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Issue Number 456 February 2019 from Revd Barry Overend Valentine– the Bare Bones Valentine Was a Fourth Century Roman Soldier Destined for High Rank Issue Number 456 February 2019 From Revd Barry Overend Valentine– the Bare Bones Valentine was a fourth century Roman soldier destined for high rank. He gave up worshipping the Roman gods once he had converted to Christianity. It was not a good career move. As soon as the Emperor OUR MISSION got wind of it, Valentine was arrested, imprisoned and subsequently A community seeking to live well with God, martyred for his new faith. That much is probably true. The rest of gathered around Jesus Christ in prayer and fellowship, Valentine’s story is long on legend, short on facts. One legend says and committed to welcome, worship and witness. that whilst in prison Valentine took a shine to the jailer’s daughter, sending her a written message – the first Valentine greeting. The Church Office Bolton Abbey, Skipton BD23 6AL Valentine was buried in Rome, but eventually his bones, or at least 01756 710238 some of them, were dug up and later turned up in France. There they [email protected] were looked after for centuries by a wealthy Roman Catholic family. Over time that family dwindled until the last surviving member no During the interregnum please address all longer wanted the responsibility of caring for ‘dem dry bones’. So enquiries to the Church Office. about 160 years ago he passed the buck, or rather the casket, to some Franciscan friars who were building a church in Glasgow. That is Website where Valentine’s bones rested until 1993. During the upheaval www.boltonpriory.church caused by renovation work on the church, the bones were kept in a cardboard box on top of a wardrobe. Now that really is no way to treat what is left of a saint. Hence the bones had to be on their way again. They finally came to rest in Blessed John Duns Scotus church in SUNDAY Glasgow. Having a bit of Valentine - some say just the forearm - in 08.00 Holy Communion Glasgow has led to it being dubbed unofficially ‘the City of Love’. On 09.15 Liquid Family Worship First Sunday of month Valentine’s Day a statuette of the saint is placed beside the relic and decorated with red roses. And it’s not unknown for marriage 10.30 Sung Eucharist proposals to be made in front of the ornate chest containing the bone/s. A former rector said, ‘They just come in, and you see one of them get down on the knee’. WEDNESDAY If Glasgow has only the forearm, where is the rest of Valentine? His 10.00 Holy Communion skull is reckoned to be in Santa Maria Basilica, Rome, with further bones allegedly being deposited in Whitefriars Street Carmelite 18.45 Choir Practice church in Dublin, and other bits and pieces in France, Malta, and the Czech Republic. Have you checked your shed? All regular services are according to the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), except Love, they say, makes the world go round. So perhaps it’s appropriate for the Family service, an informal service for young and old. that Valentine’s bones seem to have gone round with it. WEDDINGS and BAPTISMS: By arrangement via the Church Office. 1 2 PARISH CHURCH COUNCIL 25 NOVEMBER 2018 PARISH CHURCH COUNCIL 22 January 2019 As part of our Health and Safety work the handrail has been fixed up Our first PCC of 2019 started with a prayer read by Lyn Bartlett. We to the steep steps to the tower, a sign, ‘prohibiting unauthorized are all looking forward to meeting and welcoming our new Rector, entry’, will be erected regarding our unguarded roof. It was also none more so than our Churchwardens who have done an excellent agreed to replace the bell rope, which is chafed in two places, with a job, together with Margaret, in keeping our church running so new hessian one as soon as possible. Anyone using the Tower must smoothly, but like ducks, have been paddling away under the be aware that if you unlock the door you must relock it, please. We surface and looking calm. Concerns were raised about the downfall in the income to the certainly do not want any accidents. church, generally speaking as a result of fewer people making Our new donation box may be going to replace our flower one, which regular contributions owing to mortality and other factors, so if you is easily broken into. We are obtaining a price for a new donation box can donate more we would be very grateful. to be fabricated which will take ‘Gift Aid’ envelopes! This will A stewardship campaign is planned for this year under our new certainly help! Rector. What a start!! If any of you have any ideas of how to The Priory stall raised over £210 at the Mince Pie Bazaar. Thanks