The Parish Magazine of St Stephen’s Church Guernsey

November 2020

From the Editor We have lots for your reading pleasure in this issue of the Magazine—thoughts on remembrance, an interesting ‘Do You Know?’, more on the Strategic Review, an article on Andrew the Apostle (Feast Day 30th November), articles from two of our regular contributors, notes on the Feast of Christ the King (22nd November) and, very importantly, highlights on events to come. All for you to enjoy with a nice hot cup of tea, watching all those leaves falling in the garden waiting to be raked up (several times probably) ‘one of these days’.

Claudia Moore

Do This in Remembrance of Me

These words of Christ at the Last Supper were more than a simple command to commemorate. They were, and are, a call to recognise that Jesus of Nazareth, this important historical figure, has left His mark on the world. As we come to the altar to follow this command, the effects of that first Good Friday are not only called to mind but have a direct bearing on our lives.

Our memory forms us. It has a impact on who we are as individuals and as a society. The Early Church Fathers spoke of the memory as being ‘a power of the soul’; and the great philosopher Aristotle referred to it as being the ‘scribe of the soul’. Memory informs, rightly or wrongly, and has an effect on our decision- making and therefore on our future. It also keeps the events of the past present in our lives.

This month of November is a particular time where we recall with an act of memory those who have gone before us from this life and have left their mark, directly or indirectly. It is good that we should have a season of the year for remembrance, a time when we feel that the veil between time and eternity is thin; and we can sense that greater and wider communion of saints to which we belong.

On 8th November we will especially ‘remember’ those who have given their lives through war in the service of our country. They left home and family, often to foreign lands, in the search of justice, freedom and peace; the effects of which we feel in our society today. The world would have been a very different place for us without their sacrifice, which cannot and should not be forgotten.

The memories that we recall this Remembrance Sunday should spur us forward in the search for true harmony and peace throughout the world. As the Lord commanded the apostles to ‘Do this in remembrance of me’, we gather this day praying for the graces of the great sacrifice of Calvary to engulf the whole world, that we may live in the harmony for which Christ prayed; and to our fallen we say ‘We will remember them’.

Fr John Moore

Church Diary – November 2020

Sunday 1 ALL SAINTS’ DAY AND 9.30am Said Mass with Family Min. Fr John THE FOURTH SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John 2.30pm--4.00pm Messy Church in the Community Centre Monday 2 The Feast of All Souls (The Holy Departed) 10.00am Little Treasures Toddlers’ Group 7.00pm Weekday Mass Tuesday 3 Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 4 7.00pm Mass cancelled Thursday 5 Friday 6 Leonard, Hermit, 6th century William Temple, , Teacher, 1944 Saturday 7 Willibrord of York, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Sunday 8 REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY AND 9.30am Said Mass with Family Min. Fr John THE THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT 10.50am Sung Mass Fr John Monday 9 Margery Kempe, Mystic, c. 1440 10.00am Little Treasures Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 10 Leo the Great, of Rome, Teacher, 461 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel 12.00pm Friendship Lunch - Community Centre Wednesday 11 Martin, Bishop of Tours, c. 397 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Thursday 12 Friday 13 Charles Simeon, Priest, Evangelical Divine, 1836 Saturday 14 Samuel Seabury, first Anglican Bishop in North America, 7.30pm Concert of the Guernsey Welsh 1796 Male Voice Choir and Bel Canto Sunday 15 THE SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT 9.30am Said Mass with Family Min. Fr J Luff 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John Monday 16 Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer 10.00am Little Treasures Toddlers’ Group of the Church, 1093 Tuesday 17 Hugh, Bishop of London, 1200 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel 7.00pm APCC Meeting Wednesday 18 Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Thuringia, 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Philanthropist, 1231 Thursday 19 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Friday 20 Edmund, King of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Saturday 21 11.30am-2.00pm Soups, Songs and Stalls with Andy Mauger—Community Centre 4.00pm Walsingham Cell (Mass at St Stephen’s followed by tea in the Vestry) Sunday 22 THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING AND 9.30am Said Mass with Family Min. Fr John THE SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE ADVENT 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John 12.30pm Baptism of Rylee-Rae De Garis Monday 23 Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c. 100 10.00am Little Treasures Toddlers’ Group Tuesday 24 11.00am Mass Lady Chapel Wednesday 25 Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century 7.00pm Mass Lady Chapel Isaac Watts, Hymn Writer, 1748 Thursday 26 Friday 27 Saturday 28 4.00pm Taizé Service Sunday 29 THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT 9.30am Family Service Fr John (with distribution of Advent calendars and Messy Church) 11.00am Sung Mass Fr John Luff Monday 30 Andrew the Apostle

Looking Further Ahead

8th December Tuesday 7.00pm Grammar School Carol Service

9th December Wednesday7.30pm Ladies’ College Carol Service or 16th December (tbc)

11th December Friday 1.30pm Melrose Carol Service

13th December Sunday 1.00pm- Only Fools and Donkeys Christmas 5.00pm Afternoon

14th December Monday 6.00pm Beechwood Carol Service

18th December Friday 1.30pm- Little Learners’ Nativity Play 2.30pm

20th December Sunday 2.30pm Christmas Stocking Concert

24th December Thursday 11.30pm The Midnight Mass of Christmas Eve preceded by Carols at 11.00pm

25th December Friday 10.30am Christmas Day Combined Mass

26th December Saturday 10.30am St Stephen’s Day Combined Mass followed by a reception at the back of the church

23rd January Saturday 4.00pm Taizé Service

31st January Sunday 9.30am The Feast of the Presentation of 11.00am Christ in the Temple (Candlemass)

Strategic Review – Theological Reflections

As was mentioned in the last issue of the Parish Magazine, the Deanery of Guernsey is soon to conduct a review of its chaplaincies, parishes and individual Anglican churches. This review will be launched by the sending of a questionnaire to the Incumbents, Churchwardens and Treasurers of each church, who will then share it with their congregations.

