St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - November 2018

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Parish parish magazine Magazine
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november 2018
ARTICLES LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: REVD ANTHONY
EVERITT / ARMISTICE — REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: REVD DAN TYNDALL
/ ARMISTICE — FORGOTTEN VOICES: LESTER CLEMENTS / BISHOP OF
BRISTOL: DIOCESAN NEWS / MAFRAQ CHURCH, JORDAN: ANGELA HOGG
photo (detail): sunday school wreath, remembrance sunday 2017
DIARY ALL SOULS DAY SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE: 4 NOVEMBER /
REDCLIFFE REMEMBERS CONCERT: 10 NOVEMBER / ARMISTICE EVENTS &
SERVICES: 11 NOVEMBER / EVENT, BRISTOL CITY OF HOPE: 15 NOVEMBER

St Mary Redcliffe
With Temple, Bristol & St John the Baptist, Bedminster
church wardens
Richard James — 0117-966 2291
richard@bristolbound.co.uk
Elizabeth Shanahan — 07808 505977
eshanahan21@googlemail.com
vergers
Vergers’ office — 0117-231 0061
Matthew Buckmaster — Head Verger
matthew.buckmaster@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
Andy Carruthers, Paul Thomas — Vergers
director of music
Andrew Kirk — 0117-231 0065
andrew.kirk@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
assistant organists
Claire and Graham Alsop
vicar
Revd Dan Tyndall — 0117-231 0067
email: dan.tyndall@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
associate vicar
Revd Kat Campion-Spall — 0117-231 0070
email: kat.campion-spall@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
associate minister
Revd Anthony Everitt
email: anthony.everitt@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
associate clergy
Revd Canon Neville Boundy, Revd Peter Dill
operations manager
Peter Rignall — 0117-231 0073
email: peter.rignall@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
admin associate
Pat Terry — 0117-231 0063
email: pat.terry@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
admin assistant
Noelle Gartlan — 0117-231 0063
email: noelle.gartlan@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
the parish office
12 Colston Parade, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6RA — 0117-231 0060
email: parish.office@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
research assistant
Rhys Williams — 0117-231 0068
rhys.williams@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
education officer
Sarah Yates — 0117-231 0072
sarah.yates@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
community development worker
Rachel Varley — 0117-231 0071
rachel.varley@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
community youth worker
David Cousins — 0117-231 0067
david.cousins@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
— Any of the above can be contacted via the parish office
— Visit us at www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk

vicar's letter
IT IS NOVEMBER; we are in the final month
of the Christian Year. The clocks have just
turned back, the new Christian year starts at
Advent. So we have an opportunity to review
and re-form ready for then.
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
— REVD ANTHONY EVERITT
ASSOCIATE MINISTER
The month starts with the twin, interlinked
celebration of All Saints, and commemoration
of All Souls. We think of the Christian saints of
old, and we learn from their lives and work. We
consider the saints of today, and those yet to
come; dedicated to God’s work. We remember
the Souls, the Christian essence, of those who have gone before, known to
us or not; and we can each consider our own Soul. Do we ensure it is fed
through studying the Bible, sharing the Eucharist, in worship and in prayer?
Later this month the country keeps Remembrance Sunday; particularly
poignant this year, 100 years since the Armistice formally ended the
enormous tragedy of First World War. The so-called “War to end all
Wars” was no such thing, followed as it has been by wars, conflicts, oppression
and violence on national and international scales. In this season let us reflect
on whether our own language, thoughts and interaction with others may fail
to show respect and honouring of them. Or rather do they reveal poverty in
our recognition of the validity of difference in all spheres of human existence?
Later again we celebrate the festival of Christ the King. We are reminded
that the risen and ascended Christ is enthroned in heaven. It is to Him
that we are called to worship, honour, and praise. This past year has there
been something that you have let become more important to you than
God? Something to which you have given more honour than to Jesus? Is
there a person, a job, a place, to which you have given so much attention
that you have given little or none to God? Let us each ponder on that, hand
on heart; consider whether it is true.

Having reflected, honestly, about how we are in ourselves, with others,
and towards God, then we can rededicate ourselves to seek to live lives
sanctified and nurtured by strong relationship with Christ. Relationship
built on prayer, worship, reading and communion with Him and with one
another. We can pray and work for the reform of individuals and society
to recognise that in God’s sight all can be whole, all are equal. We can
refocus so that, whilst honouring others and ourselves, we honour Christ
as King in our lives; to Him be the glory now and always.
“The voices of creation raise”
Revd Anthony Everitt
— Associate Minister
Hymns from my sabbatical
— Revd Dan Tyndall, Vicar
This hymn is sung to the “Gonfalon Royal” (with thanks to Andrew Kirk
for suggesting it), which is best known when sung to the words “The
royal banners forward go”.
This is a hymn of praise to God, a hymn of thanksgiving for the love that God
has for us. However, God’s love is not simply ours, although it is undoubtedly
“ours and ours always”. In this hymn I am trying to take the congregation
on a journey towards a deeper understanding of the expansiveness of
God’s love. There is no doubt that God’s love is ours: but if we truly believe
that “God’s love is where we all belong” then that challenges us to consider
the extent of the boundary of those within God’s love. Is it more extensive
than we might have thought … even than we might like to accept?
As the hymn moves through the verses we are reminded that the love of
God is not earned or deserved, but a free gift for all; and, more than that,
in Jesus of Nazareth we see a love made known particularly to those at
margins, to the poor and the outcast, and to those “where love’s unknown”.
The final verse affirms the journey we have made and, confident in our
growing understanding of God’s universal and inclusive love, we can “sing

with thanks to kendra lindegaard age 9 and family for this detail of a sketch of an smr candelabra
more firmly than before” of God’s love for other people knowing that that
in no way diminishes the love of God that is ours.
One of the lines of poetry that I had in mind when writing this hymn comes
from T S Eliot’s the Four Quartets —
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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The voices of creation raise
The voices of creation raise
a melody of thanks and praise
in one unfolding joyous phrase:
God’s love is ours and ours always.
Within that universal song
we join our voices, loud and long,
and dare to name what’s never wrong:
God’s love is where we all belong.
The message that the lovesong brought
is keeping rules will come to naught,
until the time when all are taught:
God’s love is free and never bought.
This truth we claim in certain tone
but vain conceit we shall disown
and sing of love’s true cornerstone:
God’s love is sure where love’s unknown.
And so we tune our voice once more,
reminded who this lovesong’s for,
to sing more firmly than before:
God’s love is all, will all restore.
Amen.
Revd Dan Tyndall

