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Saint Aidan’s Parish Church
New Parks, Leicester
Parish
Journal
March & April
2017
Lent & Easter
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In this issue:
What has Lent to do with our
Baptismal promises?
page 4
News about our Church Hall
renovations
pages 6 - 7
Why Stations of the Cross?
Pope Francis answers!
page 8
Saint Aidan’s Clergy
Parish Priest:
FR. SIMON LUMBY SSC
The Vicarage,
Saint Oswald Road,
New Parks,
Leicester,
LE3 6RJ.
Tel - 0116 287 2342
Mobile - 07788 289012
Email - fathersimonlumby@gmail.com
Make perfect Lenten
Hot Cross Buns
page 12
Holy Week at Saint Aidan’s -
what's happening?
pages 14 - 15
Important Future dates for
Saint Aidan’s Events
page 16
Mary Berry’s Simnel Cake
page 18
The Bishop of Richborough writes
page 20
Saints of the Months
pages 10 & 20
Mass Times at St. Aidan’s:
Sunday Rosary 9.15am
Parish Sung Mass
10.00am
Monday Holy Hour (1st and 3rd weeks) 2.00pm
Wednesday Sung Mass 10.00am
Thursday Cool After School - APLUS 3.30pm
Exposition
5.00pm
Said Mass
5.30pm
Friday Stations of the Cross and Mass 12.00 noon
followed by a Lent lunch in the Vestry
Saturday Recitation of the Rosary 9.30am
Said Mass
10.00am
(For Mass times on Holy Days, please see the Weekly Sheet)
Morning and Evening Prayer are said daily at 8.00am and 5.00pm
(Confessions are heard in Church on a Saturday at 5.30pm
or by appointment with one of the Clergy)
More 2 news and informaon can be found at the Parish Website: www.saintaidansnewparks.co.uk

From the Clergy
People often don’t look forward to Lent.
Childhood memories of giving up chocolate or
sitting through weekly Stations of the Cross
come immediately to mind. Words like
“sacrifice,” “discipline,” and “self-denial” are
often used in ways that suggest that Lent is
something to be endured rather than a time of
grace and spiritual growth.
These negative feelings about Lent were
somewhat ‘crowned’ (in my opinion) by one
Archdeacon in Leicester advising the faithful to
‘give up Lent for Lent’ (thankfully not that many
people took him altogether seriously!)
But should we not be thinking of Lent as a
yearly second chance? It is true that during
these weeks we are invited to look into the
mirror that our faith sometimes holds up to us
and the world. In that mirror we are to see
ourselves, our lives and the things we take ‘for
normal’ in the way that God might want them to
be contemplated.
In that mirror we may well see that things as we
live them, things as we accept them and things
as we sometimes expect them, are rather falling
bla bla bla bal
Each year the Church gives us six weeks to take
a long, loving look at our lives to see if our
values and priorities are in line with God’s
desires for us. Since most of us find that we’ve
wandered from God’s path, Lent becomes that
second chance, or do-over, to “return to God
with our whole heart.”
With my love and prayers,
Fr Simon Lumby
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...and how they are linked
to our Baptismal commitment
More time given to prayer during Lent should draw us closer to our Lord. We
might pray especially for the grace to live out our baptismal promises more fully.
We might pray for those who will be baptized at Easter and support their
conversion journey by our prayers. We might pray for all those who will
celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation with us during Lent that they will be
truly renewed in their baptismal commitment. We also pray for ourselves, that
we might be more faithful.
Fasting is one of the most ancient practices linked to Lent. In fact, the paschal
fast predates Lent as we know it. Fasting is more than a means of developing
self-control. It is often an aid to prayer, as the pangs of hunger remind us of our
hunger for God. The first reading on the Friday after Ash Wednesday points out
another important dimension of fasting. Fasting should be linked to our concern
for those who are forced to fast by their poverty, those who suffer from the
injustices of our economic and political structures, those who are in need for
any reason. Thus fasting, too, is linked to living out our baptismal promises. By
our Baptism, we are charged with the responsibility of showing Christ's love to
the world, especially to those in need. Fasting can help us realize the suffering
that so many people in our world experience every day, and it should lead us to
greater efforts to alleviate that suffering.
