THE PARISH MAGAZINE

Londesborough Church Snowdrop Sundays 14th and 21st February

February 2016

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THE POCKLINGTON GROUP OF PARISHES

The Combined Benefices of Pocklington Wold and Londesborough Wold Ministry Team Clergy Revd Geoff Hollingsworth Vicar 302133 Vacant Assistant Curate with welcome assistance from the following retired clergy who have the Archbishop’s Permission To Officiate (PTO) Revd Shelagh Jones 01430 871612 Revd Les Slow 303888 Revd Tony Burdon 304290 Revd Pam Burdon 304290 Revd Canon Rodney Nicholson 01430 650271 Revd Canon Sylvia Mutch 307894

Readers Recognised Parish Assistants Mr Mike Bailey 01430 873318 Mrs Liz Stott 01430 873361 Mrs Bronnie Broadhurst 307479 Dr Brian James 01377 288148 Mr David Rumbelow 306056 Mrs Joy Hadley 306655 Mr Brian Snelson 302206 Mrs Annie Harrison 01377 288070 Mr Paul Taylor 305484 Mrs Freda Bailey 01430 873318

Pastoral Team Coordinator: Mrs Bronnie Broadhurst Mrs Lyn Stanton, Mr David Rumbelow, Mrs Joy Hadley, Revd Canon Rodney Nicholson Revd Shelagh Jones Church Wardens: St Giles, Burnby Mr C Soukup 306154 Mr J Hewitt 302622 St Ethelburga, Gt Givendale Mr J Goodhart 368817 Mrs M Stephens 373629 St Martin, Hayton Mrs E Thackray 304317 St Mary, Huggate Mrs R Braithwaite 01377 288422 Mrs S Dale 01377 288233 All Saints, Londesborough Mrs J Fletcher 01430 873554 St Margaret, Millington Mrs S Sheard 304783 St James, Nunburnholme Dr B James 01377 288420 Dr A Henworth 302156 All Saints, Pocklington Mr B Myerscough 303331 All Saints, Shiptonthorpe Mr S Jones 01430 871612 Mrs F Bailey 01430 873318

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FROM THE VICARAGE February 2016 Where is your life going? As we look around our world today many people express concern and unease. The media report on war, violence, nuclear arms, famine, mass migration, refugees and terrorist threats. Others experience unemployment, financial issues, breakdown of relationships, pension crises, ill health and death amongst family and friends. How do we react to these events and issues? What do we think are the solutions? As Christians where do we see God in these situations? We are approaching the season of LENT which commences on Ash Wednesday 10th February and lasts until Easter at the end of March. Traditionally the purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving and self- denial. This spiritual discipline draws us nearer to God and enables us to grow more Christ like in our thinking and our actions. This year our Lent Course is based on the Psalms and although written long ago they do help us think through the many issues which are facing us today individually, in our society and in the world. The Psalms offer hope and ways forward for us all. They help us look at how God works, how we can grow closer to God and how we can live a life which reflects God's love. Life is a journey of growth in faith and this course will enable us to think about the many challenges we are facing and what our responses could be. In addition to coming to the Lent course there are other helpful ways to observe Lent and for it to be a time of spiritual renewal and growth. Why not read a suitable Lenten book, there are many on offer; make a commitment to attend the Lenten services in church as the readings and sermons are based on Lenten themes; some find it helpful to give up something as a means of strengthening their will power and commitment; some give the money saved from their giving up something to a charity which is supporting the many disaster situations in the world. Do take the opportunity which this Lenten season provides to reflect on where your life is going and how we can transform our world and support one another in life's journeying. Geoff

Pocklington Group of Churches Pastoral Team The Pastoral Team is available to visit the bereaved, those who are ill, the housebound, or anyone who would like someone to talk to .This is an important part of the Church’s ministry and mission but we can only visit those we know about. So if you, or anyone you know, would welcome a visit from a member of the church family, please contact us and we will arrange for a member of the Pastoral Team to visit.

