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Parish Priest
Father Andrew Hughes 01934 204217
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Associate Priest
Father Stuart Boyd 01934 627897
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Hon Assistant Clergy
Father David Parkinson 01934 708125
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Father Arthur Payne 01934 615522
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Father Alan Mills
All Saints Church BS23 2NL: Junction All Saints’, Queen’s & St Joseph’s Roads:
Sunday Services
9.00am: Mass (said)
10.30am: Parish Mass (choral)
Weekday Services
10.00am: Wednesday Mass
10.00am: Thursday Mass
10.00am: EVERY Saturday: Mass
1st Saturday: Requiem Mass
2nd Saturday: Walsingham Mass
3rd Saturday: Healing Mass
4th Saturday: CBS Mass
5th Saturday: Mass
All Saints’ and St Saviour’s is affiliated to The Society under the patronage of
Saint Wilfred and Saint Hilda, also Forward in Faith and is under the
extended Episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet.
All are welcome
Crumbs under the Table
When several generations of a family gather for a celebration, they
usually sit down together for a meal. Some want to refuel quickly
and dash off. There’s the picky eater and the one on a special diet;
the person who talks too much and the slowcoach who keeps
everyone waiting. Maybe there’s someone who only comes
because they don’t want to stay home alone. Then, later on, when
those who prepared everything just want to clear up and go for a
walk, there’s always someone who wants to sit and chat. Our
parish family is very similar, a wide range of people who come to
church for a variety of reasons. In the Book of Common Prayer
there is a prayer which begins:
O GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we
humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men;
that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known
unto them …
So we don’t just share the Good News of Christ with those who
share our point of view. Our services sometimes attract people
who are not those whom we would choose to invite to Sunday
lunch. Yet in church, we gather around one table, sharing a holy
meal.
In our Parish, we offer some variety of worship, at 9am and
10.30am, and three weekday Masses, including Masses for
healing, for Walsingham, and for our Dead. And as I type this I am
exploring a joint project with St. John’s Bath, to resurrect our cell of
CBS. In addition we hold special services for differing events.
Worshippers can select their preferred Sunday service time; whilst
being united in the Mass at the Altar of God. However, providing
something to suit all tastes can be a challenge, so what about
those fringe members of our congregation whose attendance is
unpredictable, or who turn up only at Christmas or Easter?
There was once a Canaanite woman who came to Jesus. She was
desperate for her daughter to be healed. But she was an outsider,
considered by the Jewish community to be little better than a dog
picking up crumbs from under the table. Yet Jesus commended
her for her faith and her daughter was cured. Like the woman who
came to Jesus, God gives to each one of us whatever we most
need to receive; to each their own special gift. He speaks to each
person in different ways and at different moments. He might even
catch us out, by touching our lives when we least expect.
The wonder of the Church of England is that it provides a wide
variety of worship which enable as many people as possible to
grow in relationship with God and with one another. At All Saints’
we offer a particular type of liturgy, backed-up by a distinctive
theological slant, under the episcopal oversight of Bishop Jonathon
Goodhall, Bishop of Ebbsfleet. So we give thanks for our unity and
value our diversity, knowing that whatever is offered, we all remain
part of the great sacrifice of praise by which all are fed and raised
up. And we pray that we will continue to learn from one another, so
that we can discover new ways of bringing those who do not know
the Lord Jesus to experience his love and power at work in their
lives.
Elsewhere in this magazine we pay tribute to the hard work and
dedication of Marjorie Fox, who is standing down from her role as
Parish Administrator. I just want to add my own personal thank to
her for all she has done for us here in All Saints’.
Fr Andrew
PEOPLE in the PEWS and POUNDS on the PLATE - AUGUST
Attendance Week Collections Envelopes
Services
Wednesday,
Thursday and
Saturday
Sunday 7th
August
Wednesday (incl
Earlfield Lodge),
Thursday and
Saturday
Sunday 14th
August including
Choral Vespers
and Benediction
Wednesday,
Thursday and
Saturday
Sunday 21st
August
Wednesday,
Thursday and
Saturday
Sunday 28th
August
Wednesday (incl
Earlfield Lodge),
Thursday and
Saturday
Communion of
sick + Home
visits
15
52
32
£62
£234
33
£66
£168
34
£70
£194
35
£59
£148
28
79
21
46
14
46
31
11
AUGUST 2016
Standing Orders
paid direct to
Bank A/C
TOTALS
£1,062
312
£257
£1,806
Children’s
author
Roald Dahl
was born a
century ago
and his
tales,
including
James And
The Giant
Peach and
The BFG
continue to
delight. But
he spent
his early
school years in Weston-super-Mare, and his experiences may
have shaped the books he would write as an adult.
Here are five things he said about Weston, in his book Boy:
Tales Of Childhood. 1) Mr Dahl was sent to St Peter’s School in
1925 and arrived on a paddle-steamer. He later described Weston as
a ‘slightly seedy seaside resort’. 2) He wasn’t exactly glowing about
his school either. In Boy, he said: “St Peter’s was on a hill above the
town. It was a long three-storey stone building that looked rather like
a private lunatic asylum.”
