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Room, Honley) WELCOME Holmfirth Kirkheaton OPEN HD9 6AY HD5 0JB Thursday, Contact 01484 662324 01484 535853 Friday, Carol Hirst www.radcliffefuneralservice.com 664616 Saturday Res: 9 Seymour Walk, Meltham 01484 851994 10 –12 An independent family business for over 40 years Thank you to all our advertisers - Please support them when you can What’s in a name? The choice of a Christian name for the new baby is one of the challenges of many a father and mother. Fashions change and what was acceptable years ago is no longer, and vice versa. Families require the continuance of certain family names in each generation. There is pressure to be "different” or to imitate the ‘Celeb’ of the day. A recent list of the top three names of boys and girls names indicates a return to names of yesteryear and even flowers like Poppy and Daisy which were mocked years ago. I was called Henry just because my parents liked the name! Churches have names too and it’s fascinating to work out the significance of each. It may be, as at Honley, that when the first church was built here in the Middle Ages it was the fashion to commemorate the Mother of the Lord. Or, as at Brockholes when I believe it was less of a patriotic gesture to choose the national patron saint St George but rather a recognition by Marianne Armitage who paid for the building, of the regular repetition of the name George for every first born son of the owners of High Royd. Local celebrations have continued on the feast days of our patron saints. Honley Feast even survived the alteration of the calendar in the 18th century. Brockholes has now for several years celebrated St George’s Day with AD’s demonstration of the slaying of the Dragon. But it isn’t only Saint’s days that give us an opportunity to show our thanks for the church, but wherever the day of the dedication is not known, then there is a special Feast of Dedication - the first Sunday in October. (This year it will be Harvest Festival; but I hope perhaps we shall at least remember it on the alternative date – the last Sunday after Trinity, i.e. 28th October). 1 Recently I was talking to a friend in Brockholes and I said “I have now been here for nearly fourteen years, and the church continues alive and well”; and she replied, “And I have been her for 82 years – and it’s my birthday!” This is the wonder of the church. People come and people go, but there remains, thanks to the quiet and persevering devotion and prayers of so many and their witness, a continuing life in every generation. Thanks be to God, for our saints and our churches and for the working of the Spirit in this parish. Look out for Him as He works; not in the obvious, but in unexpected places. Thanks be to God for St Mary, St George and all those good and holy (and mostly anonymous) people in every generation, who pass on the Faith, by who they are and Who they follow. Henry Stapleton Millennium Book Prizes The PCC made its 13th award to the schools of the parish in 2012. Pupils chosen by the staff of each school for their overall progress rather than academic achievement only, were as follows; Honley Infant and Nursery School - Rebecca Eley and Joshua Thomas Haigh Honley Junior School - Joe Heppenstall Brockholes Infant & Junior School - William Shaw and Tom O’Hara Honley High School - Thomas Grota and Lauren Batley Cliff Green, PCC Secretary 2 PARISH NEWS From the Parish Registers Baptism St Mary’s August 19 Patrick Anthony Green St Mary’s August 19 Amelia-Rose Mary Green St Mary’s August 19 Neveah Lilly Teja Browne St Mary’s August 19 Harry Glen Iggleden-Millen Weddings St Mary’s August 25 Darren Patrick Downs and Tamara Alexandra Stone St Mary’s August 31 Mark Tindall and Kay Bilics St Mary’s September 1 Andrew David Todd and Michelle Louise Taylor Funerals St George’s August 30 Jean Margaret Thewlis St Mary’s September 7 Lily Edith Parkin St George’s September 17 George Head In October we remember in our Year’s Mind Willie Parkin d. 1 October 2004 Margaret Gregory d. 5 October 2007 Roy Littlewood d. 9 October 2009 William Johnson Wilson d. 13 October 2003 Carol Lesley Hepper d. 19 October 2010 Doreen Wadsworth d. 21 October 2007 Rupert Handsley Hildred d. 22 October 1984 Mabel Tolhurst d. 23 October 2007 Lesley Cockroft d. 26 October 2011 Maureen Taylor d. 28 October 2009 Vera Jessop d. October 2010 Brian