Impact0218
February/March 2018
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church,
Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed
to over 5,000 homes in S8.
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Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about
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How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of
sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
February/March 2018
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous
sonnet is regularly recited at
weddings across the land, but her
opening question “how do I love
thee? Let me count the ways” has
rather more to it than simply a list of loving
attributes. For many years now, it has been
recognised that we show and receive love differently depending on our
personality. These different ways have been called love languages and
they include physical touch, gifts, quality time spent with one another,
assistance with domestic chores and affi rming and loving words. We
often assume that because we particularly appreciate one way of being
loved, others are the same, but that may well not be the case – hence
the wife or husband who is frustrated at being constantly bought gifts
whilst their partner doesn’t lift a fi nger to help with the housework.
Discovering your (and your loved one’s) love language can be a vital
part of marriage preparation.
Love is such a powerful and complex emotion, that it can be very
hard to separate the strands of altruism and selfi shness. Because we
enjoy being “in love”, acting lovingly towards the object of our desire
also feeds our own sense of importance and self-worth. It can be very
easy to confuse love for others and love for self. Tools such as “love
languages” can help us learn that the best way to please those we love
may involve putting ourselves out and may not involve the big romantic
gesture at all.
And this is particularly true when our love is given to those who
cannot reciprocate, most particularly in old age when our love of 50
years is in the last stages of memory-loss, or perhaps struggling with
physical or mental health issues. The love that lasts a lifetime is a love
that has long outgrown selfi sh or wilful desires. It is a love that seems
to exist almost independently of the circumstances in which it fi nds
itself. Elizabeth Barrett Browning ends her sonnet with the
Christian belief that love is eternal because it has its roots
in God, and that love is not limited to the pains of this
brief life, but to the everlasting life promised in Jesus.
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Rev Toby Hole,
Vicar, St Chad’s, Woodseats
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
The Many Ways of Showing Love
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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“Jesus loves Eve ‘n’ me!”
Boy: Do you
have a date for
Valentine’s Day?
Girl: Yes, February
14.
What did one wall
say to the other
wall?
I’ll meet you at the
corner.
A man told his
girlfriend she
was drawing her
eyebrows too
high. She looked
surprised.
Two aerials met on a
roof and got married.
Their guests said the
ceremony wasn’t up to
much, but the reception
was excellent.
A wife complained to
her husband: “Just look
at that couple down
the road, how lovely
they are. He holds her
hand, kisses her, holds
the door for her. Why
don’t you do that?”
The husband replied:
“I wouldn’t feel
comfortable. I barely
know her!”
A couple were
enjoying a
romantic meal
in a restaurant
until their main
course arrived.
“We can’t eat
this steak, it’s
terrible,” the man
told the waiter,
“Fetch the
manager.”
“That’s no use,”
said the waiter,
“He won’t eat it
either!”
Why do bees have
sticky hair?
Because they use
honey combs!
Why did the man
run around his
bed?
Because he was
trying to catch up
on his sleep!
Fun and Laughs
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What’s On
If you have an event you would like
to see included in our What’s On
section, email impact@stchads.org
Health Walks
•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park.
Meet outside the Rose Garden
Cafe;
•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall
Woods. Meet at the Visitors
Centre at Abbeydale Industrial
Hamlet;
•Thursdays - 10.30am: Lowedges.
Meet at the Gresley Road Meeting
Rooms, Gresley Road, Lowedges;
•Thursdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall
Woods. Meet at the JG Graves
Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane.
•Fridays - 10.30am: Graves Park.
Meet in the main entrance, Graves
Leisure Centre.
Call 07505 639524 or visit www.
healthwalksinsheffi eld.btck.co.uk
for details about any of the walks.
February 4
Pedlar’s Corner Flea Market
The Abbeydale Picture House
10am-3pm
A mixture of general fl ea market
stalls and specialist antiques,
vintage, retro, arts, crafts, makers
and salvage stalls.
February 13-17
Murdered to Death
Ecclesall Church Halls
Ecclesall Theatre Company
presents its February play
Murdered to Death by Peter
Gordon.
February 26
The Anti-Slavery Movement in
Sheffield
Bishops’ House
7.30pm
Suzanne Bingham talks of how
the anti-slavery movement took
off in Sheffi eld, the crucial role
that local women played, and the
movement’s contribution towards
the radical reputation of the city.
March 3
Book Sale
36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief
10am-12pm
Good quality second-hand books
for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s
Society. Donations of good
condition paperback novels or
biographies are welcome.