St Stephen’s has not yet received this questionnaire from the Deanery Standing Committee; yet I (Fr John) feel that we can all begin to prepare to respond to this questionnaire by engaging in a bit of theological reflection, and by privately considering some questions that may well be discussed later in a larger group meeting. The following material has been helpfully provided by the Dean of Guernsey:

1 Theological reflection

In the minds of most, Christians and otherwise, Church buildings are inseparable from the Church itself. We commonly refer to the sacred buildings in which the Church of God meets simply as ‘the church’. It can be said that this has led to a confusion between the buildings in which we meet and the Church of God.

Sometimes this confusion leads us to think that our buildings are not only set aside for worship, but that they cannot be used for any other purpose, or changed in any way. As Archbishop Justin Welby has said, ‘The Church is not a building. The buildings are a gift, a treasure, but they are not the Church’ (Church Times, 17th April 2020).

There is an argument made that in an age of change, people expect the Church to remain constant and unchanging. This might apply to our God (see Hebrews 13. 8) but it does not apply to the parish church buildings in Guernsey, or anywhere else. The architect Richard Rogers wrote in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine (25th February 1996): ‘No one today wears the clothes, drives cars or writes journalism like they did a hundred years ago. Why should buildings be any different?’

And it is certainly true that many of our buildings have changed a great deal over the centuries (as has the worship that is offered in them) whilst all the time the ageless and yet ever new Gospel of Christ remains a constant.

1.1 The Good News of Christ

The heart of the Gospel is summed up by the Apostle Paul as: ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.’ (2 Corinthians 5. 19).

This is recognised by the architect-priest Richard Giles in a seminal book on the changing architecture of churches, Re-pitching the Tent: ‘At the heart of Christian worship…lies the mystery of the transformation of the people of God themselves into the temples of the Holy Spirit …’

He goes on to reflect that the spaces we cherish may have become spaces for all sorts of other activities (singing, flower-arranging, brass-polishing, needlework, rota-writing, building preservation, etc.), activities that so many of us enjoy (or at least appear to do); but do they encourage us to celebrate God amongst us? Do they invite us into a transformative relationship with God in Christ? Do they reflect to the outsider a living worship of the God who is the Creator of the physical world, who has shared the physical world in order to redeem the physical world? Do they speak of transformation and beauty, of courage and creativity?

1.2 The Mission of God

‘It is not the Church of God that has a mission in the world, but the God of mission who has a Church in the world. The Church’s involvement in mission is its privileged participation in the actions of the triune God’ (writes Tim Dearbon in Beyond Duty).

The Church of God is called to belong to God. It is not a merely human institution, and our church buildings are to be seen primarily as a part of God’s mission in the world. That mission is not bound by, or limited to church buildings, but it can be served by church buildings or hindered by them.

We need to remember that the Church, in Archbishop Rowan Williams’ words, exists ‘to find out what God is doing and join in’. What is God doing in Guernsey? How might the mission of God, the work of the Kingdom, be helped by the Christian churches of this island? And what part may the Anglican family play in this mission, working alongside our brothers and sisters in all of the other Christian churches in the fellowship and family of God’s people in Guernsey?

2 Questions for prayerful consideration

2.1 What is God doing in Guernsey? How might the mission of God, the work of the Kingdom, be helped by the Christian churches of this island?

2.2 What part may the Anglican family play in this mission, working alongside our brothers and sisters in all of the other Christian churches in the fellowship and family of Guernsey churches?

2.3 If, as Archbishop William Temple said, the Church exists for those who are not its members, then how does St Stephen’s speak to those who are not its members?

2.4 And how does it enable the faithful community to serve those who are not its members?

2.5 The central scriptural summary of the Christian good news, the Gospel, is ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself’. How do our buildings reflect this Gospel of reconciliation between the divine and the human?

2.6 This reconciliation is of such transforming power that it must change the way we live outwardly towards others, as well as inwardly towards God. How do our church buildings reflect and encourage, even enable, reconciliation in human relationships?

The Very Revd Tim Barker

There is much food for thought here, and the Churchwardens and I look forward to hearing from you. As God leads and inspires, please share your reactions.

Soups, Songs and Stalls

Do you remember the music of the ‘50s and ‘60s? Great songs like ‘Hound dog’, ‘That will be the day’, ‘A hard day’s night’ and so many more.

Soon you will have a chance to enjoy this music again as our own Andy Mauger will be preforming live on 21st November in the Community Centre at our Autumn fund-raising event. This will be a great trip down memory lane for us all!

There will be soup and pizzas available to purchase while Andy is playing, and there will be several stalls selling cakes and sweets, books and Christmas gifts, also a raffle and a lucky dip. The Rainbows, Brownies and Guides are also planning to be there.

The event will take place between 11.30am and 2.00pm and the singing will be for two performances of one-half hour, from 12.00-12.30pm and 1.00-1.30pm.

Admission will be £2.00 at the door and this will include a cup of tea or coffee. Children will be free.

This is the only fund-raising event we have been able to hold this year (due to Covid) so it is really important that we make it a big success. We urgently need the money to support our Church.

So…please, we need everyone’s help! Tell your friends to come along with you for a really enjoyable lunch-time event and please provide items for the stalls including cakes, biscuits, good quality books and things that would make nice gifts for Christmas and good quality decorations.

See you there on Saturday 21st November. Please make sure you put this date in your diary now!

