May 2013

The Lantern The Parish Magazine of St Andrew’s, Deal

MAY, 2013 visit us at www.dealstandrews.org.uk

Who’s Who in the Parish Parish Priest: Father Stephen Young SSC 01304 447947

Honorary Assistant Clergy: Father Ian Shackleton SSC 01304 379773 Father Roger Marsh SSC 01304 362851

Churchwardens: Peter Gibson 01304 380860 Waveney Brooks 01304 367961

PCC Officers PCC Secretary: PCC Treasurer: Electoral Roll:

Ali Robertson Mike Carey Bryan Evans

Director of Music: Tim Woodhead Lantern editor:

Peter Gibson

Editorial adviser:

Fr Stephen Young

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In Church each week at S. Andrew’s Matins is said at 8 am on Saturdays; otherwise at 9 am. on weekdays.

Evensong is said at 6 pm.

Sunday

8.00 am 10.00 am 6.00 pm

Low Mass (Book of Common Prayer) Parish Mass (Common Worship) Evensong (BCP) and Benediction

Monday

9.30 am

Low Mass

Tuesday

9.30 am

Low Mass

Wednesday

9.30 am

Low Mass

Thursday

9.30 am

Low Mass

Friday

9.30 am

Low Mass

Saturday

8.30 am

Low Mass

Please note the change of time for weekday Masses. Mass will be said at 9.30 am each day except for Saturday which remains 8.30 pm.

A priest will normally be available for spiritual counsel after Evensong on Fridays or otherwise by appointment.

On Festivals and Holy Days, service times may vary - please see our Notice Board or website.

Holy Baptism, Weddings and Funerals Please contact Father Ian Shackleton on 01304 381131 for inquiries about any of these services.

Front cover: Lino cut of St Andrew, our Patron. Donated anonymously by a local artist.

ather Stephen Writes .......... “Summer is Icumen In� is not only the title of one of the oldest

known songs in English, it is the time we have all been waiting for during a long hard winter.

It has not been helped by the economic situation with rising fuel and food prices making life less than easy for so many people, especially for some families. The Church is a family that believes in mutual support, not just for each other, but for the whole community. With this in mind St. Andrews has linked up with the Dover District Volunteers Food Bank. This initiative offers temporary support to families that may find it hard to make ends meet. We now have a repository for food donations (non-perishable goods) in the Church. We have made a good start over the Easter period with many generous donations. This is a practical way of caring about out neighbour and I commend it to you.

The family is central to society, and at a time when the national media is so often full of grim news about troubled families, it is all the more important for us to give strong backing to parents and children.

St Andrews is a family that is open to everyone and like any family is keen on shared activities. We are planning many social and spiritual events for the Summer months. Amongst these are the Annual Blessing of the Sea on Saturday 4th May at 2pm; a celebration for Whitsunday on Sunday 19th May; Corpus Christi Procession on Sunday 2nd June at 10am and the Coronation Anniversary in early June.

Summer is coming to North Deal, whatever the weather, so let us enjoy it together.

Fr. Stephen Young

Caption Competition To all our readers: you are invited to submit a caption to accompany this photograph. Please send to: “Editor”<Office@dealstandrews .org.uk> or deliver it to the church in an envelope marked ‘Caption Competition’. Please attach your contact details.

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PROMISE NEPAL From the Feast of the Epiphany, 6th January until Easter Day, 31st March (83 days) I did not drink a drop of alcohol! (save only the Precious Blood) This was in order to raise money for the Order’s support for the leprosy charity Promise Nepal and more particularly, to cover the expenses of a medical student from King’s College Hospital, James Kearney.

James spent part of his Elective Period working at Anandaban Hospital, Nepal, where each day he attended clinics, ward rounds or theatre. He saw that the disease of leprosy has not been eliminated from the country as the Nepalese Government claims.

Thanks to your generous sponsorship of my Holy Abstinence, I have raised over a £1000 which the Saint Lazarus Trust will pass on to Promise Nepal and there is still a little more money to come in. Thanks too to all those who were able to Gift Aid their money.

I think you should all pour yourselves a large, congratulatory drink.

So, Cheers! and many thanks once again.

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Damp weather did not deter 14 children from the parish attending this occasion. They enjoyed a variety of sports in the morning, followed by a treasure hunt, lunch and a film.

Overheard in the pews A sermon should be like a lady’s skirt - long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to draw attention.

Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

If God is your co-pilot, swap seats.