3) Mr Dahl sets the scene for schooling in Weston in the mid-1920s.
He describes wearing a flannel blazer and school cap, and carrying a
trunk with his name printed on it. There were 150 boys at St Peter’s
School, with 20 sleeping in each dormitory.
4) In his first letter to his mother, he told her he was having a lovely
time, and played football every day. But during those weekly letterwriting sessions, Mr Dahl recalled the headmaster patrolling the
room. He would check for spelling mistakes and that nothing negative
was being said about the school.
5) By all accounts, Mr Dahl did not have the best of time at school.
He was homesick through the whole of the first term, and even
devised a scheme to leave. He pretended he had appendicitis, and
he was sent home. The doctor in Wales saw through his act straight
away – but promised to tell the school he had an infection.
[Article taken from Weston Mercury website]
80 CLUB DRAW
September 2016
Draw Date: 4th Sept 2016
Drawn by: Various
Total Entries 69 (£69) Prizes £36 Church Funds £33
Prize
1st
Value
Winner
£12
2nd
£10
£8
£6
48
Angela
Parkinson
72
3rd
4th
Brian Bewley
44
Roger Ellery
52
Mike Fussell
A blast from the past!
at St Saviour's Church Fete on the left.
Mayor (Clr RW Thomas)
trying his hand as
skittles at St Saviour’s
Church Fete on the
right.
These photos show the
summer just as I remember,
them, long and gloriously
sunny.
Editor (I was only 17 then)
Does anyone
recognise
these photos
from 1966,
the editor
certainly
recognises
one of the
faces, can
anyone
identify the
others?
Some of the
fancy dress
competitors
Nature uncontrolled - To celebrate the fact that ‘The Anchor’ now
appears in colour I publish some of my volcano pictures!
It’s tempting to dismiss an interest in volcanoes and other spectacular
natural phenomena as thrill-seeking – voyeurism, or ‘living for kicks’ and
a subject for finger-wagging disapproval. For me however it is a reminder
– or metaphor for – or symbol of – a God whom we do not own or invent
(a complete contrast to atheists’ perceptions of which more elsewhere). I
really would urge any Christian who is sufficiently physically fit to get as
close as possible to something like this, and I have recommended volcano
trips as something to save up for to the teenage boys and girls who hang
around Sainsbury’s. Volcanoes are risky because anything could happen.
Too often religion is associated with over-control. Witnessing eruptions
suggests quite another way of approaching faith – the spirit of boldness,
enterprise and risk in thought, and word, and deed.
The English Church and Orthodoxy
History is a very revealing
subject, and the further back
you go, the more is likely to be
revealed. Thus it is with our
traditional understanding of
the history of the English
Church. We’ve been taught at
school (well, at least the older
generations among us have
been taught), that England
originally became Christian under the aegis of the Catholic church from
Rome, with a few Celtic features mixed in, and so we remained as part of
the Roman Catholic Church until we decided to break out under Henry
VIII and become an independent Church of England, and so we have
remained ever since.
I wish history were so simple, but unfortunately it’s usually a lot more
complex than that, and so it is in this case. Not only is it the case that the
English Church was not formally Catholic at the outset, as we understand
it, but also that the Catholic Church of which we became a formal part is
not the same thing as the Roman Catholic Church which existed during
the Middle Ages, and continues to exist today. So I need to spend a little
time trying to explain the various convolutions we’ve undergone over
the past two thousand years.
It is well known by historians that England was first visited by Christians
in the very early years after the events recorded in the Gospels. The
gospel of Jesus Christ was brought to Britain from Jerusalem by Saint
Joseph of Arimathea, the disciple who buried
Christ after His crucifixion. Gildas the Wise
(AD 425-512), an early British historian wrote,
“Christ, the True Sun, afforded His light, the
knowledge of His precepts to our Island in the
last year, as we know, of Tiberius Caesar.”
The last year of Tiberius Caesar was AD 37,
just a few years after the Resurrection of
Christ.
Cont…d -The English Church and Orthodoxy
William of Malmesbury (AD 1080-1143), the best British historian of his
day, says that after the crucifixion of Christ, Saint Joseph of Arimathea
came to Britain with eleven missionaries, and that the King gave them
twelve hides of land at Glastonbury. Saint Aristobulus, who is mentioned
by Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, was the first bishop in Britain.
It is clear that there were Christian soldiers in the local Roman garrison
shortly after the Resurrection, and later on Hadrian’s Wall, and the city
and cathedral of Saint Albans are testimony to one such.
