1. Art and Diseño

Parish News
February 2015
50p
Read about our
beautiful
Stained Glass
Windows
Page 6
Photography by
Brenda Allen
Our regular services
Sundays
8.30am Holy Communion
11am Worship for all ages
6.30pm Reflective service
Midweek services
Monday to Friday
9.05 am Morning Prayer
9.30 Holy Communion Last Wednesday of each month.
From the Registers
Baptisms
23 November
Katy Ella Smith
23 November
Harvey Nicholas Hibbert
28 December
Sophie Annabelle Galea
Funerals
Iris Lewis
85
19 November 14
May Price
84
26 November 14
May Patten
83
17 December 14
Sydney Bushell
Vera Case
Clive Wheeler
2 January 15
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21 January 15
22 January 15
Help following a bereavement
If you are struggling following the death of a loved one and would
appreciate a visit please contact the Church Office on 0151 427 1474
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Keeping you up to date…
Our church Building Last September we discovered a new outbreak of dry rot in
the south wall, that is the Park side of the church. Since then
we have been trying to assess the extent and discover what
we need to do and what permissions we need to address it.
We have had some great help from the Diocese and our
architect. We are still in the process of obtaining a final cost
for the works. We know that the work is urgent, extensive and
expensive. This means we will be putting in a bid for a
Heritage Lottery Grant for the work. This is a long process in
itself! We have discovered that we probably the oldest
laminated roof in the Diocese which puts us in a unique
position. The gutters on the Southside need a redesign, the
plaster on that wall will need to be removed and the timbers
treated. This will take a great deal of work and needs to be
done by experts. As part of the grant application we are also
hoping to address the electrics (rewiring) and the boiler. The
small steering group having been working hard to keep this on
track we will of course keep you informed.
Giving
Secondly at the last PCC, our new treasure Ali Bellamy asked
us to promote giving by standing order. This does make it
easier in lots of ways. If you would like more information
speak to me, Ali or one of the wardens.
Magazine
Thirdly the PCC have been thinking about the magazine and
some new options for producing it. They do thank Nigel and
Grace for their hard work and time and in rebranding current
magazine format. If you have a favourite article or can think of
a new feature let us know by emailing the Church Office.
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Dates for your diary ….
The latest date for
items to be included
in the
March edition will be
14th February
Saturday 14 February
Barn Dance
organised by fun4funds
The tickets cost £12 per adult and
£4 for children including Hog Roast
supper
(vegetarian option available)
Proceeds to church funds
L.I.N.C Community
Café
Every Wednesday from
11.30 at St Mary’s
Church Hall. All welcome
Home cooked food and
snacks .
L19 Good Book Club
- Meets the second Tuesday
of the month at Jeanette Chandler’s house. Please contact Jeanette on 427 1578 if you would like to join.
Thu 8 Feb
Wed 18 Feb
Sat 28 Feb
8pm
7.30pm
9am
Riverside Get together at St Mary’s
Ash Wednesday Service in Church
Prayer Meeting in Church
L19
Allotment
More information from
Marilyn Foulder
0151 280 9795
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HOW ABOUT IT?
Canon Neville Black writes.....One of the best things I've done since
my retirement in 2004 is to form NETWORK 55+, which has become
a friendship group that share fun, faith and fending for each other.
We are all retired.
We meet on the first Tuesday at Mossley church car park at 10am,
agree to go to a local watering hole for coffee, chat, and lunch. We
sometimes arrange special events, and have also been to Foxhill Retreat Centre for a weekend together.
We recently agreed to limit our membership to 35.We charge £10 a
year for membership.
I am now wondering if there is any one, or a small group,in St Mary's
who would like to form a similar group. In the first instance if anyone or
two would like to contact me ( 07970235817 or [email protected])
I would arrange to meet over coffee to explore the idea further. I would
not be involved in the St Mary Group but would encourage and
prompt the formation of such a group.
