April 2015 Magazine

Church of St. Mary the Virgin,
Finedon.
Parish Magazine
April 2015
50p
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Vicar:
Finedon Parish Church: St Mary The Virgin
The Revd Richard Coles, Parish Priest,
St Mary the Virgin Finedon, The Vicarage,
Church Hill, Finedon, Northants, NN9 5NR
01933 681 786, Mobile 07885 967 960
email: revdrichardcoles@yahoo.co.uk
Assistant Honorary Priest Fr Peter Baden,01832 733186
email: p.baden36@btinternet.com
Reader Mr Michael Duncombe, 01536 723457
email: michaelbex@talktalk.net
Parish Clerk
Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364 (To whom first
contact for Baptisms and weddings must be
made).
Churchwardens: Mrs Jane Read Tel: 680522
Mr Neil Forster Tel: 682177
PCC Secretary: Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364
Treasurer: Mr Andrew Weatherill Tel: 682212
Magazine Editor: Mrs Janet Millington, Tel: 681161.
email: millingtonjanet@aol.com
(to whom all copy should addressed by
the 15 th of the month prior to publication)
Director of Music Mr Jonathan Harris Tel: 01604 881182
Email: Hjonathan83@aol.com
Deputy Organists
Mrs. Kathy Roberts
Mr Oliver Grigg
Choirmaster: Mr. Bryan Chapman Tel: 398818
Tower Captain Mr Bryan Chapman, Tel 398818
Web Site
www.finedonphotographs.org.uk/
bellringers.html
Archivist Mr John Bailey Tel 680747
St Michael’s Mission Room:
Times Of Services:
Bryan & Christine Chapman
Tel: 01933 398818
Sundays
8.00 am Holy Eucharist
9.30 am Parish Eucharist.
6.00 pm Evensong (1st Sunday of the
Month)
Visit us on the Web at www.stmarysfinedon.co.uk
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From The Vicarage April 2015.
Thirty years ago I first went to Fallas in Valencia. The Spanish city hosts a
week long celebration in March with a huge festival, perhaps the most
spectacular in a country where they’d let off fireworks for opening an
envelope. It culminates on St Joseph’s Day, when everyone dresses in
traditional costumes and parades around each neighbourhood giant
effigies of the famous or infamous. Then, as night falls, these are set alight
on huge bonfires and the whole city glows red while everyone eats
paella, lets off firecrackers, and makes more noise than you thought
humanly possible. I’ve been going back ever since when I can, staying
with friends who live there, although now we’re all so past it they’ve
moved out of the city to an orange farm and we just go in for the paella.
Nevertheless, every time I go it reminds how important these ceremonies
are for communities and for individuals.
Here in Finedon we start our own bonfire in darkness on the Eve of Easter,
a rather more modest affair in a brazier outside the church door. From it
we light the giant Paschal Candle, marked with the date, and the alpha
and omega, symbolising the beginning and end, and five pins
symbolising the wounds of Christ on the Cross. It is carried into a dark and
empty church, stripped bare for Good Friday. “The light of Christ!” the
deacon sings. “Thanks be to God!”, we reply, as we greet the coming
dawn.
Much as I love a fiesta and fireworks, I prefer this quieter, almost
clandestine celebration. The resurrection of Jesus Christ rather sneaks up
on us, not with fireworks and fanfares, but with a case of mistaken
identity, and confusion, and a rabble of followers who think it’s all over
but discover, in that garden at dawn, a dazzling new day breaking on
the edge of darkness.
Happy Easter!
Yours in Christ,
Fr Richard.
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Our Worship in April
Year B
Good Friday at 2pm – A service of
music, readings and contemplation
The Reproaches – Victoria
Thou knowest, Lord - Purcell
Kyrie eleison - J Harris
Ubi Caritas – Duruflè
O Sacred head, surrounded (120)
Psalm 22 v.1-18
Ave Verum Corpus – Clifford L. Woods
Benedictus – Philip Moore
Sing my tongue the glorious battle (121)
5th April – Easter Day
Acts10. 34 - 43
Psalm 118 1 - 2
1 Corinthians 15. 1 -11
John 20. 1 - 18
Hymns
147 Jesus Christ is risen today
Processional: 136 - Alleluia, alleluia give
thanks to the risen Lord
157 The day of resurrection
150 Love’s redeeming work is done
Anthem: Handel Hallelujah Chorus from
Messiah
162 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
5th April – Easter Day evensong
140 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing.
