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the parish noticeboard —4 RENDEZVOUS IN THE ARK Tuesday 9 April Tuesday 23 April at 12 noon Open to everyone of all ages for lunch and conversation Reserve your seat on: 0118 969 3298 From the editor's desk editor@theparishmagazine.co.uk Coincidence? The Parish Magazine - April 2024 13 During the past 11¼ years that I have been editing this magazine I am constantly surprised at the coincidences that occur when choosing which stories and articles should be included in a particular issue. The definition of 'coincidence' is 'a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection', and yet I am always surprised that, despite how much effort I put into planning the content, unexpected coincidences always occur. In this issue, for example, Claude Masters, who contributes regularly with anecdotes about his life in church and the parish, suggested that he wrote about his life-long interest in bricks. It is an interest that grew from being taught the art of bricklaying as a youth at the end of World War II when there was a huge demand for 'brickies'. You can read his article on page 15. Claude's contribution was one of the first I laid out for this issue about two weeks before the final editorial deadline. Then by chance, one of the last contributions I received was a brief item from the vicar about some major work that is being planned in our churchyard which — you may have already guessed — requires a large financial investment of around £30,000 in order to restore the long brick wall that runs from the lych gate near the junction of Sonning Lane and Pearson Road towards the church. (see page 7) Lych gates, by the way, were originally gateways into a churchyard, or cemetery, with a roof designed to protect a coffin when it was waiting outside a church before being carried in for the funeral. They are rarely used for that purpose today and can only usually be found outside older Church of England parish churches such as St Andrew's. BY CHANCE So, was it a coincidence, a chance happening, that bricks are being featured in this issue? The more often this type of 'coincidence' happens, the more I feel that it is not something that happens by chance. It may surprise you that 'coincidence' is not a Biblical occurrence. The word itself is only found once in the Bible and then only in a few translations. In most translations of the Bible the phrase 'by chance' is used instead. The word can be found in the parable Jesus told about the Good Samaritan when he said, 'And by a coincidence [or by chance] a certain priest was going down that way' (Luke 10:31). The more times unexplained coincidences happen, the more convinced I am that God is at work in our world, not just in the big decisions and events that we carefully plan and organise but also in every small, routine thing such as deciding on the content of this magazine.
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