Tony Goss, Social Events Committee Chairman

Friendship Lunch

The next Friendship Lunch will be on Tuesday, 10th November at noon in the Community Centre.

Menu: Pork Steak or Mushroom Quiche Guernsey Gâche Pudding £7.00 per person

Please contact Jean Le Huray (Tel 255207) by Sunday 8th November to book.

Views and Notes from the Pews

Record Breaker?

Jennie Jee is wondering if she holds the record for the person attending our church for the longest time. She started coming to St Stephen’s when she was 5 years old as she was brought by her Aunt Edith Randall (who donated the painting in the Resurrection Chapel). Jennie did have a short break when she married Nigel, who was a teacher at Elizabeth College, and she went to St James’s; but was soon back when St James’s church closed. So Jennie has been at our church for nearly 80 years. That must be a record!

Thank You!

Thank you so much for the lovely surprise flowers from the Harvest and also for all the prayers offered on my behalf by the congregation over the past year. They are so much appreciated and are proving effective. Love from Christine Shaw.

Editor’s Note: In the best tradition of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, our new, frequent contributor Wendy Clamp has chosen to present her pieces as a ‘serial novel’. The two authors noted above wrote novels which first were ‘serialised’ in print. The first part of Fiona’s story appeared in The Guernsey Press. Here is the next instalment, and the third part of her saga will follow.

Garage Contents

We drew up in front of a detached house to meet the estate agent at 11.00. It was a quiet road with the garage off to one side. While my wife and the estate agent went into the house, I wanted to see inside the garage, to make sure that our old and well-loved Bertha the Bentley would have room to be stored there. We had a normal car for every day but kept Bertha for rallies and various old car meetings. I opened the door and gasped with amazement at the array of tools stacked up on the shelves. As I ventured further in I noticed everything was labelled and the amount noted. The owner of this garage was certainly very fastidious and tidy-minded, everything in its place, all neatly arranged. As I went further, on the left was a door which I presumed led to the back door of the house, I opened it and yes it was, I could see my wife and the estate agent chatting in the kitchen, I waved and mouthed won’t be long. It was a bit darker towards the back of the garage, so I got out my trusty torch, always useful when viewing properties, you never know what you can find in dim corners. At this end, there were still shelves and cupboards, all labelled neatly with their contents; but this time they were all cleaning products. It would have put a supermarket to shame, there was such a variety. I think you could have cleaned everything from a brass button to a tank in there. As I neared the end of the garage there was a large chest freezer but what caught my attention was on the wall to the right-hand side: a blown-up photograph of a smiling young woman. On closer inspection with my torch I noticed the nail holding it to the wall had gone straight through her forehead and there seemed to lots of pin pricks all over it. I looked closer and saw peeking out from the shelf below some feathers. I touched one and some darts fell out. How very strange I thought, somebody had been throwing darts at this lovely young woman. There was some writing on the bottom of the photograph, it said ‘To Brian, all my love Fiona’. As I opened the side door of the garage I noticed a large lock on the chest freezer. I walked down the path to the kitchen with a trickle of unease running down my back.

Wendy Clamp

‘Autres Temps, Autres Moeurs’

In a drawer in the priest’s vestry of my church in London there was a red leather case containing a bishop’s mitre. This was embossed with gold lettering: ‘Francis Underhill, ’ (from 1937-43). He was an Anglo-Catholic, Secretary of the Federation of Catholic Priests and cousin of , a writer on spiritual practices. Francis disturbed the Anglo- Catholic party, however, by proposing in the Canterbury Convocation (a body of clergy that preceded Synodical Government) that the traditional hours of Holy Communion be changed. Experience of a rural diocese had taught him that farm workers were unable to attend morning Communion. ‘The cows‘, he said, ’would not understand it was Sunday and that meant a change in their time of milking.’

Evening Communion was thought to make few demands on fasting and contrary to the ancient tradition. If you attended an Anglo-Catholic church, the main service would have been a non-communicating High Mass with deacon and sub-deacon at 11 o’clock. The celebrating priest said the whole of the Eucharistic Prayer in a deliberately inaudible murmur, ending with a chanted outburst of ‘Throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.’ He alone communicated. The regular congregation, who had communicated at the 8 o’clock service after fasting, would have thought it an impertinence for others to approach the altar rail.

If, with greater and outrageous impertinence, a visitor had crept into the sanctuary after the service (women were not allowed except for flower- arranging) and looked at the books on the altar, he would have found that scissors had been at work on the Roman Missal, or an adaptation of it called The English Missal, and their pieces pasted into the 1928 Prayer Book rejected by Parliament. These liturgical devices remained until the 1960s, when a call to revision led to the emergence of new and creative ideals.

In the 1950s I had mentioned to a student friend, the owner of an English Missal bedecked with many colours, tinkling with little silver medals of Our Lady, the Sacred Heart and the whole company of heaven, that while in Suffolk visiting my parents I had been to an evening service of Holy Communion at Harvest- time and that the church was filled with farmers and their wives. ‘Well dear’, he said, ’you are obviously not one of us.‘ He was not on so firm a Catholic ground as he imagined. An old Norfolk rector equally concerned about the working hours of his agricultural parishioners spotted this way back in 1842. He wrote to the Christian Observer, ‘I should be greatly obliged if you will inform me whether it is customary to administer the Sacrament in the evening at 3 o’clock or at 6, and what are the reasons against such a practice. I shall

only add that the ancient churches of Roman North Africa celebrated the Eucharist both in the evening and in the morning.’

Again, it was wrong to disparage another service of the Church or to limit the Lord’s presence to the Blessed Sacrament, although we believe His presence is most richly manifested there. William Cowper’s 18th-century hymn expresses that well:

‘Jesus, where’er thy people meet, There they behold thy mercy seat; Where’er they seek Thee Thou art found, And every place is hallowed ground.’

