PARISH MAGAZINE

All Saints’ with St ’s Shrub End , Colchester June 2020

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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 are not able to hold any services in our two churches.

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Under the direction of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. With the buildings fully closed, the Pewslips, Prayerslips and Services will now be online only.

LECTIONARY

We are currently using Year A on Sundays and Year 2 on Weekdays.

SUNDAY READINGS FOR JUNE 2020

EUCHARIST EVENSONG

7th June – Trinity Sunday Isaiah 40:12-17, 27-end Psalms 93 and 150 Psalm 8 Isaiah 6:1-8 2 Corinthians 13:11-end John 16:5-15 Matthew 28:16-20

14th June – Trinity 1 Genesis 18:1-15 Psalm 43 Psalm 116:1, 10-17 1 Samuel 21:1-5 Romans 5:1-8 Luke 11:14-28 Matthew 9:35-10:8

21st June – Trinity 2 Genesis 21:8-21 Psalm 46 Psalm 86:1-10, 16-end 1 Samuel 24:1-17 Romans 6:1b-11 Luke 14:12-24 Matthew 10:24-39

28th June – Trinity 3 Genesis 22:1-14 Psalm 50 Psalm 13 1 Samuel 28:3-19 Romans 6:12-end Luke 17:20-end Matthew 10:40-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, Dawn and her family, John Barker, Christopher Browne, Ron Harden, Margaret, Chris Parkes and his family, Arthur, Amy, Pat Rickard, Louise, Rachel and Shareen Rouvray, John Swinburne, Tabitha, Geoffrey Webb, Edward Wiles, Emma, Shirley and John Hall. There is nothing to report from the register.

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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,

May God Help us in this time of pestilence

I am writing to you on Sunday morning at the beginning of the final week of May when the whole country has been in lock-down since late March, a very long time. While there have been minor liftings of the lock-down, all vulnerable or over 70 are still required to stay indoors and, to quote the latest Government Guidance “..should continue to take particular care to minimise contact with others outside their households..”. As Christians I would urge you to follow Martin Luther and ask God to mercifully protect us, take all necessary precautions as advised by the Government, do not go where you are not wanted, but do not avoid to assist your neighbour in need, and to praise God continually.

As I write I have just returned from my exercise walk along the shingle beach at Rustington in Sussex, where I am locked-in with my disabled brother who lost his wife in February. The sun is shining, there is a steady breeze powering the wind surfers, the flowers are in glorious profusion and the birds are singing all around. My brother’s parish service on Zoom has just finished. We live in God’s wonderful world and we should be joyfully thankful for all the good things around us.

I would like to thank the Rev. Ray Sams for assisting with a weekly service, which I do hope as many as possible of you are able to follow on line. If you are having any difficulty with receiving the service please telephone me on 07877 95 35 03 or E-mail me on [email protected] or, c even, write to me to let me know at. /o 8, Chaucer Avenue, Rustington, West Sussex BN16 2PQ.

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It would be good to set up a meeting on Zoom, such as a PCC meeting or the APCM so that parish matters can progress, in particular, the finding of a new priest for our parish,

May God be with us all

Robin Webb

NEWS FROM THE REVEREND RAY SAMS

Some time ago, someone asked me if “All Saints Church” should have an apostrophe or not. Now, I happen to be the General Secretary of the Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe from Misuse (SPAM), so the lady came to the right person. I said I would I gave this matter very careful consideration and get back to her with a definitive answer. Eventually, I decided that the answer depends on how you phrase the title. If you say the "Church of All Saints", there would be no apostrophe. But "All Saints' Church" does need an apostrophe.

You will see what I mean if you think about the title of a church with just one saint, for example, St. Luke, as its patron. "The Church of St Luke's" or "St Luke’s Church", both sound odd, whereas "the Church of St Luke", or "St Luke's Church" sound more natural. We need to use either the word "of" or the apostrophe to signify patronage (as in Patron Saint). Using both is unnecessary. Using neither fails to signify patronage at all.

Before replying to the person who asked the question, I wondered about discussing my conclusions with my daughter, who is a teacher. But then I realised she would probably suggest, very gently of course, that I might consider getting a life. Other people say that to me sometimes, as it happens. Usually when I am trying to explain why classical guitars with the modern lattice bracing do not sound quite as good as those with traditional fan bracing; or why Linux is a better operating system for computers than either Apple or Windows. One person once said, I thought a bit unkindly, that I reminded her of a character in a Michael Palin TV sketch, years ago, who was especially fascinated by shovels. In my defence, I would just mention that I do not fuss about everything. Astute observers might notice that I rarely bother about whether my socks match. If you mention I am wearing odd socks, my reply will be I have another pair just like them at home.

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Fine details are funny things. Sometimes it really does matter to get things absolutely right. The right temperature in my oven makes the difference between a cooked dinner and a burnt one. Brain surgery, on the whole, works better if the surgeon has an eye for detail. But, in other contexts, fussing about details can mean missing what is actually important. The trouble is, it can be a very personal judgment whether details matter or not. Church communities often worry keenly about liturgical practice; wearing the right robes, using the right coloured altar vestments, rules about who may and may not read the Gospel, styles of hymns and songs, processions, liturgical gestures and so on. For some people, these all matter a lot, because they help focus attention on what is going on. For others, they matter hardly at all. I suspect that, when we eventually return to normal church services, in church, with real people present, some folks will be only too delighted to resume “the way we do things round here”. Others might wonder if all the details matter as much as we thought, since we seem to have survived without them. Unlike the question about the apostrophe in All Saints’, there is no one right answer.

Jesus said, echoing the teaching of Moses, that the most important thing is to love God and to love our neighbours. And by “neighbours”, he meant whoever we happen to find alongside us, not just people who live next door, and not just people who we like, or who share our views about things, or people who are the same sort of people as we are. If we remember this principle, that it is love which matters most, it becomes much easier to decide which details are significant and which are trivial.

