Suggested donation The 50p Parish Magazine November 2020 2 The Parish Magazine - November 2020 Parish contacts Correspondence address: 2 Cromarty Cottages Birdsall Jacob’s Well Malton YO17 9NN – To make a booking contact: 01944 3190219 Telephone: 01904 630518 [email protected] Priest-in-Charge Holy Trinity and St Martins Vacant Ecclesiastical Trust [email protected] Pastoral Assistant 01944 3190219 – Mark Kingaby-Daly 07492 067803 / 01944 319021 The Isabel Ward (York) [email protected] Charitable Trust Churchwardens [email protected] 01944 3190219 – Adam Kingaby-Daly 01944 3190219 Website and Social Media [email protected] Website: www.holytrinityyork.org – Mark Wharfedale – 07595 189781 – Facebook: HolyTrinityYork [email protected] – Twitter: HTMYork – Instagram: holytrinityyork Verger – Chloe Priest 07729 322850 [email protected] Choir Director – Mark Wharfedale 07595 189781 [email protected] Parochial Church Council EDITORIAL DEADLINE Lay Chair: Mark Wharfedale – Deadline for the December/ – Secretary & Safeguarding: Mark Kingaby-Daly January issue: – Treasurer: Adam Kingaby-Daly 24 November 2020 at 5.00 pm Submissions to Mark. The Parish Magazine - November 2020 3 In this edition Church calendar 4 Holy Trinity during COVID-19 5 Parish letter 6 A message from Adam 8 Advent and Christmas 9 All Souls’ Day at Holy Trinity 10 Remembrance at Holy Trinity 10 St Hilda (19th November) 11 Taizé Music 12 All Saints’ Day (1st November) 14 Oberammergau Passion Play 15 Psalm 122 and Advent 16 From the Hospital Chaplains 17 Reflected Faith Series: 18 Green grow'th the Holly 20 Offering hope 21 God in the arts 22 Martin of Tours (11th November) 24 Willibrord of York (7th November) 25 William Temple (6th November) 26 A Very Magical Adventure in York 27 Wordsearch 28 Ways to give at Holy Trinity 29 Crossword 30 Recipe: Clementine jam 32 Bible Bite 33 Mouse Makes 34 Sodoku 35 4 The Parish Magazine - November 2020 Church calendar All are welcome to join us at our services. If you are new to Holy Trinity, please feel free to make yourself known to us. Refreshments are served after services on a Sunday. If you are housebound, unwell or in hospital we can arrange to visit with Holy Communion. Please speak to a member of the ministry team. Sun 1 Nov 11.00 am Eucharist (All Saint’s Day) Mon 2 Nov 7.30 pm Eucharist (Holy Souls) Wed 4 Nov 12.15 pm Sext Sun 8 Nov 10.50 am Eucharist (Remembrance Sunday) Mon 9 Nov 7.00 pm Compline Wed 11 Nov 10.50 am Eucharist (Remembrance Day) Sun 15 Nov 11.00 am Eucharist Mon 16 Nov 7.00 pm Compline Wed 18 Nov 12.15 pm Sext Sun 22 Nov 11.00 am Eucharist (Christ the King) Mon 23 Nov 7.00 pm Compline Wed 25 Nov 12.15 pm Eucharist Sun 29 Nov 11.00 am Eucharist (Advent Sunday) Mon 30 Nov 7.00 pm Compline Church openings During the Coronavirus pandemic, the church building will be open where possible on Sundays from 10.30am to 12noon and Wednesdays from 10am to 3pm. Check the weekly pew sheet for any changes to opening times. The Parish Magazine - November 2020 5 Holy Trinity during the COVID-19 pandemic We have put a number of measures in place to keep our staff and visitors safe during worship including physical distancing measures, additional cleaning regimes and limiting touch points. WORSHIP TIMES • Services – for details of our current service pattern from 19 July, please see the weekly pew sheet. There are no services of Morning or Evening Prayer on Mondays to Wednesdays. • Individual prayer – you are welcome to visit for individual prayer during our opening times. These are currently 10am to 3pm Wednesday and 10.30am to 12noon Sunday. Please note our opening times are subject to change – please check the weekly pew sheet for the latest information. ENTRY AND EXIT For the time being, a one-way system will be in operation when the church building is open. • Entrance: from Micklegate through the churchyard • Exit: through the West Door onto Priory Street PHYSICAL DISTANCING MEASURES INSIDE To ensure people can safely physically distance inside the church building we are: • Limiting the number of people inside the church during services by 75%. • Operating a one-way system. • Reducing the spacing to sit in pews so people sit 2m apart. FACE COVERINGS In line with government guidance, we will require all visitors to wear face coverings during worship or while visiting for private prayer and sightseeing from Saturday 8 August. Visitors are asked to bring their own face covering. HAND SANITISER There are hand sanitiser points for public use at the entry and exit – please do make use of these as you enter and leave the church. 