Churches Together in Pocklington

LENT COURSE 2016

The Lent course this year will take place on Tuesday evenings at the Pocklington Christian Fellowship at 7.30 pm and on Thursday mornings at All Saints at 11am.

This is to provide a choice of timing .The content is the same .The course starts Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th February and continues for 5 weeks .Participants may attend either the evening or the day time sessions and each session is independent .

The theme is the Psalms. Although written over 2000 years ago they address many of the problems we still face : violence, injustice , anger and bewilderment .Why do the wicked prosper ? Where is God when we suffer ? In this 5 session course ,a CD is used on which Bishop Stephen Cottrell-a prolific and popular author –reflects on the psalms in general (and five psalms in particular).The other participants on the course CD are the Dominican Friar ,Revd John Bell of the Iona Community ,The Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons ,Revd Prebendary Rose-Hudson Wilkin and the Revd Dr Jane Leach ,the Principle of Wesley House Cambridge.

The Five sessions are :

Session one Know that the Lord is God (Psalm 100)

Session two Out of the depths have I cried (Psalm 130)

Session three How long, O Lord? (Psalm 13)

Session four You spread a table before me (Psalm 23)

Session five Unless the Lord builds the House… (Psalm 127)

Please note The deadline for the March edition is WEDNESDAY 17th February and should be emailed to: [email protected]

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Snowdrop Sundays

Snowdrop Sundays are a traditional part of fundraising for the upkeep and maintenance of All Saints Church, Londesborough. This year the grounds of the Old Hall and the church itself will be open on Sunday 14th February and Sunday 21st February from 10-30 until 4pm. There will be refreshments in the Reading Room, (opposite the churchyard), and books for sale inside the church, where there will also be displays of local and historic interest

Joan Fletcher, Church Warden

Photographs of Londesborough Church and snowdrops courtesy of Richard Holmes

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The meeting on Tuesday, 5th January opened with prayers as usual but as it was Epiphany it was decided that we would sing the hymn "As with Gladness Men of Old" as well.

It was a Social Afternoon and members enjoyed a glass of sherry, nibbles and cake. There was a Quiz to do and then we had a few games of Beetle. To complete the afternoon Ken Townley read "A Night to Remember" from the book by Gervaise Phinn entitled "A Wayne in a Manger" and a poem by Ruth Burgess called "It's Nearly Christmas".

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING IS ON TUESDAY 2nd FEBRUARY. PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ATTEND.

Dates for your Diaries:-

Bridlington Priory Church MU Centenary Thursday 28th April 2016 (Numbers must be in by 25th February 2016)

Lady Day & Commissioning Service Monday April 4th 2016 - York Minster 11am

With many Blessings Josie Penter

All Saints Fellowship Group The All Saints Fellowship Group meet at 3pm on the second Thursday of every month. We are a warm and friendly group who meet to encourage each other in our Faith and can share in our belief. We have a cup of tea/coffee and biscuits followed by prayer, Bible reading and open discussion. At present we have six regular members attending. We would welcome any newcomers who are interested in joining us. We feel our meetings are beneficial and strengthen our fellowship and our love of Jesus.

If anyone is interested in joining us please contact Pat Herbert on 303605

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We need a Nanny State by Rodney Nicholson

