Parish Magazine – April 2020
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APRIL 2020 90 PENCE Advertising If you are interested in advertising in this magazine the cost is £55 per annum for an eighth A4 page size advertisement and £95 for a quarter A4 page size one. Please contact Rose Grisman - [email protected] - for more information. Magazine readers please note that we are unable to guarantee the services provided by any of our advertisers. If responding to advertisers please do mention that you saw their advertisement in the Crediton Benefice Community Parish Magazine. Thank you. British Summer Time starts at 1am on Sunday 29th March. Don’t forget to put your clocks forward 1 hour. Contacts in the In this month’s magazine: Crediton Benefice Community Rector’s Notes Page 2 RECTOR Boniface Centre The Reverend Matthew Tregenza 01363 894038 Page 3 PRIEST AT SANDFORD The Reverend Paul Fillery 01363 777372 Crediton APCM Page 3 LICENSED READERS Carol Price 01647 24468 Letter to Clergy Sandra Collier 01363 777013 Page 4 PARISH OFFICE Letter to Parishioners Parish Administrator: Gill Lee Page 5 (Tuesday and Friday 9.30am – 12.30pm) Spiritual Communion The Boniface Centre, Church Lane, Crediton, EX17 2AH Page 6 01363 773226 [email protected] Website: www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk News from around the Benefice Page 8 CLERK TO THE CHURCH GOVERNORS Sandra Thresher English - a vision of the future 01363 85467 [email protected] Page 10 CHURCHWARDENS Missions and Charities Crediton: John Musty, Sheila Ralph, Mike May Page Sandford: Colin Clark, Linda Bennett-Smith LOVE Devon Shobrooke: Rosemary Barber, Jack Fey Page 13 Yeoford: Carol Price (Licensed Reader) Posbury: Fiona Mortimer (Chairman), Ruth Vigers (Treasurer) Electoral Roll Revision Page 17 DIRECTOR OF MUSIC (ACTING) Richard Stephens 01363 775170 [email protected] Profile: Peter Brewer (Pt 2) BELL TOWER Page 24 Tower Captain: Geoff Sparling 01363 776681 Deanery Synod Feedback [email protected] Page 26 BONIFACE CENTRE BOOKINGS Plus regular features: Robin Lavery 01363 772536 [email protected] Choir Notes – Page 16 CREDITON MOTHERS’ UNION Friends of Crediton Church – Page 21 Anne Jerman 01363 772865 From the Archives – Page 10 HOLY CROSS FACEBOOK PAGE Mothers’ Union – Page 22 James Turner [email protected] Prayer Diary – Page 12 PARISH MAGAZINE Reverberations – Page 23 Editor and Advertising: Rose Grisman Rhymes and Things – Page 20 1 Penton Rise, Old Tiverton Road, Crediton, EX17 1HR 01363 776002 [email protected] Distribution: Kathleen Hughes 01363 777371 To all contributors to the magazine The deadline for items to be If you would like a copy of the magazine delivered included in the MAY edition each month please contact Gill Lee or Kathleen of the magazine is: Hughes Sunday 12th April Annual subscription £9 Thank you for your co-operation ********** © ROOTS for Churches Ltd 2002-2013. Material in Prayer Diary The May issue will be available in reproduced with permission www.rootsontheweb.com Crediton Parish Church from All articles and correspondence in this magazine reflect the views of the writers and should not be read otherwise Saturday 25th April 1 Rector’s Notes of Jesus. We very much become active participants in the Journey to the Cross. Also Stop Press! there is that foot-washing which never fails to I wrote my article a few days before we heard bring a tingle to my spine. His disciples always that the Archbishops of Canterbury and York found Jesus unpredictable; the trouble with us had taken the decision to suspend public is that we sometimes shrug off anything that is worship in view of the Coronavirus pandemic. different and may cause us to think again! I've decided to share with you all that I had ‘Lord, you washing my feet... whatever next?!’ originally written as I hope it may offer you In many ways, this was a radical departure for some thoughts to take with us through Holy Jesus as he washed his disciples' feet... an act Week and Easter and to remind ourselves of of loving service, an act of hospitality and an the symbolism of the liturgy, even though it is act of humility. most unlikely that we shall be able to meet The following day we shall enter the together for public worship at this most desolation of Good Friday and our worship on important time in the Church's year. this most solemn of days will reflect this, both Please do keep a close eye on the Holy Cross in the morning Walk of Witness and the website and please do share information with service at 2pm in the afternoon. This will be a each other. Although we can't meet together time to reflect on our Lord's suffering and for corporate worship, please be assured