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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0 14) 274 5086<br />
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email: office@stchads.org<br />
website: www.stchads.org<br />
February/March <strong>2016</strong><br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />
Celebrate Easter<br />
at St Chad’s<br />
Details of our services inside<br />
Sunday March 20<br />
Easter worship<br />
at St Chad’s<br />
PALM SUNDAY<br />
9am Traditional Communion Service<br />
11am Lifted Family Service<br />
Thursday March 24<br />
MAUNDY THURSDAY<br />
10am & Services of Holy Communion<br />
7.30pm remembering the events of<br />
Maundy Thursday<br />
Friday March 25<br />
GOOD FRIDAY<br />
10am Good Friday Family Service<br />
(especially for children)<br />
1-3pm Meditations Around the Cross<br />
Sunday March 27<br />
EASTER SUNDAY<br />
9am Easter Celebration with<br />
Holy Communion<br />
11am Family Service with<br />
Holy Communion<br />
Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!
WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church,<br />
Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed<br />
to over 5,000 homes in S8.<br />
St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of<br />
Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about<br />
St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church<br />
office on 0114 274 5086.<br />
Here’s where to find us:<br />
Abbey Lane<br />
Linden Avenue<br />
Church<br />
House<br />
St Chad's<br />
Church &<br />
Church<br />
Office<br />
Camping Lane<br />
Chesterfield Road<br />
Abbey Lane<br />
School<br />
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at St Chad’s<br />
PALM SUNDAY<br />
MAUNDY THURSDAY<br />
GOOD FRIDAY<br />
9am Traditional Co munion Service<br />
1am Lifted Family Service<br />
10am & Services of Holy Co munion<br />
7.30pm remembering th events of<br />
Maundy Thursday<br />
Friday March 25<br />
10am G od Friday Family Service<br />
(especia for children)<br />
1-3pm Meditations Around the Cro s<br />
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My grandfather was an optician. Coming from<br />
an East London working class background (no<br />
schooling past the age of 14), a professional<br />
optician was probably not on his list of<br />
aspirational careers. The story goes that when<br />
he was asked by a careers offi cer what he wanted to do<br />
when he fi nished school, he replied that he wished to be<br />
an electrician like his father. The careers offi cer was hard<br />
of hearing and sent him to night school to study to be an<br />
optician. This he did, and in fact became a rather successful<br />
one.<br />
February/March <strong>2016</strong><br />
This meant that from my teenage years, when I fi rst<br />
became short-sighted, until my twenties, when he retired,<br />
I had an inexhaustible supply of free glasses and contact<br />
lenses. Only later in life did I realise how many hundreds<br />
of pounds this must have saved me. Such a benefi t was not always to my<br />
advantage, however. In the 1980s I was one of the fi rst people I know to<br />
get the new light-sensitive lenses. This mean that in the summer I could<br />
play football outside with friends with “cool” looking shades on (banned in<br />
school). Unfortunately the technology was still in its infancy and I would<br />
usually spend the fi rst ten minutes back in the classroom being unable to<br />
see a thing. School photos also show me looking far from the cool-shaded<br />
dude that I thought I was. I hate to think what my classroom colleagues<br />
thought of it all.<br />
Many years later, as I considered my own response to faith in Jesus<br />
Christ and the differing responses of my friends to my belief – some of<br />
whom were sympathetic, some of whom were downright hostile – the<br />
analogy of seeing through imperfect lenses would come back to me. We<br />
all have our own set of lenses on our minds. In some circumstances these<br />
lenses help us see clearly, and in some circumstances they obscure our<br />
vision. Without the lenses of reason and logic we would understand nothing<br />
of the workings of the universe, the marvels of modern medicine or the<br />
delicate connections that make up an ecosystem. Yet these same lenses<br />
can be limiting when we encounter human emotions, artistic endeavour or<br />
faith in God. Too often I feel that I have walked from one environment into<br />
another and my lenses have not suffi ciently adapted. I am<br />
still in the dark.<br />
St Paul in his famous poem on love spoke of how<br />
we now see in a glass darkly but one day we will see<br />
face-to-face. He is looking forward to a time when we<br />
will be so enraptured with the wonder of God and his<br />
new creation that there will be no need for lenses at<br />
all. We really will see things as they really are. In<br />
the meantime we perhaps need to ask ourselves<br />
what lenses we are seeing through at the moment, and<br />
whether they are enhancing or distorting our vision of<br />
the world around us.<br />
Rev Toby Hole,<br />
Vicar, St Chad’s Church, Woodseats<br />
Celebrate Easter<br />
at St Chad’s<br />
Details of our services inside<br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />
Easter worship<br />
Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!<br />
Through a Glass Darkly<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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“Nothing is certain except what and taxes?!?<br />
Why did the<br />
chicken carry an<br />
umbrella?<br />
The weather was<br />
foul!<br />
Why couldn’t the<br />
chicken<br />
find her<br />
eggs?<br />
She’d<br />
mislaid<br />
them!<br />
Why did the<br />
computer go to<br />
the doctors?<br />
It had a nasty<br />
virus!<br />
What happened to<br />
the thief who stole a<br />
lorry full of elastic?<br />
He was given a long<br />
stretch inside!<br />
A police trainee was asked<br />
during his exam, “What would<br />
