St Mary Redcliffe Parish Magazine March 2019

St Mary Redcliffe 


+ singing the song of faith and justice+ 

singing the song of faith and justice 

Parish parish magazine Magazine 

… 

march 2019 

ARTICLES DISCIPLESHIP: REVD ANTHONY EVERITT / LENT AT 

CHURCH: VARIOUS / AROUND THE PARISH: BECKY MACRON, DAVID 

COUSINS / PROJECT 450 BUSINESS: RHYS WILLIAMS / SCRIPTURAL 

REASONING: ANTHONY ACTON / NIGHT SHELTER NEWS — II 

Photo © CSS Adoption — our Lent charity 2019 — by kind permisson 

DIARY ASH WEDNESDAY: 6 MARCH / VOICES OF ADOPTION: 9 

MARCH / FEMINIST THEOLOGY GROUP: 12 MARCH / THEOLOGY BOOK 

CLUB: 13 MARCH / CHRISTIANS IN SCIENCE: 15 MARCH / FAMILY FUN 

DAY: 30 MARCH / LENT APPEAL SERVICE: 31 MARCH


With Temple, Bristol & St John the Baptist, Bedminster 

THE PARISH OFFICE: 12 Colston Parade, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6RA. Tel: 0117-231 0060 

email: parish.office@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk — anyone on this page may also be contacted 

via the parish office and its staff * 

SMR ONLINE: please visit us at www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

CHURCH WARDENS 

Richard James — 0117-966 2291 

richard@bristolbound.co.uk 

Elizabeth Shanahan — 07808 505977 

eshanahan21@googlemail.com 

operations manager 

Peter Rignall — 0117-231 0073 

peter.rignall@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

ADMIN ASSOCIATE* 

Pat Terry — 0117-231 0063 

pat.terry@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

ADMIN ASSISTANT* 

Ros Houseago — 0117-231 0063 

ros.houseago@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

VERGERS 

Vergers’ office — 0117-231 0061 

verger@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

Matthew Buckmaster — Head Verger 

matthew.buckmaster@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

Judith Reading, Paul Thomas — Vergers 

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 

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC 

Andrew Kirk — 0117-231 0065 

andrew.kirk@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

ASSISTANT ORGANISTS 

Claire and Graham Alsop 

RESEARCH ASSISTANT 

Rhys Williams — 0117-231 0068 

rhys.williams@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

FAMILIES & YOUTH MINISTER 

Becky Macron — 07387 909343 

sunday.school@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 

vicar's letter 

DISCIPLESHIP 

— REVD ANTHONY EVERITT 

ASSOCIATE MINISTER 

WE ARE ABOUT TO START LENT, the 

season in which we remember the 

time Jesus spent in the wilderness; 

those forty days in which he worked through 

who he was, his relationship to the Father, and 

what his ministry, his life, was to be. In that 

time Jesus developed the discipline of following 

God, discerning His will and identifying and 

resisting the falsehoods and deceits with which 

people are faced. We mark those forty days in 

Lent by trying to develop and exercise discipline 

in our own faith lives. Traditionally that has been done by the means of 

attempting to fast. Many of us, I suspect, are more noble in the intent than 

we are successful in the achievement. 

In Lent we read of Jesus’ journey towards Jerusalem, of his teaching of the 

disciples, and of their discipleship of him. We learn about what they got 

right and what they got wrong. We see how they developed and became 

closer to God as they followed Jesus. The forty days of Lent are, then, 

about much more than the discipline of the Fast. They are a key time for 

us to think about our own discipleship of Jesus; discipleship in response 

to His being Saviour and Redeemer for all. 

A disciple is a follower and a learner. The disciple enquires, listens, seeks, 

questions, debates and reads. Disciples are active in their discipleship; 

positively following, not passively waiting. As we enter Lent; as we turn to 

Jerusalem and later prepare for the Upper Room, the wait in Gethsemane 

and the tragedy of the Cross at Calvary, each of us can usefully spend 

time considering our discipleship of Jesus. 

Where are the marks, the signs of your discipleship of Christ? Are you 

developing and growing in your faith and understanding of him? Do you

ead the Bible regularly and enquiringly? Do you pray with expectation 

and seek answers to your prayer? Are the fruits of discipleship of Jesus 

evident in your life for others to perceive and for you to enjoy? Is your life 

as a disciple truly distinctive? 

As we enter the season of Lent let us pray for one another, that each 

of us may develop as faithful disciples of Christ and may grow in our 

knowledge and love of him. Pray also that, as Lent turns into Holy Week 

and reaches the Cross on Good Friday, each of us may come to know 

more surely that through the Cross we are freed from the slavery of sin 

and can enjoy the full, open, redeemed life to which we are called by God. 

Revd Anthony Everitt 

— Associate Minister 

 

from the diocese of bristol 

Read Kat’s invitation to the Service of Celebration marking 

the 25th anniversary of the ordination of women, and visit the 

link below to Bristol cathedral’s website for further details 

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN 

https://bristol-cathedral.co.uk/whats-on/the-25th-anniversary-of-the-ordination-ofwomen-priests 

ON 12TH MARCH 1994 

the first women priests 

in the Church of England 

were ordained in Bristol Cathedral 

by the then Bishop of Bristol, 

Barry Rogerson. This was a 

key moment in the church’s 

acknowledgment that God’s call 

is not limited by a person’s 

gender. It took a further twenty 

years for the Church of England to pass legislation to enable women to 

be bishops, and last year Bristol became the fourth diocese to appoint a 

female Diocesan Bishop. 

WATCH (Women and the Church) have just published an annual review of 

how women are deployed in leadership and ministry roles, both lay and 

ordained, across the Church of England. Twenty-five years on, for example, in 

Bristol Diocese 28% of incumbents or incumbent-status clergy are women, 

whereas 14% of Area Deans are women. If you’re interested, you can find 

out more on the WATCH website — womenandthechurch.org 

Image: detail from “The Three Marys”, 3rd painting of Hogarth’s altarpiece; drawing EJL 

2019; with thanks for access to staff at St Nicholas church 

Although there is still a long way to go before women and men are 

represented equally at every level of the work and ministry of the church, 

this 25th anniversary is an occasion for great celebration. There will be a 

special Service of Celebration on Sunday 17th March at 3.30pm at Bristol 

Cathedral. Bishop Viv, who was among that first wave of women to be 

ordained as priests in 1994, will be preaching and you are most welcome 

to attend. 

