Deeping St James Parish Church Magazine
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From the Vicar
By the time you are reading this it will almost certainly be four weeks or more since you made any New Year resolutions, if you made any at all. Have you kept them?
During the last couple of weeks I have been taking assemblies at The Deepings School, and my theme has been "new beginnings" at the start of a new year. One of the points I have wanted to get across, and it occurred in several of the "Thoughts for the Day" which started off the assembles and which were also used by those houses not in assembly on any particular day, was that a resolution to live better can be made at any time of any day - not just on 31st December just before midnight!
Whether you have broken your resolutions or not, the coming season of Lent provides another, and in many ways better, opportunity to take stock of life and to resolve, with God's help, to do better. Lent provides five weeks or so to look back over our lives, aided by the weekly bible readings and other study and prayer, to repent of any wrongdoing and to ask for God's help in reforming our lives for the future. Do come along to the evening service on Ash Wednesday, 21st February, to get your discipline off to a good start, and think about whether there is some little luxury (or big luxury!) you might give up for Lent as an aid to discipline - and when Easter comes and we renew our baptismal promises as we celebrate the Resurrection, you will truly be making a new start to the rest of your life!
Readings for February
To see your reading in advance without having to mark your bible pages, you can copy your reference and paste it into the oremus Bible Browser (or type in your reference) and print out the reading. The translation used in church is the New Revised Standard Version, which is the default version on oremus.
4th February, 3rd Sunday before Lent:
- Morning: Isaiah 6: 1-8; 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11; Luke 5: 1-11
- Evening: Readings for St Gilbert of Sempringham
11th February, 2nd Sunday before Lent:
- Morning: Genesis 2: 4b-9, 15-end; Revelation 4; Luke 8: 22-25
- Evening: Genesis 1: 1 - 2: 3; Matthew 6: 25-end
18th February, Sunday next before Lent:
- Morning: Exodus 34: 29-end; 2 Corinthians 3: 12 - 4: 2; Luke 9: 28-36
21st February, Ash Wednesday:
- Evening: Joel 2: 1-2, 12-17; 2 Corinthians 5: 20b - 6: 10; Matthew 6: 1-6, 16-21
25th February, 1st Sunday of Lent:
- Morning: Deuteronomy 26: 1-11; Romans 10: 8b-13; Luke 4: 1-13
Home Groups
- Bible Study: Fridays at 10 am at 91 Manor Way
- House Group: Every Wednesday, 7.30 pm at 45 Crowson Way - Everyone welcome
Notices
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Party
Tuesday 20th February 7-00pm Church Hall.
Please add names to list at the back of church.
Cost £3-00.
There will be a Beetle Drive following the meal
Ash Wednesday
21st February - 7:30 pm
Eucharist for the Start of Lent
Order 1, Sung with optional Imposition of Ashes
Lent 2007 Study Course:
The Earth In Our Hands
The Churches Together in All Lincolnshire with BBC Radio Lincolnshire This year's Lent Course is being organized by Deepings Churches Together again, and it is important to register your interest and availability in good time by adding your name to the list in one of the five churches. The lists will then be merged to generate a schedule of occasions which will suit everyone who wishes to participate.
Saturday Lent Lunches
12:00 noon -1:30 pm, minimum donation £1.50, all profits to anti-hunger Christian charities
- 24th February: Roman Catholic Church, Hereward Way
- 3rd March: Open Door Church, Spalding Road
- 10th March: St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (at the Green School)
- 17th March: Methodist Church, Church Street, Deeping St James
- 24th March: Deeping St James Priory Church (at the Church Hall)
All are welcome: bring your family and friends!
Everyone welcome
The Priory Church Mission Committee is holding the following event to raise funds
EASTER CRAFT FAIR
10 MARCH 2007 - 1OAM to 4PM
in the Church Hall
Free admission - all day refreshments - raffle -good selection of handmade crafts from around the district.
Please support this event if you can. If you are able to display a poster please contact Anne Smart on 01778-342047
The Kingdom of Heaven is like ..?
A Celebration of Parish Ministry
May 12th 2007 at 10:30am
Lincoln Cathedral
A date for your diary
All are welcome to attend this celebration of Parish Ministry
Further information will follow shortly
Now for the bad news?
Due to the inevitable rising costs of materials, the Priory News cover price increases to 30p from this issue. This is the first price rise for more than 10 years and we still feel that it is value for money compared with some other parish magazines that we have seen.
To make things simple for our deliverers we ask for £3.50 for the year's twelve issues, a saving to our readers of a whole 10p.
Thank you
In response to the wonderful tribute paid to Joyce Knowles and Edith Rimmer by Margaret Flegg in last month's Priory News, their respective husbands, Colin and Ken wish to thank Margaret and the Church Ladies Fellowship for their support and messages of sympathy.
From Pauline Brooksbank - Our Flower Organiser
I would like to thank everyone who contributed money to purchase the Christmas flowers. Special thanks go to all the people that helped to transform the Church with their arrangements.