WHENEVER I hear someone sneer at “Nanny State”, I cry out: “It’s exactly what we need”. We need the wrongly-called Nanny State to save people from themselves, which is what a good nanny does. The Christian faith makes two significant statements about human beings. One, we are made in God’s image; two, we are also sinful. It is because we are sinful, or selfish, or act ignorantly, that we need rules. Few would contest the value of the Ten Commandments. In fact, God gave many more rules in the books of Exodus and Leviticus to protect his people’s wellbeing and safety. God could have left them to their own devices, and not interfered, but out of love he gave these rules for protection. It looks a bit like nannying to me. “Health and Safety” is mocked, but as a member of one of my former churches pointed out, every Health and Safety rule was framed because someone had been killed. I knew a retired farmer who had difficulty in walking because of the chemicals used in sheep dips. These chemicals, now banned, had damaged his nerves. Would we really prefer to abolish industrial regulations and return to the days when workers caught asbestosis? How about wearing car seat belts? Or laws which forbid smoking in buses, trains or practically any indoor area? What about the law which came in last October making it illegal to smoke in a car containing children aged under18? Knowing about obesity and many children’s poor diet, is it not sensible for a government to require soft drinks manufacturers to reduce the sugar content? In heaven we shall be done with rules, I imagine, but we are not there yet. The world is both beautiful but damaged. The state exists to care for its members, who behave more like children than they might want to admit. The alternative to the Nanny State would be suffering, heartache and loss of life. Hence my annoyance when people make it a term of abuse. Is God a nanny? Surely, in one sense he is. “Can a mother forget the child she bore?” asks Isaiah. “Yes, she may forget, but I will never forget you.” Jesus wept over Jerusalem saying, “How often would I have gathered you under my wings as a hen gathers her chicks, but you would not let me.” We need our comforting and encouraging God. We need, especially for its weaker and more vulnerable citizens, but really for us all, the Nanny State. Long may it continue.

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From Pocklington to the cloth by Phil Gilbank For centuries Pocklington Grammar School was a conveyor belt that took young Yorkshiremen from gentlemens’, tradesmens’ and farmers’ families and transported them to Cambridge University and then on to the church. Generations of Pocklington boys followed in the footsteps of the founder John Dolman (and his brother George) to an ecclesiastical career. Spiritual matters aside, the church was seen as one of the most secure and rewarding professions for aspiring middle class students, and the school history is packed with examples of boys leaving Pocklington to become parish priests, or sometimes reach higher church office, throughout , and occasionally on the Continent. The ancient term ‘clerk’ gives an indication to the value of clerics, who had the flexibility to have parallel careers as writers, administrators, in the legal profession and in land management and teaching. Pocklington headmasters graphically demonstrated that schoolmasters and clergymen were interchangeable – a dozen of the school’s 17 masters in the 17th and 18th centuries became clergymen after leaving Pocklington; while they and their ushers invariably held additional positions as vicars or curates of local parishes alongside their schoolmaster posts (Kingsman Baskett was vicar of three parishes and curate of two more during his 53 years as master of the school from 1754). Ecclesiastic matters are often the most accurately recorded in history, so OPs going on to the church is a fruitful source of information. However, the story of some these individuals also shows them to be the most remarkable of characters and live the most dramatic, colourful and dangerous of lives. A few notable examples reveal this popular journey.

John Thompson, who went up to Cambridge from Pocklington in the 1530s and became a senior fellow of St Johns,progressed to be a canon of Windsor and chaplain to Queen Elizabeth in the 1560s, may well have started his education at West Green. Edward Hansby, a member of a North gentry family related to the Dolmans, definitely did. He went from Pocklington to St Johns where he was made a fellow in 1561 before being appointed a prebend of Carlisle, rector of Greystoke and chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk. During Elizabeth’s reign the church became increasingly polarized and those of Catholic persuasion driven to conform in public and celebrate in secret.

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Many traditional Pocklington families clung on to their Catholic beliefs and in the late 16th and early 17th century numerous OPs became Jesuit missionaries or ministered abroad. Both those who joined the priesthood, and their families who remained loyal to the ‘old faith’ risked, and sometimes lost, their lives because of it.

