CONTACT DETAILS MARCH 2013 Priest-in-charge & Bulletin Editor Rev’d Kathy Lawrie 01482 897693 The Benefice of Hedon, Paull, Sproatley & Preston. [email protected] 30p Benefice Bulletin. Hedon Church Wardens Phil Danby 01482 896343 Carol Gronous 01482 896680 PCC Secretary Dorothy Winter 01482 899925 WORD FROM THE VICARAGE PCC Treasurer Martin Gash 01964 623452 Bell Ringers Keith Everingham 01482 899020 This Lent, I’d like to share with you some thoughts and insights from one of my fa- Church Room Wendy Bond 01482 899772 vourite spiritual books, ‘A Seven Day Journey with Thomas Merton’ by Esther de Mothers’ Union Ruth Pate 01964 630145 Waal. Merton was a 20th century monk, a teacher, a writer- and though you might think that life in a monastery is light years away from our busy lives here in the East Paull Riding, Merton does have a great deal of value to share with us about those relation- Church Warden Joyce Wigg 01482 890552 ships with God, others and ourselves which we come to focus on during Lent. PCC Secretary Mandy Annison 01964 626115 PCC Treasurer Paul Cross 07711 797200 We start then at the beginning of our Lenten journey. Journeys Kay Burn -01964 626228 /Mandy Annison –see above Health walks Kay Burn—see above “What I am setting out to do is risky –an encounter with myself and with God. I may Car boot sale Paul Cross –see above meet my real self. I may meet the true God. Perhaps I have been running away from Fundraising Kay Burn/Mandy Annison –see above both. Sproatley “Who am I at this point in my life? At the start of this time, I present myself before Church Wardens Liz Holt 01482 814188 Herbert Harper 01482 811316 God with empty hands. I recognise my own nothingness and my complete depend- PCC Secretary Lynn Stephenson 01482 812035 ence on Him…and yet at the same time I acknowledge the fullness and the riches I PCC Treasurer Denise Wilson 01482 817887 am bringing…These hands of mine that I hold out before Him, so worn and used, are hands made by God to do His work in the world. The whole of myself made to be Preston part of His world …I am overawed to think of the person that I am, that unique per- Church Wardens John Myers 01482 896631 Christine Busfield 01482 891362 son so lovingly created by God in all the fullness and riches of my own individuality, PCC Secretary Pat Ferguson 01482 890538 a person made to be His daughter, His son. PCC Treasurer Jenny Dimishky 01482 897650 “Now I realise that the start must be simply to stay still, to accept myself where I find Bulletin Distributors myself, to be open to the present. I put aside all demanding techniques and technol- Hedon Margaret Charles 01482 898642 ogy…It is time to stop running, in all the different directions which have seemed so Paull Anne Sleights 01482 896458 attractive, and instead just take time to be- here and now. Preston Jenny Dimishky 01482 897650 Sproatley Liz Holt 01482 814188 “In technology you have this horizontal progress where you must start at one point and move to another and then another. But that is not the way to build a life of prayer. In prayer we discover what we already have. You start where you are and you deepen what you already have, and you realize that you are already there. We already have everything but we don’t know it and we don’t experience it. Everything has been Deadline for items to be submitted for next issue – given to us in Christ. All we need is to experience what we already possess. Friday 22nd March; please submit items to Rev Kathy “If we really want prayer, we’ll have to give it time. We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen. And as soon as we listen to what’s going FROM THE REGISTERS on, things will begin to take shape by themselves. But for this we have to experience time in a new way…The reason why we don’t take time is a feeling that we have to BAPTISMS keep moving. This is a real sickness. Today time is a commodity and for each one of us time is mortgaged….we must approach the whole idea of time in a new way. We Harriet Kathleen Townsend 24th February St Augustine’s, Hedon live in the fullness of time. Every moment is God’s own good time, His kairos. ‘Shine as a light to the glory of God the Father’ “The whole thing boils down to giving ourselves in prayer a chance to realise that we have what we seek. We don’t have to rush after