you do if you had to arrest<br />
your own mother?”<br />
He answered, “Call for backup!”<br />
What do you get<br />
when you cross a<br />
cow with a duck?<br />
Cream quackers!<br />
Why did<br />
the acrobats get<br />
married?<br />
They were headover-heels<br />
in love!<br />
What lies on the<br />
ground, 100 feet<br />
in the air?<br />
A centipede!<br />
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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What’s On<br />
If you have an event you would like<br />
to see included in our What’s On<br />
section, email impact@stchads.org<br />
Health Walks<br />
•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park.<br />
Meet outside the Rose Garden<br />
Cafe;<br />
•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall<br />
Woods. Meet downstairs in Jack’s<br />
Bar at the Beauchief Hotel;<br />
•Thursdays - 10.30am:<br />
Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley<br />
Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley<br />
Road, Lowedges.<br />
) Call 0114 203 9337 for details.<br />
February 2-6<br />
The Deep Blue Sea<br />
Ecclesall Parish Hall<br />
7.30pm<br />
Ecclesall Theatre Company<br />
presents The Deep Blue Sea by<br />
Terence Rattigan.<br />
February 6<br />
In-between Giants<br />
High Storrs School<br />
7.30pm<br />
Hallam Sinfonia presents the<br />
fourth symphonies of Beethoven<br />
and Mahler with conductor Natalia<br />
Luis-Bassa and soprano Alison<br />
Claire Robertson.<br />
February 11<br />
Christianity Explored<br />
St Chad’s Church House<br />
7.30pm<br />
The launch of a seven-week<br />
course giving you time and space<br />
to consider the big questions<br />
of life and to explore the life of<br />
the person at the heart of the<br />
Christian faith – Jesus Christ. Full<br />
details are on page 15.<br />
Email office@stchads.org to book<br />
a place.<br />
February 11<br />
Sheffield Cathedral Revealed<br />
Sheffield Cathedral<br />
2-3pm<br />
A talk and walk on the meanings<br />
and messages in the building’s<br />
art, architecture and stained<br />
glass with speaker Margaret<br />
Garner.<br />
Tickets priced £3.50 each are<br />
available from Sheffield Cathedral<br />
Shop.<br />
February 11<br />
February Farm Fun<br />
Whirlow Hall Farm<br />
11am-3pm<br />
Meet a whole magnitude of new<br />
arrivals to the farm.<br />
The farm will be welcoming All<br />
Critters Great and Small, and their<br />
menagerie of weird and wonderful<br />
animals including snakes, skunks,<br />
meerkats, skinny pigs, hairless<br />
rats and many creepy crawlies.<br />
There will be free children’s craft<br />
activities on the day.<br />
St Chad’s Church has two<br />
rooms available for hire at<br />
56 Abbey Lane<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact,<br />
St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB.<br />
January 30 - February 5<br />
AEGON British Tennis Tour<br />
Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre<br />
World February ranked 13players compete<br />
alongside<br />
Beethoven’s<br />
local<br />
Violin<br />
Sheffield<br />
Sonatas<br />
players.<br />
<br />
St<br />
Call<br />
Andrew’s<br />
0114 283<br />
Church,<br />
9900.<br />
Psalter Lane<br />
7.30pm<br />
A concert with violinist Lucy<br />
February<br />
Phillips.<br />
5<br />
Book Sale<br />
36 March Crawshaw 5 Grove, Beauchief<br />
10am-12pm Bach St John Passion<br />
Good Sheffield quality Cathedral second-hand books<br />
for 7.30pm sale in aid of the Alzheimer‟s<br />
Society. Sheffield Donations Bach Choir of paperback and soloists<br />
novels with the or National biographies Festival in good Orchestra<br />
condition and conductor are welcome Simon (but Lindley. not<br />
larger books due to space<br />
limitations). March 12<br />
Book Sale<br />
February 36 Crawshaw 5 Grove, Beauchief<br />
Free 10am-12pm Environmental Activities<br />
Millhouses Good quality Park second-hand books<br />
10.30am-12.30pm<br />
for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s<br />
Obstacle Society. course Donations and of stream good<br />
dipping<br />
condition<br />
activities<br />
paperback<br />
for 8 -<br />
novels<br />
13 year<br />
or<br />
olds.<br />
biographies are welcome.<br />
Call 0114 263 4335.<br />
Free Environmental Activities<br />
Ecclesall Woods Sawmill<br />
10.30am-12.30pm<br />
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping<br />
and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13<br />
March 12<br />
year Spring olds. Concert<br />
Holy Call Trinity 0114 Church, 235 6348. Millhouses<br />
7.30pm<br />
February Escafeld Chorale 20 presents its<br />
Why spring Not concert Try A including Bike Rossini’s<br />
Greenhil Petite Messe Park Solonnelle.<br />
10am-2pm<br />
Rediscover March 13 your cycling skills in<br />
Greenhill Nether Edge Park. Farmers’ The rangers Market will<br />
provide Nether Edge a bike, helmet and<br />
instruction. 12-4pm Meet at the Bowls<br />
Pavilion, Stalls and Greenhill entertainment Park. in the<br />
Booking streets around is essential. the old Nether Edge<br />
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Market<br />
Call 0114<br />
Place.<br />
283 9195.<br />
Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a<br />
of variety services of services. and anyone For is more<br />
welcome information to attend. see page For 29. more<br />
details see the Abbey notice<br />
board.<br />
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Finding our Advent<br />
A<br />
Did you fi nd an angel? We<br />
hope you enjoyed looking for<br />
them during Advent. Thank<br />
you so much to all those who<br />
sent these great photos in.<br />
We’ve enjoyed receiving them!<br />
Thanks must also go to all the<br />
people who helped to actually make<br />
all 250 angels and the people who<br />
‘hid’ them around the area.<br />
Look out for news about what our<br />
<strong>2016</strong> Advent project will be later in<br />