And now I need to go and sharpen all my pencils, and arrange them in alphabetical order

Ray Sams

CHURCH WEBSITE

Since last time I wrote I have managed to download all 42 books that I have written about churches that I have seen, visited and revisited since I retired in December 2016.

These are on our church website which can be found as www.shrubendparish.co.uk

These are under the heading on Home Page as “Churches Visited and Revisited.

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PARISH FINANCE

More news from our treasurer Brian on the state of the finances of our parish in the first month of no real income from our two churches -

Sadly a check on the gas and electricity revealed a liability of nearly £200 which will be paid by direct debit in May but we are investigating the reasons for this as we thought that all the heating was turned off.

Fortunately I have not had to pay too many other bills in the last month, I paid for our music licences to be renewed, but I did manage to negotiate an extra two months as we have not needed them recently and have paid for both of the water bills which took them up to date.

The only other payments made were for the balance on the repairs to the church clock and the parish office phone. Having collected in all the fees for the Art Exhibition, I then had to write out over 40 cheques to repay them all again. It was also agreed, given the current situation, as we have not had any real income now for nearly two months, that we would not be making any payments for our quota until hopefully we get back to normal.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Whilst we have not been able to print a manual copy or the magazine (or maybe just a few), our treasurer Brian Waller, who runs the church website has taken over. Having emailed about 15 copies last time, an initial 20 copies were printed, some were hand delivered and others were posted.

However with further names suggested to him, it ended up with an extra 20 more being printed off and then a further 11 done and these were hand delivered by our treasurer Brian who made two very long walks on the first Saturday and Sunday of May. Printed copies will be in church once we get back into our buildings.

This of course is on a very temporary basis from Stephanie who has done this for many times in the past, but unfortunately she like myself is locked in and does not have internet access and we are uncertain with schools all closed whether we could get them printed by the Sixth Form column anyway.

If you want anything included in the July magazine, if things are not back to normal, please email Brian on – [email protected]

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ACROSS – (1) Unconscious states, (6) Prayer ending, (10) Hitch, (11) Defence, (15) Wedding Town, (16) Ripped Up, (17) Foremost of the Twelve, (18) Mined metals, (19) Word meaning Father, (20) Has Toed, (21) ___ of the covenant, (22) Sew, (24) Northwest by North, (26) Adhesive, (27) Manoeuvres, (30) Dorm dweller, (31) Solicit, (32) Bake Unshelled eggs, (33) Dads, (36) Sandwich cookies brand, (37) Buddy, (38) Last letter of Greek alphabet, (40) Decade, (41) After Wednesday, (43) Tiny amounts, (44) The ____ is my shepherd, (45) Lazy people, (46) Do unto ___ (49) Otherwise, (50) Large desert, (51) American sign language, (52) Cook, (56) Related, (57) Thoughtfulness, (59) Drink, (60) Smart person, (61) Island, (62) I am the ___ and the Omega, (63) Ceases, (64) Sonata and (65) Stupify

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DOWN – (3) Small amount, (4) Survivor of the furnace, (5) Mr, (6) Nut, (7) One of the Gospels, (8) Vane direction, (9) Yuckier, )10) Solemn, (11) Stately, (12) Shelter under branches, (13) Hiking equipment, (21) Abdominal muscles (abbreviated), (23) Robots, (25) Grappler, (26) Plague of Egypt, (27) Scotsman, (28) Biblical weed, (30) Leafy vegetable, (32) Cowboy boot projections, (34) Seaweed substance, (35) Talk back, (39) Speck, (42) ___ Hornblower, (45) Sickly, (46) Made of oak, (47) Before fourth, (48) Arm extensions, (49) Painter Richard, (50) Rational, (51) Organisation concerned with civil liberties (abbreviated), (53) What legs are attached to, (54) Repeat, (55) Deed, (58) Poisonous, (59) Prod

Answers are on Page 34

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MAIN JUNE SAINTS DAYS JUNE 1st - Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 an early Christian apologist, is regarded as the foremost exponent of the Divine Word, the Logos, in the second century. He was martyred, alongside some of his students, and is venerated as saint by the Catholic Church, the Anglican church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and a dialogue did survive. JUNE 3rd - The Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–7 and 1977 are a group of 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic converts to Christianity in the historical kingdom of Uganda, who were executed between 31st January 1885 and 27th January 1887. They were killed on orders of Mwanga II, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda. The deaths took place at a time when there was a three-way religious struggle for political influence at the Buganda royal court. The episode also occurred against the backdrop of the "Scramble for Africa" – the invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers. A few years after, the English Church Missionary Society used the deaths to enlist wider public support for the British acquisition of Uganda for the Empire. The Catholic Church beautified the 22 Catholic martyrs of its faith in 1920 and canonized them in 1964. JUNE 4th – Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The female equivalent is abbess. JUNE 5th - Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Bishop, Apostle of Germany, 754 - born Winfrid (also spelled Winifred, Wynfrith, Winfrith or Wynfryth) in the Devon town of Crediton was a leading figure in the Anglo- Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. He organised significant foundations of the church in Germany and was made archbishop of Mainz by Pope Gregory III. He was martyred in Frisia in 754, along with 52 others, and his remains were returned to Fulda, where they rest in a sarcophagus which became a site of pilgrimage. JUNE 6th - ni Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 - (died June 1945) was a police officer from Maravovo. Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands who founded the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, the Right Reverend John Manwaring Steward, realised In his dream by forming a band of brothers.