John Dolman SJ, the second son of Thomas our refounder, followed in the footsteps of his father and elder brother in going from Pocklington to Gray’s Inn. He witnessed the martyrdom of Saint Edmund Campion in 1581 and published an account of the execution before fleeing to the continent (the printer was put in the London pillory and had his ears cut off) and it is claimed took a piece of Campion’s rib with him, which is still a Catholic relic today. He entered a seminary and became a priest but died abroad a few years later. Two of Thomas Dolman’s grandsons, Robert Dolman, and William Whittingham went abroad from Pocklington as teenagers to study for the priesthood at St Omer and Douai respectively. Robert Dolman died at Rome in 1618; while Whittingham returned to England as a missionary but perished in a disaster in 1623 when he was officiating in an illegal service at the French ambassador’s residence, ‘The Fatal Vespers’. Some 300 Catholics crammed into an upstairs room and around a hundred were killed when the building then collapsed. Edward Dakyns went from Pocklington to Cambridge where he gained his BA in 1575 and MA in 1578. He then ventured overseas and became a priest at Douai before returning to England as a Catholic missionary in 1582. He was subsequently arrested, imprisoned and deported in 1584. He slipped back into England in 1586 and resumed carrying out his offices undercover – a court case against Hilary Dakyns (his brother and fellow OP) in the 1590s heard evidence that he had his confession heard by Edward behind a hedge in Brandesburton. It appears Edward evaded the authorities for some years, however, the book ‘The foot out of the snare’ published in 1624 describes his execution at Tyburn and his family keeping one of his toes as a holy relic of his martyrdom. Several other gentry families sent younger sons to Pocklington then on to seminaries on the Continent, the Constables of Everingham being another prime example as a handful of the family OPs went abroad and entered the priesthood. Such beliefs brought danger and the increasing threat of punishment – not just financial.

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Christopher Langley left Pocklington for Glonville & Caius College, Cambridge (which was more Catholic inclined) in 1584. The lack of early school and university records mean we cannot prove if his father, Richard, had preceded him as an OP, but in 1586 Richard was arrested at his moated manor house just outside Pocklington at Ousethorpe, after two Catholic priests were discovered in an underground chamber at his other house just up the road at Grimthorpe. All three were taken to York under armed guard where Langley was hung, beheaded and quartered. The Bishop family were lords of the manor of Pocklington and lived in the town from 1544 until they left the area in the 1650s. Several generations of the family had links with Pocklington Grammar School, and are thought to have been educated here, and Thomas Bishop was also beheaded at York in 1569 for his involvement in the ‘Rising of the Northern Earls’ which was a plot to put the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots on the throne instead of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth. The custom of the time was to put the head of the executed on top of one of the bars of York and send a quarter to be displayed in their home town market place. But as the 17th century progressed the devout Catholic families increasingly had their sons educated at home by private tutors, or sent them to English schools on the Continent, and the Pocklington production line became firmly Protestant, though the school still produced a daft of ecclesiastical OPs who were notable characters.

Joseph Hill was initially a Cambridge tutor who after the restoration became an exiled minister of the non-conformist church in Holland (he later turned down an offer from Charles II to make him a bishop in England) who is thought to also have been a double agent for the English secret service. Edmund Hickeringill had an even more remarkable career, starting out as a Civil War army chaplain who was a Baptist missionary, then Quaker minister before becoming a captain in the English army. He became a mercenary officer fighting on the Continent then a Swedish sea captain. Soon after he had a brief spell as Secretary of State for Jamaica, before he served as vicar of Colchester for 46 years. However, this hardly meant he settled down to life as a country parson, throughout his ministry he was at odds with the authorities and in an out of the courts, and it is claimed that after his death his gravestone was defaced by his long standing adversary, the . James Johnson, dually qualified as a lawyer and churchman, became master of Sidney Sussex College, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. TO BE CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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As I write this in January we have met for the first two weeks of the spring term and have welcomed some new faces to Little Saints – welcome to Charlie and Theo. Of course all the children were excited to share with everyone what Santa had brought them and how they have spent time with their families over the holiday. This is how we started our new year – by saying thank you for our family, especially our children. The bible tells us that God knows us all by name and that children are a gift from God. So we had a lovely story and talked about how strange it would be if someone gave us a gift and when we opened it, there was a child inside. Some strange reactions when that was weighed against their Christmas toys! It certainly feels like a gift when we are able to welcome new families, like Charlie and Theo, to Little Saints – so they all had a wonderful time climbing in and out of the parcel and being our “gifts from God”. It is true – children do prefer to play with the box!

