Chaplaincy of Aquitaine June 2015 from Your Editor the Chaplaincy of Aquitaine Is Part of the Church of England Diocese in Europe, Our Lives with Different Intentions

Chaplaincy of Aquitaine June 2015 from Your Editor the Chaplaincy of Aquitaine Is Part of the Church of England Diocese in Europe, Our Lives with Different Intentions

Chaplaincy of Aquitaine June 2015 From your Editor The Chaplaincy of Aquitaine is part of the Church of England Diocese in Europe, our lives with different intentions. working in partnership with The Intercontinental Church Society, in ministry to people who speak English. Sometimes we've been aware that As you can imagine It covers Gironde, Dordogne and Lot-et-Garonne. Clerical we have received so much, we have we are all getting very Corner to give it away; but at other times we excited at Limeuil, CHURCH SERVICES, JUNE 2015 have simply gone, recognising our looking forward to (see Around the Chaplaincy for location details) C need to receive. By the same token, Charlotte Suillivan’s Please check the website for the latest information in case of changes. we have known others who are so shy Ordination on the 28th. It will be or broken, that coming to Church has a very special day and there will be been very difficult to do. A friend a full report next month so even if alongside has been needful. you can’t be there, you will be able to WEDNESDAY 03 JUNE read all about it. If you are hoping 11:00 Ecumenical Service - Trentels, Lot et Garonne I understand we're entering a season to join us that day, please make sure when many visitors pass through you read the important information SUNDAY 07 JUNE our doors, and we ourselves may about it on page 14. Dear Friends 10:30 Service of the Word – Bertric Burée be visitors somewhere else. May 10:30 Holy Communion – Bordeaux can't believe it is 4 months since we the Lord who sent his Spirit at Slightly less pages this month, which 10:30 Prayer & Praise – Limeuil I left windswept Wales to venture to Pentecost, continue to bless us as we must mean.....yes, I need some more 10:30 Morning Worship – Monteton beautiful Bordeaux. Where has the seek to make Jesus known. He is the articles please! Thank you as always 11:00 Holy Communion – Doudrac time gone? We've been fellowshipping Comforter who will draw alongside to my regular contributers but I know 11:00 Holy Communion – Carlux, chez Wiltons and feasting, praying and play- the most broken, and he will give there are more of you out there who 17:00 Evensong - Limeuil reading, worshipping and wine- courage and strength to the weakest could write a little something. Do 18:00 Evensong – Bertric Burée drinking, gardening and decorating. of us. please give it some thought. What an amazing welcome we have TUESDAY 09 JUNE Doudrac received from everyone in Bordeaux Every blessing Meanwhile, enjoy this month’s 11:00 Holy Communion – Allez and the wider Chaplaincy. Thank Andrew Bullock content - and hopefully we shall all you so much. be sitting out in the sunshine very WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE soon!! 11:00 BCP Holy Communion – Bertric Burée As I write this, we are about to Love Gill THURSDAY 18 JUNE celebrate the feast of Pentecost - often 10:30 BCP Holy Communion - Limeuil referred to as the Birthday of the SUNDAY 14 JUNE Church. The Holy Spirit descends VVVVVVV 10:30 Holy Communion – Bertric Burée SUNDAY 21 JUNE in power upon the praying, waiting 10:30 Holy Communion – Bertric Burée disciples and they are able to go out 10:30 All Age Worship – Bordeaux At a recent Limeuil service, led by our new Chaplaincy Warden David 10:30 Holy Communion – Bordeaux and fulfil Jesus' great commission to 10:30 Morning Worship – Eymet Temple Albrecht, the service included a version of the Creed that I had never 10:30 Holy Communion – Chancelade go and make disciples. They were 10:30 Holy Communion – Limeuil come across before and I thought you might like to share in it. 10:30 Holy Communion - Monteton 10:30 Holy Communnion - Dondas literally 'on fire' and 3000 were added 10:30 Family Service – Négrondes 10:30 Morning Worship - Limeuil to their number that day. Wouldn't 10:30 Prayer & Praise – Monteton it be great if our prayer meetings 11:00 Service of the Word – Sainte Nathalène resulted in such a harvest for the Kingdom? We believe in God the Father, God Almighty, by whose plan THURSDAY 25 JUNE Earth and heaven sprang into being and all created things began. 11:00 Holy Communion - Condom We believe in Christ the Saviour, Son of God in human frame, Virgin born, the Child of Mary, Upon whom the Spirit came. SUNDAY 28 JUNE 10:30 Morning Worship – Bertric Burée Christ. who on the cross forsaken, Like a lamb to slaughter led, 10:30 Holy Communion - Bordeaux Suffered under Pontius Pilate, He descended to the dead. 10:30 Holy Communion & Ordination – Limeuil We believe in Jesus risen, Heaven’s King to rule and reign, 10:30 Morning Worship - Monteton To the Father’s side ascended, ‘Till as Judge He comes again. 