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Totnes & Bridgetown Parish Magazine, May 2018

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COVER PHOTO. Reflections in the River Dart above the Totnes weir by J.H.

In celebration of the royal wedding come and

enjoy a delicious devonshire cream tea while

listening to the talented Mr Ripley (aka. Gywn

George) play the piano. Donations graciously

requested for the friends of st. Mary’s stained

glass window restoration fund. Reflecting prince

Harry and Meghan’s wish that gifts be given to

charity on this happy occasion.

Friday 18th may 2pm to 4pm

The parish and priory church of st. Mary the virgin,

High street totnes. Everyone is welcome.

(Charity no.1144918. Further information Sandra tel.01626 330049).

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SUNDAY SERVICES

May be subject to change: check the weekly bulletins or website for updates.

6 May

Easter 6

13 May

Easter 7

20 May

Pentecost

27 May

Trinity

3 June

Trinity 1

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11.15

Compline JO/SJ

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TOTNES

6.30

BRIDGE-

TOWN 6.30

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Whenever I get

gloomy with the state

of the world, I think

about the arrivals gate

at Heathrow Airport.

General opinion’s

starting to make out

that we live in a world

of hatred and greed,

but I don’t see that. It

seems to me that love

is everywhere. Often

it’s not particularly dig-

nified or newsworthy,

but it’s always there –

fathers and sons,

mothers and daugh-

ters, husbands and

wives, boyfriends, girl-

friends, old

friends........ When the

planes hit the Twin

Towers, as far as I

know, none of the

phone calls from the

people on board were

messages of hate or

revenge – they were

all messages of

love....... If you look

for it, I’ve got a sneaky

feeling you’ll find that

love actually is all

around.'.....Hugh

Grant's opening lines

in the film Love Actu-

ally.

With three of our chil-

dren having the taste

for travel and working

in different countries

around the globe,

we've spent a fair

amount of time hang-

ing around the arrivals

gate at various air-

ports, waiting excited-

ly, anticipating that

moment of recognition

as they walk through

the doors, looking for-

ward to a joyful reun-

ion. This means, of

course, that we've al-

so endured the depar-

tures gate experience,

struggling to hold back

the selfish tears and

hide the heavy heart,

dreading the moment

of that last hug before

they walk away with-

out looking back.

The pain of parting is

countered by pride in

their achievements

and in their grasping

of opportunities way

beyond the reach of

our generation, and

joy in their growth to

adulthood - but not

before that pain is tru-

ly felt. I recall the

words of Kahlil Gibran

in the Prophet..... 'for

even as love crowns

you so shall he crucify

you'.

In the poem Walking

Away, C. Day Lewis

describes the moment

he knew he must let

his son go '....like a

winged seed loosened

from its parent

stem....'. He contin-

ues:

I have had worse part-

ings, but none that so

Gnaws at my mind

still. Perhaps it is

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roughly

Saying what God

alone could perfectly

show –

How selfhood begins

with a walking away,

And love is proved in

the letting go.

I reflect on familiar

words from John's

gospel.....'For God so

loved the world that

he gave his only

Son.....'. I reflect too,

on my ministry at the

hospice - for some, a

final departure lounge,

where love actually is

all around, so evident

in the give-and-take of

life.....and I continue

to pray daily, and

would encourage oth-

ers to do so too, 'In

the pleasures and

pains of life may I

know the love of

Christ and be thank-

ful'.

With every blessing

Rev’d Gill

Still

14 - 18 May 2018

Make or update your

Will during Rowcroft’s

Make a Will Week and

support your local

hospice to make every

day the best day pos-

sible for over 2,000

patients and families

in South Devon.

Each May, for one

week only, local par-

ticipating solicitors

waive their entire fee

for making or updating

Wills in return for a

donation to the hos-

pice. The suggested

donations are £175 for

a single Will and £225

for mirror Wills. For

Wills requiring special-

ist advice, a fee can

be agreed in advance.

Making a Will ensures

that your family’s fu-

ture is secure and that

your wishes will be

followed through. It is

also important to

leave something for

your local Church: just

1% of your Estate

could fund some

much-needed im-

provement to its fab-

ric, music or mission!

If you are interested

please talk to Church-

wardens Martin Har-

vey or Julian Hall, or

one of the Clergy.

To make or update

your Will as part of

Make a Will Week

please get in touch

with one of the local

participating solicitors.

Please mention

Rowcroft’s Make a

Will Week when book-

ing your appointment.

The participating So-

licitors in Totnes are:

Windeatts, 19 High

Street, Totnes TQ9

5NW. Tel. 01803

862233. A list of other

Solicitors in the Tor-

bay area is available

on request.

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You will all know that Totnes is a

Fair Trade town. Many of our busi-

nesses and organisations work hard

to support Fair Trade.

As a volunteer for Traidcraft, the

original fair trade company, I am

passionate about helping people to

buy as

much as

possible of

their regu-

lar grocery

shopping

from fair

trade

sources.