Hinchliffe d. October 2010 Geoffrey Gill d. October 2011 3 Parish Giving Corner responding to God’s love enabling mission Making Your Presence Felt One thing that we don`t do is to continually carp on about how much it costs to run the Parish, and that we never have enough money. Facts and figures can soon become boring, more importantly, we don`t want Christian giving to be narrowly perceived as simply getting money in to pay the bills. Christian giving is more dynamic than that. Our faith should nurture us as givers so we are not simply giving to a need – but more needing to give. Christians give because they know the grace of God poured out to them in Christ. Giving that speaks of all that we have received from God. We know there are many who read the Parish Magazine who have a particular affinity or bond with either St Mary’s or St George’s. However, for various reasons, are not able to come to services on a regular basis. We would, of course, love to welcome you in person. But in the meantime what we would ask you to consider is making your presence felt by becoming a regular giver and joining our Planned Giving Scheme. Regular and consistent giving is vital to the health of the Church and its mission. If you would like to consider this, please contact the DCC Treasurer or any other Church official. Your support will be greatly appreciated. Please ask and we will be happy to help on any aspect of giving. Clive Green and Roger Kenworthy - Parish Giving Officers 4 ST. MARY'S CALENDAR SEPTEMBER Sunday 30 17th Sunday after Trinity 8.00 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Parish Eucharist 6.30 pm Taize service OCTOBER Wednesday 3 9.30 am Holy Communion followed by Pastoral Care Prayer Group 7.30 pm Mothers’ Union - Speaker: Alice Moore Thursday 4 10.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Morning 1.30 pm Baby and Toddler Group 7.00 - 8.00 pm The Coffee Wagon Sunday 7 Harvest 8.00 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Family Service for Harvest 6.30 pm Parish Eucharist Monday 8 1.00 - 7.00 pm Honley Library Open Day Tuesday 9 7.30 pm Finance & Property Committee Meeting Wednesday 10 9.30 am Holy Communion Thursday 11 10.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Morning 1.30 pm Baby and Toddler Group 7.00 - 8.00 pm The Coffee Wagon Friday 12 7.30 pm Hand Chimes Rehearsal Sunday 14 19th Sunday after Trinity 8.00 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Parish Eucharist 6.30 pm Evening Prayer Tuesday 16 7.30 pm D C C Meeting Wednesday 17 9.30 am Holy Communion Thursday 18 10.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Morning 1.30 pm Baby and Toddler Group 7.00 - 8.00 pm The Coffee Wagon Friday 19 7.30 pm Hand Chimes Rehearsal Sunday 21 20th Sunday after Trinity 8.00 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Family Communion (+ Children’s Club) 3.00 pm Evensong and Holy Baptism Wednesday 24 9.30 am Holy Communion 5 Thursday 25 10.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Morning 1.30 pm Baby and Toddler Group 7.00 - 8.00 pm The Coffee Wagon Friday 26 2.00 pm Infants School Harvest Service Sunday 28 Last Sunday after Trinity 8.00 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Parish Eucharist 6.30 pm Evening Prayer Wednesday 31 9.30 am Holy Communion NOVEMBER Thursday 1 10.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Morning 1.30 pm Baby and Toddler Group Sunday 4 All Saints Day 8.00 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Family Service 6.30 pm Parish Eucharist Wednesday 7 9.30 am Holy Communion followed by Pastoral Care Prayer Group Service Sidespeople Reader Intercessors Serving Coffee Oct Harvest Rebecca and Rebecca Graham and Gillian and 7 Festival Craig Noble Noble Jane Wardman Roger Greaves Oct Parish Gillian Greaves Elaine Carol Alison and 14 Eucharist Shirley Mitchell Shaw Hirst Simon Dean Oct Family Pauline and Jenny Clive Liz Cummings 21 Communion John Adams Lockwood Waind Janet Sykes Oct Parish Janet Sykes Andrew Angeline Suzanne and 28 Eucharist Mary Stapleton Dean Baker Stephen Dufton Nov Family Bill Kemp Helen Graham and Heather Ambler 4 Service David Wainwright Martin Jane Wardman Shirley Turner 6 HONLEY NEWS Coffee Wagon The Coffee Wagon team have decided that, due to very few team members and the onset of cold, dark winter evenings, they will close down at the end of October for the winter months.