St Mary Redcliffe With Temple, Bristol & St John the Baptist, Bedminster vicar Revd Dan Tyndall Please note that Revd Tyndall is on Study Leave from 21 May to 2 September church wardens Richard James: 0117-966 2291 Elizabeth Shanahan: 07808 505977 vergers Vergers’ office: 0117-231 0061 Matthew Buckmaster — Head Verger Andy Carruthers — Verger director of music Andrew Kirk: 0117-231 0065 assistant organists Claire and Graham Alsop associate vicar Revd Kat Campion-Spall: 0117-231 0070 associate clergy Revd Canon Neville Boundy, Revd Peter Dill Revd Canon John Rogan, Revd Canon Michael Vooght operations manager Peter Rignall: 0117-231 0073 admin executive Evelyn Burton-Guyett: 0117-231 0064 admin associate Pat Terry: 0117-231 0063 admin assistant Ros Houseago: 0117-231 0063 the parish office 12 Colston Parade, Redcliffe Bristol BS1 6RA 0117-231 0060 research assistant Rhys Williams: 0117-231 0068 education officer Sarah Yates: 0117-231 0072 community development worker Rachel Varley: 0117-231 0071 community youth worker David Cousins: 0117-231 0067 For more information about the church visit www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk Any of the staff may be contacted at parish.office@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk vicar's letter ORDINARY TIME — REVD KAT CAMPION-SPALL ASSOCIATE VICAR T HE CHURCH has now entered the long season of “ordinary time” which will see us through the summer and well into the autumn. After the wonder of Christmas, the solemnity of Lent, the darkness of Good Friday, the joy of Easter, and the fire of Pentecost, it’s now, just… ordinary. It does seem a little strange to have a dedicated period of ordinariness, a kind of default season with no particular theme.But that’s how life is too — we have highs and lows, but a lot of the time, things just tick along. For many people living through suffering, stress or sorrow, ordinary is what they yearn for.You’ve probably heard of the traditional Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times” — with the unspoken flipside of that, which we can presume would be given as a blessing, “may you live in ordinary times”. The second collect at Evensong, in a similar vein, prays that we “may pass our time in rest and quietness.” But ordinary time isn’t about nothing happening.The liturgical colour for the season is green — a colour of life and growth. Although times of challenge and change in our lives do cause us to learn and grow, we also need times of rest, of quietness and ordinariness for the slow and steady rooting of our lives in God, and growth as Christian disciples. Ordinary time isn’t a time to stop, but a time to steadily attend to the daily necessities of our lives of faith. May we all live in ordinary times. Revd Kat Campion-Spall Associate Vicar You can read our Associate Vicar’s article for this issue of the magazine on the Diocesan website at www.bristol.anglican.org/news A note also to ask that, during the Vicar's period of Study Leave, readers address any queries to the Associate Vicar or to the Church Wardens or Operations Manager, whose contact details are on the page opposite