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Inside this issue: ‘Don’t worry!’ Being Prayerful Sector updates Book review Soul Survivor report Mincemeat & mint jelly Chaplaincy of Aquitaine October 2015 The Chaplaincy of Aquitaine is part of the Church of England Diocese in Europe, much more will He care for Man, the From your Editor working in partnership with The Intercontinental Church Society, in ministry to people who speak English. Clerical crown of His creation! It covers Gironde, Dordogne and Lot-et-Garonne. Corner Worry, Jesus says, is useless. No-one, Hello everyone. CHURCH SERVICES, OCTOBER 2015 by worrying, can add to the length of Hope you’ve all had (see Around the Chaplaincy for location details) life. Indeed, worrying can have the a good summer and Please check the website for the latest information in case of changes. Cre you a `worrier`? Anxieties opposite effect and shorten it. are now fully cooled down! Aabout personal issues, health, He goes on to offer two ways in which finance, relationships, the world- to defeat worry. Firstly, focus upon I don’t think we’ll dwell too long wide economic situation, declining God and his love for you. A great love on the classic car rally that Bob house values are some of the reasons can drive out lesser concerns and put and I did last month. With the car why people worry. They worry too, them in perspective. Secondly, worry misbehaving several times and me SUNDAY 04 OCTOBER about what might happen in the can be defeated when we learn to suffering from toothache all week, 10:30 Service of the Word – Bertric Burée future. live one day at a time. If each day is it was not the best rally we had ever 10:30 Harvest Holy Communion – Bordeaux How can we deal with these things lived as it comes then we need to deal done! Scenery was good though 10:30 Prayer & Praise – Limeuil and find an inner peace and serenity with the demands of that day alone as we visited Switzerland, Austria, 10:30 Morning Worship - Monteton untouched by them? without worrying about an unknown Germany and Italy as well as France. 11:00 Holy Communion – Doudrac future and things that may never The window box displays in Austria In a recent homegroup we reflected 11:00 Prayer & Praise – Sainte Nathalène happen anyway. were particularly stunning. on this in the light of the words of Limeuil So now we’re entering autumn and 18:00 Evensong – Bertric Burée Jesus in Matthew Chapter 6 verses 25- To sum up: Worry is needless, useless, even October is a very important month 34 (you might look them up and read for us in the Chaplaincy with the them for yourselves), when he says actively bad for the health. There is SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER a clearly understood relationship interviews for a new Chaplain taking SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER `therefore do not worry about your place. I know you will join with me 10:30 Holy Communion – Bertric Burée between `dis-ease`, and `disease`. 10:30 Family Service – Bertric Burée life`. God, he observes, has given us in wishing our interviewing team the 10:30 All Age Worship + Baptism – Bordeaux 10:30 Family Communion – Bordeaux life, and having done so, we can trust It renders a person progressively unable to deal with life. best for their trip to the UK and a 10:30 Fresh Expressions – Eymet Temple 10:30 Holy Communion – Chancelade Him to provide for our needs. fruitful outcome. Worry is blind, because it refuses to 10:30 Holy Communion – Limeuil 10:30 Harvest Holy Communion - Dondas What, in fact, are our needs? Meanwhile, it’s time to get the garden learn lessons from the natural world. 10:30 Morning Prayer - Monteton 10:30 Holy Communion - Limeuil Materially, shelter, food, drink, in order. Why so many weeds when It is unnecessary, when we recall all 10:30 Family Service – Négrondes 10:30 Prayer & Praise – Monteton clothing and warmth. Emotionally so many lovely plants died this that God has done for us in the past 11:00 Prayer & Praise - Condom 11:00 Holy Communion – Sainte Nathalène and spiritually: the knowledge that summer! The walnuts look good It is essentially `lack of trust`. There we are objects of love, both the though with the lower branches of may be greater sins than worry but capacity to give, and to receive. the tree bending almost to the ground worry is the most disabling. It was with the weight. WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER Corrie Ten Boom who observed 11:00 BCP Holy Communion – Bertric Burée 10:30 Holy Communion – Bertric Burée `worry does not empty tomorrow Plenty of Chaplaincy events to enjoy 10:30 Morning Worship – Bordeaux of it`s sorrow; it empties today of too as you will see from the following 10:30 Morning Worship – Limeuil it`s strength`. Dean Inge observed pages. I do hope you’re able to THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 10:30 Holy Communion - Monteton `worry is interest paid on trouble support as many as possible. 