Revd Kat Campion-Spall

at church 

LENT APPEAL 2019 

CSS Adoption 

AT LENT THIS YEAR we partner with 

CCS Adoption, a Bristol-based charity, 

who for 115 years have been finding permanent, 

loving families for children who 

need them, and providing ongoing support 

for adoptive families for as long as they 

need it — you can find out more on their 

website at ccsadoption.org 

We were delighted to hear from CSS Adoption at our 9.30am Service 

on Sunday 10 February, and in Sunday School, and this is to remind 

you all of the wonderful opportunities to help the charity via the 

events we’re hosting at church — and, as always, we encourage you 

to support them! Here are the dates and details: 

• Saturday 9 March 7pm — Voices of Adoption: An event to 

launch the appeal with an opportunity to explore the CCS 

exhibition in the South Transept and a panel discussion giving 

voice to different people involved in the adoption journey. 

• Saturday 30 March 1–4pm: CCS Family Fun Day, with Melody 

Makers Choir. Come and enjoy music from Melody Makers, 

afternoon tea, games, activities and fun for all ages. 

• Sunday 31 March 6.30pm: Lent Appeal evening service with a 

speaker from CCS. 

We love our youngsters — let’s give CSS our best support! 

NB: Learn how we’re helping the youngsters on our watch in Becky and David’s 

article Around the Parish on pages 14–19. Have a look at the pictures — see if 

you can spot... youngsters making slime, at a Redcliffe festival, playing basketball, 

doing Calisthenics; plus Japanese Drumming, baby Toby’s baptism card (and 

cake!), team-work on a felt Banner... and a four-legged helper! [Photo permissions: 

thanks to CSS for the photos above, and to Becky & David for the photos on pp14–19] 

Sunday School events will include a Secret Cinema, Community 

Cooking and Sunday event… look out for more details! Also look 

out for the 2019 40 Days of Lent booklet to help your Lenten 

devotions. 

A huge thanks to everyone who’s offered help so far and here’s a 

reminder of ways to get involved: run a stall at the Family Fun Day; help 

at the Voices of Adoption event; hold a fundraising event at your workplace, 

school or in your social group — or how about a coffee morning? Get 

planning! Please let Kat know if you’d like to get involved

LENT GROUPS 2019 

THIS YEAR’S LENT COURSE is based on the 2004 film 

The Terminal. The course uses the film as a starting 

point to look at themes from Christ’s passion of identity, 

loneliness and promises and of punishment and forgiveness. 

Each session will focus on a short clip of the film and 

lead into discussion around a Biblical theme, reflection and 

prayer. 

The course will run in parallel on Tuesday afternoons and 

Thursday evenings, and will begin with an opportunity to watch 

the whole film. 

Daytime: film showing Tuesday 12th March at 2.00pm at the 

Vicarage; Groups Tuesday 19th and 26th March and 2nd and 

9th April at 2.00pm in the Parish Office. Led by Peter Dill. 

Evening: film showing Thursday 7th March at 7.00pm Vicarage; 

Groups Thursday 14th, 21st and 28th March and 4th April; 7.30pm 

Vicarage. Led by Dan Tyndall and Kat Campion-Spall. 

LENT PILGRIM 

Cecile Gillard writes: Join us on the #LentPilgrim journey this year—sign 

up at www.churchofengland.org/pilgrim I have followed some of the Church 

of England’s previous seasonal daily reflections, including those for Advent 

2018, and found them very helpful. The above is their Lent 2019 series 

From the website: 

REFLECT: Welcome to this 40-day journey. Like the first disciples, we are 

making time to listen to the words of Jesus. At the beginning of the most 

famous sermon in history — known as the Sermon on the Mount — Jesus 

commends eight beautiful qualities. These are almost his first words and 

the very heart of his teaching. Still your mind. Take time to listen to the 

words of Jesus and repeat them several times with the rhythm of your 

breathing 

at church learning and engagement 

THEOLOGY BOOK CLUB: book title, and change of March date 

This month’s meeting of the Theology Book Club will be at 8pm on 

Wednesday 13th March at John Rogan’s house in lieu of the 3rd 

Tuesday of the month as advertised in last month’s issue of the 

magazine. Over the next few meetings we shall be looking at 

Speaking of Sin: the Lost Language of Salvation by Barbara 

Brown Taylor — discussing whether religious vocabulary is understandable 

to many people, copies of which are available at a cost of 

£7.99 each. Please also note that we aim to keep to the ‘3rd Tuesday’ 

pattern although there may be the occasional month when we shall 

need to find an alternative date. 

— Simon Goodman 

Please note that Simon is away during March; for John’s address please contact 

the Parish Office, and for more information contact either the Parish Office or 

Parish Magazine (see the inside front & rear covers for contact details) 

WONDERFUL PENTECOST WORKSHOPS — CAN YOU HELP? 

Sarah Yates, our Education Officer, writes — 

IN MAY I have 2 classes from St Mary Redcliffe Primary School 

visiting church to do Art Workshops on the theme of Pentecost. 

Our idea is for an exhibition in church of their work! 

The workshops are on Tuesday 7 May — one in the morning; one in 

the afternoon. The workshops will be full-on and busy as the children 

will be weaving and printing in both sessions! 

It would be wonderful to have a few extra volunteers to assist with 

the workshops, and wonderful if you could offer to help at either or 

both sessions. And if you are interested in helping with the preparation 

prior to the day... that would be wonderful too! 

thank you! 

— Sarah 

— if you would like to know more please get in touch me at the parish office 

on tel: 0117-2310060, or email me at: sarah.yates@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk

at church development 

DURING THE COURSE OF 2019, P450 architects Purcell will 

create a masterplan for the development of new facilities at St 

Mary Redcliffe that will move the church’s architectural planning to 

RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Level 3: Developed Design. The 

core objectives of RIBA Level 3 are summarised by RIBA as follows: 

Prepare a developed design, including coordinated and updated 

proposals for structural design, building services systems, outline 

specifications, cost information and project strategies in accordance 

with the design programme. 

This design will take into account the following pieces of work that have 

been carried out during the last couple of years: 

• Heritage asset review 

• Community consultation 

• Interpretation and learning strategy 

• Fundraising strategy and plan 

• Options appraisal 

• Feasibility study 

PROJECT 450 BUSINESS PLANNING 

— RHYS WILLIAMS 

RESEARCH ASSISTANT 

As well as these, Purcell will take into account a crucial piece of work — the 

Project 450 Business Plan — that is currently being worked on by Glevum 

Consultants. Glevum has a highly experienced heritage business 

consulting team, which has worked closely with heritage and cultural 

organisations — including Winchester Cathedral and St Alfrege’s Church, 

Greenwich — to deliver a variety of complex projects. 

Since 2002 the organisation has helped secure £70 million of HLF 

(Heritage Lottery Fund) and private donor funding, and directly helped 

deliver £40 million of capital projects and activity plans. 