from the diocese of bristol
SATURDAY 20TH OCTOBER —
SERVICE OF WELCOME & ENTHRONEMENT FOR THE NEW BISHOP OF BRISTOL
THE RT REVD
VIVIENNE FAULL,
Bishop of Bristol,
was formally welcomed
to the Diocese at a service
in Bristol Cathedral this
weekend. Representatives
of churches and communities
from across
the Diocese gathered to
witness her enthronement
on Saturday 20th October.
Bishop Viv arrived for the service aboard the Bristol Packet ship Tower
Belle. She was greeted by children from local schools who accompanied
her to the Cathedral, as the Bristol Easton Salvation Army band played. She
entered the Cathedral to the sound of a fanfare played by the City Trumpeters,
after the ceremonial striking of the west door with her pastoral staff.
Around 700 guests, including community and faith leaders and representatives
from charities and the arts, attended the service. Among
those attending was the Lord-Lieutenant of Bristol, the Archbishop of York,
the Lord Mayor of Bristol, the High Sheriffs of Bristol and Wiltshire, and
the Deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset, the Deputy Lord-Lieutenant
of Wiltshire and the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. The Diocese of
Bristol covers churches in the Church of England across Bristol, Swindon,
North Wiltshire and South Gloucester.
Bishop Viv said: “This is a service filled with celebration and prayer which
marks the beginning of my public ministry in this Diocese. I am grateful for
the many ecumenical and diocesan representatives who are supporting me
in the service and will be assisting in the worship. I do look forward with
great anticipation to all that lies ahead for the Diocese of Bristol. I have been

sustained by the welcome I have received and the assurance of the prayers of
so many, and continue to hold the Diocese in my prayers.”
— from the Diocesan website; read Bishop Viv’s enthronement sermon at
https://www.bristol.anglican.org/documents/bishop-bristols-enthronement-sermon/
PROGRAMME FOR ARMISTICE DAY 2018
ON 11 NOVEMBER 2018, the day will begin at the Commonwealth War
Graves Commission St Symphorien Cemetery near Mons, Belgium where
the war began in 1914, where the war’s first and last casualties lie and where
the government began the commemorations in 2014. It offers a fitting place
to reflect on the cost of the war.
The 14–18 Now cultural programme will return for a compelling final season,
culminating on 11 November 2018 in a UK-wide event to draw the nation
together in a shared moment of remembrance. The full programme will be
announced in January.
In the evening, the national commemorations will end with a ceremony at
Westminster Abbey. The service will reflect on the Centenary, recognise the
impact of the war after the Armistice, and give thanks to all those who were
affected over the course of the conflict.
Visit www.bristol.anglican.org for the latest Diocese news, events and training
Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Diocese.of.Bristol
and Twitter at @diobrizzle
— sketch at performance of “1918: Home at Last” on 13 October 2018; EJ Lee

emembrance 1914–2018 armistice
Photo: EJL 2018
REMEMBRANCE DAY 2018
BY NOW, we are all very aware that this month sees the centenary
commemorations of the ending of World War One. Along with
churches, cathedrals and others up and down the country, we are
marking this anniversary in a number of ways. Elsewhere in this magazine
you will be able to read about the exhibition about choristers who died and
the concert, Sing unto the Lord a new song, by our choir on Saturday 10th
November. I want to let you know a little bit more about Sunday 11th
November itself.
In the morning we shall be doing what we usually do on Remembrance Day:
a said service at 8.00am, followed by an extended 9.30 Sung Eucharist
which will end round the War Memorial in the south churchyard with

the national silence at 11.00am. There will be no service of Mattins,
also as usual. [*see below]
However, there are two slight differences to “the norm”. The first will
herald the start of this day of commemorations: along with hundreds of
other locations, a lone piper will stand on the steps of the north porch at
play “Battles O’er”, the traditional Scottish lament played at the end
of battle. The second is the use of a travelling Communion set owned and
used by my grandfather, Rev Canon Denis Tyndall. He was chaplain from
1915 until the end of the war and his Communion set would undoubtedly
have travelled with him through the trenches. I have recently discovered
that he was awarded a Military Cross for “organising parties who cleared
up the battlefield and brought in large numbers of wounded under heavy
fire”. As was the custom then, the altar will set up ‘east-facing’ and I will
preside at the Eucharist in that manner.
Then, in the evening, we are having very different style of service: one
which will aim to be more participatory as well as honouring the men
who died from this parish. From 5.30pm there will be a pop-up café in
the south transept and people are welcome to bring their own World War
One memorabilia. From the conversations I have had so far, I think we
will have over 100 exhibits ranging from my grandfather’s Communion
set, to medals and spurs and shell cases. A little after 6.00pm the service
will start. During the service we will name all those from this parish
who died during the war and invite members of the congregation to help
make a poppy cross as an act of remembrance. The service will end at the
West End, near our indoor World War One memorial, with a sharing of light
from the lamp lit on 4 August 2014, which has been in St John’s Chapel
throughout the anniversary of the war, and the Last Post. At 7.05pm the
commemorations come to an end as bells from our tower, and towers
across the land, ring out to mark the end of the war and the end of our
commemorations.
* Further Remembrance Day
information: a lone piper will
play Reveille at 6.00am on the
north steps of the church — see
the Press Release on page 30
Sunday 11th November 2018 will be a day
like no other —please do join in.
Revd Dan Tyndall
Vicar

soundbites music at redcliffe
SING UNTO THE LORD A NEW SONG
CONCERT AT ST MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH
10TH NOVEMBER 2018 FROM 3.00-4.15PM
St Mary Redcliffe Choirs & Petronella Dittmer, Violin
AS PART OF our Redcliffe Remembers theme, which has been
running from 2014–2018 to mark the centenary of the First World War,
our choirs will give a concert of music appropriate to the Remembrance
season. We are delighted that Petronella Dittmer will join us as guest violin
soloist, accompanied by Andrew Kirk on the organ.
Boys
Boys
Violin
Girls
Violin
Organ
Boys
Boys
Boys
Violin
Girls
Girls
All
All
Lighten Our Darkness
For Lo I Raise Up
Excerpt from The Lark Ascending
Movements II & III from Dona Nobis Pacem
Chanson de Nuit
Images
Factum est silentium
As the tanks roll by
God is our hope and strength
Meditation from Thais
The limit of our sight
So they gave their bodies
Libera Me & In Paradisium from the Requiem
And I saw a new heaven
Stanford
Stanford
Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Park
Hawes
Marsh
Moore
Massenet
Kirk
Aston
Fauré
Bainton
Tickets are £5 on the door; there
will be tea and cake at the end of
the concert, served at the West
End of the church. Please also
visit our exhibition in the North
Transept on the sixteen choirmen
who died in WWI,which will be up
in early November.
ANDREW KIRK
Director of Music