the year.<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Angels<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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The Turner Museum o<br />
Sheffield’s Turner Museum of<br />
Glass is one of the UK’s most<br />
comprehensive collections of 19th<br />
and 20th Century glass. We asked<br />
Emeritus Professor John M Parker to<br />
tell us more.<br />
Everyone knows Sheffield as a<br />
centre for the metals industries.<br />
W.E.S. Turner, arriving<br />
in 1904 from humble<br />
roots in Birmingham,<br />
was no exception and he<br />
set about applying his<br />
university education to<br />
make a difference. His<br />
desire was to serve<br />
and he was determined<br />
to break down those<br />
barriers of secrecy<br />
holding industry back.<br />
Based in what was soon<br />
to be the University of<br />
Sheffield he was well<br />
placed. In 1914 he was<br />
elected President of the<br />
Sheffield Society of Applied<br />
Metallurgy.<br />
The granting of a university charter<br />
in 1905 added impetus to change as<br />
Sheffield sought to identify its place<br />
among the new civic universities.<br />
Turner circulated a questionnaire to<br />
local industry but to his surprise many<br />
replies came from small glass firms.<br />
The glassmakers Wood Brothers in<br />
Barnsley were typical and notably<br />
Barnsley includes a glassmaker in<br />
its coat of arms. All needed help and<br />
Turner did not look away. He set up a<br />
whole university department and created<br />
a society with members drawn from<br />
industry and university working together<br />
to solve problems. The First World War<br />
and associated shortages of glass-based<br />
products such as laboratory-ware gave<br />
yet another push to such developments.<br />
He later commented ‘For better or<br />
worse I am part and parcel of the glass<br />
industry’.<br />
In 1933 he expanded his horizons to<br />
form an international community<br />
of people interested in glassmaking,<br />
using contacts in<br />
Germany, Italy, Spain,<br />
France, Russia and the<br />
US. This organisation still<br />
exists.<br />
While principally a<br />
technologist he also<br />
appreciated good<br />
design. Indeed his<br />
second wife was<br />
a renowned glass<br />
artist and among<br />
his colleagues was<br />
Frederick Carder, who set<br />
up the US firm Steuben<br />
Glassworks, famous<br />
for its innovative designs.<br />
Such connections resulted in a<br />
major personal collection of glass art,<br />
including many unique items bequeathed<br />
to him on his world travels. In 1943 he<br />
gifted it to the university. Its 400 pieces<br />
have since been boosted by a collection<br />
of fine wine glasses and many individual<br />
gifts.<br />
You can visit the Turner Museum<br />
of Glass on weekdays apart from<br />
public holidays. It’s rarely busy in the<br />
afternoons or during university holidays.<br />
Access is from Portobello Street<br />
opposite the entrance to the multi-storey<br />
car park at the junction with Rockingham<br />
Street. We are close to the West Street<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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There are no stained glass windows<br />
but admire our Bohemian glassware,<br />
some decorated by staining. Take in<br />
a wonderful mosaic highlighting the<br />
role of the Middle East in developing<br />
glassmaking millennia ago. Ponder on<br />
who used our 2,000-year-old glassware.<br />
See the glass slippers (and glass<br />
wedding dress) made for Prof Turner’s<br />
second wife. But mostly enjoy our<br />
magnifi cent international glass collection.<br />
For more information see www.<br />
turnermuseum.group.shef.ac.uk/<br />
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Working<br />
w<br />
Katharine S Boyd is a Sheffieldbased<br />
designer and maker who<br />
works in stained glass and fine<br />
metals. Her work features on the<br />
cover of this edition of Impact.<br />
We asked her to tell us a little<br />
about her craft.<br />
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Works. Having trained in threedimensional<br />
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work was exclusively metalwork but<br />
I soon added stained glass work to<br />
my repertoire. I enjoy both crafts<br />
very much and love working with the<br />
extensive range of beautiful materials<br />
available.<br />
My metalwork is mainly handraised<br />
and patinated copper bowls<br />
and I fi nd the process of chemically<br />
colouring and texturing the surfaces<br />
fascinating; you never know quite<br />
what you are going to get but it<br />
seldom disappoints. After a long<br />
hiatus I have recently taken up<br />
chasing again. This is a technique<br />
of producing patterns and designs<br />
on fl at or formed metal using various<br />
different shaped punches.<br />
I recently made a small communion<br />
set for my church, St Mary’s in<br />
Walkley, and I am about to start work<br />
on a chased panel for an aumbry<br />
door for them.<br />
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with God the Maker<br />
My stained glass<br />
work is the dominant<br />
part of my business<br />
and I make both<br />
windows and threedimensional<br />
pieces<br />
such as bowls,<br />
containers, lighting<br />
and Wardian cases<br />
which, in case you<br />
have never heard<br />
of them, are like<br />
miniature green<br />
houses. Occasionally<br />
I combine both glass<br />
and metalwork in the<br />
same piece which<br />
adds greater scope to<br />
what I am able to offer.<br />
Although it is not what I set out to<br />
do, most of my work is now made to<br />
commission and usually for private<br />
individuals.<br />
Collaborating with<br />
them has proved<br />
really rewarding and<br />
I am very proud<br />
of the resulting<br />
pieces. The greatest<br />
compliment is when<br />
a customer describes<br />
their piece as their pride<br />
and joy. What more could I ask!<br />
In the coming year I am looking<br />