it. WEDDINGS It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.” Jason Vernon & Melissa Adamson 5th January St Augustine’s, Hedon Have a good Lent, and when it comes, a joyous and holy Easter. Kathy ‘May their marriage be life-giving and life-long’ FUNERALS ST AUGUSTINE’S, HEDON. Robert Edward (Bob) Avery 5th February All Saints’, Preston Kerry Key 18th February All Saints’, Preston This month, the Coffee Morning is being hosted by Mr. Phil Danby, and Mr. John Margaret Jeanne Stobie (Sproatley) 22nd February Haltemprice Crematorium Groome. The date is Tuesday 12th March, starting at 10.30 a.m. in the Church Room. Included in the ticket price of £1.50 is a Bring and Buy, and a Raffle. ‘May they rest in peace and rise in glory’ YOU ARE WANTED! The world cannot bury Christ. No, not by the police!! By the Fund Raising Committee of St. Augustine’s. If you The earth is not deep enough for his tomb, read this, you already have a connection with the Church by taking the monthly Bulle- the clouds are not wide enough for his winding-sheet. tin. - Edward Thomson We are looking for ideas, old or new, for raising money to cover the running costs, insurance, etc., of our very expensive, beautiful building. If you would like to help in any way at all, and join our friendly group (you will not be required to attend church services, although you would be very welcome if you did) Useful Websites Please get in touch by ringing Kathryn on 896343 or Wendy on 899772 St Andrew’s: A Church Near You: www.standrewpaull.wordpress.com www.achurchnearyou.com Diocese of York: The nice thing about becoming forgetful is that you can hide your own Easter eggs. www.dioceseofyork.org.uk 31 EASTER – the most joyful day of the year ALL SAINTS’, PRESTON. Children in Distress An omission from the previous bulletin. The small change Easter is the most joyful day of the year for Christians. Christ has died for our sins. We jar kept in church for Children in Distress raised a total of £74.86. Many thanks are forgiven. Christ has risen! We are redeemed! We can look forward to an eternity in to all who contributed. his joy! Hallelujah! Saturday Café -The Saturday Cafe opens it's doors again on April 6th, 10am- The Good News of Jesus Christ is a message is so simple that you can explain it to 12pm. If anyone can spare a couple of hours to help with serving tea and coffee, someone in a few minutes. It is so profound that for the rest of their lives they will be or perhaps donating some baking it would be most appreciated. It's planned to still be ‘growing’ in their Christian walk with God. open weekly, so if you feel you can help in any way at all please see Christine for details. Why does the date more around so much? Because the date of Passover moves around, and according to the biblical account, Easter is tied to the Passover. Passover celebrates Quilting Exhibition- To take place in church over the weekend 4/5/6/May the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and it lasts for seven days, from the middle of the Hebrew month of Nisan, which equates to late March or early April. Young at Heart meets every Thursday in the Community Hall 9.30-11am Sir Isaac Newton was one of the first to use the Hebrew lunar calendar to come up with firm dates for Good Friday: Friday 7 April 30 AD or Friday 3 April, 33 AD, with Easter Day falling two days later. Modern scholars continue to think these the most ST ANDREW’S, PAULL. likely. Most people will tell you that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, which is broadly true. But the precise calculations are KNITSPIRATION….....more than just a good yarn complicated and involve something called an ‘ecclesiastical full moon’, which is not the same as the moon in the sky. The earliest possible date for Easter in the West is 22 Upcoming Knitting workshops at Paull Church March, which last fell in 1818 and won’t fall again until 2285. The latest is 25 April, which last happened in 1943 and is next due in 2038. Sunday April 28th 2013 2-4pm . Blanket knitting cost £10 including materials Why the name, ‘Easter’? In almost every European language, the festival’s name comes from ‘Pesach’, the Hebrew word for Passover. The Germanic word ‘Easter’, th however, seems to come from Eostre, a Saxon fertility goddess mentioned by the Ven- Sunday June 30 2013 2-4pm .