The Canynges Society, in association with the Festival of Ideas, invites you
to a special event to be held in St Mary Redcliffe Church on
Thursday 15 November 2018
at 6.15 pm for 6.30 pm
Bristol: a City of Hope
Programme
6.30 - 7 pm Talk
7 - 7.20 pm Organ Duets
7.20 - 8 pm Drinks at West End
On the evening of Thursday 15 November, The Canynges Society is delighted
to host an event where Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees will make a presentation on
“A City of Hope”. The themes will include his vision for the City of Bristol, the
relationship with faith and the role of St Mary Redcliffe within the city.
Following the talk there will be an opportunity to listen to organ duets performed
on the famous Redcliffe Organ by Andrew Kirk, Director of Music and Organist at
St Mary Redcliffe and Alison Howell, Organist at St John the Baptist, Keynsham.
Music will include pieces by Handel, Verdi and Brahms.
The evening will end with drinks in the West End of church.
There is no admission charge for this event. There will be an opportunity to make
a donation to The Canynges Society at the end of the evening.
Apply for tickets through Eventbrite:
https://cityofhopecanynges.eventbrite.co.uk
Seating will be unreserved.
Further details available (including accessibility) from the Canynges Administrator,
Mrs Pat Terry, on pat.terry@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk or canynges@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
The Canynges Society is a Registered Charity. No. 242231
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1918 — HOME AT LAST : COMMUNITY OPERA : 12 & 13 OCTOBER
SEE THE CUTTINGS below from the Bristol Post published on Wednesday 17th
October — for legibility, the article shown on this page is reproduced
opposite. Overleaf read an audience member’s impressions of the opera,
and see the images opposite (bottom right) and overleaf, as well as elsewhere
in the magazine, of some of the many fused-glass ‘poppy’ tiles made for the
occasion by the schoolchildren who participated in the event.

““WAR AND CRY
Pupils pack church for
moving opera
YOUNGSTERS
from
across Bristol performed
a new opera to
mark 100 years since the
end of the Great War.
Two hundred children
packed into St Mary
Redcliffe Church, alongside
the Gurt Lush Choir,
Bristol MAN Chorus and
St Mary Redcliffe Church
Choir to perform the
new community opera
1918 — Home at Last.
The opera has been written
by Bristol composer
Mark Lawrence and librettist
Claire Williamson, and
the story is told through the
eyes of both soldiers at the
front, and families at home,
whose roles are taken by
children.
Solo characters were
performed by professional
vocalists, Martin Le
Poidevin, Esther Mallett,
Laurel Steel and Peter
Wagstaff, and Michael Alsop,
a chorister from St Mary
Redcliffe Church, gave the
child’s solo perspective.
The event also included
The Show by Phil Dixon,
performed by Bristol MAN
Chorus and Gurt Lush Choir
and Ring of Light by
Raymond Warren, performed
by percusssonist
Jeremy Little; SMRT string
ensemble and organist
Claire Alsop.
More than £13,000 was
raised to commission the
community opera, including
grants from the Arts
Council of Great Britain,
Quartet Foundation, the
Royal Society of St George
and The Arts Society Bristol.
St Mary Redclife and Temple
School head teacher
Elisabeth Gilpin said: “We
realise in this centenary
year that very few children
will have heard first-person
accounts of war-time experiences
and we hope this
project will keep these
local and national memories
alive and relevant to
Bristol children”.
Fused-glass tile — one
of many created by
children as mementos
of the occasion, and the
WWI commemorations

1918 — HOME AT LAST : AN INSPIRATIONAL PERFORMANCE
June Saunders writes:
ON SATURDAY 13th October I had the pleasure of attending a community
concert at St Mary Redcliffe Church. As I entered the church
I realised that it was full to capacity. The church has a commemorative
chapel, but at the back of the church there was a ‘field of stained glass
poppies’ beautifully displayed. Each primary school child participating had
made one of these poppies as a symbol of remembrance, this being very
significant as it is the centenary of the end of World War One.
The concert started with a selection of Footnotes to the Great — a First World
War Suite performed by Gert Lush Choir and Bristol MAN Chorus. In complete
contrast to the lively war songs was Ring of Light written by Professor
Raymond Warren and performed by St Mary Redcliffe and Temple String
ensemble, percussion and organ. Finally there was Stille Nacht. It is said
that this was performed by the troops on both sides of the line when there
was a short Christmas truce.
After a short interval we were treated to 1918 — Home at Last, written by
Mark Lawrence and Claire Williamson. It was commissioned by Horfield
Primary School and St Mary Redcliffe Church to commemorate the end
of World War One. What made the performance so memorable was the
blend of soloists, organ, instrumentalists and massed choirs — people of
all ages and experience.
Over fifty years ago, I played in a production of Noye’s Fludde by Benjamin
Britten and I noticed that there were quite a few similarities between the
two works. Both start and end with a hymn, in this case Jesu, lover of my
soul and Lord of all gentleness. Besides soloists and choirs, the organ took a
central part, with a brass quintet, percussion and parts for student players.
There are different strands running through the work:
Major Adams (sung by Martin Le Poidevin) is the Narrator. He is haunted by
how he led men to their deaths, and tells us of the extent of the war, with
“a Massacre at Gallipoli, at Jutland, in Galicia. And so it goes on”. His young
son yearns to be a soldier.

