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. 

St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of 

Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about 

St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church 

office on 0114 274 5086. 

Here’s where to find us: 

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House 

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School 

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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 

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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! 

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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 



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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. 

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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! 



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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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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 



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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. 



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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. 



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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 



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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 

The 9am Service 

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● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am 

Weekday 

Weekday 

Services 

Services 

Weekday Services 

Weekday Services 

Morning Prayers 



Morning Prayer 

Evening Prayers 



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 

The Thursday 10am Service 

The Thursday 10am Service 

The Traditional Thursday in style 10am Service service 

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Other Services 

Other Services 

Prayer and Praise 

Prayer Prayer and and Praise 

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

Sunday, 

Sunday, 

February 

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7.30pm 

Ash Wednesday Service 

Ash Wednesday Service 

Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm 

Wednesday, March 9 at 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 

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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. 

David Manning 



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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 

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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 

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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 



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Registers 2017 

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December 

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For Weddings 

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You don’t have to be a churchgoer 

to have a wedding in church or 

be ‘religious’ to have a dignifi ed and 

meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s. 

If you live in the Woodseats or 

Beauchief area, St Chad’s would be 

delighted to help you, whether it is 

planning the Big Day or saying goodbye 

to a loved one. 

For weddings please contact St Chad’s 

church offi ce. For funerals please tell 

your funeral director that you would like 

to have a church service. 

• If you have had a new baby and would 

like to celebrate that baby’s birth with 

a service in church then please come 

to one of our thanksgiving and baptism 

mornings at St Chad’s. 

The morning will 

explain the 

difference 

between the 

two services 

and give 

parents an 

opportunity 

to ask any 

questions. 

Please call the 

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To find out more, go to 

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1st & 3rd Wednesday evenings 

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CHURCH OFFICE 274 5086 

Linden Avenue, S8 0GA 


If you want to contact the church offi ce and there is no one available, please leave a 

message or send an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302 

email: toby@stchads.org 

Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Readers 

Daren Craddock, Amy Hole, 

Pauline Johnson and 

Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086 

email: nick@stchads.org 

Besom in Sheffi eld Steve Winks 07875 950170 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086 

Ann Lomax 274 5086 

Deputy Wardens Linda McCann 274 5086 

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Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

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CHURCH HOUSE 

56 Abbey Lane 

Bookings Church Offi ce 274 5086 

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