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This was (known in the Mota language as 'Ira Reta Tasiu') to take the Gospel of Jesus to the non-Christian areas of Melanesia. The Anglican Church of Melanesia, Church of England, and Episcopal Church (United States) commemorate Kopuria on their calendars of saints. JUNE 8th - Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells Nonjurer – Holy Writer - was an English cleric who was considered the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnody. Ken was born in 1637 at Little Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire. His father was Thomas Ken of Furnival's Inn, of the Ken family of Ken Place, in Somerset; his mother was the daughter of little known English poet John Chalkhill. In 1646 Ken's stepsister, Anne, married Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler, a connection which brought Ken under the influence of this gentle and devout man. JUNE 9th - Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 - Columbkille; 7th December 521 – 9th June 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. He is the patron saint of Derry. He was highly regarded by both the Gaels of Dál Riata and the Picts, and is remembered today as a Catholic saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. In Ireland, he is commonly known as Colmcille. JUNE 9th - Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymn Writer, Teacher of the Faith, 373 - was a Syriac Christian deacon and a prolific Syriac- language hymnographer and theologian of the fourth century. Ephrem is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church, and counted as a Venerable Father (i.e., a sainted Monk) in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is celebrated on 28th January and on the Saturday of the Venerable Fathers. He was declared a Doctor of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church in 1920. JUNE 11th - Barnabas born Joseph, was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Named an apostle in Acts 14:14, he and Paul the Apostle undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts against the Judaizers. They traveled together making more converts (c. 45–47), and participated in the Council of Jerusalem (c. 50). Barnabas and Paul successfully evangelized among the "God-fearing" Gentiles who attended synagogues in various Hellenized cities of Anatolia.

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JUNE 14th - Richard Baxter (12th November 1615 – 8th December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and controversialist. Dean Stanley called him "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long and prolific career as theological writer. After the Restoration he refused preferment, while retaining a non separatist Presbyterian approach and became one of the most influential leaders of the Nonconformists, spending time in prison. His views on justification and sanctification are somewhat controversial and unconventional within the Calvinist tradition because his teachings seem, to some, to undermine salvation by faith, in that he emphasizes the necessity of repentance and faithfulness. JUNE 15th - Evelyn Underhill (6th December 1875 – 15th June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the 20th century. No other book of its type—until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy—met with success to match that of her best-known work; Mysticism, published in 1911. JUNE 16th - Richard of Chichester (1197 – 3rd April 1253), also known as Richard de Wych, is a saint (canonized 1262) who was Bishop of Chichester. In Chichester Cathedral a shrine dedicated to Richard had become a richly decorated centre of pilgrimage. In 1538, during the reign of Henry VIII, the shrine was plundered and destroyed by order of Thomas Cromwell. Richard of Chichester is the patron saint of Sussex in southern England; since 2007, his translated saint's day of 16th June has been celebrated as Sussex Day. JUNE 16th - Joseph Butler (18th May 1692 – 16th June 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He was born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He is known, among other things, for his critique of Deism, Thomas Hobboes’ egoism, and John Locke's theory of personal identity. Butler influenced many philosophers and religious thinkers, including David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, Henry Sidgwick, John Henry Newman, and C. D. Broad, and is widely considered "as one of the preeminent English moralists.” He also played an important, though under appreciated, role in the development of eighteenth-century economic discourse, greatly influencing the Dean of Gloucester and political economist Josiah Tucker.

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JUNE 17th Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett DBE (nee Rowland; 4th May 1851 – 10th June 1936) was a notable English social reformer, educationist, and author. She and her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett, founded the first "University Settlement" at Toynbee Hall (in the East End of London) in 1884. They also worked to establish the model Hampstead Garden Suburb in the early 20th century. JUNE 18th - Bernard Mizeki (sometimes spelt Bernard Mzeki; c. 1861 – 18th June 1896) was an African Christian missionary and martyr. Born in Mozambique, he moved to Cape Town, attended an Anglican school, and became a Christian. He was born Mamiyeri Mitseka Gwambe in Inhambane, Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) and raised in a traditional fashion. As a boy, he did some work in a store run by a Portuguese trader, and learned some Portuguese. Between the ages of ten and fifteen, he moved with a cousin to Cape Town, Cape Colony (now South Africa), where he took a new name, "Barns", as well as various jobs as a laborer and house servant. JUNE 19th - Sadhu Sundar Singh - born 3rd September 1889) was an Indian Christian missionary. He is believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929. Sundar Singh was born into a Sikh family in the village of Rampur Kataania, Ludhiana (Punjab state) in northern India. Sundar Singh's mother took him to sit at the feet of a sadhu, an ascetic holy man, who lived in the jungle some miles away, while also sending him to Ewing Christian High School, Ludhiana, to learn English. Sundar Singh's mother died when he was fourteen. In anger, he burned a Bible page by page while his friends watched. JUNE 22nd - (first Martyr of Britain, c.250 anus) is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr, for which reason he is considered to be the British protomartyr. Along with fellow Saints Julius and Aaron, Alban is one of three named martyrs recorded at an early date from Roman Britain ("" was the name given much later to the priest he was said to have been protecting). He is traditionally believed to have been beheaded in the Roman city of Verulamium (modern St Albans some time during the 3rd or 4th century, and his cult has been celebrated there since ancient times. JUNE 23rd - Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 -; c. 636 – 23rd June 679 AD) was an East Anglian princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely. She is an Anglo-Saxon saint, and is also known as Etheldreda or Audrey, especially in religious contexts. Æthelthryth was probably born in Exning, near Newmarket in Suffolk.

