The Parish Church of
HOLY TRINITY, TARLETON
Parish "Webzine" September 2007

The Icon of the Holy Trinity

More about the Icon
The original Iconographer Rublev used the story from Genesis 18.8, sometimes called The Hospitality of Abraham, when Abraham was visited by three angels, as a way of representing the Holy Trinity.

All scholars agree that the three persons of the Trinity are represented in this icon. Many see Christ as the middle angel and God the Father on the left. Others see God the Father in the middle, and Christ on the left. The middle angel occupies a special place in the icon: it is set apart not only by being in the centre, but also by a ‘regal’ turn of the head towards the left angel, and by pointing with its hand towards the cup on the table. Equal among equals, the middle angel has such expressive power that it is easily seen as a symbolic representation of God the Father.

However, it is equally easily seen that the left hand angel is also essential: the two other angels lower their heads towards it and seem to address it. If we then assume that this left angel is God the Father, the centre one must represent Christ. It is represented in the colours associated with Christ: blue and crimson.

Either way, we have a dialogue between two angels. The Father turns to his Son and explains the necessity of his Sacrifice; the Son answers by agreeing to his Father’s wish.

Next time we look at the icon, we will think about the Eucharistic symbolism within it.

 

PARISH NOTICE BOARD
FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS 2007

Funerals “Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord”
6 August Ruth Huegill Shaw

Recent baptisms will be in next month’s magazine.

Sunday School
Sunday School restarts on Sunday 9th September at the new time of 10.30 am.
New members are always very welcome.

Heritage Open Days
St Mary’s will be open again this year for the Heritage Open Days. This year’s dates are Saturday and Sunday the 8th and 9th of September. We would like to open the church from 10 am to 5 pm both days.

Harvest Festival is Sunday 23rd September
8.00 am Eucharist; 10.45 an Church Family Eucharist followed by the Family Lunch: 6.30 pm Sung Festival Evensong. The Harvest Supper and Quiz is on Friday 28th

Mothers’ Union September
Our Autumn Programme begins with a meeting of the Prayer Group on Monday 3rd September at 2.00 pm in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.

On Wednesday 12th September at 7.30 pm Sue and Ian will share with us a Meditation on Mary in Words and Song.

Our afternoon meeting on the 26th September will begin with Lunch in the Parish Room at 1.00 pm, followed at 2.00 pm by a display of MU merchandise by Irene Thomas, the Deanery Literature Representative. This is also the day when we will put our contributions into the Bucket of Love for the Overseas Fund in gratitude for all the meals we enjoy.

We extend a warm welcome to any member of our Congregation who would like to join us on any of these occasions.
Pat

Shoe boxes wanted
Shoe boxes are used for the distribution of the Harvest Gifts - which is co-ordinated by, but not limited to the MU - on the Monday following Harvest Festival. If you have some spare shoe-boxes, please pass them to Lillian or Pat.

SOCIAL EVENTS
Autumn gets off with a bang with no fewer than three social events, two repeated from previous years because people so enjoyed them.

Family Treasure Hunt
Sunday 16th September from 1.30 pm
Tickets: Adults £2.00; school children £1.00; pre-school children, free: all children must be accompanied. The price includes afternoon tea.
Start from Holy Trinity School and return there for your well earned teas.

Parish Lunch
Sunday 23rd September after the 10.45 am Harvest Family Eucharist.
This is to celebrate both our Harvest Festival weekend and Fr Tom’s anniversary of 40 years as a priest (which actually falls the following day.)
Tickets £6.50. There will also be entertainment

Harvest Supper and Quiz
7.30 pm Friday 28th September at the Bowling Club.
There will be a Hotpot Supper and a raffle.

Tickets for all of these are on sale after church services.

Lots of Thanks

Thank you
On Sea Sunday, the retiring collection raised £95.18p, which with the tax reclaimable by the Missions to Seafarers on some donations, probably reaches the round £100.

More good by stealth
After the mentions in both July and August of those who keep things so neat at the Old Churchyard, we also thank Bob Abraham, who has strimmed away quietly all summer.

