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APPEAL FOR HELP

Food for Bosnia The Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford, has been sending clothing, blankets, food, toiletries and medicine to Bosnia since October 1992. During the summer it sent monthly convoys directly to refugees in Split and

to beseiged communities in Travnik and Turcin. They need cash, non-perishable food (no pork) medicines, baby requisites, toiletries and loan of vans or trucks. The return trip takes two weeks. For more information write to the Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford, Suite

2, Kennet House, 108/110 London Road, Oxford 0X3 9AW or ring either Mr Paul on Oxford (0865) 725827 or Safid Hashmi on 0706 624031 (fax: 0706 621724).

Befriend a Child The Lifechance Project works with disadvantaged young people aged between 16 and 25, particularly those who are in care or who have no regular contact with a parent or near relative. Volunteers, or Independent Visitors as they are called, are sought who will be able to commit themselves to one particular child. They will be required to visit the child regularly, to befriend them and take them on outings. Contact the IV Scheme Co-ordinator, Lifechance Project, Cricket Road, Oxford 0X4 3DW. Telephone 0865 749974.

Builders wanted

in Romania Three years after the fall of Ceausescu, To Romania with Aid is working to improve life for some of Romania's 200,000 orphans. The organisation sends volunteers EVERY WEEK to work in Bucharest: they need people with building skills who can raise the £400 (600 for two weeks) needed for their flight

and accommodation. Donations towards building materials are also required. Willing volunteers with DIY experience also welcome. Contact Richard Bland, Director of Volunteers, To Romania with Aid, c/o Walnut Tree House, Hawthorn Lane, Farnham Common, Bucks, SL2 3SW.Telephone 0753 642947 or 0895 272222 ex 2354.

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Uganda Send a Cow celebrates five years with a balloon day in Bristol! The charity gives people in Uganda the chance to make a living through improvement of their local cattle. SAC provides cattle embryos; training and equipment for artificial insemination and bulls to upgrade local stock. On Saturday 25 September at lOam thousands of helium-filled balloons will be sold and released from Ashton Court to raise money for the charity in the presence of stars of sport, stage and screen. For more information (on cows or balloons!) telephone 0225 874270 or write to Send a Cow, Corston Fields Farm, Corston, Bath BA2 9EZ.

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in China Christian Solidarity International reports that Chinese Christians are being imprisoned and tortured. In March one Christian was beaten to death by public security (police) officers. Last September, eight people were arrested in Shandong province and supposedly ill treated. The eight Christians were members

of a local group New Testament Church which has been banned in some areas of China. Three people: Zhang Lezhi, YanPeizhi and Zu Zhihe, have been sentenced to three years at the Chang Le 'Re-education Through Labour' Camp in Chang Le county near Shouguang where they are said to have been abused by other prisoners and made to carry out the worst jobs. Please write courteous letters to the Chinese Ambassador and his officials to express your protests: His

Mr Ma Yuzhen, Embassy of the People's Republic of China, 49-51 Portland Place, London WiN 3AH; The Minister of Justice of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Yang Buzhang, Sifabu, Xiaguangli, Beijingshi 100016, People's Republic of China; The Governor of the Shandong ProvincialPeople's Government, Zhao Zhihao Shengzhang, Shandongsheng RenminZhengfu, 193 JingerLu, Jiananshi, Shandongsheng, People's Republic of China.

Mixed school in Northern Ireland An anglican nun who lives on one of the few mixed Catholic

and Protestant streets in Belfast, visited the Diocese recently on her way to Montreal to speak at the Second World Congress on Violence and Co-existence.

"The degree of segregation between Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland is astounding, and not fully appreciated here," said Sister Anna, who was staying in Haddenham, Bucks with relatives. Sister Anna belongs to the Sisters of the Love of God, Fairacres, Oxford, but since 1972 she has lived and worked in Belfast where she helped found Childrens' Community Holidays and All Children Together (ACT), two charities which help children from both sides of the community. Sister Anna, who was awarded an MBE this year for her work, now devotes most of her time to raising funds for Lagan College, the mixed comprehensive school set up 12 years ago by AC!' on the outskirts of Belfast. "The idea came from the parents," she says. "They couldn't afford the luxury of segregated schools. They wanted their children to go to mixed schools and grow up together."

Money is needed to build a worship centre and to pay the salaries of the young Catholic priest and the Presbytarian lay woman who run the joint chaplaincy at Lagan. "It is my 'castle in the air' that a few parishes or Christian groups here would commit themselves to a fund-raising event once a year to provide us with security," says Sister Anna. "The ordinary people hate the violence but do not know what to do about it. Lagan College is a working example of hope for a different future." If you would like to help please write to Sister Anna, Hope House, Alliance Avenue, Belfast 14, Northern Ireland.

WHAT IN THE WORLD CAN ANYONE DO?

Christians throughout the world are working to alleviate suffering, often with very few resources, and without the support of any national organisations. In the second of our occasional series on the work of some of these organisations, Venetia Horton reports on the work of an Anglican nun in Belfast, a team taking medicine out to Bosnia, a charity which sends cows to Uganda and a request to take your building skills to Romania.

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combination of adulthood and conversion to Christ gave me an appreciation of the quieter Sunday which has never left me. There seems to be a 're-creative' value, engendered by the withdrawal from the more usual activities of life and the positive taking part in Christian worship and service and enjoying the change.

Increasingly in these days, the 'quietness' and 'difference' of Sunday is threatened. One can appreciate that the majority of people who have no commitment to Christianity must fill their day with something which they consider satisfying. We who may regret

the changes need to remember that we are in no position to call "Quiet!" At the same time, the institution of a day of rest was God's provision for us, based on divine wisdom and the understanding of the needs of the whole of mankind.

Commercial need The introduction of unlawful shop-opening on Sundays is purely a commercial interest. It could be argued that without customers they would not open, but on the whole, if shops were only open six days a week, most people could and would procure all they needed on those days. It is availability which entices people to shop on Sundays, not,

I suspect, an insistent demand. Oddly perhaps, I do not feel the same objection to the Sunday opening of pubs as I do about ordinary shops. Pubs do at least provide places of community.

"What should be a Christian's attitude - would you buy an icecream on a Sunday?"

Given the situation as it is, what should be the Christian's attitude? Do we say we are against Sunday opening of shops -all of them? And are we consistent in our attitude? Would we, for instance, buy an icecream - a newspaper - a meal - petrol? Or do we say, "Oh, well, these places are open so we might as well use them "? Or would you say "What about Christian liberty? We're not under law".

True, we're not under law; the Christian Sunday is not under the same kind of legal requirement as was the Sabbath. Therefore we should not cite Old Testament prohibitions in support of Sunday restrictions. If we do that, are we not obliged to keep the whole law relating to the Sabbath? Some people do go almost the whole way when they let the washing-up accumulate until Monday and will do nothing which could be regarded as 'work'. Yet there is a lot of sense in preparing food and cleaning shoes on Saturday, for it does relieve the Christian of the need to spend time on Sunday which could be used in other ways.

First day of the week But though we may not be 'under the law' concerning the Sabbath, we are under the law to Christ. That is, we are each responsible

for the way we use the provision he has made for a day of rest. Rest, in this context, does not mean lying down or doing nothing: when God rested on the seventh day it means he ceased from doing what he had been doing. And that's what we ought to be doing - leaving the occupation of the six days and making good use of the Lord's provision. We now call Sunday the first day of the week. Surely the implication of this is that we may start the week well by our wise and godly use of Sunday and perhaps this is more positive than the concept of resting.

I knew an Anglican Christian who spent his Saturday evenings preparing himself for Sunday - not just doing things to save work on Sunday but in spiritual preparation. Not for him the all-evening parties or sports with the consequent lack of desire to get up in good time the next

morning. I know another man who deliberately rises very early on Sunday and goes to bed late to make the most use of the day. It's a matter of personal attitude, isn't it? - attitude which should recognise the responsibilities Christians have for being at meetings in good time and in right heart, for using the day well in ways which please God and contribute to the general good of the church and perhaps the community.

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joy in the Lord"

I find the term 'the Lord's Day' irritatingly pious, but it does have the effect of making a distinction and I believe that's where our responsibility lies.

Let me end by quoting Isaiah 58:13-14, delightful verses which do not lay down specific prohibitions but enunciate he principles we should adopt: If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honourable, if you honour it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord has spoken.'

Ken Miles Ken Miles was 'converted to Christ' when he was 19. Now retired, he lives in Banbury and attends the Southan Road Evangelical Church.