March 3
Antiques Valuation Day
Bishops’ House
10am-1pm
Bishops’ House will be hosting an
antiques valuation day with three
valuers from Sheffi eld Auction
Gallery.
March 3
St Matthew Passion
Sheffi eld Cathedral
6.30pm
Sheffi eld Bach Choir presents JS
Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the
Leeds-based St Peter’s Singers.
Call in for a Cuppa
at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane
10am to 12noon
on the last Saturday of each month
Bring & Buy (new items)
Handicrafts and Home Baking
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact,
St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB.
Thursdays – 10.30am:
Lowedges. Meet at the Community
Wing, Lowedges Junior School.
Call 0114 203 9337.
March 4
National Pedlar’s Council Corner Flea for Divorced, Market
Single Abbeydale and Widowed Picture House
Tuesdays 10am-3pm8-11pm
Norton A mixture Country of general Club flea market
Club stalls offering and specialist friendship antiques, and social
activities. vintage, retro, arts, crafts, makers
and
Call
salvage
Magdalen
stalls.
on 0114
2394326. March 7-10
Patience
January Dronfield 30 Civic - February Hall 5
AEGON 7.30pmBritish Tennis Tour
Graves Meersbrook Tennis Park and Church Leisure Operatic Centre
World Society ranked presents players Patience compete by
alongside Gilbert and local Sullivan. Sheffield For players. tickets, call
0114
Call
2557634.
0114 283 9900.
March 10
February Haydn Nelson 5 Mass
Book Sheffield Sale Cathedral
367.30pm
Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief
10am-12pm Sheffield Oratorio Chorus presents
Good Haydn’s quality Nelson second-hand Mass with books
for Skipton sale in Camerata. aid of the Alzheimer‟s
Society. Tickets Donations are £16. of paperback
novels March or 16biographies in good
condition An evening are welcome without Jake (but not
larger Thackray books due to space
limitations). Greenhill Library
7pm
February Enjoy the 5 poetry and wit of Jake
Free Thackray. Environmental Tickets £8 Activities available from
Millhouses the library Park reception desk.
10.30am-12.30pm
March 17
Obstacle Gloria in course Excelsis and Deo stream
dipping Holy Trinity activities Church, for 8 Millhouses - 13 year
olds.
Call 0114 263 4335.
Call 0114 230 8842.
February 12
Free Environmental Activities
Millhouses 7.30pm Park
1.30-3.30pm
Escafeld Chorale presents a
Nature concert quiz including trail, stream Joseph dipping Haydn
and
Missa
bug
Brevis
hunting
No 7,
activities
Franz Schubert
for 8 - 13
year
Mass
olds.
in G Major, and a tenor solo
song cycle.
Call 0114 263 4335.
March 21
February The suffragette, 12 the silversmith
Free and the Environmental novelist Activities
Ecclesall Bishops’ House Woods Sawmill
10.30am-12.30pm
Hear about three local ladies who
Nature contributed quiz to trail, art, stream literature dipping and
and politics, bug but hunting who have activities now for largely 8 - 13
year been olds. forgotten.
Call 0114 235 6348.
March 24
Sheffield Chorale in Concert
February St Andrew’s, 20 Psalter Lane.
Why 7.30pm Not Try A Bike
Greenhil A concert Park with Sheffield Chorale
10am-2pm and Unite The Union brass band.
Rediscover your cycling skills in
Greenhill March 25Park. The rangers will
provide Celebrity a bike, Concert helmet and
instruction. Sheffield City Meet Hallat the Bowls
Pavilion,
7pm
Greenhill Park.
Booking
Dore Male
is
Voice
essential.
Choir’s celebrity
concert with Lesley Garrett.
Call 0114 283 9195.
Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a
of variety services of services. and anyone For is more
welcome information to attend. see page For 11. more
details see the Abbey notice
board.
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We found
the angels!
During Advent
our Christmas
Angels
appeared
in trees,
on railings and on
doorposts around the
community.
We invited you
to bring them to
our Christmas Tree
Festival or to take
them home – and
take a selfie to share
with us on Twitter,
Facebook or by email.
Here are a few of
your pictures – we
hope our angels
brought joy to you this
Christmas!
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Festival celebrates
the Christmas story
During Advent and Christmas St Chad’s
held its first Christmas Tree Festival.
Businesses, schools and church and
community groups decorated trees in
church on the theme of the nativity.
Jemma Taylor, who organised the event, said:
“It was a great opportunity to speak to local
businesses and groups and welcome them into our
newly re-shaped church and it has been lovely to
see people come and look around.”