One group of children sang about the soldiers on the Front, with songs like
Your country needs you, and We want to do our duty — I thought of my Grandfather
telling me how they struck matches to burn the lice in the seams
of their uniform trousers; he did not talk about the war very often as the
memory was too painful. The other group of children sang about keeping
homes, factories and farms running at home — chiv vied along by Connie
(Esther Mallet) and Ivy (Laurel Steele). The St Mary Redcliffe choristers’ part was
more poetic and reflective, as was the evocative part sung by Michael Alsop.
Through this was woven the story of Edward (Peter Francis) and Connie.
Private Edward C Cooke of the Gloucestershire Regiment sets off for war,
leaving Connie behind. He is sustained by their letters but, sadly, the
haunting words “for the life of a man is but a span, he’s cut down like a
flower” are followed by the news of his death. The news arrives by letter
just as the bells announce the Armistice.
The opera clearly relates the sadness and futility of war and the horror of
the trenches, also how life at home was carried out. Most important is the
theme that there is hope — “there’s new life, new hope, new growth”. It was
good to know that children were being given an accurate picture of their
history. We were commemorating the past and remembering those who
had died, but also looking to the future.
Well done for a truly inspirational performance given in a magnificent
setting. Thank you to all who supported it in various ways.
J D Saunders
Photo: EJL 2018

forgotten voices November 1918: Armistice
“Winchester Cathedral—on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month, officers and men of the United States Army in tribute to
their fallen comrades”
“The Commanding Officer of the Irish Guards
reading the news of the Armistice to his men”
Voices compiled by Lester Clements, for November 2018

WE WERE STILL FIGHTING
hard and losing men. We
knew nothing of the proposed
Armistice, we didn’t know until a
quarter to ten on that day. As we
advanced on the village of Guiry a
runner came up and told us that the
armistice would be signed at 11 o‘clock
that day, the 11th of November.
That was the first we knew of it.
We were lined up on a railway bank
nearby, the same railway bank that
the Manchesters had lined up on in
1914. They had fought at the battle
of Mons in August that year. Some
of us went down to a wood in a little
valley and found the skeletons of
some of the Manchesters still lying
there. Lying there with their boots
on, very still, no helmets, no rusty
rifles or equipment, just their boots.
Marine Hubert Trotman
Royal Marine Light Infantry
AS FAR AS THE ARMISTICE
itself was concerned, it was a
kind of anticlimax. We were too far
gone, too exhausted really, to enjoy it.
All we wanted to do was to go back
to our billets, there was no cheering,
no singing. That day we had no alcohol
at all. We simply celebrated the
Armistice in silence and thankfulness
that it was all over. And I believe that
happened quite a lot in France. It was
such a sense of anticlimax. We were
drained of all emotion. That’s what it
amounted to.
Corporal Clifford Lane
1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
IT WASN’T LIKE LONDON where they
all got drunk of course. No, it wasn’t like
that, it was all very quiet. You were so dazed
you just didn’t realise that you could stand
up straight and not be shot.
Corporal Reginald Leonard Haine
1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company
AS WE ADVANCED we saw the terrible state of the Ypres salient. There
were wrecked tanks from 1917 all over the place. I was used to dead
horses and mules but not in the numbers that we saw up there. Of course it
was just shell-holes everywhere. By the end of the first day we were clear of
Ypres and on a ridge where we could look ahead and see trees and landscape
that had not been affected by war. It was just unbelievable. We knew then
that things were going well.
We came back out of the line at a place called Vichte and had gone to
bed in a hay loft. Our sergeant came in shouting that the war was over.
Everybody got up and went down into this wee village. The estaminet owner
opened his pub and issued free drinks and then went back to bed. We were
paraded at the usual time. We were made to do slope arms by numbers till
11 o’clock. Then were were disbanded. That was the Armistice.
Trooper Alexander Jamieson, 11th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Sergeant Melvin Krulewitch, United States Marine Corps
EVERY PIECE OF ARTILLERY in the Armerican army and the
adjoining French units opened up. This action produced a symphony
in colour: you had the red artillery flares; orange flames coming out of the
cannon; green signals indicating possibility of gas attack, and you had the
shells bursting in the air creating a white colour. On top of this you could hear
the thunder of the guns. It was a great support to our morale to know what
this extraordinary barrage was going on behind us. On we moved in the usual
way, in a long skirimsh line; men five yards apart, moving along at a leisurely
pace, just making sure that you wouldn’t get into our own barrage fire. The
artillery fire had almost wiped out the first row of trenches, so we were soon in
them taking prisoners. One or two of our boys were wounded. A great shout of
triumph went up and down the line when we made the German prisoners carry
out wounded back on stretchers. The we pushed ahead. Occasionally some of
the boys would kneel and take a shot at a German, but they were retreating.
Then another great shout of triumph went up because we’d captured their
artillery: that was about two and a half miles behind the line.
We were attacked then by long-distance machine-gun fire and we had some
casualties. The fire came from the heights of Bayonville, which was part of the
Kriemhild Stellung defence line. That night we moved up and took the heights
of Bayonville, so there was nothing ahead of us except the retreating Germans.
And we pursued them relentlessly, night after night, day after day. The Germans
were losing food; losing their artillery horses and their baggage and ration
wagons. There were so hungry that they would shoot a horse and cut steaks
out of the rump. At first we thought the horses had been hurt by shellfire: then
we saw the skilful butchering of the steaks, and we knew what they had done.
Finally we reached our objective, which was to cut the Metz-Malmédy railroad
on the heights looking down to the Meuse river below Sedan. We cut that on the
last might of the war — November 10th — and we put a footbridge across the
Meuse river under withering gunfire. We crossed the river that night and made
an attack on the other side. To us the fight was just like any other fight — the
fight of the 9th, the 10th. That morning we found our wounded and gassed
boys lying around on the ground and we took care of them. We expected an
infantry attack, but the Germans never came that night, because there was
too much gas in the woods and they took a chance of being killed themselves
by their own gas if they attacked. So they let go with a box-barrage of highexplosive
shelling and mustard and phosgene gas. The following morning
when we collected our unit, all I had was eleven men out of a company of
two hundred.