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She was one of the four saintly daughters of Anna of East Anglia, including Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, all of whom eventually retired from secular life and founded abbeys. Æthelthryth made an early first marriage in around 652 to Tondberct, chief or prince of the South Gyrwe. She managed to persuade her husband to respect her vow of perpetual virginity that she had made prior to their marriage. Upon his death in 655, she retired to the , which she had received from Tondberct as a morning gift. JUNE 24th - The Nativity of John the Baptist (or Birth of John the Baptist, or Nativity of the Forerunner, or colloquially Johnmas or (in German) Johannistag) is a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of John the Baptist. Birth of John the Baptist, Zechariah writing, "His name is John” Pontormo, on a desco da parto, c. 1526. Christians have long interpreted the life of John the Baptist as a preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ, and the circumstances of his birth, as recorded in the New Testament, are miraculous. John's pivotal place in the gospel is seen in the emphasis Luke gives to the announcement of his birth and the event itself, both set in prominent parallel to the same occurrences in the life of Jesus. JUNE 27th - Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher of the Faith, 444 - was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He was enthroned when the city was at the height of its influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the late-4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople. Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers, but Theodosius II, the Roman Emperor, condemned him for behaving like a "proud pharaoh", and the Nestorian bishops at the Council of Ephesus declared him a heretic, labelling him as a "monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church." JUNE 28th - Irenæus, Bishop of Lyon, Teacher of the Faith, c.200 - was a Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in what is now the south of France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by combating heresy and defining orthodoxy. Originating from Smyrna, now Izmir in Turkey, he had seen and heard the preaching of Polycarp, the last known living connection with the Apostles, who in turn was said to have heard John the Evangelist. - 17 -

JUNE 29th – Apostles Peter and Paul – Saint - AD 30; died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon or Peter, Simeon, or Peter the Apostle, was one of the of Jesus Christ, and the first leader of the early Church. According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero. He is traditionally counted as the first bishop of Rome - or pope - and also by Eastern Christian tradition as the first patriarch of Antioch. The ancient Christian churches all venerate Peter as a major saint and as the founder of the Church of Antioch and the Diocese of Rome, but differ in their attitudes regarding the authority of his successors. According to Catholic teaching, in Matthew 16:18 Jesus promised Peter a special position in the Church. Paul the Apostle - c. 64 or 67), commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Hebrew name Saule was an apostle (although not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world. Paul is generally considered one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age and from the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe. He took advantage of his status as both a Jew and a Roman citizen to minister to both Jewish and Roman audiences. MY LOCK IN DAYS CONTINUE

The first few of days of May saw my walk a lot longer as I was out soon after 6am to hand deliver several magazines around Shrub End, Prettygate and Lexden. Since then apart from the daily shop for papers and some food, I have read a lot, papers, magazines and books. Having finished the one about Colchester United successful season 1991/92, as I start this write, it is the History of the Colchester Zoo which was opened in 1963. I have also read the church electricity and gas meters, paid a few of their bills and done some monthly accounts. As my month continued, I downloaded all my 42 books of trips to the various churches that I have seen and visited since I retired in December 2016. Recently one of my longest living tropical fish died very sadly, which I think I had kept in one of my three tanks for two years, this got me wondering when I got my first tank. Interestingly I have kept a pictorial diary since 2013 and this got me summarising the events in my life since then – 7 years, it took all week to do this and the answer to my question was 12/1/13. This was bought in Wilko’s in Chelmsford. Due to problems on the trains, I had come home on a number 70 bus. On arriving home, I took the tank out of the bag but whilst sitting on the bus, I had been on the front seat and it had been slid under the seat. Sadly as I unwrapped it, I had managed to crack it and as a result, it was unusable and I had to buy another one the next day.

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A LOOK BACK AT ANOTHER TRIP OUT

After my retirement one of my former West Mersea client’s was a bit worried what was going to happen to his accounts, but I said that I would help him out getting them done, but whilst December 2019 saw him take me up to Blyburgh, Darsham, Leiston, Aldeburgh, Snape and Melton near Woodbridge, the one in 2017 was the real tester for me. I wanted to visit the chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea and having declined the trip in his boat across from Mersea, we made the trip by road and here is an account of my day out with him.

Cedd (Latin: Cedda, Ceddus; c. 620 – 26 October 664) was an Anglo- Saxon monk and bishop from the Kingdom of Northumbria. He was an evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons in England and a significant participant in the Synod of Whitby, a meeting which resolved important differences within the Church in England. He is venerated in Anglicanism, the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

St Peter’s Chapel, Bradwell-on-Sea

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Background

The little that is known about Cedd comes to us mainly from the writing of in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The following account is based entirely on Book 3 of Bede's History.

Cedd was born in the kingdom of Northumbria and brought up on the island of Lindisfarne by Aidan of the Irish Church. He was one of four brothers: Chad of Mercia (transcribed into Bede's Latin text as Ceadda), Cynibil and Cælin were his siblings.

The first datable reference to Cedd by Bede makes clear that he was a priest by the year 653. This probably pushes his birth date back to the early 620s. It is likely that Cedd was oldest of the brothers and was acknowledged the head of the family. He seems to have taken the lead, while Chad was his chosen successor. After there we got back into his van, made a stop of in Maldon and then had lunch in Heybridge Basin.

1,300 years ago there were people working in Ireland and Scotland to spread the Christian faith. In Ireland, Patrick had established many monasteries and from there Columba had come to Iona, a tiny island off the west coast of Scotland, to establish a monastery and many other Christian centres. From Columba's monastery, a man called Aidan was sent from Iona at the invitation of King to set up a monastery at Lindisfarne on the north-east coast.

It was also to be a school where Anglo-Saxon boys could be trained to become priests and missionaries. It was in this school that Cedd and his brothers Caelin, Cynebil and Chad learnt to read and write in Latin and learnt to teach the Christian faith. The four brothers were all ordained as priests and two of them, Cedd and Chad, later became bishops. Cedd's first mission was to go to the midlands, then called Mercia, at the request of its ruler, King Paeda, who wanted his people to become Christians. Cedd was so successful that when King Sigbert of the East Saxons (Essex) asked for a similar mission, it was Cedd who was sent.