Simon Hawkins, Director of Glevum Consulting, has also recently been 

involved in project-managing Bristol Old Vic Theatre’s highly successful 

transformation. 

Simon is currently looking in detail at the church’s potential for generating 

income from activities including: 

• Tours of the church, belltower and roof 

• Wedding receptions and group catering 

• An improved retail and hospitality offer 

• An enhanced events programme 

• Conferences and meeting room hire 

• An enhanced exhibition programme, possibly including 

William Hogarth’s St Mary Redcliffe altarpiece 

Once the potential for income generation has been fully assessed by 

Simon through the Business Plan, Purcell will look at the impact of its 

findings on the architectural plans. For example, if the business plan finds 

that the average wedding party is a particular size, then the proposed 

south churchyard building that will be used for wedding receptions will 

need to be designed to accommodate a similar number of guests. 

Again, if the business plan finds that Hogarth’s altarpiece can add value 

to the project by attracting additional visitors, generating revenue, and 

enabling partnerships that will raise the profile of the church, then the 

masterplan will need to include accommodation for the altarpiece. The 

possibility of the Hogarth becoming part of the scheme has already been 

investigated by Purcell using a generous £9,600 funding award from the 

National Churches Trust, made specifically for this purpose. 

As well as providing information that can be fed into Purcell’s planning for 

the new buildings and spaces, Glevum is looking at how a phased approach 

to business development can enable the church to begin to make shortterm 

improvements to its offer that don’t require new buildings. 

For example, with a relatively small financial commitment, the church 

might be in a position to offer roof and tower tours that can begin to start 

generating revenue during the planning stage for the capital project.

This phased approach would allow improvements to the visitor experience, 

and the development of income-generating elements of the organisation 

such as the shop to be made incrementally, in a fore-planned and structured 

manner, allowing the church to make projections about how much 

income is likely to be generated at each stage. The income generated at 

stage one, would then allow further improvements to be made at phase 2, 

and so on. 

Image: Hogarth section 

A first draft of the business plan will be presented to the P450 Project 

Board on Monday 11 March and is available on request for viewing by 

members of the congregation who are interested in finding out more. 

While the business plan is being finalised, Purcell will continue to look at 

options for the various new buildings and spaces, including the exhibition 

space that would be needed for the Hogarth in the event of its inclusion 

in Project 450. 

Rhys Williams 

Research Assistant 

tel: 0117 231 0068 

email: rhys.williams@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

Image: SMR North elevation 

Further information: 

If you would like more information about Project 450 

or are interested in looking in more detail at documents 

relating to the various ongoing workstreams, please 

contact Rhys Williams as above, and visit SMR online at 

stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/development. For information on 

Glevum Consulting please visit glevumconsulting.co.uk 

Image: 

SMR South elevation

soundbites music at redcliffe 

CHORAL VOICES 

— ANDREW KIRK, DIRECTOR OF MUSIC 

— Favourite Choral Composers? 

I think Howells has to be my favourite choral composer; his music isn’t 

always easy to sing but I always find it evocative and beautiful. His hymn 

tune “Michael” (All my hope on God is founded) is a favourite of mine. Edward 

Bairstow comes a close second, with I sat down and Blessed City among my 

favourite choral pieces. I’ve also loved singing works by living composers 

Philip Wilby, Oliver Tarney and Cecilia McDowall. 

— Which instruments do you play? 

I started my musical education as a pianist. In the past I’ve also dabbled in 

recorder, ukulele, flute, and kazoo. 

— Apart from music, do you have any other hobbies? 

Baking is something I enjoy — and my flatmates and fellow choristers at SMR 

don’t seem to mind either! I’ve become a lot more careful about how much 

flour ends up covering the kitchen now that I have to clean it up myself! 

— When and where was your first experience of singing in church? 

I was brought up in the Anglican tradition, and wanted to sing with the 

robed choir at St. Andrew’s, Chippenham, for many years before I was 

finally allowed to join as a treble at the age of ten. 

Our Music Scholars (left–right) — Matt, Ned, Izzy, Adam & Joe. Photo: Andrew Kirk 

— ANDREW KIRK talks to 

Choral Scholar ADAM LLOYD 

Andrew — Adam, what attracted you to applying for a choral scholarship? 

Adam — Initially I auditioned because my singing teacher recommended 

that I’d like SMR; now I’m in my third year with the choir! 

— Do you like Eucharist, Mattins or Evensong best and why? 

Perhaps you can’t beat a good candlelit Evensong, but our living tradition 

of Choral Mattins is rare and certainly worth preserving and growing. One 

of my favourite pieces in the SMR repertoire is Bairstow’s beautiful setting 

of The Lamentations, which we sing at Mattins during Passiontide. Although it’s 

very different from our usual Mattins services, Rush Sunday is undoubtedly 

the year’s most exciting choral service outside of Christmastide. 

— Who has been a big influence on your musical development? 

Although I never met him, Canon Gervase Markham MBE who founded the 

Morland Choristers’ Camp. I’ve attended every year for almost a decade, 

and it was at Morland that I had my first taste of the cathedral repertoire 

we sing at St. Mary Redcliffe. The Camp really helped to encourage me to 

keep singing even when I was the only young person in the St. Andrew’s 

choir, and as my voice changed. 

— Why is singing in a church choir a good thing? 

St. Mary Redcliffe is a really beautiful space to sing in, and its excellent 

organ enhances the experience too. Ultimately, though, our purpose as 

a church choir is to offer music to the glory of God, and help to lead 

the congregation in meaningful worship. I really hope we achieve this, 

because I think the difference in context compared to other performances 

singers might give is quite important. 

— Andrew Kirk & Adam Lloyd

....around the parish 

see page 6 for a note on the photos 

What’s 

David been 

up to 

lately? 

Hmm 

what’s Becky 

up to these 

days? 

WOOF 

(tr: come on) 

let’s go and 

see!

at sunday school... 

WE’VE CERTAINLY HAD A 

busy few weeks in Sunday 

School and Youth Group... 

In Sunday School, our resources 

are based on the Lectionary, so, 

when we’re in the Undercroft, we 

follow the same readings as the 

rest of the congregation up in 

church. Our youth group, which 

currently takes place three Sundays 

a month, follows a very different 

structure. Our activities 

are based around themes taken 

from my very much loved “Boring 

Bible” book, which I’ve had for 

many many years. Over the last 

two months, we’ve been looking 

at “Strange but True” stories from 

the bible. Natasheya, our needlefelting 

expert has been working 

with the children to put together 

a wall hanging of the fascinating 

bible stories we’ve been reading. 

Look out for their great creation 

which will soon be hanging in the 

Children’s Area in church. For 

those who like a challenge, there 

is a little task: see if you can name 

the chapter and verse of all the 

stories in the picture! There is a 

prize for you if you can! 

