PARISH & COMMUNITY NEWS - Cotton Parish
PARISH & COMMUNITY NEWS - Cotton Parish
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<strong>Parish</strong> and Community News October 2012<br />
CHURCH <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
36<br />
JUNIOR CHURCH<br />
Harvest Traditions<br />
The word Harvest comes from the Anglo Saxon word for<br />
Autumn, ‘Hearfest’ gradually it came to mean the season of<br />
reaping and gathering the crops; the corn in the meadows, the<br />
berries from the hedgerows, the goodies from our gardens and<br />
allotments.<br />
! The full moon closest to the autumnal equinox is known as<br />
the Harvest Moon and the Sunday closest to the Harvest Moon is<br />
when the end of the harvest was celebrated with suppers and<br />
church services, everyone pleased to have the food for the winter<br />
safe in the barns, no supermarkets in those days!<br />
! It is thought that the first church to celebrate the Harvest<br />
Festival as we do today was at Morwenstow in Cornwall in 1843,<br />
when the church was decorated and the hymns that have now<br />
become our traditional harvest hymns, like ‘All Things Bright and<br />
Beautiful’ were first sung.
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