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St. ’s Parish Magazine SEPTEMBER 2020

Dear friends, What a joy it has been to worship together in the church building for the last few weeks. I sense that whilst in the light of Covid-19 we must remain cautious and careful, we must proceed with courage and confidence. As we get used to a new normal, I am delighted that our programme of services and events is beginning to expand. In addition to a service of Holy Communion in the church at 9.30AM, we continue to stream a Eucharistic service each Sunday morning at 8AM. You are also most welcome to join us on a Thursday morning at 10AM. Despite being in lock-down during the Spring months, the PCC were able to continue to discharge their duties as charitable trustees. As such, all appropriate governance reports were completed and filed. On Sunday 13th September at 11AM, the governance reports, along with Parochial reports will be presented at our Annual Parochial Church Meeting. An agenda and

Continued page 3 Parish Church of St Wilfrid Ellasdale Road, Bognor Regis, PO21 2SG h�ps://wilfrid.com 01243 841275 [email protected] SaintWilfridBognor Registered Charity No. 1142723 Magazine & Pewsheet ar�cles/ pictures please email [email protected] with your name, date submi�ed and phone number. Thank you. Deadline for October edi�on - Monday Sep 21st h 2020 1 PastoralLetter1 Services4 Diary4 Links4 CopiesoftheAgendaandReportsfortheAPCM5 HolyDaysinSeptember6 ParishPump6 StJerome,PriestandDoctor16 ByFr.RayWhelan16 LookingatGod23 FuneralofDesireeVerrechia(Perrone)28 Quotes29 Photo Quiz31 TheKingJamesBible32 TheParableoftheFishandNets40 SeptemberMaze41 BibleBite-RighttodoGood42 WordSearch-Righttodogood43 Crossword44 WordSearch-Givethanksforangels46 MouseMakes47 CrosswordSolution48 GreatBritishSeptemberClean48 Word Search Answers - Right to do good 49 WordSearchAnswers-Givethanksforangels49 Contacts51 TheArundelTomb-ChichesterCathedral52

2 copy of the reports will be available from Sunday 30th August, both in printed form from the church and electronically from the website. Momentum is building in relation to the Apostolic Partnership. I am pleased to announce that following a rigorous application and interview process, Alex Coakley-Young has been appointed as Operations Manager for the church. Alex’s job will involve many and varied tasks and we look forward to welcoming him, along with his wife and son, in the coming weeks. Currently, we are unable to launch the informal service due to the restrictions in place, however, we now have around twenty new people who are looking forward to joining the adventure! The Autumn term will see us launching an Online Alpha Course. The Alpha Course is an 11-week course that creates a space (online or in person), where people bring their friends for a conversation about faith, life, and God. Today, millions of people around the world have tried Alpha and it has been translated into 112 different languages. Please do email me if you would like more details or would like to sign-up to the course. We will also be hosting the Marriage Course. The Marriage Course has been run in over 127 countries for over 1 million couples and is designed to act as a bridge between the church and local community, by seeking to help couples with their relationships, within the framework of the Christian faith. Should you like to attend, please email me. A key focus this Autumn will be on social transformation. Seeking to compliment the work of other organisations, we will be running a couple of initiatives that respond to the ongoing needs of society around us. Whilst the details for this are still being developed, we are beginning to gather a team of volunteers to help. Should you feel led to be involved with this in some way, again, please do email me. My prayer for our church is that we would increasingly become a place where people come and explore the things that matter most in life, encounter Jesus, find genuine community and are compelled to make a significant impact in the world around them. My prayer for each of us, is that we might be faithful servants of the gospel, to proclaim everywhere the mighty works of God. In Christ, With love, Joel and Lella Mennie

3 Services You are very warmly welcome to attend all our services at St Wilfrid’s. Note in the present COVID-19 situation the church services are limited to a 9:30am on Sundays and a 10:00am Eucharist on Thursdays both in the church. There is also a FaceBook LIVE Zoom Eucharist on Sundays at 8:00am from our SaintWilfridBognor FaceBook Group and after the service as a recording both from the same FaceBook Group and also our church website at https://www.wilfrid.com/video-resources/ We are following government guidance on , weddings and funerals. For an initial conversation, please contact Revd Joel Mennie on (email) [email protected] (telephone) 07527 545692 Diary Sunday 13th September 9:30am Eucharist - Harvest Festival

With COVID-19 Restrictions it won’t be possible to bring our Harvest Offerings into church but at least we can be there and give our thanks for the Harvest bounty we receive and our prayers for those less fortunate than ourselves.. Sunday 13th September 11:00am APCM

Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in church to follow the 9:30am Eucharist and refreshments. COVID-19 and the closure of the church in March has a resulted in a delay in holding the meeting until this date. Printed copies of the APCM Report for the year 2019 will be available at the 9:30am services on Sundays 30th August - 13th September and can be downloaded from our website athttps://www.wilfrid.com/downloads/ Links

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4 Copies of the Agenda and Reports for the APCM

Pick up a copy before the APCM so you have a chance to read the reports well in advance of the meeting. Copies will be available at each 9:30 Service and also from our website at: https://www.wilfrid.com/downloads/

5 Holy Days in September 1 Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 2 The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1901 and 1942 3 Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher of the Faith, 604 4 , Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of , 650 6 Allen Gardiner, Missionary, Founder of the South American Mission Society, 1851 8 The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary 9 Charles Fuge Lowder, Priest, 1880 13 John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher of the Faith, 407 14 Holy Cross Day 15 Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 16 Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts, c.432 16 Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, Tractarian, 1882 17 Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 19 , , 690 20 John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 21 Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist 25 , , Spiritual Writer, 1626 25 Sergei of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher of the Faith, 1392 26 Wilson Carlile, Founder of the Church Army, 1942 27 Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 29 Michael and All Angels 30 Jerome, Translator of the Scriptures, Teacher of the Faith, 420 (special article from Fr Ray).

6 1st September: St Giles of Provence - helping those damaged by life St Giles was an immensely popular saint in the Middle Ages, and no wonder: he was the patron saint of cripples. In those days, there were many people who, once injured, were never really whole again. Even today, a serious injury – either physical or mental or emotional, can leave us damaged for months, years or even longer. At such times, we, too, �ind inspiration in others who, though also damaged by life, have not been overwhelmed. St Giles was probably born in Provence, southern France early in the 7th century. The 10th century Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend) tells us he lived as a holy hermit deep in the forest of Nimes, near the mouth of the Rhone. A hind, or Red Deer, was his only companion. Then one day, while out hunting, King Wamba spotted the deer, and pursued it. The hind �led back to St Giles for protection. King Wamba shot an arrow which missed the deer but pierced the saint who was protecting it. Thus the king encountered the saint. The saint’s acceptance of his injury, and his holiness greatly impressed the king, who conceived a great admiration for St Giles. In the end, much good came out of the original harm of the encounter, for the king then built St Giles a monastery in his valley, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard. The little monastery was put under the Benedictine rule and became a source of blessing for the area roundabout. In later years, St Giles’ shrine would become an important pilgrimage centre on the route for both Compostela and the Holy Land, as well as in its own right. There is a further story connected with St Giles. Another legend tells how an emperor sought forgiveness from him for a sin so terrible he dared not even confess it. While St Giles said Mass, he saw written for him by an angel the nature of the sin in question. But his prayers for the emperor were so ef�icacious that the letters naming the sin faded away. As Christians, we know that the Bible urges us to pray for others, no matter how hopelessly bad they seem, because Christ’s mercy and forgiveness are extended to everyone who truly turns to Him and repents. No wonder then, that St Giles, the crippled saint who helped others �ind wholeness with God, became patron saint of cripples, lepers and nursing mothers. In 162 ancient churches are dedicated to him, as well as at least 24 hospitals. The most famous of these are St Giles in Edinburgh and St Giles in Cripplegate, London. In art, St Giles is represented as either a simple abbot with staff, or protecting the hind, or saying the Mass, and thus interceding for the emperor. 2ndSeptember: TheNewGuineaMartyrsof1942 The Anglican Church in Australia still honours the New Guinea Martyrs of 1942. These brave men and women, 10 Australians and two Papuans, refused to leave their missionary work on the island as the Japanese military forces advanced. As one tribute to them put it: ‘They knowing full well the risk, elected to stay with their �lock.’