Responses: Tallis
Psalm 66 v.1-11
159 The strife is o’er, the battle done
Canticles: Stanford in Bb
Anthem: Handel Hallelujah Chorus from
Messiah
148 Jesus lives! Thy terrors now
12th April - 2nd Sunday of Easter
Acts 4. 32 - 35
Psalm 133. 1 - 5
1 John 1. 1 - 2.2
John 20. 19 - end
Hymns
137 Alleluia! Alleluia!
153 Now the green blade riseth
155 Paschal Feast! Upon the cross
Anthem: This joyful Eastertide (161)
160 Thine be the glory, risen conquering
Son
19th April – 3rd Sunday of Easter
Acts 3. 12 - 19
Ps 4
1 John 3. 1 - 7
Luke 24. 36b - 48
Hymns
157 The day of resurrection
140 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing.
311 Lord, enthroned in heavenly
splendour
Anthem: Good Joseph had a garden (146)
150 Love’s redeeming work is done
26th April – 4th Sunday of Easter
Acts 4. 5 - 12
Ps 23
1 John 3. 16 - 24
John 10. 11 - 18
Hymns
612 We have a gospel to proclaim
616 When a knight won his spurs in the
stories of old
149 (Part 3 & Doxology) That Eastertide
with joy was bright
Anthem: Psalm 23 (Chant: Hylton Stewart)
502 Light’s abode, celestial Salem
Organ Voluntaries following the 9.30am
services
5th April – G.F.Handel: Hornpipe from
Water Music
12th April – Andriesson: Theme and
Variations
19th April – Malcolm Archer: Festival
Fanfare
26th April - J.S.Bach: Prelude and Fugue
in C minor BWV 549
Organ Voluntaries following evensong/
Good Friday service
3rd April – Cecilia McDowall: Sounding
Heaven and Earth
5th April – G.F.Handel: Music from The
Royal Fireworks
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From the Registers
Funerals
17th February
Richard David Stocks, MBE, aged 66
24th February
Doreen Joyce Tann, aged 94.
Stella Joyce Morby, aged 87.
3rd March
Basil George Letts, aged 77.
5th March
Irene Brown, aged 92
13th March
Donald Millward, aged 92
Floodlight Sponsorship
22nd February
Eileen & Derek Garley - to celebrate
their 60th wedding anniversary, also
Sid Walker’s birthday and daughter
and son-in-law’s wedding
anniversary.
1st March
Carole & Paul Mitchell -to celebrate
her mum Alice Smith's 92nd Birthday
Ellie Mears & Family - in memory of
Colin Mears (on what would have
been his birthday)
Chris & Frank Holley - to celebrate a
special anniversary
8th March
Paul Mitchell & Alice Smith - to
celebrate Carole’s special birthday.
Pam Knight - in memory of her mum
Marjorie Knight.
Sister Kathleen & Family - in memory
of John Farrow.
15th March
David & Janet - in memory of their
father Roy Bailey.
Sister Kathleen & Family - in memory
of John Farrow.
Gill Dunn & Mhairi - in memory of
Margaret Barlow, remembering her
on what would have been her 81st
birthday, love Gill & Mhairi.
22nd March
St. Mary’s Thursday Club - to
celebrate the club’s 54th Birthday
Carole & Paul Mitchell - in memory of
her mum, Alice Elizabeth Smith (who
sadly passed away on 16th March
2015)
29th March
Mr. & Mrs. D. Howell - to celebrate
Paul & Chris Howell’s Silver Wedding
anniversary
St Mary’s Church Easter
Services
Holy Week Services
Monday 30th, Tuesday 31st and
Wednesday 1st April, service in
church at 7.00 pm
Maundy Thursday
Washing of Feet etc 7.00 pm
Good Friday
10.45 am Procession of the Cross
leaves Bowls Car Park followed by
Hot Cross Buns and Stations of the
Cross in Church
2.00-3.00 pm A Service of Readings,
Music and Contemplation
7.30 pm The Story of Easter by
Horoloque Voices. A musical journey
of Peter's denial to Mary Magdalene's
discovery of an empty Tomb.
(Donations)
Easter Saturday
8.00 pm Lighting of the Easter
Candle .
