Uley, Owlpen & Nympsfield June 2021 Village News Supporting Church, Community and Local Business [email protected] ULEY PARISH COUNCIL MR JOHN KAY, TEL: 07841 204404 E-MAIL: [email protected] PARISH COUNCILLORS JONATHAN DEMBREY CHAIR 07801217230 MELANIE PARASKEVA VICE-CHAIR 07929360221 JO DEE 01453 861566 JANET WOOD 01453 860236 Uley Parish Council MIKE GRIFFITHS 01453 860463 JULIETMr BROWNE John Kay | T: 07841 204404 | E: [email protected] 01453 860710 Parish Councillors TIM MARTIN 07772268473 Melanie Paraskeva (Chair) [email protected] 07929 360221 DISTRICTJo Dee (Vice-Chair) [email protected] 01453 861566 Juliet Browne [email protected] 01453 860710 JIMMike DEWEY Griffiths [email protected]@stroud.gov.uk01453 860463 01453 860795 David Lungley [email protected] 07971 780825 COUNTYTim Martin [email protected] 07772 268473 Janet Wood [email protected] 01453 860236 LORAINEDistrict Councillor PATRICK [email protected] 01453 546995 Martin Pearcy [email protected] COMMUNITYCounty Councillor WELL-BEING AGENT Wendy Thomas [email protected] AMBER WALTERS [email protected] 07817866354 Stroud District Council - Neighbourhood Warden OtherAndrew InformationBeamish [email protected] 07834 419332 Community Wellbeing TheEmail: Parish [email protected] Council normally meets Tel:in 0345the 863Village 8323 Hall on the first Wednesday of theUley month Parish at Council 7:00pm, Meetings however for the foreseeable future Council meetings are beingThe Parish held Council online meets using in the “Zoom”. Village Hall You on the are first very Wednesday welcome of the to attend online. Details of monththe meetings at 7:00pm. Youcan are be very found welcome on to the attend. notice Details boards of the meetings at either end of the village or oncan the be Uley found villageon the notice website boards at:at either www.uleyparishcouncil.gov.uk end of the village or on the Uley village website at: www.uleyparishcouncil.gov.uk The December edition of the The June edition of the Messenger is available to download from: https://www.gloucester.anglican.org/parish-resources/communications/#messengerdownload from: Please note, articles submitted by individuals do not necessarily represent 2 the views or policies of the Church and / or Parish Council. From the Editor I’ve had a few inquiries for advertising article about the project to record in the Village News this month, so local stone stiles which has been I thought it would be helpful to set submitted this month. out the costs for placing adverts. The prices below are per month and they We are always keen to include can be placed for as many months as pieces from members of the you would like. local community and we would particularly like to feature local Quarter page (portrait) - £5 photographs or artwork on the cover. Half page (landscape) - £10 Full page (portrait) - £20 Please send articles, notices or adverts in by the 10th of each month The funds raised go towards the to [email protected] printing costs, with the remainder of the costs being covered by the This month’s cover photo, of Church and the Parish Council. the carpet of buttercups on the Millenium Green, was taken by Notices for local events, such as the Stephen Jones. Village Show and fundraising events, are free and will be sized to fit the I hope you can enjoy the easing of space available. Contributions which restrictions and stay safe. are of local interest are also included for free, such as the interesting Angela Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield Churches of St Giles, Holy Cross and St Bartholomew The Rev’d Canon Michael Cozens Churchwardens T: 01453 546459 Mrs P Thomas, T: 860047 E: [email protected] Mrs A Hardy, T: 860876 Parish day off - Friday All bookings for the Church and St Messages listened to daily Giles Room to Marion Kee, T: 860364, E: [email protected] www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk 3 A Letter from Tony King Dear friends does get a look in on his own back in January with The Conversion As I write this, we are one week away of St. Paul on the 25th.and the from the next stage in the relaxation Lectionary does allow Peter to be of the Coronavirus rules. If all goes commemorated alone on 29th June. well, we shall be able to do more, The old Book of Common Prayer to mix more and, hopefully, relax lectionary also had Peter on his own some of the restrictions currently on this day. Originally the feast day controlling our church services. celebrated the martyrdom of both saints in Rome, which may go some I don’t think it will actually allow us way in