2015 August inside - St Mary de Castro

COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF
ST. MARY de CASTRO
LEICESTER
PARISH MAGAZINE
The Transfiguration - August 6th
August 2015
£1.00
SUNDAY SERVICES
9.30 a.m.
11.00 a.m.
ALL AGE EUCHARIST
SUNG EUCHARIST & SERMON
WEEKDAY SERVICES
Tuesday
Friday
10.30 a.m.
1.10 p.m.
Eucharist
Eucharist (BCP)
FESTIVALS & HOLY DAYS
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www.stmarydecastro.org.uk
Priest in Charge
Fr. DAVID MAUDLIN SSC
3 Goldfinch Road
Uppingham
LE15 9UJ
Tel. 01572 820181
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Please contact Fr, David Maudlin
in cases of sickness or other necessity requiring a visit.
or for applications for Baptism, Confirmation & Marriage
Church Wardens
Mr. JOHN BURTON
Tel. 0116 278 9479
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Mr. MARK HAWORTH
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Deputy Church Wardens
Mr. CHRIS STEPHENS M.B.E.
Tel. 0116 271 6086
Mr. CHRIS PHILLIPS
Tel. 0116 255 0330
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Vice Chairman P.C.C
Mr CLIFFORD DUNKLEY
Tel. 0116 291 8323
Hon. Secretary P.C.C & Parish
Administrator
Mr. TERRY DOUGHTY
Tel. 0116 348 3354
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Hon. Treasurer P.C.C.
Mr. KELVIN JOHNSON
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Deanery Representatives
Mrs BARBARA SAMSON
Tel. 01530 223383
Mr. VICTOR ALLSOP
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Child and Vulnerable Adult
Protection Officer
Mrs GABRIELLE FLETCHER
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Mr. TONY WELLS
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ST. MARY DE CASTRO MAGAZINE
August 2015
THE GREAT EXEMPLAR
August is a month of fulfilment:
Mary assumed into heaven, Our Lady in
Harvest, the promise of ultimate glory
for us all in the Communion of Saints.
Only then will the Church be fully what
she is called to be, Christ’s holy and
spotless Bride.
Yet August can also leave us
tired and jaded: a summer that didn’t
quite make it, a holiday that didn’t work.
We feel spiritually dead.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) one of the foremost ‘Fathers’ in our
Anglican tradition tells us much about holy living and holy dying and points us
to Jesus as our Great Exemplar. Where else is there to look but to Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith ? (Hebrews 12 : 2). Since he invites us to learn
of him, to whom else could we go, seeing he has the message of eternal life?
(Matt : 29; John 6 : 68).
However jaded, therefore, we might feel, through our own
lukewarmness or our sinful failings, or however grieved, maybe, by the
brokenness of the Church, Jeremy Taylor invites us back to the centre through
the doors of repentance. Because the Church is firmly established on that Rock
which is Christ (I Cor. 10 : 4) and has received the promised Spirit, we can, in
our penitence, be assured of divine forgiveness by means of her priestly
ministers:
Happy is he that dashes his sins against the rock, upon which the
Church is built (Psalm 137 : 9 ) that the Church, gathering up the planks and
fragments of the shipwreck, and the shivers of the broken heart may reunite
them, pouring oil into the wounds made by the blows of sin, and restoring with
meekness, gentleness, care, counsel and authority, persons overtaken in a fault.
For that act of ministry is not ineffectual which God hath promised shall be
ratified in heaven, and that authority is not contemptible, which the holy Jesus
conveyed by breathing upon his Church the Holy Ghost (John 20 :22-3) ...
Christ intended we go up to heaven the way he hath appointed, that is by offices
and ministries ecclesiastical. (The Great Exemplar)
Should we by chance be uncertain as to where exactly the Church is
now to be found, Jeremy Taylor surely gives us some timely reminders. We,
whether priests or people, are the church, our foundation is Christ, our
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empowerment the Spirit and our hope that, like Mary, we shall one day be with
Jesus where he is in the eternal Kingdom.
