THE BRIDGE November 2020 Issue No 270 50p The Benefice of Lostwithiel Parishes Services for November 2020 Sunday,1 [All Saints Sunday] Boconnoc Matins 9:45am Bradoc To St Winnow St Bartholomew Family Eucharist 11:00am St Brevita, Lanlivery Morning Prayer 9:30am St Veep BCP Holy Communion 9:30am St Winnow Parish Eucharist 11:00am Sunday, 8 [Remembrance Sunday] Boconnoc To St Veep Bradoc To St Veep St Bartholomew Town service 10:50am St Brevita, Lanlivery Eucharist 9:30am St Veep Remembrance service 10:50am St Winnow To St Barts or St Veep 10:50am Sunday,15 Boconnoc Holy Communion 9:35am Bradoc To St Winnow St Bartholomew Morning Prayer 11:00am St Brevita, Lanlivery Morning Prayer 9:30am St Veep Family Service 11:00am St Winnow Homecoming 11:00am Sunday, 22 [Christ the King] Boconnoc Matins 9:30am Bradoc Eucharist 11:15am St Bartholomew Eucharist 11:00am St Brevita, Lanlivery Eucharist 9:30am St Veep Morning Prayer 10:30am St Winnow To Bradoc Thursday, 26 Bradoc Taize evensong 6:00pm Sunday, 29 St Bartholomew United Benefice Service with choir 10:30am Regular Weekday Services Wednesdays - St Brevita - Evening Prayer at 5:15pm Thursdays - St Bartholomew - Celtic Eucharist at 10:00am Vestry Hour Revd Paul is available in the vestry at St Bartholomew’s Church on Tuesday mornings from 09:30am to 10:30am to discuss any issues that you might have. Lanlivery, St Bartholomew's, St Veep and St Winnow Church are open every day. Boconnoc and Bradoc can be opened by appointment with the churchwardens. From the Registers-November 2020 Weddings. We pray for Boconnoc Georgina Sonia Jedwab & Samual George Diepenbroek St Bartholomew Paula Silvester & Shaun Silvester R.I.P. We pray for God's love and peace on: Ruby Catherine Shaw - Josephine Richards -Anthony Williams Year's mind for November: Stella Mavis Isaacs - Gordon Levett - Marjore Rowe - Vera Howes - Anne Glover - Raymond Horace Daborne Davis - Andrea Thurlow - Grace Elizabeth Scantlebury - Violet Catherine Parker – Philip Parmenter Stuart Hines Our friend Stuart Hines of Kingfisher Reach in Lerryn died at home on the 4th of September age 90. Stuart worked for IBM for over 30 years before retiring with his wife Ilaina to Lerryn via Sidlesham in W Sussex. In retirement Stuart pursued his passion for art as the co-founder of the very successful Lerryn Art Group some 25 years ago. He organised the local annual exhibitions and brought in visiting lecturers. Stuart was also a gifted craftsman and enjoyed making wooden canoes and models. It is true to say that they were works of perfection. He is survived by his wife Ilaina and daughters, Sylvia, Alicia and Marianne, who lives in New Zealand. Claudia Chilver, an old friend and fellow artist writes, ‘Of course I remember Stuart most for his setting up the Lerryn Art Group with Susie Swain. He was so meticulous and set it up so beautifully, planning the form of its year, the seasonable subjects, the choice of a tutor to get us going and the timetable of workshops and videos to give us new ideas. And I remember always his enormous input for the annual exhibitions - he designed and made the stands for the pictures and patiently oversaw their being set up year after year. And I will always be grateful for all his help and support when eventually I did a stint as Chairman. He was always so ready to discuss things about the Group and to offer encouragement and wise guidance. I also think Stuart was himself an inspiration. His own paintings were so beautiful and he had such skill, and I think he was a perfectionist. I remember that wonderful ‘video’ he put together to show his friends (and the art group) the highlights of his visit to New Zealand. It was in itself a work of art. He also had such original ideas of what to paint. We shall all miss him. From the Rector’s desk… As I write this in early October almost a third of the U.K is experiencing some sort of regional lockdown because of the resurgence in infection rates of Covid-19. And whilst the South West remains predominantly unaffected so far by such measures and restrictions, none of us knows what is around the corner. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those communities across our country who find themselves in these truly awful circumstances, as well as those of our own communities here in Cornwall. As you might expect therefore, it is both difficult and complicated trying to plan ahead with any degree of certainty for the next few months, which involves both the Remembrance Sunday Commemorations and Christmas! That is why I issue the following advice on behalf of the PCC’s of the benefice: This year’s Remembrance Sunday service in St Bartholomew’s church will be a strictly ticketed service. We estimate that we can safely seat 50 people socially distanced in the church, this includes those within social bubbles. If you plan to attend the service, please would you contact Brenda Gilbert or me with the details of all those in your party and we will ensure seats are reserved. In order to comply with the current legislation, we regret that we cannot oversubscribe, so please do not turn up without registering. Registration will close a week before the service, or when we reach the safe limit, whichever comes first. The service will also be live streamed and can be viewed on the benefice of Lostwithiel Facebook page at 1100 on the Sunday morning. I hope that if you cannot physically attend the service that you will be able to join us virtually. If you intend to join with St Veep, Boconnoc, Bradoc and St Winnow then please contact Canon John Halkes and register your names with him. The Mayor and town council will issue their own guidance I am sure about how this Year’s civic act of remembrance is to take place. I am deeply sorry that we have had to take this action, it is not what we had hoped for, and we remain hopeful that things might return to normality next year. Thank you for your cooperation and support in this matter. Your Vicar, Revd. Paul. The RBL Poppy Appeal will take place early in November. Please give generously to support the vital work of the Royal British Legion as it helps past service men and women and their families. This year we shall not be able to do the door-to-door collection so please do collect your poppies from local shops and pubs. Should you wish to make a donation please use the gift aid envelopes if you can or make a bank transfer to: British Legion Lerryn Branch A/c no : 60204552 Sort code: 20-74-20 Remembrance Sunday is on the 8th November. The Act of Remembrance for the country parishes will be held this year at St Veep Church. We shall gather at 1050 for the Act of Remembrance and a short outdoor service at the War Memorial. Owing to Covid restrictions numbers have to be limited to 30 so places must be pre-booked by phone or email with the Benefice Office or through the RBL Chaplain-Canon John Halkes [email protected] In Lostwithiel the Act of Remembrance will be at the war memorial at 1050 and will be followed by a service in St Bart's. Again Covid restrictions have to be in place and bookings must be made (see the Rector’s letter in this edition of The Bridge for full details). Remembrance (Armistice) Day is on Wednesday the 11th and the national silence will be at 11am. Because we shall be unable to gather with the school pupils this year poppy crosses will be placed on the Lerryn Garden of Remembrance beforehand. We will remember them! The Common Good Reflections for November by Canon John Is it old age, I wonder, that causes the memory to behave like a dropped cardex (younger readers -just google cardex!). Because it’s strange how snippets from the past; poetry, prayers and old sayings, unexpectedly pop into mind. I was lost in thought over my breakfast coffee recently when Viv said, ‘why in such “a vacant and pensive mood?” She had retrieved the line in her memory from 60 years ago when she last studied William Wordsworth’s ‘The Daffo- dils’. It was perfectly judged but I replied, ‘I have been thinking about a line in a prayer we used to say about, “building up the common good”, and I got lost in thinking about it’. Just as last month that line from the Book of Common Prayer, ‘that we might be Godly and quietly governed’ had popped up. I think one can guess why! The common good is simply defined as ‘that which benefits society as a whole’, in contrast to the private good of individuals and particular sections of society. It might be considered as a given in a country steeped in Christian thought embedded in the idea that one ‘should love one’s neighbour as oneself’. Just now it is a hugely important concept as we all live through this pandemic. It is manifestly for the common good that we observe social distancing and wear face coverings in shops and social gatherings outside the home. It will be of even greater importance when we adopt an anti Covid-19 vaccine. A survey of 70,000 British people by University College London published in late September found that, despite rigorous trials, 53% believed vaccines can cause unforeseen effects.