identify ways to increase our income and minimize costs please do were given to Carol Wade and Val Middleton for coordinating the let the PCC know. Priory table so successfully. There will be a note going up on the notice board shortly with Liz Clayton is doing a wonderful job trying to get our Fund Raising emergency contact numbers in the case of any future accidents. Let team on the move and the New Year will certainly be a very good us hope these will not be used very often. time to start the ball rolling. Matt is investigating a new light for the Boyle Room steps. Plenty of ideas are on the table from a ‘snowball’, melting as it fills up Our fund raising towards the heating project is now called ‘ The with money, to an old gas meter and various other ideas including a Priory Heritage Project’. It is not just the heating we are concerned large event to launch the fund raising, which will be very well about but safeguarding our beautiful church for future generations. publicised. So… if you have any ideas at all, no matter how small or Liz Clayton is working very hard to find the way forward to raise large and/or would like to help in any way, please contact Liz or funds for our Church. Many ideas have been put forward and one myself or any member of the fund raising team, Val Middleton, sounds amazing, so please put this date in your diary, Saturday Rosemarie Fisher and Elaine Lambert. Remember, more hands make 28 September 2019, ‘A Night at the Theatre’ by soloist Elizabeth light work. Frankland. Any other unusual fund raising ideas would be more As we will not be having a meeting until towards the end of January I than welcome. hope you all appreciated the new Christmas Tree lights which have The AGM for the Welcome Team is on Saturday 09 March, with been in use to set the scene for all of our Christmas services and the guiding beginning on 08 April. If anyone is interested in becoming a Live Nativity which, I am sure, will have been as special and successful Guide please contact Gerry Yates. If you are retired why not as ever. consider this very interesting job, in lovely surroundings, where you We hope that 2019 will be kind and peaceful to you all, so please let meet people from all over the world. us all join in to make our new Rector feel warmly welcomed by a The PCC and Friends received a letter from the Concert Committee congregation pulling together to make Bolton Priory a warm, friendly requesting them to reconsider the purchase of replacement chairs. hard working congregation for all our benefit. The Works Committee is now looking into the possibility of less expensive chairs than previously quoted and hopefully more Sandra Stubbs comfortable ones. These would make such a difference to PCC Secretary instrumentalists, choirs and sometimes for parishioners at certain 3 4 services. With more concerts on the way they would be greatly SHEILA CLARKSON RIP appreciated by performers and public alike. Sheila, our mother, was born in Eastbourne in 1929 and had a As we go forward towards spring and the new beginning of life in our younger brother, John. Her father was in the police force and was gardens, pray that our new Rector will bring new life into our Church based in central London during the Second World War, and so during and help it to grow. the Blitz she and her brother were evacuated to stay with relatives in Sandra Stubbs PCC Secretary Surrey. After the war the family moved back to Eastbourne, where OUR NEW RECTOR Mum attended evening classes to catch up on her education. She The Reverend Nicholas Mercer will completed a secretarial course and was employed as the company become the next Rector of the Priory secretary for a firm of surveyors. Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert, It was on a classical concert-centred holiday in Munich during 1961 Bolton Abbey, on 01 April. He was that she met her future husband, Nigel. They were married in the Rector of the Falkland Islands, a September 1962. Her family was horrified when she moved up to parish which includes South Georgia Yorkshire! I arrived in 1963 and Philip in 1965 and we grew up in and the British Antarctic Territories, Menston. Nicholas was based in Christ Church Our parents were members of numerous local clubs and societies, Cathedral, Port Stanley, the with Mum taking particularly active roles in the Townswomen’s Guild southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world. Prior to this position and raising funds for Yorkshire Cancer Research. We were regularly he was a Chaplain at Sherborne School, and previously served his dragged into action to help with the Cancer Research jumble sales.
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