forward to working on a major project<br />
for a large stained glass and metal<br />
screen for St Chad’s Church in<br />
Woodseats.<br />
My faith is an integral part of my<br />
everyday life and this includes my<br />
work. I see God very much as a maker<br />
and a saying I heard from a Rabbi<br />
sums up much of how I feel about my<br />
creative practice, “Joining with God in<br />
the work of creation”. Again, what more<br />
could anyone ask!<br />
Katharine S. Boyd<br />
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Taking a Break for Lent<br />
How do you like your<br />
pancakes? With<br />
maple syrup, honey, or<br />
chocolate sauce? It’s<br />
always with sugar and<br />
lemon juice in our house, very<br />
traditional, and usually wolfed<br />
down without much thought that<br />
they are the remains of a much<br />
older, medieval feast.<br />
Shrove Tuesday, known by the<br />
French as Mardi Gras, or ‘Fat<br />
Tuesday’, was the last day of<br />
a three-day binge to use up all<br />
the milk, eggs, meat and other<br />
perishables that would go off<br />
during Lent: strict church rules<br />
meant that such foods couldn’t<br />
be eaten again till Easter.<br />
Next on the horizon after the<br />
pancakes are the Easter eggs, of<br />
course, but what about Lent, the<br />
40 days in between?<br />
Lent reminds us of the 40 days<br />
Jesus spent in the wilderness<br />
without food, fi ghting off the devil<br />
with nothing but his knowledge<br />
of Old Testament scripture.<br />
Some churches still observe<br />
Lent as a period of very strict<br />
fasting and often no meat is<br />
eaten over the whole period.<br />
Most of us think however of<br />
simply “giving something up for<br />
Lent”. Chocolate or sweets are<br />
a popular choice, while we look<br />
forward to those eggs…<br />
The underlying idea is that<br />
we do ourselves good by the<br />
discipline of dieting, we give<br />
the money we save to<br />
charities that help the poor,<br />
and we use the time we<br />
might be eating chocolate<br />
to pray and get closer<br />
to God. A lot of churches<br />
run Lent courses, guided<br />
sessions of Bible study and<br />
prayer, during the period.<br />
It doesn’t have to be chocolate<br />
of course; what about giving up<br />
smoking, or alcohol – or social<br />
media?!<br />
For a different approach, try<br />
logging onto www.tearfund.org<br />
and searching the site for “Lent”<br />
or “Carbon Fast”. You’ll fi nd some<br />
imaginative approaches to using<br />
less energy during Lent, reducing<br />
our impact on the environment<br />
and on poorer communities<br />
adversely affected by climate<br />
change. There are lots of creative<br />
prayer and meditation ideas as<br />
well.<br />
Lent starts six weeks, or<br />
(roughly) 40 days before<br />
Easter, which is the only church<br />
celebration whose date is still<br />
fi xed by the lunar calendar. This<br />
is because Easter always has to<br />
fall over a weekend, remembering<br />
that Jesus was crucifi ed on<br />
a Friday and rose again on a<br />
Sunday morning.<br />
It’s early this year – Lent starts<br />
on February 10, so have a think<br />
about what you might want to do,<br />
and don’t be caught out by the<br />
calendar.<br />
Ken Goodier<br />
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St Chad’s<br />
Church House<br />
Thursdays at 7.30pm<br />
from February 11<br />
Christianity Explored gives you time and space to<br />
consider the big questions of life and to explore the<br />
life of the person at the heart of the Christian faith –<br />
Jesus Christ.<br />
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You don’t need to know anything about the Bible.<br />
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You won’t be asked to read aloud, pray or sing.<br />
zz<br />
You can ask any question you want, or just listen.<br />
This seven-week course starts on Thursday February<br />
11 at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane. We’ll have a<br />
meal together, listen to a talk and<br />
have some discussion time. Contact<br />
office@stchads.org to book a place.<br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />
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Services at St Chad’s<br />
<br />
the 10.30am Service<br />
Informal and relaxed in style<br />
An emphasis on families<br />
Sunday Services<br />
Sunday <br />
Services<br />
Includes music, led by a band<br />
Includes refreshments before the service<br />
The 9am Service<br />
● Traditional in style<br />
The<br />
The<br />
9am<br />
9am<br />
Service<br />
Service<br />
<br />
Includes Traditional Holy in style Communion, a sermon & hymns<br />
● Traditional in style<br />
Includes refreshments Holy Communion, afterwards<br />
a sermon & hymns<br />
● Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns<br />
Taken Includes from refreshments Common Worship: afterwards Holy Communion<br />
● • Includes Monday refreshments to Thursday afterwards at 9am<br />
Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />
● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />
Morning Prayers<br />
Lifted, Evening the Prayers 11am Service<br />
Lifted, the • Monday<br />
● Informal to<br />
the and 11am<br />
11am<br />
10.30am Thursday<br />
relaxed Service at<br />
Service in style Service 5pm<br />
An Informal emphasis and relaxed on families<br />
in style<br />
● Informal and relaxed in style<br />
Includes An emphasis music, on led families by a band<br />
● An emphasis on families<br />
• Refreshments Includes Traditional music, in served style<br />
led by from a band 10.15-10.45am<br />
● Includes music, led by band<br />
• Refreshments Includes Taken from refreshments Common served from before Worship: 10.15-10.45am<br />
the Holy service Communion<br />
● • Refreshments Includes Holy served Communion, from 10.15-10.45am<br />
a sermon & hymns<br />
• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />
The Thursday 10am Service<br />
Weekday Services<br />
Weekday <br />
