportunityof the work carried out THE NORTH PORCH WALL - BEFORE we can enjoy being with our four grandchildren (soon to onthere the North to sit wall—to quietly, the and right of the be five!), but we don’t have the continual responsibility that frontgive porch. thanks The to wall God has for been all pressure- parents have. At the end of a delightful afternoon, our lovely washedhis provision. and Tony DoPoels come has gone and to a lotBRING ‘N’ SHARE VISIT A FARM grandchildren go back to mum and dad, and they have all ofexperience trouble to make ‘Thy and Kingdom install planters. BRING ‘N’ SHARE VISIT A FARM Malvern Town Council supplied the Rod Corke, th the hard work to do! Come’. SUNDAY – 9th JUNE 2019 compost and the beds have been plantedSUNDAY Vicar LUNCH SUNDAY – 9 JUNE 2019 up with the greenery you see in the rd photograph. ON 23rd JUNE Some local farms are The area already looks tidier and well-ON 23 JUNE openingSome local their farms gates are to MALVERN PRIORY opening their gates to FRIENDS OF loved and, in time, the plants will matureGrab some ready-cooked House food from the supermarket visitors.opening They their want gates folk to to THIS MAY LOOK LIKE Grab some ready-cooked food from the supermarket visitors. They want folk to and cover the grey expanse of wall. shelf and avoid Maintenance the washing up on Sunday, 23rd June—join experiencevisitors. 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This is the second in a series of tips from the Diocesan Environmental Malachi 3:3 says: ‘He will Group with small steps you can take to help save the planet. This one sit as a refiner and purifier looks at peat! of silver.’ • In 2011 our government and UK compost industry agreed to This verse puzzled some women in ban peat in garden compost by 2020. It is still widely used. a Bible Study group. They wondered

• Healthy peat bogs absorb CO2 and are a rich habitat. what this statement meant about the • 95% of UK peat bogs have been damaged or destroyed, giving character and nature of God. One of

out CO2. the women offered to find out the • Peat bogs are the most efficient store of carbon after the process of refining silver and get back oceans. to the group at their next Bible Study. That week, the woman called Actions: a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. Phone or visit your local garden centres and ask if they stock peat- She didn’t mention anything about free compost. Or make your own compost—220 litre bins are £13.50 the reason for her interest beyond at the moment for Worcestershire residents. Gardeners can mix her curiosity about the process of well-rotted, home made compost, leaf mould and inorganic materials refining silver. As she watched the (loam and sand) to make their own peat-free growing media, but silversmith, he held a piece of silver results tend to be variable. It is difficult to standardise pH, moisture over the fire and let it heat up. He retention and available nutrients, and to ensure that the final mix explained that in refining silver, is weed-free, and home made potting media are best avoided for one needed to hold the silver in the seed sowing because of the potential for them to contain fungal middle of the fire where the flames pathogens that can harm seedlings or cause damping off. But it’s well were hottest, so as to burn away all worth the effort of giving it a go… don’t you think? the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot, and then she thought again about the verse that says: ‘He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.’ She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed. The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, ‘How do you know when the silver is fully refined?’ He smiled at her and answered, ‘Oh, that’s easy! When I can see my image in it.’ If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has His eye on you and will keep watching you. His aim is not to abandon or destroy you, but to refine you—until He sees His image in you. Page 11 PRIORY PEOPLE: OBITUARIES