We are called to holiness, to live and die in Christ, and to pray ardently
for God’s grace to descend upon us that he might safeguard this portion of his
Church in peace.
O blessed Jesus, who didst die for us: keep us for ever in holy living from
sin and sinful shame in the communion of thy Church, and thy Church in safety
and grace, in truth and peace, unto thy second coming ...Amen. (Holy Living)
So even if, with Jeremiah, we might feel that ’ the harvest is past the
summer is ended, and we are not saved’ (Jeremiah 8 : 20), we can take heart. Our
Exemplar is also our Enabler, and where he our Head has gone before we hope
to follow after.
By a Sister of the Community of the Holy Cross. Rempstone, Nr.
Loughborough. Now at Costock - New Directions August 1996
READERS AT 11 a.m. EUCHARIST
Date
1st Reading
2nd Reading
2-August
9-August
16-August
23-August
30-August
David Kibert
Stephen Popple
Barbara Samson
Catherine Aston
Vicky Copley
Lydia
Mary
Yvette
Ross
Terry
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Lopez
Roote
Adams
Copley
Doughty
CHURCH STATISTICS - JUNE
Day
Attendance
Communicants
3 Crown court service
40
7 Corpus Criste
10
10
(Trinity 1)
34+1c
31
14 Trinity 2
8
8
39+1C
37
21 Trinity 3
9
9
38
35
28 Ss. Peter & Paul
6
6
(Trinity 4)
34
31
Collections
£ 97.70
£135.57
£183.13
£ 94.22
Other days,
90
79
Key: The first Sunday service quoted is that for the ‘All age service’ at
9.30.am.
c: children;
Figures for collections do not include bankers’ order payments
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AUGUST KALENDAR
2
4
Sunday
9.30 a.m.
11.00 a.m.
Tuesday
6
Thursday
7
Friday
9
Sunday 1
11
Tuesday
14
Friday
16
Sunday
18
21
Tuesday
Friday
23
Sunday
25
28
Tuesday
Friday
30
Sunday
9th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
ALL AGE EUCHARIST
SUNG EUCHARIST, & SERMON
St. John Marie Vianney - The Cure d'Ars
10.30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
THE TRANSFIGURATION
7.30 p.m.
SUNG EUCHARIST & SERMON
John Mason Neale
1.10 p.m.
Holy Eucharist (BCP)
9th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
9.30 a.m.
ALL AGE EUCHARIST
11.00 a.m.
SUNG EUCHARIST, & SERMON
St. Clare of Assisi
10.30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
St. Maximillian Kolbe
1.10 p.m.
Holy Eucharist (BCP)
ASSUMPTION OF B.V.M.
9.30 a.m.
ALL AGE EUCHARIST
11.00 a.m.
PROCESSION,
SUNG EUCHARIST, & SERMON
10.30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
1.10 p.m.
Holy Eucharist (BCP)
12th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
9.30 a.m.
ALL AGE EUCHARIST
11.00 a.m.
SUNG EUCHARIST, & SERMON
10.30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
St. Augustine of Hippo
1.10 p.m.
Holy Eucharist (BCP)
13th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
9.30 a.m.
ALL AGE EUCHARIST
11.00 a.m.
SUNG EUCHARIST, & SERMON
6.00 p.m.
EVENSONG AT WISTOW
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GALLIMAUFRY
The wisdom of the aged.
Never invade Afghanistan (Harold MacMillan)
Never trust the bankers. (Winston Churchill)
Good news for all of us who do not spend our lives behind a keyboard.
At a recent conference of scientists, computer buffs and the like the
most common gadget in use was the ‘Rhino’. The Rhino is not a laptop, tablet,
digital notebook, smartphone iPad or even uPad. It is a notebook, spiral bound,
filled with lined paper. It is used with pen or even pencil and has flexibility,
adaptability and ease of usage. Nor does it require electricity.