7 The missionaries were serving the people of Papua New Guinea as Christian priests, teachers, workers and medical nurses. All twelve were unarmed as they were going about their normal missionary work. They were probably killed for no reason at all, other than to pre-empt any possibility that they might be a danger to the Japanese in the future. Or perhaps they were killed out of some vague Japanese hatred of Australian Christians, who were poles apart from the then fanatical Emperor-worship that enveloped the whole military strategy of Japan. The martyrs were: In Gona, on the NE coast of Papua: May Hayman (medical sister), and Mavis Parkinson (teacher): both bayoneted to death. In villages inland from Gona: Vivian Redlich (priest), Margery Brenchley (medical sister), Lillar Lashmar (teacher), Henry Holland, (priest), John Duf�ill (carpenter): all beheaded. Also, Lucian Tapiedi, an indigenous Papuan: axed to death. (A statue of Tapiedi now stands as a memorial above the West Door of .) Outer islands: John Barge (priest), Bernard Moore (priest), boat sunk. In open sea: Henry Mathews (priest), Leslie Gariadi (Papuan assistant): boat sunk and men machine-gunned in water. Today the Church also remembers the more than 300 church workers of all churches who were killed in 1942, during the Japanese occupation of Papua New Guinea. 3rd September: St Gregory the Great – the pope who saved the ‘angels’ Pope Gregory never called himself ‘the Great’, but instead ‘the Servant of the Servants of God’. Nevertheless, Gregory was one of the most important popes and in�luential writers of the Middle Ages. The son of a very rich Roman senator, he left the service of the State upon his conversion as a young man. Gregory then sold off his tremendous estates to found six monasteries in Sicily and a seventh in Rome, and gave generously to the poor. He became a monk and adopted an austere lifestyle. But he was destined to be a frustrated monk, because successive popes kept appointing him to jobs with major public responsibilities. Christians in England owe him a great deal. When Gregory came across some English slaves for sale in Rome, he asked who they were, and was told, “They are Angles.” Moved with compassion for these humiliated and despised men, he replied, “They are not Angles, but angels!” He wanted to lead a band of missionaries to England to evangelise the Angles, but then plague broke out in Italy, and during this time he was elected Pope. Reluctantly he accepted, and then sent to work to deal with the crises facing Christendom: plague, �loods, famine, and a Lombard invasion. But busy though Gregory was, he did not forget the Angles. He sent Augustine to England, and so indirectly became the apostle of the English. 8 4thSept StBirinus–apostleofWessex. Died650 Did you ever feel that God was calling you to do something big for Him, even though you were not quite sure of the details? If so, Birinus is the saint for you. He was a French Benedictine monk who in 634 was made a bishop at Genoa, and sent by Pope Honorius 1 to extend the evangelisation of England. (Augustine had arrived in Canterbury about 35 years before.) Birinus landed at Hamwic, near . His original plan was to evangelise Wessex and then penetrate up into the Midlands, where no preacher had ever yet reached. But Birinus soon found the West so pagan that he decided to concentrate just on them. Birinus had little to help him become the apostle to Wessex. So, he simply used what he did have: his own two feet and his voice. He wandered around preaching at every opportunity, trusting in God to help him. And He did: Birinus became known and respected, and soon a big breakthrough occurred: for political reasons the King of Wessex, , wanted to convert to , and he asked Birinus to help him. So Birinus instructed and baptised King Cynegils, who was then able to marry the Christian king of Northumbria’s daughter, Cyneburg, and in due course Birinus baptised their family as well. In return, Cynegils gave Birinus the town of Dorchester (upon Thames) to be his diocesan see. It was a perfect location: a Romano-British town right on a road and a river, in the midst of a populated area. During his 15 years as Bishop of Dorchester, Birinus baptised many people and built churches all over the area, with the king’s blessing. Before he died in 650, Birinus dedicated a church at Winchester. It was a glimpse of the future: for Winchester’s growing importance made it inevitable that in time it would also become the ecclesiastical centre of the kingdom. 6thSeptember: CaptainAllenGardiner–founderofSAMS Captain Allen Gardiner is a saint for anyone who refuses to give up on their calling. For this courageous and indominable man founded what became the South American Mission Society, though he sacri�iced his own life in the process. Gardiner had not started out to be a missionary. Born in 1704, he had left Berkshire to embark on a naval career which took him to Cape Town, Ceylon, India, Malaysia and China. But the death of his �irst wife in 1834 caused him to turn back to Christianity. He left the navy and became missionary. With his second wife, Elizabeth, Allen Gardiner felt called to South America. But from 1838 onwards he faced implacable opposition from the authorities there, both secular and religious. His efforts to evangelise among the Chilean Mapuches - which included a family journey of 1000 miles overland by pack mule from Buenos Aires to Santiago and Concepción - met with hostility. So, in 1842 he settled on the Falklands, and tried to reach the Patagonian Indians. By 9 1844 he had founded the Patagonian Mission, because no other British Christian society felt able to take on responsibility for his work. Next, Gardiner reached out to the Bolivian Indians of the Gran Chaco. But again, he was repulsed. So, he then decided on a bold attempt to evangelise the Indians of Tierra del Fuego. He tried to raise the funds for a 120-ton schooner, which would have provided him with a secure base near Picton Island. But in the end, he could only manage two 26-foot launches, the Pioneer and Speedwell. Nevertheless, in December 1850 Gardiner and six other men sailed to Picton Island. But again, nothing went well. Fierce weather, Indian hostility, a series of errors and logistical problems led to disease and �inally disaster. By March 1851 the group had had to �lee for their lives. They sailed eastwards to Spaniard Harbour, a bay at the mouth of Cooks River. Here they waited in vain for fresh stores to arrive, and by September all six men had died of starvation. Gardiner's journal, water-damaged but readable, was found in his hand the following year by the crew of HMS Dido, and includes the plea to God, "Let not this mission fail", and this prayer: "Grant O Lord, that we may be instrumental in commencing this great and blessed work; but should Thou see �it in Thy providence to hedge up our way, and that we should even languish and die here, I beseech Thee to raise up others and to send forth labourers into this harvest…” The work of the South American Society in the subsequent 160 years and the growth of the Anglican Churches of South America are God’s answer to that prayer. Gardiner had to face many failures in his life, but his solid, resolute faith is an inspiration. 8thSeptember: TheNativityoftheBlessedVirginMary In both eastern and western Churches, Mary has always been held as pre- eminent among all the saints. The unique, extraordinary privilege of being the mother of the One who was both God and Man, makes her worthy of special honour. Thomas Aquinas believed she was due hyperdulia, or a veneration that exceeds that of other saints, but is at the same time in�initely below the adoration, or latria, due to God alone. The gospels of Matthew and Luke give Mary most mention. Luke even tells the story of Jesus’ infancy from Mary’s point of view. Her Song, or Magni�icat appears in Luke 1:46-55. The virginal conception of Christ is clearly stated in the gospels. But after Jesus’ birth, Mary fades quietly into the background. During Jesus’ public life, she is mentioned only occasionally, as at the wedding at Cana. She reappears at the foot of the Cross (John’s Gospel), and is given into John’s care. In the early chapters of Acts, Mary is with the Apostles, and received the Holy Spirit along with them on Whitsunday. But her role was not the active one of teaching and preaching.

10 Mary’s signi�icance grew with the centuries. By the �ifth century she was called Theotokos, The Mother of God, and from the seventh century onwards, she was given four festivals: the Presentation in the Temple (2nd February), the Annunciation (25th March), the Assumption (15th August) and her Nativity (8th September). Marian devotion has played an enormous role in the church down the years. Mary has been the object of countless prayers, accredited with performing many miracles, and the subject of thousands of artistic endeavours. She has had hundreds of chapels or parish churches named after her. During the Reformation many images of Mary were destroyed. The Second Vatican Council 1962 made an extended statement on her, stressing her complete dependence on her Son, and regarding her as a model of the Church. Principal Marian shrines of today include Lourdes (France), Fatima (Portugal), Walsingham (England), Loreto (Italy), Czesochowa (Poland) and Guadalupe (Mexico). 13thSeptember: StJohnChrysostom-livingapublicfaith John Chrysostom (347 – 407) is the saint for anyone who applies their Christianity to public life, and also for anyone who hates travelling in bad weather. Chrysostom did both, and had trouble both times. Born into a wealthy home in Antioch, John Chrysostom studied both oratory and law. In 373 he became a monk, where his talents were soon spotted by the bishop, who put him in charge of the care of the many poor Christians in the city. Chrysostom’s oratorical skills made him a popular preacher, even when he spoke out against the riots against the emperor’s taxes. The emperor, in fact, liked him so much that he had him made Archbishop of Constantinople in 397. Then the trouble began: because Chrysostom had �irm moral views, and wanted to reform the corrupt morals of the court. Nobody at court liked that at all – especially the Empress, whose make-up, clothes and behaviour were all criticised by Chrysostom. (It’s as if Justin Welby began calling the Queen’s dress sense or Kate’s lipstick immoral.) When his enemies claimed that he had gone on to call her a ‘Jezebel’, the emperor had to exile him – until an earthquake scared everyone into recalling this strict Archbishop – just in case God was trying to tell them something. Even the Empress was shaken – for a while. A few years later, Chrysostom was exiled again over another false charge – and forced to travel for many miles in appalling weather. If you’ve been stranded in any heat-waves or thunderstorms this summer, imagine walking up the M6 in that – for weeks on end. In the end, Chrysostom died in September, on the road to Pontus. His body was later brought back to Constantinople, and over the ensuing centuries, the Church came to see him as having been a great church leader, in fact, one of the Four Greek Doctors (with Athanasius, Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus). 11 14th September: Holy Cross Day On Holy Cross Day the Church celebrates the Cross as a symbol of triumph, as the sign of Christ’s victory over death. Holy Cross Day goes right back to 14 September 335, and we have the mother of a Roman Emperor to thank for it. Helena was a devout Christian, and after her son, Constantine, was converted, they agreed that she should travel from Rome to Israel, to seek out the places of special signi�icance to Christians. Of course, much of Jerusalem had been destroyed by the Romans around 135 AD. But even so, Helena �inally located what she believed to be the sites of the Cruci�ixion and of the Burial (and modern archaeologists think she may well be correct). The sites were so close together that she built one large church over them - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. That church, built in honour of the Cross, was dedicated on 14 September 335. The sign of the Cross has been used by Christians since early times. Tertullian, writing his De Corona (3:2) around AD 211, noted that Christians seldom did anything signi�icant without making the sign of the Cross. What is its signi�icance? Well, people often put their initials or some sort of personal mark on something to show that it belongs to them. The Cross is the personal mark of our Lord Jesus Christ, and we mark it on ourselves as a sign that we belong to him. Even in the book of Revelation, we read that the servants of God are ‘sealed’ or ‘marked’ on their foreheads as a sign that they are His. A preacher once put it this way: if you were explaining to someone how to make a cross, you would say: "Draw an I.” That is you, standing before the Lord, saying, ‘here I am’. Then cancel that vertical stroke with a horizontal stroke – as if to say: “Lord, I abandon my self-will and make You the centre of my life instead. I abandon myself to Your love and service.” On Holy Cross Day, we recall Jesus’ wonderful promise: “And when I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:32) 16th September: Ninian, Bishop of Galloway – Apostle of the Picts () Ninian was a Celt who was born about 360, in southern Scotland. He was remarkable for two things: he was almost certainly the �irst man in Scotland to live in a little white stone house, and also the �irst to preach the gospel to the Scots. Just as remarkable: becoming the apostle to the Picts was intimately connected to him even having a white-washed stone house, instead of the usual wooden hovel. For Ninian had not always stayed in Scotland, but had travelled to Rome to study, and then on to Gaul, where he had spent time with St Martin of Tours. Martin’s monastery was called Loco Teiac (little white house), and it seems that when Ninian returned to Scotland to preach the gospel, he wanted something similar. And so it was that Ninian built his little white house, called