Herbert Sulzbach, 9th Division, German Army
IN OCTOBER I HAD LEAVE TO GO HOME TO FRANKFURT, my
home town, to my parents. I was very much looking forward to this
leave after the terrific battles we had been through. I went through the streets
of Frankfurt. I was not saluted. I was a commissioned officer, yet no one
saluted. Everything was rationed and there was hardly anything to buy.
Dance halls were closed, the streets were dull and the mood of the people was
really bad. We hadn’t realised at the Front how bad it was at home. People were
fed up with war. They wanted the war to be ended as soon as possible, victory or
no victory. After a fortnight I went back to the front line, to my comrades, to
my guns, and I felt at home amongst the mud, the dirt and the lice.
In spite of our retreats for weeks and months, we still received mail, bags of
it, even some parcels. Parcels didn’t come from Germany but from Belgium,
where there was still some food and chocolate. The letters I received were
not depressing, but some of my comrades received letters which were most
upsetting. Their families wrote, “We have nothing to eat, we are fed up with
war, come back as soon as possible.” You can imagine how it affected the
morale of these poor chaps.
On November the 1st we were at Étreux not far from St Quentin, where we
had started our big offensive on March the 21st. Then we were so full of hope
and broke through the British 5th Army. Now it seems a million guns of the
American, French and British were bombing us. The war was entirely lost. As
adjutant I had to give the order of the day. On the 11th of November it was:
“From noon onwards our guns will be silent.” Four years before, full of
optimism, now a beaten army.

Sketches at performance of “1918: Home at Last” on 13 October 2018; E J Lee
AT 11 O’CLOCK ON THE 11TH NOVEMBER I was sitting in a room,
in the Brewer’s house at Le Cateau, which had been Sir John French’s
headquarters at the time of the battle of Mons. I was sitting at a table with a
major in the Scots Greys who had a large, old-fashioned hunting watch which
he put on the table and watched the minutes going round. When 11 o’clock
came, he shut his watch up and said, “I wonder what we are all going to do
next!” That was very much the feeling of everyone. What was one going to
do next? To some of us it was the end of four years, to others three years, to
some less. For many of us it was practically the only life we had known. We
had started so young.
Nearby there was a German machine-gun unit giving our troops a lot of
trouble. They kept on firing until practically 11 o’clock. At precisely 11 o’clock
an officer stepped out of their position, stood up, lifted his helmet and bowed
to the British troops. He then fell in all his men in the front of the trench and
marched them off. I always thought that this was a wonderful display of
confidence in British chivalry, because the temptation to fire on them must
have been very great.
Major Keith Officer, Australian Corps

forgotten voices Armistice: November 1918
THE END OF THE WAR
— REFLECTIONS
LESTER CLEMENTS
COMPILER, FORGOTTEN VOICES 1914–1918
WAR BROKE OUT against Germany in 1914 and ultimately
involved nearly all of Europe, as well as the United States
of America, and Japan. The end came in November 1918 with
Germany decisively defeated. The Kaiser, Wilhelm II, abdicated and fled to
Holland. A conditional peace treaty was signed at Versailles in 1919.
During the four years the battle raged backward and forward. Land gained
today was lost tomorrow. Historians have called the slaughter at Verdun,
The Somme and Passchendaele “appalling butcheries”. For example, in
one day of fighting at The Somme, Britain lost 60,000 soldiers.
The war continued until the Great Alliance offensive of July 1918 and the
storming of the Hindenburg line in September joined with revolution in
Germany, mutiny in the German fleet, and the precipitate flight of the
Kaiser to Holland. All combined to bring Germany to her knees.
The war, a world conflict in which more than 50 million armed men had
been engaged, was over.
The Armisitice was signed at 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
of 1918. Thirty million dead, including 7 million civilians. Killed by
bullet, bayonet, drowning (water and mud), gassing, bombing, and shell
shock — executed as cowards or deserters.
A total of seven Victoria Crosses were awarded to servicemen from the City
of Bristol.
O valiant hearts who to your glory came through
dust of conflict and through battle flame.

From 2014, in our magazine
through Voices, we have shared
the lives of soldiers as they
have told us their experiences.
Stories of hope, despair, hate,
love, fear, joy but at the Front
the outstanding comradeship.
Strangers thrown together becoming
brothers — brothers
led to believe this was the war
to end wars, so many of them
having to take up arms again
twenty-one years later.
When comes the promised time
that war shall be no more?
Maybe the nuclear weapons
will give the destroyed world
the answer.
Lester Clements
Voices of the First World War
O Risen Lord,
O Shepherd of our dead,
whose cross has brought them
and whose staff leads;
in glorious hope
their proud and sorrowing
land commits her children
to thy glorious hand.
Photo: EJL 2018

sunday school
OFF TO A GREAT START!
— BECKY MACRON
SUNDAY SCHOOL LEADER
WE HAVE GOT
OFF TO A GREAT
START with our
Children’s Ministry. Since
September, we have welcomed
new families from
the local area and beyond
to both our Sunday School
and our youth group. It is
always a great pleasure to
meet and worship with the
children and families at SMR.
As Dan recently mentioned
in his notices, our
increase in numbers does
mean that we need more
leaders! We are looking in
particular for leaders and
assistants to support our
youth group, Rockets. The
group takes place most
Sundays from 4.30–5.30pm.
We have a small group of
boys who regularly attend
and we hope to welcome
more teenagers from the
secondary school and community.
If you would like to
know more about our youth
group and what we do,
please let me know — my
contact details are below.

On Sunday 14th October
I was invited to help out
with Messy Church at the
Faithspace Centre. This was
a wonderful experience
and I was delighted to be
asked along. The activities
were very creative and fun.
Moreover, I had the great
pleasure of meeting people
of all ages from the local
community — one of the
older ladies was very keen
to help out with our Sunday
School and I look forward
to having her on board. I
firmly believe that intergenerational
learning has
multiple benefits for both
older and younger people;
in my job as an Early Years
Teacher we are embarking
on a project in which
will be opening our doors
to the elderly members of
our community. I extend
this invitation to Sunday
School: we are all children
of God, and all children
are welcome to my Sunday
School.
We ended the month of
October in style. Our much
anticipated backpacking
session for Mary’s Meals
was a great success: in total,
we had ninety backpacks,