The launch night included a brass band playing
carols while visitors enjoyed sherry, mince pies
and a walk around to look at the trees.
Taking part in the event were Abbey Lane Primary
School, Arabesque, Busy Hands, Besom, Chad’s
Friends small group, Girlguiding, Hope 18, Jigsaw
small group, Kingdom Kids, Memorial tree, St Chad’s
choir and musicians, Natter, Recreation youth group,
St Chad’s Third Age Book Group and Friendship
Group, Spoon Café Bistro and Woodseats Primary
School.
Coming this Easter...
We’ve more fun activities lined up for
families in our church and community
this Easter. To find out more keep
visiting www.stchads.org, follow us on
Facebook at stchadssheffield or
see @stchadsimpact on Twitter.
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Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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The Heart of it All
The dictionary defi nes
the heart as ‘a hollow
muscular organ that
pumps blood through
the circulatory system by
rhythmic contraction and dilation’.
I think we’d all agree with that, but
why on earth should something so
unsightly, gruesome even, have
become the symbol for something
as beautiful as love? Now, we
associate the heart with passion,
but history tells us it
wasn’t always so.
The Egyptians
believed that the
heart was the
seat of thought,
it was a person’s
moral compass,
which is probably
why it was the only
organ left in the body
during mummifi cation.
The Ancient Greeks and
Romans, who believed
that the heart contained the
soul, adorned their art with
the stylised heart shape of ivy
leaves – the plant was known to
symbolise fi delity and affection
– and the seed pod of another
plant, silphinium, which also had a
distinct heart shape. Widely grown
in and around Cyrene at that time,
the city grew rich from its trade. It
was such a valuable commodity
that they stamped the heart shape
on their coins as well as their
decorations.
It was during the Middle Ages
that people began to associate
the idea of romantic love with the
heart. Artists attempted to draw a
human heart but, as the Catholic
Church was opposed to dissecting
the human body, the study of
anatomy was based purely on
animals and so their attempts
weren’t very successful. It wasn’t
until the 16th century, when laws
were passed to enable the medical
profession to carry out human
dissection, that it was possible
for artists to paint anatomically
realisitic hearts. Religious art
began to fl ourish and paintings of
Christ showing his ‘sacred heart’
were much admired and sought
after. Love poems printed in
heart-shaped books were popular
and hearts began to
feature in heraldic
design. By the
1600s the symbol
had acquired the
‘scalloped’ form
with an ‘indent’ as
we know it today
and was being widely
used as a Valentine,
whilst a heart pierced
by an arrow meant lovesickness
or a broken heart –
and people are still using the
same symbols today.
In 1977 the logo ‘I NY’ fi rst
appeared and has since been
been copied millions of times –
on to cards, T shirts, mugs and
all manner of things. Since the
1990s the symbol has been used
by restaurants to recommend
healthy food choices, claiming
to be low in cholesterol, and by
health professionals, cookery
experts, slimming organisations
and even video game makers.
Despite knowing that the heart
has been supplanted by the brain
as the place where emotions
are recorded, we still prefer
the familiar glossy red heart to
express our feelings.
Well, a brain emblazoned on a
Valentine’s card just wouldn’t give
the right message, would it?
Chris Laude
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Services during Lent & Easter
February & March 2018
Holy Communion:
February
Sun 4th, 11th, 25th 11.00am
March
Sun 4th, 11th, 25th 11.00am
April
Easter Sun 1st 11.00am
Evensong ( third Sunday 3pm)
18th February, 18th March
Additional Easter Services:
Ash Wednesday 14th Feb 7pm
29th March Maunday Thurs 7pm
30th March Good Friday 2pm
Lent Lectures 2018
The Forgiveness of Sins
Wednesdays at 7pm
21st, 28th February
7th, 14th, 21st March
see website for more details
All Welcome
Our Services are based on the
Book of Common Prayer &
Refreshments
are served afterwards
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Loving and Caring for a
Each year in India thousands of
people are traffi cked. Many end
up being forced to work in the
country’s sex industry. Along
with their children, they are often
victims of physical, sexual and mental
abuse, economic oppression and social
rejection.
St Chad’s is supporting the Sahaara
project – based in Mumbai’s red light
district – which is looking to bring love to
these people by working intensively with
over 300 women, men, and children
each year to give them a way out.
Sahaara runs drop-in centres in
Turbhe and Bhiwandi ‘red light’ areas,
catering to traffi cked women or women
in prostitution. They build relationships
with them, providing medical care and
health awareness training as well as
vocational guidance and training.