Easter Sunday
Normal Sunday services. Easter Egg
Hunt after the 9.30 am service.
6.00 pm Evensong
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Evensong
There will be a Choral Evensong
service on Sunday 5th April at 6.00 pm
in St Mary’s Church. Evensong will be
followed by light refreshments
Organ Recital at St
Mary’s Church
Saturday 16th May 2015 at 7.30pm
An Organ Recital by Ben Bloor
organist at Westminster Cathedral
Interval drinks will be served during
the recital.
Concerts at St Mary’s
Friday 3rd April 2015 at 7.30pm
There will be an evening concert of
Music for Holy Week performed by the
specialist early music vocal ensemble
Horologe. Music to include Pergolesi's
Stabat Mater, Guerrero Maria
Magdalena and Charpentier's La
Reniement de Saint Pierre. Admission
by donation to church funds.
Wednesday 20th May 2015 at
7.30pm -
Lyra Vocal Ensemble from St
Petersburg. A return visit from this
quartet singing a mixture of Russian
sacred and folk music. Admission
£5.00
What to look for in
Church
The Sedilia
Sedilia is a Latin word for seats.
Facing the altar on the right hand side
are 3 seats built into the wall of the
Church. These seats were used for
the officiating priest, deacons and sub
deacons during the Mass. Nowadays
they are used for the servers during
the Eucharist.
The Piscina
Next to sedilia (seats) at the side of
the altar is the Piscina, a name applied
to the shallow basin with a drain for
washing of the Holy Vessels and
disposing of the water.
Which colour?
We have been asked the question why
the altar frontals and the Vicar’s
vestments change colour during the
year. During Lent they are purple or
violet. They can also be red, white,
green or gold. Violet is also used in
Advent. The colour represents
penitence, purification and
expectation, furthermore it is
associated with pain and suffering in
Lent and preparation for the coming of
Christ the King in Advent. Violet was
the most expensive dye in Roman
times and an indicator of wealth.
White or gold appears at Christmas,
Epiphany and Easter and represents
the light, joy and purity of Christ.
Red symbolizes the fire and blood of
the Holy Spirit and is used on Saints
days or services concentrated on the
Holy Spirit. Green is for general use.
The colour of nature and used when
there are no feasts or saints days
Mothers Union
Christian Care for
Families
Our meeting for April will be a DIY
affair!
Members are asked to bring a
favourite poem or piece of prose, a
special memory or artefact that they
can share with others.
We would welcome any non members
who would like to come along and
listen in at the Mission Room on
Tuesday 7th April at 2.30pm.
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A Finedon Poet
Many of you will remember Mrs
Winifred Stevenson, a regular
worshiper here at St Mary’s, who
lived with her husband and two boys,
Peter and Tony, in Cromer Road.
She is now in her 92nd year and for
the past twenty years or so has lived
in Hull.
Peter has told me that his mother has
self published three or four books of
poems and also a follow-up to
Pride & Prejudice. The following is
taken from her book People and
Places which was published in 2013.
Hampton Cell
In a corner of the church yard stands
the cottage named Hampton Cell,
An eighteenth century legacy, where
a single maiden could dwell.
A Finedon girl, and well behaved, for
this she would live rent free,
Her virtue would be rewarded, thanks
to Miss Hampton’s legacy.
Her nearest neighbours were silent;
their headstones all standing askew,
The church clock chimed day in day
out, each year the bells rang in the
New.
“Old maids cottage” the common
phrase, regarded by some with
disdain.
While childish minds sense mystery,
looking back down memory lane.
The faithful on their way to church on
Sunday by her would be seen.
Each stage of life through lych-gate
passed, like news on a cinema
screen.
Lily moved in after the war, which had
ended her true romance,
Insisting on paying a rent, these her
terms, she took her stance.
A change came over Hampton Cell,
the garden gate now open wide
And soon it was a happy place.
A home which welcomed all inside.
Now there were roses round the door,
geraniums on the window sill,
And though herself a catholic, for the
church she worked with a will.
Accepted the job of cleaner, a most
formidable task,
And only once throughout the year,
for some extra help she would ask.
This when the death-watch-beetle
was subjected to a lethal spray,
Lily counted when beetles fell, a vital
part of the survey.
Teas on the lawn in the summertime,
or a cosy chat by the fire,
The stray dog her one companion,
her attitude one to admire.
