Castleford Team Parish Parish Magazine - September 2016 The churches of: All Saints, Church Street, Castleford, All Saints, Lumley Street, Hightown; St Michael & All Angels, St Michaels Close, Smawthorne and St Paul the Apostle, Pontefract Road, Glasshoughton.
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CLERGY Team Rector: Vacancy Team Vicar: Fr. Mark Watkins, vicar@castlefordteamparish.org.uk
01977 529929 Ext. 2
(Please note that Fr Mark has Friday as his day off.)
Polish Priest: Fr. Gregory Ruszczynski, revgreg@email.com
01977 529929 Ext. 4
Parish Reader: Rebecca Hodel-Jones
01977 529929 Ext. 16
Lay Pastoral Minister: Lynda Maw
01977 529929 Ext. 17
Parish Office: (Enquiries for Baptisms) Saturdays at 10.00-10.30am - All Saints Church, Castleford WF10 1ES.
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LETTER FROM THE TEAM VICAR This last few weeks I have found myself thinking about Elijah, the Old Testament Prophet, who is recorded as saying “I, only I am left, and they seek my life to take it from me!” He has reached rock bottom and can see no reason for keeping going. The King’s wife has sent out soldiers to find and kill him, and in Mendelssohn's oratorio ‘Elijah’ he sings the Air ‘It is enough; O Lord, now take away my life,… for I am no better than my fathers!’ It is not the most uplifting of solos!!! And he does go on bit. When eventually he finishes his mournful dole he falls asleep, and the Angels sing ‘See now he sleepeth beneath a juniper bush in the wilderness; but the Angels of the Lord encamp about all them that fear him’ Why is Elijah so depressed and fearful? Well, he had just called down fire from Heaven on Mount Carmel, and so had actually just been part of an amazing demonstration of God’s power in the face of opposition from the Prophets of Baal. So why so down in the mouth? Well, Jezebel, the Queen is after his blood! She was always the real power in the Realm, not her rather weak and wishy-washy husband, the King, and Elijah and his God had messed up her plans and were a threat to her hold over the People and their Rulers. After a while God speaks to Elijah, and Elijah is told to go out of the place where he is hiding and watch for the Lord to pass by. As Elijah watches, there is an earthquake, followed by a Hurricane force wind, and finally a consuming fire, but no sign of God, until Elijah slowly becomes aware of His Presence in the stillness that follows the storm. To cut a long story short, God calls Elijah once more to serve Him, sending the Prophet to the King to warn him of what was to come, and off he goes, renewed in his strength and zeal for God’s work. (continued on page 4) 3
September 2016 (continued from page 3) You could say that Elijah had lost his vision - or to use more modern analogy - ‘The bounce had gone out of his Bungee!’ We all have times like that, or at least, I know that I do, and very often they come just after something exciting and uplifting! Like Elijah, we come down to earth with a bump! And it is at those times that we often turn to God to ask for him to do something big and wonderful and powerful something Earth Shattering! - just to prove He is really there with us. But He doesn’t do it! and we get depressed and think He has given up on us. And yet, as the Angels sing, ‘The Angels of the Lord camp around those who fear Him’ God is there, it is just that we are not in tune with Him. We are looking in the wrong places, - seeking to find Him in the ‘Earthquake, wind and fire’ when all He wants to do is to reassure us with His ‘Still, small voice’ When we find ourselves, or hear others, asking ‘Where is God in this and that…!’ then we need to listen for that Voice, speaking through the violence, catastrophes and confusions of life, - quietly - even silently speaking words of Love and Peace and Encouragement. O Sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with Thee the silence of eternity, interpreted by Love! interpreted by Love! Fr Mark
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PARISH PHONE NUMBER
01977 529929 On one phone number you can contact the Clergy, Churchwardens (and deputies), PCC Secretary, PCC Treasurer, Safeguarding Officer, Children & Family worker and other Officers & Vergers. It allows for Baptism and Wedding enquiries to be directed to the right person. Here is a list of extensions shown below:-
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Arnold Randall
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Rebecca Hodel-Jones
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Fr Gregory (Polish)
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Lynda Maw
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General Enquiries
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Hilary Wilkes
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David Field
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Susan Fletcher