Thank you
We both take this opportunity to thank everyone who sent their good wishes, cards and gifts to help us celebrate our Golden Wedding.
Maurice and Enid

The Parish Magazine Archive
I would like to thank the family of the late Gwen Burns who so kindly donated to our church some old magazines that we had not got: they have been placed into our archives for future generations to enjoy.
Gail

Thank you
The Deanery Sunday School ‘Big Sing’ raised over £1200 for Derian House, of which our parish donated over £300. Thank you all.
Jean

Seen in Hesketh Bank: was it censored?

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PARKING

Thank you, book lovers
Thank you to all who gave us books over the last year for the stall at Rose Queen Day. Thank you also for those who added - almost over-generously! - to our boxfuls for the one-off sale on August 4th. As we hoped, the press articles and the event entry on the village web-site pulled in quite a few non-parishioners. This sale raised £66.50 which has been passed to our PCC Treasurer for the Fabric Fund.

At the last moment, we were given a large number of children’s books which mostly remained unsold. These have been left for those attending the Mothers and Tots Group during August. Those left over are being passed to Derian House, either for use, or for sale in their charity shop. The bulk of the remaining book stock has gone to Oxfam - they appraise books properly and get a good return on them. A few good hardbacks and good quality paperbacks that came in between the sales have been tucked away for next time.

Thank you to all donors and buyers.
Ian & Sue

One of those Newsquiz clippings
“A walk to counteract seasonal inertia on Christmas day was cancelled because no-one turned up. The two mile walk was round Lyme Regis.

The Chairman of the Lyme Regis Society said ‘This must be a record - no-one turning up’ but someone else said: ‘No. We once organised a four mile walk and no-one came to that.’”

News from the school.
It is hard to believe another school year has passed and the start of a new term is upon us. The Governors of the school will be appointing a new headteacher in October and will be starting the process in September. This is a very important time for the school and a task, heavy with responsibility for the Governors. I would therefore ask that you remember the school and our Governors in your prayers that the right person for the task may be chosen.

We welcome twenty nine children to our Reception Class and three new children to other classes in the school. The term that lies ahead already promises to be challenging and we will all be doing our best with God's help to rise to that challenge.

At the beginning of term, school was gleaming: windows had been washed, classrooms scrubbed, corridors polished and everywhere looked clean, tidy and organised. Our thanks go to Mrs Godfrey and Mrs Van Dijk and their husbands and Mr Greaves and Oliver who for the good of the school put so much effort into achieving this!
Sue Hodgkins

Holy Groans …
I’m sure you’ve already heard the story about the marital argument about who should make the early morning coffee. The wife apparently argues that her husband should do it because he gets up first anyway. He retorts that she’s in charge of the cooking, and so it falls within her brief; to which her response is that there is a biblical instruction that men should make the coffee. Challenged to provide evidence of this, she whips out a Bible, opens it at the New Testament, and there it is in black and white: Hebrews.
From Caroline Chartres, in the Church Times

Triennial Re-licensing of Readers Ian Wells
Each third year - and this is a third year! - every Reader in the diocese goes to the Cathedral to receive back their license from the bishop. He signs every licence - mine has signatures on it for each of the three year sequences since I was first licensed in 1984 - and preaches to the massed Readers. It is quite a sight to see two-third’s of the nave of the cathedral filled with blue scarves - around 250 of us, men and women. This time, the re-licensing service is on Michaelmas, the feast of St Michael and All Angels, Saturday 29th September. The service nominally starts at 3.30 pm, but the procession of Readers will enter from 3.15, so if you want a seat, arrival by 3.00 is strongly advised.

COMMUNITY NEWS
TARLETON LIBRARY
During the week commencing the 15th October the Library will be holding an exhibition of Old School Photographs. If you have any old photos relating to Tarleton or Hesketh Bank which you would like to be included, please bring them into the library before this date.