that death... a time to reflect on his unconditional you all remain very much in my thoughts and love for humanity! my prayers. I shall, of course, continue the The whole of Holy Week with its climax at our worship of the church with morning prayer Lord's resurrection, which we celebrate with and evening prayer and I hope that although the great Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday we are 'dispersed' physically, we will remain evening with the kindling of the new fire, the united spiritually. We hope to be able to offer lighting of the Paschal candle and the first worship online, via YouTube etc., but please Eucharist of Easter together with the do continue the offering of prayer in your own Eucharist on Easter Day itself, enables us to homes at this time. proclaim - The Lord is risen - He is risen Original Notes for the April magazine indeed! As I write this, we are still very much in Lent We are so privileged in our celebration of the but it will not be long before we enter Holy seasons in our worship. We re-enact the story Week and follow the Way of the Cross. This year by year with the great events of the birth most Holy Week of the Christian year - the of our Lord at Christmas, his death and week which takes us from celebration, resurrection at Easter and the coming of the through betrayal, suffering and death and then Holy Spirit at Pentecost. As we grow in our culminates in the joy of the Resurrection. faith, I hope we learn something new with On Palm Sunday morning we shall have our each new account that we read or listen to. usual procession as we accompany Jesus into Sometimes what we read seems to speak Jerusalem. In the evening we shall begin the directly to the situation that we find ourselves first in our series of three addresses for Holy in and we wonder why it has not meant the Week followed by Compline. same thing to us in the past. But at the centre of it all we have the great truth that our Lord Station of the Cross, together with Pergolesi's was ready to give up His life to save us. Stabat Mater, will focus our minds on Wednesday in Holy Week as we prepare for Without Easter we would never have realised the events of our Lord's passion and that the Cross was not a defeat but a victory. resurrection. Easter is God’s mystery, full of surprises. We read in the Gospels how the disciples were Maundy Thursday gives us new insights on always caught out by the Risen Christ. He our usual Sunday worship. It puts the turns up as gardener, traveller, cook. This Eucharist into its context in the Passion Story 2 Easter watch out for him in unexpected people Crediton Parish Church and places. It is the eye of the imagination that so often reveals the Risen Life. APCM Arrangements Let the story and the joy of Easter burn in our We are waiting to hear from the Diocese hearts and let us not be afraid to share it with about what will happen with APCMs in the anyone who shows interest. light of the Covid-19 advice. The Annual Your friend and Rector Parochial Church Meeting is due to take place in the Boniface Centre on Wednesday Matthew Tregenza 6th May at 7.30pm with tea/coffee and biscuits served from 7pm. This year, we will FROM THE CHURCH REGISTERS be electing three churchwardens, three members of the PCC and four Cadbury OF THE BENEFICE 2020 Deanery Synod representatives. Full details Baptisms of these roles appeared in the March Parish March 1 Amelia and Archie Pick Magazine. (at Posbury) Anyone willing to be nominated for any of these roles must be on the Church Electoral Funerals Roll and this also applies to the proposer and February 18 Rosemary Hunt seconder. Certain groups are disqualified February 21 Philip Rodd from nomination and the details of this can February 21 Kenneth Chamberlain be found on the nomination form. If elected, February 21 Norman Thorne (at Sandford) the person will also be required to have an February 27 Joyce Ash enhanced check under the Disclosure and February 28 Ian Binnie Barring Scheme and to complete a Fit and March 2 Frederick Snell (at Shobrooke) Proper Person declaration. The Church of March 3 Rachel Newcombe England takes a very serious view on March 9 Delsie Clarke ensuring these requirements are fulfilled. The PCC meets 9 times a year on the second Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm in the Boniface Centre Boniface Centre with the meeting generally Thanks to COVID-19 all bookings for the lasting 1½ hours. Each member is also Boniface Centre have either been cancelled, or encouraged to sit on at last one PCC sub- are likely to be so, and therefore the diary has committee of their choice – these normally been suspended until matters improve.