JOHN A G CLEMENTS church brings its own problems which require a 1930-2020— MASTER RINGER special person with great tact, and John had plenty of that. Suffice it to say he made a good job of it, as John started life, school, work he did with his and Gladys’ other hobby—ballroom and bell ringing in Pencome, near dancing. He soon improved the Priory ringing and Bromyard in Herefordshire. I first it became the place to ring although for the last met him at Breedonbury, near few years, John had had problems with the rather Pencome, in the late 1940s when difficult climb to the ringing room. we were both keen, young ringers. One of John’s visions was to have a ring of ten We met and rang together often bells at the Priory and eventually his dream came over the next years, including to fruition; he made that climb to have a short ring at least a dozen ‘peals’. [A ‘peal’ on the new bells. In the few years since, John had is 5,040 changes in any method gradually become less mobile and eventually had to and takes about three hours of be taken into hospital where he died in May. continuous ringing; a method is John was a true gentleman and there are many the term for the music ringers’ ringers and friends across the country who, like me, use.] As well as bell ringing, John will miss his pleasant company. found time to get married as well as being called up George Morris to do his national service. Whilst in the army he was posted to Cyprus but eventually, in 1963, he arrived to live in Barnards Green with his wife Gladys and JUNE SCHUIL their young family. John was a coachbuilder by trade which also It was with sorrow that we learned that June had included excellent wood-working skills, skills which died during the night of 12/13 May, just short of were to be a great asset to the well-known firm of her 95th birthday. Ours was the sorrow; for her, it Hollands, where he secured a job. He was by now could not have been better: leaving the life that an accomplished bell ringer and conductor—a had become increasingly difficult over the past few conductor takes part in any length of ringing and, if months, to be with her Lord; moreover, going as asked, takes full control of it. she had wished, without fuss, in her own bed in her Having known each other for some time he own home. Her independence meant a great deal to naturally came to ring with us at Malvern Link and June, and the thought of surrendering it to anyone was a great help in the progress of the band. My else was not one she relished. wife, also a ringer, and myself remember many June had led a life very different to most of us. Her Sunday evenings at the Clements’ home, ringing parents served abroad during a lot of her childhood, hand bells with John after the children had gone to so she attended boarding school and spent her bed. During these years with us, John conducted holidays with grandparents and much loved aunts in many first quarters for the constant flow of learners Llwyngwril. Her memories of the place and people being taught. [A ‘quarter’ is 1,260 changes long, a were still vivid when she took Sue Pain and me to quarter of a peal, and is a great step forward for visit it in 2007. As a young woman she decided to go learners.] He also took classes on the Hereford to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) where she met and married Course, then the premier ringing course in the Andrew and raised her two sons and daughter. country. John also became Ringing Master of this Eventually, after Andrew’s death, she decided to area of the Worcestershire & Districts Change come back to Britain to be nearer to her mother, Ringing Association. and made her home in Malvern. For some years she When his young family were starting to learn to provided excellent meals in Cleeve House Nursing ring, a request came for someone at Malvern Link Home. to go and take charge of ringing at Malvern Priory. It was her wonderful cooking that first imprinted Joseph Lawrence, who had been master there for itself on my mind. When I came to worship at the many years, had retired and John was the obvious Priory, she invited me to lunch. I firmly resolved choice to become Malvern Priory ringing master. then and there that if this was the standard of Priory Taking charge at such an important town centre catering, I would never be able to invite anyone to

