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January, 2011 Your free magazine—please take one Anticipation and Hope—New Year Edition THE MYLOR MAGAZINE JANUARY, 2011 Ring out the Old Ring in the New! A magazine for Church and Community The Mylor Magazine [email protected] Published by: The PCC of St Mylor and All Saints Editor: Revd. Roger Nicholls 01326 374408 Production & Design: David Eastburn 01326 374237 John Clark 01872 865974 Community & Advertising : Val Jeans-Jakobsson 01326 374767 Photography : Geoff Adams 01326 374197 Finance: Ruth Bray Proofing & PCC: Judy Menage Printing: Good Impressions, Redruth 01209 314451 Deadline dates for Copy for 2011 February — January 15th March — February 12th April — March 12th Advertising in the Parish Magazine Rates — per issue (artwork supplied) Full page (A5) £15.00 Half page £9.00 Quarter page £5.00 E-mail: [email protected] for further details 2 Parish of St Mylor with the Mission Church of All Saints Church Mylor Bridge Services for January, 2011 Regular services Sundays 8am Holy Communion, 1662, St Mylor. 9am Holy Communion, CW, All Saints 10.30am Parish Eucharist, St Mylor 4pm BCP Evening Prayer , All Saints Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 9am Morning Prayer, All Saints, Mylor Bridge Wednesdays Holy Communion, 10 am, St Mylor—11 am, All Saints Diary for January Mon 10 Gardening Club (OS 7.30pm) Roses for Cornwall Stuart Pocock Fri 14 Drawing Classes start (TH 3 weeks) Jan Robson 01326 375252 Sat 15 History Group talk (TH 7:00pm) Cornish Tin Mines Mark Kaczmarek Tue 18 Women’s Fellowship (MMC 2:00). Speaker; Revd. P Facer Sat 22 Friends of St Mylor (PH 10-12) Coffee Morning Sun 23 Blessing of Angels Corner (MC 11:30 approx—after Parish Communion) Special Evensong of Thanksgiving (MC 4) Join those caring for our churches Mon 24 Watercolour classes begin (TH 8 weeks) Beginners/Improvers 01326 375252 Fri 28 Mylor Movies (TH 7.30pm) Another Year (PG13) directed by Mike Leigh February Sat 12 Table-top Sale (TH 10-4) Tables £8 to reserve tel 01326 374767 Fri 23 Mylor Movies (TH 7.30) The King's Speech (12A) directed by Tom Hooper Key TC=Truro Cath.; EH=Epiphany House; OS-Ord-Statter Pav; TH=Tremayne Hall; AS=All Saints Church; MC=Mylor Church; MMC=Mylor Methodist Chapel; PH=Parish Hall Cover Photo : Ring out the Old, Ring in the New!—Howden Minster 3 I am just back from our midnight service at All Vicar’s letter Saints. No, I’m not confusing it with our First Communion of Christmas service, the one which starts at 11.30pm on Christmas Eve and is always held in the parish church. This year, that service was well-attended de- spite the extreme weather, as was the now traditional Christingle service earlier in the day. It is lovely to see our ancient church so beautifully decorated and continuing to welcome families to worship and give thanks, to sing again the familiar carols and perhaps enter into the wonder and mystery of the meaning behind the nativity sto- ries. Strange to reflect how the number of worshipers on the morning of the day it- self has dwindled over the years, though this Christmas, as always, we held a Family Service at All Saints at what some might consider a more ‘sensible‘ time, between the opening of the presents and the carving of ‘the bird‘. No, I’m referring to the New Year’s Watchnight service which is also held at our Mis- sion Church. It’s rather a puzzle to me that the popular attraction of the midnight Christmas Eucharist does not stretch to this other late-night service for it could be argued it is even more ‘time-specific‘. Perhaps there are those who account it a non- conformist tradition and hold that against it. It certainly does not mark a religious festival, though in the past the Church has not be backward in taking over pagan festivals and making them her own. (I’m told Christmas itself is a winter festival be- cause it falls on the old Roman festival of Saturnalia!) But an increasing number of people welcome the opportunity to gather in the last moments of the dying year to review the twelve months that have passed, finding the turning of the year an appro- priate time to reflect, to make their confession and to dedicate to God the months to come, to ask his blessing on their lives that they may grow ever more trustful of his loving care: God of the ages help us walk your way. Help us greet your future, seize tomorrow's day. Each year there is the challenge of getting the timing right so that we arrive at ‘the exchange of the Peace’ just as the