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32 The Parish Magazine - September 2022 Please mention The Parish Magazine when responding to advertisements For a helpful professional service FIELDSPHARMACY Wide range of health advice provided including private consultation area www.etsheppard.co.uk 01491 574 644 36 Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames RG9 1AG 1a LONGFIELD ROAD, TWYFORD RG10 9AN Telephone: 0118 934 1222 Fax: 0118 932 0372 Email: fields.pharmacy@gmail.com www.afjones.co.uk 0118 9573 537 33 Bedford Road, Reading, RG1 7EX Established in 1858 A.F. Jones Stonemasons Limited CHRIS the plumber I offer the same friendly, reliable service as always but in addition to general plumbing I now offer domestic and commercial gas work — boiler repairs, installations, fault finding, power flush. Repairs not covered by Homeserve? Speak to a tradesman, not a salesman! Emergency call out available Ask Chris Duvall for a FREE quote christheplumber75@gmail.com 0785 095 6354 3584769 57732 AF Jones Parish Magazine Advert.indd 1 19/11/2014 10:43
THE ARTS Beauty in the ordinary Rev Michael Burgess looks at ‘Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams’ by Vilhelm Hammershøi. It is found in Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen. The Parish Magazine - September 2022 33 History Was it really . . . ? . . . 1,900 YEARS AGO, from 13 September 122 - 128 that Hadrian’s Wall was built in northern England. It ran for 80 miles from coast to coast and marked the northern limit of the Roman Empire. The Roman Emperor, Hadrian, wanted to separate the Romans from ‘the barbarians'. Poetry Corner — Creation Comfort by Steven Rolling Tune: Ruth (‘Summer suns are glowing’) Saviour, ever-living Kind and forgiving Merciful and gracious He comes unto us Offer of salvation Unto each nation Through sun, rain, wind, whate’er Conditions be there Pernille Klemp Vilhelm Hammershøi was inspired by the simple and ordinary. A recluse, he lived in Copenhagen with his wife, painting a few pictures a year. He died in 1916 aged 52 years. Most of his paintings are limited to the world of his apartment at different times of the day and night. Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams (above), was painted in 1900. It is an empty room, a wall, a window, a floor and a door without a handle. All is stillness and peace. All is in shadow until the winter sun streams in, lighting up the dust and the floor. The miracle of sunlight brings life into stillness. An ordinary aspect of creation. In all his paintings, Hammershøi seems to be saying: accept the simplicity of the present, find beauty there and live in that beauty. For him the grass is never greener in the next field, it is in the here and now that we find beauty and meaning. When young, our backcloth embraces the wider world full of promise. As we grow older, it shrinks to our town, church, and home. In illness our world may be a bedroom or hospital ward. In that smaller world life can seem trivial and ordinary. But wherever we are, Hammershøi invites us to pause, to ponder and to find there beauty and light which will bring us ‘daily nearer God.’ He shall stay unchanging Good things to us bring Ups and downs of life’s rhymes Through varying time No shadow turning Praises we Him bring Gospel message to share With folks everywhere . . . 200 YEARS AGO, on 11 September 1822 that the Catholic Church admitted that the 16th century astronomer Galileo Galilei might have been right about the Earth orbiting the Sun. The College of Cardinals reversed the Church’s condemnation of his ideas. Galileo had spent the last 9 years of his life under house arrest for publishing his work on the subject. He died in 1642. . . . 100 YEARS AGO, on 13 September 1922 that the highest temperature ever recorded in the world was reported to be 57.7 0C in Al’Aziziyah in Libya. (Unofficial record) . . . 90 YEARS AGO, on 23 September 1932 that Saudi Arabia was founded when the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Najd were unified. . . . 70 YEARS AGO, 6 September 1952 that the Farnborough Air Show crash took place. A de Havilland fighter jet broke up and fell into the crowd, killing 31 people. Stringent safety measures were introduced to ensure it could not happen again. . . . 65 YEARS AGO, on 2 September 1957 that the Everly Brothers best-known song Wake up Little Susie was released. . . . 50 YEARS AGO, on 5 September 1972 that Palestinian terrorists invaded the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany during the 1972 Olympic Games and took 11 members of the Israeli team hostage. All the hostages, and five of the eight terrorists, and a German police officer, were killed when a rescue attempt failed. 25 years ago, on 5 September 1997 that Mother Teresa, Macedonia born/Albanian India nun and humanitarian died. She founded the Missionaries of Charity and was winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. 25 years ago, on 9 September 1997 that Sinn Fein renounced violence and committed itself to resolving the troubles of Northern Ireland through peaceful means. This led to the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998. All His creation too Praises Him anew Hills, mounts, valleys, and fields Each their produce yields And in His image see Man created be In His plan and purpose Reaching e’en to us Hanalei Valley and the Fields of Taro, Hawaii John Sohm, dreamstime.com
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