12 Ad Candidam Casam, and began sharing the Gospel with the Picts who lived in Whithorn and Galloway. This was the region north of the old Roman wall – where Roman rule had never been established. Ninian seems to have been very effective, for it is said that, like Patrick (a generation later) and Columba (a century and a half later), he helped form the character of Celtic Christianity. Throughout southern Scotland, there are still many churches who bear his name. 21stSeptember: StMatthew Matthew was one of 12 apostles. But he began as a publican i.e. a tax-collector of Jewish race who worked for the Romans, before he left all at the call of Christ. From earliest times, he was regarded as the author of the �irst of the four Gospels. The Gospel of Matthew is in correct, concise style, very suitable for public reading. His usual emblem as an evangelist is a man, because his genealogy emphasised the family ties of Christ. In art, he has been represented as either an evangelist or as an apostle. As an evangelist, he has been depicted sitting at a desk, writing his gospel with an angel holding the inkwell. In the Middle Ages he was even given a pair of spectacles. Matthew was martyred by a sword or a spear, some think in Ethiopia. 27th September: Vincent de Paul – patron of all charitable societies Very few people stand out as being incredibly good, but Vincent de Paul was one of them. His life touched thousands of people, who were helped and inspired by his love and kindness. Vincent de Paul was born in 1581 to a Gascon peasant family at Ranquine. Educated by the Franciscans and then at Toulouse University, he was ordained a priest very young, at only 19. He became a court chaplain, and then tutor to the children of the Gondi family. In 1617 he was made parish priest of Chatillon-les-Dombes. From here, Vincent de Paul ministered both to the rich and fashionable, and also to the poor and oppressed. He helped prisoners in the galleys, and even convicts at Bordeaux. In 1625 Vincent de Paul founded a congregation of priests who renounced all church preferment and instead devoted themselves to the faithful in smaller towns and villages. In 1633 they were given the Paris priory church of Saint- Lazare, and that same year Vincent founded the Sisters of Charity, the �irst congregation of ‘unenclosed’ women, whose lives were entirely devoted to the poor and sick, and even providing some hospital care. Rich women helped by raising funds for various projects, which were an immense success. Even in his lifetime, Vincent became a legend. Clergy and laity, rich and poor, outcasts and convicts all were warmed and enriched by his charisma and sel�less devotion. Vincent was simply consumed by the love of God and of his neighbour. His good works seemed innumerable – ranging from helping war-