The robin has been chosen as our British National Bird. This seems
most appropriate given our history, since the bird is described as ‘territorial and
violent’.
from a letter to The Times)
A well known Canadian bagpiper was asked by an undertaker if he
would as a mark of respect, play at the funeral of a homeless pauper with no
relatives. The funeral was in the backwoods of Nova Scotia and unfortunately
the musician became lost, arriving an hour too late. Only the diggers were left,
eating their lunch.
However, the grave had not been filled in though the vault lid was
already in place. The bagpiper didn’t know what else to do so he started to play.
He put heart and soul into the lament for this poor homeless man and his
rendering of ‘Amazing Grace’ produced tears from the workers who had
gathered round.
At the end he retreated to his car in sadness but with a full heart. As he
opened the car door, he heard one of the workers say, ‘I’ve never seen anything
like it – and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for 20 years.
Items for next month’s magazine have to be submitted by 16th of this
month. That is the 11th Sunday after Trinity, but this year is superseded by
The Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The collect for the 11th Sunday
has running the way of thy commandments, i.e. following them. The verb
runs in this sense is still in normal use.
Turkish proverb dedicated to all who prefer passive acceptance to making a
stand:
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When the axe first came into the forest, the trees said, ‘At least the handle
is one of us.’
St. Ethelwold is yet another Anglo-Saxon saint – the Vikings and
Normans put a stop to much of that holiness. He was a monk and great friend of
St. Dunstan with whom he worked on the revival of monasticism at
Glastonbury. After Dunstan’s exile (c956) he took over the tutoring of Edgar,
the heir to the English throne. In 963 he became bishop of Winchester. His dates
are c912-984 and his feast day is 1st August.
Aphorisms for modern life: If you telephone a council or company always
have something at hand to read or do.
Friday has always been regarded as an unlucky day. This stems
allegedly from the legend that Eve tempted Adam on a Friday and is, of course,
reinforced by ‘Good Friday’, though the superstitions around the day are more
pagan than Christian. Until quite recently many avoided beginning a new job on
either Friday or Saturday. In some parts of the country marriages are still to be
avoided on a Friday. Christianity has always sat lightly on the English
Apparently in the 1960’s, doctors would say, if the patient was present,
‘It must be a very bad case of GOK,’ GOK meant ‘God only Knows’. So what’s
changed?
13th August is the feast day of one St. Hippolytus, a patron saint of horses.
Philip Pullman, the well known children’s author is also a well known
atheist. However he deprecates the crude attitudes of Richard Dawkins, atheist
publicist. Not only is Pullman a ‘cultural Christian’ but he says he attacks
religion because it does bad things when it gets its hands on power. Can we
really disagree?
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not
quite all the time.
(George Orwell)
22nd August began the reign of Henry VII, possibly the most miserly
King to have ruled England. He was the last king to have seized the throne by
violence.
WilliamanMary’s was a ‘glorious’ and relatively bloodless take over.
James II escaped.
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Philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons from conventional beliefs.
John Gray, 18th c poet)
The poet Milton was Oliver Cromwell’s spin doctor. On the
Restoration, he escaped with his life only because Charles II intervened.
However, on August 27th, 1660, seven months after Charles’ return, his
polemical political works were burned by the public hangman.
But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is
enough to be benign, to be gently, to be funny, to be kind. (Stephen Fry on
P.G.Wodehouse)
St Monica (c331-387), a devout Christian, managed to convert both her
husband and mother-in-law to the faith. She had worse luck with her
intransigent son, Augustine (yes, that one), trying in vain to convert him from
paganism and licentiousness. She followed him to Rome and Milan, where she
met St. Ambrose.
Finally three years later Augustine agreed to be baptised by St.
Ambrose and the rest is Church history. Sadly she died on the way home.
She is the patroness of marriages, mothers and widows.
You report that the ‘the white indigenous English share 40% of their
DNA with the French.’ Given that we share 50% of our DNA with bananas,
what am I supposed to conclude from this figure? (letter to the Independent)
You can't beat Hollywood for telling you things you didn’t know.