In Victorian times there was an onslaught on celebrating the Eucharist in the evening by Canon Liddon, whom thousands of Londoners went regularly to hear at St Paul’s. There was justification for such onslaughts. The Guardian newspaper in 1859 drew attention to a notice advertising a dinner with a most immoderate menu for the clergy of Surrey to be held on 12th July at 5.30pm in Lambeth Palace dining hall, to be followed immediately by the administration of the Lord’s Supper; another correspondent sent the inordinate luncheon menu of the clergy of the Diocese of Hereford held in the Green Dragon, Hereford, at 3pm followed by Holy Communion. Tickets 3/6d.

Provoked, Liddon wrote a pamphlet entitled ‘Evening Communion Contrary to the Teaching and Practice of the Church in all Ages’.

‘When our services were compiled’, he said, ’no Christian thought of any other time than morning for the celebration of the Holy Communion. Imagine a worthy squire rising from wine after dinner to attend Holy Communion in the parish church. We forbear to dwell upon the subject.’

Liddon’s memory had become a little clouded. ‘Worthy squires’ had not risen from dinner to attend Holy Communion with any frequency. In most places it was celebrated not more than four times a year; and if we may assume that the ’worthy squire’ ate and drank as fully as the Reverend James Woodforde, his family and his servants, in his Norfolk Rectory, it would have been difficult to rise from dinner at all; according to Woodforde’s diary, they were accustomed on Sundays to consuming a roast sirloin of beef, a boiled leg of mutton, a couple of rabbits served with onion sauce, boiled salt fish, plum puddings and other fine fare, washed down with six bottles of rum, four bottles of port and several gallons of home-brewed beer.

Fr Leslie Craske

Come and join St Stephen's on an

Advent Pilgrimage Pilgrim booklets will be available All are welcome! starting 29th November (in church and on the website)

Do You Know? This month, we continue our interview series with someone who has contributed much and who will be ‘centre-stage’ this month at ‘Soups, Songs and Stalls’, which was an epic event the last time he did it. Andy Mauger

Please tell us a little about yourself, your background and your family.

I was born at Amherst Maternity

Hospital on 1st November 1959. Our

first house was at St Sampson's and we

stayed there for three years. We then moved to a bungalow in the Vale in 1963. I stayed there until I got married to Maria in 1982. We then moved into a small flat in St Peter Port.

My education was firstly Vale Infants, followed by Vale Primary. I then, like my parents, attended St Sampson's Secondary. I left with four poor CSE's, however I later attended the CFE (evening classes), where I gained five GCE 'O' Levels. I then gained a BA degree with the Open University (major in History with some Music). Although growing up as an only child, I never felt isolated. I had twenty-five cousins. Also two of my mother’s five brothers and their families lived in the same street. It was a lovely neighbourhood, very rural, and from my bedroom I could regularly see cows in the field and the farmer milking them by hand.

One thing that sticks in my mind from childhood are the holidays in Eastbourne. In Eastbourne we stayed with my grandmother’s three sisters. Eastbourne was, and still is I believe, a lovely seaside town. In those days Eastbourne had regular variety shows. I can recall seeing famous acts such as Jimmy Tarbuck, and Peters and Lee. Other highlights in Eastbourne included the pier, Prince's Park, the model village (sadly long gone) and of course Beachy Head. No holiday to Eastbourne would be complete without a trip to Brighton. This would feature the ‘magic triangle’ of the pier, the aquarium and Louis Tussaud’s (wax museum).

You have described yourself as being ‘unconventional’ – can you tell us what you mean by that?

I have always been a rebel and a non-conformist. It started with my hair: when I started school, I saw the Beatles with their mop tops. This trend carried on well into the ‘70s, with bands such as The Sweet, T Rex and Slade having even longer hair. I still am a rebel now and I like to dress in a ‘60s/‘70s casual style. I love to wear flares but at present they are hard to come by.

My tastes in music are also very wide and unconventional. My favourite period for music is between 1963 to 1975 ( ‘Please, Please Me’ through to ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’). However my CD collection includes earlier ‘60s artists such as Helen Shapiro and the rock-and-roll greats of the ‘50s. I also have classical, baroque, easy-listening albums plus some pop/rock from ‘80s, ‘90s and beyond.

Tell us about growing up in Guernsey and what it was like.

Growing up in Guernsey in the ‘60s was fine. It was a great time, we had two cinemas showing all the new releases. Other things that I can remember well were the trade fairs and flower shows at Bulwer Avenue. There was also the zoo and the aquarium (sadly recently closed).

Summertime was special in Guernsey. The beach was a regular source of activity. I remember snorkelling (more entertaining than just swimming) or looking under stones for crabs. I remember going with my parents to floor shows at The Wayside Cheer, The Carlton and The Hermitage. At these venues future stars such as Dustin Gee and David Copperfield (‘Three of a Kind’, with Tracey Ullman and Lenny Henry) would be on the bill.

As I got older, I started going to youth clubs and church hall discos. Around this time, I got into motor bikes. During my motorcycling history I have owned both a Suzuki TS 100 and Suzuki GT 185. By my later teens and very early twenties I started going to ‘over twenties’ discos such as The Trelade (where The Blue Movies were the resident band) and Rockefeller's (where I saw both The Troggs and Screaming Lord Such).

With regard to growing up in Guernsey one important factor was having a Saturday or holiday job. During my time at secondary school until entering full time employment I had a number of part-time and seasonal positions. These included employment in shops, a beach kiosk and work as a cleaner at a dentist surgery.

You are obviously a very talented musician – how did your musical interests develop?