13 victims in Lorraine, and sending missionaries to Poland, Ireland and Scotland, to advising Anne of Austria at Court during the regency. No wonder that after his death at nearly 80, the Pope named him as patron of all charitable societies. Even today, the Vincent de Paul Society is working with the poor and oppressed. 29th September: Michael and All Angels St Michael is an archangel, whose name means ‘who is like unto God?’ He makes various appearances throughout the Bible, from the book of Daniel to the Book of Revelation. In Daniel, he is ‘one of the princes’ of the heavenly host, and the special guardian of Israel. In Revelation, he is the principal �ighter of the heavenly battle against the devil. From early times, St Michael’s cult was strong in the British Isles. Churches at Malmesbury (), Clive (Gloucestershire) and Stanmer (East Sussex) were dedicated to him. mentions him. St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall was believed to commemorate a vision there in the 8th century. By the end of the Middle Ages, St Michael had 686 English churches dedicated to him. In art St Michael is often depicted as slaying the dragon, as in the 14th century East Anglican Psalters, or in Epstein’s famous sculpture at Coventry cathedral. Or he is found (in medieval art) as weighing souls, as at Chaldon (), Swalcliffe (Oxon.), Eaton Bishop (Hereford and Worcester), and Martham in . St Michael’s most famous shrine in western Europe is Mont-Saint- Michel, where a Benedictine abbey was founded in the 10th century. The ‘All Angels’ bit of this feast-day was added in 1969 when Gabriel and Raphael were included in with St Michael. MICHAELMAS – The Angels – Michael’s Mass By Fr. Ray Whelan Many years ago, and this is a true but not very funny story, a good friend of mine was talking to a welcomer in an Anglo-, who said to him, not aggressively but out of interest, “You don’t think a lot about Angels in your Church, do you? They are all over the Bible!” This led to an interesting discussion with amazing consequences which we won’t go into now! We need the protection of the Holy Angels. We are under the attack of the devil – Ourselves, our Parish, our Church and our world! Augustine said: 'Angel is the name of their of�ice, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit; if you seek the name of their of�ice it is angel; from what they are, spirit, and what they do, angel.' The Angels don’t compete with the Holy Spirit – or Jesus! They are their servants. They have entirely different functions. On Tuesday29th September we celebrate the feast day of three (or more, there are myriads) angels who are archangels and also saints. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael have all played a part in salvation history. Originally the Feast was the Dedication of the Basilica of St Michael, Dr Cranmer added ‘and All Angels’ and 14 others revised it to Ss Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. Also on Friday 2nd October, we celebrate all the Guardian Angels. More about this later in this article. Among other things recorded, we have Michael in driving Satan from heaven, Raphael in healing Tobit, and Gabriel in announcing to Mary that, although a virgin, she would conceive and be the Mother of God, (God Bearer, Theotokos). You will recall the payer to St Michael : “Holy Michael, Archangel, defend us in the day of battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do you, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power ofGod cast intohell Satan and all theevil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen”. Angels are basically divine messengers and servants. They are purely spiritual creatures who have intelligence and will. They are personal and immortal, and possess moral perfection and holiness, as the splendour of their glory bears witness. The angelic world exists both to serve Christ and to minister to those among the human race who will inherit salvation. When Christ comes again in glory, power and majesty we will behold the angelic realm in all its beauty and glory (Matt. 25:31). Angels have been present since the creation of the world and have played a crucial part in our salvation. A recent Catechism says eloquently: “they [angels] served the accomplishment of the divine plan: they closed the earthly paradise; protected Lot, saved Hagar and her child; stayed Abraham's hand; communicated the law by their ministry; led the people of God; announced births and callings; and assisted the prophets'. Another interesting point about angels is that they exist to give God praise, glory and adoration. The author of Hebrews explains that, when God brought his �irst-born Son, into the world, he said, 'Let all God's angels worship him' (Heb.1:6). The mission and raison d'etre of angels is to serve Jesus. They protected him in his infancy, served him in the desert and strengthened him in his agony in the garden —although, if he had uttered the word, they would have saved him. We can learn from the angels whose focus and reason for existing is to serve Jesus: this is also the reason why we exist. We are blessed because God has willed that all believers have an angel watching over them from the beginning of their life until its end — these angels, like Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, are servants, shepherds and protectors, and they lead us to life. Jesus said, “I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven”. (Matthew 18:10). Among the many instances of Gaurding Angels, there is the angel who consoled Jesus during his Agony in the Garden (Luke 22:43); it was an angel who delivered Peter from prison (Acts12:6-10). And in the Letter to the Hebrews we read: “Are they not all ministering spirits sent to serve, for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?” (Heb 1:14) Once a person is familiar with their guardian angel they glimpse something of 15 his mysterious beauty. 'I do not believe', a theologian writes, 'that all the perfections, all the beauty in the world can compare with the perfection and beauty of an angel. St Thomas says somewhere that every angel is as brilliant as a star or a sun in the universe. Angela of Foligno had the same feeling. When she was praying in the cathedral of Foligno she invoked the angels. They appeared to her: 'The presence of the angels �illed me with joy: if I had not felt it I would not have believed that the sight of the angels could cause such joy. A lay woman of our own time, canonized in 1940, St. Gemma Galgani, enjoyed, like St Frances of Rome, the sight of her own guardian angel. She was on familiar terms with him. He was like an older brother to her, clear-minded, tender, sometimes severe and demanding. The Cure d’Ars said "Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them." Using his words on another heavenly mystery, he said “... if one were to understand it on this earth one would die, not of fright but of love!" You will all know the famous ‘Guardian Angel Prayer’ Angel of God my Guardian dear To whom God’s love commits me here Ever this day (night/evening etc) be at my side To light and guard, to heal and guide Francis Thompson in his well known poem said, “The angels keep their ancient places-- Turn but a stone and start a wing! 'Tis ye, 'tis your estrangèd faces, That miss the many-splendored thing.” Next time you sense a movement of the air, an undulation of the colours in the Autumn or at evening time; next time you see the sparkling of the surf spray in the tide, or are held spellbound by a passage of music, or a piece of literature; next time a piece of poetry brings a window to your mind, or the tint of a painting reveals a hidden treasure, beware! It’s probably your Angel – and even his friends. Fr Ray Whelan 30th September: St. Jerome St Jerome, Priest and Doctor By Fr. Ray Whelan Jerome was born about 341 at Strido in Dalmatia (modern-day Croatia). He received his �irst education from his father and then was taught by the grammarian Donatus in Rome. His study of rhetoric is apparent in the quality 16 of his later writing. Prior to his just before 366 he liked to visit the churches and catacombs of Rome. He also travelled in Gaul, his native Dalmatia, and Italy. It was at Trier he decided to become a monk with some good friends in Aquileia. But, after a quarrel, arising from some real or supposed scandal, Jerome left for Palestine. In 374 he was in Antioch in Syria where two of his companions died and Jerome himself became seriously ill. It was during his sickness that he had a dream in which he saw God condemning him for being a Ciceronian rather than a Christian and this experience affected him for a number of years. He became a hermit in the Syrian desert for �ive years, gave up his beloved classics and began learning Hebrew in order to study the in its original language. With his knowledge of Greek and his training in style and rhetoric, he was now ready for his future work as a writer and translator. Unfortunately Jerome also had the reputation of being cantankerous and sarcastic which led to his making a number of enemies all during his life. He was raised to the priesthood in Antioch, even though he did not want to be ordained and in fact never celebrated the Eucharist. He then went to study in Constantinople under Gregory of Nazianzus where he felt more at home than with monks in the deserts of Syria. He translated Eusebius’ Chronicle from Greek into Latin as well as some of Origen’s homilies. He also wrote his �irst scriptural work on the Vision of Isaiah, which in a later form was dedicated to Pope Damasus I. He returned to Rome as interpreter to Paulinus, a claimant to the See of Antioch, and was retained as ‘secretary’ by Damasus, then a very old man. He produced a number of small pieces, mainly involving of scripture. It was at this point that he began the enormous task of making a standard Latin text of the whole Bible. It was not really a completely new but more a revision of existing texts made from the original Hebrew and Greek. He began with the four gospels and the psalms. He eventually completed almost the whole text of the Bible which became known as the Vulgate (literally, ‘popularised version’). He also wrote much appreciated commentaries on the Prophets and the Letters of the New Testament. His commentary on Matthew’s gospel became a standard work. During his three years in Rome he also became the spiritual director of a group of semi-monastic women. This relationship gave rise to some gossip, generally regarded as unjusti�ied but it was not helped by his sarcasm and arrogance. He left Rome in 385, as he had left Syria and Constantinople before, under something of a cloud. He determined to make a new start, this time in Bethlehem, where Paula, one of his Roman directees, established a convent and Jerome a monastery. It was here that he would spend the rest of his life teaching, writing and studying. 17 During his life he had three aims: to produce the most accurate version of the Bible and explaining the meaning of the text through sound interpretation. He also believed that monastic life should be based on Scripture-centred prayer, what we now call lectio divina. Such a life should be based on the teachings of the Gospel and Paul and its �inest example was Mary. Although marred by his dif�icult temperament, his learning had no equal at that period except for Augustine. His Letters are regarded as the �inest of the time. And his deep spirituality and austerity of life were unquestioned. Jerome died in Bethlehem on 30 September 420 and was buried under the church of the Nativity there, close to the graves of his spiritual companions, Paula and Eustochium, and close to the traditional site of the birth of Christ. Later his body was translated to the basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. In art, it has been common to represent Jerome as a cardinal, although there was no such thing at the time. Even when shown as a scantilly clad anchorite, with cross, skull and Bible as the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank is usually introduced somewhere. He is also often shown with a lion, due to a medieval story in which he removed a thorn from a lion’s paw, and, less often, an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship. Writing materials and the trumpet of �inal judgment are also part of his iconography. One Renaissance pope commented that it was well Jerome was shown holding a stone, representing his penitential life, because otherwise it would be dif�icult to regard him a saint! He is also one of the four Latin Doctors. Notes on Jerome’s Translation of the Vulgate The Latin text of the Sacred Scriptures had existed from the earliest times of Christianity. The translator or translators were unknown to St. Augustine and St. Jerome; but the former says that the old Latin version had certainly come "from the �irst days of the Faith", and the latter that it "had helped to strengthen the faith of the infant Church." Made and copied without any of�icial supervision these western texts soon became corrupt or doubtful and by the time of St. Jerome varied so much that that doctor could declare that there were almost "as many readings as codices." It was this that as Richard Bentley, writing to Archbishop Wade, declares, "obliged Damasus, then Bishop of Rome, to employ St. Jerome to regulate the last revised translation of each part of the New Testament to the original Greek and to set out a new edition so castigated and corrected." This St. Jerome did, as he declares in his preface "ad Graecam Veritatem, ad exemplaria Graeca sed Vetera." At the present day scholars are practically agreed as to the competence of St. Jerome for the work given him by Pope St. Damasus. He, moreover, had access to Greek and other manuscripts, even at that time considered ancient, which are not now known to exist; he could compare dozens of important texts, and he had Origen's "Hexapla" and other means of determining the value of his material, which we do not possess. It is obvious that the pure text of St. Jerome must form the basis of any critical version of the Latin Bible, and, what is more, 18 that it must be taken into account in any critical edition of the Septuagint Greek version of the Old Testament and the various Greek texts of the New Testament, no manuscript copies of which are older than St. Jerome's Latin translation made on then ancient copies. Richard Bentley, the great scholar, as long ago as 1716, saw the importance of St. Jerome's translation. "'Twas plain to me," he writes, "that when that copy came �irst from that great Father's hand, it must agree exactly with the most authentic Greek exemplars; and if now it could be retrieved, it would be the best text and voucher for the true reading out of several pretended ones." Substantially, no doubt, the present authentic Clementine text represents that which St. Jerome produced in the fourth century, but no less certainly it, the printed text, stands in need of close examination and much correction to make it agree with the translation of St. Jerome. No copy of the actual text is known to exist; and the corruptions introduced by scribes, etc., in the centuries posterior to St. Jerome, and even the well intentioned work of the various correctors, have rendered the labours of trying to recover the exact text from existing manuscripts both dif�icult and delicate. This, however, is the work which must be done as the �irst step in the revision of the Vulgate. It is consequently the aim of the present commission to determine with all possible exactitude the Latin text of St. Jerome and not to produce any new version of the Latin Scriptures. Of course it is altogether another matter to determine how far St. Jerome was correct in his translation: to settle this will no doubt be the work of some future commission. Editors Note: Fr Ray’s excellent article above on Jerome reminds me of the references to Jerome and the Vulgate bible in my talk on the King James Bible - part of a series of talks held in St. Wilfrid’s for the KJB 400 Celebrations in 2011. Fr Ray provided me with much help and a transcript of my talk appears towards the end of this magazine starting on page 32. Peter Green

Bishop calls for targeted sanctions to protect Uighurs A new system of targeted sanctions could be used against the perpetrators of “gross human rights abuses” on the Uighur people in China, a bishop has told the House of Lords. The Bishop of Rochester, James Langstaff, also urged the Government to consider the use of sanctions speci�ically to protect freedom of religion or belief around the world. He was speaking during a recent debate on the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020. The legislation brings the UK into line with the other 19 nations’ approaches towards a ‘Magnitsky-style’ sanctions regime, which allows for sanctions against named individuals rather than simply states. At present freedom of religion or belief is not included on the list of speci�ic grounds on which the sanctions regime can be applied. Urging the Government to reconsider this, Bishop James said: “Given that freedom of religion or belief is a foreign policy priority, I �ind it slightly surprising that this right is not explicitly included in the scope of the regulations in relation to sanctions.” He added: Like others, I am particularly concerned about gross human rights abuses in China, especially against Uighurs. As one of my episcopal colleagues noted last week in a letter to the Foreign Secretary, ‘The images that we have seen in recent days and the reports emanating from the region are harrowing and require a clear and unequivocal response’.” ‘Big Conversation’ launched on clergy care and wellbeing Churches and clergy across the country are to join in a nationwide discussion, the ‘Big Conversation’, aimed at improving the care and wellbeing of ministers. It follows the recent welcome of the Covenant for Clergy Care and Wellbeing at General Synod. NowGeneral Synod has asked that the whole church re�lect on the questions it poses over the next two years. Hence, the ‘Big Conversation’. The Covenant commits all parts of the Church, as well as individual clergy, to sharing responsibility for the welfare of ministers and their households. Recommendations include promoting awareness of stress and the dangers of burnout as part of training for ordained ministry. Also, there will be new resources for licensing and induction services that highlight the care and wellbeing of clergy. The Group also recommended more pastoral supervision for clergy through coaching or mentoring. The Revd Canon Simon Butler, who headed the Working Group, said: “The care and wellbeing of the clergy is crucial to the health of the Church at worship, in mission, and in pastoral care.” London ‘more religious than the rest of the country’ says new report London is more religious than the rest of the country, according to a new report published by the think tank Theos. The report ‘Religious London’, shows that Londoners are signi�icantly more religious than people living elsewhere in Britain, and the capital’s Christians are far more ethnically diverse. The polling, conducted for Theos by Savanta ComRes, shows that: most Londoners are religious (62 per cent identify as religious compared to 53 per cent across the rest of Britain outside London) Religious Londoners were 48 per cent BAME (Black, Asian, minority ethnic)