Services<br />
<br />
Morning Prayers<br />
Morning Prayers<br />
Prayers<br />
<br />
Monday to Thursday at 9am<br />
•• A To Monday Monday half-hour be held to<br />
to service on Thursday Monday<br />
Thursday of prayer at June 9am<br />
at 9am and 20 and Bible Monday readings July<br />
18, 7.15-8pm<br />
• Every Monday to Thursday at 9am<br />
• A contemplative and meditative form of worship<br />
• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />
with Monday the theme to Thursday Seeking at 5pm Stillness with Jesus .<br />
• Monday to Thursday at 5pm<br />
Monday to Thursday at 5pm<br />
Evening Prayers<br />
Evening<br />
Evening Prayers<br />
Prayers<br />
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The Thursday 10am Service<br />
Traditional in style<br />
The<br />
The<br />
Thursday<br />
Thursday 10am<br />
10am Service<br />
Service<br />
• Taken Traditional from in Common style Worship: Holy Communion<br />
Traditional in style<br />
• Includes Taken from Holy Common Communion, Worship: a sermon Holy Communion<br />
& hymns<br />
Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />
• Held Includes in the Holy Lady Communion, Chapel at the a sermon back of & church hymns<br />
Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns<br />
• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />
Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />
Other Services<br />
Other<br />
<br />
Services<br />
Prayer and Praise<br />
Prayer Contemplative <br />
Sunday, and February Praise Night 13 at 7.30pm Prayer<br />
Prayer and Praise<br />
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm<br />
Ash Tuesdays, Sunday, 18, Wednesday 7.15-8pm<br />
February 13 at 7.30pm<br />
Service 23 and March 29<br />
Ash Wednesday, March Service 9 at 7.30pm<br />
Ash at 8pm<br />
Service<br />
• To be held on Monday June 20 and Monday July<br />
•• An A contemplative evening service and of meditative prayer and form contemplation of worship<br />
Wednesday, with the theme March Seeking at Stillness 7.30pm with Jesus .<br />
Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm<br />
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Sunday March 20<br />
Easter worship<br />
at St Chad’s<br />
PALM SUNDAY<br />
9am Traditional Communion Service<br />
11am<br />
Lifted Family Service<br />
Thursday March 24<br />
MAUNDY THURSDAY<br />
10am &<br />
7.30pm<br />
Services of Holy Communion<br />
remembering the events of<br />
Maundy Thursday<br />
Friday March 25<br />
GOOD FRIDAY<br />
10am<br />
1-3pm<br />
Good Friday Family Service<br />
(especially for children)<br />
Meditations Around the Cross<br />
Sunday March 27<br />
EASTER SUNDAY<br />
9am<br />
11am<br />
Easter Celebration with<br />
Holy Communion<br />
Family Service with<br />
Holy Communion<br />
Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!<br />
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Every now and then someone will<br />
knock on the vicarage door asking<br />
if they can be let into the church.<br />
They do not want to come in and<br />
pray, nor do they want somewhere<br />
to shelter from the rain, or even to use<br />
the facilities (though these are all reasons<br />
why people sometimes do ask for entry).<br />
Some people want to go into the church<br />
for the sole reason of seeing the stained<br />
glass windows.<br />
This may surprise some people,<br />
for whom St Chad’s appears a fairly<br />
unprepossessing building hardly likely to<br />
contain architectural treasures (though it<br />
is Grade II* listed). St Chad’s is certainly<br />
not Chartres cathedral, nor does it have<br />
anything to rival the rose window of York<br />
minster. But it does have some attractive<br />
and interesting stained glass.<br />
When the church was built it had no<br />
stained glass at all. In fact it didn’t have<br />
a great deal of anything – the outbreak of<br />
the First World War meant that money ran<br />
out for the building and only the nave was<br />
initially completed. The windows were<br />
made of clear glass. I don’t know whether<br />
there had originally been any plans to<br />
adorn the building with stained glass, but<br />
in any event the windows when they were<br />
fitted were clear.<br />
The First World War sadly gave many<br />
decorations to the church in the form of<br />
war memorials. It is the memorial in the<br />
shape of a stained glass window that is<br />
the one that excites the interest of church<br />
visitors. The window is in the centre of the<br />
south wall. The left-hand scene shows a<br />
traditional picture of the Lord’s Supper (the<br />
observant can spot Judas on the far left,<br />
clutching a bag of money). On the right is<br />
shown a scene from the trenches. British<br />
soldiers are receiving a ‘Field Communion’<br />
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Stories in Glass<br />
Three of the stained glass windows in St Chad’s Church<br />
from a padre. In the foreground, receiving<br />
the Holy Sacrament, is a young man with<br />
a moustache. He is Lieutenant C. Gordon<br />
Harbord who died during the Battle of the<br />
Somme on September 1, 1916. His name<br />
also appears in the confirmation register<br />
of the church a few years before his early<br />
death. Harbord Road in Woodseats<br />
is named after him, St Chad’s Church<br />
House was first owned by his parents and<br />
the family still has strong connections with<br />
Sheffield - his great nephew is the current<br />
chaplain to the Bishop of Sheffield.<br />
Shortly after this stained glass window<br />
was commissioned and dedicated,<br />
another window to the left was installed.<br />
This shows two traditional Gospel scenes:<br />
one of the haemorrhaging woman who<br />
was healed when she touched Jesus’<br />
cloak and the other of the annunciation<br />
with the Angel Gabriel appearing to<br />
Mary. Intriguingly Gabriel is shown with<br />
striking African features in contrast to the<br />
usual flowing blond locks and pale skin<br />
that many angels are deemed to have.<br />