Tertullian at the beginning of the third century claimed that parts of
Britain ‘unreached by the Romans had become subject to the law of
Christ.’ Certainly, three British bishops were present at the Council of
Arles in AD 314. The English Church was subsequently acknowledged by
five Western Church Councils (Pisa 1409; Constance 1417; Sens 1418;
Sienna 1424; and Basel 1434) as the oldest Church outside of the Bible
lands; with the Council of Basel declaring in 1434, ‘The Churches of
France and Spain must yield in points of antiquity and precedence to
that of Britain, as the latter Church was founded by Saint Joseph of
Arimathea immediately after the passion of Christ.’
But with that early Romano-British Christianity the Anglican Church has
only the most tenuous of connections. The invasions of the Angles,
Saxons and Jutes broke up the settled life of towns and villas, and
brought with them their own version of resurgent paganism. But the
connections do exist.
Although British Christianity was driven backward for a period in the face
of these invasions, it moved out in three directions to the conversion of
the Celtic world. In the fifth century Illtud pressed forward into the
mountains of Wales, and founded a great monastery, the first home of
Welsh Christianity. Before the end of the fourth century, Ninian had
returned from Rome where he had been educated, had built his great
monastery Candida Casa at Whithorn in Galloway, and begun the long
and difficult task of evangelising the Picts. In 432 Patrick, who like most
other famous Irishmen was not Irish, crossed to Ireland and gave just a
generation of human life to its conversion.
With the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, culture found its last
refuge in the most distant of the western islands, flourished gloriously in
Ireland, and in time flowed back in missionary enterprise and
Cont…d -The English Church and Orthodoxy
educational effort to the continent of Europe. This Celtic Christianity was
very different from that of Roman times, with the centre of everything
being the monastery, not the cities; and although there were bishops,
there was no regular diocesan system. The bishops were mainly the
abbots of the monasteries.
From Ireland the Gospel crossed again to Scotland with Columba’s
foundation of Iona in 563. From Iona Aidan came in 634 to convert the
northern English, another monastic enterprise, and a little later in the
century Cuthbert moved from Melrose Abbey, where he had been born,
via Ripon to Lindisfarne, where he became bishop. He was a missionary
to King Edwin of Northumbria, and after his death was buried in what
became Durham Cathedral.
By AD 450-500 there were some great 1,000-1,500 member monasteries
in Wales and the west. The Church in the British Isles at this time tended
to look to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem as the centre of the Church, as it
was largely cut off from the Roman Church (insofar as it was ever
connected). While the doctrine of the British Church is well attested to
as being entirely Orthodox (the Pelagian heresy never gained more than
a passing popularity in Britain and was apparently completely eradicated
by the 420s-430s), the system of Church government and general
atmosphere differed considerably from that of the Roman Church.
In the meantime, the most famous of all the missionary embassies
arrived in England. Augustine was sent with his company of monks to
Canterbury in 597 by Pope Gregory the Great, befriended King Ethelbert
of Kent and his Christian wife, Bertha, and the scene was set for the part
of our history with which we are more familiar.
There were thus three streams in early English Christianity, the RomanoBritish, the Celtic and the Roman. However, the important thing is that
they all believed that there was only one Church, and that they all
formed part of it. Within that one Church there might be controversy
over details, and the clash over the date of Easter and the tonsuring of
monks which was resolved at the Synod of Whitby in 663 is a good
example, but they did not promote any idea of independence from the
Church, only the measure of freedom that might be claimed by a local
Church within the fellowship of the one universal Church.
Cont…d -The English Church and Orthodoxy
That’s what was happening in this country, and it’s worth looking now at
the wider universal Church and how England fitted into that. As I’ve said
in an earlier article, the Church was led by five great patriarchates,
known as the Pentarchy: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and
Jerusalem. These were the major cities of the Roman Empire, and when
the empire was split into two for ease of administration, and
subsequently the western empire succumbed to barbarian invasion, this
left four of them within the eastern empire, and only Rome in the west.
Subsequently, after the rise of Islam in the seventh century, its explosive
expansion beyond the confines of the Arabian peninsula quickly led to
the occupation of large areas of the Middle East, with the subjugation of
territory previously held by the Christians in three of the four eastern
patriarchates, leaving only
Constantinople to stand for
several centuries more.
In the west, the Church in
Rome was able to establish
itself as a formidable state
during the early Dark Ages, and the Popes learned to exercise power in a
new secular way as well as through their jurisdictional control over the
western Church. This was very different from the traditional role of a
patriarch; in Constantinople, for example, the Patriarch was expected to
work in partnership with the Emperor. Although there could often be
disputes between them, they both continued to exist right until the final
collapse of the empire.
Another complicating factor which became more important over time
was the rivalry and competition for power in the upper reaches of the
Roman hierarchy, and this was related to the changing fortunes of
Charlemagne and his descendants. Charlemagne, the grandson of
Charles Martel, Duke of the Franks, renowned for turning back the
Moslem invasion of western Europe at Tours in 732 AD, had established
the capital of his new Holy Roman Empire in Aachen (formerly known as
Aix-la-Chapelle in all the history books), a town in modern day western
Germany, and the bulk of his empire was located to the east and south,
distinct and separate from what was slowly becoming France to the
west.
