St Mary's December 2018 Parish Magazine

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Remembrance I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who attended the service at the War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday. Again a record attendance (estimated 800). Thank you to Jason and Richard for conducting the service, to Alex and Melanie Robinson who read the poem in French and to the vicar who did the translation. To Darren for playing Last Post and Reveille, and all the other helpers. Another thank-you for all those who attended the evening service in church, plus Richard, Jason and Jane for conducting the service. Thank you also to the two Standard Bearers and all of the readers. Michael Shipton People’s Procession 11th November 2018 On Remembrance Sunday we had the privilege of joining 9,998 other people to take part in the People’s Procession in London to mark the centenary of the Armistice. We assembled on The Mall around 9.30 am and had a chilly 3½ hours wait before the procession started. We were amongst young and old and everyone in between, all there for the same reason, to remember those who have given their lives for their country. Many were proudly wearing their own medals or those of a member of their family, many brought wreaths of poppies or homemade wreaths of colourful flowers, some with personal photos, made by children, adults, schools and all kinds of groups to place on the Cenotaph. It was very moving to be there for the 2 minutes silence, marked by the firing of guns in St James’s Park – which was extremely loud being so close – but nothing compared to those on the Western Front who heard them continuously. The procession slowly moved off around 1.00 pm, we followed a Scottish military pipe band to keep us in step and were cheered and applauded by the thousands of onlookers still there from the commemorations during the morning. We walked along The Mall, Trafalgar Square and into Whitehall, past the Cenotaph and continued past the Houses of Parliament into St James’s Park where the procession ended. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for us to pay our respects and “remember them”. It was encouraging to see very many children amongst the crowds and the events that took place to mark centenary, highlighting the Great War, should enable future generations to explore the history and continue the commemorations On the previous day we had visited ‘Shrouds of the Somme’ at Queen Elizabeth Park. This was a physical representation of every one of the 72,396 British and Commonwealth servicemen killed at the Battle of The Somme who have no known grave, and whose names are engraved on the Thiepval Memorial. Artist Rob Heard has spent 4 years hand sewing shrouds around small figures which were laid out for 10 days to mark the centenary of the Armistice, having originally laid out 19,240 in Exeter on the hundredth anniversary of the first day of the Battle in 1916, the single day on which all 19,240 were killed. The scale of this tribute was truly astounding and very emotional and even more astounding was the fact that this represented less than a tenth of the nearly one million British and commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives in the First World War. We were privileged to meet Rob the artist, shake his hand and thank him for such a profound experience. We felt we were amongst a great number of people in the Procession, 10,000 of us, paying our tributes in London, but considering the vast numbers of those killed and commemorated during the weekend, this was just a drop in the ocean. John and Jean Marlow .
Mothers Union The next meeting will be in the Mission Room on Tuesday 4th December at 12.45 pm for members only as this will be our Christmas Lunch. This year Finedon St Mary’s branch will be hosting the Higham Deanery Mothers Union Advent Carol Service. This will take place in our church on Tuesday 11th December at 2.00 pm. Father Richard will be taking the service and all are welcome to join us for this special event. Tea and mince pies will be served after the service. The Mothers Union wish you all Joy and Peace this Christmas. Squirrel Wellykins In October Joyce Williams was tidying her allotment and shed ready for the winter and decided to remove her old Wellies and replace them with a better pair from home. She picked the old ones up in the shed, one was heavier than the other and rattled. Wondering what animal she had caught in her boot she carefully tipped it upside down and out fell a pile of nuts. A Squirrel had been storing its winter food in one Welly and probably decided to hibernate in the other. She left the nuts in a pile on the floor next to the new Wellies. She went back two days later to check on the nuts. Alas the nuts had all disappeared. After a search in the shed she could not find any trace of them. The Squirrel had moved house. 7
Page 1 and 2: Church of St. Mary the Virgin Fined
Page 3 and 4: From the Vicarage. Christmas 2018.
Page 5: From the Registers Holy Baptism 28t
Page 9 and 10: Do a good turn in the community 1st
Page 11 and 12: gambling within the Institute were
Page 13 and 14: Ranger Cadets come to Finedon The h
Page 15: Town Diary December January 2019 1s

St Mary's December 2018 Parish Magazine

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?