10:30 BCP Holy Communion - Limeuil 10:30 Holy Communion – Négrondes before it falls due`. The irony is, Love Gill that most of the things we worry about never materialise, and those VVVVVVV THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER that do are often less awful than we imagined. Even when our worst fears 11:00 Holy Communion – Condom are realised, God is there to support Cover photos us. `Underneath are the everlasting The photos are all of Cadouin Abbey arms`. which has its 900th Anniversary Jesus goes on to give examples from `Do not worry about tomorrow` is this year. A concert is being held on the natural world: no-one works October 18th at 5pm in the Abbey harder than the average sparrow to the exhortation of Jesus to those who would be His disciples. It is the way when a large choir drawn from make a living and survive, but they all over the region will be singing don`t worry! The scarlet poppies and not only to peace, but to power. May it be yours and mine! Charpentier’s Te Deum and Bach’s anemonies blooming just for a day Magnificat. Highly recommended! on the hill-sides in Palestine, yet God Condom clothes them with such beauty. If He With blessings, gives such to a short lived flower, how Brian. VVVVVVV Chaplaincy of Aquitaine 2 October 2015 Chaplaincy of Aquitaine 3 October 2015 Being Prayerful - part of Sue ‘Our Father who art in heaven’. You God had life waiting for him, and the years disciplining his heart and mind prayer spoken of in the Epistle commandments until Canon J.John Blomley’s farewell sermon stop at the traffic light ’Abba bless all turn of seasons would bring fullness. to yield to God's presence. "As often as to the Colossians. The pamphlet wrote them backwards in his book those on the road today.’ You drive to At that moment, he said, that leafless I could, I placed myself as a worshiper extolled the virtues of a life lived with and then they came alive!! (read more e need to be a prayerful the supermarket and take the key out tree "first flashed in upon my soul the before him, fixing my mind upon his unceasing focus on God. Laubach's about this project here: http://www. people because it is through of the ignition ‘Jesus bless all those in fact of God," and a love for God that holy presence, recalling it when I insight came from his experiments canonjjohn.com/just10) W found it wandering from him. This prayer that we connect with God; this carpark today’; you are standing never after ceased to burn. Sometime in prayer detailed in a collection of The birds on my feeding table are proved to be an exercise frequently it is through prayer that we have an in the supermarket queue ‘Lord bless later, an injury forced his retirement his letters published under the title, so magnificent in colour, formation, painful, yet I persisted through all intimate relationship with God’ it those who serve us today’, the phone from the army, and after a stint as a Letters by a Modern Mystic. beauty and quite comical at times, difficulties." is through prayer that we become rings ‘Dear God bless the person footman, he sought a place where Laubach is the only American especially when bathing. The doves Only when he reconciled himself to successful disciples. So why is it that who’s ringing me, even if it is a cold he could suffer for his failures. He missionary to be honored on a US manage to squeeze their way beneath the thought that this struggle and so many of us doubt our ability to caller’. The more you do it the easier thus entered the Discalced Carmelite postage stamp, a 30¢ Great Americans the roof of the table and feed too and longing was his destiny did he find a pray properly? Yet there are as many it is to do and you will find that God monastery in Paris as Brother series stamp in 1984. even a woodpecker comes regularly new peace: his soul "had come to its ways to pray as there are people. is on your mind all day, just as it was Lawrence. Laubach had a deep interest in the and then takes the seed and wedges it own home and place of rest." There with Brother Laurence and Frank He was assigned to the monastery Philippines. He wrote a biography in the post to get at the kernel.