The Parish Magazine March 2023

Serving the communities of Charvil, Sonning & Sonning Eye since 1869
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The John King Trophy and Gold Award
Best Magazine of the Year 2018
National Parish Magazine Awards
Best Overall 2015, 2020, 2022,
Best Content 2016, 2021
Best Editor 2019
Best Print 2018
information — 1
Contents March 2023
THE ASSOCIATE VICAR'S LETTER, 5
THE PARISH NOTICEBOARD
— Holy Week and Easter Services, 7
— Christingle, 7
— STAY, 8-9
— Claude's view from the pew, 9
— Inventor of religion, 11
— From the editor's desk, 11
— 30 million starving children, 13
— The Persecuted Church, 13
— For your prayers in March, 13
FEATURES
— Manatees awareness, 15
— Brazilian railways, 17-19
— Walking the Ridgeway, 19
— Plan your Easter worship, 20-21
—around the villages
— Sonning School report, 23
— Performing Arts Project, 23
— Art Group Award, 25
— Cotswold Garden visit, 25
— My Fair Lady singers, 25
— VC churchyard talk, 25
This ISSUE's FRONT COVER
The
Parish
Magazine
March 2023 — Mothering Sunday
the church of st andrew, SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF
CHARVIL, SONNING and sonning eye SINCE THE 7 th CENTURY
Four STAY lads piggybacking
Picture: Westy
EDITORIAL DEADLINE
The editorial deadline for every issue
of The Parish Magazine is 12 noon on
the sixth day of the month prior to the
date of publication.
The deadline for the April
issue of The Parish Magazine is:
Monday 6 March at 12 noon
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Services at
St Andrew’s
Sunday 5 March
— 8.00am Holy Communion
— 10.30am Family Service
— 4pm Choral Evensong
followed by tea in The Ark
Sunday 12 March
— 8.00am Holy Communion
— 10.30am Parish Eucharist with
STAY and Sunday Club
Mothering Sunday 19 March
— 8.00am Holy Communion
— 10.30am Family Communion
— 3.00pm Messy Church
Sunday 26 March
— 8.00am Holy Communion
— 10.30am Parish Eucharist with
STAY and Sunday Club
HOME & GARDEn
— Old tools for charity, 27
— In the garden, 27
THE ARTS
— Primavera, 29
— Poetry Corner, 29
— Book reviews, 31
history, 31
health
— Dr Simon Ruffle, 33-34
PUZZLE PAGES, 34 - 35
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wish to view these archives contact the
editor who will authorise access for you:
editor@theparishmagazine.co.uk
OTHER REGULAR SERVICES
Morning Prayer is held in church
every Tuesday at 9.30am. During
Lent, Morning Prayer will also be
said on each Friday morning at
9.30am. Everyone is welcome to
join us in church.
Mid-week Communion in The Ark is
held every Wednesday at 10.00am. Tea
and coffee follows the service.
Home Communion at Signature at
Sonning is held on the first Monday of
each month at 11.00am.
children's page, 37
information
— Church services, 3
— From the registers, 3
— Local Trades and Services, 36
— Parish contacts, 38
— Advertisers' index, 38
From the Registers
baptisms
— Sunday 8 January, Darcy William River Rimmington
—Sunday 8 January, Cooper Harvey
funerals
— Friday 20 January, Jean Helen Flitcroft, interment of ashes in churchyard