In the recent film The Boy Next Door, a copy of Homer’s Iliad is
presented to a character who is supposedly a classics teacher. She examines the
dust jacketed, hard cover, English language text and declares it to be ‘a first
edition’.
Homer’s epic poem was first written down in Greek around the eighth
century BC. It has not only lasted well but predates the emergence of English as
a language by more than a thousand years..
Trust not the mobile ‘phone text.
Father was helping 16 year old daughter with her homework when she
received a text from Mum It read ‘What do you want from life?’
As they began to consider this deep philosophical question, the second
text arrived. It blamed ‘predictive text’ for correcting her, ‘What do you want
from Lidl?’
(letter to the Telegraph)
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THE MEDIEVAL TILES
The two final tiles of the second row
show crossed keys and a lion mask.
` The crossed keys tile could easily be
seen as diamond rather than square. It is,
of course, entirely appropriate for the
church setting, showing the Cross Keys
emblem of St. Peter, keeper of the Gate of
Heaven, even though it’s in the church of
St. Mary..
The heads of the keys if examined
carefully, appear to show H and E. These
might be thought possibly to indicate
Kings Henry and Edward. However this is probably entirely accidental and
is unlikely if the tile dates from the 1300’s. In any case, the 14th or 15th
century capital letters would have looked rather different.
Alternatively, two keys might refer to Robert Lancaster, Bishop of
St. Asaph (1411-1433), since these appeared on his seal.
The border of simplified stick and leaf decorations is austere. It
might possibly indicate vergers’ or wardens’ wands or staves, very necessary
in clearing space among crowded, standing congregations for the various
processions common in Pre-Reformation services.
The staves here look as if derived from spears, halberds or even
simple billhooks, becoming stylised
eventually
to
the
symbolic
Churchwarden’s wands of today. These
are still indications of authority and are
carried should a Warden need to
remonstrate with a disruptive person.
This has occurred with living memory at
St. Mary’s.
The Lion Mask on the next tile is quite
clearly copied from the Royal Standard
and the motif is continued in the repeated
use of the fleur-de-lys. In Church
heraldry, the Lion’s Mask signifies David, which emphasises the kingly
motif in reference to the biblical King David..
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The intertwined elliptical shapes bordering the mask are of interest
and possibly indicate more than mere decoration. It has been suggested that
they may represent a king under restraint such as Henry VI. On the other hand
it might simply suggest a caged lion, since that would be how the animal, if
seen at all, would be housed. But again it may suggest the subjection of
temporal power to that of the Church.
This is not so far fetched as it might seem given the development of
St. Mary’s building. We need to recall that during the 1200 and early1300’s,
the development of the parish church beside it overshadowed that of the
Royal castle chapel. During that period, what began as a side chapel was
gradually extended to form an entire church.
Its first roof overtook the few 1100’s Norman windows causing the
chapel roof to be lifted and a new clerestory to be built. A further
development killed that clerestory in turn, necessitating further clerestory
building over the north aisle of the chapel. Further, that church not only had
its own sedelia in the new Gothic pointed arch style, but also its own rood
screen with access stairs still to be seen. Thus we have Norman windows,
Gothic windows and early Perpendicular ones.
WEEKDAY WELCOME/OPEN DOOR
The Church is open for visitors every weekday
between 12 noon and 2 p.m., Saturdays 2-4 p.m.
Volunteers are always needed to welcome them
and tell them about the church. If you would
like to help please speak to Terry or sign the list
on the notice board.
Items for the September magazine should reach
Catherine Aston by Sunday August 16th please.
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AUGUST ANNIVERSARIES
“August brings the sheaves of corn,
then the harvest home is borne.”
The ancient Romans named the month after the Emperor Augustus. He was the
“Caesar Augustus” who ordered the census that caused Joseph and Mary to go
to Bethlehem (Luke 2).