It’s always lovely to see the little ones engaging with bible stories and parables. Daniel and the lions is one of my favourites and no child can resist a lion story. Some of our children told us about times when they have had to be brave; when they have fallen over and hurt themselves or maybe during a hospital appointment. We rely on our parents a great deal for that extra strength and support when we are young (and not so young). But our family isn’t always with us, so we listened to how Daniel asked God to help him through prayer, how that helped him to be brave and how God looked after him. It can be surprising for us all to think that it might be that easy – that when God answers our prayers He is working to change something in our lives for the better, and when it seems like He doesn’t – then maybe He is trying to change our hearts.

Dear God, it is hard to be brave when I feel scared. Help me to remember that you will take care of me, just like you took care of Daniel. Amen Kirsty

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The Grace to Love.

Lord, please give me the grace to see The generous love Jesus poured out for us; And to see how much I need that love in me, For I so often make such a selfish fuss Over things that really only count as dross, Forgetting how in His great humility Jesus gave up His life for all upon the cross Dying out of love, and in shocking pain; Jesus, our God, clothed in our humanity, Loving with pure self-giving love.

Lord, I know I do not plead in vain For you call us all to love like you, So I seek your help to do your will To love as you love, and with the grace To share with others that call to love And to live in peace with one another, That we may see your love in every face, Stranger, neighbour, sister, brother, And every heart become your dwelling place.

Paddy.

Date for your dairy

Advance Notice

Flying Man Festival

The festival will be from Friday 6th May through to Sunday 8th May.

Please see Flying Man Festival website for further details in due course

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The grace of a second chance by Rodney Nicholson

ONE day shortly before Christmas in my former parish I arrived to take a funeral, only to be met by a tearful verger. Apparently, during the night, her son-in-law, Gary, had attacked her daughter, Amy, causing their two, very upset teenage sons, to call the police. Gary, normally the mildest young man, had hit Amy before when, as was also the case this time, he had been invited by friends to go for a few drinks. This time the attack was much worse, leaving Amy with facial injuries, because of a second factor. He had discovered that she was having a fleeting affair with a friend. The police arrested Gary and, although his temper had subsided as the effect of the alcohol wore off, he was not allowed home. Amy was remorseful over the extra-marital affair, ending it there and then, and both she and the two boys longed to have their dad back for Christmas. With extreme graciousness, Amy parents invited their son-in-law to spend Christmas with them. It was an unnatural time but the family made the best of it. Early in January Gary was due in the magistrates’ court, and the family feared a custodial sentence. Domestic violence is a massive problem, far more widespread across all levels of society than probably most people realise. In poorer homes it is more obvious whereas middle class families are better at hiding it. The police will see the results of all sorts of angry disputes. A Scoutmaster in my parish, who was a police officer in Burnley, came home one Christmas Day saying, “Don’t talk to me about Christmas: I have just been involved with a home where a three-year-old made the mistake of entering her parents’ bedroom early that morning. Her dad, sleeping off the previous evening’s drinking, left her with injuries that put her in hospital.” I felt, however, that Gary really regretted his actions, which had had some provocation. He and the family loved him dearly and wanted a fresh start, so I wrote a letter of support to the court for him. Whatever the reason, the magistrate decided in his favour, putting him on an anger management course. The violence never recurred and Gary has a steady job. The following year he and his two sons were confirmed in the church by the Bishop of Burnley, to the pride and delight of the verger and her husband. Wherever possible, let’s offer a second chance. It’s what the Gospel is all about.

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From Pocklington to the cloth (continued) A significant number of local tradesmen also saw their sons to Pocklington, then Cambridge, then to the cloth. Several returned home to be master or usher of the school, such as Marmaduke Richardson, a local farmer’s son who was jointly assistant usher and vicar of Kilnwick Percy in the 1650s. Robert Bielby was a prosperous Pocklington tanner who sent his sons, Thomas and William, to the school. The Bielby brothers both went from Pocklington to St Johns and on to take parishes in Sussex in the late 17th century, Thomas became a canon of Chichester Cathedral while William returned home to become the school’s usher. A few decades later William Byass took the same journey. The Byass family were Pocklington ropemakers for some 200 years, but William went to Pocklington Grammar School, on to St Johns College and then to be a parish priest in Sussex. One of his sons established a very different sort of dynasty as a founder of the Gonzalez-Byass wine and sherry conglomerate. In the late 17th century George Plaxton was estate manager and personal secretary to three generations of the Leveson-Gower family while also being rector of parishes under the patronage of the Leveson-Gowers. In the same period William Eratt was also steward for some of the Yorkshire property of the Duke of Devonshire while being both vicar and schoolmaster at Hatfield (he was also an author and poet). In the 1780s OP William Gilbank became royal chaplain TO Prince William, younger brother of King George III. Around the same time the school’s most noted old boy, William Wilberforce,