So in 653 Cedd sailed down the east coast of England from Lindisfarne and landed at Bradwell. Here he found the ruins of an old deserted Roman fort. He probably first built a small wooden church but as there was so much stone from the fort he soon realised that would provide a much more permanent building, so he replaced it the next year with the chapel we see today! Cedd modelled his church on the style of churches in Egypt and Syria.

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The Celtic Christians were greatly influenced by the churches in that part of the world and we know that St Antony of Egypt had built his church from the ruins of a fort on the banks of a river, just as Cedd did on the banks of the River Blackwater in Essex (then known as the River Pant). Cedd's mission to the East Saxons was so successful that the same year he was recalled to Lindisfarne and made Bishop of the East Saxons. His simple monastery at Bradwell would, like those at Iona and Lindisfarne, have been at the same time a church, a community of both men and women, a hospital, a library, a school, an arts centre, a farm, a guest house and a mission base. From there he established other Christian centres at Mersea, Tilbury, Prittlewell and Upminster.

Cedd often visited his northern childhood home and in 659 was introduced to King Ethelwald who asked him to establish a monastery in Northumbria. Cedd chose a site at Lastingham as it was wild and seemed fit only for wild beast, robbers and demons. Again this was exactly how St Antony of Egypt chose his sites. In 664, while at his monastery in Lastingham, Cedd caught the plague. As he lay dying 30 of his monks from Bradwell came to be with him. They too caught it and one young boy survived and returned to Bradwell.

ALL SAINTS WAR MEMORIAL

Last month I mentioned the War Memorial outside All Saints church in Shrub End Road and I did a bit of research in a good book that I was given about the people who were mentioned on it. Quoting from this -

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Very little is known about the War Memorial near to the Grounds of All Saints Church, Shrub End Road, Colchester, but a bit of research has been done and from information found, this is what can be revealed.

Quoting from the book – “Stanway c1900 to c1920 by Christina Edwards, it tells that the Stanway inhabitants who lived in the ecclesiastical parish of All Saints also wished to commemorate the men who had been lost to their community. A War Memorial was erected near All Saints Church. It is made of concrete with an inset marble slab on which the names of seventeen of the fallen are carved. There were no additions made to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War. As the All Saints Parish served portions of Lexden as well as Stanway, the men included in this work are those who lived in or had close family connections with Stanway. Sadly the memorial is in a poor state of repair.

It was raised by public subscriptions but unlike St Albright’s, it does not seem to fall within the remit of any designated body to undertake repairs. The late Alf Woodrow, a lifelong local resident, who had two relatives commemorated on the Memorial, undertook some minor repair work himself a few years ago, but since then nothing further has been done. Sadly Mr Woodrow passed away in August 2003.

The congregation of All Saints Church undertakes a Remembrance Service at this site each year on Remembrance Sunday.

Those commemorate on it include –

Samuel Balls 27108 private second battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on 17th May 1918 – aged 31.

Samuel was the son of Abraham and Elizabeth Balls who lived at what is now the site of Glendoll but was previously a pair of boarded cottages owned by Edward Ponder. Abraham Balls who was not clear whether he was born at Fordham or Wakes Colne, was a 48 year old horseman in 1901. His 50 year old wife was a Stanway born tailoress. The couple had four children at home in that year. Samuel then 14, an agricultural labourer; Arthur and Ernest both 10 and Florence aged 7. The couple also had an older son Mark born c1876 and a daughter Jane born c1879.

Abraham had died before 1911 when Elizabeth and sons Samuel and Arthur were still living at Stanway Green. Before the war, Samuel was employed as a gamekeeper to the Moys at the Stanway Hall.

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He enlisted at Colchester and fought first as Private 5256, Lincolnshire Regiment. Having fought in France and Belgium, he was initially listed as missing on 17th May 1918.

His death on that date was later accepted and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France and on the All Saints War Memorial. His brother Arthur and other members of the family continued to live on Stanway Green until recent times.

William Landels Folkard 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corp accidently killed on 15th November 1918 – aged 25. William Landels Browning Page Folkard was the son of William and Naomi (nee Page) Folkard. William Senior had been born at Heath Farm, Lexden on 2nd November 1864 but the family then moved to Walnut Tree Farm, Shrub End.

He attended the Colchester Royal Grammar School, as did his eldest brother Montague and was then apprenticed to Mr H E Williams, ironmonger, in the Colchester High Street. The premises are now Fenwick (previously Williams and Griffin Department Store). After his apprenticeship, William Senior went to York where his brother Montague was living. It was there that he met Naomi Page, daughter of corn merchant William Page. The couple married in a Methodist Chapel on 17th January 1893. By this time, William had started an ironmongery shop in Stowmarket and that was where their son, William Landels Browning Page Folkard was born.

Unfortunately Naomi died in childbirth on 1st November 1893. The motherless William Landels was sent to live with her grandparents, William and Emma (nee Landels), who were still at Walnut Tree Farm. They employed a local woman who lived in a now demolished house in King Harold Road to nurse and care for the baby. He spent his first four and five months in her care before his father remarried and he was sent to his new home in Eye in Suffolk, to be cared for by his stepmother Sarah.

William attended Eye Grammar School and then boarded at Culford School, Bury St Edmunds. When his education was completed, William returned to his grandparents at Walnut Tree Farm and began an apprenticeship as a Dispensing Chemist at Baker and Fairhead Chemist in Colchester High Street. After qualifying he went to work at the Military Hospital in Colchester. When the Great War started, he volunteered for service and went to France as a gas layer.

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He certainly saw service at Poperinghue for the Chaplin to the Forces there, which mentions his name in a book that he wrote about his experiences. Towards the end of the war, he was transferred to what was then the Royal Flying Corps as a navigator.