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What’s on in May. Saturday 4th May - BLESSING OF THE SEA 2.00 pm Procession from the church to the sea front opposite the end of Farrier Street where a short ceremony will be held, followed by return to the church and tea. ALL WELCOME! Thursday 9th May - ASCENSION OF THE LORD 9.30 am Low Mass Tuesday 14th May - Parish Pilgrimage to Walsingham 7.30 pm Betteshangar Brass Academy Concert Sunday 19th May - WHITSUNDAY 8.00 am Low Mass, 10.00 am High Mass 6.00 pm Choral Evensong and Benediction Sunday 26th May - TRINITY SUNDAY Services as for Whitsunday.

Thursday 30th May - CORPUS CHRISTI 9.30 am Low Mass Friday 31st May - The Gathering at the Cathedral (continues on Saturday) Sunday 2nd June - Corpus Christi Sunday

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All Welcome!

from the Hills of the North – Antsiranana

in Madagascar

Hello. This is the fourteenth newsletter for those who have expressed an interest in keeping in touch with my experiences and activities as a Bishop in northern Madagascar. +Oliver, 1 April 2013

Palm Sunday at Voh„mar. Here the palm leaves, which make the palm crosses in the UK look puny, are freshly picked. I proposed – and being the bishop it was accepted! – that we hand them out to everybody as they arrived. I had been asked whether we should have the blessing of the palms and the procession before the liturgy or during the liturgy; I asked what their custom was and learned that they tended to delay things to accommodate late comers; so that is what we did. Palms come long and straight and there was a sea of long green-yellow spears until after the blessing and procession when they became the focus of attention, and emerged folded into splendidly large crosses which were carried away as tangible evidence of the day – and hopefully the week.

Easter with the Anglicans in Sambava.

No lighting of the fire or inscribing of a paschal candle. (I assume that the candles are just impossible to obtain, and too expensive.) By way of preparation for Easter, there was a modest Evensong on Saturday afternoon. On Maundy Thursday feet were washed with gusto in what seemed a physically excruciating endurance test – the very warm weather contributed to my sense of utter weariness, the slatted benches don’t help either. Only after nearly three hours did the liturgy resolve itself, powerfully and movingly, into the silence which followed a procession to the altar of repose. People knew how to embrace the sense of night as they dispersed quietly and prayerfully.

Good Friday was complicated because it was the 29th of March and on the 29th of March Madagascar commemorates those who took part in the uprising against the French in 1947. I went along to the ecumenical service in Sambava, attended by the Chef de District who is Muslim and the local top brass. We heard an energetic account of the children

of Israel marching to the Promised Land from one of the Lutheran pastors and then in the heat off we went to a local cemetery where veterans are interred, for the laying of wreaths. There are still some veterans alive; one of them was invited to tell his story. All this was recorded for local television and snippets even appeared on the extensive national roundup on the Good Friday evening news.

RTS, Radio Television Sambava, carried more on Saturday and on Monday we saw ourselves again, this time in a round up of Easter Day services. Yours sincerely baptising a delightfully placid baby, “Ra . . .

Izaho manao baptisa anao ho amin’ny anaran’ny Ray sy ny Zanaka, ary ny Fanahy Masina”, in what sounded like passable Malagasy.

That said, liturgy tends not to evolve here, or, if it does, at a geological pace; the reforms of Vatican II which have so influenced English liturgical practice seem not to have penetrated the Eklesia Episkopaly Malagasy. Liturgy is an area we need to address but it’s not one I can access easily yet, partly because of the language barrier and partly because copies of local liturgical texts are in very short supply.

But perhaps I can do a little by way of starters: I can at least say, ‘When we have a baptism in a public service such as the Eucharist, you don’t have to treat the baptism liturgy in full, as though nothing else existed. You can set it in context. And that means thinking about the congregation beyond the family members gathered rather exclusively around the font.’ So when I baptise we return from the font at the back of the church carrying the bowl of water with us and we sign the cross in front of everybody and greet the newly baptised and light a baptismal candle where people can see what is going on. On Easter day this minor rebellion rather lifted the liturgy for me – particularly watching what I took be the delight with which family members responded to the invitation to sign their child with the cross as I had done.

As I look round the rather unkempt state of many of our churches, particularly at drapes which were put up for some festival long since forgotten, I must try to remember to issue an edict that all this must be

removed, along with the sometimes innumerable bowls, baskets and containers of artificial flowers, before Lent next year.

