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WHITTINGTON ORGANISATIONS PARISH SERVICES SUNDAY SERVICES: WOMEN’S INSTITUTE: 8:00am Holy Communion on 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays Second Thursday in the month in the Community Centre 10:30am Holy Communion weekly Secretary: Mrs Joyce Howard Tel:656389 6:30pm Holy Communion according to the Book of WHITTINGTON CASTLE PRESERVATION TRUST: Common Prayer on 1st Sunday Chairman: Jonjo Evans Tel:671300 6:30pm Evensong on the 3rd Sunday Castle Manager: Ms Sue Ellis Tel:662500 th BELL RINGING: 4:00pm Messy Church on the 4 Sunday Details from Brian Rothera Tel:657778 (No Service in July or August) BROWNIES, GUIDES: WEEKDAYS: 9:30am Holy Communion - Thursday 6:00-7:15pm Thursday except in school holidays in the Community Centre 5:30pm Choir Practice - Alternate Thursdays Brown Owl: Mrs D. Gough, 2 Newnes Barns, Ellesmere Tel:624390 RECTOR: Reverend Sarah Burton Tel:238658 BEAVER, CUBS & SCOUT INFORMATION: Assoc. Minister: Reverend Richard Burton email:[email protected] Information from: Brenda Cassidy – Group Scout Leader (Gobowen) The Rectory, Castle Street, Whittington SY11 4DF 2 Heather Bank, Gobowen Tel:658016 e.mail: [email protected] Curate: Reverend Jassica Castillo-Burley Tel:611749 WHITTINGTON UNDER FIVES GROUP: CHURCHWARDENS: Sessional and extended hours Carer and Toddler Sessions Mr M Phipps, Wesley Cottage, Babbinswood, Whittington Tel:670940 Leaders: Dawn and Mandy Tel:670127 Mrs G Roberts, 28 Boot Street, Whittington Tel:662236 Meet in the Community Centre 9:00am – 3:00pm e.mail: [email protected] SENIOR CITIZENS: Monday Whist Drive, Thursday Coffee Morning VERGER: Mr D. Howard, 16 Yew Tree Avenue, Whittington Tel:656389 All meetings in the Senior Citizens Hall Deputy: Mr P. Morris, 1 Rosehill Avenue, Whittington Tel:659562 Secretary: Mrs Gillian Roberts, 28 Boot Street, Whittington Tel:662236 ORGANIST: Mr K. Griffiths, 12 Park Crescent, Park Hall Tel:662116 MOBILE LIBRARY SERVICE: The Mobile Library will stop in the cul-de-sac by the Three Trees/White MAGAZINE: Lion on alternate Tuesdays between 2:55pm – 3:55pm. This will now be the Editor: Miss A Ward, Manor Garden, 5 Boot Street, Tel:672838 only stop in the village. Whittington – [email protected] CHURCH WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.whittingtonchurch.org.uk Distribution: Mr & Mrs J Carroll, Rhoswen, Station Road Tel:659385 SCHOOL WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.whittingtonschool.co.uk WHITTINGTON C of E PRIMARY SCHOOL: Headteacher: Mr Carl Rogers Tel:662269 36 e.mail: [email protected] 1 “THE RIPPLE” WHITTINGTON ORGANISATIONS (Whittington Parish Church Magazine) Vol 30 No 11 CRICKET/BOWLING CLUB SECRETARY: March 2018 Mr Andy Cawthray - email: [email protected] Tel:657178 Spring is in the air… 07581 710523 MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: Richard Beaman Tel:659166 How do we know? CRICKET SECRETARY: Those beautiful signs of snowdrops and daffodils Trina Lewis – email: [email protected] Tel:774406 in obscure places, lighting up the dreariness of 07968 844341 those dull winter days. BOWLING SECRETARY: Eileen Sinker Tel:770212 Spring also brings Easter. After six weeks of Lent – traditionally a time of prayer and fasting – we turn our focus to Jesus. Or do we? COMMUNITY CENTRE BOOKING SECRETARY: Mrs Kath Griffiths Tel:662116 Easter, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, SHROPSHIRE COUNCILLOR FOR WHITTINGTON described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his AND WEST FELTON: burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary circa 30 AD. Mr Stephen Charmley, 3 Glebe Meadows, Whittington SY11 4AG e.mail:[email protected] –www.stevecharmley.co.uk Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are decorated eggs that are usually Tel:650488 used as gifts on the occasion of Easter or springtime celebration. The egg is WHITTINGTON PARISH COUNCIL: Mrs A. S. Cowley, “Pear Tree” Cottage, Treflach, Oswestry an ancient symbol of new life and rebirth. In Christianity it became (Clerk to the Council) – Held the fourth Tuesday in the month Tel:659496 associated with Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. The custom of the Easter [email protected] egg originated in the early Christian community of Mesopotamia, who www.whittingtonpc.wordpress.com stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at his crucifixion and became a symbol of the empty tomb. The oldest tradition is to use dyed SHROPSHIRE YOUTH SERVICE: chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute decorated chocolate, or Rural Mobile visits the village on Tuesday 6:15pm – 8:00pm plastic eggs filled with sweets such as jellybeans. bus parks opposite the “Premier” Shop, Whittington. Open to young people between the ages of 13 – 20 yrs. Just