...EXCITING TIMES 

— BECKY MACRON 

FAMILIES & YOUTH MINISTER 

We now have a group of very talented 

and enthusiastic helpers to help run 

our youth group and we are preparing 

for our launch day on Sunday 

17th March. If you would like to find 

out more, please get in touch. 

It’s been equally as exciting (and 

busy!) in Sunday School. This year 

we’ve had a steady increase in 

the number of children attending 

Sunday School each week, which 

is lovely. Our annual prayer day 

back in January was a success and 

it was nice to welcome members of 

the congregation to our first Stay 

and Pray. We are looking forward 

to the next Stay and Pray, which will 

be held on our Bible day in May — we 

will be working together with our 

good neighbours from the Arc 

Café (ARA) 

who will be 

joining us 

to talk to us 

about the 

important 

work that 

they do. 

In the whole time I have been involved 

in Children’s Ministry at 

Redcliffe, I don’t think I’ve ever 

known a service which has received 

such positive comments as baby 

Toby’s baptism on 24th February. 

It was a truly special service. One 

of the visitors (who happens to be 

a Families and Children’s Worker) 

commented on how nice it was to 

see all the children fully integrated 

in the church, taking part in the 

baptism service with the rest of 

the church family. 

You’ll notice that for this 

month’s article, my title has 

now changed! It was an absolute 

delight to be taken on for the role 

of Families and Youth Minister at 

Redcliffe just before Christmas. I 

am incredibly excited about the 

plans to develop our ministry for the 

people of Redcliffe. Amongst other 

things, before the summer I hope to 

begin a toddler group in church. 

I officially began my new role at the 

start of January and I have really 

enjoyed getting to know the rest of 

the team at Redcliffe Church; the 

staff have been incredibly friendly 

and welcoming, and I am very 

much looking forward to working 

with them on various ventures. 

As you will know from my previous 

articles, I thoroughly enjoyed 

every moment of my role as Sunday 

School Co-ordinator over the 

past few years, and it continues to 

be a real pleasure to be working 

alongside the people and families 

of Redcliffe. As the famous 

quote (which is often attributed 

to Confucius, although to be honest, 

I heard it from Chris Evans on 

his breakfast show) goes… when 

you’ve found your dream job, you 

will never have to work another 

day in your life. Well, I for one am 

certainly looking forward to never 

going to work again! 

— Becky Macron

in the community... 

The children’s festival in the Autumn 

was a lovely community-organised 

event — we organised activities in the 

main square to encourage children 

who may not otherwise have gone to 

get involved. 

...BRILLIANT THINGS 

— DAVID COUSINS 

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT WORKER 

IT’S BEEN A WHILE 

since I’ve last written in 

here so there’s a lot to tell 

you about as we’ve been 

working on some brilliant 

things with children and 

young people across the 

parish of Redcliffe! 

A significant development 

has been the start of the 

Redcliffe Youth Club, aimed 

at 9–15-year-olds. We’ve had 

great fun making slime, 

cooking, playing games and giving this age 

group a space to relax and talk to their friends 

and trusted adults. We had helped decorate a 

community tree for Treefest and it was nice to 

be able take the children into the church on 

the evening for fantastic food and to see all 

the fabulous decorations. 

children to promote the benefits of 

healthy eating andexercise. This has 

now evolved into a cooking group 

for parents and their children and 

the local Children’s Centre. We’d 

love to have more parents involved 

so contact me if you know anyone 

who’d be interested. 

The Redcliffe Autumn Festival 

was a good chance to offer young 

people the opportunity to try 

new things — we had a Japanese 

Drummer, an interactive pirate 

theatre and a Calisthenics instructor 

ran workshops. 

I’d like to congratulate Phil George, 

our new Youth Support Worker, 

who was successful after a rigorous 

interview process involving a group 

of twelve local young people from 

the school. He had been volunteering 

with us for a few months 

and officially started his new role 

in December. 

The basketball session we run on 

local courts continued through the 

winter as we managed to borrow a 

floodlight to keep going in the dark 

nights. We went along with a couple 

of young people to the local basketball 

club to get them involved. 

the local trampoline park. We also 

ran a Sports Day with the help of 

the SMRT and the local police, with 

34 local children playing different 

games in the fantastic facilities at 

the school. 

There’s lots to look forward to leading 

up to Easter. As part of the Calmer 

Llama Easter Trail organised by the 

Methodist Church the youth club will 

be decorating a cardboard cut-out 

llama. Keep an eye out for it around 

Broadmead! 

We’ll also be working in the secondary 

school and sixth form on a project to 

get young people to create a piece 

of journalism, photography, poetry, 

music or artwork about the local area. 

Please pray for the success of our work 

and for the young people and families 

of Redcliffe, and keep them in your 

thoughts over the coming months 

— David Cousins 

We worked with Jumpstart and Playing 

Out at the end of Summer to run some 

Food and Fitness sessions for local 

Half-term was a busy time for us as 

we took a group of young people to

community learning 

SCRIPTURAL REASONING 

— AN INTERFAITH EXPERIMENT 

— ANTHONY ACTON 

IWAS RECENTLY INVITED to take part in an evening of “Scriptural 

Reasoning” held at the mosque in Bath. Scriptural Reasoning is the 

name given to a programme for improving understanding between 

religions which was developed at leading universities in the 1990s. It 

involves placing alongside each other two comparable passages from 

the holy books of two different religions. A small group of people drawn 

from both faiths then reflect together on these scriptures. What began 

as a purely academic exercise was soon found to be much more than 

that: participants who came to learn about someone else’s religion went 

away having discovered new riches in their own. 

Our group consisted of five young Muslim men from Palestine, Lebanon 

and Syria, studying at university in Bath, a Rabbi from Bristol and another 

Jewish lady, and three Christians: a priest from Bath Abbey, a retired 

Methodist minister, and me. The Imam of the Bath mosque (a young man 

with degrees from Cairo and Cambridge) acted as our facilitator. These 

are the passages we had before us: 

Surah 2: 30-33 (the Cow) 

30 [Prophet]: when your Lord told the angels “I am putting a successor 

on earth” they said “How can You put someone there who will cause 

damage and bloodshed, when we celebrate Your praise and proclaim 

Your holiness?” but He said “I know things you do not.” 31: He taught 

Adam all the names [of things], then He showed them to the angels 

and said “Tell me the names of these if you truly [think you can].” They 

said “May You be glorified! We have knowledge only of what you have 

taught us. You are the All Knowing and the All Wise.” 33: Then He said 

“Adam, tell them the names of these.” When he told them their names, 

God said “Did I not tell you that I know what is hidden in the heavens 

and the earth, and that I know what you reveal and what you conceal?” 

