St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - December 2015 -January 2016

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PARISHIONER TO PARISHIONER “Riding High on the Church Cockerel” (November 2015 issue, Page 12): We had a response to Mildred Ford’s 1925 /26 photo of the then SMR weathervane cockerel. Leonard Brown rang to tell his own story (after carefully insisting that he is Eric Tyley’s old friend but 6 MONTHS younger). Leonard, who was christened and married at SMR, was a pupil at the Mission School and then at St Mary Redcliffe Boys School. In 1930 when he was at the latter, the cockerel weathervane was taken down for cleaning. A hand-picked group of boys was taken over to the church by the teachers and were solemnly all given a go sitting on it, “Just so that we could say we’d sat on the cock” – and he is doing exactly that - to us in 2015. Leonard recognized all the named men in the photo whilst also recalling that in those days there was a Parish Beagle (Mr. Jenkins) and a coachman, Mr. Babs, who lived in Somerset Square. Ralph Morgan (in the photo) played the organ for Mr and Mrs Leonard Brown at their wedding for a fee of £3 which he promptly gave back to them as a wedding present. They are in their 75 th year of marriage. Not many of us can say that, let alone sit on top of the SMR weathervane. Rob Mabery writes: Not only has our Mary's Meals Backpack Project been successful yet again this year in gathering backpacks and contents from so many people but Elworthy Office Supplies, the Redland Park retailer, has been particularly generous with its donation of a notable number of pads, paper, jotters, pens, magic markers, file folders, etc. Could there be other like-minded retailers out there inclined to donate!? And a joke from Mary Brewer: A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee".
The husband said, "You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it because that is your job and I can wait for my coffee." The wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee". Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me". So she fetched the Bible and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it did indeed say………… "HEBREWS"! ************** Lent Appeal 2016 10 th February is Ash Wednesday, so the Lent Appeal will be upon us very soon! The charity for 2016 is Changing Tunes, an organisation that uses music to aid the rehabilitation of prisoners and exprisoners. There will be a concert on the evening Saturday 20 th February with performances from Changing Tunes musicians and, we hope, a collaborative piece together with singers from SMR. There will also be an exhibition in church throughout Lent, and a special ‘prison chapel’ style evening service on Sunday 6 th March. Watch out for more information in church in the New Year, and please contact Kat Campion-Spall if you want to be involved. *************** THURSDAY LUNCH TIME ORGAN RECITALS January and February 2016 January: 14 Jan. Anthony Hammond (Cirencester), 21 Jan. Roy Massey (Hereford cathedral), 28 Jan Anthony Gritten, (Royal Academy of Music) February: 4 Feb Christopher Kent (Chippenham), 11 Feb. David Bednall (Bristol), 18 Feb. David Quinn (Radley College) 25 Feb. Richard Morgan (Stapleton)
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Page 3 and 4: GAZE ON THE NEW-BORN BABY Kat Campi
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