20 compared with just 27 per cent of non-religious Londoners. Christianity in particular was signi�icantly more ethnically diverse in the capital - 31 per cent of Christians in London are BAME compared with just two per cent across the rest of Britain outside London. Theos also identi�ies further insights around the nature of religious practice, �inding that Londoners are more intensely practising, more likely to pray, and more likely to attend a religious service than those outside the capital. One in four Londoners attend a religious service at least once a month compared with 1 in 10 in the rest of Britain outside London. Religious Londoners are twice as likely as religious people in other parts of the country to attend a service twice a month or more (31 per cent vs 15 per cent) 56 per cent of London Christians pray regularly compared to 32 per cent of Christians in the rest of Britain. Christian Londoners are also more likely to say that they will donate to a charitable initiative than non-religious Londoners (76 per cent vs. 68 per cent); that they would help their neighbours with a simple task than non- religious Londoners (92 per cent vs. 86 per cent); and half of Christians (49 per cent) and non-Christian religious adults (53 per cent) say that they are likely to volunteer regularly for a local charitable initiative, compared to 40 per cent of non-religious Londoners. The report argues that London's leaders and policy makers should take more account of religious communities and their signi�icant role in providing social welfare across the capital. Theos director Elizabeth Old�ield said: “The great success story of London has been its ability to welcome and accommodate opinions from across the political spectrum. The city still has the capacity to shock us – and this is one of the things which makes London one of the most dynamic, complex and interesting cities in the world.” Savanta ComRes, who conducted the polling, interviewed 2,023 British adults aged 18+ online between 17th -20th January 2020 and 1,005 London adults aged 18+ online between 17th - 23rd January 2020. The ‘Religious London’ report is available at:https:// www.theosthinktank.co.uk/research/2019/02/19/religious-london MU’s ‘Thank You Key Workers’ Appeal The Mothers’ Union wants to help families of key workers by offering them a range of free day trips/experiences and short breaks. It is appealing to MU supporters to help make this possible. As a spokeswoman for MU explains: “There has been an outpouring of compassion and care during the crisis from our hospital workers to our delivery drivers, carers to cleaners and our refuse collectors to bus drivers. 21 But because of their personal sacri�ices, quality family time has not always been possible. “Therefore, we are extending our existing Away from it all Programme (AFIA) to say a special ‘thank you’ to key workers in these unprecedented times. “Any donation will help provide a range of day trips/experiences and short breaks for families of key workers, especially for those who have been kept apart or who are on low incomes - families who would generally be unable to have experiences like this.” If you would like to send a donation, go to: Say thank you to a keyworkers family today - Donate now CAP launches Church Resources page Christians Against Poverty has launched a new web page to help church leaders who may be feeling daunted during the pandemic. The page will “share our knowledge and experience to help your church provide crucial support to your community at this desperate time.” The charity promises that in the coming weeks, “we will be adding resources that draw on the experience of hundreds of our partner churches, as well as CAP's own knowledge and expertise. The page will provide details of: • Information on Government and industry support • Signposting to organisations providing additional specialist support, for individuals and churches • Practical advice on how to serve those in need in your community, starting with our new project: Pathways out of Poverty Go to:https://capuk.org/coronavirus/resources-for-churches For more background, visit:https://capuk.org/connect/keep-up-to-date/ blog/launching-our-church-resources-page Churches and young people in lockdown Recent research by the Allchurches Trust has found that lockdown had one good result: it was “a major driver for churches to embrace digital opportunities and engage with families online.” The research found that in recent months, more than half of churches (55 per cent) have been able to engage children and young people through regular online worship; 46 per cent have run family focused online activities for children and parents; and 31 per cent have run online activities and challenges for young people. Similar numbers have reached out by phone and e-mail.

22 A spokesman for the Trust said: “What’s heartening are the many examples of churches that have quickly adapted to launch online activities … when physical youth work was not an option.” The churches have been “creative in meeting the needs of the families and young people they work with” and “reaching others they may not previously have been able to engage.” Around £1.4 million pounds has now been given to more than 140 projects across the UK and Ireland since Allchurches Trust’s Growing Lives programme launched in May 2019. It is aimed at enabling churches and Christian charities to help young people reach their potential. More at:https:/ /www.allchurches.co.uk Bishop of Bristol to take up national safeguarding role The Bishop of Bristol, Bishop Viv Faull has been appointed a deputy lead bishop for safeguarding. Her focus will be on liaison with diocesan bishops on behalf of the National Safeguarding Steering Group (NSSG) and with the wider , and to speak on safeguarding in the House of Lords. She will work closely with the lead safeguarding bishop, the Bishop of Hudders�ield, Jonathan Gibbs and the other deputy lead Bishop Debbie Sellin, who took up their roles earlier this year. Looking at God What’s in your hand? Canon Paul Hardingham considers our personal resources – in light of the pandemic. This would also be suitable as the basis for a ‘vicar’s letter’. September is usually the time when we get back to our normal routines after the summer break. With the current coronavirus pandemic, it’s very different this year! However, it is still a good time to consider how God can use us to make a real difference in our workplace, school, family, friends and community. He equips us with everything we need to make His love known. When God gave Moses the job of bringing the Israelites out of Egypt, He asked the question, ‘What is in your hand?’(Exodus 4:2). Moses was holding his staff, which represented his livelihood (what he was good at); his resources (his �lock represented his wealth) and his security (which God was asking him to lay down). God asks the same question of us: What has God given you? Our gifts, temperament, experience, relationships, mind, education can be used in the work God has given us to do. How will we use them to make a difference in the places where He calls us to serve Him? John Ortberg, in his book It All Goes Back in the Box, speaks of Johnny, a 19- year-old with Downs syndrome. He worked at a supermarket checkout putting people’s items into bags. To encourage his customers, he decided to put a thought for the day into the bags. Every night his dad would help him to prepare the slips of paper and he would put the thoughts into the bags saying, ‘I hope it helps you have a good day. Thanks for coming here.’ A month later the 23 store manager noticed that Johnny's line at the checkout was three times longer than anyone else's! People wanted Johnny's thought for the day. He wasn’t just �illing bags with groceries, he was �illing lives with hope! What has God given you that will help and encourage others? Psalm 23 - a psalm for the pandemic Canon Paul Hardingham considers a best-loved psalm There are few psalms as personal and real as Psalm 23. It records David’s experience of God as his Shepherd going through dark times. In the midst of the effects of a global pandemic, this psalm speaks to the fears that can overwhelm us. He Knows Me: ‘The Lord is my shepherd…’ Just as a good shepherd knows every sheep in his �lock, so God know each one of us intimately. He Provides for Me: ‘He makes me lie down in green pastures…’ Just as the shepherd knows the needs of his sheep, so God will provide what we need in our lives and circumstances. He Guides Me: ‘He guides me along the right paths…’ Just as the shepherd leads the sheep to the best pastures, so God provides the best for us, as we listen and follow Him. He Protects Me: ‘Even though I walk through the darkest valley…’ Just as the sheep have no need to fear danger when following the shepherd, so we live knowing God’s presence and protection. He Comforts Me: ‘your rod and your staff, they comfort me.’ As the shepherd’s rod defends the sheep, and the staff enables him to control the sheep, so God comforts us through His Word and discipline. The �inal verses of the psalm (v5-6) offer the security of knowing that our lives are in His hands, even through death, as He leads us to the home we’ve been looking for all our lives. Some years ago, a great actor was asked to recite Psalm 23, but asked one of the other guests to do the same. His remarkable rendition was followed by the other man, an older Christian speaking from the heart. Afterwards the actor said: ‘The difference between us is that I know the psalm, but he knows the shepherd.’ The Spirit of Fruitiness As Harvest and the theme of fruitfulness approaches, Joe Warton of the LICC considers the effect of the Holy Spirit on our lives. You can �ind more inspirational articles athttps://www.licc.org.uk/ Word for the Week. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have cruci�ied the �lesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-25) 24 It was quarterly review time for Max, a personal banking manager. He sat opposite his area manager, cup of tea in hand, as shoppers pootled along the High Street below. ”So”, the area manager began, “How do you feel things have been going since we last met?” “Pretty good,” answered Max. “I’ve de�initely been feeling calmer at work; you know, less stressed… I guess more at peace with myself.” “I’ve noticed that too,” she responded. “You do seem calmer; less irritable. I’ve not really heard you complain about anything. Can I ask why you think this is?” That conversation happened just a few months ago, and Max was able to share how he’d recently become a Christian, and what a difference God was making in his life. When God’s Holy Spirit makes Himself at home within us, our lives change. St Paul calls this ‘the fruit of the Spirit’. Fruit is a great metaphor. The fruit of the Spirit isn’t something we stick onto the outside of our lives, like baubles on a Christmas tree. Rather, it �lows out from us, as we soak up the nutrients of God’s Word and His holy presence. We cannot force out this spiritual fruit by tapping into our inner resources or by trying harder. This really is about God changing us, as we ‘keep in step with the Spirit’. Healthy fruit is a sign of a healthy tree, and it shares its harvest with the surrounding ecosystem: birds, insects, Homo sapiens, and even our mortal enemies, wasps… Paul has already shown us how sin dehumanises and robs us of life, but the Spirit makes us more like Christ, the most fully alive human of all. And when we are like Him, it’s good for everyone. Fruit brings blessing. It’s a manifestation of the life of God’s kingdom, bringing the sweetness of His presence to the people and places where it’s tasted. In that way, it furthers God’s mission. The fruit in our lives is a signpost to the life-giving God. So today, do not hide your fruit under a bowl! Instead, put it out on the table, that people may taste your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. Don’t chase what isn’t there ‘…those who chase fantasies have no sense.’ Proverbs 12:11 Have you ever been attracted to computer gaming? For many people it has become addictive; and they spend so much time in their fantasy world that their own avatar and those of their fellow players have come to seem more real to them than their own family and friends. You can get so drawn into this virtual world that you can resent the time you have to spend in the real world. Instead, you have come to prefer living in your fantasy world, where you always have the power and control. Problems come when a person spends so much time in their virtual world that they are too 25 tired and distracted to do anything productive in their real world. Some people say that Christians live in a fantasy world, that our faith has no basis in reality. But faith in God is not a crutch - nor is it a fantasy. Jesus was an historical person who lived and died - and rose again. Those who follow Him as Lord �ind that knowing Him, and having His Spirit within them, gives them the strength they need to live the right way in the real world, and to reach out to other real people with God’s love. Feel the tug Have you ever wondered how you can be certain about who and what God really is? One Christian put it this way: “I’m reminded of the story of the little boy who was out �lying a kite. The wind was brisk and large billowing clouds were blowing across the sky. The kite went up and up until it was entirely hidden by the clouds. Then a man came by and asked the little boy what he was doing, staring up at an empty sky. “I’m �lying my kite,” he replied. The man replied: “What kite? How can you be sure it is still there? You can’t see a thing.” The little boy agreed that he could see nothing, “but every little while I feel a tug, so I know for sure that it is still up there and is connected to me!” When it comes to God, you don’t need to take anyone else’s word for it. You can �ind Him for yourself by inviting Jesus Christ into your life. Then you too will know by the warm wonderful tug on your heartstrings that though you can’t see Him, He is up there, and that He lives in you. You are connected! A grain of sand at a time This autumn, do you feel overwhelmed with all the things that you need to get done? Then think of your life as an hourglass. There are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. We are like that hourglass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day. But if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own fragile physical and mental structure. Do not attempt more than God designed you to do. Don’t allow the modern culture to rule your life Bev Shepherd is the PrayerWorks project leader and an associate speaker with LICC. As a management trainer and executive coach she specialises in the areas of leadership, team dynamics and stress, and is the author of 'Insight into Stress', published by CWR The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. (Psalm 111:10) “Remember,” said W.C. Fields, “a dead �ish can �loat downstream, but it takes a