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GOD SPEAKS TO US IN OUR God in the life of Bishop Kallistos Wa re

UNIQUENESS Bishop Kallistos Ware talks to the Revd Philip Roderick, director of the Chiltern Christian Training Programme, about his life in the Greek Orthodox Church

I first came into contact with the Orthodox church at the age of 17. It was a hot summer's afternoon and I was wandering aimlessly through the streets of central London when I saw a church I had never been inside before. My first impression was that the building was completely empty. As my eyes became accustomed to the gloom I noticed there were a few people standing near icons with burning lamps in front of them. Somewhere out of sight a choir was singing. After a little while, the deacon emerged from the sanctuary to sing one of the litanies. My first impression of emptiness was now succeeded by a quite different impression: I felt that the church was packed With worshippers! couldn't see but who were playing an immediate and dynamic part in our prayer. I had a feeling that this quite simple service was in fact heaven on earth.

Heaven on earth A good deal later, when I'd read more about Orthodoxy, I realised that this idea of heaven on earth is fundamental to the whole approach of the Orthodox Church towards worship. And I can remember that when I emerged from the church and suddenly came out into the sun and light and heard again the sound of the traffic, it was as if I had been on another level of reality, and I had no idea how long I'd been in there, whether it was five minutes or two hours. That experience certainly had a decisive influence on me.

Later when I got to know more about the tradition of mystical prayer in Orthodoxy that also attracted me, but it was a gradual process. I spent seven years as an Orthodox layman before I was committed to the monastic life.

I think of a phrase used by a great Romanian Orthodox priest Father Dumitru Staniloae. He says there are as many different ways of loving God as there are different persons. The Holy Spirit speaks to each one of us in our uniqueness, in our distinctive

particularity. Isee both marriage and monasticism as sacraments of love. In both cases we are expressing our love for God. No one should become a monk or nun unless they have also a real sense of the value of marriage as a source of grace and sanctification. And married people also need to have a sense of the value of dedicated celibacy.

In the Orthodox Church almost all the unmarried clergy are attached to a monastery. I was professed as a monk in the Monastery of St John on the Island of Patmos, the island of the Apocalypse, in 1966. Almost immediately after being professed, I was sent back to England to take up the job which

I continue to hold which is to teach Eastern Orthodox studies in the University of Oxford.

The monks at Patmos saw this as a reasonable path for me to follow. This is quite a common situation in Orthodoxy; that individual monks are sent out on particular tasks perhaps as preachers, on mission work, teaching, youth work, less commonly they would be put in charge of parishes. Teaching in the university is in principle a full-time job, but I have a lot of flexibility. If! choose to prepare my lectures in the middle of the

night I can do that and do other things during the day. In fact since 1966 I have also been responsible for the Greek Orthodox parish here in Oxford. There was already a Russian parish and we joined together to build a little church in Canterbury Road.

Then I have a third task. Eleven years ago I was consecrated bishop and I am one of the assistant bishops in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira which covers the whole of Great Britain. Once or twice a month

I will travel to other communities where the archbishop sends me.

It is difficult to find enough time for prayer. The danger is that Martha pushes out Mary. The monastic services are very long and elaborate but it's never been a requirement of the Orthodox Church that a monk should say all the divine office by himself if he's living outside the monastery. I was given a quite simple rule, chiefly to say the Jesus Prayer. That's the short invocation: 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me', frequently repeated. And usually we have the Orthodox equivalent of the rosary, a prayer rope, to help us say that.

It is a prayer in words, but because the words are very simple and because they're frequently repeated one is helped to reach out beyond words into the living silence of God. Sometimes you can't turn off the inner television set simply by an effort of will. You may suffer from endless distracting thoughts like buzzing flies on a summer's evening, as one of the Russian spiritual masters puts it. But what you can do is give to your ever-active mind a very simple task that will draw it to unity but will also absorb its need to be occupied.

The Jesus Prayer We are told that a prayer of the lips should become gradually more inward and become prayer of the mind, and then we are told to descend from the mind into the heart, and the heart here indicates the moral and spiritual centre of the whole person. So the prayer becomes part of yourself, not just something that you say, but something you are. Now certainly we achieve that only very imperfectly and only

by God's grace; for prayer of the heart means prayer in which we are totally absorbed. And it is not just my prayer but the prayer of Christ in me. The aim of prayer is not just that we should say things to God but that we should be taken up into the dialogue that passes between the persons of the Trinity, the dialogue of love. So, through the Holy Spirit, Christ's response to God the Father becomes our response: we cry

"Christian mysticism is communal. Faith in Christ brings us into a community - the Church"

Abba, Father. So this is the aim of the Jesus Prayer: to introduce us into the life of God himself.

In Christian mysticism we discover the one within us, the one to whom we listen: our Lord Jesus Christ. So Christian mysticism is personal. The second element is that Christian mysticism is communal. Faith in Christ brings us into a community, the Church. Our innerjoumey is not solitary. And thirdly, Christian mysticism is based on the sacraments. Through baptism Christ and the Holy Spirit come to dwell in our hearts, and the whole mystical journey is to discover that presence. In the same way the mystical life is essentially united with the Eucharist. The Christ whom we discover in our hearts is the Christ whom we receive in Holy Communion. In Greek the connection is very clear because the word for sacrament is 'mystery'. We talk about the 'mystery of baptism' and the 'mystery of holy communion'. So 'mystical' means life inthe sacraments.

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Synod members are only human, and the present members have been through stressful times together. We were facing a fairly dry agenda as we sat down on the first evening at York. So when the Bishop of Guildford tripped in an answer to a question and told us that a group of 'small bishops' were meeting .... the Bishop and Synod collapsed in tears of helpless laughter. It did us all good.

The grim reality of a mass of business hit us the next morning. During the sessions we debated legislation on Vacancy in See Committees, amendment to a Pastoral Measure and to Canon 17, Care of Cathedrals, Church Representation Rules and Annual Fees among other matters. We also spent time on revision of the Service of the Word and Affirmations of Faith under Liturgical Business. These are not yet ready for use, but will, I think, be welcomed when they are.

Some regrets It was with regret that Synod debated the Report on Theological Colleges, because we knew that it advocated the closure of two valued establishments: Chichester and Salisbury and Wells. The rise in the number of courses and the decrease in the number of ordinands have forced this decision on the Church. There was one suggestion that we should move towards just two large colleges in England and close the rest.

Concerns about the numbers and quality of potential ordinands coming forward were expressed in various contexts. Our own Diocesan Director of Ordinands, Canon Martin Peirce, felt a far more vigorous recruitment policy was called for.

There was an interesting debate on the report 'Mission in Mortar' which looked at church buildings. We had speeches from people in many situations on the joys and burdens of maintaining and updating our churches.

Monday is Money-day at the York Synod. In 1993 we have seen new faces reporting to us on matters financial. The First Estates Commissioner is now Sir

Michael Colman and the Chairman of the Central Board of Finance is Alan McLintock. The Commissioners' money subsidises clergy pay and pensions and funds various church activities. Due to unwise borrowing and investing just before the recession hit, there have been severe losses reported. The CBF deals with 'housekeeping expenses' at national level. Despite belts being tightened yet further, costs continue to rise. It is to be hoped that the new brooms will sweep effectively.

The current economic situation is contributing to mounting levels of personal debt. Aprivate member's motion called on members of our Church to be involved locally and nationally in tackling this problem. Since debt also burdens many clergy families, an amendment was added that financial guidance should be given to ordinands and clergy.

Money worries are not the only secret that may be hidden behind the vicarage door. Marriage breakdown is now increasingly common in clergy marriages. The high expectations and the stress of the job together with the strains of modern life are too much for some families. Preparation at college and a good confidential diocesan counselling service were called for as a result of another private member's motion.

A few giggles Should the lay members of Synod be elected by all electoral roll members? How like Parliament should Synod be? Is the Church a democracy or is it people trying to find the will of God? Another private member's motion called on us to debate these matters. It may have been the potential costs and the logistics that discouraged people, or it may have been the knowledge that the matter will be reviewed during Synod reform, but we could not seem to take it very seriously. Somehow the giggles that hit us on the first

evening surfaced again. In a vote by houses the laity voted for the status quo.

And wider concerns Two diocesan synod motions were given a much more serious reception. The first calling for a system of regular review and development for the clergy was quickly passed. The second, after amendment, expressed concern for the street children of many countries and called on the government to press the international community for action.

In an address to Synod on Sunday, the Archbishop of Canterbury called for unity, generous giving and evangelism. His speech paved the way for our final debate on Tuesday when we took note of the report of the House of Bishops on pastoral arrangements following the ordination of women to the priesthood. In November we will be asked to pass an Act of Synod which will set up the arrangements which are largely a working out of the Measure now standing before Parliament. While there were critics from both sides, the general feeling was that the Act will satisfy the greatest number of people. The unity called for by the Archbishop becomes a possibility.

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"The Christian position is that human life is a gift of God to be respected to the end. It can never be right to kill the innocent person, even if, in extreme old age, they ask for this," said the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Revd Richard Harries. He was speaking in his aidress to the Diocesan Synod on June 19.

The Bishop said he had chosen this controversial subject because people are living longer and there is mounting pressure to change the law to allow voluntary euthanasia.