Of all the maids of Hampton Cell, she
from the rest would stand apart,
For serving all who needed help, and
doing this with thankful heart.
Published by kind permission of
Winifred Stevenson
St Mary’s Church
Easter Egg Hunt
on
Sunday 5th April
at
St Mary’s Church
After the 9.30 Eucharist
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Remembrance Sunday-
Finedon Remembers
Project.
The accounts for the above event
have been audited and there was a
surplus of income over expenditure of
£639.14. The following Finedon
charities each received £100:
Friends of Finedon Library, Finedon
Community Centre, The Senior
Citizens Parcel Fund, the Star Hall,
Finedon Scouts and Guide Group and
Finedon Church. The sum of £39.14
plus a world war 1 nurses uniform
was donated the Finedon Historical
Society. Total donations £639.14
leaving a zero end balance.
All members of Finedon Branch,
Royal Anglian Regiment Association
thank all those who contributed to the
event, the business community and
the people of Finedon for their
support.
Ray Ogle FB RARA
WATOTO
‘OH WHAT LOVE’ a concert by a
family of orphans,
The Ugandan children’s choir.
Prepare for a new sound on Thursday
16th April at 7.30 pm in St. Mary’s
Church. Each member of the choir
has suffered the loss of one or both
parents. They now live in Watoto
village homes and are provided with
all they need to grow up healthy and
whole.
The children present their stories and
new life as they demonstrate that God
desires to be a loving Father to all
mankind. Not to be missed – truly
inspiring.
Entrance is free but donations are
requested.
Organist Required
The Wesleyan Chapel here in
Finedon are looking to recruit an
Organist.
If you, or someone you know may be
interested, please give them a call to
find out more. Thank you.
Tel: Anne on 01933 681000 or
Lorraine on 01933 680843
Parish Church of St Mary
the Virgin,
The Welly Centre
Trad Jazz Band
(in association with Northants
Music and Performing Arts Trust)
at
St. Mary’s Church,
Finedon
on
Saturday 18th April
at 7.30pm
Tickets £5.00 (no concessions)
From Janice, Jane 680522 and
Janet 681161 or on the door
In aid of church funds
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Relationships
In 1541 Richard Vincent and Alice
Sywell, both of Finedon, were married
in Finedon church. They had two
sons called Francis and William.
Francis Vincent and William Vincent
were brothers.
Francis Vincent had a daughter called
Joan. William Vincent had a son
called Richard. Joan Vincent and
Richard Vincent were first cousins.
Joan Vincent married Robert Mulso
and had a son called William. Richard
Vincent had a son called William.
William Mulso and William Vincent
were second cousins.
William Mulso had a son called
Robert. William Vincent had a son
called Richard. Robert Mulso and
Richard Vincent were third cousins.
Robert Mulso had a son called
Tanfield. Richard Vincent had a son
called William. Tanfield Mulso and
William Vincent were fourth cousins.
Tanfield Mulso had a daughter called
Anne. William Vincent had a daughter
called Amy. Anne Mulso and Amy
Vincent were fifth cousins.
Anne Mulso married Gilbert Dolben
and had a son called John. Amy
Vincent married James Bailey and
had a son called Vincent. John
Dolben and Vincent Bailey were sixth
cousins.
John Dolben had a son called
William. Vincent Bailey had a son
called William. William Dolben and
William Bailey were seventh cousins.
William Dolben had a son called
John English. William Bailey had a
son called William Vincent. John
English Dolben and William Vincent
Bailey were eighth cousins.
John English Dolben had a son called
William Somerset. William Vincent
Bailey had a son called Jabez.
William Somerset Dolben and Jabez
Bailey were ninth cousins.
William Somerset Dolben had a
daughter called Frances. Jabez
Bailey had a son called Albert.
Frances Dolben and Albert Bailey
were tenth cousins.
Frances Dolben married William
Mackworth, who changed his
surname to Mackworth-Dolben, and
had a daughter called Ellen. Albert
Bailey had a son called Leonard.
Ellen Mackworth-Dolben (who died
unmarried in 1912 and was the last
Lady of the Manor of Finedon) and
Leonard Bailey were eleventh
cousins.
Leonard Bailey was my grandfather,
so Ellen Mackworth-Dolben was my
eleventh cousin twice removed.
My relationship to Adam and Eve is
less straightforward.