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It should be obvious at this point that almsgiving, the third traditional pillar, is
linked to our baptismal commitment in the same way. It is a sign of our care for
those in need and an expression of our gratitude for all that God has given to us.
Works of charity and the promotion of justice are integral elements of the
Christian way of life we began when we were baptized.

But seriousness in our Lenten prayer, fasting and works of charity is not sombreness that excludes joy. Rather,
we are joyful during the days of Lent because baptism is our way of sharing in Christ’s dying and rising, his
paschal mystery. If we didn’t live each day of Lent in the power of our baptism, it would be a very dreary and
gloomy time, but our Lenten preparation for the liturgical renewal of our baptism at Easter is a source of joy
during the Forty Days.
Part of our Lenten renewal of heart and mind is honest confession of our sinfulness. “There will be rejoicing
among the angels of God over one sinner who repents,” Jesus assures us (Luke 15:10).
Some of that angelic joy becomes ours as we admit that we are that sinner. Some of heaven’s joy becomes
ours on earth as we set ourselves once more to accept the dignity of discipleship, the responsibility of
servanthood, the paschal mystery of salvation, as our Christian ancestors did. Joy fills our hearts when we turn
away from sin and commit ourselves once again to living in the “Jesus-is-Lord” universe that we entered at our
baptism.
As we listen to the Mass readings for Monday of the fourth week of Lent, we find that the new heavens and
the new earth promised by God through the prophet Isaiah come only after the sorrowful things of the past
(Isaiah 65:17-21). But our hope for those new and good things of God makes every Lent, as every life, a joyful
season, even a glorious season.
“The glory of these 40 days we celebrate with songs of praise,” sings Maurice F. Bell’s translation of a sixthcentury
Latin hymn. “For Christ, through whom all things were made, himself has fasted and has prayed.”
It is our Lenten prayer and fasting in spirit with the ascetical Jesus that prepare us for Easter glory in company
with Christ. And so we pray: “Our spirits strengthen with thy grace, and give us joy to see thy face.” With the
psalmist we know that “the Lord is just and loves justice; the upright shall see his face” (Psalms 11:7). They will
see his face in glory because they have seen it now in his least and needy ones and have shared their Lenten
sacrifices with them.
Looking forward to a holy Easter “with joy and spiritual longing” is to mark the Lenten observance of monks
for whom St. Benedict wrote his Rule in the sixth century. He encourages them to add more private prayer and
give up some food or drink, “so that each of us will have
something above the assigned measure to offer God of his
own will with the joy of the Holy Spirit”.
There is joy for everyone in such works of penance when they
are directed to renewing our hearts in love for God and
others. Let us be joyful in our Lenten practices and
disciplines!
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...with God all things are possible...
In the last five years (with quite a few other things already happening) it became clear to us at
Saint Aidan’s that our Parish Hall was going to need yet another quite significant injection of
money to renew and restore so many things about it which had fallen into disrepair.
It would be lovely to think that there was some kind of super structure in the Church of
England that helped in situations like this, but with that being only a pipe dream, we as a
congregation had to just get on with the job of raising that kind of money by ourselves with no
outside help.
The situation was brought to something of a head with an infestation of squirrels in the roof -
not only damaging the outside of the building where they had ‘broken in’ but also in their
eating away at some of the structures that held the roof together! This meant that the Hall had
to be closed for the best part of two weeks with Step by Step Childcare taking up a temporary
home in the New Parks Community Centre a little further up Saint Oswald Road.
Our Parish Hall is such a useful resource to us (to say nothing of the people from the Estate
who use it) and to lose it was unthinkable. In the last 5 years we have put in all new windows,
a new heating system, new security doors, new lighting, new soffits and fascias, new
downspouts, new guttering and at the end of 2016, half a new roof.
This work has totalled a little over £100,000 - money that has been raised by the enterprising
congregation at Saint Aidan’s (along with not a little help from the National Lottery and the Coop
Community Dividend, to whom we are very grateful indeed). We are still working on finding
the £3000 needed to finish the Hall roof, but we are confident that this is something that we
will find from our normal budget and for the time being, no longer need to be fundraising.