This does not mean, he said, that life has to be prolonged by every available means. On the contrary, as numerous Church statements have made clear, "We have a right to refuse

proposed Oxford Healing Centre was held at St Luke's Church, Cowley on June 19. Support has built up over the past three years, under the chairmanship of the Revd Stephen Pix, Vicar of St Michael at the North Gate. The Bishop of Oxford is a Patron and there has been enthusiastic help from Dr Tom Jones, Medical Adviser to the Oxfordshire Family Health Services Authority.

The inspiration came from the Healing and Counselling Centre at St Marylebone in London whose founder, the Revd Christopher Hamel Cooke,

The June agenda of the Diocesan Synod traditionally 'takes note' of the annual reports and accounts of Diocesan Boards and Councils. Members have to give two days notice in writing if they wish to debate the motion in respect of any report; is it healthy that the last time this happened was in June 1987?

In presenting the outline Diocesan Budget for 1994 and the Financial Forecast for the following three years, the chairman of the Board of Finance was looking for Synod's view on the proposed increase in parish share to 6.5 per cent. The planning and budget sub-committee (of the Bishop's Council) suggested this figure, aware of the pressure on parishes voiced at the archdeaconry consultations. An amendment raising this figure to 7.5 per cent was passed. It was a good, wide-ranging debate. (Incidentally, if you feel that Synod is not. 'in tune' with the parishes, now is the moment to think about standing for election next year.) Bracknell Deanery brought

burdensome treatments". However there is a fundamental moral distinction between killing and letting die, said Bishop Richard.

There might also be pressure on old people to request voluntary euthansia if it were allowed and the relationship of trust that exists between doctors and patients could be undermined, the Bishop said.

The hospice movement had been pioneered by Christians. "What is needed is not a change in the law but proper care for the dying throughout the length and breadth of the country." In particular old people want from us our friendship and to know that "we are with them and God is with them," he concluded.

Steering Committee. Hewas the first speaker, emphasising that we are all involved in health, wholeness and holiness.

Next, the Revd Valerie Makin, co-founder of the Marylebone Centre, told how counselling can help people to face fear, anger and guilt, enabling healing to take place.

The Revd Richard McLaren, who raised the £1.4 million needed for the St Marylebone Centre, stressed the importance of discovering the needs of the community, and then of finding the right personnel and the right building. When this is done the

forward a motion asking for a commitment that at least 75 per cent of the Diocesan Synod's budget be spent on the parochial ministry. They showed how year by year the proportion changes in favour of other expenditure and so priorities are shifted without debate. If passed, the good news would have been an additional £318,000 (ten new clergy) for parochial ministry; the bad news would be redundancies elsewhere, or a massively increased parish share. It was not passed.

Attitudes and behaviour

The presentation of the 'Seeds of Hope' report encouraged awareness of racism. Parishes where no non-white faces are seen still need to evaluate themselves and how they behave towards black and Asian people in the light of God's love. All of us are influential in our behaviour and attitudes.

The Diocese has taken a special interest in projects in Sunderland and Aylesbury,

money will be forthcoming, he said.

Dr Tom Jones set out the relationship between complementary medicine and counselling and the NHS. A constraint on more general acceptance of complementary therapies is lack of research, and one benefit from a healing centre would be in furthering such research. Sir James Watt, former President of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Patron of the Oxford Healing Centre, summed up the feelings of the conference when he said that the future of medicine lay in the holistic approach.

funded through the Church Urban Fund. Yvonne Fife, the Development Officer connected with the Oxford Diocese's Sunderland link and the Revd Ron Hart from the Church of the Good Shepherd, South Court in Aylesbury, told us about them. The Sunderland project was set up by a visionary parish priest without prior groundwork. It seeks to listen to local people and communities and take what is being said back to the church. While commending Yvonne Fife's work in Sunderland, John Irvine questioned whether this project will achieve anything acceptable to the local community. From the outset it has not been adequately 'owned' by the local church or the Church of England. One hopes the CUF trustees keep a close eye on the projects they are funding.

National Curriculum Recent legislation introducing the National Curriculum, restating the requirements for

worship and religious education, delegating resources and decision-making to school governors, encouraging schools to become grant maintained and introducing independent inspectors, has greatly increased the duties of the Diocesan Board of Education, particularly in respect of the 284 church schools in this Diocese. A proposal noting their work with gratitude, agreeing that Synod funding should continue but that additional funding may be sought from other sources, and welcoming the intention to form a limited company for the provision of education services was passed.

The new constitution for the STEM (Stewardship Training Education and Ministry) board was approved and will come into effect on a date to be decided by the Bishop of Oxford. That is not quite as mysterious as it sounds - the date hinges on the date of constitution of the new Oxford and St Albans ministry course.

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DMDED LOYAMES By a curious twist in the legal process, the Diocesan Chancellor and the Diocesan Registrar find themselves on opposite sides in the action brought by the Church Society against the two Archbishops and the General Synod.

The Diocesan Chancellor, Peter Boydell QC, has been briefed by the Church Society. It is asking the High Court to review the recent decision of the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament which permits the womens' ordination measure to proceed to its final stages. If its application succeeds, it could cause serious delay in the further passage of the legislation and the ordination of women to the priesthood would be held up.

Meanwhile, Dr Frank Robson of Winckworth & Pemberton, who is both the Diocesan Registrar and the Provincial Registrar for the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been instructed to oppose the application on behalf of both the Archbishops and on behalf of the General Synod.

Dr Robson's partner, the Revd John Rees, who is Deputy Registrar of the Diocese, comments, "Although the situation may seem strange, the fact is that there are only a limited number of lawyers who specialise in the complex field of ecclesiastical law. Although we happen to be on opposite sides in this particular matter, the strong personal relations between Peter Boydell and the partners of Winckworth & Pemberton will, I believe, assist both sides in reaching a sensible conclusion."

• Once again Oxford has reached the Church Times Cricket Cup final. They will meet Liverpool at Southgate on September 2. To reach the final, Liverpool beat Southwell by 20 runs (Liverpool 206 for 6; Southwell 186). Oxford won by eight wickets in the semi- final against Worcester: Worcester 92 Oxford 94 for 2. • The Revd Tom Wright, Chaplain and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and author of Who was Jesus? is to be the new Dean of Lichfield. • Father Bruce Dutson, Rector of St Giles with St Saviour Reading is leaving his parish to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. He hopes to be ordained an RC priest. • A two-year course for lay pastoral assistants begins this term. Apply to the Chiltern Christian Training Programme on 0494 481550. • Christians are no different from other people in that three out of four have probably not made a will. Good Will Sunday takes place on October 31. The idea is to encourage good stewardship of resources among Christians by leaving a legacy for Christian work in their wills. • A memorial service for Bishop Harry Carpenter, who died last June, will be held at 2.30pm on Saturday October 2 at Christ Church Cathedral.

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HUMAN LIFE IS A GIFT OF GOD The Bishop of Oxford speaks on euthanasia at the June Synod

A one-day conference on the is chairman of the Oxford

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Harvesting the seeds of hope Diocesan Synod Report

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Forty-four young people and adults left for Taizd on an Oxford Diocesan Youth Pilgrimage on August 14. The party was led by the Bishop of Oxford and his wife, Dr Jo Harries.

The pilgrimage was arranged to coincide with our Diocesan Year of Children and Young People. Also in the group were Peter Ball, the Diocesan Youth Officer and Roger Fray, the Children's Officer.

Taizé is an ecumenical pilgrimage centre in the hills of eastern France. It was founded by Brother Roger who first went there in 1940. Now there are 90 brothers from some 20 different countries who welcome visitors from all over the world.

A stay in Taizé involves taking part in the whole rythm of daily life there; prayers, meetings, meals and small groups. Asked to comment on its importance as a pilgrimage centre, Bishop Richard said: "Its value for young people particularly is in meeting people from all over the world, especially at this time, people from eastern Europe in the context of some very powerful worship."

Stephen Jeffery from Witney went to Taizé last year on the Archbishop of Canterbury's pilgrimage. He was so delighted by its atmosphere and Christian fellowship that he decided to make a return visit with the Diocesan pilgrimage. Four teenagers from Wendover were accompanied by the Revd Joan Hicks who once lived in the Taizé community for 18 months. However, for Frances Starr from Faringdon it was her first visit. Apart from the spiritual opportunities, she was delighted to have the chance to

After nearly 20 years as Area Bishop of Buckingham, the Right Revd Dr Simon Burrows has an-nounced that he will retire on January 31 1994.

Before coming to the Oxford Diocese, the Bishop was Vicar of Wyken in the Diocese of Cov-entry and Rector of Fareham in Hampshire. He is also a keen cricketer and Egyptologist and was recently awarded an hon-orary doctorate by Buckingham University for his service to the county.