explaining the mystery. to dispense with social distances and/or masks, but maybe we shall We know quite a lot about Paul and be allowed to sing. That’s one of the Peter, a bit about John the Baptist things I’ve missed most – while it’s and hardly anything about Barnabas. been nice to have a reduced choir singing on our behalf, it’s not the But there is one other same and I’ve found it very difficult commemoration which is not of a to stop myself singing behind the person. On 3rd of June the Church mask! celebrates A Day of Thanksgiving for Holy Communion – formerly We shall see – and hopefully during known as Corpus Christi or, in full in the month of June things will Ecclesiastical Latin: Dies Sanctissimi become even more relaxed. Corporis et Sanguinis Domini Iesu Christi, lit. ‘Day of the Most Holy Body As always there are a number and Blood of Jesus Christ the Lord’. of Church Feast Days in June - Barnabas the Apostle on the 11th, The Originally it was a celebration of the Birth of John the Baptist on the 24th Real Presence of the Body and Blood and Peter and Paul the Apostles on of Christ in the Eucharist. This caused the 29th. Quite why Peter and Paul the celebration to be dropped during (both of rather more significance the Reformation – the Church of than Barnabas, in my humble England abolished it in 1548, but it opinion) have to share a feast day is was later re-instated under the name a bit of a mystery. In fairness, Paul ‘Thanksgiving for Holy Communion’. 4 It seems perhaps strange to have this in the service. It’s hardly a time of celebration when the celebrations on rejoicing. Maundy Thursday also incorporate a thanksgiving for Holy Communion. It was this fact that caused the We hear the gospel narrative about Church in in 13th century to start the Last Supper our Lord gave to celebrating the feast day of Corpus his disciples, with the injunction ‘Do Christi. this in remembrance of me’ and our Responses and prayers give thanks In many places on this day there are for this. So why is there another feast processions in the streets with public day? prayers and the Holy Sacrament - The Body of Christ - is carried aloft In fact, the institution of the for all to see. Eucharist at the Last Supper is observed on Maundy Thursday in a It is certainly different from Maundy sombre atmosphere leading to Good Thursday! Friday. The liturgy on that day also commemorates Christ’s washing A prayer from the liturgy for the day: of the disciples’ feet, the institution of the priesthood and the agony May Christ, who has nourished us in the Garden of Gethsemane. Yes, with the living bread, make us one in the institution of Holy Communion praise and love. is remembered, but it is rather swamped by all the other elements Tony King From the Registers Recently Departed: Doreen Hester Davies, Terry Davies, John Flood Ken Dunn, Barbara Harris, Joyce Holloway, Lucy Winifred Horler, Those whose Year’s Mind falls in Ernest Frederick Hunn, June: Eleanor Temple-Carrington, Joscelin Adams, Beryl Ashton, Ethel White, Wendy Balm, Mike Louis Beeston, Barbara Wright, Joyce Poultney Margaret Beatrice Billett, 5 Church News from Canon Michael St Giles’ ‘Access for All’ project Music in church and a return to Inside this edition of the Village News Evensong you will find a leaflet giving details of Although we are currently still the project we are planning for your not able to sing together as a village church. The members of St congregation in church, we have Giles wanted to share this exciting been very blessed by having a small project with the wider community as group of singers (following Covid we are soon going to be able to start guidelines) who have sung a couple work. The leaflet gives details of the of hymns during our Sunday services. plans, although we are doing well, This month, on Sunday 27th June, we there is still some money to raise! are trying a different Sunday pattern The legacy of just over £100,000 was with a communion service for the intended for work like this including Benefice in St James in Dursley at improving disabled access. We have 10am and Evensong (with some received other grants including a music) in Holy Cross in Owlpen at generous donation of £2,000 from 6pm. Why not walk over to join us! The Spirit of Uley fund and we hope to hear positive responses from other potential funders. We do need Annual Meetings postponed to your help! Any donations would be June very much appreciated, as well as Due to Covid restrictions not allowing suggestions of where to apply for us to hold a meeting in person on funding.