Monday 10th September 5.45 - 6.45 pm
Tarleton Reading Group meeting.
We are currently reading ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ by Arthur Golden

Cathedral Event: Free tickets to a world premier!

World Premier of
The Eagle
A play by Donna Worthington
A reflection on contemporary faith … and its loss.
Monday 24, Tuesday 25 & Wednesday 26 September
7.30 pm
For FREE TICKETS (including interval refreshments)
Phone 01254 503097 or email: exchange@blackburn.anglican.org
Each performance will be followed by refreshments and an optional facilitated discussion of the issues arising from the play. The following will take part in the discussions:
Monday 24, The Revd Lynn McGregor
Tuesday 25, Canon Dick Cartmell
Wednesday 26, The Revd Dr Kenneth Leech
Please book the FREE tickets early as the capacity of the Crypt is strictly limited.

This is part of the exChange Cathedral education outreach programme, and has support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency.

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 or Pat Heap on 812991

PARISH JOTTINGS FOR SEPTEMBER 1891.
The month of August 1891, has been one of the very wettest of all the wet Augusts we have known. Floods have prevailed, and in some parts of the country over six inches of rainfall was noted in two days. The rain has laid the corn, the winds have shaken out much of the grain, the orchards have been strewed with fallen fruit, and a good deal of hay is still ungathered.

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

PARISH DIARY September 2007

NORMAL SUNDAY SERVICES
8.00 am Holy Communion,
10.30 am Sunday School and Crèche
10.45 am SUNG EUCHARIST
(3rd Sunday, FAMILY PARISH COMMUNION)

SEPTEMBER
Sunday 2nd Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Eucharist
10.45 am PARISH EUCHARIST
12.30 pm Holy Baptism
Monday 3rd 2.00 pm MU Prayer Group:
Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Tuesday 4th 10.00 am Eucharist: Oakgate Close
6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 5th 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Then tea/coffee & fellowship
Thursday 6th 1.30 - 3.00 pm Mothers & Tots Group: Parish Room
7.00 pm Eucharist at St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Friday 7th 12.15 pm Eucharist
Saturday 8th The Birth of the BVM
6.00 pm Eucharist
Heritage Weekend: Saturday 8th/ Sunday 9th St Mary’s open 10 - 5
Sunday 9th Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Eucharist
10.30 am Sunday School restarts
10.45 am PARISH EUCHARIST
Tuesday 11th 6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 12th 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
7.30 pm MU: Parish Room A Marian Meditation in Words and Music: Sue & Ian Wells
Thursday 13th 7.00 pm Eucharist at St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Friday 14th Holy Cross Day
12.15 pm Eucharist
Sunday 16th Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Eucharist
10.30 am Sunday School
10.45 am PARISH EUCHARIST
1.30 pm Family Treasure Hunt see above
Tuesday 18th 6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 19th 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Thursday 20th 7.00 pm Eucharist at St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Friday 21st St Matthew, Apostle
12.15 pm Eucharist
Sunday 23rd Harvest Festival
8.00 am Eucharist
10.45 am CHURCH FAMILY EUCHARIST
Parish Lunch see above
Tuesday 25th 6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 26th 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
1.00 pm MU: Lunch: Parish Room
2.00 pm MU: Display of MU Merchandise
by Irene Thomas, Deanery Literature Representative
Thursday 27th 7.00 pm Eucharist at St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Friday 28th 12.15 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm Harvest Supper and Quiz see above
Saturday 29th St Michael and All Angels
3 for 3.30 pm Triennial Re-licensing of Readers at Blackburn Cathedral see above
Sunday 30th Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Eucharist
10.30 am Sunday School
10.45 am PARISH EUCHARIST

OCTOBER
Monday 1st 2.00 pm MU Prayer Group: Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Tuesday 2nd 10.00 am Eucharist: Oakgate Close
6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 3rd 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Then tea/coffee & fellowship
Thursday 4th 7.00 pm Eucharist at St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Friday 5th 12.15 pm Eucharist
Sunday 7th Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Eucharist
10.30 am Sunday School
10.45 am PARISH EUCHARIST