Cont…d -The English Church and Orthodoxy
The Papal power was initially linked to the fortunes of his descendants in
the ‘Germanic’ branch of the family, but eventually there was a power
struggle, and the ascendancy moved to the Franks, who
became the sponsors and protectors of the Popes. This was to have
serious implications for the future prospects of England in due course, of
which more below.
Returning to England now, one or two personalities and events were due
to have a major effect on the growth and development of the English
Church. At the Synod of Whitby in 663, called at Saint Hilda’s abbey
above the town, one of the main protagonists was Bishop Wilfred of
Ripon, described as a ‘stormy petrel,’ who strongly advanced the Roman
position as against the Celtic one represented by Saints Colman and
Cedd, supported by Abbess Hilda. King Oswy decided in favour of Rome
because he believed that Rome followed the teaching of Saint Peter, the
holder of the keys of heaven. That decision led to the acceptance of
Roman usage elsewhere in England and brought the English Church into
closer contact with the Continent.
Another key player during this period was Saint Theodore of Tarsus,
Archbishop of Canterbury from 668 to 690, who overhauled the
organisational system, appointed several new bishops and regularised a
diocesan system of governance, which was to serve the Church well and
has continued down to the present day. Theodore is a fascinating
character, and his life exemplifies the universal nature of the ‘one
Church’ during these early centuries. He was of Byzantine Greek
descent, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, a Greek-speaking diocese of the
Eastern Roman Empire. The Persian empire captured Tarsus when he
was 11, but he studied at Antioch, also occupied by the Persians, before
moving to Constantinople to continue his studies. At some time in the
660s, he moved to Rome and was subsequently sent to England by the
Pope as the new archbishop.
After Whitby, the English Church had come more directly within the
ambit of the Pope in Rome, but the method of government from the
Eternal City was not excessive or overly hierarchical, and the historical
evidence all suggests that English bishops exercised considerable
autonomy in their dioceses.
Cont…d -The English Church and Orthodoxy
They all had good links with other parts of Christendom as well, and
these continued right down to the time of the Norman Conquest. In fact,
in some ways they were closer to the church in Constantinople than to
their Roman compatriots on the European mainland, given the
comparative ease of sea routes during the troubling times on the
continent. It is notable, for example, that when Bishop Wilfred tried to
take issue with Archbishop Theodore over certain matters, and asked
the Pope to intervene on his behalf, the English Witenagamot or Royal
Parliament rejected the Pope’s adjudication, burned the Papal
parchment and put Wilfred in prison for having the temerity to appeal to
an outsider. When it was proposed at a later date that the Witenagamot
should refer difficult questions to the Bishop of Rome - as primus inter
pares, first among equals, the Witenagamot declared it would submit
only to the jurisdiction of the British Archbishop.
And so things might have continued indefinitely. However, the
replacement of the German connection in the Papacy with the Frankish
one coincided with the arrival of a new line of Popes intent on extending
their jurisdiction not only territorially in Europe, but also within the
Church. This new dynamism culminated in Cardinal Hildebrand, who
ruled as Pope Gregory VII from 1073 to 1085, which period coincided
with the early years of the Norman Conquest. It was his predecessor,
Pope Nicholas II, who had blessed and sponsored the campaign by Duke
William of Normandy to seize the English throne.
The full relevance of the Norman Conquest is often overlooked or
misunderstood. Coming as it did in the years immediately following the
major rift between the Pope and the rest of the Church in 1054, it
represented not only the overthrow of the old Anglo-Saxon monarchy,
but also a decisive move by the Pope to extirpate the previous looser
framework of government within the universal Church, and draw
England firmly under the control of the new centralised Frankish Papacy.
The message was not lost and, following the disastrous defeat at
Hastings in October 1066, many younger scions of well-established
English families, loyal to the Church they had grown up in, abandoned
these islands and travelled to Constantinople, where many of them
joined the Emperor’s Varangian Guard.
Cont…d -The English Church and Orthodoxy
The bishops remaining in England, regarded as Orthodox heretics by the
Pope, were removed from office, some of them being executed, and
replaced by men loyal to Gregory.
Thus England, having always existed as a relatively relaxed Christian
kingdom within the wider universal Church, now found itself governed
by an intolerant Norman supported by an equally intolerant Bishop of
Rome, hierarchical overlord within the newly separated Roman Catholic
Church. More to follow in due course.
Philip Pughe-Morgan
WINTER WARMTH
Each evening during the Winter, seven
Churches in the town centre provide free
food and fellowship for people in need.
These facilities are provided by us on
Saturday evenings at St. Saviour’s Hall on
Locking Road. Three teams of four
helpers rotate to prepare the food each
Saturday evening between 7pm and
9pm. If you would like to join one of these teams or would like further
information, please get in touch with me. Ray Armstrong (telephone
618127).
Listed below are the other churches involved.
