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PARISH MAGAZINE All Saints' with St Cedd's Shrub End , Colchester PARISH MAGAZINE All Saints’ with St Cedd’s Shrub End , Colchester August 2020 Price 35p or £3.50 per annum - 1 - CLERGY AND OFFICERS Vicar Vacant Churchwarden Robin Webb 10 Stuart House St Peter’s Street Colchester Tel: 860900 Sacristan Vacant PCC Secretary Brenda Pettit PCC Treasurer Brian Waller 16 Devon Road Colchester Tel: 540449 Gift Aid Officer Iain Hay 47 Gainsborough Road Colchester Tel: 545352 Electoral Roll Officer Frances Poulter 22 Halstead Road Colchester Tel: 532066 Parish Office Tel: 765145 SUNDAY WORSHIP As you are aware by now, we were not able to hold any services in our two churches, but this hopefully will change from Sunday 6th September. - 2 - Under the direction of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the two buildings were closed. However the Prayerslips and Services sheets are now online only. LECTIONARY We are currently using Year A on Sundays and Year 2 on Weekdays. SUNDAY READINGS FOR AUGUST 2020 EUCHARIST EVENSONG 2nd August – Trinity 8 Genesis 32:22-31 Psalm 80 Psalm 17:1-7, 16 1 Kings 10:1-13 Romans 9:1-5 Acts 13:1-13 Matthew 14:13-21 9th August – Trinity 9 Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Psalm 86 Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b 1 Kings 11:41-12:20 Romans 10:5-15 John 6:35, 41-51 Matthew 14:22-33 16th August – Trinity 10 Genesis 45:1-15 Psalm 90 Psalm 133 2 Kings 4:1-37 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 John 6:51-58 Matthew 15:21-28 23rd August – Trinity 11 Exodus 1:8-2:10 Psalm 95 Psalm 124 2 Kings 6:8-23 Romans 12:1-8 Acts 17:15-end Matthew 16:13-20 30th August – Trinity 12 Exodus 3:1-15 Psalm 105:1-15 Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b 2 Kings 6:24, 25, 7:3-end Romans 12:9-end Acts 18:1-16 Matthew 16:21-end SICKNESS LIST AND THE REGISTERS We continue to pray for all who are remembered on our Prayerslips – Rev Tony Rose, Ethel Munson, Angela Marsh, Gillian, Aidan Cooke, Angela, - 3 - Dawn and her family, John Barker, Christopher Browne, Ron Harden, Margaret, Chris Parkes and his family, Amy, Pat Rickard, Louise, Rachel and Shareen Rouvray, John Swinburne, Tabitha, Geoffrey Webb, Edward Wiles, Emma, Shirley and John Hall. Burial in the churchyard – Julie Ashworth (aged 62) - 10th July HOME WORSHIP Thanks to the good work of the Ray Sams, a weekly service sheet is being prepared for us and this is now being shown on the church website – www.shrubendparish.co.uk - This is under the Home Page heading “Home Worship”. A similar heading can also be found for the Prayerslips prepared by our Parish Administrator Also online are some special prayers, particularly for the current COVID19 virus. FROM THE CHURCH WARDEN Dear Parish Friends, Who would have thought it. A two year old child that had been starved back to his birth weight by the atrocities of the German occupation of our Channel Islands would be contemplating the possibility of commencing his eightieth year this month of August. The threads by which we all live are so fragile that only a firm belief in the love of God makes any sense of it. My life was saved then by Dr Darling, the Registrar of the General Hospital in St. Helier. Had he not decided to go to Jersey in the late 1930s to broaden his training, had he not volunteered to stay behind during the 1940 evacuation and had not the German Army overruled the 1942 Gestapo orders to deport him, he would not have been able to take me under his wing when my family received their deportation orders. Five times the Gestapo ordered his deportation to a concentration camp on the Continent and five times the German Army defied the illegal order because they knew he was a good doctor and they needed him on the Island. And through this traumatic time he brought me back to life and health. If God can care for me, the least of his people, think how he must care for you. I feel like the seed that fell amongst thistles. I feel burdened down by the trials and troubles surrounding me, but even so, God loves me and buoys me up and guides me on. Think also how much he loves you, trust in him. We live in a time where everything appears to be in Biblical proportions. In this time of Covid 19, I commend to you the prophetic words of Julian of Norwich. “All will be well and all manner of things will be well.” - 4 - Most of the volunteer priests who assisted us so well before the