John Bailey
The Flower Festival
committee
invite you to attend the
Open Meeting
(regarding this year's flower
festival) to be held
at
Finedon Parish Church
on
Monday 20th April
at 8.00 pm.
The dates for this year's
flower festival are
Friday - Sunday
18th - 20th September.
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Finedon Local History
Society
The April Meeting of the society will
be held in the Mission Room, Well
Street, Finedon, on Monday 27 th April
2015 at 7.30pm. The speaker will be
Dr. Tricia James on Infant mortality
and vaccination for shoemakers in
the Rushden area 1880-1890.
Admission to the meeting is £2.50 for
members and £3.50 for non members
the talk will be followed with light
refreshments.
Exhibition
The next exhibition will be Education
in Finedon ‘Slate Board to White
Board’
We hope to open the exhibition mid to
the end of April. If anyone has any
artefacts such as old exercise books
or any school memorabilia we would
be very grateful for a loan of these.
A contact can be made to any
member of the committee or at the
Meeting House High Street Finedon
on a Tuesday morning between
10.00am and 12 noon.
St Mary's Thursday
Club
This month our meeting will be on the
23rd April 2015 and it is a Ghost Walk
around Finedon.
We will be meeting at Finedon Library
steps for a 7.45pm prompt start. We
will be ending the evening with some
supper at our usual meeting place,
Finedon Band Club. The cost of this
is £3.50. Anyone wishing to join us
that is not a member would be made
very welcome but you would need to
get in touch with us so that we can
cater for you.
If you have a Children’s Society Box,
please have these ready as our
collectors will be coming to collect
these from you sometime this month.
If you are interested in becoming a
member please call Louise on 07581
556417 for further details. We usually
meet once a month on the 4th
Thursday (evening).
We also run a mums and tots group
during school term time. The group
meets on a Thursday afternoon at the
Mission Room from 1.30pm - 2.30pm.
Finedon Over 60’s Club
Our weekly meeting is held in the
Bowls Club, Wellingborough Road on
Wednesdays from 1.45 pm until 3.30
pm. We welcome new members.
Admission £1.00 per week.
April Programme
1st Eggstra-special Bingo
8th Mr & Mrs Goodman - Bees
15th Line Dancing
22nd Birthday Party
29th World Tour - Brenice Willmott
We look forward to seeing you.
Church Monthly Draw
Total receipts of £260.00 are divided
equally between the winners and the
church funds. Winning numbers for
the December monthly draw are:
1st prize 274 £65.00
2nd prize 87 £39.00
3rd prize 138 £26.00
If you would like to join the monthly
draw (£1.00 per share per month)
which takes place in the church on
the first Sunday of the month, please
contact Kathy Hobbs on 01933
398794.
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Come and join us as a
Parish Constable!
Are you community focused and want
to give something back? Do you want
an exciting, challenging, dynamic
role?
Then come and join Northants Police
as a Parish Special Constable!
Parish Special Constables are parttime,
voluntary, fully warranted police
officers who are dedicated, through
choice, to policing a specific area or
parish.
In return for 16 hours duties per
month, we will provide you with
training and full uniform and give you
the opportunity to come and join us to
conduct policing duties in your local
area.
You will work with the local Safer
Community Team to conduct a variety
of policing duties in your area and
really make a difference in your
community.
This really is one of the most
rewarding voluntary opportunities
available!
So visit our website at: http://
northantspolicespecials.co.uk/ or
email us at
specialsrecruitment@northants.pol
ice.uk to find out more or to apply
today.
We look forward to welcoming you on
board!
Townswomen’s Guild
Our speaker this month will be
Richard Kibble of Kettering Borough
Council who will tell us about Spring
Planting in the Parks.
The meeting will be held on Thursday
2nd April at 7.30 pm in the Town Hall.
The Flower Group will organise a
plant sale and the competition will be
for an umbrella.
New members and visitors will be
very welcome to join us.
A Powerful and Haunting new Choral Work
by Kaye Tompkins
According to Mary
the Magdalene
"A powerful and moving piece of work"
"Absolutely spellbinding!"
"Stunning and immensely beautiful"
“A work that could stand proud on any
world stage”
Audience reaction
“I for one will never forget it
and will remember it as one of the
greatest experiences of my
singing life.”
