St Mary's January 2019 Parish Magazine

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Vicar: Finedon Parish Church: St Mary The Virgin The Revd Richard Coles, St Mary the Virgin Finedon, The Vicarage, Church Hill, Finedon, Northants, NN9 5NR 01933 681 786, Mobile 07885 967 960 email: revdrichardcoles@yahoo.co.uk Curate Revd Jane Burns, 01536 524936 Email:janeburns2211@gmail.com Assistant Honorary Priest Fr Peter Baden,01832 733186 email: p.baden36@btinternet.com Reader Mr Michael Duncombe, 01536 483935 email: mikeduncombe61@gmail.com Parish Clerk Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364 (To whom first contact for Baptisms and weddings must be made). Churchwardens: Mrs Jane Read Tel: 680522 Mr Neil Forster Tel: 682177 PCC Secretary: Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364 Treasurer: Mr Andrew Weatherill Tel: 682212 Magazine Editor: Mrs Janet Millington, Tel: 681161. email: millingtonjanet@aol.com (to whom all copy should addressed by the 15 th of the month prior to publication) Director of Music Mr Jonathan Harris Tel: 01933 779059, Mobile 07791 664507 Email: Hjonathan83@aol.com Deputy Organists Mrs. Kathy Roberts Mr Oliver Grigg Choirmaster: Mr. Bryan Chapman Tel: 398818 Tower Captain Mr Bryan Chapman, Tel 398818 Web Site www.finedonphotographs.org.uk/ bellringers.html Archivist St Michael’s Mission Room: Dr Kaye McClelland, kayemclelland@gmail.com Bryan & Christine Chapman Tel: 01933 398818 Times Of Services: Sundays 8.00 am Holy Eucharist 9.30 am Parish Eucharist. 6.00 pm Evensong (1st Sunday of the Month)
From The Vicarage January 2019 Another year out, another year in; a turbulent one has passed, and while I hope a calmer one has arrived, it may be more turbulent still. At the time of writing I cannot even be sure who the Prime Minister will be, or even which party, or parties, will be in power, or even if Brexit is happening, delayed, or avoided. What I can do, however, is state with certainty that I don’t remember a time when more people felt more uncertain than now. There are all sorts of reasons or this, not least Brexit, which whatever the outcome means profound change; but it reflects too, I believe, deep divisions already there before the Referendum. The result, which surprised so many at the time, does not seem so surprising now we understand better how many were left behind by the growing prosperity of the past twenty years or so, but so unevenly divided between those in the south east and those in, say, the post industrial north east, or the Cinderella counties of the midlands, and the south west. The price of that scandalous neglect is now being paid. When will our sad divisions, to paraphrase the hymn, cease? I don’t know; but I do know we have been here before, and we are still here now, having endured though conflict, and famines, and plague and impoverishment; and not least in the English Civil War, which tore through these parts dividing nations, and communities, and families, and Finedon, who lost its the vicar for his Royalist sympathies to a triumphant Parliament after the battle of Naseby in 1645. But we endured, and today the parish church offers, as it has always offered, the worship due to God, for we know that whatever divides us is as nothing to the love of Jesus Christ, which heals all wounds, and makes the divided whole again. St Paul, who knew what trouble looked like, wrote this nearly two thousand years ago: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord”. Yours in Christ, Fr Richard. 3
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