PARISH MAGAZIE
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ST HELEN’S CHURCH HALL
REGULAR USER GROUPS
UPDATED JUNE 2014
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Mother & Toddler Group
9-11.30am
L
Weight Watchers
1 - 3pm
L
Gateshead P.C.T
3-5pm
L
Guides, Brownies & Rainbows
6.15-8.45pm
L&U
Yoga
9.50-10.50am
L
Pilates Class Age Concern
11am-12noon
L
Music Bugs
10.15am-12pm
U
Inner Wheel (No.3) 2nd Tuesday monthly
2pm-4.30pm
U
Wildlife Group 2nd Tuesday monthly
7pm-9.30pm
U
Scottish Dancing (Sept-May) Weekly
7.30-9.30pm
L
Church Coffee Morning
10.00-11.00am
L
U3A Coffee Morning
10am-12.30am
U
Low Fell Bridge Club
1.pm-4.30pm
L
Older Peoples Assembly
1.00pm-4.30pm
U
Ladies Fellowship 2nd, 4th Wednesday
7.30pm-10pm
L
Friends of Saltwell Park 1st Wed. monthly
7.00pm-9.30pm
U
China Painting
9am-12noon
U
Lingo Tots Weekly term time
1.00pm-2.30pm
U
Gateshead Camera Club (Sept-April)
7.15-9.30pm
L
Gateshead P.C.T
10am-12noon
L
U3A Feel Good Group
9.30am-12pm
U
Aerobics
6pm-7.30pm
U
Karate
1.00pm - 5.00pm L
Magazine editor Keith Downie [email protected]
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Lord, Thou knowest better than I know
myself, that I am getting older and will
someday be old. Keep me from the
fatal habit of thinking I must say
something on every subject and on
every occasion. Release me from
In lieu of a lead article this
craving to straighten out everybody’s
month I thought I would
affairs. Make me thoughtful but not
share with you a
seventeenth century prayer moody; helpful but not bossy.
With my vast store of wisdom, it seems
which a very good friend
gave me a few weeks ago. a pity not to use it all, but Thou knowest
I think it is very pertinent to Lord that I want a few friends at the
those of us who are getting end. Keep my mind free from the recital
a little older and perhaps
of endless details; give me wings to get
more irascible.
to the point. Seal my lips on my aches
and pains. They are increasing and, love
of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter
as the years go by. I dare not ask for
grace enough to enjoy the tales of
others’ pains, but help me to endure
them with patience!
A U’S
PRAYER
I dare not ask for an improved memory,
but a growing humility and lessening
cocksureness when my memory seems
to clash with the memories of others.
Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken. Keep me
reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a
saint – some of them are so hard to live with – but a sour old
person is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the
ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in
unexpected people. And give me, O Lord, the grace to tell them
so. Amen
I think I could do worse than repeat this every day myself
How about you?
DB
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Could you change a child’s future?
Do you enjoy spending time with young people? Perhaps you
have brought up your own children who have now left home?
There are teenagers in Gateshead who need your help. Gateshead Council is urgently looking for people like you to foster
teenagers, to offer them a home, stability and security.
Teenage years can be difficult for anyone, but for a young person who has gone through a distressing upbringing, it can be
especially unsettling. This is a critical stage in their lives which
will seriously affect their future and you can make a difference.
Gateshead Council’s fostercarers come from all walks of life,
just like the children who need to be looked after. There’s no
such thing as atypical carer. We're looking for people who are
patient, flexible, understanding, determined and keen to learn.
Deciding to foster a child is a big decision. It will not only
change the life of the child you foster, but your life and that of
your family – but in a good way. Gateshead Council offers a
team of specialist staff and comprehensive training package to
support you all of the way in addition to a generous payment
package.
If you think you have what it takes and
want to know more, please visit
www.gateshead.gov.uk/fostering or call
0191 433 8333.
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ITERCESSIOS FOR THE SICK
(see also pink slip at back of church)
If you know someone who is sick
or who has other anxieties for
whom you would like prayers said
at Morning or Evening Prayer and
at the Eucharist please print their
name in block capitals and hand
this paper to Fr Derek.
AME ........................................................................................
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WILLIE HOLMES
Home Improvement Specialist
11 ST HELENS CRESCENT
LOW FELL, GATESHEAD
0191 4879516 // 0783 44 66 736
Established 1989
EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: WWW.WlLLIEHOLMES.CO.UK
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Thanks to Keith Downie and
Hazel Usher for donations towards
the cost of the new boiler.