This has perhaps been quite a valuable lesson for us in New Parks - both in terms of how we
are to be the custodians of what God has given to us, but also to whom we can look for help
when the chips are, proverbially, down on the table.
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We are thrilled that the New Parks Estate can still have a hall within which may happen many
community initiatives and social enterprises and that the Church may once again find itself at
the centre of the community that it strives to serve.
We’d like to thank everyone who has helped to get this project not just off the ground but also
seen to its completion - not simply by the hosting of coffee mornings, social events and other
fund raising endeavours, but by the enormity of prayer that has accompanied this remarkable
effort, reminding us all at Saint Aidan’s that with God, nothing is impossible.
We hope soon to be unveiling plans about the extension to the Hall and most excitingly, a new
car park.
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Why Pray the Stations of the Cross?
Well, here’s eight good reasons from Pope Francis himself!
The Stations of the Cross are an ancient tradition in the Catholic Church going back to the fourth century when Christians went
on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Like many of our Catholic traditions, the Stations of the Cross can be rich, deep, and meaningful,
but at the same time we can lose sight of their significance and how to relate them to our everyday lives.
1. They Allow Us to Place Our Trust in Him
“The Cross of Christ contains all the love of God; there we find
his immeasurable mercy. This is a love in which we can place all
our trust, in which we can believe…. let us entrust ourselves to
Jesus, let us give ourselves over to him, because he never
disappoints anyone! Only in Christ crucified and risen can we
find salvation and redemption.”
Address, World Youth Day, Way of the Cross, July 26, 2013
2. They Put Us into the Story
“And you, who do you want to be? Like Pilate? Like Simon? Like
Mary? Jesus is looking at you now and is asking you: do you
want to help me carry the Cross? Brothers and sisters, with all
the strength of your youth, how will you respond to him?”
Address, World Youth Day, Way of the Cross, July 26, 2013
3.They Remind Us That Jesus Suffers with Us
“The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the sin of mankind,
including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms,
bearing on his shoulders our crosses and saying to us: ‘Have
courage! You do not carry your cross alone! I carry it with you. I
have overcome death and I have come to give you hope,
to give you life’ (cf. Jn 3:16).”
Address, World Youth Day, Way of the Cross, July 26, 2013
4.They Compel Us to Action
“But the Cross of Christ invites us also to allow ourselves to be
smitten by his love, teaching us always to look upon others
with mercy and tenderness, especially those who suffer, who
are in need of help, who need a word or a concrete action.”
Address, World Youth Day, Way of the Cross, July 26, 2013
5. They Help Us Make a Decision for or Against Christ
“[The Cross] reveals a judgment, namely that God, in judging
us, loves us. Let us remember this: God judges us by loving us.
If I embrace his love then I am saved, if I refuse it, then I am
condemned, not by him, but my own self, because God never
condemns, he only loves and saves.”
Address, Good Friday, March 29, 2013
6. They Reveal God’s Response to Evil in the World
“The Cross is the word through which God has responded to
evil in the world. Sometimes it may seem as though God does
not react to evil, as if he is silent. And yet, God has spoken, he
has replied, and his answer is the Cross of Christ: a word which
is love, mercy, forgiveness.”
Address, Good Friday, March 29, 2013
7. They Give Us the Certainty of God’s Love for Us
“What has the Cross given to those who have gazed upon it
and to those who have touched it? What has the Cross left in
each one of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else
can give: the certainty of the faithful love
which God has for us.”
Address, World Youth Day, Way of the Cross, July 26, 2013
8. They Guide Us from the Cross to the Resurrection
“O, Our Jesus, guide us from the Cross to the resurrection and
teach us that evil shall not have the last word, but love, mercy
and forgiveness. O Christ, help us to exclaim again: ‘Yesterday I
was crucified with Christ; today I am glorified with Him.
Yesterday I died with Him, today I live with Him. Yesterday I was
buried with Him, today I am raised with Him’”.”