Gabriel holds a lily, a sign of purity and<br />
virginity. This window is very much in the<br />
style of the Arts and Crafts Movement of<br />
the late Nineteenth Century and this too<br />
has attracted visitors to the church.<br />
On the north wall of the church is a<br />
window depicting four saints, dedicated<br />
in 1945 to the memory of a worshipper,<br />
John Wolstenholme. The four saints<br />
(from left to right) are St John, St Peter,<br />
St Paul and St Chad. If you look very<br />
closely at St John you will see him holding<br />
a chalice out of which pops a very small<br />
black serpent. This alludes to the legend<br />
that John was given a poisoned chalice to<br />
drink but the poison had no effect on him.<br />
A final, almost unseen piece of stained<br />
glass in the church can be seen high on<br />
the north wall of the chancel. This was<br />
donated by Professor Violet Dimbleby, a<br />
professor of glass at Sheffield University.<br />
The small roundel, made by the professor<br />
herself, shows a scene from the Old<br />
Testament story of Eli and Samuel when<br />
Samuel hears God calling him.<br />
The church rebuilding works, scheduled<br />
for later this year do not include any plans<br />
to alter or add to the existing stained glass<br />
windows - although we hope eventually<br />
to decorate the east wall, which at<br />
present only has a small round window,<br />
with something colourful to draw the<br />
worshippers’ attention. The windows will<br />
remain, each telling their stories and each<br />
revealing their secrets to those who look<br />
closely enough.<br />
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Seeing the Future?<br />
Google Glass’s tagline<br />
is “Getting technology<br />
out of the way”. It is a<br />
headset computer, with<br />
a small screen that puts<br />
information in the wearer’s line of<br />
sight. It’s a bit like a smartphone<br />
that you wear on your head.<br />
It was voice-commanded, and<br />
users could quickly get directions,<br />
read and send messages, take<br />
photos and videos, and access<br />
the internet. It was announced in<br />
April 2012, and went on general<br />
sale in May 2014. The device<br />
got a lot of media coverage, both<br />
positive and negative. Was this<br />
going to be the next big thing in<br />
personal computing?<br />
It didn’t take long, however,<br />
for criticisms to start to roll in.<br />
For a start, it was suggested<br />
that the devices weren’t actually<br />
very good. They were buggy and<br />
difficult to use, and the quality<br />
of the photos and video wasn’t<br />
very good even compared to<br />
smartphone cameras. But quickly<br />
other concerns started to arise.<br />
Privacy issues rose to the fore,<br />
with Google Glass wearers being<br />
banned from cinemas to prevent<br />
piracy, and even from restaurants<br />
to ensure diners could eat without<br />
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being worried about surreptitious<br />
photographs being taken. Some<br />
even described the device as a<br />
“stalker’s friend”.<br />
But positive stories about the<br />
use of Google Glass started to<br />
come through too. Google Glass<br />
has been used widely in health<br />
care situations. In Europe, Google<br />
Glass has been reported to be<br />
used in surgery, in ambulances<br />
and even in a trauma helicopter<br />
to give medical staff information<br />
and assistance as they worked.<br />
A further trial in Australia<br />
experimented with giving support<br />
to new breastfeeding mothers<br />
using Google Glass, so that<br />
lactation consultants could see the<br />
baby as the mother saw them.<br />
However, in January 2015,<br />
Google announced that they<br />
had stopped the manufacture of<br />
Google Glass, and was moving<br />
on in its research. At the time<br />
of writing, there are rumours<br />
of Google Glass version 2, but<br />
nothing has been announced by<br />
Google.<br />
Is this the future of mobile<br />
computing, or is this simply a<br />
novelty that will soon wear off?<br />
Only time will tell!<br />
Rev Duncan Bell<br />
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Thanks for supporting<br />
Operation Christmas Child<br />
Many thanks<br />
to everyone<br />
who helped<br />
with Operation<br />
Christmas Child<br />
this year. Whether you<br />
donated completed boxes,<br />
gave items to ‘top up’ lighter<br />
boxes, helped to check<br />
boxes or contributed in any<br />
way your efforts really do<br />
make a difference.<br />
The total number of<br />
boxes through the Sheffi eld<br />
warehouse this year was<br />
17,170 which includes boxes<br />
checked at Rotherham,<br />
Barnsley and Greenmoor.<br />
We dispatched 7,398<br />
shoeboxes to Swaziland,<br />
2,280 to Romania and<br />
7,492 to Latvia. It is<br />
great that we are able<br />
to bring a little joy to<br />
so many children.<br />
In total around<br />
875,000 shoeboxes<br />
have been sent<br />
from the UK to many<br />
countries.<br />
Carole Titman<br />
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opening boxes in Romania<br />
Are you looking for<br />
a room to hold your<br />
party or meeting?<br />
St Chad’s Church has<br />
two rooms available for<br />
hire at 56 Abbey Lane<br />
Call 0114 274 5086 for details<br />
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Seeing Life Through a Lens<br />
For those of us who are<br />
usually the last to get wet<br />
when it rains (one of the<br />
few advantages of being<br />
short?) the Hall of Mirrors<br />
at funfairs offers an opportunity<br />
to look tall and impossibly thin.<br />
There are other mirrors that can<br />
make you look squished or with<br />
a strange wiggle in the middle!<br />
Perhaps these mirrors reflect the<br />
imagination of children, who often<br />
see the world through a particular<br />
‘lens’ of fun, joy and optimism.<br />
These days of<br />
course children are<br />
more likely to use<br />
one of the many<br />