Genesis 2: 16–25 

And the Lord God commanded the man “You are free to eat from any 

tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge 

of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” The 

Lord God said “It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper 

suitable for him.” Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all 

the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the 

man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called 

each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all 

the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam 

no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall 

into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s 

ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a 

woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to 

the man. The man said “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my 

flesh; She shall be called ‘woman’, for she was taken out of man.” That 

is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and 

they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they 

felt no shame. 

The Scriptures: metaphor or history? 

The Genesis passage was read to us in Hebrew by Rabbi Monique and 

then in English, and the Qu’ran passage was intoned in Arabic by one of 

the students, entirely from memory, before it too was read in English. 

To hear these scriptures in their original tongues was deeply moving. 

The Imam then asked each of us whether these stories were, to us, literally 

true, or metaphor. We polled as follows — Metaphor: 5 (3 Christians, 2 

Jews); History: 5 (5 Muslims). The Imam then explained that every Muslim 

believes that the Qu’ran contains the literal truth, and that for Muslims 

Qu’ran stories such as that set out above are real history. (Though this, he 

said, can be problematic for them.) 

What are these Scriptures about? 

The Genesis passage was seen by the Christians as being about God’s relationship 

to human beings, man’s relationship to woman, humanity’s re-

lationship with the environment, and an explanation of our fallible nature 

(i.e. “the fall” in Christian theology). The Jews saw Genesis in much the 

same way except they see the knowledge of good and evil as being about 

humanity acquiring moral responsibility rather than inherent sinfulness. 

The Muslims were puzzled how it could ever be wrong to know good from 

evil. They saw their passage as being about God’s gift of intellectual ability 

to human beings. We were all agreed that both passages warn us against 

elevating human wisdom above God’s wisdom. 

Eve: Adam’s side-kick or equal partner? 

The rabbi explained that the word translated as “helper” in our Genesis 

passage is eizer k’negdo in the original Hebrew. “Eizer” indeed means helper. 

But the second part, “k’negdo”, means “alongside or in sight of” — i.e. Eve 

is not subordinate to Adam; her skills and abilities are complementary 

to his, and each plays to the other’s strengths. The word also carries the 

sense of “as if opposite” — i.e. each partner can bounce ideas off the other, 

and re-think or even oppose where necessary. 

The human race and the environment 

The Jewish view of Genesis 1:28 (humankind to subdue/dominate the 

earth) is that although those English words do correctly translate the 

Hebrew word k-v-sh, that verse must not be read in isolation. In Genesis 

2:15 Adam is put in the Garden of Eden to till and tend it, and even when 

Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden, they (and by extension, we) 

retain those responsibilities. The Muslims explained their Arabic word for 

“stewardship”, which is their concept of our responsibilities towards the 

earth and all its creatures, based on our God-given ability to reason and 

to invent. The Christians emphasised the spiritual aspects of being human, 

and made the point that of all God’s creatures Adam alone was the one 

into whom God himself breathed life. We all agreed that human beings 

are called to be God’s stewards of his creation. 

Conclusions 

The Imam had spoken of wanting to offer us both intellectual and practical 

hospitality. He and his five devout but cheerful young Muslim students 

certainly did that in spades. The whole evening was conducted in an 

atmosphere of harmony and friendship. The contributions to our discussions 

made by very able clergy from all three religions enabled us to avoid 

woolly generalisations. If it felt strange to be doing a sort of Bible study 

with people who do not have the Gospel, I also felt how vitally necessary it 

is that religions learn to talk to each other, and that through his Spirit our 

Lord surely was present with us as we tried to do that. 

Anthony Acton 

— For further information 

readers may be interested to visit the Scriptural Reading website at 

http://www.scripturalreasoning.org — Ed 

 

community arts 

LENT, LISTINGS & ARTLOVERS! 

DEAR READERS... A note to say that 

the pieces overleaf caught my eye. I 

find that the arts (all of them) open up 

our understanding on many a level, 

and that these in particular resonate 

with the season of Lent. 

The first article is about a painting by 

RAPHAEL titled The Mond Crucifixion, 

and is from an online resource for 

parish magazines (which I was rather 

intrigued to find!), and has a 

thoughtful commentary. 

The second/third are downloaded 

from mainstream art and church 

contexts in London featuring the 

work of contemporary artist BILL 

VIOLA — Bill Viola / Michelangelo, 

the current exhibition at the Royal 

Academy (ends 31st March); and 

Martyrs, a video installation by Viola 

that is on long-term loan at St Paul’s 

Cathedral. Inspiring? 

A note also to say that you will need 

to access the relevant images online 

(follow the links), or in print of course, 

as I am unable to reproduce them 

here — but the words are thoughtprovoking 

so I hope you will find the 

entries stimulating. And if you are 

in town this month you can see all 

three listings at one go! 

— Eleanor 

Ps: thinking about the famous Renaissance 

artist trio, a reminder about the exhibition 

of Leonardo’s drawings at Bristol City 

Museum (on till 6 May).

The Mond Crucifixion — 

Raphael (1483–1520) 

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/raphael-the-mondcrucifixion 

THIS MONTH’S PAINTING in the National Gallery 

is known as the Mond Crucifixion. It has an interesting 

history, because Ludwig Mond, the German born 

scientist and industrialist, offered to lend the painting 

to the Gallery in 1892. The trustees for some reason 

declined the offer. Ludwig Mond was undeterred and at 

his death in 1909 he bequeathed to the Gallery over 40 paintings. It was an 

amazingly generous gift, and included this Crucifixion by Raphael. 

It belongs to the artist’s early years and was painted when he was just 20, for 

a church altarpiece in Urbino in 1503. On Good Friday we hear those words 

from Lamentations, “Is it nothing to you who pass by? — look and see.” We 

might look on the cross of Jesus and see a sign of agony and death. But here 

in the Mond Crucifixion, all seems serene and still. It is a far cry from the 

harshness and cruelty of the Gospel accounts. Look at the angels with their 

ribbons and feet resting on the clouds, the hands and feet of the four 

bystanders so delicately painted, and beyond, the softly lit Umbrian landscape 

with a river, trees and low hills stretching away into the distance. 

It is as if Raphael has frozen this moment of death on his canvas to tell us 

that here is an enduring message of love and generosity for Mary, John, Mary 

Magdalene and Jerome gathered below. Our Lady and John look at us, 

inviting us to discover there the solemn beauty that moves their lives and 

that can move us. 

In our worship on Good Friday we encounter this paradox of the cross — a 

sign of suffering and death, but a sign also of generosity. We can think of the 

generosity of Ludwig Mond, the generosity of Raphael sharing his gifts with 

us, but above all the generosity of our Prince of Glory. Here, in the words of 

Isaac Watts’ hymn, we see how “love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, 

my life, my all.” 