lockdown, are themselves in the vulnerable or extremely vulnerable categories and are over 70 so will not be able to take services for some time. However, I have been able to start services again at 10:00 every Sunday until the New Year starting from the first Sunday in September at St Cedd’s. Rev. Ray Sams has volunteered to conduct Holy Communion every first Sunday until the New year. Phill Wood will conduct Morning Prayer at All Saints every second Sunday and the Ven Ruth has volunteered to conduct Holy Communion at All Saints every third Sunday. Being down in Sussex I haven’t yet managed to contact Rev Sue Gridley by telephone, but I do hope she will be able to assist us in ensuring we hold a service every Sunday. As I remarked last month, I am in the group required to be in lockdown until 1st August. Unless the Government modifies it’s guidance, I propose to fly to France to check my house there and do not expect to return to the parish until later in August. Until I am back with you all, do stay safe and continue to help your neighbours in need with love and understanding. May God be with us all Robin Webb NEWS FROM THE REVEREND RAY SAMS “GO; DO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL” I was sitting in the garden the other day thinking about how as each week passes there is gradually more and more traffic on the roads. Which is, I suppose, a good thing, because it means that we are spending less time walled up in our own premises and more time getting about a bit. Then, being of a generally miserable disposition, I found myself thinking that it wouldn’t be too long before we started experiencing major hold-ups on the roads again. And then I remembered these words from an evangelistic hymn, “Go: do something beautiful”. They came to mind a few years ago, when I was caught up in the aftermath of a bad accident on the A12. Like many others, I had set off expecting it to be a pretty normal day; only to find that most of the morning was lost. I sat in my car, in a queue of traffic, going nowhere for a couple of hours. My thoughts ran much as I imagined most other people’s did: some initial annoyance at the disruption; then a sense of guilt, and prayer, when I realised the anguish and pain of those involved in the accident far outweighed any inconvenience to me. Actually, the only surprising thing is that things don’t go wrong more often. - 5 - All over the world, people suffer the consequences of events over which they had no control; earthquakes, droughts, economic crises, and so on. Every day, even trivial incidents deflect me from my plans; forgetting to set the alarm, running out of bread or milk, or misplacing my keys. (When I was small, my mum made me an “idiot string” for my gloves: a length of ribbon which ran up one sleeve of my coat, across the shoulders and down the other sleeve, with a glove attached at each end, so that I couldn’t lose my gloves. It wouldn’t work for keys though, more’s the pity because I’m constantly forgetting where I put them down.) Some days, it’s a wonder I get anything done at all. And some days I get nothing done at all. I suspect that the reason the world works, more or less, is because ordinary people do good things, spontaneously or otherwise, but often. At the accident I mentioned before, a man got out of his car and sat with a trapped and injured woman, reassuring her until the emergency services arrived. That was a beautiful thing to do. The unexpected things in life need not always be nasty, dangerous, or disruptive. Every day, human beings, whether Christians or not but made (I believe) in the image of God, help to build God’s kingdom by doing beautiful, Godly things, which make the world work better. Beautiful things need not be flashy or huge things, and they can perfectly well be things that other people don’t find especially beautiful. At heart, they are simply things which bring us some joy. So maybe the antidote to the frustration we feel when something disrupts our life is nearer, and easier, than we think. Maybe this whole lockdown thing can be more bearable if we do more beautiful things. Play with our toys, whatever they are. Discover new toys. Share them. Respond to our own dismay by making a beautiful difference for someone else. So, go: do something beautiful. Now. Ray Sams PARISH FINANCE Another month has passed and many thanks to all the people who have posted or given me cheques.
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