as it seems, that even the coldest frost cannot stop the beauty of nature Contact: Wendy Stockton, Shropshire Council Youth Worker. Tel:654175 from bursting forth, neither the coldness of this world, in the midst of all this tradition and custom, stops the power that is released in the Easter story – the BAPTISM SECRETARY: resurrected Jesus, Saviour of the world. Mrs Margery Mellor, 10 Boot Street, Whittington Tel:681036 e.mail: [email protected] This Easter as we enjoy one or two eggs, remember what we are celebrating – the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. WEDDING: Please contact the Rector 2 Jassica Tel:238658 35 including the Marble Palace of the Maharaja, which is illuminated on Sundays when all the townsfolk go to see it. Further north to Hassan and just outside the town is the Jain temple at Sravanbelagola which houses the statue of Bahubali, a Jain leader, which is 17 metres (56 feet high and DIARY carved out of one piece of granite. It is at the 1 ST DAVID’S DAY top of a flight of 650 steps and visited only by the most devout Jains and ‘deranged’ 9:30am Holy Communion tourists; we did meet some Jain nuns who 10.15am Lent Discussion in the Castle Tea Room wore masks over their mouth so that they would not accidentally swallow and thus kill 2 WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER a fly and swept the path in front of them to remove insects they might tread on. 2:00pm Women’s World Day of Prayer service (arranged by the women of Suriname)at the Whole Life Centre, Our last stop was Bangalore, the bustling silicon valley of India, where we Cabin Lane, Oswestry; further details on page 9 visited Tipu Sultan’s palace and the art gallery, which housed a portrait of Clive of India (and Powys), some wonderful British Raj buildings and the 3 8:30am The March Prayer Breakfast to support the Schools magnificent bull temple dedicated to Nandi, Shiva’s bull. What a wonderful Christian Project Worker will be at Cornerstone holiday and a place so different to North India and the Taj Mahal. Church, Lower Brook Street, Oswestry. If you would like to attend please call Lynn Carroll on 659385 by Marion Lycett th Wednesday 28 February If you have visited somewhere that you think others might enjoy then do please send in your contribution to the editor. 4 THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 10:30am Parish Communion 6:30pm Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer 6 2:00-3:00pm Praise and Play in church 7 7:30pm Whist Drive in the Senior Citizens’ Hall; £1.50 including refreshments 8 9:30am Holy Communion 10.15am Lent Discussion in the Castle Tea Room 7:00pm Whittington Women’s Institute meets in the Community Centre; Speaker: Richard Clough of Severn Trent Water Topic: The Wonders of Water 34 3 9 7:30pm Fun Quiz in aid of Whittington Community brightly painted, it can take up to a year to redecorate all of the carvings. We Centre; further details on page 9 didn’t visit all of the temples, but did find time to visit the other great attraction here including a silk factory. 11 FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT – MOTHERING SUNDAY It was not all temples. As we travelled south and west we visited several 8:00am Holy Communion museums, one devoted to the life, travels and words of Mahatma Ghandi and 10:30am A Special Family Holy Communion Service – one of the brass castings so beautifully made in the 9th - 12th centuries and lasting no more than 40 minutes followed by coffee still made today. We visited a back yard foundry to see the lost wax process and Simnel cake. During the service the children which was used all over the world for casting metals from iron to gold; and will distribute flowers to their mothers and the went to two spectacular shows, one of martial arts and one of temple ladies of the congregation dancers. E 12 LAST DAY for magazine material for the April edition of the We also saw a lot of the countryside, including visits to national parks where “Ripple” all material to Anne Ward, Manor Garden, we heard, but did not see, a tiger; and in pouring rain to a reserve where we 5 Boot Street, Whittington – [email protected] didn’t see the wild elephants, apparently the first trip for some years where none were visible. We did see one that was tamed and was going to work in 13 2:00-3:00pm Praise and Play in church the forest and another one in a temple!! We also visited a rubber plantation 7:00pm Whittington PCC meets in the Senior Citizens’ Hall where we had a long discussion with the daughter of the house, aged 24 and working in Bangalore in advertising, about planned weddings and arranged 15 9:30am Holy Communion marriages; she had very nearly got married but broke it off as she decided 10.15am Lent Discussion in the Castle Tea Room she would rather be free to choose her husband.