Page 12 LO, I AM WITH YOU my home. But over the years, as our friendship ALWAYS grew, I became more daring and June was always very appreciative of the food I offered her, Wide fi elds of corn along the valleys spread; whether Sunday lunch, Christmas Day, or anything The rain and dew mature the swelling vine; in between. We enjoyed holidays, day excursions I see the lord in multiplying bread; and many walks together, June always a mine of I see Him turning water into wine; information about the flora and fauna around us. I see Him working all the works divine June made many friends in her life in Malvern. He wrought when Salem-ward His steps were led; She was among the first to volunteer when the The self-same miracles around Him shine; lyttelton Well was set up, firstly in the coffee shop, He feeds the famished; He revives the dead; and later when a more sedentary role was needed, He pours the fl ood of light on darkened eyes; in the bookshop. In the Priory, she coordinated He chases tears, diseases, fi ends away; acquiring Bible study notes for us, was great at His throne is raised upon these orient skies; flower arranging, catered to a high standard, His footstool is the pave whereon we pray…. welcomed, served in the shop, was a valued From a poem by John Charles Earle (1749–1818) member of different house groups and a reading group, and so much more; all underpinned by her quiet and steadfast faith which had seen her CHRISTIAN AID’S CONCERN FOR through difficulties which we suspected but of WOMEN DURING COVID-19 which she rarely spoke. Her first question was always “How are yOu?” The ACT Alliance, a Her family meant so much to June. louise’s visits network of 135 faith- from Dublin, along with her granddaughters based actors and churches and recently her great-granddaughter always operating in 120 countries, provided a highlight during which she would has called attention to play down any health or other problems. It was a the gendered dimension sadness that her sons could not come over from of Covid-19. It is urging that the international Zimbabwe, and the death of David before her was community, including churches and religious another blow she faced with stoicism. We felt for organisations, should take this into account. her and for louise as isolation meant louise could Women are aff orded fewer rights than men not be with her in those last few weeks. worldwide, and although the disease itself might cause higher mortality amongst men, it is clear th June with daughter, louise, on her 90 birthday that the social impacts of Covid-19 will impact women the most. Women living in poverty do not have the ability to take time off work, do not have adequate access to housing to self-isolate, and cannot stockpile provisions. Poor women, girls and vulnerable groups are least likely to be able to access healthcare and treatment. The situation will be critical for women migrant workers, women on the move and those living in refugee camps or slums. Daniela Varano, Communications Offi cer at ACT Alliance said: “Domestic violence cases have risen dramatically as women and girls across most countries have been quarantined, often with their June will be remembered for her graciousness, abusers. It is crucial that all governments put in place her hospitality and her helping hand; a life of affi rmative actions and inclusive policies that level true Christian service now brought to its glorious the playing fi eld.” conclusion. We hope to express our thanks for her ACT Alliance, together with its members, has when we can come together in the Priory. launched a global Appeal to support the most marginalised communities during this crisis.

Elizabeth Dunnett •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Page 13 ILLUSTRATED FAITH

Some innovative and creative ideas have evolved since we all went into lockdown, none more so than a hugely successful initiative dreamed up by Catherine Ponting. She came up with a plan to invite people to illustrate verses which speak to us during this difficult time and then to post them on our website. ‘There are so many ways to illustrate words.’ said Catherine. ‘You can draw, paint, sculpt, bake, use needlework or photography, create a garden—the choices are endless—then send in a photograph to Tony Fuller – [email protected] – who will post them on the website for us.’ We have chosen a few illustrations as examples here but there are more on the website: click on the Facebook logo on the right hand side then on ‘photos’ on the left hand side. Click on the first item Illustrated Faith which will take you to Catherine’s article which explains what she has in mind. Underneath are the illustrations and if you click on them, you will find out who did them. Or you can wait until we are out of lockdown and come to the Priory to see an exhibition of the illustrations submitted. And as a practical reminder to those who have already taken part, if you have reservations about your work being exhibited in the Priory, or would rather your name wasn’t included, please let Catherine know. Mary Rowswell ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• GARDENING AGAINST THE ODDS?

The Conservation Foundation has re-launched Gardening Against the Odds as a virtual network and is attracting some excellent interest. As a result, it may be making a radio series soon, featuring some of the projects it has discovered over the years which show how people combat ‘odds’—mental, physical and environmental—by gardening, even when they have no garden. These people plant seeds which they watch grow, eventually producing growth leading to flowers and fruit. Sometimes they work alone, sometimes there is an opportunity to share, producing a sense of community. All this is nothing new, but many people are discovering the benefits of gardening as a result of lockdown—discovering how gardening can help combat loneliness and depression with a sense of caring and wellbeing sometimes with life changing results. This is a very topical issue and so if you have discovered the benefits of gardening recently—or know someone who has—the Conservation Foundation would love to hear from you as soon as possible. Please contact: [email protected].