In the meantime his father and stepmother (nee Syrett) were living at Eye and prospering. Their ironmongery business had expanded to four shops and the couple also had another child, Naomi Madeline who had been born on 9th March 1898. William Landels grandmother, Emma, had died in 1900 and his grandfather William in 1911 and the Walnut Tree Farm where they lived was put up for sale by the then owners, the Errington family. William Landells’ father bought the farm and rented it to his brother, Frank Folkard, who already lived at and farmed at The Green Farm in Copford. Frank’s son and William Landels’ cousin, Oliver Folkard farmed Walnut Tree Farm jointly with his father and appeared to have been living there when he appealed against his conscription in 1916 on the grounds that he was a seed expert.

William Landels survived the war but unfortunately there was then to be no happy ending. On 15th November 1918, just four days after the Armistice was signed, he was then killed in a plane crash on English soil. William Landels Browning Page Folkard was buried with his mother at Stowmarket Cemetery. In late 1919 his father sold all his Ironmongery shops and returned with his wife Sarah to his childhood home at Walnut Tree Farm, which he now of course owned. He died in 1930 and Sarah continued at the farm until her death in 1942. The couple’s only surviving child, Noami Madeline Folkard married William Wilde in 1934.

The couple then went to live at Heathrow in Middlesex until 1944 when their farm was at six months’ notice compulsorily purchased for the airport. William and Naomi came to live at Walnut Tree Farm with their four children, William Landels, Mary, Elizabeth and James until that farm was compulsorily bought by the Colchester Borough Council in 1948 at a price of £100 per acre.

Although the war had officially ended when William Landels Folkard was killed, he was, like most of the other men who had served in the Great War, still on active service. He is commemorated on the War Memorial at Eye in Suffolk where his parents were living at the time of his death and also on the All Saints Memorial. It seems very reasonable to suppose that his father and stepmother, who had returned to what was then still Stanway, combined the family’s long historical association with the parish, had requested his name be included on the All Saints War Memorial.

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However present family members understand that it was the nurse, who cared for him in those early years after the death of his mother who requested that his name be inscribed on the All Saints Memorial. On the marble wall monument in the porch at All Saints, he is commemorated as W L Folkard and on the memorial itself as L Folkard.

Arthur Harrington There were two Arthur Harringtons which caused confusion; one was the son of George and Ann Harrington who both came from Bures in Suffolk. George worked as a labourer and they had moved to Bottle End by 1874 when their eldest child, Frederick, was born. Other children were Ella, George, William, Frank baptised at All Saints on 28th May 1882 and Arthur who was baptised at All Saints on 25th May 1884. Arthur was only seven months old when his father George died in December 1884. The following year, Frank’s mother Anne was remarried to widower Charles Edward Death and had several children including Charles, Ella, Ada and George. Fordham born Charles Death worked as an engine driver and the family lived in Chapel Road, Shrub End, and now King Harold Road.

Arthur’s brother Frederick died on 19th July 1900 aged 27 – leaving one child, a son named Frederick William. By 1901, Arthur and two of his surviving brothers, George and William were working in a clothing factory. Brother Frank married Ellen Maud (nee Woods) at All Saints church on 3rd August 1903 when he was 21. Two years later he was appearing at the Colchester Magistrates Court for disorderly conduct and refusing to quit the Leather Bottle Inn when asked by the landlord, Ambrose Meakin. He had by all accounts thrown an oil lamp onto the fire and used some colourful language.

Ernest Berry, milkman, maintained that the lamp incident had been an accident and that the landlord was overstating the damage done. The lamp charge was dismissed but Frank was fined five shillings and seven shillings and five pennies costs for bad language.

Arthur enlisted and served as 34192 private, First battalion in the Essex Regiment, having previously served as 2694 in the Essex Yeomanry. He was posted to France and Belgium. Arthur had married and he seemed to have moved from Shrub End to Colchester before the war. He was reported as missing on 14th April 1917. A newspaper report gave his address as 47 Wickham Road, Colchester. His wife wrote that she would be glad to receive any news of him. A report in August confirmed his death as killed in action on the date that he went missing. He was aged 33.

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Arthur was commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France and All Saints War Memorial. After the war, Arthur’s widow remarried and became Mrs A G Rowlinson living at 22 Sherwood Court, Colyhurst in Manchester. His mother’s post war address was Chapel Road now King Harold Road.

George Edward Kettle 42406 private, 2nd battalion Suffolk Regiment (originally served with the Essex Regiment) - died of wounds on 6th September 1919 – aged 32

George was the son of Francis and Emma Jane Kettle who resided at Kingsford Cottage, Layer Road, and then part of Stanway. Francis had been born c1847 in Colchester and worked as a garden for the Egerton Green family and then the Digbys at Kingsford, although he had retired by 1916. He was a founder committee member of the Lexden and Stanway Cottager’s’ Horticultural Society. His wife had also been born in Colchester c1849. In 1901 there was an older son Francis Henry at home, then 22 and baptised at All Saints Church in 1878 who was working as a gardener and a younger son, John then 12. George was 14 and had been baptised at All Saints Church on 10th April 1887. A sister Laura was aged 18 in 1901 and was working as a school teacher.

An older daughter, Louise Jane had married the Egerton Green’s coachman Arthur Sharp at All Saints Church in 1900 when the couple were both 27. Arthur lived in rooms above the stables at Kingsford. His mother, Emma Jane, died at the age of 60 in 1909. George joined the army in November 1915 at the age of 28 and served with the Essex Regiment. He was severely wounded in September 1916. After his recovery he was drafted into the 2nd Suffolk Regiment and received a severe stomach wound at La Base on 1st June 1918.

He never recovered from the second wound and died in the Essex County Hospital on 6th September 1919 after a long and painful struggle. He was buried in All Saints churchyard with full military honours. The band of Prince of Wales volunteers, South Lancashire Regiment played at his funeral and provided the gun salute. A large number of family and friends attended including his fiancée. He is commemorated on the All Saints War Memorial.