Article by Revd Michael Burgess who says: “The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square in 

London houses one of the finest collections of European paintings in the world, with some 

2,300 works ... we journey through the gallery to explore one of those treasures each month”. 

Article downloaded from https://www.parishpump.co.uk 

. 

BILL VIOLA / MICHELANGELO 

Life Death Rebirth 

26 January to 31 March 2019 

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/bill-viola-michelangelo 

MICHELANGELO is best known for 

the Sistine Chapel and for his large 

sculptures. Yet his smaller, more 

intimate drawings take us closer to 

the spiritual and emotional power of 

his work. They were created for his 

private use, or as gifts of love, and 

would soon become known as “drawings 

the likes of which was never 

seen”. In 2006, the pioneering video 

artist Bill Viola saw a collection of 

these works at Windsor Castle. He 

was moved by their ability to convey 

fundamental human experiences and 

emotions, and by Michelangelo’s use 

of the body to give shape to spirituality. 

Viola’s large-scale video installations 

are likewise works of profound 

emotional impact. They combine 

sound and moving image to create 

absorbing works which slow us down 

and invite us to experience and reflect. 

These works are shown alongside 

Michelangelo drawings, which 

are on display in the UK for the first 

time in almost a decade. This exhibition 

– created in close collaboration 

with Bill Viola Studio – is a unique 

opportunity to experience two artists, 

born centuries apart, in a new light. 

All ticket prices include £2.50 for a printed gallery guide. Exhibition organised by the 

Royal Academy of Arts, London in partnership with Royal Collection Trust and with the 

collaboration of Bill Viola Studio. [All texts above from Royal Academy website.] 

 

MARTYRS 

St Paul’s Cathedral 

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/history-collections/the-collections/arts-programme/bill-viola 

Martyrs: Earth, Air, Fire, Water — the first of two large-scale 

permanent video installations by internationally acclaimed artist 

Bill Viola. 

Created by Bill Viola and Kira Perov and opened in May 2014, Martyrs shows 

four individuals, across four colour vertical plasma screens, being martyred 

by the four classical elements. The work has no sound. It lasts for seven minutes. 

Bill Viola’s commission for St Paul’s Cathedral follows the great historical 

tradition of commissions for spiritual centres that has resulted in a priceless 

heritage of art around the world.

The result of this commission sees St Paul’s Cathedral, which has always 

spearheaded the engagement of great artists, house a resonant work of art 

for our times. Martyrs (and later Mary), will play an important role in connecting 

contemporary issues with the timeless themes embodied in the cathedral. 

Through the relationship between St Paul’s and Tate Modern, visitors 

to both sites will become aware of the possibilities available on either 

site and it is hoped that this will lead to new audiences for both. With 

the symbolic link of the Millennium Bridge, two great institutions will be 

connected through art. Martyrs was joined in 2016 by a second piece 

entitled Mary. The installations have been gifted to Tate, and are on 

long-term loan to St Paul’s Cathedral. 

Bill Viola says: 

As the work opens, four individuals are shown in stasis, a pause from their 

suffering. Gradually there is movement in each scene as an element of nature 

begins to disturb their stillness. Flames rain down, winds begin to lash, water 

cascades, and earth flies up. As the elements rage, each martyr’s resolve 

remains unchanged. In their most violent assault, the elements represent the 

darkest hour of the martyr’s passage through death into the light. 

The Reverend Canon Mark Oakley says: 

Good art, like good religion, questions our answers more than answering our 

questions and with a form and language that resist cheap paraphrase. 

Our visitors are able to encounter the universal spiritual questions of life and 

death that this extraordinary work lays before us. A contemporary medium 

that so often controls mass culture is slowed and shaped to unravel that 

control, allowing us to face ourselves alone in our fragility and potential. The 

rumour of God is very loud in the work, as enigmatic as it is profound, and I 

have no doubt the work will be a spiritual encouragement to those who spend 

time with it. 

Today martyrdom is often spoken of in terms of what people kill themselves 

for and others with them. It is more authentically a word that focuses on 

what a human being might be willing to die for — faith, conscience, justice, 

love of others. This work deepens our perceptions by slowing them down. 

We see the courage and resilience of the human in the face of all that would 

destroy what is true and good. We each have been given the gift of being. 

The gift we have to offer in return is who we become and how our lives, and 

deaths, might transform the world. 

[All text from the St Paul’s Cathedral website] 

c0mmunity board notes & mssgs 

The Magazine remembers Lester Clements who died last month — 

WE SAY FAREWELL TO LESTER CLEMENTS who 

passed away on Saturday 9th February. We 

hold his family in our prayers. 

In addition to the tributes to him from his family and 

colleagues at the Thanksgiving Service held in his 

memory on Wednesday 27th February, our readers will 

remember Lester’s contributions to the parish 

magazine — most recently the start of a new series of articles on aspects 

of church life that interested him, a goodly supply of jokes (which we 

hope to continue!), and most notably the “Forgotten Voices” column that 

spanned the Centenary years of the First World War. 

As readers know, “Voices” was series of recollections — appearing in editions 

of the magazine on a monthly basis from 2014 to 2018 — written both by 

serving soldiers and by others caught up in the conflict. Their testimonies 

remain a moving tribute to a generation who lost their lives and loved ones, 

and a record of our ensuing histories, and at the magazine we’re grateful to 

Lester for continuing the compilation that had been begun by others at the 

start of the Centenary in July 2014. 

Opposite is the moving prayer that Lester 

included in his final piece for “Voices” at 

the 2018 Armistice — 

If readers have memories of Lester that 

they would like to share in the magazine, 

please get in contact 

— with thanks, Editor 

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.

BRISTOL CHURCHES WINTER NIGHT SHELTER: NEWS AND 

THANKS — II Paul Sylvester and Sarah Yates have been coordinating 

the Winter Night Shelter provision for SMR at Faithspace; Sarah writes this 

month with Night Shelter news, and says a big thank you from the organising 

team to everyone who participated in this year’s provision — 

Dear everyone 

PAUL SYLVESTER and I were asked to organise and 

run the Friday-Saturday part of the Bristol Churches 

Winter Night Shelter at Faithspace that took place every Friday 

evening to Saturday morning for the first six weeks of 

this year. There were six other venues running for the other 

nights of the week across Bristol in Phase One. The project 

has now moved into Phase Two and seven different churches 

have taken over as night shelter venues. 