Address, Good Friday, April 18, 2014
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Why not come and join us each Friday of Lent at 12 noon?

starting Friday 5rd March
at 12 noon
Fridays
during Lent
Stations of the Cross & Sung Mass
followed by Lent Lunch
in the Parish Vestry
Anyone wishing to make their Lenten confession,
please ask Fr Simon about an appointment
“I have come that they may have life
and have it to the full”
John 10:10
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March Calendar
“Every Mass,
heard with
devotion
produces
within our soul
marvellous
effects,
abundant
spiritual and
material graces
which we,
ourselves, do
not know…
it is easier for
the earth to
exist without
the sun than
without the
holy sacrifice
of the Mass”.
Saint Pio
of Pietrelcina
Wed 1st Ash Wednesday
Thurs 2nd Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Fri 3rd Friday after Ash Wednesday
Sat 4th Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Sun 5th First Sunday in Lent
Mon 6th Feria
Wed 8th Feria
Thurs 9th Feria
Fri 10th Feria
Sat 11th of Our Lady
Sun 12th Second Sunday in Lent
Mon 13th Feria
Wed 15th Feria
Thurs 16th Feria
Fri 17th S. Patrick, B & Patron of Ireland
Sat 18th S. Cyril of Jerusalem, BDr
Sun 19th Third Sunday in Lent
Mon 20th S. Joseph, Husband of Our Lady
Wed 22nd Feria
Thurs 23rd Feria
Fri 24th Feria
Sat 25th The Annunciation of Our Lord
Sun 26th Fourth Sunday in Lent
Mon 27th Feria
Wed 29th Feria
Thurs 30th Feria
Fri 31st Feria
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Cabaret Night
An Evening of music from the 20s
Live music And Dinner
Saint Aidan’s Hall New Parks, LE3 6RJ
Tickets - £10.00
with Family concessions
Saturday 25th March
at 7.oopm (Doors open at 6.15pm)
featuring the acclaimed cabaret singer
Liz Webster with band
Tickets available from our Box Office on:
0116 287 3629
Book now before they all sell!!
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How to make the perfect
Lenten Hot Cross Buns
Ingredients
For the buns:
300ml full-fat milk, plus 2 tbsp more
50g butter
500g strong bread flour
1 tsp salt
75g caster sugar
1 tbsp sunflower oil
7g sachet fast-action or easy-blend yeast
1 egg, beaten
75g sultana
50g mixed peel
zest 1 orange
1 apple, peeled, cored and finely
chopped
1 tsp ground cinnamon
For the cross:
75g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
For the glaze:
3 tbsp apricot jam
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Method
Bring the milk to the boil, then remove from the heat and add the butter. Leave to cool until it reaches
hand temperature. Put the flour, salt, sugar and yeast (see Tip, below) into a bowl. Make a well in the centre.
Pour in the warm milk and butter mixture, then add the egg. Using a wooden spoon, mix well, then
bring everything together with your hands until you have a sticky dough.
Tip on to a lightly floured surface and knead by holding the dough with one hand and stretching it with the
heal of the other hand, then folding it back on itself. Repeat for 5 mins until smooth and elastic. Put the
dough in a lightly oiled bowl. Cover with oiled cling film and leave to rise in a warm place for 1 hr or until
doubled in size and a finger pressed into it leaves a dent.
With the dough still in the bowl, tip in the sultanas, mixed peel, orange zest, apple and cinnamon. Knead
into the dough, making sure everything is well distributed. Leave to rise for 1 hr more, or until doubled in
size, again covered by some well-oiled cling film to stop the dough getting a crust.
Divide the dough into 15 even pieces (about 75g per piece – see Tip below). Roll each piece into a smooth
ball on a lightly floured work surface. Arrange the buns on one or two baking trays lined with parchment,
leaving enough space for the dough to expand. Cover (but don’t wrap) with more oiled cling film, or a
clean tea towel, then set aside to prove for 1 hr more.
Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Mix the flour with about 5 tbsp water to make the paste for the cross
– add the water 1 tbsp at a time, so you add just enough for a thick paste. Spoon into a piping bag with a
small nozzle. Pipe a line along each row of buns, then repeat in the other direction to create crosses (see
Tip below). Bake for 20 mins on the middle shelf of the oven, until golden brown.