Mondays: Somewhere to Go. 10.30am - 2.30pm
Corpus Christi Church. 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Tuesdays: "The Beacon" Emmanuel Church. 12.00pm - 2.00pm
Salvation Army. 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Wednesdays: Somewhere to Go. 10.30am - 2.30pm
Victoria Church. 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Thursdays: "King's table" St Paul’s Church. 12.30pm - 2.30pm
Friends Meeting House. 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Fridays: Somewhere to Go. 10.30am - 2.30pm
New Life Church. 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Sundays:
1st & 3rd: "The Bigger Picture" Vintage Church 1.00pm - 3.30pm
Weekly: Emmanuel Church 7.30pm – 9pm
GLASTONBURY PILGRIMAGE 2016
As we race into Autumn it is hard to believe where the summer has gone and as usual
we seem to be having an ‘INDIAN SUMMER’ which is always welcomes by all!
Earlier in the summer (July 9th actually!) a group from All Saints set out on a
Saturday morning for the annual Glastonbury pilgrimage. It was for me personally my
first pilgrimage while for others it was one of many such events. Glastonbury as a
town resonates with spiritual history for a number of beliefs and in some ways it has
been hijacked by them so it was special to be a part of firmly stamping Christianity
among them.
We arrived for a solemn
celebrated mass in the
ruined nave of the still
great Glastonbury abbey.
It was led by Bishop
Jonathan and Bishop
Philip North, Bishop of
Burnley who greatly
impressed with the clarity
of his preaching.
Parishioners from all
around the country were
in attendance ranging
from Chesterfield in
Derbyshire to Falmouth in
Cornwall as well as us
Somerset locals! The
volume of the singing was
inspiring as well as the
spirituality offered by the
musicians. We had a
picnic and an explored
around the town before
the mid afternoon
procession through the
main street of the town
proudly displaying our
parish banner.
As with our special day in Coventry earlier in the year it showed me that we need
from time to time to be reminded that we are a part of a much bigger body…the body
of Gods church and as such are supported and encouraged by being with others of the
same belief. There was a very impressive museum in the grounds of the abbey and it
was rather nice to feel that 21st century Christians had actually got one over on Henry
VIII as here we were 500 years after he ordered the demolition of the abbey still
worshipping in this holy place!
Owen James
PEOPLE in the PEWS and POUNDS on the PLATE - SEPT
Attendance Week Collections Envelopes
Services
Sunday 4th
September
Wednesday,
Thursday and
Saturday
Sunday 11th
September
Monday PCC,
Wednesday,
Thursday and
Saturday
Sunday 18th
September
Monday
(Pilgrims),
Wednesday,
Thursday and
Saturday
Sunday 25th
September
Communion of
sick + Home visits
52
36
£35
£271
37
£96
£296
38
£68
£154
39
£64
£220
19
52
37
50
25
51
12
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TOTALS
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298
£263
£2,003
ENTRANCE £10
ON THE DOOR
th
Saturday 8 October
7.30pm
Concert by:-
North Somerset Community Brass
We look forward to welcoming this popular
Brass Band to All Saints’.
Join us in this superb Grade
II star listed church, which is
fast becoming a venue for
outstanding concerts, when
the renowned North
Somerset Community Brass
ensemble, under their
musical director Colin Thomas, will entertain
us with a pot-pourri of musical delights,
including arrangements of songs by Bert
Kaempfert , songs from the shows, such as
Oliver, Memory and Music of the Night, and
well-known Christian melodies including Little
Prayer and What a Wonderful World.This
promises to be a delightful evening, and a
must for lovers of brass band music.
WHATS ON for the REST of 2016
Saturday 8th October North Somerset Community Brass
Concert 7.30pm £10 on the door
Saturday 22nd October Autumn Bazaar at St Saviour hall
11am to 1pm
Sunday 30th October All Saints Festival Bring and Share
lunch after mass and service
Friday 25th November Loss to Addiction 5.30pm
refreshments 6.00pm service
Saturday 26th November Christmas Fayre at All Saints
hall 2.00pm to 4pm
Sunday 27th November Advent Carol Service 4.00pm
Saturday 3rd December Great Western Chorus Christmas
Concert in aid of Weston Branch of Parkinsons UK 7.30pm
Saturday 10th December Weston Choral Society 7.30pm
Christmas Concert “Ring out Wild Bells!”
Sunday 11th December Andrea Monk Students 6.00pm
Christmas Concert
Wednesday 14th December Annual Carol Service in aid of
the Alzheimer’s Society (Music Director Peter Leech,
Harmonia Sacra Choir, Andrew Kirk organist and Bristol
Brass Consort) 7.00pm
PCC Minutes of meeting held at 10.00am on Monday12th September
2016
Meeting of the Parochial Church Council of All Saints with St
Saviour
held in All Saints Church, BS23 2NL
1. Members Present and apologies
Fr Andrew Hughes (Chairman and Priest-in-Charge), Colin Taylor
(Churchwarden), Fr Stuart Boyd (Associate Priest), Terry Edwards
(Lay Chair, Treasurer and Secretary), Joan R Beer (Deanery Synod),
Ron Fox (Deputy Churchwarden), Philip Pughe-Morgan (Deputy
Churchwarden), Marjorie Fox (Deanery Synod), Diane Guy, Jude
Forth (Safeguarding Officer), and Ray Armstrong. Apologies: Owen
James
The meeting opened with prayer and a gospel reading.