apps on phones<br />
and tablets that<br />
can do the same<br />
thing as the Hall of<br />
Mirrors or better –<br />
my daughter has a<br />
collection of rather<br />
embarrassing but<br />
funny distorted<br />
pictures of her poor<br />
dad!<br />
In the popular<br />
Bible passage often read out<br />
at weddings about love (1<br />
Corinthians 13), St Paul writes:<br />
“When I was a child, I talked like<br />
a child, I thought like a child, I<br />
reasoned like a child. When I<br />
became a man, I put the ways of<br />
childhood behind me. For now<br />
we see only a reflection as in a<br />
mirror; then we shall see face to<br />
face. Now I know in part; then I<br />
shall know fully, even as I am fully<br />
known.”<br />
We all see life through some<br />
kind of lens, perhaps distorted or<br />
altered by our upbringing, culture<br />
and life experiences. I wonder<br />
how our own lenses distort our<br />
view of how things really are.<br />
‘For now we see<br />
only a reflection<br />
as in a mirror;<br />
then we shall see<br />
face to face. Now<br />
I know in part;<br />
then I shall know<br />
fully, even as I am<br />
fully known’<br />
1 Corinthians 13<br />
Having reached my mid-forties<br />
when the physical lenses of my<br />
eyes are not as flexible as they<br />
once were, and finally giving in to<br />
needing varifocals in order to<br />
see things both near and far<br />
away, I also wonder how the<br />
way I see things as an adult may<br />
have become less flexible, less<br />
imaginative and less forgiving<br />
than when I was a child.<br />
St Paul says: “...now we see<br />
only a reflection as in a mirror;<br />
then we shall see face to face.”<br />
Writing to the first<br />
followers of Jesus<br />
Christ but also to us<br />
today, St Paul gives a<br />
timely reminder that<br />
things are not always<br />
as they might seem.<br />
It would be perfectly<br />
natural to look at the<br />
recent dark, horrific<br />
events such as<br />
those in Paris on 13<br />
November 2015 and<br />
say to God: where<br />
were you in all of<br />
that? How could you<br />
allow it? And yet, if we look closely<br />
enough, flex our lenses as-it-were,<br />
and the bigger picture emerges,<br />
we notice a multitude of sacrifices,<br />
acts of mercy and heroism,<br />
where local residents opened<br />
their homes to strangers, people<br />
queued outside hospitals to give<br />
blood, others shielded each other<br />
with their own bodies.<br />
As St Paul rightly concludes:<br />
“And now these three remain:<br />
faith, hope and love. But the<br />
greatest of these is love.” May<br />
we look forward to knowing these<br />
fully, even as we are fully known<br />
by God.<br />
Daren Craddock<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
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A Half Forgotten Song<br />
by Katherine Webb<br />
Zach Gilchrist, a gallery<br />
owner and trained artist,<br />
has fallen on hard times.<br />
With his marriage over<br />
and his gallery failing, he<br />
decides to research his favourite<br />
artist with the aim of writing a<br />
book about the artists life.<br />
Zach’s possible family link and<br />
his obsession with artist Charles<br />
Aubrey takes him to Blacknowle,<br />
a Dorset village on the coast.<br />
Here he hopes to get the<br />
answer to all his questions about<br />
Aubrey’s life and death, and to<br />
find out about the identities of the<br />
women depicted in the paintings<br />
he has displayed in his gallery.<br />
Charles Aubrey was an artist<br />
whose life was cut short by the<br />
Second World War and whose<br />
last few months alive were<br />
shrouded in mystery.<br />
Aubrey and his family spent<br />
many summers in Blacknowle<br />
village and Zach’s research there<br />
leads him to Mitzy Hatcher, an<br />
elderly eccentric woman who<br />
spent a lot of time with the family<br />
as a young girl. Mitzy became<br />
firm friends with Aubrey’s eldest<br />
daughter, as well as a regular<br />
figure in his drawings and family<br />
life.<br />
Mitzy had lived all her life in<br />
the Dorset village, and spent<br />
a miserable childhood with her<br />
mother, who never showed<br />
her any love or affection. The<br />
Aubreys offered Mitzy a lifestyle<br />
she had never known before.<br />
As Zach begins to unravel<br />
the past, Mitzy begins to reveal<br />
her love of Charles and her<br />
relationship with the family.<br />
Mitzy’s love of Charles grows<br />
from innocence to<br />
obsession, from<br />
childish infatuation<br />
to something more<br />
complex.<br />
The story is<br />
atmospheric and<br />
detailed going<br />
from Dorset to<br />
Morocco and back<br />
to Dorset.<br />
Zach develops<br />
a friendship<br />
with Hannah<br />
Brock. She is<br />
Mitzy’s nearest<br />
neighbour and<br />
carries her own<br />
secrets.<br />
There are a number of different<br />
story lines running through the<br />
book, all are good.<br />
The story splits between the<br />
past and the present, and is well<br />
structured.<br />
The plot leaves you guessing<br />
right to the end and I never got<br />
the feeling I could see what was<br />
going to happen.<br />
The story combines a mystery,<br />
several love stories as well as<br />
ghosts, obsession and betrayal.<br />
Just when you think you know<br />
the answer, there is another<br />
revelation that you never saw<br />
coming. The characters are very<br />
real and there are some good<br />
twists.<br />
I enjoyed this book but it does<br />
start slowly and did take me a<br />
few chapters to get into the plot<br />
. I’m glad I stuck with it as I was<br />
gripped by the end and couldn’t<br />
put it down!<br />
It is a good read, but think it<br />
could have been a bit shorter.<br />
Sue Sneddon<br />
St Chad’s 3rd Age Book<br />
Group<br />
Book Review<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
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The HIstory of Glass<br />
From our earliest origins,<br />