Double Century Club
Maureen Bainbridge
Ethel Neil
Karen Ball
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£70
168
£20
14
£10
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JOHN ARKLE
Joiner
Established 1992
44 Otterburn Gardens
Low Fell
0191 487 5305
Conservatories
Doors
Facias and Guttering
Kitchens
Laminate floors
Porches
Skirting boards
Velux windows
Window repair and window replacement
URBAN BAKERY
10b Beaconsfield Road
Low Fell
Tel: 0191 4871771
The Urban Bakery is a new rustic artisan bakery based
in the parish serving a wide variety of hand crafted
breads, pies, quiche, pastries, cakes, croissants and
gluten-free all cooked on the premises.
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Graces for ovember
God bless our meat,
God guide our ways,
God ge us grace
Our Lord to please. Amen
O Lord of heaven and earth and sea,
To thee all praise and glory be;
How shall we show our love to thee,
who givest all?
For peaceful homes and healthful days,
We owe thee thankfulness and praise,
Who givest all.
Bless to me, O God,
each odour that goes to my nostrils.
Bless to me, O God,
each taste that goes to my lips. Amen
The eyes of all await upon thee, O Lord,
and thou givest them their food in due season.
Thou openest thy hand.
and fillest every living thing with thy blessing.
Sanctify us, we beseech thee, O Lord,
By thy word and our petition;
and bless the gifts which of thy bounty weare about to
receive; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
DB
Thank you to Elsie Johnson for her article last month
on St Anne’s Church Buxton.
Her name disappeared from the printed article.
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VALLEY LAUNDRY
1 Douglas Court
11th Avenue
Team Valley
NE11 0JY
Service Wash Laundry
Ironing
Domestic & Commercial
Competitive Rates
Pick up & Delivery Available
T: 0191 4826566
M: 07980481082
www.valleylaundry.co.uk
Thank you to Hazel & Ian Usher for
hymn book dedications in memory of
George Haswell April 2014
Joan Robinson June 2014
Lesley Wright July 2014
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Emergency food for Gateshead people in crisis
Stir up your brain cells, come to our
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
QUIZ
TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2014
7.30pm (Quiz starts at 8pm prompt)
at
GREENCROFT SOCIAL CLUB
WINDY NOOK ROAD
GATESHEAD NE9 6QQ
The club and car park is next door down to
Entrance C, QE Hospital.
Entry £5 per person
Teams of 4-6 people
Tickets: Telephone 0191 4871544
Prizes for the winners, spot prizes and raffle.
With the kind permission of Greencroft Social Club,
St Alban’s Church is organising a Quiz Night to raise
funds for Gateshead Foodbank to help local people in
crisis.
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Saint of the Month
Leo the Great, Bishop
of Rome, Teacher of
the faith
Born in Rome and died there in 461
Feast Day 10 November
Leo was elected Pope in 440 at a time of great crisis in both
church and Roman empire. In 451 the fourth general council
of the church met at Chalcedon where under Leo’s
influence and writings the orthodox doctrine on the nature of
Christ’s two natures (human and divine) was first agreed.
In the following year Leo personally met with Attilla the
Hun and persuaded him to withdraw beyond the Danube.
He was not able to stop the Vandals occupying Rome in 455
but was able to prevent a massacre. Such actions are typical
and representative of his determination to meet the demands
of his day firmly and authoratively. He saw the need to
strengthen the influence of the Roman church. He extended
his influence into Spain, Gaul, Illyricum and North Africa.
He was typical of the best in Roman character – energetic,
magnanimous, consistent and unswerving in his sense of
duty all firmly anchored in his religious faith. Few of his
written works survive but he was an important influence in
the early history of the papacy and of the church.
DB
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FOODBANK
Many thanks to everyone at St Helen’s for the
very generous donations from your Harvest
Festival. Also, thank you for your continued
support in helping those less fortunate
than ourselves.
Gateshead Foodbank.
Question: "What does IHS mean?"
Answer: George Eliot’s novel Silas Marner
contains a scene in which a townswoman named
Dolly Winthrop brings Silas some lard cakes with
the letters IHS baked into the top of each one. The
irony is that neither Dolly nor Silas knows what the letters mean. Dolly
simply puts IHS on her baked goods because she sees the letters in her
church every Sunday and assumes there is some benefit to them. Her
explanation is rather droll: “They’re good letters, else they wouldn’t be in
the church; and so, I prick ’em on all the loaves and all the cakes, though
sometimes they won’t hold, because o’ the rising . . . and I hope they’ll
bring good to you, Master Marner, for it’s wi’ that will I brought you the
cakes; and you see the letters have held better nor common” (chapter 10).
Unlike Mrs. Winthrop, we need not remain ignorant of what IHS means.
IHS is an example of a Christogram, an abbreviation of the name of Christ.