Bishop Simon will long be remembered for his work for Britain's first ecumenical city church at Milton Keynes. Canon David Goldie, the city's Bor-ough Dean says: "It is providen-tial for Milton Keynes that Bishop Simon has been its An-glican leader for the key period of its development. His committmentto the church build-ing programme has been one measure of the greatness of his contribution. At least as great has been his readiness to see his leadership as being exercised in partnership with the leaders of the other traditions." 'It's my Belief is the title of Bishop Simon's personal statement for the Decade of Evangelism. For details

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improve her French. She wants to read languages at university and was hoping her A level results would reach her at Taizé.

Frank Blackwell pictured some of the pilgrims with the Bishop at Church House, Oxford. Others were picked up at Newbury and Slough. There will be afull account of the Taizé pilgrim-age on the Young DOOR page of the October issue. See also

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In a service of traditional and modern music, St Mary's Thamejoyfully welcomedfive new priests to the Church on July 4 including John Simmons, Curate and leader of the town's new Barley Hill Church. The five were ordained by the Bishop of Dorchester, the Right Revd DrAnthony Russell. Six other deacons were ordained priest at Greyfriars, Reading by the Bishop ofReading. Pictured with Bishop Anthony after the service are (left to right) : John Simmons,.Jonathan Millard (Haddenham), Ross Collins (Goring), Andrew Duff (Banbury), Glen Hocken (Cogges).

"We plough the fields and scatter" we sing fervently at harvest festival, but I wonder how relevant this is to most people. In the nineteenth century most people lived, worked and worshipped within the parish. In a rural economy the bringing to God of the harvest was a natural thing to do. Surrounded by their work, the parishioners' offerings were a token of that work and its fruits.

Harvest is a thanksgiving for God's great gift of Creation - of our world, of all its natural resources, and of our need to use them carefully, respectfully as His gifts to US.

In modern life fewer of us are involved in producing food and dairy products, and our harvest offerings come from supermarket shelves. Unless we work in the food processing or retail industries this will probably bear no relationship to our daily working lives.

Perhaps we should look at harvest services anew, and bring to God not only symbols of his natural world, but of our own daily work. Among the fruit and flowers could be a typed letter, report or financial statement, a spanner, a pot of paint, chocolate bar, gasket or paper cup; all end-products of local daily work, using natural resources and supplying the needs of others.

This would be a testament to our belief that God is present in all things, including our working lives. It is an opportunity to bring our daily work into the heart of parish worship, and to acknowledge our act of co-creation with God, turning the wealth of His creation into the 'fruits' of modern life.

This may seem irrelevant to some people because they don't 'work'. But everyone engages in some purposeful activity; if it is unpaid it does not cease to be work! Voluntary work is often hard-going and multi-skilled, needing great persistence.

Gift work done in the home for other family members is often unrewarded even by thanks. It is still work.

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1. God the Creator Who made that chair? John did. He took some wood, some glue and some pins. Then, using his skill and a few basic tools, he made the chair. Who wrote that symphony? Beethoven did. Before he

started there was nothing. The symphony didn't simply exist. And then, from within himself, from his own imagination, genius and will, he produced it.

Now John and Beethoven are makers, but only one of them is truly a 'creator' in the sense that Christians speak of God as 'creator'. We don't believe that God took existing matter and re-shaped it into the universe. We believe that from within Himself, from His own imagination, genius and will, He brought into being all that is. He is the origin of all, but, more than that, all that is reflects its Creator.

The most common question children ask about God (which probably means many adults think it too) is, 'Who made God?' But when we think of Him as the source of everything that exists, the question becomes meaningless - whoever 'made God' would be (by definition) God. That also means, of course, that unlike everything else we know, God can have no beginning or end: He simply exists. That's what we mean when we say that He is 'eternal'.

The American Jewish humorist Shelley Berman once said that God's not His name. 'Jehovah' is His name. God is His occupation. 'Jehovah' (or, more probably, Yahweh) is Hebrew for 'lam' or 'I exist'. That is the really distinctive mark of God - He exists, without origin or destiny, without beginning or end. And that means that when we put our faith in Him we are trusting in one who is beyond the limitations of space and time. We are linked to eternity.

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She said: "I felt and knew that there was healing potential and energies with-in me."

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Meeting of friends There was gathering of friends at tea party atBishop's House, Oxford in June, when the Anglican Bishop of Pelotas in Brazil called on the Bishop of Oxford during a visit to Britain. The two Bishops meet often through their workfortheAnglican Peace and Justice network. The Diocese of Oxford Outreach Fund also supports a housing projectfor landless people in Pelotas . Bishop LuizPelotas (above left) was accompanied by his wife anddaughter and by members of his Cathedral's youth choir. At Bishop's House the choir played croquet for the first time and also gave an impromptu concert for members and friends of the Oxford Diocesan Partnership in World Mission. Despite the poverty and difficulties in Brazil, BishopLuiz saidthey lived by hope. "We need your political support, your affection and your prayers. We have lots to learn from each other," he said. Photo: Frank Blackwell.

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"The Christian position is that human life is a gift of God to be respected to the end. It can never be right to kill the innocent person, even if, in extreme old age, they ask for this," said the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Revd Richard Harries. He was speaking in his aidress to the Diocesan Synod on June 19.

The Bishop said he had chosen this controversial subject because people are living longer and there is mounting pressure to change the law to allow voluntary euthanasia.

This does not mean, he said, that life has to be prolonged by every available means. On the contrary, as numerous Church statements have made clear, "We have a right to refuse

proposed Oxford Healing Centre was held at St Luke's Church, Cowley on June 19. Support has built up over the past three years, under the chairmanship of the Revd Stephen Pix, Vicar of St Michael at the North Gate. The Bishop of Oxford is a Patron and there has been enthusiastic help from Dr Tom Jones, Medical Adviser to the Oxfordshire Family Health Services Authority.

The inspiration came from the Healing and Counselling Centre at St Marylebone in London whose founder, the Revd Christopher Hamel Cooke,

The June agenda of the Diocesan Synod traditionally 'takes note' of the annual reports and accounts of Diocesan Boards and Councils. Members have to give two days notice in writing if they wish to debate the motion in respect of any report; is it healthy that the last time this happened was in June 1987?

In presenting the outline Diocesan Budget for 1994 and the Financial Forecast for the following three years, the chairman of the Board of Finance was looking for Synod's view on the proposed increase in parish share to 6.5 per cent. The planning and budget sub-committee (of the Bishop's Council) suggested this figure, aware of the pressure on parishes voiced at the archdeaconry consultations. An amendment raising this figure to 7.5 per cent was passed. It was a good, wide-ranging debate. (Incidentally, if you feel that Synod is not tin tune' with the parishes, now is the moment to think about standing for election next year.) Bracknell Deanery brought

burdensome treatments". However there is a fundamental moral distinction between killing and letting die, said Bishop Richard.

There might also be pressure on old people to request voluntary euthansia if it were allowed and the relationship of trust that exists between doctors and patients could be undermined, the Bishop said.

The hospice movement had been pioneered by Christians. "What is needed is not a change in the law but proper care for the dying throughout the length and breadth of the country." In particular old people want from us our friendship and to know that "we are with them and God is with them," he concluded.

Steering Committee. He was the first speaker, emphasising that we are all involved in health, wholeness and holiness.

Next, the Revd Valerie Makin, co-founder of the Marylebone Centre, told how counselling can help people to face fear, anger and guilt, enabling healing to take place.

The Revd Richard McLaren, who raised the £1.4 million needed for the St Marylebone Centre, stressed the importance of discovering the needs of the community, and then of finding the right personnel and the right building. When this is done the

forward a motion asking for a commitment that at least 75 per cent of the Diocesan Synod's budget be spent on the parochial ministry. They showed how year by year the proportion changes in favour of other expenditure and so priorities are shifted without debate. If passed, the good news would have been an additional £318,000 (ten new clergy) for parochial ministry; the bad news would be redundancies elsewhere, or a massively increased parish share. It was not passed.

Attitudes and behaviour

The presentation of the 'Seeds of Hope' report encouraged awareness of racism. Parishes where no non-white faces are seen still need to evaluate themselves and how they behave towards black and Asian people in the light of God's love. All of us are influential in our behaviour and attitudes.

The Diocese has taken a special interest in projects in Sunderland and Aylesbury,

money will be forthcoming, he said.

Dr Tom Jones set out the relationship between complementary medicine and counselling and the NHS. A constraint on more general acceptance of complementary therapies is lack of research, and one benefit from a healing centre would be in furthering such research. Sir James Watt, former President of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Patron of the Oxford Healing Centre, summed up the feelings of the conference when he said that the future of medicine lay in the holistic approach.

funded through the Church Urban Fund. Yvonne Fife, the Development Officer connected with the Oxford Diocese's Sunderland link and the Revd Ron Hart from the Church of the Good Shepherd, South Court in Aylesbury, told us about them. The Sunderland project was set up by a visionary parish priest without prior groundwork. It seeks to listen to local people and communities and take what is being said back to the church. While commending Yvonne Fife's work in Sunderland, John Irvine questioned whether this project will achieve anything acceptable to the local community. From the outset it has not been adequately 'owned' by the local church or the Church of England. One hopes the CUF trustees keep a close eye on the projects they are funding.