We had a wonderful team of volunteers. There were 35 of us who 

volunteered in total, with ten people on duty during the evening 

session to make the beds, set the table, help with welcoming and 

chatting to the guests. We had two teams of chefs who alternated 

cooking the evening meals and even did a cooked breakfast on 

the final morning. The guests and volunteers all sat down to eat 

together so that we had a large table seating up to 25 people. There 

were four volunteers staying overnight (two awake; two asleep at 

any one time) and six people coming in to help with the breakfast, 

take out the mattresses which had to be moved to the next venue 

and generally tidy up. We had a team of four people each week 

doing the laundry. 

We were able to accommodate up to twelve male guests and 

most weeks had about ten people staying. Four of the guests 

have stayed with the project since the very first week, which 

was at the Salvation Army in Easton. They are hoping to save 

money during the three months of the project, so that they can 

secure accommodation at the end of the time. 

We have some good news about some of the other guests who 

started the project at the beginning of January: 

• two guests have left the project as they gained accommodation 

and work. 

• two guests gained employment and so left to stay at a different 

shelter. 

• one guest is moving on at the end of this week as he 

has work and somewhere to stay outside of Bristol. 

• three guests are working whilst staying at the shelter 

and are often up at 5am to go to work. 

• one guest has started a course in IT and business skills. 

OUR THANKS TO — 

Paul and I would like to thank everyone from St Mary 

Redcliffe who helped by volunteering at the Night Shelter. 

We’d also like to thank Eleanor Vousden for her beautiful 

Christmas Card design and Marcus and Jane Ashman for 

facilitating the printing of the design and coordinating the 

sale of the Cards. THIS ENDEAVOUR raised over £800 which 

paid for all the food, towels and cooking utensils that we 

needed to buy. 

We’d like to thank too everyone who purchased and donated 

clothing and toiletries for the men who stayed with us. They 

really appreciated all of the things you kindly gave them. 

S 

arah Yates 

Joint Co-ordinator for BCWNS at Faithspace 

POSTSCRIPT from BCWNS — With Phase 2 starting, 

please pray that our guests settle in well and adjust to a 

new pattern and new volunteers. Please pray for sensitivity 

on the part of our volunteers and wisdom in their interactions 

with guests, and for all churches hosting for the first time.

poetry 

corner 

ELECTORAL ROLL RENEWAL: 2019 is a year in which we 

have to replace our entire Electoral Roll. To be on the roll 

after 14 April, please complete a new application form 

before 7 April and place it in the box provided at the back 

of Church; forms are by the box. 

Geoffrey Robinson — 

Ring out the old, 

Ring in the new — 

Bring out your dead, 

Admire the new. 

HAPPY NEW YEAH 

What is forthcoming, 

No-one can know, 

Just keep on living, 

Wait for the blow. 

PARISH MAGAZINE — MAGAZINE SURVEY NEWS: 

A note to confirm that our Reader Survey is in the pipeline. A 

small number of us have met to discuss and review the magazine to 

assess what level of support and funding we are able to give it — as 

a voluntary initiative — and our findings have informed the ground 

for the questions we would like you to consider in the Survey forms 

we shall be providing. To recap, broadly speaking these will cover 

the purpose and content of the magazine as well as such things as 

its cost, production values, frequency of publication. We expect to 

be ready to distribute the forms next month in church and online, 

but in the meantime if you have any questions please get in touch 

with Eleanor or myself, and thanks again for your continuing interest. 

Revd Kat Campion-Spall 

CHRISTIANS IN SCIENCE (CiS) — LECTURE SERIES 2018–2019 

CARING FOR THE EARTH — 3 

Friday 15 March 2019; 7pm for 7.30pm 

Dr John Weaver — Sustainable energy including renewable 

resources, nuclear and fracking 

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. Please email Christina Biggs at cmbbiggs@gmail.com for 

further details. 

Seize the day, 

Beware of the dog, 

Caveat emptor, 

Go the whole hog. 

Live life to the full, 

Look death in the face, 

Rely on God’s mercy, 

His love and His grace.

Laetare! 

rere 

seasonal... 

...A barman notices 

that every evening, 

without fail, a 

customer comes in 

and orders three 

pints of beer. 

After several weeks 

of noticing the 

pattern the barman 

asks the man why 

he always orders 

three pints. The 

man says, “I have 

two brothers and 

both of them have 

moved to different 

countries. 

We promised each 

other we’d always 

order an extra 

two pints whenever 

we drank as a 

way of keeping up 

the family bond.” 

Several weeks 

later, noticing 

that the man only 

ordered two pints, 

the barman said, 

“Please accept my 

condolences on 

the death of one 

of your brothers. 

You know, the two 

beers and all…” 

The man replied, 

“You’ll be happy 

to hear that my 

brothers are alive 

and well… It’s just 

that I, myself, 

have decided to 

give up drinking 

for Lent.” 

diary dates March 1st-April 6th 

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 

lineup: i) & iii) rw et al, ii) ask me... 

Faithspace Coffee Morning // 10am–12 noon — Faithspace Community 

Centre (FCC) 

Christian Meditation // 6.15–7.00pm — Parish Office 

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 Women’s World Day of Prayer // 2.00pm — Bedminster Methodist Church, 

British Rd 

2 Wedding of Christopher Jones and Megan Gibson // Revd Anthony Everitt 

4 Pot Luck Lunches // 12:30pm — at Rosemary Cooper’s 

4 Postcard Club // 7.30pm — FCC 

:)... Q: who was the greatest comedian in the 

bible? A: Samson — he brought the house down... 

um... Q: where was Solomon’s temple located? 

A: On the side of his head... 

 