Robert Rout He came from 19 Bottle End, Shrub End and was the youngest son of widow Emma Rout. He left All Saints School on 12th May 1905. He served as a bombardier in the Royal Garrison Artillery for two years nine months.

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Having survived the war, on his arrival back from France, on 12th February 1919, he was taken ill. Robert was admitted Fulham Palace Road Hospital suffering from influenza. He passed away on 21st February 1919 of Influenza, Bronchitis and Pneumonia. On 28th February, he was buried with military honours at All Saints where he is commemorated on the War Memorial.

Alfred Sargeant 19153 private in 11th battalion of the Essex Regiment – cause of death unknown on 22nd March 1918 – aged 18

Alfred was the son of Henry and Annie Sargeant who in 1901 were living in Lamberts Farm, Gosbecks Road. Henry was 48 year old farm labourer who had been born at Bottle End. Annie had come from Yarmouth and was 40 years old.

The couple had eight children in 1901 Arthur 20, farm labourer, Henry 18, farm labourer, Walter 15, who was working as a shepherd’s lad, Harriett 13, William 9, Charles 5, Alfred 2 and George 10 months. Alfred was admitted to All Saints School in 1905 and he was enlisted at Colchester and served in France and Flanders. He is commemorated on the All Saints War Memorial.

Walter Sargeant 5243 private, first battalion of York and Lancashire Regiment – died of wounds on 3rd June 1915 (burial 7th June) – aged 35

Walter was the son of George and Matilda Sargeant. He was baptised at All Saints Church in 1880. A brother, William George, was baptised at All Saints in 1873 and another, Horace Edward, in 1880. George worked as a labourer. On 15th February 1914, 34 years old Walter had married 21 year old Annie Eileen Bailey at All Saints Church.

Walter enlisted at Colchester but did not see overseas service. He died in the 4th London General Hospital, RAMC (T) Denmark Hill, London. He was buried in the North East part of the All Saints churchyard and is commemorated on the All Saints War Memorial.

George and William John Woodrow George – C/6602 Rifleman 18th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps – cause of death – unknown on 10th October 1916 – aged 31 and William John – 38298 private 2nd battalion of the Essex Regiment – killed in action on 2nd September 1918 – aged 19.

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George and William John Woodrow were uncle and nephew. George was the son of John Woodrow, a Norfolk born shoemaker who had made his home in Lexden by 1875 when he and his Lexden born wife Ziplha baptised their daughter Hannah Jane. By 1877 the couple had moved to Stanway where John Thomas was baptised in 1877 followed by Zilpha Lillian. In 1881, the family were residing in Straight Road in Lexden and John Woodrow Senior was employing one man and one boy. In 1885 George was born followed by another son Jabez. By 1890 the family had moved from Lexden to Stanway and resided at Dulverton Cottages in Warren Lane.

The following year was to be a tragic one. In early May 1891 Jabez died and was buried at St Albright’s. A week later John’s wife was buried at the church and three months later a 3 month old daughter, Alice, lost her life. When the census was taken that year, the recently widowed John was still at Dulverton Cottages with his 16 year old daughter Hannah Jane as his housekeeper, John Thomas then 14, an apprentice shoemaker along with Lillian 12 and George 6 who were at school. By 1900 John had moved to London Road in Stanway and in the following year had remarried to Martha and was living in Lottery Alley (near Vineyard Street in Colchester).

Son George was by then 16 and a boot maker. George was an early casualty of the war dying in 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and All Saints War Memorial. Meanwhile son John Thomas (known as Thomas) had married Annie E, daughter of a shoemaker from Messing and moved to Shrub End. In 1901 when he was aged 24, John Thomas and his wife had two sons, William John aged 2 and Walter James aged 11 months. In all they had 11 children.

Another son Alfred born in 1914, who lived in Shrub End until his death in 2003, said that his father then worked as a horse-drawn taxi cab driver and the family lived at a cottage at 16 Shrub End Road.

Certainly John Thomas was living at Shrub End in 1909 when he was prosecuted for being drunk in charge of his horse drawn cab in the Colchester High Street. In his defence he said that he had not drunk for some time, nor had he eaten, so the alcohol had a much greater effect on him than he anticipated. He was then he said, capable of recognising people and counting his fare money. He was let off very lightly, though, as he had a good record, a sick wife and six children.

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William John and James Woodrow were at All Saints School in 1906, James being admitted on 9th January 1905, when they both succumbed to measles. Up to that point they had a full attendance and punctuality record for the year. Charles Woodrow was admitted to the school later the same year. William John having left All Saints School on 14th July 1912 joined the Essex Cyclists in Colchester in 1915 but was then discharged as he was underage. He rejoined at 17 in September 1916 and was sent to France in March 1918 serving in both France and Belgium. He was killed in action at Eterpingy and is commemorated at the Drury Crucifix Cemetery, France and on the All Saints War Memorial. Another brother served with the Middlesex Regiment.

By the time of William John’s death, John and Annie had moved back to Stanway and were living at Stanway Green which of course was within the All Saints, Stanway parish. Annie had an unfortunate accident at a neighbour’s house on the Green in 1921 falling and fracturing her leg as she took her leave. Both John’s brother, George and his son, William John, are commemorated on the All Saints War Memorial. A few years ago, William John’s brother Alf, expressed his concern at the state of the war memorial, for which no one seems to be responsible and, although in his eighties, undertook some cleaning and minor repairs himself. Alf has since passed away.

THE VICARS OF SHRUB END – PART 1

A study of the board in All Saints revealed all the priests in the parish since the first one in 1845. Unfortunately due to the height of the board and the colouring on it, the picture quality of a photo was not good, but a list of those in this parish was copied down and are as follows, but it has not been possible to find much information about most of them, although Richard Cooper had kindly supplied me with a few more details about some of them:

John Smith Dolby (1845-1864)

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He was the first vicar of All Saints Stanway and he stayed here 19 years and he is remembered in the church by a stained glass window. When he started here, his income was £188 for the year.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners supplied £88, the Papillon Family from Lexden £60 and the Rectory of Stanway £40. The vicar also had the benefit of fees, voluntary offerings and a house. The vicarage was built soon after the house.