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Ian Fletcher
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Sylvia Wilson
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Pauline Morris
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Karen Ferrier
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Mavis Whitehead
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Jane Harvey
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Dawn Heyworth
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Pat Sutton
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Karen Richardson
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Andrew Goyns
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Wedding Enquiries
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LETTER FROM ST JAMES THE LEAST OF ALL Happily, the Church of England still retains some singular parish clergy. Take the parish of St James-the-Least in the rural county of C- for example. Here the elderly Anglo-Catholic vicar, Eustace, continues his correspondence to Darren, his nephew, a low-church curate recently ordained…
ON WHAT CLERGY SHOULD WEAR ON THEIR FEET The Rectory St. James the Least of All My dear Nephew Darren Thank you for sending me the photograph of you having your face painted at your parish's ‘Fun Day’ - although I can't help feeling that to label an event ‘fun’ is the most effective way of draining it of all amusement whatsoever. Why on earth can't parishes continue with the traditional title of ‘Crowning of the Rose Queen and Fete’, equally traditionally grimly enjoyed to the accompaniment of thunder and torrential rain. However, the one thing that caused me the greatest concern in your photo was the fact that you were wearing sandals. Sandals are only to be worn by Franciscan monks (without socks) and holidaymakers on Blackpool promenade (regrettably, generally with socks). I know that you will argue that Jesus wore sandals. This was mainly because reliable pairs of brogues had yet to be invented, but also because He lived in a hot, dry country. We live in a cold, wet one. (continued on page 9) 8
September 2016 (continued from page 8) The only appropriate colour for footwear for a parish priest is black and the only appropriate material is leather - although I will concede that can create difficulties. Wet leather shoes and polished marble sanctuary floors are a potentially lethal combination. I well remember as a curate when old Canon Griffith entered the Sanctuary, having just got drenched coming from the Rectory. His feet moved across the marble floor some miles per hour faster than the rest of his body. Had he landed face down, the congregation may have assumed he was reverently prostrating himself before the altar. But lying in a supine position, staring in a dazed state at the rafters, only conveyed inappropriate indolence, when he should be at work. However, do not take the alternative of wearing crepe soles. I suspect your present church will be fully carpeted - it seems to go with your sort of theology - and there will be no problem. But crepe soles and any sort of polished stone floor are a truly disastrous mixture. The slightest movement will make it sound as if you are being followed by a swarm of demented frogs. Your loving uncle, Eustace
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September 2016 CROSSWORD Across 8 Where the ark of the covenant was kept for 20 years (1 Samuel 7:1) (7,6) 9 One of the parts of the body on which blood and oil were put in the ritual cleansing from infec ous skin diseases (Levi cus 14:14–17) (3) 10 Uncomfortable (3,2,4) 11 ‘Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have — (Malachi 1:3) (5) 13 Where Paul said farewell to the elders of the church in Ephesus (Acts 20:17) (7) 16 ‘Jesus bent down and — to write on the ground with his finger’ (John 8:6) (7) 19 Prophet from Moresheth (Jeremiah 26:18) (5) 22 Comes between Exodus and Numbers (9) 24 and 2 Down ‘Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the Lord under — the — ’ (1 Samuel 2:11) (3,6) 25 There was no room for them in the inn (Luke 2:7) (4,3,6) Down 1 Rough drawing (2 Kings 16:10) (6) 2 See 24 Across 3 Underground literature (including Chris an books) circulated in the Soviet Union (8) 4 Lo, mash (anag.) (6) 5 The Bible’s shortest verse: ‘Jesus — ’ (John 11:35) (4) 6 ‘Can a mother forget the baby at her — and have no compassion on the child she has borne?’ (Isaiah 49:15) (6) 7 Can be seen in a dying fire (Psalm 102:3) (6) 12 ‘Send me, therefore, a man... experienced in the — of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem’ (2 Chronicles 2:7) (3) 14 Second city of Cyprus (8) 15 United Na ons Associa on (1,1,1) 16 One of the women who first heard that Jesus had risen from the dead (Mark 16:1) (6) 17 Braved (anag.) (6) 18 — of Evangelism, outreach ini a ve in the 1990s (6) 20 ‘Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and — in their own sight’ (Isaiah 5:21) (6) 21 ‘Neither — nor depth... will be able to separate us from the love of God’ (Romans 8:39) (6) 23 What Jesus shed in 5 Down (4) Solutions on page 31