5 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Kat Campion-Spall 

MARCH 

6 Redcliffe Lunch Club // 12.00 noon — Chair yoga & shoulder massage with 

Helen — FCC 

6 Hymn Singalong // 11:00am — Rosemary Kingsford — SMR South Transept 

6 Redcliffe Film Club // 2.00pm — Amelie — FCC 

6 Ash Wednesday Service // 7.30pm — with incense 

7 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Peter Dill 

7 Organ Recital // 1:15pm — Pavlos Triantaris; Bristol 

7 Lent Group // 7:00pm — Vicarage — film showing: Terminal 

8 Lent Exhibition set-up 

9 Lent Appeal — Voices of Adoption // 6:30–9:00pm — Panel of Adoptive 

Parents, and Professionals 


12 Lent Group // 2:00pm — Vicarage — film showing: Terminal 

12 Compline // 7:30pm — Revd Anthony Everitt 

12 Feminist Theology Group // 8:00pm — at Revd Kat Campion-Spall’s 

13 Redcliffe Lunch Club // 12.00 noon — Yvonne’s Quiz; with prizes — FCC 

13 Mothers’ Union // 2.30pm — Communion and AGM 

13 Theology Book Club // 8:00pm — at Canon John Rogan’s 

14 Eucharist with prayer for healing // 12:30pm — Revd Kat Campion-Spall 

14 Organ Recital // 1:15pm — Graham Alsop; St Mary Redcliffe 

14 Lent Group // 7:30pm — Vicarage — discussion of Terminal 

15 Christians in Science // 7:30pm — Revd Dr John Weaver on “Sustainable 

energy” — Redland Church Hall, Redland Green 

16 Wedding Preparation Group Session // 10:00am — church Undercroft — 

Revd Kat Campion-Spall; Revd Dan Tyndall 

19 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall 

19 Lent Group // 2:00pm — Parish Office — discussion; Revd Peter Dill 

19 Compline // 7:30pm — Revd Kat Campion-Spall 

20 Redcliffe Lunch Club // 12.00 noon — talk by Margo Cevik — FCC 

20 Redcliffe Film Club // 2.00pm — Strictly Ballroom — FCC 


21 Organ Recital // 1:15pm — Richard Walker; St Chad’s Shrewsbury 


22 Deadline for articles for March magazine // please send to Eleanor Vousden 

at editor.mag@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk

25 PCC meeting // 7.30pm — Mercure Hotel 

26 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall 


27 Redcliffe Lunch Club // 12.00 noon — FCC 

28 Eucharist with prayer for healing // 12:30pm — Revd Peter Dill 

28 Organ Recital // 1:15pm — Andrew Kirk; St Mary Redcliffe 


1 Pot Luck Lunches // 12:30pm — at the Pickards’ 

1 Postcard Club // FCC 

2 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Kat Campion-Spall 


2 Compline // 7:30pm — Revd Kat Campion-Spall 

3 Hymn Singalong // 11.00am — Rosemary Kingsford — FCC 

3 Redcliffe Lunch Club // 12.00 noon — FCC 

3 Redcliffe Film Club // 2.00pm — Musical (tbc) — FCC 


4 Organ Recital // 1:15pm — Samuel Bristow; Birmingham 


6 Stainer’s Crucifixion // 4:00pm — performed by Bath Abbey & SMR Choirs 

Parish register & Sunday records February 2019 

BAPTISMS 

Ronnie Shaun Collins 

Toby Robin Hoyle King 

FUNERALS 

Lester Philip Clements 

died 9th February 2019 aged 88 

 

SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE COLLECTIONS 

Period: 18 November – 23 December 2018 

 

10th February 2019 



18 Nov 25 Nov 2 Dec 9 Dec 16 Dec 23 Dec - 

£511.64 £421.23 £306.54 £236.60 £456.14 £297.87 - 

 

APRIL 

SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE ATTENDANCE 

Date 2019 27 Jan 3 Feb 10 Feb 17 Feb † - 

Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child 

8.00am 8 - 8 - 7 - 6 - - - 

9.30am 114 40 87 37 97 40 101 21 - - 

11.15am 12 - 13 - 20 2 24 - - - 

6.30pm 18 1 28 - 36 - 49 3 - - 

— NB: Attendance figures refer to congregation 

not to clergy, servers, choir or vergers. Collection figures refer only to planned giving and 

loose collectionCollection figures refer only to planned giving and loose collection 

 

editor’s note 

email: editor.mag@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk 

THINKING ALOUD... Lent, and hope going forward 

Thank you to all this month for some informative pieces and doubleacts: 

to Andrew Kirk and Adam Lloyd for an insight into SMR Choristers’ 

work; to Becky Macron and David Cousins for the ‘footprint’ of their work 

of supporting families, children and young people in the parish; to Rhys 

Williams for continuing to provide us with Project 450 updates (“essential” 

information as one of our readers has said), and to Anthony Acton for his 

excellent and exceptionally interesting piece on Scriptural Reading (very 

good to see this in the magazine say the clergy). And regarding the magazine, 

work on the Reader Survey is ongoing and we expect to be ready 

with our Questionnaires next month. 

I offer an apology for errors in production last month, notably in insetting 

Geoffrey Robinson’s poem, which I have published again this month 

error-free. A note to say that mistakes occur after not before the proofread 

as with such a quick turnaround there are often 

last minute changes to be made, so my apologies also 

go to the magazine’s superb proof-readers. 

Our farewells again to Lester Clements, whose 

Thanksgiving Service we attended last month. 

— best wishes, Eleanor 

Tel: 0117-9634856 (direct) or 0117-2310060 (Parish Office) 

The deadline for the April issue is Friday 23rd March 

Corbel; SMR

prayers for March 

groups within the church 

For Lent 

Almighty God, 

give us reverence for all creation 

and respect for every person, 

that we may mirror your likeness 

in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 

For those who have died 

Almighty and merciful God, 

from whose love in Christ we cannot be parted, 

either by death or life: 

hear our prayers and thanksgivings 

for all whom we remember this day; 

fulfil in them the purpose of your love; 

and bring us all, with them, to your eternal joy; 

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 

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 

PCC Secretary 

PCC Treasurer 

PCC Safeguarding 

PCC Recorder 

Sunday School 

Faithspace Centre 

Lunch Club 

Dean Barry 

Graham Marsh 

Keith Donoghue 

David Harrowes 

Stephen Brooke 

c /o Parish Office 

Becky Macron 

Sarah James 

c/o Parish Office 

0117-9099862 

01275-832770 

0117-9422539 

0117-9779823 

0117-3311260 

0117-2310060 

07387 909343 

0117-9258331 

0117-2310060 

For refugees 

Almighty and merciful God, 

whose Son became a refugee and had no place to call his own; 

look with mercy on those who today are fleeing from danger, 

homeless and hungry. 

Bless those who work to bring them relief; 

inspire generosity and compassion in all our hearts; 

Meditation 

Mothers Union 

Church Flowers 

Coffee Rota 

Bell Ringers 

Canynges Society 

Lewis Semple 

Hilda Watts 

Mildred Ford 

Christine Bush 

Gareth Lawson 

Pat Terry 

0117-9255763 

01275-543588 

0117-9359064 

0117-9773023 

07798 621834 

0117-2310060 

and guide the nations of the world towards that day when all will rejoice 

in your Kingdom of justice and of peace; 

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 

Journey into Science 

Magazine Editor 

Eric Albone 

Eleanor Vousden 

0117-9247664 

0117-9634856 

Prayer request 

Please pray for the success of our work and for the young people and families of 

Redcliffe and keep them in your thoughts over the coming month — David Cousins, 

SMR Youth Development Worker 

The Prayers are from the Church of England, at: https://www.churchofengland.org/prayerand-worship/topical-prayers 

Candelabra sketch: Kendra Lindegaard; at age 9 

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

St Mary Redcliffe Parish Magazine March 2019

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