D Hunter (1864-1875)

When he became the incumbent here and moved into the vicarage, he decided that it was not big enough for him, and the size of it was increased at his own expense. A window was also inserted in his memory.

Horace Fuller Rackham (1875-1886)

It was during his incumbency when the organ was erected in place of harmonium and the organ chamber was built, this is now the priest’s vestry.

Charles Frewin Maude (1887)

After a short time here, Charles moved to Burwash in Sussex.

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James Matcham Gatrill (1888-1910)

There are a few references that I have found about the Reverend James Gatrill. From the Essex County Council records it has a request to place a faculty in his memory. The requests came from our churchwardens and was to be a marble mural tablet place on the north wall of the nave. Indeed in the July 2013 church magazine he got mentioned again.

During his time here, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould who wrote the song Onward Christian Soldiers and Now the Day is Over and visited him and also preached here in Shrub End. He was at the time a vicar in Devon and was a friend of James Gatrill. Indeed James had been a chaplain at a mission where Sabine was in Yorkshire.

When James wrote the book entitled Echo, Sabine wrote the preface for it. From the notes supplied by Richard Cooper, Reverend Gatrill was the curate of Mistley, and with the Egerton Green’s of Kingsford keen for him to move here, he duly did so.

Coincidentally one of our previous curates, Andy Colebrook, did the reverse trip, moving to Mistley.

H A Allpass (1910-1914)

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Harold Stephens (1914)

No real knowledge could be found about Harold Stephens, but I believe that the boards bearing the vicars’ name, were put up in memory of him. However Richard Cooper (then aged 4) did recall his first meeting with Harold as he was sitting on the counter of the shop when Richard was there with his mother.

Leonard Harold Fenn (1936-1937)

Richard Cooper recalled that Leonard was not here very long as he died in his 50’s and that was to be the case for several members of the vicar’s family too, who all died at a very young age.

W H Wiggins (1938-1954)

He was the vicar here during World War 2 and apart from being the incumbent here he was also the vicar at St Michael’s in Berechurch. Whilst he was here, his wife was involved with the Mothers’ Union as the enrolling member. It is quite likely it was he who baptised me as I was born in July 1952.

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Richard Darby (1954-1960)

The Right Reverend Harold Richard (“Dick”) Darby was the Suffragen Bishop of Sherwood from 1975 until 1989.

He was born on 25th February 1919 and was educated at Durham University. He was ordained in 1951 and began his ecclesial career with curacies in Leyton and Harlow. Following these he was the vicar of Shrub End, Colchester and then Waltham Abbey before being appointed Dean of Battle in 1970, a post he held until his ascension to the Episcopate five years later. An honorary doctor of Nottingham University until he retired in 1989 and he died on Boxing Day 1993. When he arrived here he had a wife Betty and two young children Jane aged 4 and baby John. In fact at the time of this writing, she was still alive and often chatting to the now late Richard Cooper.

PRAYERS

Taken from the Book of Prayer of Woodbridge and Melton

We pray for all our hospital and especially those in our own town

We pray for the staff, patients, chaplains, families of patients, support staff and volunteers

We pray for necessary funding, availability of beds, reduced waiting lists and some improved staff levels which are so important at this time when the virus is so much with us

We pray for our local GPs and those who work at the surgeries, as for many hospital admissions, this is the first point of contact

The beginning of life and the ending of life is in our hospitals

Christian working in Health Care - for their witness, encouragement, and peace in the situations that they may have to deal with

Give thanks for our health care that we receive in this nation and in this town

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Prayer from the Church of Canada

When we aren't sure, God, help us be calm; when information comes from all sides, correct and not, help us to discern; when fear makes it hard to breathe, and anxiety seems to be the order of the day, slow us down, God; help us to reach out with our hearts, when we can't touch with our hands; help us to be socially connected, when we have to be socially distant; help us to love as perfectly as we can, knowing that "perfect love casts out all fear."

Amen

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Intercessional

Let us pray to God, who alone makes us dwell in safety:

For all who are affected by coronavirus, through illness or isolation or anxiety, that they may find relief and recovery: Lord, hear us, Lord, graciously hear us. never fails

Coronavirus impacts all of us. But love unites us all.

Join us in prayer for our neighbours near and far.

Prayer in a time of Coronavirus

Love never fails

Even in the darkest moments, love gives hope.

Love compels us to fight against coronavirus alongside our sisters and brothers living in poverty.

Love compels us to stand together in prayer with our neighbours near and far.

Love compels us to give and act as one.

Now, it is clear that our futures are bound together more tightly than ever before.

As we pray in our individual homes – around the nation and around the world – we are united as one family.

So, let us pause and find a moment of peace, as we lift up our hearts together in prayer.

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Groups and Contacts

Bellringers Pauline Millatt – Tel 330327 (Wednesday Nights)

Children’s Society Brenda Pettit – Tel 522957

Church Cleaning Denise Turner – Tel 738733

Church Flowers All Saints – Jennifer Millin – Tel 330609

St Cedds – Sandra Hill – Tel 503032

Susan Rich 767356

Friends of All Saints Stephanie D’Silva -Tel 576370

Thursday Open Afternoon Stephanie D’Silva -Tel 576370 (230-430pm)

Magazine Distribution Pauline Millatt -Tel 330327

Mothers’ Union Brenda Pettit – Tel 522957

St Cedd’s Bookings Community Halls in Partnership with an email of [email protected] and Tel 870266

Websites All Saints – www.shrubendparish.co.uk, Deanery of www.colchesterdeanery.org.uk and the Deanery News of [email protected]

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