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Wordsearch Michael and All Angels The Church remembers angels this month, with the feast day of Michael and All Angels on the 29th. The Bible is full of angels, and often they had a key role in crucial events. It seems that Michael was their leader, an ’archangel’. In stained glass he’s often seen with a sword, because in Revelation he leads the angelic host who fight and defeat Satan and his army. In the Gospels angels make numerous appearances. Just two examples: Gabriel was sent to Mary to announce the coming of her baby, Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God. Another angel was sent to sit in the empty tomb on Easter morning, waiting to tell the startled women that Jesus wasn’t there - He had risen (Mark 16:5). Michael, All, Angels, Key, Crucial, Leader, Stained , Glass, Sword, Angelic, Host, Defeat, Satan, Appearances, Gabriel, Mary, Baby, Jesus, Waiting, Angel SUDOKU EASY
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A LETTER FROM FR KEVIN My Dear Friends It seems surreal in many ways typing this letter to you as I sit in my living room in my new home in Chapelthorpe. Knowing that this will also be my last letter to you, when it doesn’t seem two minutes when I wrote my first article for the magazine. So I hope you don’t mind I am going to take a few liberties and reminisce on what has happened on my journey with you since I joined the team in June 2013. I remember being asked by the Bishop of Wakefield to contact a Fr Michael Wood with the possibility of him becoming my training incumbent. This involved several meetings and having a whistle stop tour of Castleford in the dark, and totally getting confused where I was. It also involved me going incognito to a combined Mass at St Michael’s, as well as a lot of praying and thinking on my part and Fr Michaels (I think he’s done a lot of praying ever since, on the decision he made). Thankfully he did say yes and in many ways the rest is history as they say. Fr Michael then suggested I went on the Walsingham Pilgrimage in the May of 2013 before I was deaconed to meet some of the congregation and also to get a ‘feel’ of the parish and its tradition. To say I was nervous going away with a group of people I didn’t know to place I had never been to (albeit it was somewhere I had wanted to go for several years) was an understatement, but I needn’t have worried. It only reaffirmed that I had made the right decision and that God was truly calling me to serve in the parish. From my ordination in June 2013 there have been so many memories, too many to recount here, but I thought you might enjoy a couple. Fr Michael I have to say had the patient of a saint as my (continued on page 15) 14
September 2016 (continued from page 14) training incumbent and all I can say is that I will never volunteer to have a curate, if they are like me! There is a lot of paperwork and evidence needed to be deemed as competent and also many hours of coaching and practice in respect to all church services and also pastoral meetings and weekly review meetings. I remember the time when we practised the service for baptisms and my fear of dropping a baby, to which Fr Michael arrived at Hightown with a teddy bear for me to hold. Then the practice began and I went through the service order, at the end Fr Michael asked ‘Father do you like gin?’ I nervously asked why (because I could have done with one!), to which he replied ‘because you baptised baby teddy in the river Gordon’s.” Also the weekly team meetings with Fr Michael and Fr Mark and the years of me asking questions, usually silly ones at the beginning as I attempted to understand what was going on. It became a bit of a joke, because all I had to do is look at Fr Michael, to which he would “Can I just ask?” because that is how I would open my question. I made a conscious decision never to use that phrase around Fr Michael or Fr Mark ever again. I remember the time when we had countless practices for my first mass at St Paul’s as I prepared to be priested. Me stumbling over the words, not placing my hands in the correct positions, becoming frustrated with myself and all the time saying ‘I will never be able to do this’ and Fr Michael, smiling and pastorally saying don’t be daft. Thankfully he was right and now I have the blessing of celebrating mass every Sunday which is a humbling and moving part of my ministry. And the time after been priested as I celebrated mass at Parish church went to elevate the priest host from the paten only to find it had disappeared. Thinking to myself what do I do, and it must be a miracle, a disappearing priest host, the Holy Spirit really does (continued on page 16) 15