In the country August is usually the
month of the corn harvest. Nowadays,
weather permitting, the harvest of grain is
quickly got in by combine harvesters, but in
earlier times the cutting, drying and carrying
to the farm needed a settled spell of dry
weather and plenty of workers. The corn
would first be cut with sickles and tied up in
bunches which were stood up in “stooks” to
dry before being taken to the farm to be stored
in barns ready for threshing. Harvest was often followed by gleaning, the
picking up of all the bits of corn left by the reapers. By tradition villagers were
allowed to glean in the fields after harvest to get corn to make bread for
themselves or to feed fowls in winter. Afterwards farm animals were allowed to
feed in the stubble, as the fields would not be
ploughed until next Spring. This also provided
food for wild birds. Some farmers nowadays
are going back to this practice instead of
ploughing straight after harvest; many of our
wild birds are now “at risk” and need help
through the winter.
In the Bible the story of Ruth takes
place at harvest time. The Law of Moses
(Leviticus 23) said the harvesters were not to
reap the corn right up to the edge of the field,
nor to completely clear up what they cut, but to leave some for the poor. Some
of our Lord’s parables are about harvests.
After schooling was made compulsory in the 1870’s country children
would often be kept away from school to help on farms, and in fruit-growing
districts schools would officially close for fruit-picking, the origins of the long
summer holiday. Perhaps this is why Parliament has a long summer break, so
that in earlier times the Lords (then in the majority) could supervise the harvest
on their estates?
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August 1 is known as Lammas Day.
This has nothing to do with lambs but comes
from the Old English “Loaf Mass”, when
bread made from the first grain to be
harvested was used at the Eucharist - a sort
of early Harvest Festival. Nowadays at most
churches wafers are used at Holy
Communion as they are convenient and easy
to store, but the Prayer Book directs that
ordinary bread “such as is usual to be eaten” should be used. Older people can
remember this being done.
At one church the priest was greeted after the service by an old lady
who said, “Vicar, if you give me a big piece of crust again I shall want butter
on it!”
On August 5th we remember St. Oswald, a Saxon King of Northumbria
in the days when England was divided into separate kingdoms. A pagan king
had killed Oswald’s father and seized the kingdom, but the boy Oswald and his
mother and brother escaped and went to Iona, where the boys were educated by
St. Aidan. Later Oswald raised an army and recaptured his kingdom. He
wanted to convert his pagan subjects to Christianity and invited St. Aidan to
help. Aidan set up a monastery on Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and he and his
monks spread the Gospel in Northumbria. Aidan is remembered on August 31st
and there is a Leicester church named for him. At one time there was a St.
Oswald’s Church at Braunstone..
On August 6th we celebrate the Transfiguration of Our Lord.
August 22nd brings the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth (the exact site is
now disputed) when in 1485 King Richard III lost his crown and his life,
chiefly due to the treachery of some noblemen who had promised to support
him against Henry Tudor and then changed sides. Nowadays people do not
believe Richard to have been the evil tyrant depicted by Shakespeare, and the
discovery of his bones showed that he was not a hunchback. There is nothing
new about “spin”; all the “Histories” Shakespeare got his stories from were
written by Tudor sympathisers and it would have been very dangerous to
suggest that Elizabeth I’s grandfather had no right to the throne! In his life time
Richard was regarded as a good king, especially in the North. He stayed at the
Castle when in Leicester, and wrote a letter from there, and would have
worshipped at St. Mary’s, the Castle church.
The end of August brings the Bank Holiday, which originally came at
the beginning of the month. Bank Holidays began during the reign of Queen
Victoria in the 19th century, when working people got very little time off.
Dickens tells how Mr. Scrooge even begrudged his clerks a day off at
Christmas. A M.P. named Sir John Lubbock suggested that workers in banks
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should have days off at Christmas, Easter, Whitsun and in August; with banks
closed on these days little other business
could be done. By this time railways had
spread all over the country and, thanks to
people like Thomas Cook, ordinary people in
towns could visit the country and seaside,
even if only for a day.