I am told by my mother that as a baby, I would bounce up and down in my pram to the theme tune of ‘The Lone Ranger’. I remember listening to the radio at the age of three and hearing ‘Come Outside’, ‘It Might As Well Rain Until September’ and ‘From Me To You’. Like a lot of people at this time we had no electricity, and therefore had no television. In this respect the radio was the sole source of entertainment and information.

When we did move to our new and ‘state-of-the-art’ bungalow we could now have a television. My earliest memory of the TV is seeing Gerry and the Pacemakers on ‘The Five O' Clock Club’. Maria and I were lucky enough to meet Gerry in 1993 and found him to be the same cheeky, yet loveable character that he is on stage.

Another musical memory was seeing ‘A Hard Day's Night’ at the Gaumont in 1970. It was a specially-priced Bank Holiday presentation for the children. On seeing The Beatles singing and playing I thought, ‘I would like to do that’. By 1972 (at the age of 12) I had my first guitar.

For the next couple of years I mainly jammed with other guitarists, trading tricks and chords. I didn't really start playing gigs until I joined a local rock-and-roll revival band in the early eighties on bass guitar. Our original name was Reflex Blue. I stayed with the band for about nine months and then left. By the late eighties I was playing at the local folk club as a Christian singer guitarist performing my own self-composed Christian rock folk songs and Larry Norman covers.

What I am probably best remembered for is playing as Andy K Major in the late ‘90s. I would perform ‘50s and ‘60s covers using backing tracks with myself singing and playing guitar. I did this for about four years, playing at various pubs and clubs. After a long break of composing I played with the band Flaming Pie as lead singer/rhythm guitarist. We did a number of enjoyable gigs performing ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s covers.

In 2014 I began playing as a singer/guitarist at some of residential homes and OAP clubs. Initially when I started out I played mainly musical songs and wartime tunes, with the modern tunes being Ken Dodd or Val Doonegan covers. However over the years things have changed, with residents enjoying more modern tunes, not only Mersey beat and rock-and-roll classics, but also pop hits from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Unfortunately owing to the Covid 19 pandemic the gigs at the homes are on hold.

How did you and Maria meet?

Whilst I was playing in the rock-and-roll band I decided to learn the dances. It was there that we first met and the date was 9th December 1980. We didn't start dating until March 1981, with our first date being at the Recolte restaurant. On 31st October 1981 we got engaged and on 2nd June 1982 we got married at Our Lady Star Of The Sea. This was followed by a small reception at the Havelet Hotel. We then flew by Aurigny to Jersey, staying at the Chelsea Hotel.

You are a member of the St Stephen’s family, but we know you have also attended other churches on the island. Can you tell us a little about that?

I was baptised in the and attended the Vale Parish Sunday School (as was the done thing) from the age of four. At the age of twelve I was allowed to stop going to Sunday School and I regarded this as a right of passage.

However, when I was fourteen we had an excellent RE teacher and he provided us with some very logical explanations of biblical events and the teachings of Jesus. Whilst I did not have a ‘road to Damascus’ experience, it made me consider that there might be something in the teachings of Jesus.

When I was nineteen, I attended a number of meetings of the Bahai Faith. Although it was a very pleasant experience, something inside kept telling me it was not the right place for me to be. However, I still feel immense respect for the people I met there and the role they played in my religious journey.

The first time I attended a regular church service as an adult was at Our Lady Star Of The Sea, when Maria and I were to be married. By this time, aged twenty-two, I had become a Christian although I did not attend church. As Maria was a Roman Catholic, the marriage was to be within her faith. It was there I met the charismatic and jovial Father Ilsley. I found that the faith was not that dissimilar to my own beliefs, so a Catholic marriage would be quite acceptable.

We did not start attending church regularly until we went to Holy Trinity Church. This was when Paul Delight was Vicar. He was a friendly and very wise man as he demonstrated at the confirmation classes. Whilst at Holy Trinity I became confirmed.

When we moved out of town, our church attendance decreased and we eventually stopped going. However, after a number of years Maria's mother became very ill with dementia. Maria was now having to spend time caring for her mother. My health had also worsened; my back problem had resurfaced and I required a stick to walk. We both needed some spiritual support.

At this time, in 2007, we began attending St Stephen’s. At St Stephen’s we were struck by the friendliness of Father Philip and all the congregation. Owing to Maria's commitments we could only attend the 9.30 mass. Over time Maria's mother’s condition worsened and we were unable to attend any of the services.

Whilst my mobility had improved (helped most definitely by my attendance at the Healing Services) I no longer needed a stick. However I was still unable to walk to St Stephen’s. However, I could attend Shiloh. So from 2013 Shiloh became my regular church. At Shiloh, like at Trinity, I found a warm welcome from both the church team and congregation. It was a great source of spiritual strength for me. I attended Shiloh until 2016 when Maria's mother unfortunately passed on. We then resumed our attendance at St Stephen's, but we still keep in contact with Shiloh and attend some of the fellowship meetings and coffee mornings.

Now we are back at St Stephen’s and are very happy to be part of the very friendly congregation. Owing to my on-going health problems we are only able to attend the 11.00am Tuesday Mass. Both Maria and I thoroughly enjoy this service and the friendship of the congregation.

I would also like to mention the warm welcome we receive during our holidays in Jersey from Father Nick and the congregation at St Luke's.

What do you like most about St Stephen’s?

Firstly, the worship. We both find that ceremony and responses keep us focused on belief and faith, and why we attend church. Such things emphasise who Jesus is and what the church is about.

However, the consideration of socialisation must not be overlooked. Many of the clubs and other meeting places have gone (owing, I believe partly to the growth in home entertainments) and the churches seem to be one of the few avenues were people can meet. At St Stephen’s we have the coffee mornings, the after- service refreshments, the Friendship lunches and a host of other events. Many people living on their own can become isolated, and such considerations can prevent this.