Page 14 tackling the locusts will be even A BIBLICAL PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS harder now that coronavirus has forced governments to close their A new wave of crop-eating locusts also reached parts of South borders. With severely-reduced locusts has been devastating East Sudan, where millions of people air travel and cargo shipping, Africa, just as communities are are already suffering from severe pesticides from Europe and Asia also dealing with an increase of food shortages amid conflict and can’t get into the countries—and coronavirus cases. political instability. to the farmers—that need them. At the start of 2020, Ethiopia The latest plague could be 20 Tearfund is asking governments and Somalia faced the biggest times larger. The UN Food and to recognise activities responding invasion of the insects in 25 Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is to the locust swarms as essential years—and the worst in Kenya calling it ‘an unprecedented threat’ services, so that they can continue and Uganda for 70 years. The to food supplies and jobs. Yet despite the restrictions on travel. ‘The locust plague, together with the coronavirus pandemic, could mean all the work that Tearfund supports communities with is on the brink of collapsing,’ says Ephraim Tsegay, Tearfund’s Country Director for Ethiopia. ‘If the second wave of locusts is not prevented before it inflicts further damage, more people will be forced to leave their homes to find food, land for their animals to graze, and an income elsewhere. It will also make people more vulnerable to coronavirus. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 23rd PSALM FOR THE HARD-PRESSED STUDENT

The Lord is my real instructor and I shall not want. He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me. He gently reminds me to pray before I speak and to do things without complaining. He reminds me that He, and not my school, is my Salvation. He restores my sanity every day and guides my decisions that I might honour Him in everything I do. Even though I face absurd amounts of social isolation, live streaming and exams, I will not stop – for He is with me! His presence, His peace, and His power will see me through. He will raise me up, even if I fail to get a good grade. He claims me as His own and knows that I have done my best. His faithfulness and love are better than any A+. In eternity it won’t matter what degree I got. When it’s all said and done, I’ll be working for Him a whole lot longer than I’ll be in school (even when it doesn’t feel like it) and for that, I bless His name! Author unknown Page 15 WELFARE FOR HEALTH CARE

So many people within our Priory them to H-J, the wife of Bishop family have done so much to help John Inge. H-J (yes that is her one another during this period of name) works with Welfare Health lockdown and some members have Care, an organisation which comes even got their sewing machines under the auspices of the Mothers out. Union. She distributes the masks to The 25 facemasks pictured here Worcester care homes. were sewn by Isobel Nicholls, who ‘I am happy to receive more is a member of The Priory Singers. masks if anyone has any to spare,’ She is one of a number of people says Jill. ‘Thank you so much to the within the church who have been busy (sewing) bees out there.’ making masks and passing them Mary Rowswell on to Jill Crofton who then sends ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• WHY SOMETIMES YOU OUR DAILY BREAD

NEED A BROKEN HEART Give us we pray The bread we need today There is a Hasidic tale which evokes Deuteronomy 11:18, Or, Lord, at least and seems especially apt for now. Provide us with some yeast! The pupil comes to the rabbi and asks, “Why does Torah We’ll feast our eyes tell us to ‘place these words upon our hearts? Why does To see the yeast-dough rise. it not tell us to place these holy words in our hearts?” The No fun we lack rabbi answers, “It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, When we then knock it back. and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So, we Once more it proves, place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, Then to the oven moves one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.” And then we haste It’s often the case that our own breakthroughs seem to That nice fresh bread to taste! happen when we, ourselves, break open, isn’t it? This has been, without doubt, a time of breaking open, if not for us Nigel Beeton personally, then almost certainly for some of those we know and love. And we’re all affected, in different ways. We’ve all experienced disorientation. We’ve all lost direct contact with people we love. Many still have no physical contact with others. There’s a place for keeping calm and carrying on, but there’s time enough to honour sorrow, too. The words of the Aaronic blessing have flowed so beautifully through the world in song this season. So often, it’s when ‘all is well’ that we perceive God’s blessing in our lives but how resonant, those words, from within a place where all is not? Perhaps we can treasure those words that may have rested gently on our hearts, awaiting the time they fall a little further into place. May we thus be open within this historic opening. And may, indeed: ‘The LORD bless you and keep you: The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you: The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.’