Further thanks are extended to those who arrange the altar flowers every week. Also to Joan Dyke and Ann Bennett who have seamlessly handed over the reins to myself and my deputy, Christine Masters.
Pauline Brooksbank
News from Explorers, Climbers and Scramblers
The first module of the New Year was based on the life of Elijah the Prophet. It had a lot of good, action-packed stories taking part in a number of geographical locations and the children were encouraged to discover that these were real places where our real God showed his power. Climbers and Scramblers made Black birds to remind them of God's power in feeding Elijah in the desert, and all groups made some very successful flatbread, just like that produced by the Widow of Zaraphet. God's power ensured not only that her meagre supplies of flour and oil did not run out but also that her son was raised from the dead.
Explorers (7 - 11), Climbers (5 - 7) and Scramblers (under 5) are on holiday now but will meet again on Sunday 11th September at 9.50am in the Church Hall. New members are always welcome. Please contact Andrea (Climbers and Scramblers) on 344926 or Alison (Explorers) on 345890 for more details.
Searching for Your Ancestors?
Family history research seems to be a growing interest today. Probably partly promoted by TV programmes on the subject, but possibly also owing something to family mobility and the fragmentation of society, the discovery of the identities and location of previous generations of our families is very popular. Not many weeks go by when I do not receive a telephone call, email message, letter or even a ring at the doorbell from someone wanting to ask about someone who lived here a long time before I did!
It seems to be popularly imagined that clergy can produce registers going back centuries, but the practicality of storing old documents defeats ordinary parish churches like ours. When I came here it was becoming difficult to squeeze the current registers into the safe because it was stuffed full of old ones, even though some had been taken to the County archive in Lincoln. There is also a significant risk to the documents in keeping them here: the fire risk is far higher than at a proper archive and the atmosphere completely uncontrolled. (There is also no telling what future clergy or churchwardens may do to the precious records in our registers!)
All but the current and immediately preceding registers have therefore been removed to the County Archive in St Rumbold Street in Lincoln, and soon, as part of our fire precautions, old copies of Priory News and all sorts of other ancient papers will be taken there as well. Full details of how to access our old records are available on the internet by starting at www.dsj.org.uk/ancestry.htm and following the obvious hyperlinks (you can do this at the library if you do not have internet access at home - or ask to use a computer at the Vicarage if you like!), and having internet access will make a massive difference to how quickly your research will progress, too. Work which used to take weeks of visiting libraries and archives all over the country can now be done in minutes via the useful websites which Her Majesty's Government have provided for this purpose. Some of the best family tree software available at reasonable prices also automatically searches the internet for the details you need - for a very modest subscription. You can do much worse than see www.familyrecords.gov.uk/guides/beginners_links.htm for HM Government's advice on how to get started!
Finally, although all the burial ground in Deeping St James is often simply called "the churchyard", only that immediately adjacent to the church is actually the churchyard, and no burials seem to have taken place here since the 1930s, the churchyard being officially closed in the 1970s. Most enquiries about burials should therefore be referred to the Parish Council (at The Institute, Church Street), which is responsible for the cemetery next to the actual churchyard.
Mark Warrick
COOKING WITH MARGARET
SWEET & SOUR PORK
(Just in time for the Chinese New Year)
- 450g Pork tenderloin, cut into cubes,
- 1½ tbsp cornflour,
- Oil for frying,
- 1 clove garlic, sliced,
- 1 onion, chopped,
- 1 red pepper, cut into cubes,
- 3 spring onions, cut into lengths,
- 2cm piece of ginger grated,
- 125ml rice vinegar or white vinegar,
- 50g sugar,
- 2 tbsp ketchup,
- 1 tbsp soy sauce,
- 2 slices pineapple cut into segments (optional).
Toss the pork in the cornflour. Heat about 3 tbsp oil in a wok until very hot and then fry the pork in batches until crisp and brown. Lift out the pork and pour out the oil leaving in 1 tbsp.
Add the garlic, onion, pepper, spring onion and ginger to the wok and fry for a few minutes. Add the vinegar, sugar, ketchup and soy sauce and bubble until the sauce looks quite thick and sticky then add the pineapple and the pork. Stir to coat the pork with the sauce and heat it through. Serve with steamed rice.
Registers for December 2006
HOLY BAPTISM
We welcome to the Lord's family:
- 10th Sam Russell Pedder 22 Admiralty Way, Marchwood, Southampton
- and James Rupert Goodchild Cranmore House, 7 Eastgate
MARRIAGE
- 2nd Dean and Karen Philips renewed their marriage vows at the blessing of a replacement wedding ring
FUNERALS
We commend to God's keeping:
- 11th December Florence Stella Racher (90)
- 16th December Kenneth Edward Swiffen (83)
- 19th December Valentine Bennett (84) at Peterborough Crematorium
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