All photos courtesy of SMR Sunday School
which was an amazing
number — and lots of donations
of clothing, toiletries
and stationery. In addition
to filling the backpacks, we
also celebrated Halloween
with baking and needle felting.
The children produced
some excellent pumpkins,
and the Halloween biscuits
were shared with the rest
of the congregation — a
token of our thanks for the
continued support for Sunday
School and for this very
worthy cause.
Becky Macron
Sunday School Leader
Contact Becky — mob: 07443 000420 / email: sunday.school@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
community
OF THE AGES
treefest 2018
who stirred our ancestors to build this
tuesday house of prayer 4th to the – saturday glory of your name, 8th inspire december
us with that
it’s time to get your entries in!
G
OD
same longing to be a beacon of your kingdom; bless our current
endeavours, that, begun, continued and ended in you, what we
build in stone may be woven into a community of hope where your
name is praised, your story is told, and your love is shared; so that
this and future generations may be heard singing the song of faith
and justice; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.
— Revd Dan Tyndall

eminder
treefest 2018
tuesday 4th – saturday 8th december
it’s time to get your entries in!
community overseas
Stop press — overleaf read Angela Hogg on volunteering at Mafraq Allicance Church in
Jordan; readers may wish to note the synergy with Treefest at the end of the article — Ed
All photos © Christine Medan 2018

A JORDANIAN FAITHSPACE
ANGELA HOGG
— REPORTING FROM JORDAN
PUT UP YOUR HANDS in a vague offer of help in Mafraq Alliance
Church, Jordan, and you might be left holding the baby. About 40
Syrian refugee women in abayas (long black overdresses) were rummaging
for children’s clothes piled up on trestle tables, but one young mother
was looking around wildly. What did she want? A drink of water? A chair?
More polythene bags? No, just two hands free to fight her corner for baby
clothes. Luckily the baby
boy thrust into my hands
was less surprised than I
was so we jiggled around
the hall without tears.
Clothes distribution is just
one facility in a long list of
services which the church
complex offers to Syrian
refugees, who make up
roughly half the population
in the town of Mafraq.
Under the leadership of
Pastor Nour, the church
and all its accompanying
rooms/spaces over five
floors (including the huge
flat roof) is a Faithspace in
action — big time. Prior to
the Syrian war, the church
vision was to reach out to
Mafraq’s predominantly
Muslim population — and
that still goes on, but the
arrival of thousands and
thousands of Syrian refugees
across the Jordan-Syria

Border (ten miles away) demanded the church’s immediate and ongoing
humanitarian attention — as follows:
• refugee registration in order to receive mattresses, stoves, food, clothes,
advice in accessing health care and other general advice such as how to
access schooling (Jordanian children attend government schools in the
morning; Syrian refugees in the afternoon);
• home visits to the refugees;
• free spectacles service;
• speech therapy for children with severe hearing loss and/or speech defects
• English lessons, sewing sessions — open to Jordanians too;
• women’s discussion group;
• occasional events such as specialist teams giving out specially-adapted
recycled wheelchairs to 90 adults and children, and a team of three
doctors who spent two days examining patients in need;
• Saturday School for children (alias Sunday School)
• two 2-hour church services (English/Arabic in the morning; Arabic in the
afternoon) on Sundays as well as volunteer daily meetings for reflection;
Whatever is done and wherever people are waiting, time, tea, Arabic coffee,
and water, are always offered as a welcome. As one American volunteer
remarked, Muslims are happy to walk into the church complex as though
it’s their friend’s house — which it is.
That’s just what happens on the church premises. As well as the daily home
visits, there is a church school four mornings a week (including breakfast)
for 160 Syrian refugee children, plus a separate football club, and bible
story sessions for boys and girls on Saturdays.
Most of the work is based on volunteer help, with financial support given
to long-term volunteers, some of whom have fled religious persecution in
other countries. I’m a mid-term volunteer (i.e. a couple of months). The
majority are short-term volunteers, often coming in a church team, for as
little as a week, though often that same church will send a team once, twice
or three times annually. As I write this, a church team from Texas is now
filming the school activities to muster their congregation’s commitment to
underwriting all the school’s expenses. This whole church operation seems
to run on a worldwide faith grapevine.

Snapshot moments in the past month that I’ve been here?
Visiting one particular Syrian refugee family with smiles as wide as Avonmouth
who had to leave a fairly prosperous life in Syria, and walk with their tiny
children and elderly infirm grandparents across the border with just what
they stood in.
Overseeing 30 keen-as-mustard young Americans, Dutch, Australians and
Germans, and even a guy from Gloucester, all belonging to a world church
organization who had volunteered to clean the Mafraq church complex for
two hours. Sixty hours’ vigorous sweeping, mopping, slopping from the
huge roof to the children’s’ playground plus all the rooms and church in
between. Eat your hearts out all ye vergers!
Refereeing adolescent girls playing very robust football. I don’t know
soccer rules in English, let alone Arabic, but when they got really noisy I
told them I’d start giving out yellow cards... — “and a red one means we
get thrown off”, they said. We clearly understood one another!
Watching 50 Syrian
adolescent girls
respond to a talk on
early marriage. YES,
they shouted, they
would stay at school
and YES, they would
resist their parents’
attempt to arrange
their marriage when
they were only 14
years old — and then
they tucked into a sort
of Jordanian pizza...
Finally — Revd Dan Green, Director of Bridges for Communities, the chosen
Treefest beneficiary, is a friend of Pastor Nour and recommends Mafraq
church to any potential volunteers.
Angela Hogg, Reporter

community initiatives
WE ARE NOW READY
to take orders for the
Christmas Cards — all proceeds
from the sales will go towards
the Bristol Churches Night
Shelter Project this winter.
The card is from an original
drawing by Eleanor Jane Lee
and is taken from the North
Window in the Lady Chapel at
St Mary Redcliffe.
Please do give this some
thought, and complete the
order form below or contact
us by email or phone with
your order. The price of the
cards is £3.00 (minimum) per
pack of five cards.
Marcus and Jane Ashman
HELPING BRISTOL CHURCHES WINTER NIGHT SHELTER
Christmas Card fundraising project
— Marcus and Jane Ashman
— please email or telephone your order to email: marcus@mandjashman.co.uk
or tel: 0117–968 2949, or alternatively fill in and return the slip below to the parish office
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c0mmunity messages, news & notes...
*précis
NEW IN — PRESS RELEASE* : A lone piper on the north
steps of Bristol’s St Mary Redcliffe Church will sound Reveille
at 6am on Remembrance Sunday, November 11th, heralding
the start of a day filled with moving acts of remembrance.
STORIES behind 100 First World War artefacts will be told by their
owners during a church exhibition. The Candle of Remembrance lit
on August 4th 2014, marking the hundredth anniversary of the start of
the First World War, will be extinguished in a candle-lit ceremony signifying
the hundredth anniversary of Armistice Day, and the end of the conflict.
The previous day the choir of St Mary Redcliffe will perform “Sing unto
the Lord a New Song”, a concert featuring works by composers including
Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Parry and Fauré.
During Choral Evensong at 6.30 pm poppies bearing the names of the
202 Redcliffe parishioners killed during the First World War will be fixed
to a five-foot-high cross before a bugler sounds The Last Post.
Finally, the Candle of Remembrance in the St John’s Chapel, lit at 11pm
on August 4th, 2014 to mark the hundredth anniversary of the start of
the First World War, will be carried in procession to the west end of the
church where the flame will be shared by worshippers holding candles.
Just after 7 pm, a peal will be rung on the church bells and the candles
will be extinguished to signify the end of the war.
Angel of Mons (detail);
charcoal drawing; EJ Lee