26 live one to swim upstream.” This quotation, reproduced on T-shirts and in management books, appeals to our sense of nonconformist individuality. The reality, though, is that most of us want to belong and win approval. We fear the consequences of challenging toxic organisational cultures, disagreeing with accepted workplace wisdom, or showing any weakness. To go against the �low, to be distinctive in God-honouring ways, takes courage. The psalmist emphasises that ‘the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom’. This godly fear is not to be placed alongside our fears of the opinions of our colleagues, important though they are, but takes precedence over them. Paul puts it starkly: ‘If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ’ (Galatians 1:10). The biblical wisdom is not merely intellectual capacity, but is linked with discipline and discernment, shrewdness and skill. It’s also profoundly counter- cultural, as Jesus’ own teaching illustrates: in order to live we are called to die; the �irst shall be last; giving away leads to being entrusted with much (Luke 6:38). In our relationships, Jesus calls us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us (Matthew 5:44). Moreover, God’s wisdom, which looks foolish and weak in the world’s eyes, is seen supremely in the cross, where it is shown that ‘the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength’ (1 Corinthians 1:25). The phrase ‘fear of the LORD’ uses the covenantal name of God, implying a committed relationship of reverence and awe. If we allow the culture of our workplaces and the time pressures we experience to squeeze the fear of God out of our ‘wisdom’, we risk becoming ‘practical atheists’, where our responses to situations are barely distinguishable from those of our non-believing colleagues.

27 Funeral of Desiree Verrechia (Perrone) On Wednesday 19th August 2020 at 11.00am we held the Funeral Service for Desiree. Sergio had asked for a Requiem Funeral Mass. We gave it all we had, with incense, beautiful music, holy water and sent her on her way to heaven rejoicing! Although we could not sing hymns because of the pandemic restrictions, we had wonderful music none the less, with Bach, Ronan Keating, excellent improvisation on our wonderful organ, and Eva Cassidy singing ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’. Two Scripture readings before the Gospel were beautifully read by Desiree’s grand daughters, Jade and Robyn. Desiree had touched so many people’s lives. She had been a nurse at Bognor hospital, helped run the Queen Victoria then the Friary Arms, raised money for Dogs for the Blind, worked at Lloyds pharmacy in Bognor and was on the Board of Visitors at HMP Ford. They spent many happy summers at Sergio’s family home in Matterana, Italy with frequent family visitors and help Sergio in his work for the confraternity. We shall greatly miss her happy smiling face as a regular communicant at our Sunday Sung . But we rejoice with her now in the company of her other loved ones departed this life, in the glory, peace and joy of God’s Eternal Kingdom. Fr Ray Whelan

28 Quotes Some observations out of the coronavirus crisis… When you wear a tight mask around your face, a hat, a face shield, a gown, two pairs of gloves, and something to protect your shoes, it is a totally different (nursing) thing; and, as nurses, you have to stay in that side room or unit for 12-and-a-half hours. It is really draining physically. You…can’t even go to the loo because your patients are terribly sick. They are on maximum (life support), so you can’t take your eyes off that monitor. – ITU nurse on the reality of nursing in PPE Churches need to proclaim a better vision for the economy after the pandemic. Our economy is underpinned by the �lawed assumption that people �ind their ful�ilment through individual consumption: the more you have, the better your life will be. – Simon Perfect, researcher for Theos Those who have found God in digital church may want to keep God there rather than discover transforming participation in the Body of Christ…. We need to �ind creative new ways of combining physical gathering with the virtual. - Canon Mark Collinson, Principal of the School of Mission Winchester . No donations are coming in. Everybody is at home, and the last thing they expect is charities … sending emails asking for money. But at the same time, we have projects to run, staff to pay…– director of a humanitarian charity History books will inevitably tell the story of a virus that swept the world in 2020. But it is up to us what that story will look like. Either… the story of a virus that … showed up the weakness, sel�ishness and frailty of people… or how people responded with their best, how the virus was a medical but not a social tragedy. – Canon Will Hughes, Vicar of Peters�ield, Portsmouth Diocese. The Covid-19 pandemic is traumatic not only because it threatens our existence… but it also threatens the cultural norms, frameworks and habits that we take for granted …leaving us socially isolated and … disorientated. It is no longer easy for us to say ‘…but life goes on’. - Canon Joanna Collicutt, clinical psychologist, Ripon College Cuddesdon. I may make all things well, and I can make all things well, and I shall make all things well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of things shall be well. - Mother Julian of Norwich during the Black Death which had killed one third of the population of Norwich. Miscellaneous observations on our Christian walk… God doesn’t want our success; He wants us. He doesn’t demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. - Charles Colson I believe in loyalty to the local church. I don’t believe in that view of the invisible Church that makes you invisible at church! - Vance Havner

29 When we are truly abandoned to God, He works through us all the time. - Oswald Chambers Prayer is not about doing lots and lots of things, but clearing the space for God to be there. – Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury Modern prophets write as though God existed by kind permission of man, but the prophets of old wrote as though man existed by kind permission of God. – Anon It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as sort of court favourites, people who have in�luence with the throne. The refused prayer of Christ in Gethsemane is answer enough to that. – CS Lewis I know the Bible is inspired because it �inds me at a greater depth of my being than any other book. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Our worship rings hollow if in our daily lives we despoil the world around us (the proof of God’s provision) and neglect our sisters and brothers who bear the image of the Creator. – The Rev Andrew Dotchin A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. -Martin Luther Paul was thankful for others – brothers and sisters in Christ, fellow servants, ministry partners. In his correspondence Paul didn’t just leave it at generalised expressions of gratitude – he often took time to identify speci�ic individuals for whom he was grateful and to let them know how much he appreciated their contribution to his life. Do we do that? - Nancy Leigh DeMoss September also means Back to School… There is just one way to bring up a child in the way he should go, and that is to travel that way yourself. - Abraham Lincoln Parenting is a marathon, not a sprint. - Anon If I could get to the highest place in Athens, I would lift up my voice and say: “What mean ye, fellow citizens, that ye turn every stone to scrape wealth together, and take so little care of your children, to whom ye must one day relinquish all?” - Socrates If all the college students who slept in class were placed end to end, they would be much more comfortable. - Anon And �inally, some miscellaneous observations on modern life: It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. - Mabel Newcomer Two quick ways to disaster are to take nobody’s advice and to take everybody’s advice. - Anon I can always tell when I am going to give birth to an idea. My writer’s cramps start coming two minutes apart. - Anon 30 Waiting is not a waste of time so don’t waste waiting. - Anon I’ve worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. - Groucho Marx Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness. - Ravi Zacharias Being around negative people can make you sick. - John Gray My advice, if you insist on slimming, is to eat just as much as you like but just don’t swallow it. - Harry Secombe Looking at modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup. – Anon There is such a bizarre assault on freedom of speech right now, and it comes mostly from the secular world. Even as someone who saw this coming, it’s gotten so crazy that I’m still a little surprised myself.” Dave Ruben, agnostic and popular YouTube personality. Character is not made in a crisis – it is only exhibited. - Robert Freeman Photo Quiz