The staff also provide counselling
to the women; helping them with their
trauma – the drop-in centre is a place
where women can come to receive
emotional support and feel safe.
• The team at Sahaara helps
the women of Mumbai and their
children in a number of ways:
Personal growth: Women trafficked
into prostitution often have no
self-esteem or self-worth. Offering
emotional support through cell
groups helps them address their
past and build relationships to
begin to give them back their
identity.
Medical care: This project provides
education on hygiene, basic health
and HIV awareness as well as
providing a doctor and facilitating
testing for HIV/AIDS.
Skills training: Knowing a trade not
only gives the women an avenue to
help themselves out of poverty and
abuse but also boosts self-esteem
and confidence.
Education: Teaching people how
to read and write in Hindi enables
them to become more independent.
This project also provides
education for the children so that
they can go to mainstream schools.
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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a World in Need
Kajal (not her real name)
was befriended by an
older girl whose husband
promised her a job. She
left her village with him,
unaware of the risks.
The man sold her to a
brothel where she was
beaten and forced into
prostitution.
After two years and a
dramatic escape through
a skylight, she arrived at
Sahaara. When she was at
the centre, Kajal learnt a special
kind of embroidery called Aari, so
she would have a livelihood and be
able to support herself. She is now a
skilled worker, and continues to show
great improvement. She has recently
learnt Hindi literacy too. Kajal can now
travel by herself and is overcoming
her past traumas, becoming more
expressive. There was much joy as she
recently met her sister for the fi rst time
in 12 years.
Kajal is just one example of how the
love and care Sahaara offers can turn
lives around and make a difference.
At St Chad’s we want to help make
that difference possible across a world
which is in need of God’s love for all.
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Songs and Poetry of Love
Love songs have been part
of life since mankind fi rst
walked the earth. In fact,
recent research has found
that even the Neanderthals
(very early humans) could sing.
But singing love songs is not
confi ned to humans; song birds
were singing to attract a mate long
before humans were around and,
even before birds, whales were
singing in the depths of the ocean.
So, song is as old as love itself.
But there are many kinds of love.
On Valentine’s Day, our thoughts
turn naturally to romantic love
between humans. Arguably, the
greatest love song of all time can
be found in the Bible between
Ecclesiastes and Isaiah. It is
called ‘The Song of Solomon’.
Whoever wrote it, and however you
interpret it, it stands as a glorious
celebration of human love. ‘Set me
as a seal upon your heart, as a seal
upon your arm, for love is strong
as death …. Many waters cannot
quench love, neither can the fl oods
drown it’. (chapter 8, verse 6)
But it seems that, for most of
history, only the males of the
species sang ‘in public’. In birds
and whales, this remains the case.
But men sang songs of war as well
as love. However, it is obvious
that God intended women
to sing as well
because He gave
them the vocal
equipment to
do so. And
sing they did;
lullabies to
their children
and story telling,
handed down in
folk songs which
are still around today,
hundreds of years later. It was not
until the 19th Century that women
came into their own as singers in
opera and musical theatre. The
Diva and Prima Donna were born,
eventually to strip the men of their
fame and fortune forever.
Poetry and song fl owered in the
trenches of the First World War,
although most of the love poems
have been cast aside by scholars
in favour of the graphic brutality
of the so-called ‘Soldier Poets’.
Most of the love poems remained
unpublished but many soldiers
wrote, not of their love of wives and
sweethearts but of their homeland
and animal companions, particularly
horses, with whom the soldiers
formed a particularly strong bond.
Love of homeland and countryside
was a high priority for most soldiers.
This is what they were fi ghting
for. Who can forget Ivor Gurney’s
heart-rending ‘Song’ written from
the trenches in 1917? The last
verse reads: ‘And who loves joy
as he/ That dwells in shadows?/
Do not forget me quite, /O Severn
meadows’.
The Second World War brought
hardly any poetry. Soldiers had
much less time on their hands
and by then we had the radio (we
called it the ‘wireless’). There were
however plenty of songs and artists
like Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn,
the Forces Sweetheart, to sing
them. Who, of a certain age, can
forget, ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’
and ‘We’ll meet again’?
But what of love songs today?
Fragments downloaded from You
Tube? For me, ‘No, thank you’. If
you want me, you’ll fi nd me curled
up with a book of verse and an
old-fashioned (vinyl) record of Mario
Lanza singing songs from Ivor
Novello musicals.
Sylvia Bennett
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Christmas, Valentine’s
Day, even the summer
holidays are wonderful
times of the year. These
are times when the family
gets together, love is celebrated,
or families or couples go away
together. What could be lovelier?