National Curriculum Recent legislation introducing the National Curriculum, restating the requirements for

worship and religious education, delegating resources and decision-making to school governors, encouraging schools to become grant maintained and introducing independent inspectors, has greatly increased the duties of the Diocesan Board of Education, particularly in respect of the 284 church schools in this Diocese. A proposal noting their work with gratitude, agreeing that Synod funding should continue but that additional funding may be sought from other sources, and welcoming the intention to form a limited company for the provision of education services was passed.

The new constitution for the STEM (Stewardship Training Education and Ministry) board was approved and will come into effect on a date to be decided by the Bishop of Oxford. That is not quite as mysterious as it sounds - the date hinges on the date of constitution of the new Oxford and St Albans ministry course.

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DMDED LOYAMES By a curious twist in the legal process, the Diocesan Chancellor and the Diocesan Registrar find themselves on opposite sides in the action brought by the Church Society against the two Archbishops and the General Synod.

The Diocesan Chancellor, Peter Boydell QC, has been briefed by the Church Society. It is asking the High Court to review the recent decision of the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament which permits the womens' ordination measure to proceed to its final stages. If its application succeeds, it could cause serious delay in the further passage of the legislation and the ordination of women to the priesthood would be held up.

Meanwhile, Dr Frank Robson of Winckworth & Pemberton, who is both the Diocesan Registrar and the Provincial Registrar for the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been instructed to oppose the application on behalf of both the Archbishops and on behalf of the General Synod.

Dr Robson's partner, the Revd John Rees, who is Deputy Registrar of the Diocese, comments, "Although the situation may seem strange, the fact is that there are only a limited number of lawyers who spe cialise in the complex field of ecclesiastical law. Although we happen to be on opposite sides in this particular matter, the strong personal relations between Peter Boydell and the partners of Winckworth &Pemberton will, I believe, assist both sides in reaching a sensible conclusion."

• Once again Oxford has reached the Church Times Cricket Cup final. They will meet Liverpool at Southgate on September 2. To reach the final, Liverpool beat Southwell by 20 runs (Liverpool 206 for 6; Southwell 186). Oxford won by eight wickets in the semi- final against Worcester: Worcester 92 Oxford 94 for 2. • The Revd Tom Wright, Chaplain and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and author of Who was Jesus? is to be the new Dean of Lichfield. • Father Bruce Dutson, Rector of St Giles with St Saviour Reading is leaving his parish to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. He hopes to be ordained an RC priest. • A two-year course for lay pastoral assistants begins this term. Apply to the Chiltern Christian Training Programme on 0494 481550. • Christians are no different from other people in that three out of four have probably not made awill. Good Will Sunday takes place on October 31. The idea is to encourage good stewardship of resources among Christians by leaving a legacy for Christian work in their wills. • Amemorial service for Bishop Harry Carpenter, who died last June, will be held at 230pm on Saturday October 2 at Christ Church Cathedral.

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The grim reality of a mass of business hit us the next morning. During the sessions we debated legislation on Vacancy in See Committees, amendment to a Pastoral Measure and to Canon 17, Care of Cathedrals, Church Representation Rules and Annual Fees among other matters. We also spent time on revision of the Service of the Word and Affirmations of Faith under Liturgical Business. These are not yet ready for use, but will, I think, be welcomed when they are.

Some regrets It was with regret that Synod debated the Report on Theological Colleges, because we knew that it advocated the closure of two valued establishments: Chichester and Salisbury and Wells. The rise in the number of courses and the decrease in the number of ordinands have forced this decision on the Church. There was one suggestion that we should move towards just two large colleges in England and close the rest.

Concerns about the numbers and quality of potential ordinands coming forward were expressed in various contexts. Our own Diocesan Director of Ordinands, Canon Martin Peirce, felt a far more vigorous recruitment policy was called for.

There was an interesting debate on the report 'Mission in Mortar' which looked at church buildings. We had speeches from people in many situations on the joys and burdens of maintaining and updating our churches.

Monday is Money-day at the York Synod. In 1993 we have seen new faces reporting to us on matters financial. The First Estates Commissioner is now Sir

Michael Colman and the Chairman of the Central Board of Finance is Alan McLintock. The Commissioners' money subsidises clergy pay and pensions and funds various church activities. Due to unwise borrowing and investing just before the recession hit, there have been severe losses reported. The CBF deals with 'housekeeping expenses' at national level. Despite belts being tightened yet further, costs continue to rise. It is to be hoped that the new brooms will sweep effectively.

The current economic situation is contributing to mounting levels of personal debt. Aprivate member's motion called on members of our Church to be involved locally and nationally in tackling this problem. Since debt also burdens many clergy families, an amendment was added that financial guidance should be given to ordinands and clergy.

Money worries are not the only secret that may be hidden behind the vicarage door. Marriage breakdown is now increasingly common in clergy marriages. The high expectations and the stress of the job together with the strains of modern life are too much for some families. Preparation at college and a good confidential diocesan counselling service were called for as a result of another private member's motion.

A few giggles Should the lay members of Synod be elected by all electoral roll members? How like Parliament should Synod be? Is the Church a democracy or is it people trying to find the will of God? Another private member's motion called on us to debate these matters. It may have been the potential costs and the logistics that discouraged people, or it may have been the knowledge that the matter will be reviewed during Synod reform, but we could not seem to take it very seriously. Somehow the giggles that hit us on the first

evening surfaced again. In a vote by houses the laity voted for the status quo.

And wider concerns Two diocesan synod motions were given a much more serious reception. The first calling for a system of regular review and development for the clergy was quickly passed. The second, after amendment, expressed concern for the street children of many countries and called on the government to press the international community for action.

In an address to Synod on Sunday, the Archbishop of Canterbury called for unity, generous giving and evangelism. His speech paved the way for our final debate on Tuesday when we took note of the report of the House of Bishops on pastoral arrangements following the ordination of women to the priesthood. In November we will be asked to pass an Act of Synod which will set up the arrangements which are largely a working out of the Measure now standing before Parliament. While there were critics from both sides, the general feeling was that the Act will satisfy the greatest number of people. The unity called for by the Archbishop becomes a possibility.

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I first came into contact with the Orthodox church at the age of 17. It was a hot summer's afternoon and I was wandering aimlessly through the streets of central London when I saw a church I had never been inside before. My first impression was that the building was completely empty. As my eyes became accustomed to the gloom I noticed there were a few people standing near icons with burning lamps in front of them. Somewhere out of sight a choir was singing. After a little while, the deacon emerged from the sanctuary to sing one of the litanies. My first impression of emptiness was now succeeded by a quite different impression: I felt that the church was packed with worshippers I couldn't see but who were playing an immediate and dynamic part in our prayer. I had a feeling that this quite simple service was in fact heaven on earth.

Heaven on earth A good deal later, when I'd read more about Orthodoxy, I realised that this idea of heaven on earth is fundamental to the whole approach of the Orthodox Church towards worship. And I can remember that when I emerged from the church and suddenly came out into the sun and light and heard again the sound of the traffic, it was as if I had been on another level of reality, and I had no idea how long I'd been in there, whether it was five minutes or two hours. That experience certainly had a decisive influence on me.

Later when I got to know more about the tradition of mystical prayer in Orthodoxy that also attracted me, but it was a gradual process. I spent seven years as an Orthodox layman before I was committed to the monastic life.

I think of a phrase used by a great RomanianOrthodox priest Father Dumitru Staniloae. He says there are as many different ways of loving God as there are different persons. The Holy Spirit speaks to each one of us in our uniqueness, in our distinctive

"Both marriage and monasticism are sacraments of love. In both cases we are expressing our love for God"

particularity. Isee both marriage and monasticism as sacraments of love. In both cases we are expressing our love for God. No one should become a monk or nun unless they have also a real sense of the value of marriage as a source of grace and sanctification. And married people also need to have a sense of the value of dedicated celibacy.

In the Orthodox Church almost all the unmarried clergy are attached to a monastery. I was professed as a monk in the Monastery of St John on the Island of Patmos, the island of the Apocalypse, in 1966. Almost immediately after being professed, I was sent back to England to take up the job which

I continue to hold which is to teach Eastern Orthodox studies in the University of Oxford.