“I am sure that this is just the beginning
of an amazing journey…”
Forthcoming performance at
Peterborough Cathedral
on
Friday April 10th 2015 at 7.30
Ticket Information
Tickets priced £12.50 are available
from
Philip Powis Tel:680760
online: www.wegottickets.com/
accordingtomary
or from the According to Mary
Box Office:
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In My Day
the ramblings of Hubert James
In my day it was about this time of
year when everything changed in
Finedon. Some of you will remember
the famous failure of the Water Reed
and Rushes crop in the Fens.
I should explain that in my day, most
houses had thatched roofs. With a
good thick thatch and thick stone
walls it was no wonder that nobody
thought of inventing central heating.
The Thatching industry probably
would have survived one bad year.
The situation only became serious
with the arrival of Acker Bilk. Acker
made playing the clarinet popular with
his tune ‘Stranger on the Shore’. Folk
all over the place took up the clarinet,
and the clarinet needed a supply of
reeds to make it work. Soon reeds
were like gold dust.
So the poor old Thatcher was
flummoxed. Locally, we relied on a
chap known as Mr Dennis for all our
thatching needs. Now Mr Dennis
spent a lot of time in The Fens and
married a girl called Peggy Roberts
from Grantham. They came back to
the county and set up home in
Thrapston.
Peggy was a bit of an activist. She
was treasurer of their Parish Council.
She pushed Mr Dennis to find an
alternative to reed thatching.
He wasn’t stupid, rather than traipse
around searching himself, he
organised a competition to find a
suitable alternative. He offered a new
roof to anyone who came up with an
alternative raw material.
Now to the local farmers it was
obvious; straw. Half a dozen offered
the same solution, which gave Mr
Dennis a problem because he was
never going to thatch six farmhouses
for free.
Peggy suggested they should have a
play off, or thatch off. For six weeks,
every Saturday, each farmer
presented his hay solution on stage at
the Star Hall in front of a packed
house. Then after they’d all made
their case, the people voted.
Mr Dennis carried on thatching for a
while with hay after that, but as I say
change was in the air and the spread
of welsh slate changed roofing for
ever.
But we all remember those six weeks
fondly, mainly because we didn’t have
a lot to do on a Saturday night. Who
won? An arable farmer called Kenny
Wolstenholme. You’ll have heard of
the show, it was called Thatch of the
Hay.
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The Rt Revd Donald Allister,
Bishop of Peterborough
Easter People
Easter is at the heart of everything
we are as Christians. The first
Easter, Resurrection Sunday,
demonstrated Christ’s defeat of sin
and death, established him as Lord
of all, and established a whole new
order of being. No longer striving for
improbable victory over our sinful
nature. No longer stuck in a vicious
circle of turning over a new leaf
then failing again. Instead a
complete fresh start, a resurrection.
Christ’s resurrection pre-figures and
guarantees ours. We live in the light
and the anticipation of a completely
new life. This year sees a number of
elections, new starts of a kind in our
democratic way of life. Next month
a General Election. Later in the year
both the three-yearly elections to
Diocesan Synod and the five-yearly
ones to General Synod. Doubtless
new faces will appear. Maybe new
ideas. Possibly even improvements.
The cycle of new starts in the
government of both state and
church has much to commend it.
People have the chance to step
down with dignity and without
bloodshed. New people have a bit
of breathing-space, permission to
settle in and discover the role. I
encourage you to vote when you are
invited to do so. Voting maintains a
system of peaceful transitions and
fresh starts. It is more healthy than
the alternatives. And Easter People
in voting we should take seriously
the alternatives, the policies, the
characters of those seeking our
support. This is not to be starry-eyed
and imagine that a new politician
can change the world, or a new
general synod member make the
Church perfect. But it is right that
we all take responsibility for the way
we are governed. Democracy isn’t
perfect, but it is better than any
alternative yet devised. Fortunately
though, our salvation (and the
coming of the kingdom of God)
don’t depend on human policies, on
able but fallible leaders, or on the
ballot box. Jesus Christ is Lord. He
is risen from the dead. He
guarantees resurrection life. Not a
tweaking or a bit of improvement,
but a whole new start, perfect and
forever. Greetings in the risen
Christ.
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50 Praise, Pray and Play
Sessions
faith in their everyday lives.
There is free admission to what
promises to be a special afternoon. 2pm
Saturday 4th July at Northampton High
School for Girls. Please contact Cheryl
Goddard if you plan to come.
cheryl.cfgbusiness@gmail.com
Rona Orme, our Children’s Missioner
has just had a new book published.