humans have been using<br />
glass. Historians have<br />
discovered that a form of<br />
natural glass, obsidian -<br />
formed for instance, within the<br />
mouth of a volcano - was first<br />
used as tips for spears.<br />
Archaeologists have found<br />
evidence of man-made glass<br />
which dates back to 4000BC; this<br />
took the form of glazes used for<br />
coating stone beads. It was not<br />
until 1500 BC that the first hollow<br />
glass container was made by<br />
covering a sand core with a layer<br />
of molten glass.<br />
Glass blowing became the<br />
most common way to make<br />
glass containers from the First<br />
Century BC. However, the glass<br />
made during this time was highly<br />
coloured due to the impurities<br />
of the raw material. It was not<br />
until the First Century AD when<br />
colourless glass was produced<br />
and then coloured by the addition<br />
of colouring materials.<br />
The secret of glass making<br />
came to Britain with the Romans.<br />
However, the skills and technology<br />
required were closely guarded by<br />
the Romans and it was not until<br />
their empire disintegrated that<br />
glass-making skills spread through<br />
Europe and the Middle East.<br />
In Britain, there is evidence of a<br />
glass industry around Jarrow and<br />
Wearmouth dating to 680 AD, and<br />
from the 13th Century in areas of<br />
Surrey and Sussex.<br />
A major milestone in the<br />
history of glass occurred with the<br />
invention of lead crystal glass<br />
by George Ravenscroft. He<br />
attempted to counter the effect<br />
of clouding that could occur in<br />
blown glass by introducing lead<br />
to the raw materials. The new<br />
glass he created was softer and<br />
easier to decorate and had a<br />
higher refractive index, adding to<br />
its brilliance and beauty. It proved<br />
invaluable to the optical industry<br />
and optical lenses, astronomical<br />
telescopes, microscopes and the<br />
like became possible.<br />
The modern glass industry<br />
only started to develop in Britain<br />
after the repeal of the Excise<br />
Act in 1845 relieved the heavy<br />
taxation that had been enforced<br />
on the amount of glass melted in a<br />
glasshouse.<br />
Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace<br />
at the Great Exhibition of 1851<br />
marked the beginning of the<br />
discovery of glass as a building<br />
material.<br />
By 1887 glass making developed<br />
from traditional mouth-blowing to<br />
a semi-automatic process when<br />
Ashley introduced a machine<br />
capable of producing 200 bottles<br />
per hour in Castleford – more than<br />
three times quicker than previously.<br />
Twenty years later, in 1907, the<br />
first fully automated machine was<br />
developed in America making<br />
2,500 bottles per hour.<br />
Other developments followed<br />
rapidly, but it was not until the First<br />
World War, when Britain became<br />
cut off from essential suppliers that<br />
glass became part of the scientific<br />
sector rather than just a craft.<br />
Today, glass making is a modern,<br />
hi-tech industry operating in a<br />
competitive global market.<br />
Few of us can imagine modern<br />
life without glass. It features in<br />
almost every aspect of our lives.<br />
And looking into the future,<br />
glass as will always exist as a<br />
material in its own right but many<br />
new applications and processes<br />
are already involving glass in<br />
combination with other materials.<br />
Courtesy of<br />
Sheffield-based British Glass<br />
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Where’s that<br />
from..?<br />
Codswallop<br />
Meaning - nonsense or rubbish<br />
Derived from - the mid 1800s when a<br />
certain soft drinks manufacturer, by the<br />
name of Hiram Codd, invented a technique<br />
for bottling lemonade. He inserted a<br />
glass marble into the neck of the bottle<br />
to act as a stopper. When the bottle was<br />
shaken, the pressure from the fi zzy liquid<br />
forced the marble against the neck, thus<br />
forming a seal. This new invention quickly<br />
became known as ‘The Codd Bottle’. Beer<br />
drinkers belittled those who preferred the<br />
taste of soft drinks to “wallop”, a slang<br />
word for beer. They poked fun at them<br />
by calling the lemonade in Hiram’s bottles<br />
“codswallop”, inferring that it was rubbish<br />
compared with real beer!<br />
Words, and their meanings, change with<br />
the passage of time, of course. However,<br />
the phrase “a load of codswallop” doesn’t<br />
appear until after the Second World War.<br />
Derivations are often open to speculation<br />
and are sometimes pure supposition.<br />
It could just be that, in this particular<br />
instance, the supposition is purely “a load<br />
of codswallop”!<br />
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During this fast Yun was repeatedly<br />
tortured, humiliated and beaten by<br />
Prison Guards and fellow prisoners. In<br />
prison violent and dangerous men<br />
observed Yun‟s faith and obedience<br />
Registers to God. They realised that he 2015<br />
was not<br />
a criminal, just a committed Christian<br />
and came themselves into a deep and<br />
Baptisms<br />
loving relationship with Jesus.<br />
Miraculous and loving interventions<br />
November helped Yun for example jumping over<br />
15 a ten Emily foot Jane wall; Belcher walking through the<br />
open Lilly doors Anna of Belcher a high security prison<br />
unobserved Jessica Louise and walking Belcher after his legs<br />
were Caitlin so severely Ivy Ladhams broken (he was told<br />
December he would be crippled for life after this<br />
20 punishment). Paloma Louise Price<br />
Oliver<br />
Whatever<br />
George<br />
Yun<br />
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experienced, God<br />
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Funerals<br />
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Palm Sunday 20th March 11.00am<br />
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