Mylor Magazine December, 2011
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Your free magazine—please take one Mylor remembers THE MYLOR MAGAZINE DECEMBER, 2011 Celebrating 1600 Years AD 411-2011 A magazine for Church and Community St Mylor landed hereabouts in 411 AD, so giving us his name The Mylor Magazine [email protected] Published by: The PCC of St Mylor and All Saints Editor: Revd. Roger Nicholls 01326 374408 Production & Design: Malcolm Clark 07930648156 Community & Advertising: Val Jeans-Jakobsson 01326 374767 Photography: Geoff Adams 01326 374197 Treasurer: Roger Deeming Proofing & PCC: Judy Menage Printing: Good Impressions, Redruth 01209 314451 Deadline dates for Copy for 2011/12 January December 17th February January 14th Advertising in the Parish Magazine Rates — per issue (artwork supplied) Full page (A5) £16.00 Half page £10.00 Quarter page £6.00 E-mail: [email protected] for further details 2 Parish of St Mylor with the Mission Church of All Saints Church Mylor Bridge Services for December, 2011 Sundays 8am Holy Communion, 1662, St Mylor 9am Holy Communion, CW, All Saints 10.30am Parish Eucharist, St Mylor 4pm BCP Evening Prayer, All Saints Tuesdays and Fridays 9am Morning Prayer, All Saints, Mylor Bridge Wednesdays Holy Communion, 10 am, St Mylor — 11 am, All Saints Christmas Services Sunday 4th: 4pm Evensong at the Parish Church of St Mylor to celebrate with all who keep our churches beautiful and enable our worship. No Evensong at All Saints. Sunday 18th: A service of Readings & Carols for Christmas: 6pm at All Saints, Bells Hill — with seasonal refreshments: this is a Friends of St Mylor Churches event. (No Evensong at All Saints). Saturday 24th Traditional Christingle Children’s Service with candles 4pm in the Parish Church, 11.30pm at the Parish Church, Mylor Churchtown, ‘Midnight Mass’ a candle-lit service of Holy Communion with carols to welcome the Christ child. Sunday 25th 8.00am BCP Holy Communion at St Mylor: 10.30am: Carols & Communion (CW) at All Saints, Bells Hill; A Sunday Special with children in mind. No service at St Mylor. Saturday 31st Watch Night Service at 11.30pm with Holy Communion at All Saints Bells Hill. Holy Communion to see in the New Year followed by mulled wine. Cover photo: (Photo: Geoff Adams) Christmas lights 2010 Vicar’s letter— Writing a column for a daily newspaper must be a tough challenge, responding to today’s news for tomorrow’s paper which, they used to say before we got polystyrene, would wrap the next day’s fish & chips. It feels almost as hard writing something current about the Christmas season six weeks before the day itself. But here goes. As I write, the papers are full of worries about the Euro Zone – those European countries which share a common currency and a common set of headaches. Indeed, we all seem to be facing painful financial stringency. For many, Christmas will be a less generous time this year. Bishop Bill used to say – Jesus loved the little, the lost, the last and the least. And Giles Fraser, one-time Canon of St Paul’s cathedral, said last week: the right use of money is the number one moral issue in the Bible. A recent paper from the Archbishops’ Council, put together in response to the Occupy London demonstrators who have been such a headache to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s, amplifies this judgement: The overwhelming message of both the Old and New Testament is that a society is judged by its treatment of the most vulnerable, that their condition is threatened by greed and the rapacious pursuit of wealth, and that the possession of great wealth is spiritually risky. I wonder if that city of tents will still be there at Christmas with its challenge to the financiers, asking if theirs is the only way capitalism can be done, a way the Occupy London campers would characterise as a way of greed and injustice. And they get a degree of support from an unexpected source: you may have come across the survey of workers in the City of London who were asked, “Do you believe there is too big a gap between rich and poor” and 75% of the financiers agreed! I have preached before on the fact that countries with the greatest gap between rich and poor also have the highest rates of society’s ills, of homelessness, of violent crime – and so on. All these thoughts come together in the first chapters of Luke’s Gospel. Of course, it is to Luke above all that we look for many of the details of the Christmas story, with his account of the visit of the angel to Mary and hers to her cousin Elizabeth, of