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The Parish of Kidmore End & Sonning Common the Lamb and Flag St JULY 2020 The Parish of Kidmore End & Sonning Common The Lamb and Flag The parish magazine of St John the Baptist Church, Kidmore End and Christ the King Church, Sonning Common 50p CONTACTING THE CLERGY OR CHURCH OFFICERS Rector Revd James Stickings Telephone 0118 972 1459 Email [email protected]. James will normally take Monday as a ‘day off’ so if you need advice or support that day, please leave a message, or contact one of the churchwardens. Associate Priest Revd Sheila Walker Telephone 0118 972 4861 Email [email protected] Churchwardens Robert Lynch Telephone 0118 972 4699 Email [email protected] Karen Broadbent Telephone 0118 972 4606 Email [email protected] Musical Director – St. John’s Frances Brewitt-Taylor Telephone 0118 948 2743 Email [email protected] PCC Treasurer Nick Room Telephone 0118 972 2258 Email [email protected] PCC Secretary Jenny MacGregor Telephone 0118 947 2855 Email [email protected] Parish website: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/166/ FROM THE RECTORY Dear Friends Things are changing so rapidly that, by the time you read this, other developments will have moved to the fore. But at the time of writing this letter, one key change from a church perspective has been the recent permission given by the government for our buildings to open for personal prayer. At the start of the crisis, the Archbishops placed strong emphasis on the fact that the church does not consist of buildings. In an important way, they were correct. The Greek word used for “church” in the New Testament is ekklesia (from which we get, “ecclesiastical”), and it basically means “assembly”. Put more snappily, the Church is people and not bricks and mortar. This is correct but incomplete on its own. Most (all?) human cultures have sacred places, and for Christians, our church buildings are the focus for our encounter with the divine. This is not to say that we don’t meet God in other places – nature, for instance. But it does suggest that our buildings are important for the expression of our faith, and they are also vital in terms of mission. In a hectic world, the peace and stillness of our churches offers comfort and an assurance that there is “something more”. Which is one reason why the closure of church buildings has hit us hard, and why it’s good news that they can now be opened for personal prayer. The details for the three benefice churches will be on the church website – do check for up to date information. We are starting small by opening each church for a few hours once a week, to enable us to abide by church guidelines on safety and hygiene. The church is indeed people and not bricks and mortar, but it’s the bricks and mortar which provide the space for us to meet, to welcome the stranger, to provide a peaceful space for our communities, and our buildings are primarily where we are built up by word and sacrament as we glorify God. God bless James 1 A MESSAGE FROM HIS HOLINESS, POPE FRANCIS, DURING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ONLINE SERVICE ON 31 MAY - PENTECOST Dear brothers and sisters, with joy I join Archbishop Justin Welby and all of you to share some thoughts from the heart. This is Pentecost: we celebrate the day on which the Spirit of God came down with power. Since that day, God’s life dwells among us, bringing us new and previously unknown hope, peace, and joy. At Pentecost God ‘infected’ the world with life. How different this is from the contagion of death that has ravaged the earth for months now! Today, more than ever, it is necessary to implore the Holy Spirit to pour forth into our hearts the life of God, who is love. Indeed, if there is to be a better future, our hearts must change for the better. On the day of Pentecost people who spoke different languages assembled and encountered one another. In these months however we have been required to observe appropriate and necessary measures to keep our distance from one another. Yet, we have also come to understand better in our hearts what others are experiencing: we have been brought together by fear and uncertainty. How many troubled and broken hearts are in need of comfort? I think of how, when Jesus spoke about the Holy Spirit, he used a particular word: paraclete, that is, comforter. Many of you have experienced the consolation brought by the Spirit, that inner peace which makes us feel loved, that gentle strength that always inspires courage, even amid suffering. The Spirit assures us that we are not alone; that God sustains us. Dear friends, we must give in turn the gift that we have received: we are called to share the comfort of the Spirit, the closeness of God. How can we do this? Let us think about all those things we long for: comfort, encouragement, someone to care for us, someone to pray for us, someone to weep with us and help us face our difficulties. Everything we would like others to do for us, let us do for them instead. Do we want to be heard? Let us first listen. Do we need encouragement? Let us give encouragement. Do we want someone to care for us? Let us care for those who are alone and abandoned. Do we need hope for tomorrow? Let us give hope today. Today, our world is experiencing a tragic famine of hope. How much pain is around us, how much emptiness, how much inconsolable grief! Let us then become messengers of the comfort bestowed by the Spirit. Let us radiate hope, and the Lord will open new paths as we journey towards the future. 2 I would like to share with you something about this journey that we are making together. How greatly I desire that, as Christians, we can be more deeply united as witnesses of mercy for the human family so severely tested in these days. Let us ask the Spirit for the gift of unity for, only if we live as brothers and sisters can we spread the spirit of fraternity. We cannot ask others to be united if we ourselves take different paths. So, let us pray for one another: let us feel responsible for the other. The Holy Spirit bestows wisdom and good counsel. In these days let us invoke his aid upon those charged with making complex and pressing decisions, that they may defend human life, and the dignity of work. For this is what we must be invested in: health, employment, and the elimination of inequalities and poverty. Now, as never before, we need a vision rich in humanity: we cannot start up again by going back to our selfish pursuit of success without caring about those who are left behind. And, even if many are doing precisely that, the Lord is asking us to change course. On the day of Pentecost, Peter spoke with a bold courage prompted by the Spirit. “Repent,” (Acts 2. 38), he urged, be converted, change the direction of your lives. That is what we need to do: go back, turn back to God and our neighbour, no longer isolated and anaesthetised before the cry of the poor and the devastation of our planet. We need to be united in facing all those pandemics that are spreading, that of the virus, but also those of hunger, war, contempt for life and indifference to others. Only by walking together will we be able to go far. Dear brothers and sisters, you are proclaiming the Gospel message of life and you are a sign of hope. I thank you from my heart. I ask God to bless you and I ask you to pray that he may bless me. Thank you. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S DAY OF PENTECOST SERMON Come Holy Spirit as we look at your word, as we think about the gift of your presence to us today. Amen. The fall of the Holy Spirit on the disciples gathered in Jerusalem at the first Pentecost was an outburst of divine creative energy which has, ever since, set hearts on fire and changed the world. The Holy Spirit is the life of God. The Holy Spirit creates, puts things as they should be, gives direction, sends the world in the right way. In our time, again in 2020, the Holy Spirit calls us forward, leads us out to be changed internally and to change the world. 3 We celebrate the evidence of the work of the Spirit all around us. We’ve seen such an outpouring of community, of service and love from carers, essential workers, people staying locked down. We’ve seen the Church of England being the Church for and with England. St Peter’s Church in Brighton, whose building is used to prepare and send out 2000 meals a week to those living in hostels, the foodbank in Whitehawk scaling up their provision massively so 60 volunteers make sure 600 people have food each week, and on my doorstep the phenomenal care of hospital chaplains at St Thomas’s. Three instances amongst thousands of the Holy Spirit turning the church inside out for the sake of God’s suffering world. This is the same fire from God that touched the disciples. The presence of the Holy Spirit turns humans from being turned in on themselves, to being turned out towards the world, founded in communities of love such as we heard of at the end of the reading (Acts 2.) This year it would be so easy to talk of hopes dashed.
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