CLUBS & SOCIETIES DEDHAM PARISH CHURCH DEDHAM Paw Slingo writes John Osborn writes www.dedham-parishchurch.org.uk PARISH MAGAZINE e-mail: [email protected] HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY FOOTPATH GROUP The plant sale held in May raised On Sunday 19 June, in Hindley MINISTERS (01206) June £177. Thank you to all those who Wood, at the top of East Lane there Gerard Moate Vicar & Lecturer 2011 contributed plants and helped. will be a mid-Summer barbecue walk at Terry McFadden Associate Minister The Vicarage, High Street, Dedham CO7 6DE 322 136 Come and join us on Thurs. 9 June 2 pm. Brian Hindley and Ron Wood for Afternoon Tea 2.30 - 4.30 pm will lead the walk, the barbecue will be Stuart Wilson Reader Emeritus 392 572 SUNDAY SERVICES in the garden of Spice Cottage, Coles at 4 pm. All welcome; members, and Chris Slocombe Hospital Visitor 323 312 8.30 a.m. Oak Lane, and visit two other gardens. also friends who are not walkers. It is CHURCH OFFICERS Holy Communion BCP Entrance £3.50. worth bringing a couple of fold-up Sarah Oakley Churchwarden 322 034 Every Sunday (not August) vacancy Churchwarden chairs and also your own beer and vacancy Deputy Churchwarden Daphne Langton writes wine. Coffee will be provided and George Beeken Verger 865 264 10.30 a.m. LADIES FELLOWSHIP there will be plenty of food. Andrew Hodson Caretaker & Groundsman 07968 445 572 Family Service At the April meeting, Janet Butler 1st Sunday in month gave an excellent talk about her cruise Felix Fitch writes MUSIC Antony Watson Director of Music 322 425 Morning Worship CW to Argentina via the Falkland Islands. CRICKET CLUB 2nd & 5th Sundays In May, members are on an outing to An excellent start to the season; CHURCH GROUPS Shotley, calling at the Ipswich Food Angus Lockhart scored his first half Richard & Elizabeth Hopkins Junior Church 322 361 Holy Communion CW Vivien Chapman Dedham Ladies’ Fellowship 308 549 3rd Sunday in month Hall. On Wednesday 29 June, Dawn century, Bertie Mortimer scored 49, Harrison has kindly invited members while Ed Mortimer has grabbed 7 FLOWER ARRANGERS Morning Prayer BCP and friends to meet in her garden, wickets. It is exciting to see Dedham Sally Gotelee Co-ordinator 322 652 4th Sundays Cluffs, The Heath. Tea at 3 p.m. Primary School old boys performing so Barbara Ward Weddings 337 242 6.30 p.m. There will be a Bring & Buy. well, especially as they have both been DEDHAM PARISH MAGAZINE On Wednesday 27 July members with the Club since the youth academy Evening Prayer BCP Rosemary Kleingeld Editorial meet in the Assembly Rooms at 2.30 began. Pete Batchelor, Richard Sayer 1st Sunday in month only Parish Office Advertising p.m. The speaker will be Valerie Sims. and Ben Molony have made their PARISH OFFICE at the Vicarage 322 136 JUNIOR CHURCH debuts, as have had a number of other 2.30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Thursday 10.15 a.m. Betty Callaghan writes new faces at the various practices. GOOD NEIGHBOURS Parish Secretary Betty Cox Family Service in Church On Friday 3 June coaching sessions Financial Administrator Gill Seymour-Pugh At our May meeting we enjoyed 1st Sunday in month begin; Kwik Cricket 4 - 5pm (ages 7-11), a rather taxing quiz which involved advanced coaching from 5 - 6pm, an DEDHAM C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL www.dedham.essex.sch.uk In the Assembly Rooms various species of our 'feathered open session until 7.30 pm. A Level 3 Christopher Bailey Chairman 230 404 or Duchy Barn friends'. Most up-lifting! ECB coach will be in attendance for Heather Tetchner Headteacher 322 242 on all other Sundays Our next meeting will be on during school terms later sessions. The bar will be open for ASSEMBLY ROOMS www.dedham-assemblyrooms.info Friday 3 June. The competition parents and friends to watch the next Tracy Woods Clerk to the Trustees 323 921 will be any item beginning with Alastair Cook or Charlotte Edwards. the letter 'L'. DUCHY BARN DEADLINE FOR Please contact me if you, or your Carol Mitson Secretary 323 116 New members welcome. JULY EDITION: children, are interested in attending. Gay Burfield Bookings 322 261 L [email protected] 15 June Printed by Contact Reprographics 734 435 16 1 CHURCH NOTICEBOARD SONGS OF PRAISE SPECIAL, ADDITIONAL, Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us OR CHANGES TO SERVICES OF WORSHIP : O’er the world’s tempestuous sea; Thursday 2 June - ASCENSION DAY Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, 10 a.m. Holy Communion For we have no help but Thee; Yet possessing