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www.stchads.co.uk www.st-michaels-headingley.org.uk Headingley Team Ministry News Church Diary, September 2018 Church Diary, October 2018 Representing St Michael’s & St Chad’s Date Time Services Date Time Services 50p October 2018 rd 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s Sunday 23 th www.stchads.co.uk www.st-michaels-headingley.org.uk 9:30am Parish Eucharist at St Chad’s Sunday 7 9:30am Parish Eucharist at St Chad’s September 10:00am Parish Eucharist at St Michael’s October 10:00am All Age Eucharist at St Michael’s with speaker from Leeds North West “St Robert, Yorkshire’s patron saint” Trinity 17 Practising Contentment Feast of 12noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s Trinity 19 Food Bank (Charity of the Season) St Robert of 12noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s A number of years ago, Channel Four promoted a major If we are content, we will feel satisfied with what we 6:30pm Evensong at both churches Knaresborough 6:30pm Evensong at both churches with programme looking at the Ten Commandments. Many have, where we are, our homes and families; we may not 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s ministry of healing at St Michael’s folk responded with comments like: ‘I can’t remember feel like going out and having an affair, fiddling the Sunday 30th NB No 9.30 communion at St Chad’s them; are they still relevant?’ or ‘I don’t books, getting rid of a person who doesn’t fit September 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s 10:00am St Michael’s Patronal with guest th Sunday 14 9:30am NB No 9.30 communion at St Chad’s think we need them anymore.’ Can they into our way of thinking at work, possibly by preacher Revd Dr Hayley Matthews, Trinity 18 October 10:00am Parish Eucharist at St Michael’s still be relevant? spreading half truths to ‘persuade’ them to re- followed by a faith lunch 11:00am Harvest festival service at St Chad’s 12noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s Trinity 20 Have you ever heard a sermon against sign and move on (thus not breaking Com- Guest preacher: Ven. Paul Ayers, 6:30pm Bereavement service at St Chad’s mandments 6 to 9!). We become less ‘greedy’ Archdeacon of Leeds coveting? ‘You shall not covet’ is indeed and Evensong at St Michael’s when we don’t seek to exercise power over others. 12noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s ‘Number Ten’ of the Ten Commandments, yet the entire 6:30pm Evensong at both churches Western world economy depends on people coveting How might we rediscover contentment? Dates for the diary 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s ‘more than they have’. Advertising asks us to covet all Sunday 21st We could … cultivate a more intimate relationship with 9:30am Parish Eucharist at St Chad’s the time. ‘They’ want ‘us’ to desire more of everything – Bereavement service at St Chad’s October our Creator – who knows best for us. J. B. Philips in his 10:00am Parish Eucharist at St Michael’s money, goods, sex, food, drink – everything, and they th paraphrase of the New Testament many years ago wrote Sunday 30 September at 6.30pm. All welcome, please come Trinity 21 12noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s will sell us the product we want. along and support friends and family that you know who have 6:30pm Evensong at both churches ‘Don’t let the world squeeze you into its mould.’ lost loved ones this year. How can we get this one right, within the society where We could … cultivate gratitude for everything we enjoy – th 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s Former St Chad’s Curate to be Dean of Wakefield Sunday 28 we live? The commandment itself is quite clear: ‘You our work and leisure, our families and futures. 9:30am Parish Eucharist at St Chad’s shall not covet your neighbour’s wife ... or anything that We could … be better stewards of the Simon Cowling (a former curate at St Chad’s) will be installed at Trinity 22 10:00am Parish Eucharist at St Michael’s th belongs to them.’ We are not to covet anyone or any- things we have; to learn to share our Wakefield Cathedral onSaturday 29 September at 3pm. Half Term week 12noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s begins 6:30pm Evensong at both churches thing. In the terms of the commandment, your neigh- gifts and skills with others. St Chad’s Harvest festival ... bour’s wife is just the starting point. On a positive note We could … cultivate more stable 8:00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s is on Sunday 14th October at 11am with the Ven. Paul Ayers, Sunday 4th this commandment suggests a practice of contentment; relationships; to find we can love 10:30am All Hallows Patronal festival, Archdeacon of Leeds, preaching. As well as your harvest gifts November to be content with what has been gifted to us, to be at people and use things (not the other followed by a bring and share lunch (which will go to PAFRAS) please bring food to share and stay 4 before Theme: All Saints ease in the grace of God. As with all our practices, this is way round), and to be more generous. on for a bring and share lunch afterwards in the parish centre. Advent 12noon Holy Communion at St Michael’s a choice to be made each day. Then we can stop worrying about Close of 150th celebrations at St Chad’s Half Term week 6:30pm Evensong at both churches things and people, and trust God to ends Theme at both churches: All Souls We should Practice Contentment (since 11 January 2018) is on Sunday 6 look after them. Paul says in his letter to the church January at 9.30am with Paul Slater, the Congratulations to Katharine Salmon And we might ask ... How content am I with life? Bishop of Kirkstall, as our celebrant and in Philippi ‘I have learned, in what- (Reader at St Chad’s) and Louise Sutton Is there still something I cannot do without? preacher for the feast of the Epiphany. ever state I am, to be content.’ In a (sidesperson) who successfully completed a And afterwards … we might pray: similar way Channel Four came up Midnight Walk on 8 September and raised a ST CHAD’S grand total of £680 (excluding gift aid) for St with ‘Appreciate what you have’ Thank you God for all your blessings to me. CALENDAR 2019 Gemma’s Hospice. They would like to thank and ‘Live within your means’. Help me to be content with your gifts today Do you have any nice photographs of St Chad’s Church everyone who sponsored them. (inside or out), during any season, which you would be Do you have an ‘if only’, at home or at work? Something not covetous of whatever has not been gifted to me. happy to share? We will select the best 12 for a calendar, you really feel you would be ‘better off’ with? How do In contentment I recommit myself which will hopefully be available to purchase by the end The deadline for articles for the November edition is: you feel every time you think about this thing? Do you to your gracious care. Amen. of October / beginning of November 2018. nd They make great Christmas gifts! Monday 22 October feel a gut-gnawing sensation? Or can you just let it go? Please either hand any photographs to Julia Baxter. Please send copy to: Peter Hemming Digital photos can be emailed to Alison Gallant at [email protected]. [email protected] To find out more about Parish events please visit www.stchads.co.uk or www.st-michaels-headingley.org.uk Page 8 Page 1 Page 2 Page 7 The "People's Roll Call" Courses to help our growth in faith... At 11am on Remembrance Sunday, One Hundred Years on to the hour, at St Chad’s War Memorial our remembering of … at St Michael’s those from the parish who died in two World Wars will entail a different individual reading each one of the 104 names Faith Pictures is a short course designed to help Christians talk natu- on the war memorial. If you would like to get involved, to both read out a particular individual’s name and then plant a rally to friends, neighbours and colleagues about what they believe. cross at the memorial, contact Revd Tom Lusty c/o the parish office on 274 4322 or email [email protected]. The heart of the course is about helping people to identify a single This is part of a wider effort to mark the Centenary of the Armistice by the Yorkshire Evening Post. picture or image that embodies something of their faith. This is be- cause the kinds of communication which best stick in the mind are Parish of Far Headingley 1914 - 1918 concrete and rooted in story. James K Airlie G Douglas Chalton Henry Hess William London Charles Ratcliffe George Telford The course aims to be accessible and light-hearted, without jargon or C William Baker Thomas Craver David Hewitt Thomas Maddra Ernest Roberts William Thompson inflexible methods. It has a number of emphases not always found in James Barrett George T Cooper Philip Hirsch VC William March Fred W Robinson Derwent Vaughan faith-sharing courses.