Also, as a coffee-table historian, the art of St Stephen's deserves a mention. When I began my Open University studies way back in the 1980s, part of my foundation course involved studying the Pre–Raphaelites. We also did some study on the Oxford Movement. After all these years my memories were a little cloudy, but on purchasing excellent booklets about the church building of St Stephen's my memory has been jogged.

To close this question, I must not forget to mention the friendly and welcoming nature of St Stephen's. One can easily see this in Father John, Claudia, Father Marc and the congregation. This is a trait of all churches that Maria and I have been involved with. In this, one can see how we Christians of all denominations are all one in Christ.

The Feast of St Andrew the Apostle 30th November

The name ‘Andrew’ (Greek: ἀνδρεία, Andreia, ‘manhood, valour’), like other

Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews and other Hellenised people of Judea. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for Andrew.

Life Andrew the Apostle was born between AD 5 and AD 10 in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee. The New Testament states that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter and likewise a son of John, or Jonah. Both Andrew and Peter were fishermen by trade, hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that he would make them ‘fishers of men’ (Mark 1. 17, Matthew 4. 19). These narratives record that Jesus, whilst walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, observed Simon and Andrew fishing and called them to discipleship. At the beginning of Jesus’s public life, Simon and Andrew were said to have occupied the same house at Capernaum.

In contrast, the gospel of John (John 1. 35–42) states that Andrew

was a disciple of John the Baptist, whose testimony first led him and another unnamed disciple of John the Baptist to follow Jesus. Andrew at once recognised Jesus as the Messiah and hastened to introduce him to his brother. The Byzantine Church therefore

honours Andrew with the name Protokletos, which means ‘the first called’. Thenceforth, the two brothers were disciples of Christ. The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew On a subsequent occasion, prior to Caravaggio, 1603-1606 the final call to the apostolate, they Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London were called to a closer companionship, and then left all things to follow Jesus.

Subsequently in the gospels, Andrew is referred to as being present on some important occasions as one of the disciples more closely attached to Jesus.

Andrew told Jesus about the boy with the loaves and fishes prior to the feeding of the five thousand (John 6. 8); and when Philip wanted to tell Jesus about certain Greeks seeking Him, he told Andrew first (John 12. 20–22). Andrew was present at the Last Supper and was one of the four disciples who came to Jesus on the Mount of Olives to ask about the signs of Jesus’s return at the ‘end of the age’ (Mark 13. 3).

Eusebius in his Church History (3.1) quoted Origen as saying that Andrew preached in Scythia (central Eurasia). The Chronicle of Nestor (a history of the East Slavs) adds that he preached along the Black Sea and the Dnieper river as far as Kiev, and from there he travelled to Novgorod. Hence, he became a patron saint of Ukraine, Romania and Russia. According to Hippolytus of Rome, Andrew preached in Thrace (a region now split between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey), and his presence in Byzantium is mentioned in the apocryphal Acts of Andrew. According to tradition, he founded the See of Byzantium (later Constantinople and Istanbul) in AD 38, installing Stachys as bishop. This diocese would later develop into the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Andrew, along with St Stachys, is recognized as the patron saint of the Patriarchate. Basil of Seleucia also knew of Andrew's missions in Thrace, Scythia and Achaea (western Greece).

Andrew is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at the city of Patras (Patræ) in Achaea in AD 60. Early texts, such as the Acts of Andrew known to Gregory of Tours, describe Andrew as bound, not nailed, to a Latin cross of the kind on which Jesus was crucified. Yet a tradition developed that Andrew had been crucified on a cross of the form called crux decussata (X-shaped cross, or ‘saltire’), now commonly known as a ‘St Andrew's Cross’; supposedly at his own request, as he deemed himself unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross as Jesus had been.

Relics Relics of the Apostle Andrew are kept at The Crucifixion of St Andrew the Basilica of St Andrew in Patras, Camillo Rusconi (1713-1715) Greece; in the Amalfi Cathedral (the Archbasilica of St John Lateran, Rome Duomo di Sant'Andrea) and in Sarzana

Cathedral in Sarzana, Italy; in St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland; and in the Church of St Andrew and St Albert, Warsaw, Poland. There are also numerous smaller reliquaries throughout the world.

Andrew's remains were preserved at Patras. According to one legend, St Regulus (Rule), a monk at Patras, was advised in a dream to hide some of the bones. Shortly thereafter, most of the relics were translated from Patras to Constantinople by order of the Roman emperor Constantius II around 357 and deposited in the Church of the Holy St Andrew of Patras Cathedral, Apostles. where some of the saint’s relics are kept

Regulus was then said to have had a second dream in which an angel advised him to take the hidden relics ‘to the ends of the earth’ for protection. Wherever he was shipwrecked, he was to build a shrine for them. St Regulus set sail, taking with him a kneecap, an upper arm bone, three fingers and a tooth. He sailed west, towards the edge of the known world, and was shipwrecked on the coast of Fife, Scotland. However, the relics were probably brought to Britain in 597 as part of the Augustine Mission, and then in 732 to Fife, by Bishop Acca of Hexham, a well-known collector of religious relics.

Legacy Andrew is the patron saint of several countries and cities including Barbados, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Ukraine, Sarzana, Pienza and Amalfi in Italy, Esgueira in Portugal, Luqa in Malta, Parañaque in the Philippines and Patras in Greece. He was also the patron saint of Prussia and of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

The flag of Scotland (and consequently the Union Flag and those of some of the former colonies of the British Empire) feature St Andrew's saltire cross.