every blessing Sunday 12 June - PENTECOST If our God our Father be. 10.30 a.m. Parish Communion Hymns Old & New 293 You are invited on a Tower Tour “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we on Saturdays (all day) and Sundays (afternoons) have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are – yet was without sin”. Heb. 4:15 The Tour lasts about 45 minutes.. Everything known about James Edmeston, writer of this hymn, seems is to be found in a single paragraph, leaving us to try to make deductions about his thoughts as If you wish to book a group he wrote the hymn. Perhaps, putting what we know of his life, together with the (with a maximum 20 at a time) words he wrote, we can form some impression of what his faith meant to him. He was then please contact the Parish Office: born in 1791, in Wapping in east London. From an evangelical family, Edmeston was baptised at Bull Lane Independent Chapel in Stepney where his mother‟s father served 01206 322136 as pastor for some fifty years. Educated in Hackney, where his family had moved, [email protected] Edmeston trained as an architect and surveyor, starting out on his career in 1816, when he was 25. He became known for having Sir George Gilbert Scott articled to TOWER FLAG DAYS THIS MONTH him for training. It may have been the literary qualities of the Book of Common Prayer that Thursday 2 June Ascension Day prompted Edmeston to leave the Independent tradition in which he grew up and to Friday 10 June become a member of the Established Church. In 1866, a year before his death, H.R.H. Prince Philip's 9Oth Birthday reflecting on his life, he wrote, „From early years I had a strong leaning towards the Sunday 12 June Pentecost Church of England, the service of which I always found more congenial to my own Sunday 19 June Trinity feelings.‟ He was concerned with the practical as well as the spiritual welfare of children and he was a strong supporter of the London Orphan Asylum. From the Registers This hymn first appeared in „Sacred Lyrics’, a collection of Edmeston‟s writing that was published in 1821; it is the only one of the 2,000 hymns he wrote that is still BAPTISM in regular use. The hymn is titled „A Hymn to the Trinity’ in one collection, and we see 1 May 2011 Athalia Florence DRAPER the verses beginning with Father, Saviour and Spirit. This hymn, like its writer, is profoundly spiritual and profoundly practical; it acknowledges God as he is and it WEDDING acknowledges ourselves as we are. Singing it, may we have a sense of God as the one 7 May 2011 Oliver G. MARSHALL & Emily L. HARDING who comes to share our life that we might go to share his life. FUNERAL The tune most associated with this hymn is MANNHEIM, written by the music critic and historian Friedrich Filitz (1804-76). 28 April 2011 George James BULLETT (89) This article is a condensed from a sermon by the Rev’d Ian Poulton, Church of Ireland Rector of Leinster 24 May 2011 Jill Price WELCH (84) (www.forthefainthearted.com) and is used with grateful acknowledgement. 2 15 YOUNG READERS VIEW FROM THE VICARAGE FROM THE OUTSIDE IN nothing without feeling guilty!‟ and I The old lady said, “I have been looked round and for the first time in praying for years, almost continually, many years I and thought „Goodness, and I have never been aware of God's what a lovely room I live in - a window presence at all.” opening onto the garden, a nice shaped room, enough space for me, with the So the priest said to her, “Go to your things I have collected over the years.‟” room after breakfast, set it straight, and place your armchair in a position that Then she said “I felt so quiet because will leave behind your back all the dark the room was so peaceful. There was a corners into which things are pushed clock ticking but it didn't disturb the so as not to be seen. Light your lamp silence. Its ticking just underlined the and take stock of your room. Just sit, fact that everything was so still and look round, and try to see where after a while I remembered that I must you live, because I am sure that if knit before the face of God, and your have been praying continually so I began to knit. And I became for many years then it is a long more and more aware of time since you have really seen the silence. The needles your room. And then take hit the armrest of my chair, your knitting and for the clock ticking peace- fifteen minutes knit before fully, there was nothing the face of God, but I to worry about, I had no forbid you to say one word of prayer! need of straining myself.