2. Minutes of previous meeting(s)
The minutes of the meeting held on 6th June 2016 were approved and
signed with no amendments.
3. Matters arising and outstanding from previous meetings
a) House of Bishops Resolution A letter from The Right Reverend
Peter Hancock (Bishop of Bath and Wells) was received by Fr
Andrew dated 8th September 2016. This letter was read out at this
meeting and explained, the Bishop has fully supported our
request,[the document was attached to the previous minutes] the
letter stated . “I entirely understand your request, and I am
committed to a diocese where traditions within the Church of
England can flourish and play as full a part as possible in our
common life. This commitment means I will abide by the House of
Bishops ‘Five Guiding Principles’ and the Guidance Note issued
with them in the Synod document GS Misc 1077 in June last year.”
Further that the Bishop of Ebbsfleet provide Episcopal ministry for
the Parish of All Saints with St Saviour.
b) Unfortunately we were not successful in our Listed Places of
Worship grant application for the church rainwater goods. It is
hoped that another round of grants will be forthcoming.
c) Security had been reviewed at Church following the boiler house
door being breached, being badly damaged and a Strimmer stolen.
Also a car having been broken into on the car park. Places of
Worship were also requested to review their security arrangements
by the Government following the atrocities perpetrated in France.
This has now been undertaken and our alarm provider ‘DS
Securities’ were invited to review our building for the introduction
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)
of external/internal CCTV with live recording. Grants are
available for places of worship under a Home Office anti-terrorism
initiative that offers 80% of the cost of fitting such devices. We
have a quote for our requirements of circa £3,000. It was
unanimously agreed by the PCC that if we can gain a grant that we
should go ahead and install CCTV.
We are currently awaiting approval for full installation of the
Viscount digital organ and the PCC will be kept informed when
this has been received.
It has been proposed by the Standing Committee that the Carol
Service profits this year should support the Alzheimer’s Society,
this was unanimously agreed by the PCC. Also it was proposed by
the Concert Committee that we support Alzheimer’s Society
during the year as well, with contributions being given from the
receipts from our concert/recitals, this was also unanimously
agreed by the PCC. The Secretary to contact local branch
informing them of our decision and asking for publicity material
etc.
The ex St Saviour stained glass windows, Alan Yeates and Colin
are planning a visit to establish precisely what Bakers have in
storage.
The Deputy Church Wardens Ron Fox and Philip PugheMorgan, have agreed to join the PCC Standing Committee, this
unanimously agreed by the PCC.
Way Forward a new sub-committee of the PCC called the Mission
Committee will co-ordinate this activity and will be formed from
the Standing Committee plus Ray Armstrong, Jude Forth and
Owen James. It’s first meeting to be arranged after the
Walsingham pilgrimage.
Colin gave a churchwarden report; an intense period of activity
was undertaken during the summer covering car parks to church
records and inventories to Intercessors. Full report issued prior to
meeting. Ongoing actions discussed at Standing Committee.
Finances were covered by Terry; 2016 income is nearly the same
as last year, some encouraging signs in giving are evident.
Fr Andrew proposed that we cope with one churchwarden until
next year’s APCM with the deputies taking on duties as necessary,
this was unanimously agreed by the PCC. Our Patronal Festival
on Sunday 30th October will have guest celebrant and preacher Fr
Ron Farrell from St Francis of Assisi, Friar Park. This will be
followed by a bring and share lunch and service (to be finalised).
Loss to Addiction on 25th November will be attended by the
Bishop of Bath and Wells and our Christmas Fayre on Saturday
26th with the Advent Carol Service on the Sunday 27th and then
annual Carol Service and Christmas services a busy time!
The meeting closed at 11.30am with the peace and mass led by Fr
Andrew.
Next Meeting Monday 5th December 2016 10.00am venue All Saints
Church
Item Matters for action
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Digital Organ/Compton
Security CCTV Grant
Charity of year Alzheimer’s
Bakers Stained Glass Storage
“Way Forward” progress
Assigned
Terry
Terry
Terry
Colin
Fr Andrew
Many thanks to Marjorie for all the work undertaken, when a
considerable number of years ago she agreed to
temporarily become parish administrator.
To keep a parish office running smoothly requires
dedication and skill, sometimes it’s challenging, but all of
the time it is about outreach to the community. Marjorie
has been our flag bearer in this respect. However, nothing
lasts forever and from the beginning of October Marjorie will
no longer be at the parish office Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday.
So once again thank you for all the years faithful service you
have given to All Saints with St Saviour.
