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The Sign ISSN 1471-6267 the Nationwide Church Magazine Supplement I Loved the Badges September 2021 The Sign ISSN 1471-6267 The nationwide church magazine supplement I loved the badges read something recently which a scheme whereby children would collect dredged up a memory from childhood; rosehips from the hedgerows, take them sadly, childhood is a rather distant to school and then once a week, the Imemory and so I imagine that only a few Delrosa Syrup lorry would turn up and readers will recall this with me! Back in take away the sacks of hips. I even recall the the 1950s and 1960s, a regular that the sacks were green. feature of the autumn, from late In return for our efforts, we children September until the end of October, was were paid a few pennies for each pound rose hip collecting. we collected and so was the school. However, this was not just a rather quirky hobby. Rural schools took part in Continued overleaf 1 The Sign calendar & The nationwide church magazine supplement lectionary About us The Sign has been running since 1905, 5 14th Sunday after Trinity providing quality content to supplement Proverbs 22.1-2, 8-9, 22-23 parish magazines. 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It seems a very simple thing to get excited about, but we did. The background to all this was rather more serious and had its origins in 1941 as part of the war effort. The public were encouraged to return to (or re-learn) the prompted my reminising is, at one level art of foraging in order to supplement slightly amusing, but at another level it or augment rationed foodstuffs. The is quite thought provoking; a Christian concept was very actively promoted and retreat centre was offering a ‘Foraging resourced by the government. The then Retreat’. Ministry of Food published several leaflets Foraging has become rather on how to find and use the Hedgerow fashionable over recent years and a Harvest and there was an emphasis upon whole range of organisations from the wild foods with health benefits – many BBC to The Woodland Trust offer leaflets of the sources of fruit no longer being and courses; there is even The Foraging available. The rose hip was singled out Course Company. If you go on one of for particular attention because it was these days or weekends, I note from the a valuable source of vitamin publicity material, that you get to eat C, oranges being in short the fruits of your labour at the end of the supply. day. But in truth, I think that folk who do Believe it or not, that this are actually fulfilling some sort of year 200 tons of hips were spiritual need rather than just wanting to collected and converted supplement their diet. into 600,000 bottles of Our faith is rooted in the idea of a rose hip syrup which in turn Creator God but the green agenda found its way into the diet of recent years has brought a of babies and children. new understanding and a new The scheme continued emphasis to the place of the until the late 1960s and natural world in our faith. I wonder how many So, a Christian perspective to remember rose hip foraging! Why not? But remember, syrup on rice pudding I played my part in improving the for school dinners? health of the nation’s children and The thing that got some badges to prove it! 3 Three Trust130 donations. One blooming lovely garden. Take out a new home insurance policy with Ecclesiastical and we’ll donate £130* to a church of your choice. So those plans for the churchyard could finally take seed and flourish. Visit www.ecclesiastical.com/trust130 or call our team on 0800 7830 130 and quote TrustSG. Trust130. Limitless donations. Endless possibilities. Trust 130 celebrates over 130 years of insuring Churches. *Terms and conditions apply and can be viewed on the offer website page above. Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc (EIO) Reg. No. 24869. Registered in England at Benefact House, 2000 Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, Gloucester, GL3 4AW, United Kingdom. EIO is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Firm Reference Number 113848. 5005 Eccl_The Sign_T130 _114x184_[ MONO_1_HR].indd 1 09/02/2021 14:22 prayer Worship: a meditation made for God.” Worship then is, in the This is an extract from an article for The words of the old Scots Catechism, “our Sign written in 1949 by Michael Ramsey, chief end”. who was to go to become Archbishop of Of course, it is wrong to shut off a Canterbury small department of life under the name of “worship”, and to practise a piety Our worship has its root in the truth that unrelated to the rest of your life. But, so God is our Maker. It is there that we long as worship includes a real offering to must begin if we are to realise the God of all life, we rightly put it first of all. meaning of worship: “Let us kneel before Our daily moments of lifting up the soul the Lord our Maker.” We belong to a to God in adoration are the day’s first created world which owes its existence work — not just a preparation for the to the will of God and work, but the work itself, depends upon him utterly. and a little foretaste of Without the world, God the day when we shall would be God: without worship him as he loves us God, the world would be and shall see him as he is. nought. Worship is likewise the An old English saint, the first activity of the lady Julian of Norwich, Church. Set in the midst puts this vividly in one of of a world which will not her “visions”. “He showed worship, the Church, as me a little thing, the size man’s priest and man’s of a hazelnut, in the palm representative, offers to of my hand; and it was round as a ball. God the worship which man as a whole “I looked thereon with the eye of my declines to offer. In this the Church understanding, and thought: What may follows the pattern of our Lord whose this be? And it was answered thus: It is mission on earth was to “glorify the all that is made. It lasteth and ever Father”, and who now glorifies the Father shall, for that God loveth it. And so all- in his ascended life. thing hath the being by the love of God.” To join in the worship of the Church in Well, we belong to a world that has its sincerity is to bear witness to the true being by the love of God; but, unlike the meaning of man, and to help in rest of his visible creation, we are the recovery of that key to man’s true allowed to know him upon whom we place in the universe which has been lost. depend. For we are made in his image, Worship, therefore, touches very after his likeness. He has given us a mind closely the common life of man: it does to know him, a heart to love him, a will so not by trying to be topical and to serve him. The meaning of our popular, but simply by that spirit of existence is summed up in the words: “I adoration which represents the meaning come from God; I belong to God; I am of man as a creature in God’s image. 5 Finding Peace in Anxious Times We live in an age of high anxiety. So rapid provide sustenance and protection for are the changes of this modern era that his most treasured creatures of all? The we struggle to cope with both its pace core of Jesus’ teaching on anxiety is an and scope. In a globalized world we are invitation to trust God. He reorients us exposed to more information than we from the nose-length focus of worry to can absorb and more distressing news the availability, generosity, and good will than we can process. The means of of our heavenly Provider. human destruction now include nuclear, From childhood, Henri Nouwen was biological, and technological warfare. fascinated by trapeze artists. He drew Increasingly violent natural disasters several lessons from watching these assail us, along with the prospect of remarkable acrobats of the air. A lesson cataclysmic climate change. For good from the ‘flyers’ is the importance of measure, add in a pandemic, economic letting go of the security of the bar in crisis, food insecurity, social unrest, order to soar.
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