THE LINK The Magazine of The Knightley Parishes April 2021 No. 357 Badby Newnham Charwelton Fawsley Preston Capes THE KNIGHTLEY PARISHES www.knightleybenefice.org.uk An on-line version of this magazine in colour is available on the web site Services for April 2021 See the Rector’s Letter on page 5 and the Service Arrangements item on page 6 4 April 11 April 18 April 25 April I II III IV EASTER Easter 2 Easter 3 Easter 4 Badby 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 Holy Communion Family Service Holy Communion Morning Service CW CW CW Newnham 09:15 17:00 Holy Communion Evening Service CW CW Charwelton 17:00 09:15 Evening Prayer Holy Communion BCP BCP (Church) (Church) Fawsley 09:15 Holy Communion BCP Preston Capes 09:15 17:00 Holy Communion Evening Prayer CW BCP OTHER SERVICES Mon 29, Tues 30th, Wed 31st March Video Meditation available at www.knightleybenefice.org.uk Thursday 1 April 7.30pm By Zoom Maundy Thursday Friday 2 April Video service available Good Friday Tuesday 20 April 6.30 pm By Zoom ESOW 2 SUNDAY READINGS Principal Service CW - for other services see Lectionary Date Feast Talk First Reading Gospel 1 Apr Maundy Thursday 2 Apr Good Friday 4 April EASTER A shock discovery Acts 10:34-43 Mat 28:1-10 11 Apr Easter 2 What are you here for? Exod 19:16-22 Matt 5:1-2 Sermon on the Mount 18 Apr Easter 3 Overdrawn applicants Isaiah 61:1-3 Matt 5:3-5 welcome 25 Apr Easter 4 A good reflection Rev 21:1-5 Matt 5:6-8 2 May Easter 5 Peace & persecution 1 Peter 3:13-16 Matt 5:9-12 3 EDITORIAL his month’s magazine looks a bit thin and your preferred charity (including PCCs!) at no Tthreadbare, which I suppose reflects the cost to you. lack of activity in all sorts of areas, both church It’s well worth exploring. and village related. However, it is good to see from the Diary that David parishes are starting to make plans for the reintroduction of social and/or fundraising ✣ ✣ ✣ activities once Covid restrictions are lifted. It is after all so much easier to amend, or even cancel, provisionally made arrangements than THIS MONTH’S SUDOKUS it is to start trying to set up events at short Puzzle No. 22 notice. So “Good Luck” to all those doing the hard work. We all look forward to getting back to “normal”! Thus, June and I have booked seats at the end of May for “Carousel” at the Kilworth Open Air Theatre - always excellent productions - and I will let you know later if our confidence in Covid arrangements was justified! nd on the subject of fund raising Aactivities, may I draw your attention to the account on page 10 of Charwelton’s move to Rating - Mild reinvigorate the “easyfundraising” scheme under which online purchases from a huge Puzzle No. 23 range of retailers can generate donations to Rating - Difficult [Solutions on page 12] 4 THE RECTOR’S LETTER up the consequences of that brokenness Easter Basics and it killed him. As I write this, I have spent the last couple Three days went by, a long dark hopeless of weeks being quite poorly, nothing life time with seemingly no end in sight. threatening but not a lot of fun and during that time I’ve really just wanted the basics, Then suddenly, this God made man, this sleep, water, quiet, comfort. I didn’t want Jesus appeared again! to read, listen to the radio or even watch TV most of the time. Then The God of life, of hope, of as I started to improve I wholeness had conquered wanted more, but again, death and hopelessness and nothing too fancy. One day brokenness, not for his benefit, I found myself looking but for ours because he loves longingly at the advert on us; and because he loves us he the back page of the TV wants us to share in his new mag. for home delivered life, his eternal hope and his ready meals. I really fancied true wholeness. the cottage pie but wasn’t at all interested in the sweet There’s a lot more to discover and sour chicken. about Easter, it’s shocking, it’s glorious, it’s powerful, it’s After a year plus of humbling, it overflows with Lockdowns and Covid-19 God’s love for the world and perhaps we too are a bit each and every one of us drained, a little exhausted, individually, but for the tired a bit tired. So here are the basics of Easter. and the weary and the broken this all you need to know; God loves you, Long ago God saw when the world he there is hope and the proof is Easter. created for us got broken, when we broke it and ourselves at the same time. Because Malcolm God loves us he promised to come and mend