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HAMMOND & SONS SOLICITORS Purpose made joinery Commissioners for Oaths 47 FRIAR LANE, LEICESTER, LE1 5QX TELEPHONE: (0116) 251 7171 FAX NO: (0116) 253 7370 e-mail [email protected] Website www.pjhammond.com For a friendly and reliable service Contact Richard Hammond Phone: Tel: 01858 565117 Home visits possible Mob: 07805 495958 CAR PARK AVAILABLE WHILST VISITING THE OFFICE The Parish of Six Saints circa Holt 32 www.sixsaintscircaholt.org April 2018 The Parish of the Six Saints circa Holt The Reverend Stephen Bishop The Rectory, Rectory Lane, Medbourne, LE16 8DZ Tel: 01858 565933 Mobile: 07590 829902 email [email protected] Revd Richard Barribal: Associate Priest Mr Roy Cashmore: Reader Parish Office: 01536 660568 Open: Tuesday and Wednesday 9.00 am to 1.00 pm Secretary: Julia Unna E. [email protected] * Please note parish office revised opening days. PCC Secretary Ann Baile Treasurer Miles Ingram Vice-Chair Neville F Hackett Teal Cottage, 5 Holt View 17 Old Holt Road Great Easton LE16 8TN Medbourne LE16 8DY 01572 821202 01536 772571 01858 565265 Foot Health Practitioner BRINGHURST CUM GREAT EASTON & DRAYTON Specialist Foot Care Treatment CONSTRUCTION: in the comfort of your own home Wardens GREAT EASTON RENOVATION: Mary Henniker-Major Julia Bowder (Deputy) David Gibb (Deputy) Graham Clark MAINTENANCE: SAC(dip), CFHP (pract) Linden House Rosebrook Cottage Brook House Vicarage Cottage Great Easton Little London Deepdale For an appointment call JOSEPH Main Street, Loddington LE16 8SJ Great Easton LE16 8SU Great Easton LE16 8SS Leicestershire LE7 9XE 01536 770320 01536 771539 01536 770223 01536 772118 WARBURTON Home Tel: 01572 717302 Carpentry & Building Mobile Tel: 0774 04 2 6889 BRINGHURST DRAYTON Services Margaret Stamp David Hill-Brookes 1 Banbury Lane 1 Medbourne Road Great Easton Drayton Leicestershire LE16 8SF Leicestershire LE16 8SE 01536 770605 01858 565171 MEDBOURNE CUM HOLT, STOCKERSTON & BLASTON Great Easton Village Hall Wardens MEDBOURNE CUM HOLT Mr Martin van Oppen Manor Farm To Hire: Medbourne LE16 8DR 01858 565332 STOCKERSTON Mary Patston 01536 772562 or 01536 771506 Apple Cottage, Medbourne Road Stockerston LE15 9JF [email protected] 01572 823396 BLASTON Wilfred Coon Robin Murray-Philipson Hallcroft, Medbourne Road Garden House Hallaton LE16 8UH Blaston LE16 8DE 01858 555630 01858 555233 GARRY HYDE Treasurers Bringhurst etc David Gibley 01536 772159 Interior and Exterior Medbourne Howard Unna 01572 822331 Painting and Decorating Stockerston Louise Bromwich 01572 821910 Glazing Blaston Wilfred Coon 01858 555630 Secretaries Bringhurst etc Ann Baile 01572 821202 TEL: 01858 565215 Medbourne Jenny Sandars 01858 565245 MOB: 07795 096109 Stockerston Wendy Bromwich 01572 823110 Blaston Della Stones 01858 555688 We are always pleased to welcome new residents to our parish so please do make yourself known to one of the above-named. Supported by Great Easton and Medbourne Parish Councils, and other local groups and organisations. Printed by Quantum Print Services Ltd, Earlstrees Industrial Estate, Corby, NN17 4AR 2 31 The Rector’s Letter - April 2018 Parish of the Six Saints circa Holt April 2018 Services Christ in disguise: One of the fascinating features of the contemporary study of classical works of art is that 1 April Easter Day untold stories may come to light. Titian's 'Noli me tangere' - do not touch me, his c. 1514 8am 1662 Eucharist at Medbourne depiction of the Gospel story of Mary Magdalene meeting Jesus in the garden after the 9am Eucharist at Stockerston resurrection, is one such example. Modern scanning investigation reveals that Titian 10.45am Eucharist at Great Easton originally depicted Jesus wearing a gardener's hat, in keeping with the story of mistaken identity found in John 20:15 8 April Second Sunday of Easter 'Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing 9.00am 1662 Eucharist for Blaston venue to be confired him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where 10.45am Eucharist at Great Easton you have laid