Fr John Moore

‘Anglo-Catholic’….matters St Stephen’s Church has a long and rich Anglo-Catholic tradition. Each month, the Parish Magazine features an article about one aspect of this tradition, which contributes so much to our corporate worship and the life of our church community.

The Feast of Christ the King 22nd November

The origins of the Feast In December 1925, Pope Pius XI announced a new Feast of Christ the King in his encyclical Quas Primas. The Supreme Pontiff made it clear that the purpose of the new celebration was not merely to honour Christ’s Kingship, but to encourage individuals, families and entire societies to submit to the yoke of Christ the King. After a beautiful reflection on how Jesus Christ exercises full judiciary, executive and legislative power over all of mankind, the Pope added, ‘It would be a grave error…to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs, since, by virtue of the absolute empire over all creatures committed to Him by the Father, all things are in His power.’

According to Quas Primas, the ‘pest of our age’ is secularism (laicismus), the Christ Enthroned in Glory attempt to build society without God. Andrei Rublev, 1400-1410 Secularism began with a political The Ruzhnikov Russian Art Collection curtailment of the Church’s ability to govern her flock with respect to their eternal salvation and escalated into either the subordination of the Church to a powerful State or outright persecution. The result of the secular marginalisation of ‘Jesus Christ and His holy law’, the Pope argued, is constant war between nations, an assault on the family, domestic strife, insatiable greed and a blind and immoderate selfishness—'in a word, society shaken to its foundations and on the way to ruin’.

According to the teaching of Pius XI, the solution to this plague is to ‘look for the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ’ by recognising, ‘both in private and in public life, that Christ is King’. When this happens, ‘society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony. Our Lord’s regal office invests the human authority of princes and rulers with a religious significance; it ennobles the citizen’s duty of obedience.’ It was to facilitate this solution to modernity’s ills that Pius XI instituted a feast in honour of Christ the Christ Pantocrator (1174) Monreale Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily King, ‘that the kingship of our Saviour should be as widely as possible recognised and understood’.

The Feast of Christ the King, then, is designed to instruct the minds of the faithful about the social reign of Jesus Christ and to warn them of the errors of secularism. But it is also designed to move and strengthen their hearts. Without saying it in so many words, the Pope was just as concerned about the silence of the good as he was about the ideological delusions of the bad. Secularism thrives on the cowardliness of the pious; it sets a public tone of silence about God and then twists that silence into a form of acquiescence and even apostasy. Pius XI’s response to this hostile silent treatment is not the further privatisation of religion or more ‘dialogue’. It is a rebel yell:

‘While nations insult the beloved name of our Redeemer by suppressing all mention of it in their conferences and parliaments, we must all the more loudly proclaim His kingly dignity and power, all the more universally affirm His rights.’

The Feast of Christ the King is designed not to recover an ancien régime or to establish a theocracy or even necessarily a Catholic confessional state, but to embolden Christians to march into whatever public square in which they find themselves a part and declare Christ’s gentle but firm sovereignty over their society. In sum, the exhortatory goal of the Feast of Christ the King is the renewal of a Christian public spiritedness that can meet the political and social challenges of the age and work manfully towards the inner transformation of contemporary society.

The date of the Feast Pius assigned the Feast of Christ the King to the last Sunday of October. The Holy Father wanted it to fall on a Sunday so that not only the clergy but the laity could fully Christ in Majesty participate in it. And he wanted it Hubert and Jan van Eyck on the last Sunday of October for The Ghent Altarpiece, 1427 two reasons. Firstly, by being near St Bavo’s Cathedral Ghent, Belgium the end of the liturgical year, the feast ‘sets the crowning glory upon the mysteries of the life of Christ already commemorated during the year’. Secondly, by celebrating it before All Saints’ Day on 1st November, ‘we proclaim and extol the glory of Him who triumphs in all the Saints and in all the Elect’.

In 1970, the date of the Feast of Christ the King was moved to the final Sunday of Ordinary Time (‘the Sunday next before Advent’). The new date of the Feast affirms the triumph of Christ the King over all things at the end of time and serves as a fitting capstone to the season of Ordinary Time, which began in January after the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord (in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar) or after The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (in the Anglican liturgical calendar). Thus configured, Ordinary Time is ‘book-ended’ by the beginning and end of Christ’s ministry.