c0mmunity messages, news & notes...
WELCOME! Our congratulations to
Evelyn and Ross Burton-Guyett on
the birth of their son Reuben, born on 10th
October 2018 at 3.41pm, weighing 7lb 5oz.
We send the family love and best wishes!
HYMN SINGALONG — watch this space…
Sing-Along will be on tour in December — keep an eye open for
information in December’s mag. We’re a happy group of folk consisting
of “some-people-who-can-sing-and-some-people-who-can’t”, but as a
group we make a joyous sound! We meet on the first Wednesday in every
month — on November 7th we will be in the Faithspace Centre starting at
11am. There’s tea and cake afterwards so do come and join us.
RECAPPING OCTOBER EVENTS — watch this space…
ST LUKE’S DAY GALLERY TALK
Look out for an article from Dan on his conversation at Bristol City Museum
& Art Gallery last month with Dr Jenny Gaschke, Curator of Fine Art
pre-1900 at the Museum. The subject of the conversation was the 15th
century painting St Luke Drawing the Virgin & Child, a Flemish masterpiece
currently on loan to the Museum. Here’s a starter quote from Dan...
“...I was surprised how enjoyable it was. I have never done anything like this
before and consider myself to be totally uneducated in matters of fine art.
So it was rather extraordinary to hear myself interpret the painting as the
story of Christ breaking through from the divine realm into the human, and
then following his life through to his death on a green hill outside a city wall!”
HARVEST LUNCH & QUIZZINGO
Last month’s Harvest Lunch and Quizzingo events were well attended and
very much enjoyed; look out for a low-down on both in the magazine in the
near future — as above, watch this space!

Harvest Festival flowers
—in memory of
Ann Anderson
Harvest Festival flowers, Mildred Ford and team; photo EJL
CHRISTIANS IN SCIENCE (CiS) — LECTURE SERIES 2018–2019
CARING FOR THE EARTH — I
Friday 16 November 2018; 7pm for 7.30pm
Professor Simon Stuart — Species conservation: a summary of
progress and challenges for the future
Venue: Redland Church Hall, Redland Green Rd, Bristol BS6 7HE. Free entry;
donations to cover costs welcome (suggested amount £5). No need to book.
Refreshments provided. Travel: no 9 bus or by train to Redland Station.
OUR FRAGILE PLANET — A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE: 8 lectures looking at
the Biblical mandate for caring for our world and the science that lies behind the
challenges we face. Email Christina Biggs at cmbbiggs@gmail.com for more details

diary dates 1st November – 4th December
please note that all entries in the diary are correct at the time of going to print given the
information supplied. please note also that, in addition to the listings below, which vary
in frequency or other details, the following events happen every week in this period —
Tues
Tues
Weds
Thurs
Fri
Faithspace Coffee Morning // 10am–12 noon — Faithspace Community
Centre (FCC)
Christian Meditation // 6.30–7.00pm — FCC
Jazz in the Undercroft // 7.30–10.00pm
Redcliffe Gardening Group // 10.00am–12.00 noon — Somerset Square
Police Beat Surgery Drop-in // 1.00–2.00pm — FCC
1 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — Derek Grover; Sheffield
1 Holy Communion // 12.30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall
2 WWI exhibition starts; open daily till 30 November
4 All Souls Service // 6.30pm
5 Pot Luck Lunch // at the Pickards
5 Faithfood // Bible study and discussion — FCC
6 Holy Communion // 12.30pm — Revd Peter Dill
6 Bristol/Oporto twinning event
7 Hymn Sing-Along // 11.00am — Rosemary Kingsford — FCC
7 Redcliffe Lunch Club // 12.00 noon — Sergeant Andy — FCC
7 Redcliffe Film Club // 2.00pm — Death at the Funeral — FCC
8 Eucharist with Prayer for Healing // 12.30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall
8 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — Jonathan Price
9 Preludes Band with Oasis Academy Schools // 1.00–2.00pm — Celebrating
the centenary of the Armistice
10 Sing Unto the Lord a New Song // 3.00–4.15pm — Redcliffe Remembers concert
11 REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY // Commemorating the Armistice
Service with Holy Communion — 9.30–11am
Full Peal Bell Attempt — 2.00pm
Choral Evensong — 6.30pm
Extinguishing of Candle of Remembrance — 7.00pm (approximate time)
12 Faithfood // Bible study and discussion — FCC
13 Holy Communion // 12.30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall
13 Faith Pictures // 7.30pm — Seekers Faith group — at the Vicarage
NOVEMBER
14 Redcliffe Lunch Club 12.00 noon — Belinda returns; a surprise — FCC