him?' Many artists throughout the centuries have chosen to depict Jesus in full gardening gear, a 15 April Third Sunday of Easter work allegedly by, Jacopo Di Cione depicting Christ with a hoe, Fra Angelico including the 9am 1662 Eucharist for Bringhurst at Drayton image of a tool slung across Jesus's shoulder. While Titian chose to paint out the gar- 10.45am Eucharist at Medbourne dener's hat, to lose the costume as it were, it's shadowy presence serves as an interesting 6.00pm Evening Prayer in Great Easton emblem for a number of theologically - rich themes. Firstly, there are the biblical connections between God the father and a gardener found in 22 April Fourth Sunday of Easter the Genesis creation stories: 8am 1662 Eucharist at Medbourne “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom 9am Eucharist at Stockerston he had formed.” Genesis 2:8 10.45am Eucharist at Great Easton There are also echoes in some of the prophets use of gardening as a metaphor: 29 April Fifth Sunday of Easter "For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all 10.45am United Eucharist Service in Stockerston the nations." Isaiah 61:11 Then in John's Gospel the role is attributed to Jesus. John's prologue commences with a Wednesday Morning Eucharist Services recollection of the start of Genesis '...in the beginning'. Later, in John 19:41 we have the St Andrews Church, Great Easton account of Jesus being buried in a garden, followed in the next chapter by the case of mistaken identity. Taken in conjunction with Paul's presentation of Christ as the new Adam, completing that 4 April 10.30am which the first was unable to finish, all this may be taken to suggest that Jesus is the gar- 11 April 10.30am dener of the new Eden, breaking new ground through his resurrection, and restoring life 18 April 10.30am and growth to a broken humanity. 25 April 10.30am The great preacher Charles Spurgeon made all this explicit in an Easter sermon of 1884: "Behold the Church is Christ's Eden...and he our second Adam walks...to dress it and to keep it; and so we see we are right in 'supposing him to be the gardener'". ALL WELCOME 30 3 Weekly Events Monday Medbourne Tiddlywinks But Titian's painted-out gardener's hat also leads me to explore the theme of Parent, baby and toddler group Jesus in disguise in another way. For there are echoes for me of the story in Matthew Medbourne Village Hall 10am to 12 noon 25 in which Jesus tells of a king who is asked: Line Dancing “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you Great Easton Village Hall 2pm to 3.30pm something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, Tuesday Parish Office, Great Easton Village Hall 9am to 1pm or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison Medbourne Pre-school 9.15am to 12.15pm and visited you?” And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to with lunch session 12.15pm to 1.15pm one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.” and an afternoon session 1.15pm to 3.15pm Both the Mattheiean account and the 'Christ the gardener' image challenge me. I Medbourne Village Hall should look for the risen Jesus, not in the conspicuous places of holiness, but in the Art Club presence of all those in need. The risen Christ is present, to me and to all who would Great Easton Village Hall 10am to 12 noon seek to serve him, the faces of all those who are in need of help. Bell Ringing Practice St Andrew’s Great Easton 7.30pm to 9pm Ladies’ Choir Great Easton Village Hall 8pm to 9.30pm Wednesday Parish Office, Great Easton Village Hall 9am to 1pm Tai Chi 9.15am to 10.15am Great Easton Village Hall Medbourne Pre-school 9.15am to 12.15pm with lunch session 12.15pm to 1.15pm and an afternoon session 1.15pm to 3.15pm Medbourne Village Hall Thursday Clubbercise 9.30am to 10.15am Great Easton Village Hall Medbourne Pre-school 9.15am to 12.15pm with lunch session 12.15pm to 1.15pm and an afternoon session 1.15pm to 3.15pm Medbourne Village Hall Noli me tangere Noli me tangere (Tiziano) 1st Welland Valley Scouts about 1368-70, Probably by C.