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433 | November 2020 | £1.00 Beaulieu Exbury & East Boldre News Bringing you the news and activities of the Churches and Village Organisations Regular Services Contacts Beaulieu Abbey Church Rector: Fr. John White 1st Sunday Telephone: 01590 612183 9:30am Sung Communion 2nd Sunday Benefice Office 9:30am Holy Communion The Benefice Office is inside the 4:30pm Choral Evensong Abbey Church Its address is: 3rd Sunday Beaulieu Abbey Church 9:30am Sung Communion Palace Lane, 4th Sunday Beaulieu 9:30am Sung Communion BCP Brockenhurst, Wednesday Hampshire SO42 7YG 10:30am Holy Communion T: 01590 612242 St Mary’s Chapel, Buckler’s Hard E: [email protected] Every Sunday Office Hours: Mondays & Tuesdays 8:00am Holy Communion BCP 10am - 3.30pm & Fridays 1.00pm - St Paul’s Church,East Boldre 4.00pm. Excludes Bank Holidays. 1st Sunday You may leave phone messages any 11:15am Morning Prayer time, they are checked daily. 3rd Sunday 11:15am Holy Communion St Katharine’s Church, Exbury Church Wardens 2nd Sunday Beaulieu 11.15am Morning Prayer Peter Melhuish 4th Sunday Tel: 023 8178 8034 11.15am Holy Communion email [email protected] Adam Mills When there is a 5th Sunday in the Tel:01590 616 329 month there will be: 10:00am - United email:- [email protected] Benefice Service which will rotate around the three parish churches. Exbury Mr David Hughes For further details see Telephone: 023 8084 3613 Calendar or Notice Board Mr Brian Hernaman During the winter months, Oct, Nov, Telephone: 023 8089 7528 Dec, Jan, Feb and March, Evensong will Email: [email protected] start at 4:30 pm East Boldre Dr Graham Sterling Telephone: 01590 612 378 Designed and Printed by TLC Online Calshot 023 8024 3044 2 Not the Rector’s letter! Your Rector, Fr. John, asked me a It is the Holy Saints of God who are while ago if I would be willing to write our inspiration and pattern for our this letter to you in his absence to lives as Christian men and women:- which I agreed gladly. those chosen of God to serve Him in What trust he has! This may stem unique ways, for each one of us can from the fact that we both attended identify in one way or another with St. Stephen’s House theological the Saints. college in Oxford for our training for It is so easy for us to forget that they the priesthood. However, I digress. were born as fully human as were you On the Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist, and I. in October, I delivered the sermon on They were rarely faultless in the that day at Beaulieu parish church at beginning but through the gift of the which I was also Celebrant. Holy Spirit, each became filled with The focus of that sermon was the the Divine presence of the Lord by the Saint himself, but Fr. John opened gifts of His Most Holy Spirit. up some possibilities for the focus of We may find it difficult at times to this newsletter to you in this monthly relate in ways that are as deeply publication for November. meaningful as to the Saints. The Church’s calendar for the month Today these Holy men and women offers several themes as a chosen may seem somewhat distant from us subject:- November 1st is the Feast in this twenty-first Century, but they of All Saints; 2nd November, the were, in their calling, just like you and Commemoration of All Souls. me! I believe that this reality offers us both hope and encouragement Remembrance Sunday is another for if we were to explore the lives of important occasion. the Saints, I am convinced that would The Feast of Christ the King falls discover one with whom we could always on the Sunday immediately identify most closely. Their lives offer before Advent Sunday being the first hope for us! Sunday of the Church’s new year and The Commemoration of The Faithful this glorious celebration offers some Departed on November 2nd. (All Souls’ excellent hymns for this day, if we Day), rekindles our love for all those are permitted to sing hymns again in who have gone before us, but this also November! serves to reunite us with them in a With both All Saints, All Souls and unity with the Father. Remembrance Sunday being in the Throughout the year and on every month of November, Christian minds day in our churches and in prayer are drawn to the inextricable link we recall and commemorate, by between life and death - between name, those whom we have loved surrender and sacrifice - between the and known whilst we shared lives Cross and Salvation. together, here on earth On Sundays 3 congregations will hear the words At dawn on that Easter Day the of the names of all those for whom large chapel became illuminated a particular week encapsulates their throughout, the great organ sounded remembrance - the ‘Years Mind.’ It is forth and the sonorous boom of the then, especially, that the Church on bell rang forth. All present turned to earth and the Church in Heaven are share the Peace with one another, and united as one in Christ. the ‘Gloria’ was sung with great gusto! On Remembrance Sunday, each That moment became a turning point year and on Armistice Day, 11th. in my life and I am still convinced that November, we bring before God it became a first step to considering all who have died through human Ordination to the Priesthood. conflict, whether in the Armed Forces In 1978 I entered the Church as or civilian and, perhaps, it is all that an ordained man in the Anglican more important to do so during these tradition. troubled times on planet earth, the This may not seem of especial interest images of which fill our television but being born of Scottish parents screens constantly. in the West Midlands, attending a This, combined with the on-going Church of England primary and junior anxieties created by the world-wide schools, a Methodist Sunday school coronavirus epidemic, are a constant and grammar school my theological challenge to our faith in Christ and the training in what was undoubtedly real hope He promises us all of a life in the Anglo-Catholic tradition was of unending joy with Him when we too instrumental in my discovering the are called. many pathways for the Christian! In our churches on the Sunday before In all those years since my Ordination Advent Sunday, many churches will I have discovered that what I celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. experience through prayer and worship in any parish church on a For many of us, when we think of a Sunday is quite different to what I cross, our mental image will be of a encounter when I reach out to God in plain cross without embellishment other places. but that represents only the Cross of Easter Day! One such place is the small inner Hebridean island of Iona which lies No ‘Corpus’ or Body Christ for He just off the south-western tip of the is Risen! Only on a retreat to the Isle of Mull. It is to this Holy Isle that I Community of the Resurrection in have led many retreats for over forty Yorkshire many years ago, during years. Holy Week, did I come to experience the liturgy of that special time with What I do and say and what I feel the brethren, ordinands and guests and experience on those occasions and to relive the momentous events is far removed from my life within a that culminated in a most memorable parochial situation, except to say that celebration of the Resurrection of our I have been touched by the Holy Spirit Lord Jesus Christ. in so many ways that have been so well enhanced within the silence and 4 beauty of that place. Iona is that ‘thin in ‘local’ information, forgive me, but place’ where there is little to separate I hope that other contributors may Man from God. have filled the gaps! May this month of November be good to you and may Ancient rocks and beaches of silver your faith uphold you at all times. sands, with the ever-restless waves of sapphire-coloured seas washing its We all remain part of the Church both shoreline, was home to the Irish Celtic on earth and in Heaven and together Saint Columba, (Irish: Colum Cille), with the Saints and all the Faithful Abbot of Iona, from ad. 563-597. departed and we proclaim:- “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will It is my spiritual home. come again!” If you have found this contribution Fr. Iain Morrison. to you magazine this month lacking Calendar November 2020 Please note - for the time being, and without the presence of singing and a robed choir, monthly Evensong will be suspended. Due to ever changing Coronavirus social distancing restrictions please see the weekly Bulletin for up-to-date details. Sunday 1st November - All Saints Day 9.30am Abbey Church | Holy Communion 11.15am St Paul’s, East Boldre | Morning Prayer Wednesday 4th November 10.30am Via Zoom Coffee & Chat followed by Shortened Morning Prayer Sunday 8th November - Remembrance Sunday 10.00am Abbey Church | Service Of Remembrance Wednesday 11th November - Armistice Day 10.30am | Via Zoom Coffee & Chat - followed by Shortened Morning Prayer Sunday 15th November 9.30am Abbey Church | Holy Communion 11.15am St Paul’s, East Boldre | Holy Communion Wednesday 18th November 10.30am | Via Zoom Coffee & Chat followed by Shortened Morning Prayer Sunday 22nd November Christ the King 9.30am Abbey Church | Holy Communion 11.15am St Katharine’s, Exbury | Holy Communion Wednesday 25th November 10.30am | Via Zoom Coffee & Chat followed by Shortened Morning Prayer Sunday 29th November Advent Sunday 8.00am Buckler’s Hard | Holy Communion 10.00am Abbey Church | Combined Benefice Service From The 2020 Registers No baptisms or weddings in October Funerals: Test Valley Crematorium, Friday 2nd October 2020, Sydney Jackson, Funeral.