Gently heat the apricot jam to melt, then sieve to get rid of any chunks. While the jam is still warm, brush
over the top of the warm buns and leave to cool.
We all know that the cross represents the crucifixion of Jesus, but did you know that the
spices inside signify the spices used to embalm him at his burial?
Try making them - they are so much better than the shop bought ones!
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20th March - Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
(a friend of our own Saint Aidan - and one of the greatest northern Celtic Saints)
Cuthbert was thought by some to be Irish and by others, a Scot. Bede, the
noted historian, says he was a Briton. Orphaned when a young child, he was a
shepherd for a time, possibly fought against the Mercians, and became
a monk at Melrose Abbey.
In 661, he accompanied St. Eata to Ripon Abbey, which the abbot of Melrose
had built, but returned to Melrose the following year when King Alcfrid turned
the abbey over to St. Wilfrid, and then became Prior of
Melrose. Cuthbert engaged in missionary work and when St. Colman refused to
accept the decision of the Council of Whitby in favour of the Roman liturgical
practices and immigrated with most of the monks of Lindisfarne to Ireland, St.
Eata was appointed bishop in his place and named Cuthbert Prior of
Lindisfarne.
He resumed his missionary activities and attracted huge crowds until he
received his abbot's permission to live as a hermit, at first on a nearby island
and then in 676, at one of the Farnes Islands near Bamborough. Against his will,
he was elected bishop of Hexham in 685, arranged with St. Eata to swap Sees,
and became bishop of Lindisfarne but without the monastery. He spent the
last two years of his life administering his See, caring for the sick of the plague
that decimated his diocese, working numerous miracles of healing, and gifted
with the ability to prophesy. He died at Lindisfarne and is buried at Durham
Cathedral.
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Quotes for Lent
“The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things.
But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.”
Pope St. Gregory the Great
During these 40 days, let me put away all my pride.
Let me change my heart and give up all that is not good within me.
Let me love God with all that I am and all that I have.”
Genesis Grain
“It is not just about giving up our favourite food but its about going further and giving up things like hatred
and unforgiveness. You need to clean your heart and prepare yourself for purity.”
Amanda Jobs
“The Lord measures out perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds,
but by the manner in which we perform them.”
Saint John of the Cross
“We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other’s suffering; for man never stands alone here,
though he will stand alone hereafter; but here is he is a social being,
and goes forward to his long home as one of a large company.”
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman
“As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus’ thirst…’Repent and believe’ Jesus tells us.
What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe?
Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor – He knows your weakness.
He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.”
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
“The Gospel is the real antidotes for spiritual; destitution:
wherever we go, we are called as Christians to proclaim the liberating news
that forgiveness for sins committed is possible,
that God is greater than our sinfulness, that he freely loves us at all times
and that we were made for communion with him and eternal life.
The Lord asks us to be joyous heralds of this message of mercy and hope”.
Pope Francis
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Holy Week 2017
Palm Sunday 9th April
Preacher - Canon Barry Naylor
10.00am Solemn Liturgy of our Lord’s Entrance into
Jerusalem with Blessing of Palms (followed by a Parish Lunch)
Monday 10th April
5.00pm - Exposition 5.30pm - Mass
Tuesday 11th April
5.00pm - Exposition 5.30pm - Mass
Wednesday 12th April
9.30am - Exposition 10.00am - Mass
Maundy Thursday 13th April
7.30pm - Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper
and Watch before the Blessed Sacrament
Good Friday 14th April
12.00 noon - Stations of the Cross 1.00pm - Preaching of the Passion
2.00pm - Solemn Liturgy of Our Lord’s Passion
Holy Saturday 15th April
7.30pm - Solemn Vigil Mass of Easter with Baptisms
followed by Champagne and Fireworks
Easter Sunday 16th April
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Each day at Mass, renowned counter tenor Stephen Hogg will be
singing Arias for Holy Week. Featuring works by
Bach, Handel and Mendelsohn

APLUS Holy Week Play Scheme
ring Jeanette on
07730 362542
for more details
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We are such a busy Parish, please do write these dates into your diaries or on your kitchen calendars so that you
never miss something important at Saint Aidan’s!