Tomb Ef�igies where the husband is holding the hands of his wife are extremely rare. Opposite and back page are of Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel (d.1376) holding the had of his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster (c.1372). It was erected in Lewes Priory and moved to the cathedral after the dissolution of the priory in 1537. Immortalised in the poem ‘The Arundel Tomb’ by Philip Larkin. Bottom right is another very �ine alabaster monument which is not too far away. Where is it located, who are they and which famous king were they grandparents to? Answers in the October edition of the magazine. 31 The King James Bible Talk by Peter Green 20th March, 2011 during the KJB 400 Celebrations

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To �ind ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Cassius’s speech from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar - penned just ten years before the publication of The King James Bible not only gives a good feel for the style of writing of the period but also rather sums up my feelings about my inadequacy to talk to you tonight – particularly after the talk given by Fr Mark last week. But Fr Andrew said I “protest too much” and that what the King James Bible means to a member of the laity would be useful. Well for me not least is the in�luence this enduring bible has had in bringing Holy Scripture to English speaking people throughout the world in their own language and the challenges and ‘slings and arrows’ this created on the way. It also seems to me that William Tyndale bestrides the English bible as Jerome bestrides the Latin, a colossus of English translators and worthy of special mention in my talk. From the time of the Roman Empire Latin was the written language of the West not only bibles but all literature and remained the language of scholarship. As late as 1605 an inventory of Bodlean Library showed that of the 60,000 manuscripts listed just 60 were in English. It had to wait to Vatican II in the 1960s before Catholics could hear the mass said in English. Translation into the vernacular in the Western world was therefore a fundamental change away from the requirement of an intermediary, a priest versed in Latin, to explain and expound on the biblical text to the congregation – to a new order where the bible was written in the language of the people – so they could hear and some, not many in the 17th Century, could actually read the passages of scripture for themselves. I was intrigued to learn that it was the Venerable Bede who made the �irst attempt at a translation into English - claims that Bede translated St. John’s gospel up to Chapter 6.9 before he died in 735. Before that there had been paraphrases rather than translation – the nine line poem of Caedmon, a labourer at St. Hilda’s Priory in Whitby about the account of the creation in Genesis. Another the wonderful anonymous 150 line Dream of the Rood we used in the Lent talks last tear is another. The most important �igure in bible translation prior to the Norman invasion 32 was Aelfrich of Winchester (abbot of Eynsham in 1005) who provided an abbreviated form of the Pentateuch the �irst �ive books of the Old Testament and most of the historical books of the Old Testament. But even he had his doubts – “I do not promise to write very many in this tongue because it is not �itting, lest peradventure the pearls of Christ be had in disrespect”. After the Norman Invasion things changed again and we had to wait until Henry V before we had a king of England who wrote a letter in English. The �irst complete translation of the bible from Latin in to English was by John Wyclif in the 1380s. A great Oxford �igure, master of Balliol, Wyclif‘s source was the Latin text of the Vulgate bible translated from the Greek and Hebrew texts by Jerome around the year 400 and has served the Roman Catholic church for one and half millennia . Wyclif believed no ecclesiastical authority had a monopoly of interpretation and he became the high priest of the anti-establishment Lollardy movement. Henry Knighton, an Augustinian canon at the abbey of St. Mary of the Meadows, Leicester, wrote in his Chronicle “This Master John Wyclif translated into English, the Gospel that Christ gave to the clergy and the doctors of the Church, that they might minister it gently to laymen and weaker persons, according to the exigence of their time, their personal wants, and the hunger of their minds; whence it is made vulgar by him, and more open to the reading of laymen and women than it usually is to the knowledge of lettered and intelligent clergy; and thus the pearl of the Gospel is cast forth and trodden under the feet of swine." Wyclif was expelled from Oxford and his political views drew near hysteria a consequence of which was the blockage of all translation of the bible into English. The Constitution of Oxford in 1407 forbade all unauthorised translation and froze further development for over a century. The next signi�icant development was the invention or rather the evolutionary introduction of mechanised printing on paper to facilitate the mass production at affordable cost of bibles. Johann Guttenberg’s invention of a moveable type printing press started in 1448 but by the time the �irst bible was printed in 1456 the �inancing of the development left him penniless. However, after this invention bible printing spread rapidly on the Continent but England lagged well behind – it wasn’t until 1477 William Caxton printed his �irst book in Westminster. In a way it was just as well that England did lag behind because it had no vernacular bible to print – the uproar with Wyclif’s had seen to that. The next English bible was almost single-handedly the achievement of William Tyndale. In 1520 Tyndale was determined to break the jinx on translations of the Bible into English and offered his services as translator to Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of London but the bishop refused his request and Tyndale moved to Flanders in 1524 and set about translating The New Testament from 33 Greek texts. By 1525 working on Matthew in Cologne the authorities tried to arrest him and he �led to Worms where he �inished and printed the New Testament. Bishop Tunstell led a virulent campaign against the publication – burning the books as they arrived at the docks and attempting to buy up all the stock to stop distribution. The bishop also enlisted the support of Thomas Moore, soon to become Lord Chancellor, to attack the translation. Unbowed Tyndale set about translating the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew texts. In 1536 at the instigation of the English authorities Tyndale was kidnapped in Vilvorde, incarcerated and eventually garroted and his body burned at the same stake. It has been said the brilliance of Tyndale has never been surpassed - his extraordinary grasp of language and determination to make the text readable and intelligible. Consider the �irst Beatitude referred to by Fr Mark last week: Wycliffe bible: Blessed ben poor men in spirit for the kingdom of heaven is herne. Tyndale bible: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The latter sound familiar to you? Henry Wansborough, the biblical scholar laments that the latter translators for The King James Bible sometimes felt obliged to moderate its boldness: King James bible Matthew 19:18:Thou shalt do not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, though shalt not steal. Compare that with Tyndales earlier translation – much more direct and succinct: Tyndale:‘Break no wedlock, kill not, steal not. And for verve and wit consider Genesis 3:4 King James: Ye shall not surely die. Tyndale: Tush, ye shall not die. Tyndale’s achievement is that his translation has formed the basis of every subsequent translation and 80% of the books he translated are used practically word for word in the King James Bible. The number of phrases that have become proverbial and current coin in the English language are countless: The powers that be, The fat of the land, Not unto us oh Lord, not unto us Words felicitously invented by Tyndale: Passover, Long-suffering, Scapegoat 34 Henry VIII’s break with Rome and nationalisation of the English Church implied also a break with the Latin Vulgate bible and the need for an English one. Two English translations followed in quick succession Miles Coverdale’s Bible in 1535 and Mathew’s Bible in 1537. In 1538 Thomas Cromwell reiterated to the bishops the royal wish that a Bible in English be openly laid in every parish church. Cranmer found neither of the two bible satisfactory and entrusted Coverdale the task of editing a third - The Great Bible in 1541. Three more bibles followed in English - the Geneva Bible in 1560 which was a study bible by Protestant exiles in Geneva, apparently the version most used by Shakespeare. The Bishops Bible followed in 1569 and the Rheims Douai version 1582-1609 for Catholics studying in Rheims for the English Mission working for the return of England to the Catholic faith. And so at last we come to the arrival of The King James Bible. James VI of Scotland was the only child of Mary, Queen of Scots. When just thirteen months old Mary was forced to abdicate and he became King of Scotland never to see his mother again. He had been baptised as a Catholic because of his mother's faith but was brought up under the in�luence of a reformed Protestant Scotland. In March 1603, at the age of 36, he became James I of England upon the death of . Less than a year later James called the in January of 1604 "for the hearing, and for the determining, things pretended to be amiss in the church." Although Bible revision was not on the agenda, a resolution came forth: "That a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this to be set out and printed, without any marginal notes, and only to be used in all churches of England in time of divine service." Fifty-four men were nominated and the translators were organised into six groups, and met respectively at Westminster, , and Oxford. Fifteen general rules were advanced for the guidance of the translators and I will just mention No. 3 3. The Old Ecclesiastical Words to be kept, viz. the Word Church not to be translated Congregation &c. The work began to take shape in 1604 and was published in 1611. Enough of the background: As commented by Fr Mark last week, reading and hearing passages of the King James Bible over many decades tempers otherwise critical thoughts about such a ‘long in the tooth’ version of the bible which cannot possibly compete in some respects with more modern translations that can take advantage of all the research and �indings in the last 400 years. 35 Despite that the King James Bible engenders in me a feeling of familiarity and comfort with the words and a willingness to just accept such things as the extensive use of second person singular – the use ofthee andthou , apparently even old and out of fashion in 1611, in my stride. I have to admit too that to me thee still depicts a much more personal relationship with God thanyou ever could. Also the language used is rich, poetic, dramatic and lends itself very much like Shakespeare to be proclaimed out aloud rather than just read – a hugely important thing when most of the congregation were illiterate and couldn’t read. It is interesting that the King James Bible was published around the time Shakespeare was publishing his tragedies. Who would want to change the words of Shakespeare into modern English? Imagine the amazing storm scene on the moors in Lear when Lear, who has abdicated in favour of his daughters and then, having has lost everything realises too late his mistake, propped by a huge storm wracked tree gives his famous ‘Blow winds and crack your cheeks’ speech as he rages against the elements for what has happened to him. What would modern translations make of this – possibly changed to ‘Infamy, infamy – you’ve all got it in for me!’ It isn’t the same. It is the Shakespeare text which will endure not the easily digestible paraphrases and that is why I am sure the King James Bible will endure way after many of the modern translations will come and disappear into obscurity. Take for example the New English Bible �inished in 1971 of which we have several volumes around the house because when Elaine and I were married that was the in translation in common use. I can’t feel the same ever again about this version of the bible after reading Judges 1.14 : King James Bible the passage reads: “And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a �ield: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?” The New English Bible passage reads: “When she came to him, he incited her to ask her father for a piece of land. As she sat on the ass, she broke wind, and Caleb said, “What did you mean by that?” A very good question!! Its not the same! After the Second World War we have had a plethora of new translations and my taking over from Jean organising the readings on a Sunday and making sure that the appointed readings are chosen has been a real eye opener! For our lectionary we used the NRSV New Revised Standard Version issued in 1990 with the cooperation of Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish scholars. But sometimes one wonders if progress is all good news: Take Psalm 37 v3 which in King James so succinctly sums up our vocation in 36 life: “Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed” Which in the NRSV is: “Trust in the Lord, and do good; so you will live in the land, and enjoy security.” Is this an improvement? King James ‘shalt be fed’ surely means so much more than just beingsecure ? Or Galations 5 v 22 talking of the fruit of the spirit King James: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith..” NRSV: By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness Ispatience in the NRSV as full and deep a meaning as long-suffering?Ithink not. I can’t reach the 70 years association with the King James Bible mentioned by Fr Mark, but it was sixty years ago that as a 7yr old chorister I �irst started to read regularly from the large King James Bible on the lectern at St. Michael’s Church, Brierley Hill. It was passages from the King James Bible that we had to learn by heart in Primary School and learning the passage from St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians about Faith Hope and Charity has stayed in my memory for more than six decades. I have a very special King James Bible given to me by my Aunty Doris and Uncle Joe – all decorated with hand carved mother of pearl with the word Jerusalem hand painted on the front. My Aunty Doris ran the Sunday School at St. Michael’s and Joe, who had fought in Palestine in WW2, had acquired this bible in Jerusalem and brought it back to England at the end of the war. So what a journey this bible, like millions of its kind has had – printed in Cambridge, distributed by The British and Foreign Bible Society in London, sent to Jerusalem and, in my case, brought back to England. One of my other treasured possessions is the King James Bible presented to my mother at Sunday School at St. Michael’s church when aged 9 she was awarded First Prize in 1928. When my mother died in 1993 I was determined to do a reading from scripture which would re�lect on her wonderful kindness and the way she always put others before herself. One evening I prayed hard for inspiration and suddenly remembered the passage from Corinthians 13 from my Primary School recitations and decided on that. At the time my only bible was the New English Bible which used Faith Hope andLove rather than Faith Hope and Charityof the but I used the New English Bible and it was a great comfort to many who were present. Interesting though, one of my