Fr John Moore

The Guild of Intercession

James Henry Hayes 24/11/1917; Marie Louise Corbin 3/11/1920; Judith Crocker 7/11/1921; Mary Wheat 17/11/1935; George Louis Allen Crocker 19/11/1937; Claude Lennard Hart 1/11/1940; Alan George Renouf 1/11/1948; Ena Crocker 15/11/1948; Frank Leopold Tanner 2/11/1949; Leila Dobson 22/11/1949; Matthew Mitchell 7/11/1950; Adelaide Louisa Lewis 8/11/1950; Albert Pidgeon 30/11/1950; Edith Blanche Gliddon 30/11/1950; James Thomas Basset 7/11/1951;Henry Lizars Tuck 3/11/1952; Ellen Fredericka Hawtrey 25/11/1955; John Alex le Moigne 25/11/1955; Herbert John Le Moignan 3/11/1956; Maud Horner 16/11/1956; Adelaide Burnell 5/11/1957; Ernest Le Page 14/11/1957; Lily May Board 16/11/1957; Beatrice Maud Cochrane 18/11/1957; Clifford Ennis Le Huray 24/11/1958; Charles Alfred Montgomery 28/11/1959; Herbert William Whitford 28/11/1959; Dora Frances Tarr Gaudin 16/11/1960; Ernest William Helman 19/11/1960; Marcia de Jersey 7/11/1961; Henry Hooper Salisbury 27/11/1962; Arthur Piprell 5/11/1963; Marie-Claire Moutien 30/11/1963; Roland John Kemp 30/11/1963; Edith Maud Messenger 20/11/1964; Basil Joseph Reginald Guille (Priest) 28/11/1965; Florrie Janet Goodall 28/11/1965; Vera Christina Williams 8/11/1966; Gerald Horner 11/11/1966; Harry Lyster-Cooper 24/11/1967; Mabel Holdaway 8/11/1970; Norman Palmer Andrews 5/11/1971; Muriel Marggaret Thulia McLeod 13/11/1973; Marjorie Lilian Isemonger 8/11/1976; William Frederick Rich 19/11/1976; Harold George Till 2/11/1977; Laurence Deller Symons 12/11/1978; Frank Cooper (Priest) 16/11/1982; Cyril Douglas Eley, 4/11/1984; Dorothy Muriel Lancaster 28/11/1985; Hilda Marion Mount 13/11/1987; Hedley Gilbert Bienvenu 3/11/1988; Harry Denney 5/11/1988; Doris Maud Tapp 9/11/1988; Mabel May Bougourd 29/11/1988; John Eric Le Page 23/11/1989; Philip Charles Malzard 3/11/1993; Iris Petch 15/11/1994; Arthur Edward Rouget 2/11/1996; Henry Raymond Kaines 17/11/1996; Thomas Ralph Watson 9/11/1998; Doris Estelle Hart 30/11/2000; Reginald George Helman 19/11/2003; Marjorie Gladys Piprell 26/11/2004; Ruth Underdown Thoume 11/11/2005; Roy St Valentine Glass 17/11/2005; Winifred Bessie Bretel 30/11/2005; Jacqueline Flére Dorey 26/11/2006; Charles Henry Vague, 9/11/2007; Frank Henry Wallace 2/11/2008; Bernice Heath, 6/11/2009; John (Jock) Hunter, 14/11/2009; Maurice Ernest Mallett,14/11/2010; Ivy Muriel Renouf, 13/11/2012; Emily Sky Batiste 15/11/2013; Robert Denning, 15/11/2013; David Rawson 20/11/2013; Una Laine 24/11/2013; John Richard Herschel 30/11/2013; Kevin Frank Le Page 27/11/2015; Margaret Mary Pasquier 1/11/2016; Karen Frances Kreckeler 12/11/2016; David Cecil Holt 26/11/2016; Elizabeth Guy (née Turner) 21/11/2018; David Martin Le Lievre 15/11/19.

Year unknown: Anna Marie Matthews, 9/11.

May They Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory

Parish Registers (October 2020)

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November Bible Readings

Sunday All Saints’ Day Revelation Ch7 v9-17 and the 1 John Ch3 v1-3 1st November Fourth Sunday Matthew Ch5 v1-12 before Advent Sunday Remembrance Amos Ch5 v18-24 Sunday and the 1 Thessalonians Ch4 v13-18 8th November Third Sunday Matthew Ch25 v1-13 before Advent Sunday The Second Sunday Zephaniah Ch1 v7, 12-18 before Advent 1 Thessalonians Ch5 v1-11 15th November Matthew Ch25 v14-30

Sunday Christ the King Ezekiel Ch34 v11-16, 20-24 and the Ephesians Ch1 ,15-23 22nd November Sunday Next Matthew Ch25 v31-46 before Advent Sunday The First Sunday Isaiah Ch64 v1-9 of Advent 1 Corinthians Ch1 v3-9 29th November Mark Ch13 v24-37

Hymns and Liturgical Music

SUNDAY 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th 11.00am Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov SUNG All Remem- The Christ The MASS Saints’ brance Second the King First Day and Sunday Sunday and the Sunday the and the before Sunday of Fourth Third Advent next Advent Sunday Sunday before before before Advent Advent Advent Anthem HYMN 197 449 332 14 417 National Anthem (1 verse) 489

PROPER 731 733 752 753 657

OFFERTORY 231 488/ 339 296 9 493

COMMUNION 341 328 286 282 1 POST- COMMUNION 230 526 395 S. 23 C. 1 (Kneeling) 490

9.30am 381 417 339 391 MP SAID MASS S. 5 MP 48 MP 151 S. 23 167 ‘One More Step’

Guilds, Clubs & Activities at St Stephen’s

Tamara Beach and Rachel Le Prevost Wednesday Community Centre RAINBOWS 7thststephensrainbows 4.00pm – 5.00pm 5—7 years old @gmail.com Joanne Luce and Wednesday Community Centre BROWNIES Heidi Chatwin 5.00pm - 6.30pm 7 – 10 years old Tel: 07781 402867 Debbie Robilliard Tamara Beach and Friday Community Centre GUIDES Sophie Leale 6.00pm – 7.30pm 10 – 14 years old Tel: 714850 + 07911 132440 [email protected] Debbie Robilliard and Sophie Leale Wednesday Community Centre RANGERS Tel: 714850 + 07911 132440 7.40pm—9.00pm 14-21 years old [email protected] 1st VICTORIA Rosalyne Beavers Community Centre SEA SCOUT Le Huray Monday 6 – 8 years old GROUP Tel: 07781 127263 5.30pm - 6.45pm

Rosalyne Cubs Group Scout Community Centre Le Huray Monday Leader 8 – 10 years old Tel: 07781 127263 7.00pm – 8.30pm

Sea Scouts Rosalyne Julie Hutchins Community Centre Wednesday Le Huray Tel: 07781 430700 10 – 14 years old Tel: 07781 127263 7.00pm – 9.00pm Andrea Bateman SUNDAY CLUB andrea.bateman@ Sunday 9.30am Church Vestry yahoo.co.uk

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