St James’, Stonehaven and St Philip’s, Catterline
Rector. Rev. Maggie Jackson. 3 Ramsay Road. Stonehaven. 01569 764264.
Lay Readers: Mrs. Anne Geldart, and Mrs. Arma Iles
Episcopal Churches Of
St. James’ Stonehaven.
St. Philip’s Catterline.
July 2012
Group Conveners
Property
richard.matthew.
[email protected]
Richard Clark
01569 767992
Communication
peterfsharp
@tiscali.co.uk
Peter Sharp
01224 895357
Jane Early
01569 767221
Pastoral Care
Music
david.w.fleming
@surescribe.com
David Fleming
01569 767200
Peace and Justice
bgcohare
@yahoo.co.uk
Bridget O’Hare
01561 362523
Remembering
tomcarniesbl
@talktalk.net
Jean Carnie
01569 765114
Social
rcadd
@btinternet.com
Val Cadd
01569 764402
Lay Reader
No e-mail
Arma Iles
01569 740164
Hall
Management
ritalpeacock@
hotmail.co.uk
Rita Peacock
01569 766913
Lay Reader
ageldart
@btinternet.com
Anne Geldart
01569 731707
VESTRY
Chair:
Vice Chair:
Child Protection:
Rev. M. Jackson
Peter Sharp
Jennifer Shuttleworth.
01569 764264
01224 895357
01569 763110
Services at St. James’ & St Philip’s during July
Sundays.
8.30 a.m.
10.30 a.m.
4.00 p.m.
7.00 p.m.
Said Eucharist
Sung Eucharist
Eucharist St Philips (8th July only)
Prayer Book Compline
Weekday Services
10.30 a.m. Wednesday:-Eucharist.
7.00 pm
Healing Service (1st Thursday of month)
Vestry Secretary: John Early. The Old Barn, West Carmont, Stonehaven AB39
2XD Tel. 01569 767221. Email: [email protected]
Date
Event
Sunday 1st July –
4th Sunday after Trinity
8.30 Eucharist
10.30 Sung Eucharist
Tues 3rd July
Prayer & Spirituality group meets in Church Office
– 11.00 am
Weds 4th July
10.30 Eucharist
Thursday 5th July
7.00 pm Healing Service
Sunday 8th July 5th S after Trinity
Weds 11th July
8.30 Eucharist
10.30 All Age Service
4.00 Evening Eucharist at St Philip’s
Benedict of Nursia – 10.30 Eucharist
Sunday 15th July
6th S after Trinity
8.30 Eucharist
10.30 Sung Eucharist
Weds 18th July
10.30 Eucharist
Sunday 22nd July –
Mary Magdalene
8.30 Eucharist
10.30 Reserved Sacrament
Weds 25th July
10.30 Eucharist
Sunday 29th July –
Patronal Festival,
St James
8.30 Eucharist
10.30 Sung Eucharist
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The copy deadline for the August Newsletter is Sunday the
29th July. Reminders will not be sent out.
St James Episcopal Church, Stonehaven Scottish Registered Charity No. SC000301
St Philip’s Episcopal Church, Catterline Scottish Registered Charity No. SC023282
From the Rectory
Dear Friends,
I came across this article the other day and thought it was worth a wider
readership than it would probably get. It is by Jonathan Sacks and he
heads his article with,
"WE NEED TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THE ROAD LESS
TRAVELLED"
The wise rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others
are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone
else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy.
Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too. That is how
booms and crashes happen. Charles Mackay called it "the madness of
crowds", William Trotter "the herd instinct".
So when everyone is going in one direction, it's worth taking the opposite route, the contrarian option, the "road less travelled". Here is my recommendation for the next few years. While everyone else is thinking
about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the
euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit. Focus on the
mind and soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a
member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient
works of wisdom. Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the
profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
For the next few years European economies are unlikely to grow. Government spending will continue to be tight. Standards of living for most
of us will either fall or at least not rise by much.
This is when we need to switch to another dimension. When one road is
blocked, it's time to take another. When material conditions are tough,
the best investment we can make is spiritual: in the happiness we don't
buy but make. Join a religious congregation and you will find people
who care about ideals and are willing to make sacrifices for them. You
will make friends on whom you can rely and become part of a community on which you can depend. Study sacred texts and you will find
yourself transported to a palace of the mind, the ancient but still compelling wisdom of the past. These are powerful sources of inner strength.
Stop worrying about wealth and success, and think instead of the blessings that surround you and you will find your life flooded with meaning.
You will sleep easier at night and wake full of hope the next morning.