Among the Saints and famous Christians we
remember this month are St. Dominic (8th)
founder of the Dominican Order (Black Friars); Mary Sumner (9th) founder of
the Mothers’ Union; Jeremy Taylor (13th) 17th century Vicar of Uppingham
and Chaplain to Charles I during the Civil War; St. Bernard of Clairvaux (20th);
St. Monica (27th) and her son St. Augustine of Hippo, Theologian (28th).
THE OTHER YOUNG PLANTAGENETS
The mystery of the “Princes in the Tower” has never been solved.
although much has been written on the subject. The boys were the sons of King
Edward IV, who died suddenly when the two boys were in their teens. Edward
had appointed his younger brother Richard (Duke of Gloucester and later King)
as Regent until the elder boy, Edward, came of age, cutting out the relatives of
his wife Elizabeth Woodville. However, while arrangements were being made
for Edward’s coronation, it was suddenly revealed that their father had been a
bigamist. When he married Elizabeth he was already married to another woman
(although by this time she was dead), which made his children with Elizabeth
illegitimate and unable to inherit the throne. Edward’s other brother George
(Duke of Clarence) had been executed for plotting treason with the French,
which left only Richard to become King as Richard III.
At the time young Prince Edward and his brother were living in the
Royal apartments in the Tower of London, which at that time was still a Royal
residence and it was the custom for a new king to live there until his coronation.
Then they disappeared, and it was put about (notably by Shakespeare and other
Tudor writers) that Richard had had them murdered,
But why should Richard have his nephews murdered, the sons of his
brother of whom he was reportedly very fond? People say, ‘Because they stood
between him and the throne’. But Parliament had ruled that they, and their
sisters, were disqualified from the succession. Besides King Edward’s family
there were other young Plantagenets, and nothing happened to them, at least
from King Richard.
At the time the Princes had a baby brother, although sadly he died
before he was two. They also had five sisters, although in those days they were
not likely to be considered as possible queens in their own right.
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George, whose wife had also died, left a son and daughter, although his
treason also disqualified them. When Richard became king the children were
taken into his household to be brought up.
Richard and his wife Anne had only one child, Edward, who died when
he was about 11. Richard also had an illegitimate son and daughter from
relationships before his marriage. They too were acknowledged and brought up
in his household, but the boy John was never considered for the Crown. When
little Edward died, Richard named a sister’s son as his heir.
Richard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and Henry Tudor became
King. He had promised Elizabeth Woodville that, if she supported him, he
would marry her eldest daughter, also Elizabeth – which he did. The other sisters
were married off to Tudor supporters, apart from the youngest who became a
nun. Oddly enough, nothing was said about the ‘Princes’, until 1502, when Sir
James Tyrrell was suddenly executed for having allegedly murdered them on
Richard’s orders.
George’s son Edward was imprisoned in the Tower until he was in his
twenties. He was not the brightest of boys - today he would be said to have
“learning difficulties” - and was easily led into a plot to escape, for which he was
executed. His sister Margaret survived to marry and become Countess of
Salisbury, but was executed by order of Henry VIII. She was later canonised by
the Roman Church.
Richard’s son John was executed by Henry VII. No one knows what
became of Richard’s daughter Katharine. Richard and Anne would probably
arrange a marriage when she was in her teens and, being illegitimate and female,
she was perhaps not considered important. Richard’s nephew, who was to have
succeeded him, was killed in a later uprising against the Tudors.
So it looks as if Richard had nothing to fear from the Princes, as there
were still other possible Plantagenet heirs, and he did nothing about them. Henry
Tudor, however, was a different matter. By marrying the Princes’ sister,
according to the custom of the time he legitimised her - and also her sisters and
brothers, the elder of whom would be the rightful King! It was very much in
Henry’s interest that all (male) Plantagenets should disappear.
During the reign of Charles II some bones were found buried in the
Tower and interred as those of the Princes. Now that the remains of King
Richard have been found, and his DNA traced, perhaps some day permission
may be given for the “Princes” DNA to be checked with that of their uncle. After
all, at that time the Tower would be full of boys - sons of officials, pages,
servants - and people were always dying of plague or some other illness.
The discovery of his bones and more research into his life, has shown
that Richard III was very far from being the hunch-backed monster of legend.