September 2016 (continued from page 15) work in mysterious ways. Only to find the priest host dangling from my cassock sleeve! Which I placed back onto the paten and hopefully none of you knew about that, until now. There are many, many more such stories too many to recount here, but hopefully through the stories I have told you will be able to feel the joy and laughter I have had in the parish. One thing that I do have to say though is how busy this parish is. From the church services, funerals, baptisms, weddings, home visits, communion visits, school assemblies and these are just part of the ministry. The experience I have gained as a curate I have to say has been the best and even some of my fellow curates are amazed at how busy the parish is and what I have done. As a parish we have also been recognised as a Dementia Friendly Parish as well as being recognised in our episcopal area as a lead in this area. In recognition of all our hard work in this area Bishop Tony, The Bishop of Wakefield, stated that I am the ‘expert’ on dementia for our own part of the Diocese of Leeds, which is very humbling, but it is all down to you. Though I may have steered the parish on dementia, it wouldn’t have succeeded without your help, thank you. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the very generous gift in the form of a cheque to buy myself something. Now this may not sound very exciting but over the years I have bought Le Creuset iron cookware for the oven but never got round to buying the saucepans. Thanks to you I will now be buying them, as these are the only pans that will survive my cooking, and will last me years. So the next time I am burning something on the hob I will always think of you, as I run about the kitchen trying to get rid of the smoke before the smoke detector goes off. Seriously though, thank you so much for your generosity. (continued on page 17) 16
September 2016 (continued from page 16) I think it is now time for me to tackle the last of the boxes that need unpacking. There are too many people to say individual thanks to, though I couldn’t close without saying a special thank you to Fr Michael, Fr Mark and Fr Gregory without their support I would not shortly be having my Institution and Induction as the Vicar of the Parish of St James the Great, Chapelthorpe, so it’s all their fault. And when the parish get sick of me, I will be giving them their addresses to write to. But also thank you to you, for your kindness, your friendship, your support and for your laughter. The skills and competences you have helped to nurture will always stay with me in my ministry, wherever the journey takes me, wherever God wants me. As I always used to say to Lynda Maw ‘You’ll get a decent curate one day.’ You are all in my prayers. Hopefully see you on the 31st August as there is nothing decent on the telly. My new address and telephone number are: St James’ Vicarage, 21 Stoney Lane, Chapelthorpe, WF4 3JN. Tel no. 01924 256031, if I start to receive information about PPI’s and Saga holidays, I will know who to call. Your friend always. Fr Kevin
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READINGS FOR SEPTEMBER 4th September
- Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity (G) Deuteronomy: 30: 15-20 Psalm: 1 Philemon 1: 1-21 Luke 14: 25-33;
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- THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (W) 1 Corinthians: 8: 1-7, 11-13 Psalm: 139: 1-9 Luke 6: 27-38
11th September - Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (G) Exodus: 32: 7-14 Psalm: 51: 1-11 1 Timothy 1: 12-17 Luke: 15: 1-10 18th September - Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity (G) Amos: 8: 4-7 Psalm: 113: 1 Timothy: 2: 1-7 Luke: 16: 1-13; 25th September - Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity (G) Amos: 6: 1a, 4-7 Psalm: 146 1 Timothy: 6: 6-19 Luke: 16: 19-31; 29th September - MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS (W) Genesis: Psalm: Revelation: John: 18
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DIARY DATES SEPTEMBER Saturday 3rd
Family Fun Day at Castleford 10am-3pm
Tuesday 13th
7pm Mass & Standing Committee Meeting at Castleford
Thursday 15th
“New Beginnings” Bible Study continues at St Michaels Vicarage 7pm
Thursday 22nd
7pm Mass & PCC Meeting at St Michael’s
Sunday 25th
10am Parish Mass at St Michael’s “HARVEST FESTIVAL” followed by charity auction.
Thursday 29th
MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS. Sung Mass at St Michael’s 7.30pm followed by refreshments in the hall.
OCTOBER Sunday 30th
10am Parish Mass at Castleford - GIFT DAY
NOVEMBER Monday 1st
ALL SAINTS DAY Patronal Festival at Castleford. Sung Mass at 7.30pm
Further dates for October & November will appear in future issues.
