The Parish Magazine February 2024
Serving the communities of Charvil, Sonning and Sonning Eye since 1869
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Serving the communities of Charvil, Sonning & Sonning Eye since 1869<br />
Church of St Andrew<br />
Serving Sonning, Charvil & Sonning Eye<br />
<strong>Magazine</strong><br />
<strong>Parish</strong> Te<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> 1869 - <strong>February</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 1<br />
<strong>2024</strong><br />
Serving Charvil, Sonning and Sonning Eye<br />
<strong>The</strong> John King Trophy and Gold Award<br />
Best <strong>Magazine</strong> of the Year 2018<br />
National <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Awards<br />
Best Overall 2015, 2020, 2022, 2023<br />
Best Content 2016, 2021<br />
Best Editor 2019<br />
Best Print 2018<br />
information — 1<br />
Contents <strong>February</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
THE VICAR'S LETTER, 5<br />
THE PARISH NOTICEBOARD<br />
— I am a Christian, 7<br />
— <strong>February</strong> Prayers, 7<br />
— Transfiguration Sunday, 7<br />
— STAY, 8-9<br />
— Why am I a Christian, 11<br />
— Claude's view from the pew, 13<br />
— From the editor's desk, 13<br />
— Algerian persecutions, 15<br />
— India persecutions, 15<br />
— Saint Joseph, 17<br />
— From the Organ Bench, 19<br />
— War in Gaza, 19<br />
FEATURES<br />
— Candlemas and Christingle, 20-21<br />
— Bears, hedgehogs and birds, 23<br />
—around the villages<br />
— Santa in Berkshire, 24<br />
— Monday Club, 24<br />
— Sonning Gardens, 24<br />
— Rotary bumper year, 24<br />
— Sonning School Nativities, 25<br />
— Scarecrows <strong>2024</strong>, 25<br />
— TRHA gardens, 25<br />
— Sonning floods, 27<br />
THE ARTS<br />
— Nunc Dimittis, 29<br />
— Poetry Corner, 30<br />
FASHION<br />
— St Valentine's Day, 31<br />
THE SCIENCES<br />
— Creation, 32<br />
This ISSUE's FRONT COVER<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Parish</strong><br />
<strong>Magazine</strong><br />
<strong>February</strong> <strong>2024</strong> — Candlemas with Christingle<br />
155<br />
Christingle<br />
Image: PowerofFlowers,<br />
dreamstime.com<br />
EDITORIAL DEADLINE<br />
<strong>The</strong> editorial deadline for every issue<br />
of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is 12 noon on<br />
the sixth day of the month prior to the<br />
date of publication.<br />
<strong>The</strong> deadline for the March<br />
issue of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is:<br />
Tuesday 6 <strong>February</strong><br />
at 12 noon<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> online<br />
<strong>The</strong> most recent issues can be viewed at:<br />
http://www.theparishmagazine.co.uk<br />
Earlier issues from 1869 onwards<br />
are stored in a secure online archive.<br />
If you wish to view these archives<br />
contact the editor:<br />
editor@theparishmagazine.co.uk<br />
YEARS<br />
the church of st andrew, SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF<br />
CHARVIL, SONNING and sonning eye SINCE THE 7 th CENTURY<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> - <strong>February</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 3<br />
Services at<br />
St Andrew’s<br />
Sunday 4 <strong>February</strong><br />
— 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
— 10.30am Family Candlemas<br />
Service with Christingles<br />
— 4.00pm Choral Evensong<br />
followed by tea in the Ark<br />
Sunday 11 <strong>February</strong><br />
— 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
— 10.30am <strong>Parish</strong> Eucharist with<br />
STAY and Sunday Club<br />
Ash Wednesday 14 <strong>February</strong><br />
— 4.00pm Holy Communion with<br />
the optional imposition of ashes<br />
Sunday 18 <strong>February</strong><br />
— 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
— 10.30am Family Communion<br />
— 3.00pm Messy Church<br />
—Sunday 25 <strong>February</strong><br />
— 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
— 10.30pm <strong>Parish</strong> Eucharist with<br />
STAY and Sunday Club<br />
— 5.45pm Sunday at Six in <strong>The</strong> Ark<br />
OTHER REGULAR SERVICES<br />
Morning Prayer is held in church<br />
every Tuesday at 9.30am.<br />
Mid-week Communion in <strong>The</strong> Ark is<br />
held every Wednesday at 10.00am. Tea<br />
and coffee follows the service.<br />
Home Communion at Sonning<br />
Gardens Care Home is held on<br />
the first Monday of each month at<br />
11.00am.<br />
history, 32<br />
BOOK REVIEWS FOR LENT, 33<br />
PUZZLE PAGES, 34-35<br />
children's page, 37<br />
information<br />
— Church services, 3<br />
— From the registers, 3<br />
— Local Trades and Services, 36<br />
— <strong>Parish</strong> contacts, 38<br />
— Advertisers' index, 38<br />
From the Registers<br />
baptismS<br />
— Sunday 10 December: Bonnie-Mae Elsie Dovaston, Amy Nicole Salter,<br />
Leighton Connor Lee Saunders<br />
FUNERALS<br />
— Tuesday 19 December: Julie Digby, funeral service in St Andrew's Church
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