Increasing-

ly super-

markets are not stocking fairly

traded products and of course we

recently lost the Co-op in the town.

Traidcraft is an independent trad-

ing company which sells a huge

range of groceries with the flow

mark i.e. they are certified as being

Fairtrade and so producers get a

fair price and are free to decide

locally how to spend their fair

trade premium to benefit the local

community. Traidcraft also regular-

ly pioneers new products e.g. their

household range made with

fairtrade palm oil from peasant

farmers not plantations. Traidcraft

trades with the most vulnerable,

most remote and marginalised

farmers who could not cope with

the demands or scale required by

big business or supermarkets.

Traidcraft Exchange, the charity

wing of the company, runs projects

developing people's potential to

trade their way out of poverty and

gives farm-

ers the

skills base

to farm in

challenging

environ-

ments of-

ten made

worse by

climate

change.

There is also a campaign wing which

lobbies big business and govern-

ment for fundamental changes to

the way trade works so that it ben-

efits, rather than exploits, the

poor.

As a fairtrader for Traidcraft, I

am able to provide fairtrade goods

from peanut butter to teabags,

from washing up liquid to organic

dates, from good quality coffee to

tasty geosticks, at prices which are

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discounted from those you would

pay from the Traidcraft catalogue

or website.

You can order from me at any time

([email protected]) and I will

happily deliver to you but I am in-

tending to have more stalls in Tot-

nes in the future. Here are the

forthcoming ones:

Wednesday April 25th 10am - 12pm

St John's Community Cafe, Bridge-

town

Sunday May 6th after the 9.30am

service at St John's

Wednesday June 6th 10am - 12pm

St John's Community Cafe

Sunday July 8th after the 11.15am

service at St Mary's

More details from Viv Elce 01803

813915

It’s just a thought. By Revd, Cliff Berdinner

Hello again, do you remember in the Bible a man called Abraham? He lived in a place called Ur in present day Iraq. He is probably the most important man in the Old Testament because God was

able, through Abraham and his wife Sarah, to become the spiritu-al father of the great monotheistic faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In the Bible, Abraham is called the Friend of God. Why is he called the friend of God? Well because one day Abraham got a call from God. No, not on his smart phone, but in his mind he heard God say, ‘Go forth from your land, and from your birth, and from your father’s

Back by popular demand, St

Mary’s Tuesday Coffee Mornings

throughout the Summer months

from 1st May.

Tables and chairs outside the

Church, weather permitting.

Toasted Teacakes a Speciality.

From 10.00am to 1pm. Music by

Mair Pattersun (most weeks

11am). In aid of The Friends of

St. Mary’s stained glass window

restoration.

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house to a land that I will show you’. In other words, leave your comforts behind, your security, your upbringing and your culture and go on an unknown journey to another land.

And Abraham just said ‘Yes’!

I suppose we have all said yes when we have been asked to do things. It has come quite easily, and then we wish we hadn’t, es-pecially if the going gets a bit hard.

So there needs to be another kind of yes. This time it is not a simple yes of the head but a yes of the heart.

Abraham decided to put his trust in what he believed God had told him to do. And it is because of Abraham’s faith that he is called the friend of God. The yes of the heart is the desire to journey wherever God may lead us. So it is not so easy this time to say yes to God’s call to what is a deep commitment. But Abraham’s faith assured him that he would not travel alone. This acceptance, however, did not mean that he would find the journey easy going. In fact there is no guarantee that anyone who sets out on a journey with God will float along without facing unexpected challenges.

Of real significance is the fact that when we do say yes in our hearts we begin to realize that we are

being drawn by God and that it is all about God, and we are not as important as we may have thought we were. We become, as the Shaman healer would say, a ‘hollow bone’ through which the Spirit of healing can flow.

And did you think that was it?!

Well not quite because there has to be another yes. This time it is the yes of the feet! This is the yes of willingness. I love those words in scripture that say, ‘How beauti-ful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace…’. Have you got beautiful feet? Oh dear, mine are all arthritic, corns and painful joints!

Yet our willingness to let God walk with us, and lead us, and through us bring peace and comfort to those we meet on the way, make our feet beautiful. Yes, you can have beautiful feet!!

So there we are dear friends. When God calls us, we need to say yes not once but three times. Yes to our head, then yes to our heart, and finally yes to our feet. And that last yes is our enthusi-asm and passion to get up and go – in faith - and we, too, will be-come a friend of God.

So my prayer for us all, and no less for myself, is that God will richly bless us on our spiritual journey through all its ups and downs.

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Be grateful for God’s grace

‘To me, who am less than the

least of all the saints, this grace

was given.’ - Ephesians 3:8

One day the Pharisees caught a

woman in the act of adultery. The

law of Moses was clear; she must

be stoned. And the Pharisees

were ready to do it. This woman

probably thought that Jesus, be-

ing righteous, would agree. She

had no lawyer to defend her, not

even a character witness! But

suddenly Jesus stoops and be-

gins to write in the sand. Some

scholars think that perhaps He

wrote down their sins, including

times and places, etc. When He

looks up, the woman’s accusers

have gone. He says to her,

‘Neither do I condemn you; go

and sin no more’ (John 8:11

NKJV). That day Jesus lifted her

from a position of undeniable guilt

to one of unconditional pardon.