Our group has succeeded in attracting widows and widowers, as well as sin-
St Mary’s Coffee mornings
Over the last few years there have been a
great team of volunteers who have baked,
served, sold, chatted and loved the growing
number of people who come to our coffee
mornings. To say nothing of the fact that they
made well over £2000 each year. Hazel has
been a key member of this group and she has
decided it is time to hang up her barista
apron. Hazel, we all want to thank you for
your hard work and indeed for that of all the team. If you would
be interested in helping the coffee mornings to continue, please
speak with Paul or Joy.
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Our Stained Glass Windows
The South Transept (Garnet
Chapel)
The main window is a tribute to Hugh
Gaskell Sutton 1862. In the centre is
the Good Samaritan tending the
wounded traveller; to the left, the
healing of the man sick with the
palsy, who was let down through the
roof in the presence of Jesus. To the
right is the healing of the blind
beggar.
Photograph by Brenda Allen
It is well worth coming into the church and taking your time
looking at the window. It is surprising how detailed they are.
The Nave (South Side)
The window is dedicated to the
memory of Robert Horsfall And
contains the figures of St.
Margaret and St Hubert.
St.Hubert became Bishop of
Liège in 708 A.D. He was a
Christian saint who was the
patron saint of hunters,
mathematicians, opticians, and
metalworkers.
Photograph taken by Brenda
Allen
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Crisp, Shiny and Magical
This time of year it is so lovely to look forward to spring and all the
promise it brings. But for just a few moments I would like you to cast
your minds back to December. In the rush to prepare for Christmas,
we are often unaware of our beautiful space and surroundings that
we pass each day.
Nature fights for our attention with some
extraordinary displays. Evergreens the old
favourites never let us down and the varieties that flower and berry are talked and
sung about this month. The shrubs in this
category that often get overlooked are
mahonia with its large spiky leaves,
topped off with bright sunshine yellow
flowers. Viburnum displays its small flat
heads of white flowers against rich dark
green leaves.
The fabulous architecture of our trees: willow
which sways its cascading branches like a delightful ball gown. Beech, silver birch, oak
and many many more which stand out against
a winter sunset like spidery silhouettes. Or on
a bright day, stretch out their branches towards the watery winter sun to grab as much
warmth as possible. It’s hard to choose a favourite but the cornus (shrub) with its scarlet
young strong shoots and only displays this
colour in the winter takes a lot of beating.
Mahonia
Cornus
The grand finale for me is the hoarfrost, which settles on even the
smallest blade of grass like someone has sprinkled the finest of icing
sugar over everything. The look is very different from snow. It is
crisp, shiny and magical.
Val Jones
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From our Archives
Try to picture Grassendale around 1854.
Grassendale and Cressington Parks
are now complete and occupied by
the new merchants and the church is
open for worship. New large detached
houses have been built in Garston Old
Road just a short distance from the
church on the left-hand side. St
Mary's Terrace in Garston Old Road has also just been completed and
Eslington Street is being started just over the road on the right hand
side of Aigburth Road. The only buildings on Aigburth Road as far as
Riversdale Road,
were Woodend, and the farm at the corner of Grassendale Road, and
Homeleigh and of course St Austin's. The older very large houses,
Beech Lawn, Oaklands, Mayfield, Aigburth Hall, Holmfield, Bark Hill,
are situated far apart in their own grounds and all are occupied by the
richer merchants, ship owners and land owners.
A little further away over the main London railway line are the
mansions of Springwood, Allerton Hall, Allerton Priory, Wyncote, and
New Heys. A number of these great houses were occupied by families
whose names are forever linked with the history of Liverpool and
some of these families had strong ties with St Mary's.
The rest of Grassendale, Allerton and Mossley Hill are all farmland. Brodie Avenue, Booker Avenue, Derby Road, Mather Avenue
haven't been built and there are no roads between Garston Old Road
and Aigburth Hall Avenue, and no golf course. Just a very rural scene
with miles of fields as far as the eye could Garston Old Road looking
down towards St Mary's Church. St Mary's Terrace can just be seen in
the trees.
Drawn up outside side St Mary's Church on a Sunday morning
(at 10.45am in those days) would be a long line horse and carriages,
with their coachmen and footmen bringing their owners and families
to church from around the parish.
The following is an extract from the deed of trust for St Mary's Church
dated 1853.
