SS PETER & PAUL, HATHERN No.483 – MAY 2020
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SS PETER & PAUL, HATHERN No.483 – MAY 2020 Hathern Church is a member of the Kegworth & Hathern Team Ministry. Clergy and Church Members work together throughout the united Benefice. Enquiries regarding Marriages and Baptisms should be directed to Sue Hack, our Benefice Administrator, who is available on Tuesday & Thursday mornings between 10:00am and 1:00pm on 01509 678 966 or [email protected] WHO TO CONTACT Team Rector Revd Lauretta Wilson [email protected] The Rectory, 24 Nottingham Road, Kegworth, Derby 678 966 Team Vicar Revd Louise Corke [email protected] The Rectory, Presents Lane, Belton, Leicestershire 07549 027 923 Licensed Reader Mrs Sue Hack, 46 Shepshed Road, Hathern 844 174 Church Warden Mrs Rosemary Worsfold, 33 Green Hill, Hathern 842 585 Deputy Warden Tony Croft, 32 Narrow Lane, Hathern 842 634 PCC Lay Chair Mrs Jan Leivers, 11 Green Hill Rise, Hathern 843 440 PCC Secretary Mrs Jill Bennett, 48 Wide Lane, Hathern 553 644 PCC Treasurer Mrs Linda Wigley, 32 Nightingale Avenue, Hathern 843 744 Safeguarding Mrs Sue Hack, 46 Shepshed Road, Hathern 844 174 Tower Captain Tony Croft, 32 Narrow Lane, Hathern 842 634 Mothers’ Union Mrs Linda Wigley, 32 Nightingale Avenue, Hathern 843 744 Magazine Editor John Worsfold, 33 Green Hill, Hathern [email protected] 842 585 www.aChurchNearYou.com/Hathern-St-Peter-St-Paul/ www.facebook.com/HathernChurch/ www.facebook.com/HathernPraise DUE TO THE CURRENT SITUATION WITH THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, HATHERN CHURCH REMAINS LOCKED AT THE TIME OF PRINTING LETTER FROM THE CLERGY TEAM This was written in early April; by the time you read it, our circumstances may well have changed. (No, they haven’t, Ed) From where I sit to write this on a sunny April morning I can see my Belton 2020 calendar of Hidden Gems. Here is today’s photograph (taken by Katherine Smith), a telephone kiosk situated in Belton market place. Of course, the telephone within has long gone! And haven’t we moved on since the days of the phone box? With the endless creativity of designers and technicians over the years, we now have far more sophisticated (and more choice of) ways to stay in touch. What hasn’t changed at all is the act of staying in touch. Right now, it is a high priority with the shutdown and physical isolation of our communities. We may text, ring, video call, message, zoom skype, post, wave through the window ….. however we do it, it is a priority in this new world of isolating. We keep in touch to find out how people are and we keep in touch to remember who we are, where we belong. Reassuringly, just as I am writing this, my neighbour has texted me to check I am ok! What has been particularly cruel with COVID-19 is that in many cases people are denied the opportunity to remain in contact with loved ones as they approach death’s door. Events turn so quickly, especially if a person goes into hospital, that there is no time to linger with last words of love or thanks, of assurance or memories shared. This, at its most desperate, reveals our desire to hear and to be heard, to treasure and to be treasured. So, even if your family are driving you up the wall at the moment and you long for solitude; even if you feel stranded; even if you are exhausted: listening, laughing, reflecting, realising, understanding, speaking, processing, noticing, loving is how we make sense together. It is how we are repaired as individuals and as a community. I hope you stay in touch. Rev. Louise Corke Bigamy is having one wife too many – monogamy is the same! – Oscar Wilde NO SERVICES ARE PLANNED FOR MAY 2020 but you may like to keep up to date with the readings set for the month. READINGS FOR MAY st nd SUNDAY 1 READING 2 READING GOSPEL 3rd 4th Sunday of Easter Acts 2:42-end 1 Peter 2:19-end John 10:1-10 10 th 5th Sunday of Easter Acts 7:55-end 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 17 th 6th Sunday of Easter Acts 17:22-31 1 Peter 3:13-end John 14:15-21 24 th 7th Sunday of Easter Acts 1:6-14 1 Peter 4:12-14,5:6-11 John 17:1-11 31 st Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 John 20:19-23 7th Jn Trinity Sunday Isaiah 40:12-17,27-end 2 Corinthians 13:11-end Matt 28:16-20 A wife comes home “I’ve just won a couple of million on the lottery” she announces “Get packed” “Brilliant news! Shall I pack for hot or cold, dear?” asks her husband. “Don’t much mind, dear” she says “Just be out of this house by nine o’clock tonight!” - 