15 Holy Communion // 12.30pm —
15 Bristol City of Hope // 6.30pm — Canynges Society event; presentation by
Mayor Marvin Rees, followed by Organ Recital, and drinks
17 Sing for Joy! // 7.30pm — Concert with the Pheonix Choir
20 Holy Communion // 12.30pm — Revd Peter Dill
21 Redcliffe Lunch Club // 12.00 noon — to be confirmed — FCC
21 Redcliffe Film Club // 2.30pm — The Philadelphia Story — FCC
22 Eucharist with Prayer for Healing // 12.30pm —
22 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — Simon Hogan, Southwell Minster
26 PCC Meeting // 7.30pm — at the Mercure Hotel
27 Holy Communion // 12.30pm —
29 Holy Communion // 12.30pm —
2 ADVENT SUNDAY
4 Holy Communion // 12:30pm —
4-8 Treefest // daily from 4 to 8 December — opening times:
4, 5, 7 & 8 December — 10am–5pm; 6 December—10am–8pm
parish register & Sunday records Sept-Oct 2018
DECEMBER
Please note that there were no baptisms, weddings or funerals at church during October.
SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE ATTENDANCE
Date 2018 30 Sept 7 Oct * 14 Oct 21 Oct 28 Oct
Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Adult
8.00am 15 - 6 - 9 - 11 - 8 -
9.30am 107 46 - - 85 33 85 36 123 23
10.30am * - - 120 42 - - - - - -
11.15am 22 - - - 16 - 30 - 22 -
6.30pm 22 - 20 - 44 - 34 1 44 -
— NB attendance figures refer to congregation, not to clergy, servers, choir or vergers
* Harvest Festival: Sung Eucharist at 10.30am (in lieu of 9.30am), and no service of Mattins
SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE COLLECTIONS
Period: 23 September – 14 October 2018
23 Sept 30 Sept 7 Oct 14 Oct - - -
£299.41 £541.82 £501.15 £393.45 - - -

editor’s note
email: editor.mag@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
UST SAYING... Commemorating the Armistice
J
This month we join with the national and international commemorations
of the World War One Armistice one hundred years ago this month. A
poignant and a salutary time — many of us will have lost family members
in that conflict, and our children will have learnt about the experiences of
its soldiers and civilians — and will be affected by what they have learnt.
Thank you to Lester Clements for his work in compiling an account for
the magazine, from 2014–2018, of the experiences of soldiers. We shall
miss their voices and presence with us in its pages; it has been a privilege,
and very moving, to read their testimonies, and we say thank you again to
Lester for providing us all, though the magazine, with their words.
We have been fortunate to have access to inspiring musical works commemorating
the Armistice. Last month we heard 1918 — Home at Last, the
community opera commissioned by Claire Alsop at SMR and colleagues
at Horfield Primary School; a memorable performance, as June Saunders’
article says. This month we will hear Sing Unto the Lord a New Song, a programme
of choral and instrumental music compiled by Andrew Kirk.
So a busy and creative space again, as Becky Macron’s Sunday School
piece shows, and likewise Angela Hogg’s on volunteering with the Church
in Jordan. We hope to show further drawings done at this year’s Doors
Open day in the next issue of the magazine, and our poetry corner will be
back then too. And a note too to say that news of our reader survey of
the magazine, mentioned last month, will also follow in the next issue.
Finally, readers of the print version of the magazine will
notice that this issue is in colour. This is done, of course, to
tally with and to honour our First World War commemorations
— grey poppies simply won’t do for Armistice Day
(or any other)! Colour is symbolic and powerful, and we
don’t live in a black-and-white world (perhaps one day we
shall be able to print every issue in colour).
— best wishes, Eleanor
Tel: 0117-9634856 (direct) or 0117-2310060 (Parish Office)
The deadline for the December 2018-January 2019
issue is Friday 23rd November
Visitor’s sketch at Doors
Open day [Hogarth’s pug?]

Wer bin ich?
prayers for November
W
ho am I? They often tell me
I would step from my cell’s confinement
calmly, cheerfully, firmly,
like a squire from his country-house.
Who am I? They often tell me
I would talk to my warders
freely, friendly and clearly,
as though it were mine to command.
Who am I? They also tell me
I bore the days of misfortune
equably, smilingly, proudly,
like one accustomed to win.
Am I then really all that which other men tell of?
Or am I only what I myself know of myself?
restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,
struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat,
yearning for colours, for flowers, for the voices of birds,
thirsting for words of kindness, for neighbourliness,
trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation,
tossing in expectation of great events,
powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,
weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,
faint, and ready to say farewell to it all?
Who am I? This or the other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army,
fleeing on disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
— in “Letters and Papers from Prison”; ed Eberhard Bethge;
translated from the German “Widerstand und Ergebung: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der
Haft” (Munich 1970); New York; Simon & Schuster; 1997; pp 347–8 / © SCM Press Ltd 1971

groups within the church
The regular congregation is large, active and involved. If you would like to
join one of the many groups connected with the Church, please contact the
appropriate group leader
Head Server
Head Sidesman
Head Steward
PCC Secretary
PCC Treasurer
PCC Safeguarding
PCC Recorder
Sunday School
Faithspace Centre
Lunch Club
Meditation
Mothers Union
Church Flowers
Coffee Rota
Bell Ringers
Canynges Society
Journey into Science
Magazine Editor
Dean Barry
Graham Marsh
Andy Carruthers
Keith Donoghue
David Harrowes
Stephen Brooke
c /o Parish Office
Becky Macron
Sarah James
Bobby Bewley
Lewis Semple
Hilda Watts
Mildred Ford
Christine Bush
Gareth Lawson
Pat Terry
Eric Albone
Eleanor Vousden
0117-9099862
01275-832770
0117-2310061
0117-9422539
0117-9779823
0117-3311260
0117-2310060
07443 000420
0117-9258331
0117-9864445
0117-9255763
01275-543588
0117-9359064
0117-9773023
07798 621834
0117-2310060
0117-9247664
0117-9634856
If you or one of your family are sick or have gone into hospital, please let us
know — contact the Clergy or Vergers as soon as possible.
Please consult the Parish Office before making any arrangements for
baptisms, weddings or funerals.
NB — the opinions voiced in the body of the magazine are not necessarily those of the Editor

sunday services
8.00am holy communion
9.30am sung eucharist
with crèche and Sunday School / followed by coffee
11.15am choral mattins
6.30pm sung evensong
weekday services
holy communion
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12.30pm
2nd and 4th Thursdays at 12.30pm with prayers for healing
morning and evening prayer
Monday to Friday at 8.30am and 4.30pm in the Lady Chapel
opening times
weekdays all year round from 8.30am–5.00pm
bank holidays 9.00am–4.00pm, except New Year's Day
Sundays 8.00am–8.00pm
the church is occasionally closed for special events and services
The Arc Café in the Undercroft
serving home made refreshments all day
opening hours:
Monday to Friday 8.00am–3.00pm
lunch served from 12.00 noon–2.30pm
tel: 0117-929 8658