Loving, Living, Learning Mary Duffty Parish Share System, New Governance and Further Delegaton of Authority from the Diocesan Bishop to the Area Bishops
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Starlings and Rooks In Leeds starlings are mainly seen near the market so GD Representing St Michael’s Headingley was very pleased to see 13 in her garden, waiting for their Women's World Day of Prayer service meal! In winter huge flocks Friday 3 March, 2pm and St Chad’s Far Headingley (murmurations) of up to a MILLION birds can be seen Headingley St Columba URC ’swarming’ in their roosts: a February 2017 60p 'Am I Being Unfair to You?' ”spectacular noisy sight”. For more information visit WWDP website Our new diocese—how’s it going? When I lived in the country there was a larger rookery nearby www.wwdp.org.uk at the Manor. In our garden we see crows, magpies, jays and A message from Bishop Nick St Michael's Stage Group presents... recently jackdaws – no rooks! Howev- St Michael’s Lunch Club er, when we went to Chapeltown on So much has been achieved since the Diocese of the 2017 pantomime which meets at Muir Court, our “Age Concern” walk * I was Leeds was created two and a half years ago. Bringing amazed to see and hear a rookery. are looking for drivers. If anyone can help together three diferent dioceses was a complex pro- 'Aladdin' please contact Tony Whatmough. cedure, but we are now part of a coherent body, Jenny Wren whose benefts are being increasingly revealed. * We also visited St Martin’s The bishops and archdeacons are working closely Church. I thought the tower looked Breaking down the barriers with their areas, and the combined spiritual wealth odd: it was to have had a spire but the ground wouldn’t have support- of 656 churches, over 240 church schools and three 9 - 11 February at 7.30pm ed it. Inside it is reminiscent of St cathedrals has brought increased creatve energy. Tickets from Janet Lewis Michael’s. It is not mentioned in We now have a central ofce in Leeds (complete with Pevsner, my Victorian history of Leeds, or Yorkshire Churches. a charitable cofee shop that’s open to all), a new Loving, Living, Learning Mary Duffty parish share system, new governance and further delegaton of authority from the diocesan bishop to the area bishops. We aim to: Churches Together in Headingley Some of the challenges we face include tackling Love God, the world and one another. the fall in clergy numbers, growing our churches and maintaining parish share. It remains vital to reach This photo was taken at this year’s Unity service at Live in the world as it is, but drawn Headingley Methodist Church. Each cardboard box children and young people with the Gospel. represents a barrier between us and God. by a vision of something beter, At the heart of all we do are the values captured in we want to help individuals Hitting the Mark our diocesan strap line, ‘Loving, Living and Learn- and communites fourish. ing‘. It’s a useful list to check against everything we Friday 10, 17, 24, 31 March and 7 April Lent course from Church of Headingley Methodist Church Hall Bermuda - based on the do. What does that mean for you and your church? Learn when we get things wrong, 12.15pm for 12.30pm Five Marks of Mission. by listening and growing together. + Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds St Chads will be on kitchen duties on 24 March, “The Church exists by and St Michael's on 31 March. mission, just as fire exists by burning” Emil Brunner Up and coming Traidcraft Stall Dates The 2017 Lent course starts at St Chad’s after the 9.30am service on Tuesday 7th March. For more details please ask 12 February Tony Whatmough. 26 February The deadline for artcles for the March 19 March editon is: Monday 20 February Tribute to Catherine Stewart The Joys of Sexagesima Church Calendar, February 2017 My friendship with Catherine developed in South Africa We sang “Njalo siyathandaza, siyanikela, siyadumisa” – Date Time Services We think of Lent as lasting for forty days, a long when she was based at All Saints’, Pampierstadt, teach- Always we pray, always we give, always we bless. Cath- Sunday 5th 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s period of penitence and self-denial. Originally the preparation for Easter was much shorter ing and taking part in the life of the Anglican parish. Our erine lived out these words to the end of her life. Her life 9:30am Green Communion at St Chad’s than this. It had extended to forty days by the experiences in South Africa had a profound effect on us will continue to reverberate into eternity, like a note in Four before 10:00am Shire Oak Sunday - Parish