It is a Latinized version of the Greek letters ΙΗΣ (iota-eta-sigma), the first
three letters of the name “Jesus” in Greek. So, the IHS symbol means
“Jesus.” Other Christograms include ICXC (the first and last letters of the
name “Jesus Christ” in Greek) and a superimposed X and P (the first two
letters of “Christ” in Greek).
CHURCH DESK CALENDAR £4.00
8” x 4”
12 Coloured photographs of the church
Order form Keith Downie
477 5936 or [email protected]
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OVEMBER The name comes from the Roman word 'novem' meaning
nine, because it was the ninth month in their Roman calendar.
Few people find November pleasant. The Anglo-Saxons called November
'Wind monath', because it was the time when the cold winds began to blow.
They also called it 'Blod monath', because it was the time when cattle were
slaughtered for winter food. The poet T.S. Elliot called it 'Sombre November'. Sir Walter Scott, in his long poem Marmion, wrote in 1808:
ovember's sky is chill and drear,
ovember's leaf is red and sear (withered)'
The first week of November has always been a time of festivals and
celebrations marking the end of the harvest and beginning of Winter.
In the year 835 AD the Roman Catholic Church made 1st November a church
holiday to honour all the saints. This feast day is called All Saints' Day.
All Hallows
All Saints' Day used to be known as All Hallows (Hallow being an old word
meaning Saint or Holy Person). The feast day actually started the previous
evening, the Eve of All Hallows.
Christians remember all the saints
On Saints' Day, Christians remember all 'men of good will' (saints), great
ones and forgotten ones, who have died through the ages.
Saints are men and women from all ages and all walks of life, who were outstanding Christians. Some - the martyrs - died for their faith. All of them are
honoured by the church.
Before the Reformation, it was customary for poor Christians to offer prayers
for the dead, in return for money or food , soul cakes, from their wealthier
neighbours.
Souling:- During the 19th and 20th centuries children would go 'souling' rather like carol singing - requesting alms or soul cakes:
A soul, a soul, a soul cake.
Please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry,
Any good thing to make us merry.
Up with your kettles and down with your pans
Give us an answer and we'll be gone
Little Jack, Jack sat on his gate
Crying for butter to butter his cake
One for St. Peter, two for St. Paul,
Three for the man who made us all.
The 'Soulers' would go around the houses singing this
song and often joined by their old friend, the hobby horse - only at this time
of the year, he is called the Hooden Horse.
A Soul Cake is like a hot cross bun but without the currants or the cross on
top.
CHRIST CHURCH YOUTH AND COMMUNITY PROJECT
Dear St Helen’s,
Thanks you so much for your kind donation to the
Sanctuary Project.
I am very grateful to all who have contributed. The lovely
fruit and veg went down treat.
Kind regards
C Percy
The House on the Hill
16
Paper HeART
Wedding stationary and cards for all
occasions.
Denise Hagen
Tel: 0191 4381725
Mobile: 07833258625
[email protected]
Aids for daily living,
mobility aids and
access.
We supply of a range of popular mobility and
disability aids to provide customers with an
outstanding product range combined with
exceptional value for money - accompanied by
reliable, efficient and friendly service.
12b New York Way, New York Industrial
Estate, Shiremoor, Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE270QF
Tel: 0191 258 8391
www.liveasy-mobility.co.uk
Christmas Traidcraft
As in the last few years I will be selling Advent Calendars and
Christmas Cards as well as the usual biscuits and chocolates
after church. All goods benefit people through the Fair Trade
organisation and any profit or donation is given to Christian Aid.
The Advent Calendars cost £4.00 each and I have bought a limited number so please get your orders in quickly. The chocolate
is of very high quality and the pictures tell the Christmas story.
Either see me after church or ring or text 07505105184.
All the Christmas cards have religious pictures on them but are
still very
well designed. I also have special edition cards with a Dove of
Peace of them and a special message commemorating the start
of the first world war. Again these are first come first served.
Please use this opportunity to help people in other parts of the
world
receive a fair wage for their labour and price for their goods.
This is not
hand outs but helping people help themselves.
HARVEST WATER AID.
It was great that so many of you took up the Bishop’s challenge
to raise money for Water Aid as part of our harvest donations.
Those of us who take clean drinking water and sanitation for
granted can't imagine the difference having clean water to drink
and wash with must make. There are still some jars to come in
but we will let you know how much was raised in the next
magazine.
Cheers Helen.