But what about those of us
who have lost the one we love,
who for some reason or another
is no longer around? These may
then cease to be lovely times
and instead be times of great
loneliness and emptiness; times
when we may even wish that we
ourselves had ceased to be.
My husband died 12 years ago. I
felt that I myself no longer wanted
to live; that life had been emptied
of all that really mattered. The
Bible tells us that husband and
wife become one fl esh so if one of
us has died then we are left with
only half of us; the other half has
been torn away; how painful that
is. We go to the shops and have
to buy for just one; we go out and
discover that for everyone else
life is just as it always has been;
but for us that is not so. How can
everyone
else be so
apparently
happy when
our lives
have been
radically
changed?
How can
they be
laughing
when all we
want to do
is cry?
We are
all different in our reactions. I
can’t remember for how long I
felt that life for me was over; that
now I would just be existing. How
I missed the cuddles and being
told that I was loved; how I missed
those most intimate physical
moments; holding hands as we
walked. How I envied seeing
others do just that. I was glad for
them but so sad for me.
I am a Christian and knew that
the Bible told me that all things
work together for good; I knew that
it said that God would comfort me
and that we learn to be content,
oh and so much more. I did not
have a crisis of faith but for what
seemed like a long time I did not
read my Bible or pray and these
biblical truths meant little to me.
I think perhaps I felt numb. But
gradually things began to change
though I cannot remember how
long “gradually” was.
I began to see that there was still
life for me; that God still had things
for me to do; that my Bible came
to life again and I began to pray.
I began to smile as I saw others
holding hands, thanking God for
the years I had had when I could
do that. It was still strange to be in
a room full of couples whilst I was
alone, but I began not to feel lonely
at those times. But most amazing
of all, I have discovered a joy I had
never known; Jesus is more real to
me than ever; I see beauty where I
had missed it before.
So, if like me, you have lost
someone you love, I can promise
you that deep happiness can still
come if we know Jesus. I know
that is true. It has happened to me.
Mary Thomas
When You Have Lost a Loved One
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Services at St Chad’s
Sunday Services
Sunday
Sunday
Services
Services
Sunday Services
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Weekday
Weekday
Services
Services
Weekday Services
Weekday Services
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayers
Evening Prayers
Evening Prayers
Monday to Thursday at 9am
Monday to Thursday at 9am
Monday to Thursday at 9am
• Monday to Thursday at 9am - a half-hour service
of prayer and Bible readings in church
Monday to Thursday at 5pm
• Monday Friday at to 9am Thursday - up to at an 5pm hour of prayer, blessing
for Monday the community to Thursday and at prayer 5pm ministry if requested
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Prayer and Praise
Prayer Prayer and and Praise
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm
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Ash Wednesday Service
Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm
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If I Speak in the Tongues...
Undoubtedly the most
popular Bible reading
to have at weddings is
the thirteenth chapter of
Paul’s first letter to the
Corinthians. It is a fairly short
passage, but has such resonance
and poetry contained within it that
parts of it have entered the English
language even where their original
context is forgotten.
It is a hymn to love. Unusually
it’s a passage that does not
once mention God.
Perhaps that is one
reason why it
has remained
so popular;
it could, in
theory at least,
be spoken
of by those
of all faiths
and none.
The Beatles
sang that all you
needed was love.
Paul said something
similar – not that all you
need is love, but that without love
you can have nothing else. If
I speak in the tongues of men
and of angels, if I can fathom all
knowledge and mysteries, if I have
a faith that can move mountains
but do not have love then I am a
noisy cymbal, full of sound and
fury, signifying nothing (that last bit
is Shakespeare, not St Paul, but
Paul would have agreed).
Paul then goes on to describe
what love is, and he describes
love not in terms of fluffy emotions
as though we were settling down
to a Christmas rom-com movie.
Love is not baking cakes, buying
flowers or giving your last Rolo
to someone that you’re fond of.
Love is, according to Paul, patient,
kind, not envious, not boastful,
not proud, not rude, not selfseeking,
not easily angered but
instead delights in truth, always
protects, always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres. Paul
was trained in the ancient art of
rhetoric – the skill of speaking and
writing to great effect – and as he
gets into his stride so you can feel
the waves of his poetry swelling
and building up.
Finally he ends by saying that
whereas everything else will
come to a natural end,
love lasts eternally
within a holy trinity
of faith, hope and
love, the greatest
of which is love.