The 50 sessions are easy to run and
provide all you will need when holding
all-age gatherings, throughout the week.
Each session provides practical tips for
activities, as well as Bible verses and
response ideas, and are designed to last
about an hour.
“As churches increasingly meet with
people in their communities midweek,”
says Rona, “The book offers creative
ways for parishes to find creative ideas
to explore a theme with reflective
thoughts and challenges to take into the
week ahead.”
Published by Barnabas for Children, 50
Praise, Pray and Play Sessions costs
£9.99.
Inaugural Richard Beadon Lecture
Theologian and author Paul Valler will be
the keynote speaker.
Hosted by Bishop John with the Guild of
Centurions, the lecture aims to
encourage all Christians to live out their
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Summer School on Prayer
While there are just a few residential
places left on Bishop Donald’s Summer
School of Prayer, the workshops are
open to day visitors. Making space for
the still small voice, the psalms and
prayer, reflection and creativity will be
the main themes.
Held at Launde Abbey (3-7 August) the
days run 9.45am - 4pm and cost £25
including lunch. Contact Sally Crossley
01604 887049 for more details.
April Events
Monday 6 Cowslip and Fritillary Day.
Plants for sale and afternoon teas. 2-
4pm. St Peter’s Newton Bromswold.
Thursday 16 Toby Capwell, Curator of
Arms and Amour at Wallace Collection
gives a talk on the medieval funeral
effigies in Lowick church. 6.15pm. More
details dxrcubitt@gmail.com.
Saturday 18 Music at Lyddington.
Rustem Hayroundinoff (Piano) plays
music by JS Bach, Ravel, Schumann and
Chopin. 7.30pm St Andrew’s
Lyddington. Tickets 07709 968896.
Saturday 18 Open Gardens,
Irthlingborough. In aid of Christian Aid.
10am-5pm. Programmes £3. St Peter’s
Irthlingborough.

April
Town Diary
June
2nd
7.30 TG, Town Hall, Spring planting in the
parks, Richard Kibble
1st
BL, Bowls Club, Sweet Memories, Kevin
Varty
3rd
7.30 Music for Holy Week, St Mary’s Church
4/11/
18/25
5-8.3 Open garden, 67/69 High Street
7th
13th
14th
10.00 Coffee Morning, Football Club
2.30 Mothers Union, Mission Room
BL Bowls Club, Waterloo, Roy York
9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club
6/7th
7th
27th
28th
Lego Weekend, Community Centre
2-6pm Open Gardens
St Mary’s Summer Fete on the Green
2-6pm Open Gardens
16th
7.30 African Children’s Choir, St Mary’s
Church
July
6th
BL, Bowls Club, chat night
18th
Jazz Concert, St Mary’s Church
11th
St Mary’s Church Wine Walkabout
20th
21st
23rd
27th
28th
May
2nd
11th
14th
16th
8.00 Flower Festival Meeting, St Mary’s
Church
10.00 Coffee Morning, Football Club
7.45 St Mary’s Thursday Club Ghost Walk
7.30 History Society, Mission Room
Dr Tricia James ‘Infant mortality’
9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club
Wesleyan Chapel May Fayre
BL, Bowls Club, Chat night
Wesleyan Chapel Concert
7.30 Organ Recital, St Mary’s Church
Ben Bloor, Westminster Cathedral
August
3rd
September
7th
18th/
20th
October
3rd
5th
November
15th
December
5th
BL, Bowls Club, Medical Detection Dogs
BL, Bowls Club, chat night
Flower Festival, St Mary’s Church
Wesleyan Chapel Table Top Sale
BL, Bowls Club, Fish & Chips
BL, Bowls Club AGM
Christmas Craft Fair, Community Centre
Wesleyan Chapel Christmas Bazaar
7pm St Mary’s Church Wassail Evening,
20th
7.30 Lyra Vocal Ensemble, St Mary’s church
11th
BL, Bowls Club, Entertainment
St Michael’s Mission Room, Well Street, Finedon
Available for hire weekdays and Saturdays.
Suitable for most social functions, charitable events, children's parties (no late
discos)
For all enquiries and information contact
Bryan & Christine Chapman Tel: 01933 398818
Email: bryanchapman2@aol.com
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