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parish registers
HOLY BAPTISM
October 26th
Matthew James Roberson
George Oliver Mccarroll
Lily Mae Elders
Noah John Harris
COLLECTIONS
September
Communicants
Collection
Attendance
7th
111
530.90
380
13th
75
519.20
75
21st
100
532.00
104
28th
94
526.10
100
Including regular weekly standing orders of £168
PARISH OFFICE
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
Harry Wright
John Ball
Lesley Grey
Tony Gunning
Alan James
LAY ASSISTANTS
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
Alf Marshall
Norman Hagen
Chris Garrett
Gordon Hunt
Alf Marshall
SIDESPERSONS
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
Foster
Soper
A Gunning
Ball
Jopling
S Watson
Kurian
Forster
Waistell
M Hutchinson
L Hutchinson
Jones
Gibson
A Gunning
T Gunning
D Watson
Anderton
Johnson
Campbell
T Gunning
READERS
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
7th
B Ward
L Ball
R Soper
B Avery
G Hunt
F Malcolm
Romans 5.5-11
1 Thesalonians 4.13-18
1 Thesalonians 5. 1-11
Ephesians 1. 15-23
1 Corinthians 1. 3-9
2 Peter 3. 8-15a
page 1199
page 353
page 358
page 362
page 378
page 382
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SUNDAY COFFEE
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
Laura Hutchinson : Susan Watson
Evelyn Forster / Valsa Kurian
Nora Oliver : Hazel Ancrum
Joan Huddleston : Susan Wright
Catherine Laazenby : Joan Jones
WEDNESDAY COFFEE
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
Mary Franklin : Joan Eke
Jane Marshall
Jane Marshall : Marion Cutmore
Mary Franklin : Joan Eke
Jane Marshall
FLOWER ROTA
7th
14th
21st
28th
Christine : Muriel
Joan : Dorothy
Christine : Muriel
Joan : Dorothy
BRASS CLEANING
17th
Pauline Rimer
OFFERTORY PROCESSION
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
7th
Barbara Ward
Bob Avery
Brian Snaith
Catherine Garrett
Catherine Lazenby
Chris Garrett
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that
would suffice. - Meister Eckhart
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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with
what you have. - Doris Mortman
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Peace: It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise,
trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and
still be calm in your heart. - Author unknown
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Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless. - Mother Teresa
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to
success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
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As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to
fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As
long as our words keep their sense we have a soul. - Edmond Jabès.
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PARISH DIARY
ovember 2014
2nd
ALL SOUL’S DAY
5th
9th
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
6.00 pm Evensong
6.45 pm Bible Study Group
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Eucharist
10.00 am Residential Homes
Communion
7.00 pm Baptism rehearsal
REMEBRACE
SUDAY
(Parade Service)
12th
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
11.15 am Baptisms
6.00 pm Half hour Meditation
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Eucharist
7.30 pm Ladies Fellowship
Speaker: Mr Clark
Geordie Monologues
15th
Machutus, Bishop
10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Brush with Art
16th
SECOD SUDAY
BEFORE ADVET
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
11.00 am – 5.00 pm
Brush with Art
6.00 pm Compline
18th
7.15 pm PCC
19th
Hilda, Abbess
9.00am Mattins
9.30 am Eucharist
23rd
CHRIST THE KIG
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
6.00 pm Stations of the Cross
26th
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Eucharist
10 am Housebound Communion
7.30 pm Ladies Fellowship
Speaker: Geoff Hughes Gibside and Mary Eleanor
30th
December
3rd
7th
FIRST SUDAY I
ADVET
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
6.00 pm Eucharist
Francis Xavier
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Eucharist
10 am Residential Homes
Communion
7.00 pm Baptism Rehearsal
SECOD SUDAY
OF ADVET
9.00 am Mattins
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
11.15 am Baptisms
6.00 pm Evensong
6.45 pm Bible Study Group
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
DECEMBER
Christingle : Sunday 14th 9.30am
Parish Carol Service Tuesday :16th 7.00pm
Dressing of the Crib : Wednesday 24th 6.00pm
Midnight Mass : Wednesday 24th 11.30pm
Christmas Day : 25th 9.30am
GENERAL INFORMATION
Vicar
Vacant
Contact the Wardens
Curate
The Revd Derek Brown
29 Heathfield Road
Low Fell
E9 5HH
4875922
[email protected]
Churchwardens Keith Downie
Tony Gunning
4775936
4874424
PCC Secretary
Evelyn Forster
01661 820533
Treasurer
Ray Shirley
4870403
Gift Aid Officer Alan James
4870440
Organist
4775936
Keith Downie
Verger
Sacristan
Sue Patrick
Hall Bookings
Joan Snaith
PARISH OFFICE - to arrange Banns, Baptism and Weddings call
at the Church Hall any Sunday morning at 10.45am.
No appointment required
CHURCH HALL - Applications to book the hall must be made
on Sunday mornings at 10.30am in the Church Hall.
WEB SITE : www.sthelenslowfell.com