the birth in the Bethlehem inn and the worship of the shepherds, poorest of the poor, ‘last and least’ indeed, yet first in the queue. And it is Luke who gives us in the first chapter of his Gospel the Magnificat, the Song of Mary, that hymns the justice and righteousness of God: He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and has sent the rich away empty. Wonderful radical words which look forward to the mission of our Lord Jesus Christ even as they sum up all that the Old Testament has to say about the treatment of the ‘last and the least’, the most vulnerable in our society. Let first Isaiah stand for all: Cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Have a blessed Christmas. 4 Reg. Charity No. 1129030 CHRISTMAS MARKET SATURDAY 3rd December 2011 9.30—12 Noon Tremayne Hall, Mylor Bridge Stalls include, Gifts, Grocery, Cakes, Preserves, China, Glass, Plants, Tombola & Raffle Diary Dates 3 Christmas Market (TH 9:30-12) 5 Christmas Light Switch-on (7:00) Mylor Flower Club (OS 7:30) Christmas Supper Party & demo Mrs Lesley Blay (ticket only) 6 Princess Royal visits Flushing 9 Playing Fields Committee (TH 7:30) Bingo Night 10 The Mylor Singers (TH 7:00) Christmas Colours and Buffet: Tickets £5 on the door. Proceeds to the Phoenix Stroke Appeal 11 Carols in the Barn at Porloe Farm (5:00) 12 Mylor Garden Club (OS 7:30) Cornwall through the seasons David Chapman 14 Senior Citizens' Christmas Party at Penryn College Mylor Movies (TH 7:30) Jane Eyre 20 Christmas Lunch Club (TH 12:00) January 3 Lunch Club start again 9 Mylor Garden Club (OS 7:30) Gardeners' Question Time 28 MLHG (TH 7:00) Tales of 350 years of local MPs Sarah Newton MP Key TH: Tremayne Hall, OS: Ord-Statter Pavilion School Diary Dates 6 Father Christmas visit – playing fields 7 Christmas Lunch – whole school event (party clothes) for pupils and staff 9 Christmas Fayre 12-14 Christmas Plays 15 Last day of term January 3 School closed – Inset day 4 Return to school – beginning of Spring term 13 Eden Project trip – whole school event 5 Community News and Views Irene Champion celebrated her 101st birthday on 20th November. Congratulations! Carols in the Barn at Porloe Farm will be on Sunday December 11th at 5pm in aid of the NSPCC. The cost will be £5 for adults, children free. This will include mulled wine, sausage rolls, mince pies etc. Sarita Perkins Mylor Flower Club: At the November meeting, members enjoyed demonstrations by not just one, but four demonstrators who visited the Club from Camborne & Redruth Flower Club. The title was Seasons Greetings and their arrangements ranged from late Summer through Autumn to Winter, culminating in the Pantomime, a tall arrangement in four parts completed by two of the Demonstrators together. Anna Cruise The Mylor Singers will be presenting their Christmas Concert, now titled "Christmas Colours", in the Tremayne Hall on Saturday, 10th. December, when a buffet supper will be served at 7.00p.m. and the concert, with audience participation, will commence at 7.30p.m. A raffle will also be held. The proceeds are for The Phoenix Stroke Appeal at Treliske Hospital. There will also be a raffle, so please, make a date in your diary for that evening when the singers will look forward to seeing you there and to hearing your vocal participation which will include Christmas carols. Tickets are £5.00, available at the door. We look forward very much to seeing you there. The Mylor Singers would like even more new members to join their very happy choir. They rehearse on a Tuesday evening, 7.30p.m. in the Methodist Church School Room and if you are interested in joining and having an excellent singing lesson every week, please contact Gill Stevenson on 01326 373736 You will be very warmly welcomed. Irene Gardiner St. Mylor Churchyard Restoration Group: The group meets on Wednesdays at 10 am in the Churchyard. In the past 2 years we have cleared huge areas of brambles giving access to many graves and memorials that were previously inaccessible. We also have a small team of “lay-weeders” who visit the Churchyard when it suits them and they are responsible for a certain number of graves/memorials that the restoration team has weeded and tidied up. This team maintains these graves and will occasionally put a small vase of flowers on the grave when an anniversary occurs. The group works within the guidelines of Cornwall’s Living Churchyard Project. The ethos behind this is to provide habitats for flora and fauna and to protect some of the rare wild flowers, etc, that are found in our Churchyard.