The Parish Church of
HOLY TRINITY, TARLETON
Parish "Webzine" October 2005

From the Reader

Dear friends,
Please note the subtle difference at the head of this page. It’s not that Fr Nicholas forgot he had to write his letter before he went on holiday – he was just so busy organising the Young People’s Barbecue! This was a real success – see the report elsewhere in this issue.

He has told us how much he enjoyed Old Church Sunday – and so did those of us who listened to his hints, went to Evensong, and then heard his invitation to an open evening at the Rectory. Great fun was had by all, not least by those clustered round the piano.

Another success was that nearly 300 people visited St Mary’s during the two Heritage Open Days – a fuller report and thanks, with a heartfelt appeal, are also in this edition of the magazine.

Some explanation of the new form of the pewsheet or weekly bulletin may be helpful. Fr Nicholas has combined the events section with what we used to list as “commemorations” – thoughts about Christians of the past. Not all of these will now get a mention – though the full list continues in the printed magazine – and he has added for each weekday the Eucharistic readings and a prayer intention. Some people may find it helpful to use these readings with their daily prayers, and certainly include the intentions so we all pray together for the same things.
As a bit of jargon busting: Festival celebrates a major saint eg the Disciples or St Mary; Memorial is for a less well known traditional saint; Commemoration is for even less well known traditional saints and for those people the Church of England has added to its ‘Sanctorale’ or list of Christians who are good examples to us; Ember days are for prayer for vocations; Rogation days are prayer for seedtime and harvest. Ferial (from Greek) means ‘none of the above’ or ‘ordinary days’ – tho’ remember the bishop who said “There is no such thing as ‘ordinary time.’

God be with you
Ian

OUT AND ABOUT – FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Parish Visiting Team
If you know of anybody who would welcome a visit, either because they are in hospital, or because they are confined to the home for whatever reason, or because they are new to the parish, would you please fill in one of the slips at the back of the church and place it in the box or contact Fr Nicholas on 812614.

What’s On at St Mary’s
Wednesday 2nd November
All Souls Day
Requiem Eucharist
10.00 am

Bible Study groups will resume in October.
Look out for the details on the pew sheets
Or ring Ian on 813267

Joint meeting with Chorley Deanery Synod
Tuesday 4th October at 7.30 pm Venue tba
Speaker: the Diocesan Secretary: Topic: Parish Share
Wardens and Treasurers also invited.

Thank You
Mrs Muriel Eatough wishes to thank most sincerely Father Nicolas, members of the Mothers’ Union and the choir for the wonderful way in which they helped to celebrate her 100th birthday.
She also thanks everyone for the many beautiful cards and good wishes.

MOTHERS’ UNION: October
Our October programme begins on Monday 3rd with a meeting of the Prayer Group at 2.00 pm in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
The Deanery Quiet Hour will be held on the 6th October at St Leonard’s, Samlesbury, starting at 7.30 pm.
Our speaker on the 12th October at 7.30 pm in the Parish Room will be Val Sandells, one of our members. She will speak to us about Victim Support.
John Cotterall will be the speaker at our afternoon meeting on the 26th October at 2.00 pm in the Parish Room and the title of his talk is “Let’s have a cup of tea.”
Pat Heap

THE LEPROSY MISSION
I now have catalogues available with all the fascinating goods and cards: catch me at church or ring me on 813267 to see a copy.
The catalogues will be available at the coffee session after the 10 am service on Wednesday 5th October, and there will also be a display of Christmas cards to buy at once or to help you make your mind up which you would like to order.
Please keep dropping in your used stamps etc and ask me for a new L-box whenever yours is full!
Thank you all very much
Sue Wells

Young People’s B.B.Q
30 energetic enthusiasts responded to Father Nicholas’s invitation to the Rectory. The evening passed quickly with Badminton, Boules, Table-tennis, Pool, Quizzes, chatter, fruit punch and food. A hotly contested Chocolate Challenge finished the evening. Thank you Father Nicolas and your helpers. Please – what’s next?

HERITAGE OPEN DAYS at St Mary’s
Thank you to all of you who helped with “Church Sitting” at St Mary’s for Heritage Open Days: Jean and Keith Greaves, Margaret Latham, Dorothy Hewitson, Lilian Whyte, Dorothy Redfern, Marilyn Prayle, Pat and John Heap, John Spencer, George Maughan, Winnie Turner, Evelyn Johnson, Brenda and Brian Butler, Julie and Fran, and Tom and Mary Melling. Without you all St Mary’s could not have open for the 2 days.

