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The Parish Magazine of St Stephen's Church Guernsey November 2020 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, Archbishop of Canterbury, 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, Bishop 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.
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