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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 8
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. 9
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