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JOY OF ORDINARY For those who attend to such ecclesiastical details, the Church is now in what it calls the ‘Ordinary Season’. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be bland, boring or predictable in church at the moment (or at any rate, no more than usual), but that following Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, there are no great festivals of the faith to celebrate until we get to Advent, and that’s not till the end of November. For a few months, we can forget the high days and holidays and simply concentrate on, well, being ‘ordinary’. Personally, I find that rather encouraging. All my life I’ve been a person who enjoys the ordinary. Even on holidays which I’ve enjoyed, I’ve secretly looked forward to getting home and picking up the familiar routine. The dictionary defines ‘ordinary’ as ‘with no distinctive features, normal, usual’. Well, I think everyday, ordinary, normal, usual life still includes plenty of ‘distinctive features’ – surprises, too. To me an impressive feature of the biblical gospels is how normal and ordinary most of it seems. Yes, there are those mighty acts of power which we call miracles, but the setting of them is about as ‘ordinary’ as you could get: a cattle-shed, a lakeside, a fishing boat, a garden, a little girl’s bedroom, a wedding party. It’s in the rich raw world of the ordinary that God does wonderful things, just as it’s in the routine of daily life that kind words are spoken, the sick healed, the sad comforted. I’m sometimes more aware of God in these ‘ordinary’ settings than in the extraordinary splendour of a great cathedral. Long live the ‘ordinary’! 20
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WHY SUGAR-FREE MAY NOT HELP Sugar-free drinks could do you more harm than good, because your body still wants the missing calories, and prompts you to eat more. According to scientists at the University of Sydney, the brain becomes confused when it senses sweetness which is not attached to calories, and so triggers feelings of hunger. Experiments showed that when fruit flies and mice were given a sugar-free diet, they ate 30 per cent more than those on a normal diet. As one scientist explained: “When sweetness versus energy is out of balance for a period of time, the brain recalibrates and increases total calories consumed.�
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THE STORY BEHIND THE HYMN: JESUS THY BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress; Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head. Bold shall I stand in that great day, Cleansed and redeemed, no debt to pay; Fully absolved through these I am From sin and fear, from guilt and shame… Jesus, be endless praise to Thee, Whose boundless mercy hath for me, For me, and all Thy hands have made, An everlasting ransom paid. Some of the most unlikely people become Christians, never mind go on to write much loved hymns. People like Count Nicholas Ludvig Von Zinzendorf, for example. He was born 1700 into a fabulously wealthy family in Saxony, and after law studies at the University of Wittenberg, had set out to travel in great style. But Zinzendorf got only as far as an art gallery in Dusseldorf before he had a Damascus Road experience. For here Zinzendorf encountered a painting of Christ. His head was bowed and the inscription read: ‘This have I done for thee, and what hast thou done for me?’ Zinzendorf was stopped in his tracks. He could not give any answer to the question. Like Paul, the encounter with the living Christ left (continued on page 25) 24
September 2016 (continued from page 24) him awed, shaken and confused. He returned to his large estate in Berthelsdorf in inner turmoil. It was a spiritual crisis that would change the course of his life. For, at 22, on his wedding day, he and his bride put aside their rank of nobility in order to follow Jesus. Shortly after this Zinzendorf met a member of the Moravian Brothers, an Order which had been founded 300 years earlier by John Hess of Bohemia. He welcomed the brotherhood to live on his estate, and within ten years 600 Moravians had arrived. Zinzendorf divided them into little missionary groups, and sent them off across the world. Thus the Moravian Brothers went to Greenland, Holland, India, America and the Indies. In all, they had 165 missions scattered around the world. They accepted disease, poverty, loneliness and persecution in their determination to follow their Master. Zinzendorf was not only a leader and visionary, he was also a poet – he wrote 2,000 hymns. This one was penned while he was on board a ship set for the West Indies in 1739. In late 1741 Zinzendorf himself began a mission to the Indians of Pennsylvania. As it was only four days to Christmas, he named the little colony Bethlehem. Today it is a great steel centre, and the Moravian capital of the USA. The former Count spent his vast wealth on missions, and when he died at 60 there was not even enough money left to pay for his grave. He had laid up his true treasure in Heaven, instead.