The monks at Patmos saw this as a reasonable path for me to follow. This is quite a common situation in Orthodoxy; that individual monks are sent out on particular tasks perhaps as preachers, on mission work, teaching, youth work, less commonly they would be put in charge of parishes. Teaching in the university is in principle a full-time job, but I have a lot of flexibility. If I choose to prepare my lectures in the middle of the

night I can do that and do other things during the day. In fact since 1966 I have also been responsible for the Greek Orthodox parish here in Oxford. There was already a Russian parish and we joined together to build a little church in Canterbury Road.

Then I have a third task. Eleven years ago I was consecrated bishop and I am one of the assistant bishops in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira which covers the whole of Great Britain. Once or twice a month

I will travel to other communities where the archbishop sends me.

It is difficult to find enough time for prayer. The danger is that Martha pushes out Mary. The monastic services are very long and elaborate but it's never been a requirement of the Orthodox Church that a monk should say all the divine office by himself if he's living outside the monastery. I was given a quite simple rule, chiefly to say the Jesus Prayer. That's the short invocation: 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me', frequently repeated. And usually we have the Orthodox equivalent of the rosary, a prayer rope, to help us say that.

It is a prayer in words, but because the words are very simple and because they're frequently repeated one is helped to reach out beyond words into the living silence of God. Sometimes you can't turn off the inner television set simply by an effort of will. You may suffer from endless distracting thoughts like buzzing flies on a summer's evening, as one of the Russian spiritual masters puts it. But what you can do is give to your ever-active mind a very simple task that will draw it to unity but will also absorb its need to be occupied.

The Jesus Prayer We are told that a prayer of the lips should become gradually more inward and become prayer of the mind, and then we are told to descend from the mind into the heart, and the heart here indicates the moral and spiritual centre of the whole person. So the prayer becomes part of yourself, not just something that you say, but something you are. Now certainly we achieve that only very imperfectly and only

by God's grace; for prayer of the heart means prayer in which we are totally absorbed. And it is not just my prayer but the prayer of Christ in me. The aim of prayer is not just that we should say things to God but that we should be taken up into the dialogue that passes between the persons of the Trinity, the dialogue of love. So, through the Holy Spirit, Christ's response to God the Father becomes our response: we cry

"Christian mysticism is communal. Faith in Christ brings us into a community - the Church"

Abba, Father. So this is the aim of the Jesus Prayer: to introduce us into the life of God himself.

In Christian mysticism we discover the one within us, the one to whom we listen: our Lord Jesus Christ. So Christian mysticism is personal. The second element is that Christian mysticism is communal. Faith in Christ brings us into a community, the Church. Our innerjourney is not solitary. And thirdly, Christian mysticism is based on the sacraments. Through baptism Christ and the Holy Spirit come to dwell in our hearts, and the whole mystical journey is to discover that presence. In the same way the mystical life is essentially united with the Eucharist. The Christ whom we discover in our hearts is the Christ whom we receive in Holy Communion. In Greek the connection is very clear because the word for sacrament is 'mystery'. We talk about the 'mystery of baptism' and the 'mystery of holy communion'. So 'mystical' means life in the sacraments.

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PEGASUS Retirement Homes have built up an enviable reputation over the past eight years or so for the quality of their develop-merits and Pegasus Grange in Oxford looks like being one of their finest creations to date.

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When I was a little boy, Sunday was not a day that appealed to me. It was not that I minded being sent to Sunday School for that was a fairly normal activity in those days. I think it was the quietness and the overall feeling that nothing happened, or should happen, on Sunday which made me glad when it was over. This did not arise from a particularly Christian upbringing: it was general. 'Best clothes' tended to rub and were certainly less comfortable than everyday wear, and there seemed to be an insistence on 'going for walks' which I never found to be as delightful as was promised.

Then, during the war, a combination of adulthood and conversion to Christ gave me an appreciation of the quieter Sunday which has never left me. There seems to be a 're-creative' value, engendered by the withdrawal from the more usual activities of life and the positive taking part in Christian worship and service and enjoying the change.

Increasingly in these days, the 'quietness' and 'difference' of Sunday is threatened. One can appreciate that the majority of people who have no commitment to Christianity must fill their day with something which they consider satisfying. We who may regret

the changes need to remember that we are in no position to call "Quiet!" At the same time, the institution of a day of rest was God's provision for us, based on divine wisdom and the understanding of the needs of the whole of mankind.

Commercial need The introduction of unlawful shop-opening on Sundays is purely a commercial interest. It could be argued that without customers they would not open, but on the whole, if shops were only open six days a week, most people could and would procure all they needed on those days. It is availability which entices people to shop on Sundays, not,

I suspect, an insistent demand. Oddly perhaps, I do not feel the same objection to the Sunday opening of pubs as I do about ordinary shops. Pubs do at least provide places of community.

"What should be a Christian's attitude - would you buy an icecream on a Sunday"

Given the situation as it is, what should be the Christian's attitude? Do we say we are against Sunday opening of shops -all of them? And are we consistent in our attitude? Would we, for instance, buy an icecream - a newspaper - a meal - petrol? Or do we say, "Oh, well, these places are open so we might as well use them "? Or would you say "What about Christian liberty? We're not under law".

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True, we're not under law; the Christian Sunday is not under the same kind of legal requirement as was the Sabbath. Therefore we should not cite Old Testament prohibitions in support of Sunday restrictions. If we do that, are we not obliged to keep the whole law relating to the Sabbath? Some people do go almost the whole way when they let the washing-up accumulate until Monday and will do nothing which could be regarded as 'work'. Yet there is a lot of sense in preparing food and cleaning shoes on Saturday, for it does relieve the Christian of the need to spend time on Sunday which could be used in other ways.

First day of the week But though we may not be 'under the law' concerning the Sabbath, we are under the law to Christ. That is, we are each responsible

for the way we use the provision he has made for a day of rest. Rest, in this context, does not mean lying down or doing nothing: when God rested on the seventh day it means he ceased from doing what he had been doing. And that's what we ought to be doing - leaving the occupation of the six days and making good use of the Lord's provision. We now call Sunday the first day of the week. Surely the implication of this is that we may start the week well by our wise and godly use of Sunday and perhaps this is more positive than the concept of resting.

I knew an Anglican Christian who spent his Saturday evenings preparing himself for Sunday - not just doing things to save work on Sunday but in spiritual preparation. Not for him the all-evening parties or sports with the consequent lack of desire to get up in good time the next

morning. I know another man who deliberately rises very early on Sunday and goes to bed late to make the most use of the day. It's amatterof personal attitude, isn't it? - attitude which should recognise the responsibilities Christians have for being at meetings in good time and in right heart, for using the day well in ways which please God and contribute to the general good of the church and perhaps the community.

"If you call the Sabbath a delight.

.you will find your joy in the Lord"

I find the term 'the Lord's Day' irritatingly pious, but it does have the effect of making a distinction and I believe that's where our responsibility lies.

Let me end by quoting Isaiah 58:13-14, delightful verses which do not lay down specific prohibitions but enunciate he principles we should adopt: If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honourable, if you honour it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord has spoken.'

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"The degree of segregation between Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland is astounding, and not fully appreciated here," said Sister Anna, who was staying in Haddenham, Bucks with relatives. Sister Anna belongs to the Sisters of the Love of God, Fairacres, Oxford, but since 1972 she has lived and worked in Belfast where she helped found Childrens' Community Holidays and All Children Together (ACT), two charities which help children from both sides of the community. Sister Anna, who was awarded an MBE this year for her work, now devotes most of her time to raising funds for Lagan College, the mixed comprehensive school set up 12 years ago by ACT on the outskirts of Belfast. "The idea came from the parents," she says. "They couldn't afford the luxury of segregated schools. They wanted their children to go to mixed schools and grow up together."

Money is needed to build a worship centre and to pay the salaries of the young Catholic priest and the Presbytarian lay woman who run the joint chaplaincy at Lagan. "It is my 'castle in the air' that a few parishes or Christian groups here would commit themselves to a fund-raising event once a year to provide us with security," says Sister Anna. "The ordinary people hate the violence but do not know what to do about it. Lagan College is a working example of hope for a different future." If you would like to help please write to Sister Anna, Hope House, Alliance Avenue, Belfast 14, Northern Ireland.

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to beseiged communities in Travnik and Turcin. They need cash, non-perishable food (no pork) medicines, baby requisites, toiletries and loan of vans or trucks. The return trip takes two weeks. For more information write to the Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford, Suite

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of a local group of the New Testament Church which has been banned in some areas of China. Three people: Zhang Lezhi, Yan Peizhi and Zu Zhihe, have been sentenced to three years at the Chang Le 'Re-education Through Labour' Camp in Chang Le county near Shouguang where they are said to have been abused by other prisoners and made to carry out the worst jobs. Please write courteous letters to the Chinese Ambassador and his officials to express your protests: His

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Dear friends, Brother Roger Invited the Oxford Group, together with others, tomeet hirn one evening this week. We gathered late at night in the upstairs of a converted barn. A round table with flowers on was in the middle: low shone on the upturned the young people sitting cio packed on the floor. Brother. Roger and three other brot lone English) spread butter. French bread and passed around, with cups of cocoa, to the hunded or so present. then spoke simply and quietly his characteristic wn, ab faith in God, joy, thankfuhi and forgiveness, and respon to a few questions.