May the power of the Resurrection confound our self-referential practices and free us to become the people God intends. And may that freedom release new opportunities to work for a world which more nearly reflects its creator.

Pointers for Prayer - for the new diocese of Tulear being inaugurated on 21st April - for the Province of the Indian Ocean commemorating 40 years of existence and for its bishops.

- For the clergy of the diocese and for their development; for vocations.

- for the development of programmes of sustainability in the diocese â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and for those who have the skills to help us with this.

- for our church schools and for the new diocesan Commission

Rt Revd Dr Oliver Simon Eveka Antsiranana oliversimon@dunelm.org.uk Skype: oliverzsimon Dear Friends, here is a picture of Fleurot. I am very grateful to you for agreeing to make it possible for him to come and spend time in the diocese. (We hope to see Fleurot in the parish in the autumn.)

Volunteering with Deal Area Emergency Foodbank There are a variety of ways that volunteers can support Deal Area Emergency Foodbank.

Being a Church Representative Deal Area Foodbank will be a charitable project that works with churches in Deal area to serve all those in crisis. As such we need Christians who are excited by this vision to represent and promote our work in their own church.

Helping with Supermarket Collections Collections will be arranged periodically in the major supermarkets in the Deal Area. We will need at least 6-10 people in each team to cover the chosen day between them (generally 1 - 2 hour slots). Training will be given.

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Working in a Foodbank Centre/Café Welcoming and serving Foodbank clients, providing refreshments, signposting to Support Agencies (training given) and being the welcoming face of Foodbank together with the ability to listen, talk and where appropriate pray with customers.

Helping in the Warehouse Team members will be involved in sorting, weighing and stacking, donated food.; volunteers need to be physically fit.

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Other roles such as driving/food pickups and collections will become needed as we become established. Full induction training will be given to all volunteers.

Email enquiries to info@dealareafoodbank.org.uk

The Third Church Warden Having returned to church at 10.45 pm on Maundy Thursday for the

final hour of ‘Watch with Me One Hour’. I was in for a surprise.

As I knelt before the beautiful Altar of Repose, lit only by 18 candles which made the assortment of white flowers look even more translucent in the darkness, the peace and tranquillity were interrupted when I became aware of movement under the pulpit.

As I watched, to my amazement, I could make out the figure of a tiny mouse scurrying about in the shadows. We will presume it was a she for the attention she was paying to detail. She was paying particular attention to the floral arrangement that was placed on the floor in front of the altar, as she wound her way in and out of the flowers. I expect she wondered what was going on in her church that she normally had to herself at that time of night.

I feel honoured to have met yet another one of God’s creatures and am pleased to think she keeps watch over the Church at night as we sleep.

Strange that my brother has recently started to illustrate church mice as his theme for a monthly caption in our magazine; she will be very pleased about that!

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What is a blessing and why do we bless the Sea? I was in the sacristy, the priest’s room, in another church one Sunday and a young girl who was helping her grandfather count the collection looked at a bottle and read the label and enquired “What is Holy Water?” I explained that it was ordinary water which the priest had blessed to be used for holy things. Sometimes holy water is sprinkled over us in Church to remind us of our baptism and the washing away of our sins. Some is usually kept by the door for us to dip into as we enter the Church to remind us of these things.

When a priest blesses he pronounces God’s favour on the person, or persons, concerned, or on an object to be put to God’s use like the water or a cross and chain to be worn. Nowadays most services end with the priest, or a bishop if one is there, blessing everyone before they leave the Church. Some people ask for a special blessing if they have got to go into hospital, or do something difficult. A deacon receives a blessing before reading the Gospel. Pupils have asked me to bless them before an important match. People who do not receive Holy Communion usually come to the priest at the same time to receive a blessing. I have known many young people who have been uncertain about getting confirmed, but who always wanted a blessing.

You may think this sounds a bit superstitious, or expecting God to work them a miracle, but I think it is them showing a desire for a little bit of extra love and protection.

In May we process from the Church to the seafront where we bless the sea in thanksgiving for the food we catch from it and for God’s blessing on all those who work on the sea: sailors, fishermen, those on the ferries and their passengers. In fact the sea affects us all in some way

and living beside it gives us this special opportunity to bless it.

One of the Blessed Virgin Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special names is Stella Maris - Star of the Sea- so during the blessing of the sea we caste a crown of flowers into the waters and watch it float away. We do this in May as that is her month and the beginning of another summer and harvest.

Elsewhere there are details of this special service, so why not come along and join in?

Fr Roger

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