It’s not
surprising that so
many wedding
couples do choose
this passage (though
other fine ones are
available!) but what
about the absence of God?
In a church wedding you might
expect the Bible passage to say
something about the Almighty.
As I usually explain to the dewyeyed
couple in the church, this
passage is in fact all about God.
Another possible wedding reading
says bluntly “God is Love”, and,
for the Christian, God and love
can be interchangeable words.
You change the words in the
passage from love to God (“God
is patient, God is kind, God is not
easily angered etc…”) and you
would still get the sense of the
hymn. God is the author of love
and is at the heart of human love.
That is one of the messages that I
try to bring across to the wonderful
celebration that is marriage.
Rev Toby Hole
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Loving the P
As humans, we are programmed
to seek community. It is when
we live in community that we
harness the best in each other.
We may not always get on with
our neighbours but for good or bad they
are there and we will be happier and
be more fulfi lled if we seek their welfare
because our welfare is tied in with
theirs in ways that we cannot always
appreciate. Only when we grasp this
truth will we be truly alive.
Our society, currently, is a deeply
individualistic one. We have
largely lost the concept of
helping others because we
feel that we need to focus
on ourselves and those
closest to us and only
then can we help others.
I am not sure that will
work in the long term
because we will never
have enough and only
when we put the needs
of others before ourselves
will we see real growth in
them and ourselves, although maybe
not in the ways we might expect. If we
wish to seek real change then we need
community because the ‘whole is greater
than the sum of the parts’. Only by
working together can we bring about real
change.
Jean Vanier the founder of L’Arche
communities which is spread over 37
countries and is an organisation for
people with developmental diffi culties
and those who support them, put it like
this: “One of the marvellous things
about community is that it enables us to
welcome and help people in a way we
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People Around You
YOUR NEIGHBOUR NEEDS
couldn’t as individuals. When we pool
our strength and share the work and
responsibility, we can welcome many
people, even those in deep distress, and
perhaps help them fi nd self-confi dence
and inner healing.”
Or to put it another way to quote John
Donne – ‘no man is an island’ – we all
need each other even if we choose not
recognise it.
Some people withdraw from society but
others fi nd themselves isolated through
no fault of their own. It is to those people
that our thoughts must turn. Often they
are the weakest and least self-suffi cient
in our society and as such need our
loving attention. It is true that how we
treat the vulnerable in our society is a
refl ection of the health of our society as
a whole. If as a society we treat those
who are especially vulnerable – the very
young, the elderly, those living on the
margins and those who are struggling
with life – with love and care then we will
have a better society in which to live.
There was a time when mothers were
the kingpin of the community. They
knew whose husband had been made
redundant and who would welcome a
food parcel. They knew who had been in
hospital and who would value a hot meal
being taken round. They would know
when a marriage had broken down and
who needed a listening ear.
We all need each other at times,
however society changes and some of
the benefi ts of community are lost – but
this also creates other opportunities if we
choose to seek them out. There may well
be people who are living near us who
have no one to turn to and need a good
neighbour – is that you?
Steve Winks
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Film Focus on Love
I
love fi lms. I have just
discovered a wonderful
TV channel called Talking
Pictures which shows old
movies 24 hours a day.
As a test of my memory I try to
reel off all the old actors’ names,
especially from the 50s and 60s.
But, let me ask you a question...
Are there still ‘women’s pictures’
and ‘movies for men’? There
shouldn’t be, but there are. The
latter is actually a movie cable
channel showing a mixture of
war fi lms, westerns and “action”
movies. Do men watch it? I
certainly don’t. But how do you
tell it’s a ‘women’s picture’? Well,
one of the ways is to see if the
word ‘love’ is in the title. Put love
in the title and you are guaranteed
to interest women of a certain age
and inclination. Or you used to be.
In this age of equality, many
people of either gender still have
favourites, based on their gender. I
don’t include myself in this. A good
fi lm is a good fi lm, regardless
of who is acting, the theme, the
setting or the language spoken.
I can watch a fi lm about love, as
long as it isn’t mawkish, sugary,
sentimental or stereotypical. I
am one of the few people never
to watch The Sound of Music so
I know what
I am talking
about!
Back to
fi lm titles
containing
the word love.
Love Story
and Love
Actually will
have attracted
many females
when they
were released
but perhaps not so much now.
I think that James Bond movies
attract males and females alike
but in the 60s when To Russia
With Love came out more men
would have caught it than women.
What else have we got? The Love
Bug was for children. To Sir, With
Love looked at social problems.
Shakespeare in Love was a
comedy. Women in Love was
based on a classic novel.