Wednesday 1st March is Ash Wednesday - there will be a Solemn Imposition of Ashes at 10.00am. This is a very important
day for us all to be at Mass if we can. Fridays during Lent - we will follow our normal pattern of Stations of the Cross and
Mass at 12 noon followed by a Lent Lunch in the Vestry. Please let’s all make this part of our Lenten discipline!
Saturday 25th March sees the very welcome return of the Parish Supper Cabaret with an evening of music from 1920s
musicals starring Liz Webster and our own Fr Simon. This with a very hearty supper all for the bargain price of £10. This is
another great opportunity to get our friends along to one of our social evenings. Ring 0116 287 3629 to reserve yours
tickets now!
Sunday 26th March is Mothering Sunday and we will be welcoming Parks Primary School Choir to sing at the Mass. As
usual, there will be a buffet lunch after the Mass
Sunday 9th April sees the beginning of Holy Week. Please lets all be putting other things to one side as we all gather
together to mark this most special of weeks.
APLUS Holy Week Play Scheme starts on Monday 10th April and runs all week. 10.00am - 3.00pm (only £3 per child per day,
which includes their lunch). Please ask Jeanette about more details or ring her on 07730 362542.
Saturday 13th May - ‘The Sound of Musicals’ Supper Cabaret at 7.00pm (with doors opening at 6.15pm). Starring the
fabulous Shirley Overbury, Saint Aidan’s again delivers a night of wonderful music and food, all for the bargain price of £10
(with the usual family concessions). Ring 0116 287 3629 to reserve yours now!
Monday 29th May is the National Pilgrimage to The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. There will be, as usual, a coach
leaving Saint Aidan’s - tickets are in the region of £12. Please ask Jan Collins for more details.
Friday 16th June at 7.30pm is the Corpus Christi Festival with the Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary. We are thrilled to
be joined by the Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt. Rev’d Tony Robinson who will be preacher and Principal Celebrant at the
Mass. Festivities will be followed by a buffet supper in the Parish Hall.
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other important dates can be found at our Parish website:
www.saintaidansnewparks.co.uk

Down
1 Totally destroyed (Genesis 7:23) (5,3)
2 What the Philippian jailer was told to do with
his prisoners Paul and Silas (Acts 16:23) (5)
4 Object of ridicule (Job 12:4) (8-5)
5 In most years, the month in which Easter
falls (5)
6 For example, Caesarea, Joppa, Tyre, Sidon (7)
7 ‘[Jesus] was in the desert for forty — , being
tempted by Satan’ (Mark 1:13) (4)
8 ‘Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power —
to our God’ (Revelation 19:1) (6)
13 Mend dots (anag.) (8)
15 Purifier (Malachi 3:3) (7)
16 Attacked (1 Samuel 27:8) (6)
18 The good Samaritan to the innkeeper:
‘When I return, I will reimburse you for any —
expense you may have’ (Luke 10:35) (5)
20 How Matthew described the crowds who
followed Jesus (Matthew 4:25) (5)
21 For example, one of 25 Across (Judges
19:29) (4)
Across
1 Salary (Isaiah 19:10) (4)
3 Question Jesus asked of those healed of leprosy, ‘Were not all ten — ?’ (Luke
17:17) (8)
9 Wide, elevated level area of land (Joshua 13:9) (7)
10 ‘So you also must be — , because the Son of Man will come... when you do not
expect him’ (Matthew 24:44) (5)
11 ‘[He] said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He — — , and his hand was
completely restored’ (Luke 6:10) (3,2)
12 ‘Who has gathered up the wind in the — of his hand?’ (Proverbs 30:4) (6)
14 Not born again (13)
17 ‘Again and again he — the same sacrifices, which can never take away
sins’ (Hebrews 10:11) (6)
19 Mails (anag.) (5)
22 ‘He — — here; he has risen’ (Matthew 28:6) (2,3)
23 Defeated (Judges 20:43) (7)
24 Soldiers’ quarters (Acts 21:34) (8)
25 ‘Pillars of marble’ were how the Beloved described those of her Lover
(Song of Songs 5:15) (4)
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Bishop of Richborough
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Saint Aidan’s Parish Church
Saturday 13th May 2017 at 7.00pm
presents
The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Tickets - £10.00
(ask the Box Office about Family Concession Prices)