10:30 Holy Communion – Négrondes We believe in God the Spirit: In one Church, below, above; Saints of God in one communion, One in holiness and love. Chancelade There are many reasons why people So by faith, our sins forgiven, Christ our Saviour, Lord and Friend, find our church communities and We shall rise with Him in glory, To the life that knows no end. join us. Alexandra and I have Amen. joined churches at different times of Chaplaincy of Aquitaine 2 June 2015 Chaplaincy of Aquitaine 3 June 2015 King Richard III. NOUGHTS AND CROSSES My picture of Jesus deceased, (and others). On the eastern side of erected and my friends and I would Northamptonshire stands pedal off to admire it. We discovered I chose this picture of Jesus because it shows atching the final burial Fotheringay Castle, or rather what that it is the only cross standing in its What does the figure nought imply to a joyful, smiling Jesus while guiding a baby Wservice of King Richard remains of it: just a mound. It was original setting and was more finely you? along through their first steps. This is similar III recently, it struck me that pillaged by local people after the sculpted than the others. The cross is The merest nothing? Zero absolute? to the fact that God guides Christians through some people would have been beheading of Mary Queen of Scots in triangular, each side bearing a statue Some would prefer more substance their life like a loving father helps his children somewhat at a loss to understand 1587. She had fallen out with her half of the Queen in her Royal clothes, to impute. through their first steps in life. The baby is what was happening ! However sister, Queen Elizabeth I by trying to standing on a circular, stepped, A circle never ending, symbol true smiling at Jesus because his influence and it was a very good example of the enroll the help of the French to be base. We tried to find any small Of life eternal, long, but ever new. presence brings a sense of joy to peoples’ hearts. British interest in history and placed on the throne. Not her best discrepancies between the three but The majority of pictures of Jesus portray a their belief in Christianity. move, especially as she was Catholic never did. Under the base was a But symbols, to have value, must solemn, intense man who is frowning whereas and had not helped her progress by running spring where the inhabitants relate this picture shows the fun side of Jesus, the side falling in love with several unlikely of the village came for water. This was To facts, to observations, something that was seen more often when Jesus was on the suiters. Unlike King Richard, her fascinating to 3 young boys who had true. Earth, and yet has been lost in the modern day grave was never obscure: her eventual tap water at home, and we were only The moon forever rings our planet (most people think of Jesus as the majority of pictures portray him). burial place is in Westminster Abbey. too pleased to help the more elderly blue. That is why I chose this picture. She was moved there by her son, King to fill their buckets and help them The earth circles the sun. The solar Beth. James I of England who succeeded carry the water home, especially as state? VVVVVVV Queen Elizabeth I who died un- there was an occasional sweet given Galactic orbit circular its fate. married (nor did she produce an as “payment”. heir). In a remarkable matter of irony, Christians and Climate Change – Geoff Cogger writes: The figure nought, all circles, it was King James who opened the The village church was only just symbolise way to the spread of Protestantism by across the road and we could sit in Below are just three frequently asked questions as to why, as Christians, we Eternity, but give us no direction. Coming from Northamptonshire, allowing the Bible to be translated in the pews when we’d seen enough of should actively be participating in the fight against ‘climate change’ No up nor down, diagonal inflection. the site of the Battle of Bosworth to the English language. the Queen. But line them up in threes, there’s no was known by the majority of Why does God allow climate change? disguise, my friends although there was The third and oldest royal to be Our relationship with this church God created a perfect world in which humans were given freedom of choice. You’ve won the game but did you win always a slight confusion as to remembered in Northamptonshire (and others later), was so easy that we This freedom and moral decision-making are fundamental to human nature.

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