Churchwardens Chaplain, Treloar Trust The Rev'd. Canon Edward Pruen Tel:01420 23893 |
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Churchwardens Chaplain, Treloar Trust The Rev'd. Canon Edward Pruen Tel:01420 23893 |
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SERVICES FOR MAY
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| Three Dates for Your Diary |
| Saturday 10th May 10.00a.m. |
| A churchyard working party is needed to give the place a spring tidy up, particularly round the gravestones. Is there anyone willing to come along and give a hand, even just for an hour or two? Please bring your own tools, trimmers, secateurs etc. |
| Sunday 13th July 11.00 a.m. |
| We have decided to have an outdoor service on the recreation ground on the Sunday after the Fete - in the village hall if wet! This idea has been very successful at Bentley and Binsted, and we would like to try it in Froyle. Good traditional/family hymns. Coffee afterwards. More details to follow. |
| Friday 3rd October |
After many years of unstinting work in organising the Harvest Supper on behalf of the Church, Nigel and Linda Bulpitt are standing down and new organisers are taking over. Please give them your support to ensure that the Harvest Supper stays as one of the most popular, well-attended and fun evenings in Froyle’s calendar. I am sure you will all join me in thanking Nigel and Linda for all their hard work over the past years (too many to mention!). They both thoroughly deserve a night off while the new organisers do all the work. More details to follow. |
| Way Forward |
| The PCC is continuing to work through as many as possible of the comments raised at the “Way Forward” meeting, and we will continue to keep you in touch. We are still waiting for the Winchester Cathedral architect to let us know how to proceed with the renewal of the south side of the roof. |
| As part of the way forward discussions, as well as proposing to try the outdoor service, the PCC, as part of looking ahead, would like to start gathering e-mail addresses for both regular and non-regular church goers to keep people informed as to what is going on. If you are happy to give your e-mail address, Peter Bradley, who kindly organises the Church Register, has agreed to collate this information. Please let him know by e-mailng to p.andg.bradley@btinternet.com. |
| Jean Norkett |
| THE VIEW FROM THE VICARAGE “Not all Questions can be answered by Google!” – This could be found on a notice board outside a church in the USA. For some reason I liked it. I don’t know why but as one who regularly and painfully discovers that Google would often have been the easiest place to go for information in the first place, I found it rather encouraging! At the end of the day the real answers to the great questions of life and death cannot be answered there. I took my post Easter break off in Boston USA, the historical birthplace of that huge country. One of my most abiding memories was the holocaust memorial right in the middle of this great city amidst the all the hubbub of the busy traffic and soaring skyscrapers. The memorial consists of six huge transparent columns in a line with steam rising from grilles under the ground and immediately underneath each of the columns. The six columns represented the six death camps of Eastern Europe so together representing the six million Jews exterminated during the Second World War. The steam represented the gas. Visitors are invited to walk through each of the columns and as one sees people do this they seem to disappear before your very eyes. It is a very powerful memorial indeed! The slogan “Not all Questions can be answered by Google!” is right. As I walked though the columns I began to realise that some questions can never be answered – well not in our lifetime at any rate. Maybe sometimes questions are there not to be answered but to be lived with or lived through or both. Perhaps this is the importance of our churches. These are the places where in symbol, image and ritual our questions can find an authentic place or at least find some sort of space for an answer “yet to be”, a kind of suspended yearning if you like “to behold the truth” that will be ours and will be spoken sometime in the future. This is what walking through the memorial in Boston did for me. |
| James |
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