Tickets include a three course meal during the show
starring
Shirley Overbury, Simon Lumby and
Michael Overbury
Order your tickets now to avoid disappointment
from the Parish Box Office on:
0116 287 3629
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How to make Mary Berry’s own Simnel Cake
Serves 12 | Preparation time: 30 minutes | Cooking time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Ingredients
For the cake:
175 g soft butter or margarine,
plus extra for greasing
175 g light muscovado sugar
3 eggs
175 g self-raising flour
175 g sultanas
90 g currants
90 g glacé cherries, quartered,
rinsed, and dried
30 g candied peel, roughly chopped
Grated zest of 1 large lemon
1 tsp ground mixed spice
For decorating:
500 g almond paste
2 tbsp apricot jam
1 egg white
Deep 18 cm (7 in) round
Method
Roll out one-third of the almond paste. Using the base of the cake tin as a
guide, cut out an 18 centimetre round.
Grease the cake tin and line the bottom and side with greaseproof paper.
Combine all the cake ingredients in a bowl.
Beat well until thoroughly blended. Spoon half of the cake mixture into
the prepared tin and smooth the surface.
Top with the round of almond paste.
Spoon the remaining cake mixture on top and level the surface.
Bake in a preheated oven at 150°C/gas mark 2 for two and a quarter hours
or until golden brown and firm to the touch.
Cover the top of the cake with greaseproof paper if it is browning too
quickly. Leave to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin, and
leave to cool completely.
Warm the jam and use to brush the top of the cake.
To decorate the cake, roll out half of the remaining almond paste and use
the tin to cut out an 18 centimetre round.
Put on top of the jam and crimp the edges. Roll the remaining almond
paste into 11 even-sized balls. Place around the edge of the cake,
attaching them with egg white.
Brush the tops of the balls and the almond paste with egg white. Place
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Simnel cake is a light fruit cake with two layers of almond paste or marzipan, one in the middle and one on top, that
is toasted, and eaten during the Easter period in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some other countries.
It was originally made for the middle Sunday of Lent, when the forty-day fast would be relaxed, Laetare Sunday,
also known as Refreshment Sunday, (nowadays) Mothering Sunday, Sunday of the Five Loaves, and Simnel Sunday –
after the cake itself.
The meaning of the word "simnel" is unclear: there is a 1226 reference to "bread made into a simnel", which is
understood to mean the finest white bread, from the Latin simila – "fine flour", though John de Garlande felt that
the word was equivalent to placenta cake, a cake that was intended to please.
Conventionally eleven, or occasionally twelve, marzipan balls are used to decorate the cake, with a story that the
balls represent the twelve apostles, minus Judas or Jesus and the twelve apostles, minus Judas. This tradition
developed late in the Victorian era, altering the mid Victorian tradition of decorating the cakes with preserved fruits
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and flowers.

25th April - Saint Mark
(Apostle, Evangelist and Patron Saint of Notaries)
The second Gospel was written by St. Mark, who, in the New Testament, is
sometimes called John Mark. Both he and his mother, Mary, were highly
esteemed in the early Church, and his mother's house in Jerusalem served as a
meeting place for Christians there.
Saint Mark was associated with Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas (who was Mark's
cousin) on their missionary journey through the island of Cyprus. Later he
accompanied Saint Barnabas alone. We know also that he was
in Rome with Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Tradition ascribes to him the founding
of the Church in Alexandria which was to become one of the most important
Episcopal Sees in the early Church.
Saint Mark wrote the second Gospel, probably in Rome sometime before the
year 60 A.D; he wrote it in Greek for the Gentile converts to Christianity.
Tradition tells us that St. Mark was requested by the Romans to set down the
teachings of St. Peter. This seems to be confirmed by the position which St.