chimes of Big Ben welcome in the New Year and we hear the rattle of fireworks from outside. So we wish one another Shalom, the peace, the prosperity, the well-being which comes from God. There is for many a deep sense of blessing that they have begun a new year with other members of the Christian family in God's house. We sing: Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father; there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; as thou hast been, thou forever wilt be. And we pray the Collect: God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose years never fail and whose mercies are new each returning day: let the radiance of your Spirit renew our lives, warming our hearts and giving light to our minds; that we may pass the coming year in joyful obedience and firm faith; through him who is the beginning and the end, your Son Christ our Lord. Amen. So I wish you, gentle reader, Shalom , the Peace of Christ, in the months to come. Chapel ChitChit----ChatChat A New Year rhyme for our younger readers. Rodent Resolves Benjamin Mouse thought he had the solution Every New Year he made this resolution; Not to be rude, nor act very bold; Also to do, just as he was told. But every year, though it was not meant, He did break every good intent. Bartholomew Mouse has a better idea, To make one resolution this very year. “I’ll start each day with Jesus, my friend, Keeping so close to him ‘till the end. And then at bedtime I will say thanks To him who kept me from naughty pranks. At our Christmassy Fellowship, Vera Moore made us laugh with:- “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Snore, and you snore alone.” And here is a resolution for the men. Do not worry if you have to wait for the women in your life. Have a good book nearby. Read it while you wait. You will be amazed at the amount of information you acquire! A Happy New Year to you all ! Wishing all our readers A Very Happy New Year 5 in the Parish Church of Saint Mylor The Third Sunday of Epiphany 23 rd January 2011 at 4pm A Special Service to Celebrate the Contribution to our Parish Worship of All who Provide the Flowers and Clean and Polish and Weed so that our Church and its environs are a Worthy Place in which to Glorify God. Friends of St. Mylor Church Reg. Charity No. 1129030 C0FFEE MORNING SATURDAY 22 nd JANUARY 2011 PARISH HALL 10.00 am – 12 Noon CAKES, RAFFLE, BOOKS, BRIC-a-BRAC Raising Funds for St. Mylor and All Saints Community News and Views During the past 18 months the St Mylor Churchyard Renovation group has successfully uncovered many headstones and graves that had become totally over- grown by brambles and ivy. Many of these graves are now visited by relatives and flowers are being placed on these memorials. The Group’s wish is to bring this lovely Churchyard into a more manageable state and, working alongside our paid gardener, we are begin- ning to achieve this. St Mylor Church will be celebrating its 1600 th anniversary in 2011, and many activities are being organised for this wonderful celebration. As its contribu- tion, the group has begun clearing rubbish from the well and stream and has planted over 100 daffodil bulbs, including Cornish varieties, as well as plant- ing native violets. Ultimately our wish is to introduce some native wildflowers, some of which are nearing extinction, into suitable areas of the Churchyard. We are now working in areas of the Churchyard that are rarely visited, and have begun uncovering graves and headstones that have not been visible for many, many years. Our wish is to be able to encourage more visitors to these areas. The oldest grave in the Churchyard, that of Revd. Thomas Peter who died in 1654, has been re-discovered in amongst the brambles and we have been working on the tomb of the Revd. Hoblyn and his family. He was respon- sible for the building of the current vicarage. Many of the graves, headstones and tombs in these areas are Listed and Starred and need to be available for all to visit. There is so much history in these areas of the Churchyard as well as some amazing headstones and tributes and hopefully more of this will be uncovered in time for the celebrations next year. The Group meets on Thursday mornings at 10.30am, unless it’s raining heav- ily or is too cold, and we welcome any help we can muster. You don’t need to be a gardener, just come with some enthusiasm, a fork and perhaps a pair of secateurs and we’ll provide the rest! Please come and join us.
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