Terry Edwards
[This article from 2012 is reproduced in this months’ magazine as food
for thought and also a reminder that it is approaching that time of year
when we have our annual giving review]
Lots of littles make a lot
The role of a Diocesan Stewardship Adviser is one that can be very
daunting indeed. There is an expectation (perhaps some of it is selfadministered) that you will find the resources, already given by God, to
resource the mission and ministry of His Church in the geographic area
where you are working. It could be quite alarming to wake up in the
morning and think “people expect me to find £25,000,000 over the next
twelve months in order to ensure that vital work is undertaken”. It would
be tempting to retire under the bed clothes and stay there for ever.
Fortunately I don’t think like that. I tend to look at manageable targets.
£25,000,000 is only £50,000 per Church in the Diocese. At least I know
what £50,000 looks like. When working in a bank I have held that much
in a suitcase. The sum has also featured in mortgages which I have coped
with. And, they were coped with over a managed period of time. So,
£50,000 is quite easy to see.
But, there are very few people in a congregation that have £50,000
available. And, if there were, that would probably not be the right route
to follow any way. This is for several reasons. Not least is our own
responsibility to respond to God’s giving to us. Whatever we give back
will not match his giving to us. We turn to the Bible, where we read of
proportionate giving – those with more giving more than those with less.
We read of the joy of the early Church in Giving in response to God’s
love. And we read of the extraordinary things achieved as a result of that
generosity. We read that it was spontaneous but that did not mean that
teaching on Giving stopped.
So, one thought that maintains the comfort of my pillow is that there are
34,000 people on the electoral roles of Churches in this Diocese. Divide
that figure into £25,000,000 and all of a sudden the sum is very
achievable – somewhere in the region of the cost of a daily newspaper
and a magazine per week; a take away meal per week; or a prompt to give
up smoking & save the cost of 3 packets of cigarettes per week – you can
work out your own picture. And, the £25,000,000 covers restoration
works; funding of parish youth workers; operation of halls etc across all
areas of the Diocese. It could all be done without the need for grant
funding. If such grant funding was obtained considerably more could be
done.
Those of us who are better off should be able to give more than the
average. That is right and proper and will allow those who are less well
off to give in accordance with their means. That is how the parish share
system works and it is how it should work in each and every parish.
Why not try the exercise on your parish budget? Then have a look at
your own giving. How near is it to the average needed? Then comes the
hard part. You have to ask yourself the question, “how near should it be
– or should it be above the average?” This is difficult because human
nature is that we look at what others have and what we do not have
whereas if we looked at what we DO have the exercise becomes easier.
If we can get our giving good then fund raising events can be fun raising
events and we can exert more effort into faith raising events. Isn’t that
what we are about?
Andrew Rainsford
Stewardship Adviser, Diocese of Bath & Wells
Sunday 30th October - Annual Giving Review
Dear Church Member
We wish to take this opportunity on behalf of the PCC of All
Saints’ with St Saviour’s to thank you for your giving during
2016.
Declaration forms for the coming year are available at the
back of church should you need one.
The new free will offering envelopes will be handed out
before Christmas, so if you want to be included in this
weekly giving programme please let the Treasurer know.
If you wish to volunteer for any of the tasks undertaken to
keep the parish operating effectively please contact or ask
Colin, Fr Andrew or Terry about ways you can help.
Many Thanks
The Law of…….
Law of Gravity - Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll
to the least accessible corner.
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Law of Probability -The probability of being watched is directly
proportional to the stupidity of your act
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Law of Random Numbers - If you dial a wrong number, you never
get a busy signal and someone always answers.
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Variation Law - If you change queues (or traffic lanes), the one
you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now.
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Law of Close Encounters -The probability of meeting someone
you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you
don't want to be seen with.
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Law of the Result - When you try to prove to someone that a
machine won't work, it will...
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Wilson's Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy - As soon as
you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.
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Doctors' Law - If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to
the doctor, by the time you get there you'll feel better. But don't
make an appointment, and you'll stay sick.
Don’t forget to put
the clocks back,
before you go to bed
on Saturday 29th
October
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Poor Charlie had fallen on hard times.
He lost his job at the car plant, his wife had left him, his
unemployment had run out, and he was evicted from his flat. He
packed what little he had in a knapsack, made a little sign that read
"Will work for food" and set off down the road on foot.
Toward the middle of the day, he came to a farmhouse. He
was getting very hungry, and so he knocked on the front door. A
woman answered, and Charlie explained his situation, and how he
could do most anything and how hungry he was.
At first the woman wanted no part of Charlie, but he persisted.
Finally she asked "Can you paint?"
"Oh yes, ma'am," Charlie said, "I sure can paint. I've done a lot
of painting. Just let me show you." The woman relented, found a
can of paint and a brush and said, "You go around back and paint
the porch, and I'll fix you dinner." Happily, Charlie went to work.
About 40 minutes later, Charlie appeared at the front door.
"Are you finished so soon?" asked the woman.
"Oh yes, ma'am," said Charlie, "but I think you ought to know
that's not a Porsche, it's a Volvo."