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HOOLS I-N THE CLIMATE

David Meira, Vicar of Basildon, on one of his regular visits to Basildon CE Primary School

One in every three primary schools in our Diocese, along with a few middle and secondary schools, belong to us. As a Diocese, we have a big stake in children's education. Therefore whatever happens in education nationally affects us.

The last five years have seen some drastic changes, starting with the Education Reform Act of 1988 and continuing into the immediate future as we work through the implications of the current Act. There have been two fundamental shifts.

'The only subject which remains locally determined is RE and

even here there are moves towards a national set of guidelines.'

The first shift has been at a curriculum level and the direction has been away from the individual schools to the centre. The advent of a centrally determined National Curriculum, standardised testing, and the new pattern of four yearly inspections have all loosened the curricular

independence of the individual teacher. The only subject which remains locally determined is RE and even here there are moves towards a national set of guidelines.

The second fundamental shift has been at management level. Power is fast being drained away from the local education authorities and they are rapidly becoming pale shadows of their former glory. So where has this managerial power gone? Some has gone back to the centre and the new Education Act gives the Secretary of State an unprecedented number of new powers. The long-standing system of checks and balances between local and national power has undoubtedly become tilted in favour of the latter.

But if some power has gone to the centre, a considerable amount has also gone right out to the periphery - to the individual school. Governing bodies and headteachers now have massive new powers especially over resources, staffing and pupil entry. Although the total amount of the budget is fixed, they can decide how to spend it, who to

use for repairs, what advice to buy or not to buy, whether to have more books or extra staff or asphalt the playground. They can also raise extra money through their own efforts. There is, however, a catch. They are also responsible for balancing the accounts. If they can't they have to economise; not paint the hall, sack staff and, if all these fail, close the school.

'What we have witnessed over the last

five years is a systematic attempt to

apply the princples of afree market economy to education.'

What we have witnessed Over the last five years is a systematic attempt to apply the principles of a free market economy to education. In essence schools are being allowed to spend how they like, admit asmany children as they like and opt out of all links with the LEA. Those that please their customers will flourish and those that don't will fail and close. Teachers, it is argued, will be driven out of

their professional detachment and become directly accountable to the parents who will be able to judge through the published league tables.

How does all this affect us as a Diocese - our Church schools and our Board of Education? In a number of ways.

As a major provider we have a right and a duty to evaluate government policy: to work with what seems lobe in the interests of our children and to query what doesn't. For instance, what are the consequences of parental choice for inner city children? Or the application of market economics for children in small villages?

Along with privatised LEA

services and freelance consultants.....

Diocesan Boards are looking at what they

can offer.'

In the past we have been able to maintain a slim Diocesan schools administration because the LEAs have helped us - but they won't be able to help at the same level for much longer.

The power to buy services is now with the schools. Along with privatised LEA services and freelance consultants, up and down the country Diocesan Boards are looking at what they can offer and beginning to set out their wares.

The close relationship between many schools and the Diocese is much valued, all the more so now that other local support is diminishing. Schools are looking to the Diocesan Board for further professional help and services - advice on legal issues, the curriculum, RE, collective worship, buildings and staff appointments.

There is now a golden opportunity to further strengthen

the links. But this will mean more work, more people, more expenditure. Who pays? Essentially there are three sources.

The first is the Diocese through the Parish Share - essential if the Church is to remain as a serious partner with the state. However there is no need for the Parish Share proportion to go up to pay for the extra because there are further sources.

The second is the fund from the sale of closed Church schools, and the new Education Act allows a broader use of this fund for educational purposes.

But even more significant perhaps is the third source - the schools paying for the services themselves. In the new privatised open market, schools have been delegated the money for these services. They will look for the best value for money and the most appropriate professional advice and help. Where better than the newly established Oxford Diocesan Educational Services Ltd which will be out there in the forefront?

Dr John Gay is Director of Cuiham College Institute

Dorchester pilgrims

remember Africa

Nearly 500 pilgrims took part in the 1993 St Birinus Pilgrimage from Blewbury to Dorchester in July, reports John Crowe,Team Rector of Dorchester. The march was led by the Bishop of Dorchester and, at the service afterwards in the Abbey, £500 was collected to support the work done by the Churches of South Africa among young people in Alexandra and the Vlakfontein squatters' camp.

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Lively and Interesting

We included a discussion on The DOOR at our recent PCC meeting and it was their unanimous wish that I write to you expressing our thanks and gratitude for everything you have done to make The DOOR interesting, lively, readable, pictorial and informative. I am glad to pass on these comments, because they come also from members of our congregation. The balance seems about right, but of course each reader would give more or less emphasis in certain areas.

During the discussion I noted the following items which people like to read about: i. News from the Diocese including clergy and lay people: ii. Teaching and interpretation; iii. Discussion of issues; iv. Children and young people; v. Campaign reports eg CUF, Decade of Evangelism; vi. Parish profiles.

WR Carter Goring, Reading

Not Evangelistic In the June issue of The DOOR there were various suggestions about evangelistic use of the paper. But unless that - ie evangelism - is the use for which the editor plans and prepares, it will not evangelise, but confirm people in their rejection of the church. Most of The DOOR is of interest to people within the Church's distinctive culture.

In the June issue these articles might have interested some beyond that culture: page 2 'God's Gift of different races'; page 5 'God in my Week'; page 14 'Welcome Chernobyl children'; page 15 'Let's celebrate'; page 18 'A brief history of creation'; page 20 'Space for Prayer', Stuart Blanch's article, and 'Hope for the Wells of India'.

But that leaves an awful lot which would put off people on the outside of the Church.

Revd Giles Godber Lou ghton

Biased reporting?

I was surprised to read in the June issue of The DOOR that many of your readers feel you are biased towards reporting the Oxford area. Here, in the Oxford area, many of us think it is rapidly becoming the Milton Keynes Gazette!

Christopher Wallworth Woodstock

Ethical Investments

My article in June's issue of The DOOR concerning Ethical Investments has stimulated a number of responses. In particular, two questions were asked:

An amount of £392,990 was invested in August 1990 in an 'ethical' investment (the Amity Fund). The Amity Fund has grown in value by a total of 27 per cent (after taking into account dividend payments) over the period from August 1990 to date. If the capital had been left with the Central Board of Finance the growth over the same period on the same basis would be approximately 32 per cent. There has therefore been an apparent detrimental loss of investment of five per cent over the last two and three quarter years by virtue of the decision to move some of the funds to an 'ethical' investment.

The second question raised concerned the reasons why the Parish Share appears to be rising at twice the rate of inflation. My immediate response was that, not only are we taking into account inflationary tendencies on our expenditure but the

Church Commissioners are significantly reducing their allocation to the Diocese because of the effects of the recession and the increasing burden that pension payments are making on their resources. For example, the reduced Church Commissioner's grant in 1993 represents 5.11 percent of the increase in the Parish Share for this year.

MW Roach Chipping Norton

Question for PCC members

At our last Easter parish meeting to elect churchwardens and PCC members I read out a letter I had sent to the Rector of our benefice. Its purpose was to suggest inviting each parishioner put up for office to take the opportunity, before election, to say there and then whether he or she would accept ministration of Holy Communion in this parish church by a woman priest.

The proposal was greeted with a shocked silence, so much so that I wrote to our bishop to ask whether he would consider in future giving other would-be office holders in Oxford PCCs generally - surely unlikely to be all of one mind? - the same opportunity. The bishop's chaplain replied on his behalf that "as has always been the case, any member of the Electoral Roll is at liberty to question any prospective PCC member about any issue that concerns them prior to the election."

The Synod's proposed measure is likely to reach Parliament before next year's FCC elections. Without doubt there are many CoE members who are concerned about changing the Church's historic orders; no less about altering even the Book of Common Prayer's form of words for use in the Communion service; and above all that the Church once militant for Christ is becoming a church politically correct for man. In this Diocese at least such members will welcome this clear episcopal approval as they prepare searching questions to

put to next year's prospective PCC members.

Prof FJ Holborow Henley-on-Thames

Judge Not Given that we have but dipped a toe into the Decade of Evangelism, may! ask if it is not time to cease our judgements, eg on the matter of women's ordination, on homosexuals, on the remarriage of divorcees in church, and turn around and place ourselves as the judged? The judge might ask where are the poor, the oppressed, the hopeless teenagers, the unemployed, the suicidal, the schizophrenics within your churches?

I believe it all adds up to the need for a vast individual and collective repentance that must find its origin and impetus within the main body of the church.