agonised over going into the church before being persuaded to take up politics. Wilberforce lodged with his headmaster, Kingsman Baskett, and family for his five years at Pocklington, and two of Baskett’s sons, another Kingsman and Richard, both became clergymen. Another of Wilberforce’s school contemporaries to go into the church, became the first general secretary of the National Society in 1811 – the Church of England organisation that opened thousands of ‘National Schools’ throughout the country.

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Pocklington Grammar School’s curriculum remained firmly based on the classics well into the 19th century, thereby facilitating boys going into the church and at the same time restricting the career choices that a ‘modern’ education might provide. The headmaster was always a Reverend right up to 1910, as was many of the staff, while the school also continued to produce notable churchmen in large numbers into the 20th century. Several gained particular prominence. JCH How was Bishop of Glasgow then Primate of the Church of Scotland. Social reformer Joseph Malet Lambert, the Archdeacon of the East Riding, had such an impact on education in Hull that the city named a school after him. Arthur Duncan-Jones was one of many Pocklington boys who won a Hebrew scholarship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, went on to be a deputy editor of The Guardian at the same time as being a parish priest in London, then became and a roving ecclesiastical ambassador who met Hitler in 1934. Another OP Dean of the same era was Cecil Cooper, first , then Dean of Carlisle. Joseph Malet Lambert, became Dean of Hull then Archdeacon of the East Riding and was a leading social reformer and educationalist who was a key figure in the foundation of Hull University. Clerical masters have become less frequent in recent times, but Canon Noel Duckworth, a former Great Britain Olympic rowing cox and Singapore prisoner of war, progressed from Pocklington School padre to be the first chaplain of Churchill College, Cambridge, donating the sanctuary lamp to All Saints when he left. Michael Ball went from being a Pocklington biology and chemistry teacher to found a monastic community in Stroud and then become Bishop of Truro in the 1990s. Currently several old boys are clergymen, some as parish priests and a number holding positions as chaplains or additional responsibilities as rural deans. Bob Wilkes, an OP of the 1960s, was a Merseyside vicar and chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool before a dramatic change of environment. As regional director of the Church Mission Society for the Middle East and Central Asia from 1985-1998 he was in Afghanistan at the height of the civil war in the 1990s. His mission headquarters was war-torn Karbul where he was often pinned down by rocket fire from the Taliban and Muhajadin. Returning to England he was made Cathedral before becoming City Rector of Oxford in 2009. Graham Usher, born in 1970 and at Pocklington from 1981-89, was the Church of England’s youngest bishop when he was consecrated Bishop of Dudley in 2014.

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But perhaps the person who made the biggest impact of all OP clergymen through the ages is Clement Scholefield, son of a Birmingham MP, schooled at Pocklington in the 1850s and a parish priest and school chaplain who wrote the tune ‘St Clements’. It is the music of the hymn ‘The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Over’ which is one of the church’s most popular hymns and heard the world over.