6 The Parish Magazine - November 2020 Parish letter Dear friends, I write this as the view from my window is looking very autumnal. The leaves are turning, the lawn is full of windfall apples and the nights are drawing in. This time of year marks a change in the churches year as we head into Allsaintstide (or Allhallowtide) and begin to prepare for Advent. We have some significant moments coming up in the Church calendar. The lectionary has some markers to remind us of the role that the Kingdom has in our faith. We have All Hallows Eve, All Saints, All Souls and then Christ the King. In between, we have Remembrance Sunday. These moments all have something in common – they are about memory and remembering. They remind us that we belong to something bigger than ourselves. This is all the more poignant this year during the pandemic when, sadly, daily death tolls are part of news headlines. All Saints reminds us that we are part of a worldwide church which stretches back through history and we give thanks for the ordinary Christian men and women who worshipped and prayed (often in the same churches as we do today) who have gone before us. There is a strong spiritual bond between those in heaven and those of us living in the present time. The Book of Common Prayer refers to those in heaven as the Church Triumphant and those of us who are here and now as the Church Militant. Strange terms in the year 2020 – but they capture well that the Kingdom is here and to come. All Souls allows us a moment of reflection as we remember with thanksgiving those who have died and who we love but see no more. It is a powerful window into God’s heart of compassion for those who grieve and mourn the loss of loved ones. It allows us as a church to come together and accompany one another as we mourn. Finally, it is in the festival of Christ the King that we are reminded that our faith has a Savour who will return to wind up history and restore God’s Kingdom. Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and it The Parish Magazine - November 2020 7 is to him and him alone that we owe our homage and worship. Christ the King marks the end of the Church year with a potent reminder that Jesus is our prophet, priest and King. Allsaintstide is ultimately a time for reflection, or memories and of thanksgiving. Like autumn, it can feel full of melancholy, but it is also one of joy and celebration. In our COVID-19 dominated world, it is good to be reminded that there is life beyond ourselves. It is also good to be reminded that there is an unbroken chain of Christian witness and prayer going back through the centuries – despite church closures during lockdown. Let us share with each other the joys and tears of our common humanity and remember with thankfulness those who have gone before us and let us take forward the message of hope for our world. Every blessing, Mark Mark Kingaby-Daly Prayers for Holy Trinity O God our heavenly Father, make the door of this your church wide enough to receive all who need love, fellowship and care, and narrow enough to shut out all envy, pride and wickedness. Here may everyone find peace and comfort. Amen. Loving God, thank you for this house of prayer where we praise and thank you for all you have given us. Help us to go out into the world, refreshed by your Spirit, to do what you have called us to do in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 8 The Parish Magazine - November 2020 A message from Adam Dear all, Over the last couple of months, Holy Trinity has been fortunate enough to welcome so many of you back. As I said in my previous letter, it has been wonderful to see so many of you. The way we operate at the moment, in terms of taking communion individually, departing the church one at a time and being unable to mingle for a chat is all dictated to us. The church adheres to guidelines to keep everyone in the building safe. I want to say thank you to you all for your patience and understanding. Collectively, our efforts each Wednesday and Sunday help to reduce infection rates. Advent and Christmas this year is going to be an unusual format. Holy Trinity can only safely accommodate up to 19 individuals on pews, under ‘social distancing’. We were concerned that for our Advent services, which are well attended, we would have to turn people away once we reached capacity. We did not want to do this, mainly as this is very much against our Benedictine hospitality. As such, it was felt that moving the special services online and by telephone would be the best approach.