ALL YEAR AROUND WE ARE
COLLECTING ITEMS FOR SALE AT THE
FOUR MAIN EVENTS HELD BETWEEN
THE TWO HALLS
New Year Bring and Buy (All Saints) Raised £270
Summer Jumble Sale (St Saviour) Raised £330
Autumn Bazaar (St Saviour) 22nd Oct
Winter St Nicholas Fayre (All Saints) 26th Nov
Please bring any non perishable items,
Clothes, Footwear, Bric a Brac, Unwanted
Gifts, Ornaments, Picture Frames, Paintings,
Decanters, Watches, Clocks, Mirrors,
Kitchenalia, CD’s DVD’s, Jewellery etc.
They can be placed at the back of church, if
you have large items that require assistance
in bringing to church please contact
Terry Edwards (Tel: 01934 522026)
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Second World War Years at All Saints….Part 3
It was April 1944 and the meeting of the PCC had just voted to allow a
peoples deputy churchwarden to be elected from the membership of
the council to stand in for the recently resigned churchwarden until the
next AGM could appoint a new one.
A Preparatory school using All Saints Hall was suggested for 9-14 year
old boys and would be called ‘St Georges”. This school would be open
Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 4pm. Fr Barker was the brain behind
the idea having had past cathedral posts at Manchester, Southwark, York
Minister, Canterbury and Exeter. The application was unanimously
approved in principal.
The Vicar said that gift day had been most successful some 95
contributors had given the sum of £104-8s-6d
Church membership had fallen over the war years from 121 in 1939 to
66 by the end of 1944 (in was on the rise again, in 1943 in was only 57).
In April 1945 the Vicar told the PCC that he would have to stand down
due to ill health and that talks were well underway to find a temporary
priest.
In November 1945 the most important topic was introduced to the
council by the Vicar “Victory Memorial”. It was pointed out that after the
Great war 1914-1918 the Lady Chapel had been built in 1925 at a cost of
2,000 guineas as a war memorial. This was a shock to many PCC
members who had no knowledge of this and it was agreed that as part
of the old and new memorial that a tablet be commissioned.
It was suggested and agreed that all the black-out curtains could now be
removed and all the sand bags!
The Victory War Memorial Committee met in November 1945. It was
agreed that the “All Saints General Scheme” be adopted, needless to say
the Diocesan Architect was involved and it centred on the Decoration of
the whole church. The Victory Memorial would a.) as an expression of
Gratitude and Thanksgiving to God for the preservation of All saints
Church Building throughout the war that a substantial gift be given to
Holy Nativity at Knowle, which had been totally destroyed by enemy
action. This gift to take some tangible form and agreed by the Vicar.
And b.) That in memory of our own Members of All Saints who have
made the supreme sacrifice that as a first instalment the Sanctuary
should be beautified; a new High Altar provided together with a seat for
the Altar Servers; an inscription to be placed in a prominent position in
the Church, setting out what the Victory Memorial is.
The Parish of All Saints and St Saviour
Weston-super-Mare
Visit our website: www.allsaintswsm.org
CONTACTS
Parish Office
St Saviour’s Hall, Locking Road,BS23 3EN. Tel: 01934 415379
E-mail : [email protected]
Open 10am-12noon Monday to Friday
Enquiries for baptisms, banns, weddings, funerals, and the booking of
both halls to the Parish Office
Churchwardens
Colin Taylor 01934 519069 e-mail: [email protected]
Vacancy
PCC Treasurer, Secretary and Vice chairman
Terry Edwards 01934 522026 e-mail: [email protected]
Sacristan
Colin Taylor 01934 519069 e-mail: [email protected]
Director of Music
Gordon Pullin e-mail: [email protected]
PCC Members and sub-committees of the PCC
The PCC consists of the Priest-in-Charge, Associate Priest, Churchwarden(s)
Marjorie Fox (Deanery Synod Representative & Electoral Roll Officer), Joan R
Beer (Deanery Synod Representative), Jude Forth (Safeguarding Officer),
Ron Fox (Deputy Churchwarden), Terry Edwards (Treasurer and Secretary),
Diane Guy, Owen James, Ray Armstrong, Philip Pughe-Morgan (Deputy
Churchwarden)
Standing Committee
Fr. Andrew Hughes, Fr. Stuart Boyd, Colin Taylor, Terry Edwards, Ron Fox &
Philip Pughe-Morgan
Concert Committee
Jude Forth (Chair), Humphrey Reader (Secretary), Roger Ellery, Barbara
Ellery, Janice Rice and the Standing Committee
Fundraising Committee
Sandy Flood, Joan M Beer, Bobby Butcher, Joan R Beer, Barry RobinsonMallet, Ray Armstrong and the Standing Committee
Mission Committee
Jude Forth, Owen James, Ray Armstrong and the Standing Committee
The articles in this magazine are the responsibility of the
contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the Clergy, Churchwardens or Parochial Church Council.
Editors: Terry Edwards and Marjorie Fox
Printed by St. Saviour Press