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LIFEPATH It came as no surprise to us to learn that, sadly, Lifepath had to be cancelled for this year. However, all was not lost. Rosamund Ponting and her hard working team came up with some interesting alternatives. Vicky, the team schools’ link person, contacted all the schools which had signed up to tell them that those involved in Lifepath would be praying for all the schools during this difficult time and inviting staff to let them know if there were any particular people or situations they would like them to pray for. About 30 of the volunteer team agreed to pray for specific schools. Heather Williamson came up with another thought. She suggested asking activity leaders to devise activities which could be done by the children from home. Given that teachers are racking their brains MALVERNMALVERN PRIORY PRIORY ORGAN ORGAN to carry out home teaching this could, quite literally, RECITALS 2020 be a God Send. School staff were asked to post out RECITALS 2020 the required materials. This was enthusiastically When the coronavirus was in its early stages, we Whencancelled the coronavirus one recital and was also in took its earlythe decision stages to, we received. The songs were also made available to the cancelledcancel one the visit recital by the and German also organist,took the Kai decision to schools online. Making pottage with recipes from the cancelKrakenberg the visit, forby thethe August German Bank organist, Holiday Monday Kai Monastery Kitchen, finding Hidden Treasure, trying out Krakenbergrecital and, for substitute the August Piers MaximBank inHoliday his place. Monday However the situation for August cannot be Calligraphy and ideas from the Prayer Journey were recitalpredicted and substitute with any certainty Piers Maxim so please in keep his anplace. among the nine activities which were made available Howevereye on the the situationweekly news forsheets August for updated cannot recital be to schools. predictedinformation. with anyThe organcertainty website so please keep an eye onwww.malvernpriryorgan.org.uk the weekly newssheets for will updated be updated recital ‘Lifepath may not have happened in the same way information.when any Thedefinite organ information website is available. We this year,’ says Ros ‘but let us pray that Lifepath 2020 hope that the recital on 7th November with www.malvernpriryorgan.org.uk will be updated by prayer ministry and activities online will have Nicholas Freestone, (Worcester Cathedral) will whentake any place def initeas planned. information is available. We strengthened our links with the schools and we see all hope that theGeoff recitalrey Fearnehough on 7th November with the children with renewed enthusiasm next year!’ And Nicholas Freestone, (Worcester Cathedral) will the dates for that? 21 - 25th June, 2021. take place as planned. Geoffrey Fearnehough Mary Rowswell ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• NEXT YEAR'S BISHOP'S CERTIFICATE COURSE planning the best way to deliver interest as either a participant or the Bishop's Certificate Course, a potential parish group leader, and considering whether to and we'll keep in touch about our plan for mainly online groups, or plans. If you have a preference for wait until we can meet (properly online or face-to-face, then let us socially-distanced) for a face-to- know that as well. face group, or perhaps do a mix of If you want to learn more about both. what's involved, then take a look However, we are absolutely at this page of the website, or expecting new courses to start download the course flyer, which this autumn and winter. If you're includes an outline of the course It's time to start thinking about considering doing a course, contents. the next Bishop's Certificate. or leading one in your parish, Doug Chaplin, Could this be just what you're we'd like to hear from you. Drop Discipleship and looking for to grow your faith? an email to training@cofe- Lay Training Officer Because of COVID-19, we're still worcester.org.uk to express your Page 17 Priory Parish Office Crossword Church House, Church Street, Malvern, WR14 2AY Parish Administrator: Mary Weatherill Tel: (01684) 561020 (answerphone)

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MONTHLY & ANNUAL Gym | Swimming Pool | Squash Courts Page 5 memberships available Group Exercise Classes Page 5 Page 12