1 - WEATHER REPORT FOR HATHERN HATHERN OLD CRICKET CLUB 200 CLUB MARCH March 2020 Draw £20 - Nr 5 - Pete Bewley Rainfall : 40.5mm (1.6") £5 - Nr 31 - Ruth Attridge Max. Temp : 16.6 C; Min. Temp : -2.3C FEBRUARY Rainfall : 200mm (7.9") Max temp : 12.8 C, Min temp : -2.3 C FIVE TIMES MORE RAIN fell in February than in March! Artist “Please let me have your opinion of my latest work” Critic “It’s worthless” Artist “I know, but I’d like to hear it anyway!” THIS IS A TRANSLATION OF A POSTER FOUND IN A CHURCH IN FRANCE When you enter this church it may be possible that you hear 'the call of God'. However, it is unlikely that He will call you on your mobile. Thank you for turning off your phones. If you want to talk to God, enter, choose a quiet place and talk to Him. If you want to see Him, send Him a text while driving away. How many men does it take to change a toilet roll? Nobody knows – it’s never happened before! DATES FOR YOUR DIARY: HATHERN CHURCH EVENTS ODD JOBS PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE (PERHAPS!) ANY MAINTENANCE JOB UNDERTAKEN Friday 3rd July Lunch@Church Saturday 11 th July INTERIOR / EXTERIOR Afternoon Tea PAINTING Friday 24 th July Lunch@Church FENCE ERECTING AND Friday 28th August REPAIRS Lunch@Church Friday 25th September MINOR ROOF REPAIRS Lunch@Church Saturday 26th September GUTTER REPAIRS AND Bring ‘n’ Share Supper with Film Night CLEANING 2021 (DEFINITE!!) Saturday-Sunday 26th -27th June FASCIAS AND SOFFITS Open Gardens SLAB LAYING ANNUAL OPENING IF YOU HAVE A JOB NOT ON THIS LIST, GIVE ME A CALL AND SEE IF I CAN HELP OF CHILDREN’S SOCIETY BOXES CALL KEVIN ON Thank you for supporting 01509 731833 OR 07862 258175 the Children’s Society. We have sent them £461.20 - 2 - SPANISH FLU AND DEJA VU PANISH FLU , also known as the 1918 FLU PANDEMIC , elderly, while younger, healthier people recovered was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. easily. The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was SSpanning the end of the Great War, it lasted from much more deadly than the first. By August, when the January 1918 to December 1920. In three waves, it second wave began in France, Sierra Leone, and the infected 500 million people – about a quarter of the United States, the virus had mutated to a much more world's population at the time. The death toll is deadly form. October 1918 was the month with the estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 highest fatality rate of the whole pandemic. million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one The increased severity has been attributed to of the deadliest pandemics in human history., with a the circumstances of the First World War. In civilian life, death toll greater than that of the Great War. natural selection favours a mild strain. Those who get To maintain morale, World War I censors very ill stay at home, and those mildly ill continue with minimized early reports of illness and mortality in their lives, preferentially spreading the mild strain. In the Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United trenches, natural selection was reversed. Soldiers with a States. But newspapers in neutral countries were free to mild strain stayed where they were, while the severely ill report the epidemic's effects. Spain was one of these were sent on neutral countries and the stories created a false crowded trains impression of Spain as especially hard hit. This gave rise to crowded to the name Spanish flu. But no-one knows, with any field hospitals, certainty, the pandemic's geographic origin, with spreading the varying views as to its location. deadlier virus. However, the major UK troop staging and So the second hospital camp in Étaples in France has been theorized wave began, as being at the centre of the Spanish flu. In late 1916 and the flu the Étaples camp was hit by the onset of a new disease quickly spread with high mortality that caused symptoms similar to the around the world again. Consequently, during modern flu, and a similar outbreak occurred in March 1917 at pandemics, health officials pay particular attention to army barracks in Aldershot. Military pathologists later where the virus reaches places with social upheaval, recognized these early outbreaks as the same disease looking for deadlier strains of the virus. as the 1918 flu. The overcrowded camp and The British prime minister, David Lloyd George, hospital was an ideal site for the spreading of a was being presented with the keys to the city of respiratory virus.