fourth century, reflecting Christ’s forty days of Lent both: for Catherine, her vocation to medicine and eventu- music, resounding with the generous, exuberant love of Communion at St Michael’s confrontation with temptation in the wilderness. ally marriage to Lesego, a son of Pampierstadt, and for God, which is for all of us. 12 noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s me, ordination. We were each given a Setswana name, Christ’s period in the wilderness is a strong fea- 6:30pm Choral Evensong, both churches Sermon at Catherine’s funeral by Revd Sarah Miller, ture of our Lenten liturgy to this day. The story a sign of inclusion into our communities. Catherine’s was th Lorato – meaning love. St Agnes’ Church, Manchester, May 2016 Sunday 12 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s inspires much of what we focus upon: inward 9:30am Parish Praise at St Chad’s reflection, self-denial, the combatting of tempta- “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see Catherine’s departure last year was moving because she Three before tion – with the purpose of sprucing ourselves up Lent 10:00am Parish Communion, St Michael’s face to face,” says St Paul. “Now I know only in part; leaves behind a six year old son and a husband. She spiritually, ready for our celebration of Easter. 12 noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.” was a young mother of 41 years and had a lot to offer, Half term 6:30pm Choral Evensong, both churches Catherine had a gift for friendship. She had an extraordi- week begins Lent used to begin on a Sunday (now the first both here and abroad. Catherine gave of her best to live 8:00pm Worship on the Edge at St Chad’s Sunday of Lent). If you count forward from that, nary number of friendships into which she poured great the Gospel to the full. Before the illness struck she was there are forty days until you get to Good Friday. love and commitment. There was a sense in which we Sun 19th 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s never fully knew her; there was element of mystery about planning to move back to South Africa with her family to In Latin the Sunday that started these 40 days 9:30am Parish Communion with baptsm was called Quadragesima, ‘fortieth’ — that is, Catherine. Only God, her creator knows Catherine fully – serve in her capacity as a medical professional. Cathe- Two before of Liliandra Schofeld at St Chad’s the fortieth day before the Redemption. and now she fully knows God in his perfect love: rine was generous and did not cling to her possessions. Lent 10:00am Parish Communion, St Michael’s In the fifth century the practice grew up of count- Catherine had a gift for bringing people together. In Ox- This sermon about her is a faithful account of her life. Half term 12 noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s ing fifty days before Easter, by analogy with the ford she arranged for Cardinal Basil Hume and Archbish- The full text is available from either Tony or Tom. week ends 6:30pm Choral Evensong, both churches fifty days between Easter and Pentecost. This op Desmond Tutu to meet each other. She had great in- th Sunday, the fiftieth day before Easter, was called Gwen Richards Sunday 26 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s tellectual gifts. She was equally at home talking about Quinquagesima, using the Latin word for science, politics, Theology, literature (she read widely – 9:30am Parish Communion with baptsm ‘fiftieth’. This works if you count from the Sunday The editor offers sincerest apologies Proust was amongst her favourite authors); she was a Sunday next of Hedley Smith at St Chad’s preceding the first Sunday in Lent, and continue linguist, fluent in French and Setswana. She had great for the delay in publishing this sermon before Lent 10:00am Parish Communion, St Michael’s up to Easter Day: a precise parallel with the fifty gifts as a doctor, and in her specialism in sexual health. 12 noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s days from Easter to Pentecost. 6:30pm Choral Evensong, both churches Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Do not worry about what you In the sixth century this anticipation of Easter will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.’ Cathe- was taken a step further when the Sunday rine always loved simply, she wasn’t into “stuff”. She before Quinquagesima Sunday came to be would have clear-outs and give away things she hadn’t called Sexagesima, being Latin for ‘sixtieth’. used for a time and didn’t need. She shopped frugally This ‘counting in tens’ did not work so well, since and ethically; she never wasted anything.