You will look out on the world and see God's glory. You will smile at
strangers and they will smile back. You will worry less and find your
fears subside as you entrust yourself to God's everlasting arms.
You will realise that your life is filled with blessings you had until now
taken for granted. You will discover - or perhaps you secretly knew it all
along - that happiness has little to do with what we get and everything to
do with what we give. You will rush less and savour more. You will stop
wasting time doing the things you should never have done in the first
place.
Eat only when you are hungry, and stop as soon as you are sated, and
you will lose weight. Buy only what you need, and travel light through
life, and you will save much of what you now spend. See the good in
people and you will, without intending to, make them a little better than
they were. Praise others and do not seek their praise, give to others and
do not seek their thanks, and you will grow in spiritual health. At least
once every day take time to thank God for the privilege of life itself.
Don't judge people by what they wear or drive or earn. In fact, don't
judge people at all. Leave that to God. He is better at it than we are and
more forgiving too.
Your return on investment - not in monetary terms perhaps, but in terms
of happiness, fulfilment, flourishing, joie de vivre, and a sense of blessedness - will, I promise you, be better than any alternative on offer today.
While others are pursuing material happiness, do the opposite: seek and
celebrate the spirit. The price is low. The value could not be higher."
Lord Sacks is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the
Commonwealth.
Let's be different and start a trend!
If you are going to be away on holiday may you not only be physically
refreshed but mentally and spiritually enlivened.
Maggie
Thoughts on Midsummer Day
FEEIN’ MARKET 2012
As you may be aware St James' had a stall at this year’s Feein' Market and I am very pleased - and relieved - to say it was a great success. In total we made over £261, which is a fantastic amount. The
stall that we had sold fresh hot pancakes, and after a slight panic at
the start thanks to a hot plate fusing we were soon up and running.
Bishop Nigel joined us on the day and he thoroughly enjoyed himself, and after some instructions on how to cook the pancakes and
also portion control - he was producing pancakes the size of dinner
plates - he has now become an expert in pancake making. At one
point he wanted to clarify the date of next year’s Feein' Market as
he wished to put it in his diary so he can come and do it all again!
This year’s Feein' Market was held on the Jubilee weekend so our
stall had a royal theme, we were all festooned in red, white and
blue - including Misty - and the pancakes had a royal name, the
Prince Harry was quite popular.
Yes – I know we celebrate Midsummer Day in June – but it
wasn’t always so! I was taking advantage of our long evenings
to catch up on some reading and I came across an article about
Old Midsummer Day.
Apparently before the move to the Julian Calendar we used to
celebrate Midsummer Day on 5th July, and according to the article I was reading this is still a celebration on the Isle of Man.
The Isle of Man has its own government, which makes laws for
the island. The Manx Parliament consists of two houses, the
House of Keys (like the House of Commons at Westminster)
and the Legislative Council – the upper house. Bills passed by
both Houses have to be sent to the Queen before they become
law.
When both Houses meet together, they are said to be assembled
‘in Tynwald’.
Myself and Bishop Nigel even managed to get our picture into The
Mearns Leader.
5th July is known as Tynwald and, each year, the people gather
round Tynwald Hill at St John’s, to hear read out all the laws
that have been passed during the previous twelve months.
I would like to extend a thank you to people who came along and
supported us on the day and also the volunteers who worked on
the stall, who made the day so much fun. A big thank you also
goes to Julie, Gwynne, Irene and Heather who helped to set up and
dismantle the stall.
For over a thousand years, the rulers of Man have met on this
hill to give their commands, demand duties or settle grievances.
Nowadays it is the Lieutenant-Governor, on behalf of the
Queen, who takes the seat of honour.
Here's to next years Feein’ Market!
Rachel
First, before the ceremony, he and all the people involved in
lawmaking, will have been to church to offer prayers. Then
there is a procession from the church, between the avenue of
flagpoles, to the hill, where he sits on a chair facing the church,
with the sword of state resting on a table before him. Beside
Year A – Readings are from the NRSV of the Bible
him sits the Bishop, and round him, on lower tiers, the Council and
the Keys.
10.30 am
1st & 2nd
Lesson
The people, gathered round the hill, then hear the new laws read
out in English and Manx, in this colourful ceremony that has its
roots in summers of the past.
Anne
Walking by the sea in the summer
Living by the sea or within sight of it, has always been my good
fortune. As a family we have always loved walking by the sea –
and we cannot but notice that sometimes the tide is ‘in’ and sometimes it is ‘out’. When our children built sandcastles on the set
sand, we could be sure that they would disappear within a few
hours. But, no matter what else may change, the rising and falling
of the tide never changes. Nor can we hold it back for a while to
suit our needs – as King Canute proved many centuries ago. An
old proverb says ‘Time and tide wait for no man’.