My thanks also go to John Spencer, Belle Fairbrother, Mrs Webster, and David Johnson for providing the photographs, and also to Agnes Travis and Mary Melling for the lovely flower arrangements. Also The Hosanna Singers, Angela Abram, Alan Rimmer, Barbara Vickers, and Father Tom, who all gave us a treat with their singing or playing the organ or the cornet.

About 300 people came to the Heritage Open days, which is a grand achievement for us all. The people who did pass comments to me all enjoyed what was down there for them to see.

I have to report that we have had some more of Rector Forse’s letters stolen. 15 copies were taken last year, and four more were taken this year, even though we had a notice to ask people not to remove them from the church. [See # below] I do not know if we will be able to put them on show again.

My thanks once more for all your help.
Gail Sutton

# Amnesty available: Just drop back your purloined copies in plain envelopes either into Holy Trinity or into St Mary’s. Or post them anonymously to the Rectory. Ed

August Bank Monday Holiday Walk
A select group of eight set out from St Mary the Virgin, Eccleston, in light rain to walk up the water meadows of the Yarrow, almost immediately putting up a heron. This section of the walk is part of the Eccleston Millennium Walk, so most – though not all – of the many stiles were in good condition. There was one muddy jump over a side stream before we crossed the Yarrow and still under cloud but now dry we pulled up the valley side past the fenced off remains of Bradley Hall to reach Red Lane. A road stroll brought us to an excellent lunch at the Original Farmers Arms, after which two left us for other commitments.
In bright sun we set off down Towngate to Anchorfields (a housing development on the site of the former Blue Anchor pub) where we picked up a field path across to Syd Brook Lane. We’d already seen blackberries coming into season, and here, by the Syd Brook, we saw haws and elderberries –a gift for those who like food for free or make homemade wines. Fr Nicholas drove past and waved as we walked Syd Brook Lane – the only section of the walk in Croston – down to Croston Mill, where we came back alongside the Yarrow and crossed back into Eccleston. Martins wheeled over head, and the later sandbank where I had seen them nesting when I did the recce walk was now deserted as all the broods were flying. Butterflies thronged to the bright yellow weeds and the church appeared and disappeared ahead as we wove along the bank, back to the bridge and our cars.
Next walk? This year’s end both Christmas and New Years Day fall on Sundays, so we have the choice of either Tuesday 27th December (St John’s Day) or Monday 2nd January. Watch this space!
Ian

Jerusalem!
On Tuesday 13th September Fr Tom opened choir practice by telling us to turn to hymn 33, and we blasted out Blake’s Jerusalem to Parry’s tune.
“We’re not singing it this Sunday: I just felt like playing it after the Ashes result.”

June’s Biscuit recipe
At the summer Sunday coffee sessions in the Parish Room, people kept asking June Taylor for her biscuit recipe. Here it is!

Ingredients: to make 48 biscuits
8 oz Marge
6 oz Sugar
10 oz Self-raising flour
1 Egg
2/3 drops Almond essence
2 Handfuls cornflakes

Procedure:
1. Grease oven trays.
2. Crush cornflakes in a polythene bag.
3. Cream marge and sugar.
4. Add the egg and almond essence.
5. Stir in flour and mix until it all comes together.
6. Put the biscuit mixture in a polythene bag and let it cool in the fridge for about 1 hour.
7. Make into small balls and gently roll in the crushed cornflakes.
8. Put onto the greased trays and press gently to flatten the balls.
9. Bake at 180 for about 15 -16 minutes.
10. Cool biscuits on a wire tray.

Did you hear about …
The American tourist to the Holy Land who said he’d learnt such a lot from his visit. “I now know that Sodom and Gomorrah are places, and not husband and wife like Dan & Beersheba.”

Talking about parish clergy on holiday …
Did you hear about the priest standing in for a vicar on holiday? He collared the warden after the service to say “I’m never coming here again.”
“Why not?” asked the baffled warden.
“Look at this on the pew sheet: ‘While I’m on holiday, the visiting preachers can be found pinned to the vestry door.’”

A tall tale from the confessional
Father O’Brien was getting on and had become quite deaf. In order to avoid embarrassment, he came to an arrangement with his penitents that rather than shout their misdemeanours into his failing hearing, they should write them out on a piece of paper and slip it through the grill.

One day he was presented with a rather odd list:
“A piece of beef; 2 lbs of onions; potatoes; baked beans; eggs; butter; sliced loaf; shampoo; toilet rolls.”