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Ash Wednesday
Lent begins with Ash Wednesday. But why
'Ash' Wednesday? The reason has to do
with getting things right between you and
God, and the tradition goes right back to
the Old Testament.
In the Old Testament, the Israelites often
sinned. When they finally came to their senses, and saw their evil
ways as God saw them, they could do nothing but repent in sorrow.
They mourned for the damage and evil they had done. As part of this
repentance, they covered their heads with ashes. For the Israelites,
putting ashes on your head, and even rending your clothes, was an
outward sign of their heart-felt repentance and acknowledgement of
sin. (See Genesis 18:27; 2 Samuel 13:19; Job 2:8, 30:19; Isaiah 58:5;
Jeremiah 6:26; Jonah 3:6)
In the very early Christian Church, the yearly 'class' of penitents had
ashes sprinkled over them at the beginning of Lent. They were turning
to God for the first time, and mourning their sins. But soon many other
Christians wanted to take part in the custom, and to do so at the very
start of Lent. They heeded Joel's call to 'rend your hearts and not your
garments' (Joel 2:12-19). Ash Wednesday became known as either the
'beginning of the fast' or ‘the day of the ashes’.
The collect for today goes back to the Prayer Book, and stresses the
penitential character of the day. It encourages us with the reminder of
the readiness of God to forgive us and to renew us.
The Collect for Ash Wednesday is:
Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing that you have made
and forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in
us new and contrite hearts that we, worthily lamenting our sins and
acknowledging our wretchedness, may receive from you, the God of
all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ your
Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
The Ash Wednesday Service at St Mary's is on Wed 18 Feb at 7.30pm.
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Suggested reading for Lent
In God's Hands - The Archbishop
of Canterbury's Lent Book 2015
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, CHP, £9.99
In this little gem of a book, Archbishop
Desmond Tutu distils the wisdom forged
through a childhood of poverty and apartheid, an adulthood lived in the glare of
the world's media, and the long and agonising struggle for truth and reconciliation
in South Africa, into the childlike simplicity
which Jesus tells us characterises the
Kingdom of God.
Reflecting the Glory By Tom Wright, BRF, £7.99
In this Lent book for 2015, the everpopular Tom Wright, former Bishop of
Durham, explores how Christians can
reveal Jesus even at the lowest and
weakest points of their lives. Drawing
on New Testament passages, with a
particular focus on Paul’s letters to the
church in Corinth, Tom Wright shows
that, through God’s Holy Spirit, the suffering but also the glory of Christ can
be incarnate in our lives, enabling us to
be the people of God for the world.
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Word in the Wilderness - a Poem
a Day for Lent and Easter By Malcolm Guite, Canterbury Press, £12.99
For every day from Shrove Tuesday to
Easter Day 2015, Martin Guite, chaplain
of Girton College, Cambridge, chooses a
favourite poem. His selection runs across
the Christian spiritual and English literary
traditions, and offers incisive seasonal
reflections. Lent is a time to reorient ourselves, clarify our minds, slow down, recover from distraction and focus on the
values of God's kingdom. Poetry, with its
power to awaken the mind, is an ideal
companion for such a time.
And for something completely different ….
A Beautiful Friendship – a Lent Course based on
Casablanca By Paul Kerensa and Zoe Young, DLT, £5.99
The well-loved classic film, Casablanca,
here provides a great basis for discussion
of themes of sacrifice, repentance, suffering, loss and hope during Lent 2015. Its
wartime setting provides additional poignancy for study at a time of continued
armed conflict around the world, as well as
the centenary remembrance of the First
World War.
The book is designed to be studied by
groups or individuals alongside the DVD of
Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and
Ingrid Bergman. It includes leaders’ notes, timings for film clips, discussion-starters, reflections and prayers.
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What’s on at the Cathedral
This popular and engaging series of biblical
teaching opens up the scriptures in a thought
provoking way. Each session, led by members
of the Clergy, provides high quality teaching
and stimulates interesting debate on a particular biblical book
1st Feb Wk 2: Haggai, Canon Myles Davies
8th Feb Wk 3: Daniel, Reverend Tim Watson
15th Feb Wk 4 1&2 Timothy, Canon Paul Rattigan
22nd Feb Wk 5: Nahum
Canon Paul Rattigan
Same [programme as Breakfast with the Bible but
weekly on Monday evenings at 18.30
Calling 300 men to 'Make a Difference' Conference
7 February 2015 09:15 - 15:30
A men's conference, with key speaker Carl Beech
(pictured), will be held at the Cathedral, offering a day
of worship, teaching, networking and having a laugh.