37 Aunties, in fact she is my only surviving Aunty now, came up to me and said how much she appreciated the reading but wished I had used the Faith Hope and Charity version from the King James Bible. When my daughter married she asked me to do the same reading from the New English Bible and when I had the same request again from my son when he married I then used the King James version which gave Fr Roger quite a challenge when it came to his address explaining charity rather than love! Fr Mark said last week that it was Paul’s letters in the King James Bible that gave him the biggest concern – there is nothing like a challenge so my reading later will be Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians chapter 13. Fr Mark also said – ‘Tyndale used Love you know not charity.’ The trawl through all the translations has been fascinating: Tyndale used the word love but Wycliffe in the �irst translation says ‘If ye speke with tungis of men and of aungels, and ye have not charity, Coverdale, The Great Bible, Mathews, Bishops and Geneva bible use lau that is love. Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible - charity The King James - charity And what of Jerome’s great 4th century Latin Vulgate bible – well that says: Si linguis hominum loquar et angelorum caritatem – caritatem - charity Now something I noted in my research which has sort of stunned me and amazingly brought all this talk and proposed reading together: I mentioned that the translator source for the King James Bible and many others was William Tyndale and that the bishop of London sought the assistance of Thomas Moor to attack his translation. It seems the attack to prove Tyndale’s Lollard and protestant Lutheran practices was focused on Tyndale’s use of words where they felt he deliberately set about to avoid ecclesiastical tradition. The three examples were – for ‘priest’ they accused him of using ‘senior’ or ‘elder’ for ‘church’ that he used ‘congregation’ and for ‘charity’ he used ‘love’ It would seem not a great deal of charity was shown to Tyndale, the greatest of the English translators when he was kidnapped, incarcerated, strangled, garrotted and his body burned. Perhaps the perpetrators should have heeded St Augustine’s af�irmation: Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem – one does not enter into the truth if not through charity Before I now read from the King James Bible, my sincere thanks to Fr Ray for loan of wonderful introduction to The Story of The Bible by Henry 38 Wansbrough, one of the world’s leading bible scholars. I also recommend Melvyn Braggs’s televised documentary a couple of weeks ago – The King James Bible, the book that changed the world. I do hope other speakers better quali�ied than I can pick up on some of the themes in the programme which show that during the last 400 years The King James has had a huge in�luencing effect on our language, that it has been the seedbed of Western democracy, philanthropy, abolition of the slave trade. That the dramatic words have been used as battle cries on both sides of Civil Wars both here and in America and that it is not incompatible with Scienti�ic thinking. That the King James Bible has driven the making of the world into what it is today – the book that has changed the world. The Baumgarten KJB Bible I read from the 1833 Bible that is in St Wilfrid’s Church that was originally in the St. John’s Chapel in the Steyne. In 1833 A Gothic style tower was added complete with castellated parapet and pointed-arch window and this became a feature of Bognor’s skyline. The tower contained a clock and 4cwt bell named “Mary Ann” which had been donated by the Rev Charles and Miss Baumgarten of Aldwick at a cost of £200. Miss Baumgarten also donated a weather vane for the tower and a Captain S H Baumgarten a bible and prayer book for the reading desk. See my history of churches in Bognor on our website at https://www.wilfrid.com/st-wilfrids-church/

39 The Parable of the Fish and Nets

40 September Maze

41 Bible Bite -Right to do Good

42 Word Search - Right to do good

43 Crossword

Across 1 and 3 Two of the disciples who witnessed the trans�iguration of Jesus (Luke 9:28) (4,3,5) 3 See 1 Across 8 ‘Let us draw — to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith’ (Hebrews 10:22) (4) 9 OSimonis(anag.)(8) 11 Form of government under the direct rule of God or his agents (10)

44 14 How Jesus found his disciples when he returned to them after praying in Gethsemane (Luke 22:45) (6) 15 In The Pilgrim’s Progress, the name of the meadow into which Christian strayed, which led to Doubting Castle (2-4) 17 Glad sin rat (anag.) (10) 20 Spinal column (Leviticus 3:9) (8) 21 Valley of the Balsam Tree with a reputation of being a waterless place (Psalm 84:6) (4) 22 ‘The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of one — — sees clearly’ (Numbers 24:3) (5,3) 23 Adam and Eve’s third son (Genesis 4:25) (4)

Down 1 David’s great friend (1 Samuel 20:17) (8) 2 ‘The Lord... will bring me safely to his — kingdom’ (2 Timothy 4:18) (8) 4 ‘I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; — — or touched my lips’ (Daniel 10:3) (2,4) 5 Seeking to vindicate (Job 32:2) (10) 6 Female servant (Isaiah 24:2) (4) 7 ‘For Christ died for — once for all’ (1 Peter 3:18) (4) 10 ‘Offering spiritual sacri�ices — to God through Jesus Christ’ (1 Peter 2:5) (10) 12 Jesus said that some people had renounced this ‘because of the kingdom of heaven’ (Matthew 19:12) (8) 13 One of the three men thrown into the furnace for refusing to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image (Daniel 3:20) (8) 16 ‘You have — of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry’ (Luke 12:19) (6) 18 ‘There before me was a white horse! Its rider held — — , and he was given a crown’ (Revelation 6:2) (1,3) 19 Equipment to Charity Hospitals Overseas (1,1,1,1)

45 Word Search - Give thanks for angels The Church gives thanks for angels in September: the 29th is the feast day of Michael and All Angels. Since the days of Genesis, these messengers of God have been sent many times to intervene for the good in human affairs. Angels guarded the Garden of Eden, they led Lot away from Gomorrah, they helped Gideon, they stopped Balaam, they closed the mouths of lions for Daniel, and, most important, the archangel Gabriel was sent to tell Mary that she would mother the Messiah. Angels sat in the empty tomb of Jesus, and told of His Resurrection. Revelation is teaming with angels, sent on all sorts of missions by God in the last times. Today, many Christians in the world’s hot spots report having had angels help them when in mortal danger. Thanks Angels Church Feast Michael All Genesis Messengers God Sent Intervene Garden Eden Lot Gideon Balaam Mouths Lions Daniel Archangel Gabriel Mary Mother Teaming Revelation danger 46 Mouse Makes

47 Crossword Solu�on

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48 Word Search Answers - Right to do good

Word Search Answers - Give thanks for angels

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51 The Arundel Tomb - The Arundel Tomb Chichester Cathedral

Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, s�ffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd - The li�le dogs under their feet ...... Philip Larkin (1955) Boxgrove Priory 52