Putting love in the title no
longer means that the movie will
be romantic. Not so in the 50s
when we had Love is a Many
Splendoured Thing and Love in
the Afternoon. Neither fi lm is as
raunchy as the title suggests, by
the way. There are thousands of
fi lms whose title includes that little
word. We even have Love in the
Time of Cholera! and Capitalism:
A Love Story. Several Woody Allen
fi lms use the word love.
Writing is not easy, be it novels,
plays or fi lm scripts. But one of
the hardest things is to come up
with a title. My cynical view is
that fi lm producers and the fi lm
distributors will persuade writers
and directors to include the word
love in the title so that their piece
of work will attract more punters
and make more money at the box
offi ce. They could use the word
‘sex’ but that may put some people
off. Using ‘love’ will appeal to
many cinema visitors, looking for
escapism and romance. Perhaps
not so much now as in the 40s
and 50s but it probably still has
an effect. In a list of 100 movies
voted the worst of all time, I found
only one with ‘love’ in the title. At
Long Last Love made in 1975 and
starring Burt Reynolds. Check it
out. It’s on Netfl ix.
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500g strong white flour
50g caster sugar
2tsp fast action/easy blend yeast
50g butter, melted and cooled
1tsp salt
2 eggs, beaten
200ml milk
200g mixed dried fruit
2tsp cinnamon
1tsp mixed spice
For the glaze
50g granulated
sugar
a little milk
Method
Put the flour and salt in a large
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and melted butter. Add the eggs,
enough milk to form a soft dough
and then the spices and fruit.
Knead the dough on a fl oured
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Turn out onto a fl oured surface,
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Shape into buns and arrange
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Make a cross on each
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Cover and leave to
rise for 30minutes.
Redefi ne the
crosses.
Bake for 15 mins at
220°c Gas7.
Make a glaze
by dissolving the
granulated sugar in milk,
bring to the boil and simmer
for two minutes.
As soon as the buns are out of the
oven, brush them with the glaze
and cool on a wire rack.
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St Valentine
February 14 is a day for
lovers – when cards and
chocolates arrive from
mystery senders and the
price of red roses soars in
our fl orists.
But what’s the history of St
Valentine – the man who gives his
name to this special day?
St Valentine is known to be
a real person who died
around AD 270 but the
truth about his life
and identity is a bit of
a mystery. There are
various myths and
legends about the
man and why he is
celebrated.
In one account,
Valentine is described as a
temple priest who was beheaded
near Rome by the emperor
Claudius II for helping Christian
couples to wed. Another account
says that he was the Bishop of
Terni, also martyred by Claudius II
on the outskirts of Rome.
Because of the similarities
in these, they could be the
same person – a man who was
beheaded for performing Christian
weddings despite Claudius II
banning young Roman men from
being married. Claudius felt that
single men made better soldiers as
they would be more willing to die.
St Valentine was also found
guilty of ministering to Christians
– persecuted under the Roman
Empire.
As well as this St Valentine,
there were many others with
the same name – all killed
for their faith. The name
was popular up until the
eighth century AD and
means strong, worthy
or powerful. The one
we now celebrate on
February 14 is officially
known as St Valentine of
Rome.
In the fifth century Pope
Gelasius declared February 14 as
St Valentine’s Day, although it was
not until the 14th century that the
day became associated with love.
Whatever the true story is, this
man is celebrated for the way he
shared God’s love with others and
was willing to die for doing so.
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84 Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
One of my all-time
favourite books, 84
Charing Cross Road
was fi rst published in
1970. A true story, it is
written in the form of a series of
letters from the author, Helene
Hanff, an impoverished American
writer, to Frank Doel, head buyer
of Marks & Co, antiquarian
booksellers, Charing Cross Road.
When Hanff reads an
advertisement for Marks & Co. in
a magazine she writes to them
requesting somewhat obscure
books and publications which
she cannot obtain in her native
New York. Thus begins a 20-year
correspondence between her and
Frank Doel.
The letters at fi rst are short
and rather witty as she details
her likes and dislikes of the
various book and translations she
receives. Frank is always aware
that Helene’s income is limited
and engages the help of the other
members of staff to help fi nd
books which will suit her taste.
Helene’s joy when she opens
her parcels is infectious. She
writes of the beauty of leather
bound fi rst editions and the gold
tooling and wonderful illustrations.
She says that there is nothing
like the touch and smell of a
beautifully produced pamphlet or
book. Of being able to turn the
pages and sense that someone
else had enjoyed the book before
her.