that brokenness both in the world and in each and every one of us too. So that’s what he did. We had broken everything by trying to stand in God’s place, so God came amongst us as one of us and stood in our place, his name was Jesus and he soaked 5 PARISH NOTICESBENEFICE PAGE SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS FARTHINGSTONE EVENTS Services will continue to be online at Farthingstone Events - please visit www.knightleybenefice.org.uk www.farthingstone.org.uk for more details Farthingstone Foot Festival Saturday 5 June. Holy Week Walkers and Runners are invited to take part in On Monday to Wednesday in Holy Week there this organised and sponsored annual cross will be a short “Video meditation” available on country event linking our villages, half day or our website www.knightleybenefice.org.uk whole. On Maundy Thursday at 7.30pm there will be a Farthingstone Open Gardens Sunday 20 June service on Zoom and the link to that will be 2-6pm. posted again on the website. On Good Friday there will be a video service BOOK REVIEW available. Penny Cory has kindly submitted this book Services will hopefully begin again in our review for your attention - many thanks Penny. church buildings starting on Easter Day for some villages - see page 2. This is a temporary Hot Potato pattern as we move into a recovery phase and is subject to change or even suspension if the If you thought this was going to be a recipe situation demands. featuring spuds you’ll be disappointed. This hot potato is of the educational, rather than the EVENING SERVICE OF THE WORD King Edward, variety but it’s undoubtedly an issue very much in the news. This short service is held once a month on the Tuesday evening following the third Sunday at I’m sure you’ll remember as a child being told 6.30pm using Zoom until further notice. Led in “When you’re older you’ll look back on your turn by one of those who attends, there is school years as the best of your life.” Well, always a brief talk about somebody we’re all older and somewhat experienced in inspirational. All are welcome to participate. If the ways of the world and, right enough, our you are not already on the access list, please school years do now seem magical. However, contact Gill Nelson via email two books on my recent reading list provided [email protected]. Next dates are compelling but contrasting accounts of Tuesday, April 20 and Tuesday, 18 May. schooling which were more traumatic than magical. BADBY & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY The first book sees a retired head teacher, Marie Stubbs, returning to the fray to run St. Despite not meeting up in person, there has George’s school in Marylebone. You’ll recall been a lot of activity in the Gardening Club: this was the school whose Headmaster, Philip membership is on the rise, photo-sharing via Lawrence, was stabbed to death by a pupil in WhatsApp maintains contact between 1995. In the aftermath of that atrocity the members and a seed-swap is currently school declined to the point where it was underway. It’s really simple to join, just email placed in Special Measures. Turning the school around was a daunting task but, if you read Rich on [email protected]. 6 ‘Ahead of the Class ’, you’ll see what an inspirational head Marie (later Lady) Stubbs PARISH NOTICES turned out to be. I’m not afraid to admit that BADBY some of the episodes she describes brought a Correspondent - Geoff Pullin ([email protected]) tear to my eye. EASTER BUNNY ‘ Let Her Fly ’ by Ziauddin Yousafzai tells the story of a teacher in Pakistan who fought for The Easter Bunny is planning to hop around Badby equality of educational opportunity in a society hiding Easter Eggs and hoping everyone will find the where normally only the boys benefit. eggs and win prizes. More details will be on village However, it was when he had his own and church Facebook pages and web sites nearer to daughter, Malala, that his determination really Easter. took hold. This book relates his battle to give Malala access to education and the near-fatal CHURCH FLOWERS consequences of giving her a voice: her outspokenness resulted in an attempt on her Huge thanks to the talented church flower arrangers life by the Taliban, from which she was lucky to who kindly made posies for Mothering Sunday survive. Reading this made me realise how weekend, and thanks also to everyone who took a lucky I was to have been brought up in a posy and made a donation.