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HIGH DAYS & HOLY DAYS IN SEPTEMBER 1
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Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604
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Allen Gardiner, Founder of the South American Mission Society 1851
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The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Charles Fuge Lowder, Priest, 1880
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John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407
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Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258
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Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts, c.432
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Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179
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Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690
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John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871
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Wilson Carlile, Founder of the Church Army, 1942
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Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660
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Jerome, Translator of the Scriptures, Teacher, 420
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A SAINT FOR SEPTEMBER MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS Michael is an archangel, whose name means ‘who is like unto God?’ He makes various appearances throughout the Bible, from the book of Daniel to the Book of Revelation. In Daniel, he is ‘one of the princes’ of the heavenly host, and the special guardian of Israel. In Revelation, he is the principal fighter of the heavenly battle against the devil. From early times, Michael’s cult was strong in the British Isles. Churches at Malmesbury (Wiltshire), Clive (Gloucestershire) and Stanmer (East Sussex) were dedicated to him. Bede mentions him. St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall was believed to commemorate a vision there in the 8th century. By the end of the Middle Ages, Michael had 686 English churches dedicated to him. In art Michael is often depicted as slaying the dragon, as in the 14th century East Anglican Psalters, or in Epstein’s famous sculpture at Coventry cathedral. Or he is found (in medieval art) as weighing souls, as at Chaldon (Surrey), Swalcliffe (Oxon.), Eaton Bishop (Hereford and Worcester), and Martham in Suffolk. Michael’s most famous shrine in western Europe is Mont-Saint-Michel, where a Benedictine abbey was founded in the 10th century. The ‘All Angels’ bit of this feast-day was added in 1969 when Gabriel and Raphael were included in with Michael.
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UNCERTAINTY AND HOPE If the audience at the First Night of the Proms this year had not heard the national news broadcasts that day, they would have been startled by an unscheduled addition to the programme. It opened with a rousing rendition of the French National Anthem. Scores of unsuspecting holidaymakers in the French resort of Nice had been mown down by a fanatical lorry driver; his was the latest in a chain of massacres perpetrated by Islamists in Europe and beyond. Ironically, it was Bastille Day, commemorating French unity. The playing of the Marseillaise in London’s Albert Hall was a demonstration of solidarity with French people everywhere and a defiant message of hope. Church leaders the world over published their prayers the next day. An Anglican chaplain based near Nice said, “Prayer is the thing. We can’t do anything tangible or practical in support of the security service apart from our own vigilance . . . but we do have a very strong and a very powerful thing that we can do . . . and that is prayer . . . because with faith we trust in God’s love and mercy for those who have died, but for the families left behind this is a most terrible time from which many may not recover.” Terrorist acts of this kind are motivated by a deadly combination of false faith with hatred. No one is risk-free, and the nations’ leaders are hard-pressed to safeguard their people. St. Paul’s advice to Timothy has never been more apt: “I urge that … prayers… be offered to God for all in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceful life with all reverence towards God and with proper conduct.” We must be on our guard, but also trust God. In Nice churchyard is the grave of Henry Lyte, the writer of the hymn, Abide with me, which encourages us to disarm our fears by expressing confidence in God’s purposes: I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness; Where is death’s sting? Where grave thy victory? I triumph still, if Thou abide with me. 28
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September 2016 PARISH OFFICERS PCC Secretary & Gift Day Secretary: Mrs Dawn Heyworth 01977 529929 Ext. 11 PCC Treasurer, Stewardship & Gift Aid Secretary: Mr Andrew Goyns 01977 529929 Ext. 13 Safeguarding Officer: Mr Arnold Randall 01977 529929 Ext. 14 Family & Children’s Worker Mrs Karen Richardson 01977 529929 Ext. 12 CHURCHWARDENS David Field, Castleford: 01977 529929 Ext. 6 Mavis Whitehead, St Paul’s 01977 529929 Ext. 10 Pauline Morris, St Michaels 01977 529929 Ext. 8 Ian Fletcher, Hightown 01977 529929 Ext. 7
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Hilary Wilkes, Castleford: 01977 529929 Ext. 18 Karen Ferrier, St Paul’s: 01977 529929 Ext. 21 Sylvia Wilson, St Michael’s 01977 529929 Ext. 20 Susan Fletcher, Hightown 01977 529929 Ext. 19
SERVICES All Saints’ Castleford SUNDAY Mass (Said)
8.00am
Sung Mass (except last in month)
9.30am
Tuesday Mass (Said)
7.00pm
Saturday Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9.30am
All Saints’ Hightown SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass
10.45am
Wednesday Mass (Said)
7.00pm
Saint Michael and All Angels SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass
10.45am
Thursday Mass (Said)
10.00am
Saint Paul’s, Glasshoughton SUNDAY (except last in month) Sung Mass
9.30am
Wednesday Mass (Said)
10.00am
LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: Combined Parish Mass at 10.00am - ( see diary section for venue ) FOR MAJOR SAINTS’ DAYS IN ALL CHURCHES