Peter has in this Gospel. In this way the second Gospel is a record of
the life of Jesus as seen through the eyes of the Prince of the Apostles.
In 828, relics believed to be the body of Saint Mark were stolen
from Alexandria (at the time controlled by the Abbasid Caliphate) by two
Venetian merchants with the help of two Greek monks and taken to Venice.
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Quotes for Easter
“Never abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
Pope John Paul II
“Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project
not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven.
That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.”
Bishop Tom Wright
“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on
his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory,
the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”
Frederick Buechner
Easter and the resurrection of Jesus gives my life meaning and direction
and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
Robert Flatt
The joyful news that Jesus is risen does not change the contemporary world.
Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power
to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.
Henry Knox Sherrill
“On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer”.
Douglas Horton
“We live and die; Christ died and lived”!
John Stott
“There is not room for death, nor atom that his might could render void:
thou - thou art being and breath, and what thou art may never be destroyed”.
Emily Bronte
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April Calendar
Sat 1st of Our Lady
“You must live
life beautifully
and not allow
the spirit of
the world that
makes gods
out of power,
riches and
pleasure make
you to forget
that you have
been created
for greater
things… to
receive Jesus
himself when
he welcomes
you at his
altar”
Saint Teresa
of Calcutta
Sun 2nd Fifth Sunday in Lent
Mon 3rd Feria
Wed 5th S. Vincent Ferrer, Pr
Thurs 6th Feria
Fri 7th Feria
Sat 8th of Our Lady
Sun 9th Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord
Mon 10th Monday of Holy Week
Tues 11th Tuesday of Holy Week
Wed 12h Wednesday of Holy Week
Thurs 13th Maundy Thursday
Fri 14th Good Friday
Sat 15th Holy Saturday
Sun 16th Easter Sunday
Mon 17th Easter Monday
Tues 18th Easter Tuesday
Wed 19th Easter Wednesday
Thurs 20th Easter Thursday
Fri 21st Easter Friday
Sat 22nd Easter Saturday
Sun 23rd Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy)
Mon 24th S. George, Mr & Patron of England
Wed 26th Feria
Thurs 27th Feria
Fri 28th S. Peter Chanel, PrMr
Sat 29th S. Catherine of Sienna, VDr
Sun 30th Third Sunday of Easter
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Corpus Christi Festival
with the
Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary
Friday 16th June 2017
Solemn Mass, Procession and Benediction
at 7.30pm
Preacher and Principal Celebrant:
Bishop Tony Robinson ssc
Bishop of Wakefield
Buffet Supper in the Hall
after Mass
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70 years ago this month a couple of shepherds in the hills above Qumran near the Dead Sea idly threw a stone into what they
thought was an empty cave. When they heard the sound of smashing pottery they searched inside, and found the most
important biblical discovery of the century.
Their stone had led them to what became known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, manuscripts of the entire Hebrew Bible except for
the book of Esther, stored in clay vessels. The scrolls were the work of a religious community called the Essenes, who lived
near that site before and during the life of Jesus.
As scholars slowly unravelled them – and that task took decades - they discovered that they were handling manuscripts of the
Bible which were hundreds of years older than any we had previously possessed. Most of the biblical manuscripts on which
our translations had previously been based were copies of copies, carefully crafted in monasteries over the centuries by
people dedicated to preserving the sacred text. But inevitably, in the process, there were occasional slips in the copying, and
at times it’s obvious that those who were doing it didn’t understand the words they were copying.
So, in February 1947, the world had access to a much older and therefore more accurate record of the Jewish Scriptures – the
Bible of Jesus and the first Christians. The most remarkable thing is actually how few ‘mistakes’ there were, seeing the
centuries of copying – and not one that seriously affects our fundamental understanding of the Bible.
Those two shepherds 70 years ago ensured that we today have a Bible text which is as close to the original as one could ever
hope to get. Isn't it a relief that they threw the stone into the right cave!
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Who’s Who at Saint Aidan’s, New Parks
Margaret Isom
Churchwarden
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Churchwarden
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Administrator
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Sacristan
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APLUS
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100 Club Officer
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