St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - July/August 2018
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<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />
With Temple, Bristol & <strong>St</strong> John the Baptist, Bedminster<br />
vicar<br />
Revd Dan Tyndall<br />
Please note that Revd Tyndall is on <strong>St</strong>udy Leave from 21 May to 2 September<br />
church wardens<br />
Richard James: 0117-966 2291<br />
Elizabeth Shanahan: 07808 505977<br />
vergers<br />
Vergers’ office: 0117-231 0061<br />
Matthew Buckmaster — Head Verger<br />
Andy Carruthers — Verger<br />
director of music<br />
Andrew Kirk: 0117-231 0065<br />
assistant organists<br />
Claire and Graham Alsop<br />
associate vicar<br />
Revd Kat Campion-Spall: 0117-231 0070<br />
associate clergy<br />
Revd Canon Neville Boundy, Revd Peter Dill<br />
Revd Canon John Rogan, Revd Canon Michael Vooght<br />
operations manager<br />
Peter Rignall: 0117-231 0073<br />
admin executive<br />
Evelyn Burton-Guyett: 0117-231 0064<br />
admin associate<br />
Pat Terry: 0117-231 0063<br />
admin assistant<br />
Ros Houseago: 0117-231 0063<br />
the parish office<br />
12 Colston Parade, <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />
Bristol BS1 6RA 0117-231 0060<br />
research assistant<br />
Rhys Williams: 0117-231 0068<br />
education officer<br />
Sarah Yates: 0117-231 0072<br />
community development worker<br />
Rachel Varley: 0117-231 0071<br />
community youth worker<br />
David Cousins: 0117-231 0067<br />
For more information about<br />
the church visit www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk<br />
Any of the staff may be contacted at<br />
parish.office@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk<br />
vicar's letter<br />
ORDINARY TIME<br />
— REVD KAT CAMPION-SPALL<br />
ASSOCIATE VICAR<br />
T<br />
HE CHURCH has now entered the<br />
long season of “ordinary time” which<br />
will see us through the summer and<br />
well into the autumn. After the wonder<br />
of Christmas, the solemnity of Lent, the<br />
darkness of Good Friday, the joy of Easter,<br />
and the fire of Pentecost, it’s now, just…<br />
ordinary. It does seem a little strange to<br />
have a dedicated period of ordinariness,<br />
a kind of default season with no particular<br />
theme.But that’s how life is too — we<br />
have highs and lows, but a lot of the time,<br />
things just tick along. For many people<br />
living through suffering, stress or sorrow,<br />
ordinary is what they yearn for.You’ve probably heard of the traditional<br />
Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times” — with the unspoken<br />
flipside of that, which we can presume would be given as a blessing, “may<br />
you live in ordinary times”. The second collect at Evensong, in a similar<br />
vein, prays that we “may pass our time in rest and quietness.”<br />
But ordinary time isn’t about nothing happening.The liturgical colour<br />
for the season is green — a colour of life and growth. Although times<br />
of challenge and change in our lives do cause us to learn and grow, we<br />
also need times of rest, of quietness and ordinariness for the slow and<br />
steady rooting of our lives in God, and growth as Christian disciples.<br />
Ordinary time isn’t a time to stop, but a time to steadily attend to the<br />
daily necessities of our lives of faith. May we all live in ordinary times.<br />
Revd Kat Campion-Spall<br />
Associate Vicar<br />
<br />
You can read our Associate Vicar’s article for this issue of the magazine on the Diocesan<br />
website at www.bristol.anglican.org/news A note also to ask that, during the Vicar's<br />
period of <strong>St</strong>udy Leave, readers address any queries to the Associate Vicar or to the <strong>Church</strong><br />
Wardens or Operations Manager, whose contact details are on the page opposite
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