A chance to be equipped and inspired. More details on
the Cathedral website - www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk
‘The Heart of Things’ Art exhibition by Paul Hobbs
16th - 27th February 2015 10:00 - 17:30 (each day)
Liverpool Cathedral is delighted to host an exhibition
of painting and sculpture by Paul Hobbs.
The exhibition wrestles with questions of faith in relation to contemporary life. It is a mixture of painting
and sculpture, and includes figurative, abstract and
conceptual images, news articles and ready-made
objects. More details on the Cathedral website www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk
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Children’s Uniformed Organisations
Beavers
Tuesday:
6-7pm Scout Hut
Jane Leadbetter
427 - 0413
Cubs
Monday:
6.30-8pm Scout Hut
Steve Harding
Scouts
Friday:
7.30-9:30pm
Scout Hut
Mark Eaton
494 - 2667
Rainbows
Thursday: 6pm-7pm
Church Annexe
Sharon Milburn
427 - 0803
Brownies
24th Liver-
Thursday: 6-7:30pm
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Jan Brett
280 - 4419
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Thursday:
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Church Hall
Sandra McCann
427 - 3224
Guides
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Church Annexe/Hall
Lesley Mailey
494 - 9682
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Children’s Groups
Playgroup
(Age 2 - 4)
Mornings
Vicky Eyre
494 - 0325
(except Wednesday) Rachael Hannington
9:30am-11.20am
07935037349
Church Hall
Sunday
KFJ
11am
Hall
(Kids For Jesus)
Jane Murphy
Penny Haworth
Pathfinders
Sheila Samuels
Sunday 11am
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280 - 3063
427- 2246
Clubs, Societies & Other Officials
Badminton Club
Monday: 8:00pm
Derek Jones
427 - 8666
Bible Notes & Bookstall
Chris Smith
John Pomfrett
427 - 6534
427 - 0337
Cathedral
Representative
Jean Mason
738 - 1651
Children’s
Society
Iola Hughes
427 - 7339
Christian Aid
Chris Smith
427 - 6534
Church Flowers
Marilyn Foulder
280 - 9795
Cradle Roll
Shirley Evans
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Electoral Roll
Ken Jones
427 - 2148
Gift Aid
Rachel Speed
Leprosy Mission
Hazel James
724 - 3321
Parish Visiting
Marilyn Foulder
280 - 9795
Sacristan
Joan Davies
427 - 3618
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To advertise in this magazine, please contact
Allison Ellis 427 1474
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Who’s Who?
Vicar: The Reverend Paul Ellis
The Vicarage,
22 Eaton Road,
Cressington Park,
Liverpool,
L19 0PWTelephone: 427 - 1474
Curate
Rev Norma Arnold
28 Ambergate Rd
Liverpool
L19 9AU
Tel: 427-2320
Lay Reader
John Rowlandson
42 Chalfont Rd
Liverpool 18
Tel: 494 - 0327
Church Warden
Marilyn Foulder
27 Ambergate Rd
Liverpool 19
Tel: 280 - 9795
Church Warden
LINC Community
Outreach Worker
Alison Rive
37 Woodend Ave
L25 0NY 448 - 9705
Assistant
Warden
Jean Hodgson
6 Prizett Rd
Grassendale
Tel: 07941689489
Administrator
& PCC Secretary
Allison Ellis
22 Eaton Road
Cressington Park
Verger
Hazel James
28 Fawley Rd
Liverpool 18
Church Hall
Hire
Chris Smith
Tel: 427 - 6534
Tel: 724 - 3321
Vestry Times Initial enquir ies about Marriages, Banns of
Marriage
and Baptisms should be made in
church on Monday evenings between 6.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
L19 0PW Tel: 427 - 1474
Treasurer
Alison Belamy
e-mail
[email protected]
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