She didn’t deserve it; she didn’t

even know it was possible. And

that’s your story too, isn’t it? One

day Abraham Lincoln watched a

plantation owner bidding for a

slave girl. Figuring he was going

to buy her and abuse her, Lincoln

paid the price to set her free.

‘Does this mean I can go wherev-

er I want to go?’ she asked. Lin-

coln said, ‘Yes, you’re free!’ With

tears streaming down her face

she replied, ‘Then, sir, I will go

with you.’ The word ‘grace’ is so

important Paul mentions it three

times more than any other writer.

Remembering the violent life he

lived, he writes, ‘To me, who am

less than the least of all the

saints, this grace was given.’ The

word ‘grace’ comes from the

Greek word charis, meaning ‘pure

joy’. Although you don’t deserve

it, God considers saving you to be

a ‘pure joy’

From UCB's Word for Today, a free

publication available in both our

churches and throughout the UK.

Web www.ucb.co.uk

ANTHONY STILWELL RESTORATIONS

Antique and modern furniture restored and repaired

French polishing undertaken

Tel : 01803 863030

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Learn Spanish with a very unique native

speaker who has developed

her very own methods to

facilitate language tuition to

every single individual (15

years experience) in the com-

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come out !

Interested ?

Call on 01803 862912

Advertising charges

Totnes & Bridgetown Parish Magazine

Based on A5 pages, 12 monthly insertions

Circulation: 100 printed copies + approx. 200 sent via email.

Contact Mr Julian Hall, t: 01803 867537, e: [email protected]

Full page Half page Third of

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Black & white/

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A Polish immigrant went to get an eye test. The optician showed him a card with

the letters. On the bottom row were these letters: 'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.'

'Can you read this?' the optician asked. 'Read it?' the Polish man replied - 'I know

the fellow.'

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Team Rector, The Reverend Prebendary Julian C OuId 01803 865615, The Revd. Deborah Parsons, Team Vicar 01803 840113

Licensed Reader/Safeguarding Officer Liz Waterson 01803 849345, (Childline 0800 1111) The Reverend John Luscombe 01803 864514, [email protected]

Licensed Reader, Tony Gregg 01803 813885,

Support Group: This group is open to anyone who is suffering from bereavement or any other kind of loss. For full details contact

Rev'd Deborah Parsons on 01803 840113.

TIMES OF SUNDAY SERVICES

St Mary's Totnes

8.00 am ..

11.15 am ..

6.30 pm Alternate 1st Sunday

6.30 pm 3rd Sunday

St John's, Bridgetown 9.30 am ..

Eucharist

Sung Eucharist

Compline

Sung Evensong

Family Communion

TIMES OF WEEKDAY SERVICES—St Mary's, Totnes

7.45 am Tues, Thurs Early morning prayers 8.30 am Fri, Sat .. Morning Prayer 10.30 am 2nd & 4th Wed .. Eucharist

Major Saints' Days

9.00 am at St Mary's Eucharist

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Submissions for the next Newsletter by 20th of the previous month please.

Churchwardens

Martin Harvey

01803

868336

[email protected]

Julian Hall 01803

867537

[email protected]

Deputy Churchwarden

Vacant

St Mary's Totnes

Verger

Vacant

Jan Dietz, Director of Music 01803

77051

5

[email protected]

Jane Mountford, St Mary's bookings 01803

862499

[email protected]

Jenny Griffin, Church Hall bookings 01803

865685

St John's, Bridgetown

The Reverend John Luscombe

Contact details on previous page

Liz Chandler, Director of Music 01803

669199

St John’s bookings

K Courtice, Team Administrator

01803

865615

[email protected]

Misc.

Julian Hall Weekly envelope

and Gift Aid recorder

01803

867537 [email protected]

Rev’d Cliff Berdinner (Retired) 01803

840730

[email protected]

Jane Mountford, weekly newsletter 01803

862499 [email protected]

Julian Hall, monthly magazine 01803

867537 [email protected]

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ST MARY’S CHURCH, TOTNES

Come and support our sale of homemade

outside the Church on Saturday 26th May 10am-12.30pm

All proceeds to be divided between the Church Flower

Fund and the Senior & Junior Choir Fund Registered Charity number 1128123

Jams

Marmalades

Chutneys

Cakes

& Bakes

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Earthwoodtrees A tree surgery and landscaping

business based in Totnes, offering a trustworthy, professional service

We offer emergency call out day or night covering South Hams Torbay and Teignbridge.

Free no obligation quotes ● Friendly service ● Fully qualified & insured. Call 07791 839960 or visit www.earthwoodtrees.uk for more information.