Puzzled, he passed it back through the grill and then easily heard the shout: “Mother of God, I’ve left me sins in Sainsbury’s.”

DIOCESAN CHOIR EVENTS
Members of our choir will be singing at two events this autumn. All welcome.

RSCM AREA FESTIVAL
Saturday 8th October at the Cathedral
Evensong from 5 pm to 6pm

CHORAL EVENING SERVICE for Remembrance
Sunday 13th November at Broughton, St John the Baptist
Evensong from 6.30 to 7.30 pm

Our choir will also be singing Evensong here at Holy Trinity at 6.30 pm on All Saints Sunday (30th October)

Male voices wanted! See Fr Tom

Jonah as Edgar Marriott might have written him …

There once was a prophet called Jonah
Who were sittin’ wi’ nowt much to do,
When God said “Get over to Nineveh, lad,
‘Cos the folks are a right rotten crew;
I want you to talk to ‘em sharply,
Persuade ‘em from me to repent,
And then, though I really should punish ‘em all,
I might change me mind and relent.”

From Biblical Ballads by the Revd. Wilfred Howard Pountney, Athena Press £5.99

PARISH DIARY for October
NORMAL SUNDAY SERVICES
8.00 am Holy Communion, 10.15 am Sunday School and Crèche 10.30 am SUNG EUCHARIST
(3rd Sunday, FAMILY PARISH COMMUNION)
DAILY OFFICE Monday to Friday, Daily Offices in Church.
Morning Prayer 8.30 am (Wednesday 9.30 am)
Evening Prayer - see notice on board at rear of church
Please feel free to join the Rector at any of these services
Thursday 29th September St Michael and All Angels
7.30 pm Eucharist
Friday 30th 8.00 pm Harvest Supper and Quiz Night

OCTOBER
Sunday 2nd Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.15 am Sunday School
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST
with Holy Baptism

Monday 3rd 2.00 pm MU Prayer Group:
Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Tuesday 4th 10.00 am Eucharist: Oakgate Close
6.30 pm Choir Practice (adults 6.50)
7.30 pm Jt. Deanery Synod with Chorley:
Parish Share: Venue tba
Wednesday 5th 10.00 am Holy Communion: (BCP)
Followed by coffee and TLM Display, cards and catalogues.
Thursday 6th 7.30 pm MU Deanery Quiet Hour:
St Leonard’s, Samlesbury
Saturday 8th RSCM Area Festival at the Cathedral:
Evensong from 5 to 6pm

Sunday 9th Twentieth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST

Tuesday 11th 6.30 pm Choir Practice (adults 6.50)
Wednesday 12th 10.00 am Holy Communion: (BCP)
7.30 pm MU: Parish Room:
Val Sandells: Victim Support

Sunday 16th Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.30 am CHURCH FAMILY EUCHARIST

Tuesday 18th St Luke
6.30 pm Choir Practice (adults after service)
7.30 pm Eucharist
Wednesday 19th 10.00 am Holy Communion: (BCP)

Sunday 23rd Last Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.15 am Sunday School
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST

Tuesday 24th 6.30 pm Choir Practice (adults 6.50)
Wednesday 26th 10.00 am Holy Communion: (BCP)
2.00 pm MU: Parish Room
John Cotterall “Let’s have a cup of tea”
Friday 28th Ss Simon & Jude
12.15 pm Eucharist
Saturday 29th CLOCKS BACK

Sunday 30th ALL SAINTS SUNDAY
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.15 am Sunday School
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST
6.30 pm Festival Sung Evensong

NOVEMBER
Tuesday 1st 10.00 am Eucharist: Oakgate Close
6.30 pm Choir Practice (adults 6.50)
Wednesday 2nd ALL SOULS
10.00 am Requiem Eucharist at St Mary’s
7.30 pm JOINT CLUSTER EUCHARIST
with Archdeacon John
at All Saint’s, Hesketh Bank

Sunday 6th Third Sunday before Advent
8.00 am Holy Communion
10.15 pm Sunday School
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST

Monday 7th 2.00 pm MU Prayer Group:
Blessed Sacrament Chapel

Looking further forward

Sunday 13th November Remembrance Sunday

Monday 14th 7.00 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm PCC

The Mission Action Plan Prayer
God of new beginnings, we pray that you will transform your church as you renew us by your love.
Give us vision for the journey that we may travel light, and live increasingly by faith.
Inspire, enliven and empower us, so that along the Way we may be sustained by the life of Christ in ourselves, in one another, and in the world. Amen