As a child, one of my favourite poems was the legend of Hiawatha,
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet – which is
probably why we didn’t study his works at school – a pity that!
But one poem of his I didn’t come across until just recently is
called ‘The Tide Rises, the Tide falls’ and here is just a part of it:
The tide rises, the tide falls.
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens towards the town.
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Gospel
Greeter/
Vestry
Member
Coffee
Irene Paterson
Heather
Grant
Carol
Campbell
Peter Sharp
--
Diana Peters
Jean Carnie
Julie
Lawrence
Peter Sharp
Ellie McLeod Jane Early
Edna Craig
Gwynne
Stewart
Irene
Paterson
John Early
Doreen
Brankin
Thomas
Walker
Diana Peters
David
Fleming
Diane
Fleming
Readers, Greeters, Vestry and Coffee Rota
Date
Readings
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands.
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
8.30 am
Greeter & Reader
1st July
4th S after Trinity,
Proper 8
Wisd 1. 13-15;
2.23-24 *
2 Cor 8. 7-end
Mark 5. 21-end
Edna Craig
8th July
5th S after Trinity,
Proper 9
Ezek 2. 1-5
2 Cor 12. 2-10
Mark 6. 1-13
Roy Jackson
Perhaps this serves as a reminder that people come and go and
changes frequently occur but, as the tide rises and falls regularly
without fail, so the things of God are changeless and completely
dependable.
Anne
“Fish and Chip Babies”
15th July
6th S after Trinity
Proper 10
Amos 7. 7-15
Eph 1. 3-14
Mark 6. 14-29
Doreen Brankin
22nd July
Mary Magdalene
Song of Sol. 3, 1-4
2 Cor 5. 14-17
John 20. 1-2, 11-18
Jean Carnie
29th July
8th S after Trinity
Proper 12
2 Kings 4. 42-end
Eph 3. 14-end
John 6. 1-21
Edna Craig
Little did I realise, when I photocopied a knitting pattern for a wee
baby jumper, just what I had started. You will remember the story
of how babies born to mothers with Aids in Africa were, because
of the extreme poverty, sent home from hospital wrapped in newspaper!
I photocopied the pattern that my friend had sent to me to knit a
couple of jumpers for the charity and thanks to the ladies from St
James, Dunottar, Fetteresso and South Churches, and also the ladies from the British Legion, I soon had over 500 jumpers to send
down to York.
However the word spread. Friends and relatives knitted. Ladies in
the Care Homes knitted as did the ladies in the sheltered housing,
both in Stonehaven and Aberdeen. A pattern was posted on the
notice board in Sainsburys in Aberdeen and jumpers piled up. The
“Far and Wide” charity shop here in Stonehaven became the collecting point for jumpers from the various churches in Stonehaven.
Contact was made with Sainsburys who arranged for a shipping
line who shipped off to Malawi over 4500 baby jumpers, where it
was thought that they would be welcomed.
The whole thing was amazing. I felt truly humbled that concern for
these wee babies had such widespread appeal.
To everyone who knitted – thank you all so very much.
Arma.
Social Committee
The social committee met in May and would like to bring you
up to date with forthcoming events. Firstly I must thank Rachel, Jonathan, Julie and Bishop Nigel for our ‘Pancake Stall’ at
the Fee’in Market in Stonehaven Square on Saturday 2nd June.
Rachel, Jonathan and Julie organised the stall and were VERY
ably assisted by Bishop Nigel (hopefully you saw the photograph in the Leader the following week) and members of the
congregation who made and sold freshly made pancakes with
a jubilee/royal title.
At the end of July – Friday 27th July – Lynn and Rachel are firing up the bar-b-q and writing the quiz clues. The evening
will begin with food being served from 6.30p.m. (as we did in
2011). Tickets will cost £5 (adult) and £10 for the whole family
and we are expecting the evening to be as much fun as last
year.
We have changed the date of the next coffee morning and
it will now be in early autumn on SATURDAY 8th SEPTEMBER in the church hall. We are planning to hold a
bottle stall and would ask if you have anything suitable
please think about us and keep it for the stall in September
– bottles large and small (with all different contents) will
be very gratefully received. We also discussed the book
stall and ask you all to look and see if you have any books
between now and September you have finished with. If
you have please save them for us to sell. Novels are very
popular with our ‘morning coffee folk’.
Finally we arranged the next committee date for Tuesday
4th September at Val’s home, 12, Princess Road and all are
welcome.
Val Cadd (Social Convenor)