Perhaps some day the true fate of his nephews may be discovered.
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YOUNG PEOPLE’S PAGE
In Old Testament times a woman named Naomi moved from the town of
Bethlehem, with her husband and two sons, into the next country called
Moab, because there was a famine and they had no food.. They settled
down in Moab and the boys grew up
there and married Moabite girls.
Then there was illness in Moab and
all three of the men died. Naomi
decided to return home, and told her
two daughters-in-law to go back to
their own families. One went, but the
other, a girl named Ruth, insisted on
coming with Naomi to take care of
her. They came back to Bethlehem at harvest time and, because they were
so poor, Ruth went to glean corn in the fields so that they could make
bread. The Law of Moses said that when farmers harvested their corn they
must leave some for the poor to pick up (this is called gleaning). Ruth was
working in the field of a rich farmer named Boaz, who was related to Naomi.
He asked who the strange girl was, and when he saw how hard she was
working, and learned that she was looking after Naomi, he told his reapers
to leave corn for her to pick and also to share their food and water with her.
By the end of the harvest Boaz and Ruth had fallen in love and they got
married. They were the grandparents of the famous King David, and many
years later Joseph and Mary, and Jesus, were among their descendants.
Wheat Oats Maize Barley -
Rye Rice -
is used in our country to make flour T N B R D F
for bread and cakes, and in cereals
J M A I Z E
are used for porridge and biscuits
“Indian corn” or “corn on the cob” is
H J R C O K
used for corn flakes
in Biblical times poor people made
M O L E A P
bread with it. It is also used for
making beer.
W H E A T Q
in Germany they make a dark bread
T R Y E S W
with rye
is not grown in this country but is
often eaten by itself, in cereals or in Find the grains in the
Rice Pudding.
word square
Answers to last months Puzzle 1) Font 2) Lectern 3) Pews 4) Organ 5) Altar 6) Pulpit
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ANIMALS OF THE BIBLE
2) New Testament
In New Testament times, in the Holy Land, sheep would be very much
in evidence, along with the shepherds who stayed with them all the time to guard
against robbers and predators.
The first time we read of
them in the New Testament is in
Luke Ch. 2, when the Angels
announced the birth of Jesus to the
shepherds, who were guarding
their flocks at night.
Perhaps the best known
reference is in the words of our
Lord in John Ch. 10 - “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life
for the sheep.” A school assembly was once based on this chapter. PE forms in
a square represented the sheepfold, and the “sheep” followed their shepherds out
and back in. “Robbers” tried to climb over the wall and were chased off. They
then tried, disguised as shepherds, to lure the sheep away, but the sheep “did not
know the voice of strangers” and baa’ed loudly to warn the shepherds! The
“hired man” was frightened away by the “wolf”, and the shepherd came and
chased the “wolf” away.
John the Baptist described Jesus as the “Lamb of God”. Sheep were
sacrificed in the Temple at Jerusalem and particularly at Passover time. St. Paul
says “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us” (1 Cor. 5) so Jesus is called the
Paschal Lamb.
In Hebrews 13 Jesus is called the great shepherd of the sheep, and Peter
also calls Him the shepherd (1 Peter 2 and 5). In Matthew 18 He tells about the
lost sheep and the Shepherd who went to find it - and also warns against “false
prophets in sheep’s clothing when they are really wolves.”
In some Free Churches the minister is sometimes called “Pastor”,
which means “shepherd”. This is also true of our Bishops and why they carry a
“crozier” - a shepherd’s crook.
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And we have seen, and testify
that the Father has sent his Son (Jesus)
as the Saviour of the world.
1 John 4 v. 14
TIME FOR A LAUGH.
A delivery driver was asked to take six monkeys to the zoo in his van, but on the
way his van broke down. After a while he managed to flag down an empty
minibus and offered the driver £50 to take the monkeys to the Zoo while he
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monkeys to the Zoo?” he said. “Oh, I did,” said the minibus driver, “ but I had
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