The article was researched and written by Phil Gilbank

Another beautiful photograph of Londesborough from Richard Holmes

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February Services in the Pocklington Group of Churches Burnby 7th 9.15 am Family Communion (CW) Great Givendale 14th 9.15 pm Morning Prayer (BCP) 28th 9.15 am Holy Communion (BCP) Hayton 7th 9.15 am Holy Communion (CW) 21st 9.15 am Morning Prayer (CW) Huggate 7th 9.15 am All Age Worship 14th 9.15 am Morning Prayer (CW) 21st 9.15 am Holy Communion (CW) 28th 9.15 am Morning Prayer (CW) Londesborough 7th 10.45 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 14th 10.45 am Holy Communion (BCP) 28th 10.45 am Morning Prayer (CW) Millington 14th 9.15 am Holy Communion (BCP) 28th 9.15 am Morning Prayer (CW) Nunburnholme 7th 10.45 am All Age Worship 21st 10.45 am Family Communion (CW) Pocklington 7th 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 7th 10.45 am Family Communion (CW) 10th 8.00 am Holy Communion (CW) Imposition of Ashes 10th 7.00 pm Holy Communion (CW) Imposition of Ashes 14th 10.45 am Sung Eucharist (CW) 14th 4.00 pm Evening Prayer (BCP) 21st 8.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) 21st 10.45 am Sung Eucharist (CW) Laying on of Hands 28th 10.45 am Sung Eucharist (CW) (Baptism Follows) 28th 4.00 pm Evening Prayer (BCP)

Shiptonthorpe 7th 10.45 am Holy Communion (BCP) 14th 10.45 am All Age Worship 21st 10.45 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 28th 10.45 am Family Communion (CW) (Baptism follows)

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PARISH REGISTERS

We have welcomed into the Christian Family through Baptism:

3rd January Henry Timothy William Bailey (Shiptonthorpe)

We have united in Marriage through the love of God:

We have commended to God’s sure keeping with thanksgiving:

15th December Harold Henry Ross (Pocklington) 18th December Vivien Pocklington (Pocklington) 23rd December Thomas Steven Terry (Pocklington) 7th January Alec James Goodwin (Huggate) 14th January Betty Scott (Pocklington) 18th January Richard Falconer Lambert (Octon) 19th January Wendy Ann McElroy (Pocklington)

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PASTORAL SERVICES Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals

To enquire about arrangements for these services Please call at the Parish Office in the Church or phone 01759 306045 Office hours are Tuesday to Friday 9am to 1 pm Scale of fees and charges for 2015 Baptisms There is no fee for a service of Baptism Certificate of Baptism, if required. £13.00

Weddings Publication of Banns. £28.00 Certificate of Banns, if required. £13.00 Marriage Service. £413.00 Certificate of Marriage at registration. £4.00 Verger £32.00 Organist £80.00 Bells £80.00 Heating £55.00 CD Operator £10.00

Please note that an additional charge will be made if extra facilities are required. We regret that it is not always possible to come back into the Church for additional photographs after the service. Funerals

Funeral service in Church, Cemetery or Crematorium £178.00 Verger £32.00 Organist £70.00 Heating £55.00 CD Operator £10.00

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A Prayer for the life of our Parishes and Churches O God ,make the door of this church wide enough to receive all who need human love and fellowship; narrow enough to shut out envy ,pride and strife. Make its threshold smooth enough to be no stumbling block for children, nor to straying feet, but rugged and strong to turn back the tempter’s power. God make the doorway of this house the entrance to your eternal kingdom. Amen

Parish Church of All Saints, Pocklington Church office 01759 306045 Office @allsaintspock.plus.com Electoral Roll Officer David Brown 305521 Flower Team Contact Ann Theakston 302731 Little Saints Leader Kirsty Brooks 307453 Magazine Editor David Brown 305521 Magazine Distribution Rowena Protheroe 304984 Mothers Union Secretary Josie Penter 303062 Organist and Choirmaster Michael Cooper 305929 Parish Administrator Marilyn Hollingsworth 306045 Pastoral Coordinator Bronnie Broadhurst 307479 PCC Secretary Sue Currier 0740 1133219 Planned Giving /Gift Aid Sue Currier 0740 1133219 Treasurer vacant Verger Jennifer Bean 305896 For all Church and Meeting Rooms bookings Please contact the Parish Administrator at the Church Office Tuesday to Friday 9am to 1pm

For more information about the Church, please visit our website www.pocklingtongroupofchurches.org

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