As the years progress so the
friendship between the two people
develops and little personal
details emerge about family, other
members of staff and observations
on their struggles
with life in post
WW2, when certain
foodstuffs were hard
to come by.
Insights into
their lives are both
charming and
heartwarming.
Helene begins to
send food parcels
and Christmas
and birthday gifts,
as by now she is
corresponding with
some of the staff
as well. They discuss such topics
as the Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth and how to make a
good Yorkshire Pudding!
In 1987 a film was made of
the book starring Anne Bancroft
as Helene, Anthony Hopkins as
Frank and Judy Dench as Frank’s
wife. This is one of the occasions
where I think the film enhances
the book. As I read the book again
I can hear the tapping of Helene’s
old typewriter and visualise Frank
attending house sales in search
of antiquarian books. I can put a
face to each character, because
it is brilliantly cast, and enjoy the
passing of time as each character
develops. It is a book which may
be read in one sitting or one letter
at a time. I heartily recommend it.
Helene could never afford
to visit the shop until 1971.
The shop was by then empty.
Frank Doel died in 1968 from
peritonitis. Helene continued a
correspondence with his wife.
84 Charing Cross Road has a
commemorative plaque affixed
to the wall. Sadly no longer a
bookshop but a McDonalds.
Vicki Harris is a member of St
Chad’s Third Age Book Group
Book Review
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Don’t Lose Your Humanity
Imagine ... if an organic pod
was growing in your cellar,
slowly turning into a replica of
you, until you fell asleep and it
became you, and the original
you wasn’t needed any more,
because you were now one of the
Pod People.
That is essentially the plot of the
1956 movie Invasion of the Body
Snatchers. Spores drifting in outer
space float to earth in Santa Mira, a
typical American small town, where
everyone knows everyone else –
until the spores grow into the pods
which become the townspeople
and the other townspeople begin to
realise they don’t know them any
more. Then they, too, are taken
over by the alien invaders. As the
Pod People distribute more and
more pods beyond Santa Mira, they
threaten a takeover of the entire
planet!
OK, so it’s science fiction, which
by its nature usually contains more
fiction than science. In fact, there
is so much suspension of reality
between its covers or, in this case,
between the first and last reels, that
the science is usually manipulated
to set, further and finally resolve
the plot. And the plot can’t be lost,
because ultimately it is subservient
to the story’s metaphors, which
Isaac Asimov, author of I, Robot and
Fantastic Voyage, said we ignore at
our peril.
What, then, are the metaphors in
Invasion of the Body Snatchers that
we must not ignore?
At the time of the film’s release, the
United States was recovering from
Senator Joe McCarthy’s investigation
into communist infiltration, first
of the State Department and
then everywhere else, including
Hollywood. However, in an interview
on its 1998 DVD release, lead actor
Kevin McCarthy (no relation) said
he was not aware of any political
allegory, when it was made. And in I
Thought We Were Making Movies,
Not History, Walter Mirisch also
recalls that producer Walter Wanger,
director Don Siegel, scriptwriter Dan
Mainwaring, and Jack Finney, author
of The Body Snatchers, the novel
which inspired the movie, never saw
it as ‘anything other than a thriller,
pure and simple’.
And thrill us this movie certainly
does – as its story takes us deeper
than politics, suggested or real,
to the very heart of our human
condition. And shows us what would
happen, if we ever lost our humanity,
because it’s not only bodies which
are being snatched: as the aliens
assume their sleeping victims’
identities, they leave their humanity
behind. All it takes is to nod off for a
moment.
While falling asleep as a
democratic society could lead to a
totalitarian future, or as somnolent
individuals help bring that about,
whatever were left would still have
people in it, with all the emotions of
which humans are capable, including
love. The Pod People, however,
are incapable of love – or hate, or
anything in between. They just are,
existing only to invade our world,
dehumanise it and move on.
‘Join us,’ they advise Dr Miles J
Bennell, last man standing in Santa
Mira, ‘life will be much simpler and
better.’
He is not convinced – and nor
should we be. While there are seven
billion of us, we are all individuals,
with all that is human programmed
in from birth. We lose our humanity
at our peril. We must not nod off and
allow that to happen.
If Invasion of the Body Snatchers
teaches us anything, I believe it
teaches us that.
Stephen Dowson
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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You don’t have to be a churchgoer
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meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s.
If you live in the Woodseats or
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delighted to help you, whether it is
planning the Big Day or saying goodbye
to a loved one.
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your funeral director that you would like
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a service in church then please come
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Healing Rooms
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