Mrs Lesley Wasley High Wycombe

Children's Adviser

I am writing to find out whether any of your readers might be interested in our work and able to help. With Roger Fray, our Children's Adviser, going to train at St John's College Nottingham, we have been thinking about the best way to foster children's work in the Diocese. Over 85 per cent of the children of our nation have no contact with the churches and the work of a Children's Adviser is very important.

However, the financial uncertainty that the Diocese faces means that we are having to carefully review our priorities. We do have budget until December 1994 and we are hoping there may be someone who would be willing full-time, part-time or in a job share, to work as Children's Adviser until December 1994.

We shall be advertising in the normal way and if anyone is interested, they can write for details to Shirley Blay, Church House, North Hinksey, or phone Anne Faulkner on 0753 525935.

Keith Lamdin Diocese of Oxford


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Religious institutions have a long history of providing food for the mind as well as for the body and the soul. It was in this context that, nearly two hundred years ago, at a time when free education was not generally available, the Church of England launched an initiative with the aim of establishing free schools for the poor in every parish in the country.

There are now 4,965 Church of England schools in this country, 284 of which are in the Diocese of Oxford. We have 271 primary schools, five middle and eight secondary schools in the three counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

It may come as some surprise to learn that today's Church of England schools do not necessarily cater exclusively for children from church-going or Christian families. In fact in this Diocese only two do so, namely Ranelagh School in Berkshire and St Augustine's in Oxford which is unusual as it takes both Church of England and Roman Catholic children.

The other CoE secondary schools, while not restricting themselves to 'church-going' pupils, do still follow their original purpose which is to provide a high standard of education for the children in their area or even further afield. In Buckinghamshire, Waddesdon School provides an excellent alternative to those pupils who have not been sucessful in the 12+ entry exam for grammar schools, as does the Slough & Eton School in Slough.

Since 1944, church schools have either been 'aided' with State support for the governors' maintenance of the school buildings, or 'controlled' where the LEAs meet their full costs. The former, with a majority of church foundation governors, have had greater freedom and teach religious education according to the Church ofEngland Trust; whereas the 'controlled' schools must use the Local Education Authority 'agreed syllabus'. Teachers in 'aided' schools are employees of the Governing Body. Venetia Horton reports.

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toured Cornwall and Norfolk and sung in Exeter Cathedral. The orchestra performed 'Elijah' and the girls' hockey team has repre-sented the county in the Area Fi-nals. The school supports two major charities, the Children's Society and Barnardo's, and raises money each year for various local charities. The newly appointed head teacher, Kathryn Winrow,

Mrs Kathryn Winrow, the newly appointed head of Ranelagh School

has spent the last two years as a Secondary Phase Inspector in the Hampshire education department. Before that she taught in London.

The Princess Margaret Royal Free School, Windsor Head: Mr Philip Hutchinson Pupils: 348 The PMRF school evolved from the Windsor Free School estab-lished in 1705. It now serves a catchment area that stretches from Wokingham to Egham and from Denham to Farnham Common. Situated next to Windsor Great Park, the school boasts a pur-pose-built art, design and tech-nology block, two computer rooms and a drama studio and is particularly proud of its role in the local community. As well as raising money for charity, sixth-formers are encouraged to help in local playgroups, charity shops and with sports in the middle and first schools. Although the report may be biased, in the March issue of the school's newspaper, which is produced by the pupils them-selves, a local newsagent and a bakery manager are both quoted as saying that the children are "polite, courteous and well man-nered" and the new school chap-lain, Father Andrew, is described as having the task of "emphasis-ing the Christian side of PMRF, whilst showing that Christianity isn't all boring"!

Exchange visits with schools in both Germany and France are a regular feature. PMRF has been twinned with the Realschule Goldene Aue in Goslar, Germany for ten years and pupils enjoy visits to the much larger, well-equipped school, despite a work-ing day wh' starts at 7.40am!

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Waddesdon School Buckinghamshire Head: Mr Alan Armstrong Number of pupils: 561 The school was founded in 1962 and claims a unique status as the only special agreement school within the jurisdiction of both the Buckinghamshire Education Au-thority and the Diocese of Oxford. This means that it has more free-dom than state schools to design its own curriculum, and it is able to offer a high standard of education to children from a wide catchment area. Fifty per cent of pupils join-ing each year are expected to come from the immediate area, while the other fifty per cent are chosen for their connection with the Church. The schools's prospectus states that it aims to "Provide an atmosphere in which.. . . Chris-tian standards and values are im-plicit," and claims to have "an ethos that cherishes the education of the individual, not only intel-lectually, but also spiritually and socially."

A wide range of extra-curricular activities are available to the pu-pils including sailing, poetry work-shops, music, opera and dance,

and entry to the Duke of Edin-burgh Awards. Ski trips and ex-changes with schools in France and Germany are also enjoyed. As the pupils near the end of their time at school, as much help as possible is given to help them prepare for university and/ or their future careers.

This month Waddesdon School opens a new Lim build-ing project. Pupils will occupy the new block this term, although the official opening is not until October. The new facilities will include a drama studio, four new classrooms, a gymnasium and an extension to the science lab. The extra facilities will be par-ticularly welcomed by the ex-panding sixth form.

Ranelagh School Bracknell, Berkshire Head: Mrs Kathryn Winrow Pupils: 775 Originally built in 1709 on the order of Richard, the first Earl of Ranelagh to provide free school-ing, clothes and books for 20 boys and 20 girls. Boys were taught 'Reading, Writing and

Arithmetick' and girls 'Reading Writing, Spinning, Knitting and Sowing'. Today the curriculum includes further mathematics for the very able, latin, history, de-sign and technology, economics and art, and last year the school obtained a pass rate of 97.1 per cent at Advanced Level.

School trips can be to a local theatre or to Bracknell on a geog-raphy field trip, or further afield. Last year some Latin students visited the Roman remains in Bath, while German students spent five days in Bad Wildstein. The swimming, golf and wine tasting (for the teachers!) proved more popular than the language tuition, if the report in the school magazine is to be believed. And just in case the more scientifi-cally-minded pupils felt left out, ,a group of Year 10 economics

'pupils visited the Mars chocolate factory in Slough. They discov-ered that two million chocolate bars are produced there each day!

Ranelagh's drama group per-forms an annual school play (this year The Diary of Anne Frank) and a nativity play; the Senior Choir has performed at the Albert Hall and the Chamber Choir has

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• smoking and drug education. Al-though there are no religious re-quirements for entry to the school, pupils attend a daily assembly which is "largely Christian with an emphasis on respect and care for the individual".

Slough and Eton Secondary School Slough, Berkshire Head: Mr Harrinder Pattar Pupils: 414 Buildings are important to the Slough and Eton School: the origi-nal school was built of wood; Canadian cedar shingles to be precise. In December 1940, two months after it had opened, a bomb was dropped into the quad-rangle, but the school survived until 1973 when a fire destroyed practically all of the buildings except for the gymnasium and an extension block. Now with the appointment of a new head teacher, the school is looking for-ward to July 1994 when a new building programme is due to start, providing facilities for tech-nology, drama, maths and sports.

The majority of the school's pupils are of Sikh or Bangladeshi origin, so although the school's teaching is based on Christian principles, the moral teachings of other religions are acknowledged as relevant. This also explains why Urdu and Punjabi are in-cluded in the syllabus, and Eng-lish is taught as a second lan-guage when necessary.

A highpoint of the 1993 school year came in June when international cricket star Imran Khan visited the school to talk about the cancer hospital he is funding in Pakistan.

Pupils who don't enjoy sport - which would be a pity as volley-ball, badminton, squash, aerobics, swimming, weight training and table tennis are on offer, as well as cricket, netball and athletics - might prefer 'Mr Bean's Nature Garden' which is being remod-elled to include two beehives, an apple tree and a pond stocked with frogs.

Wargrav Piggott CE Secondary School Reading Head: Dr Keith Atton. Pupils: 760 The Piggott is a community com-prehensive school serving local villages as well as children from

further afield who come because it is a 'church' school, although most of the pupils at the school have little or no church connec-tion. Head teacher Dr Keith Atton says that this presents a challenge not faced by those schools which cater exclusively for children from CoE homes: "I do not see that it is the role of the school to impose Christianity on anyone; this would be counter-productive and mor-ally wrong. Our aim is to raise moral and spiritual issues, andto indicate Christian and other reli-gious responses to them," he says.

Dr Atton goes on to say that visitors to the school, including the Berkshire LEA inspectors, comment on its friendly atmos-phere, which is due, he feels, to their 'Christian ethos'. Most, al-though not all of the teachers and governors are Christians and when considering school issues, Dr Atton says: "It is Christian values which guide the thinking of both staff and governors."

St Augustine's RC/CE Upper School, Oxford. Head: Mr John Prangley Pupils: 564 One of the few schools in the country to be aided jointly by the Roman Catholic and the Angli-can churches, St Augustine's is a very popular school boasting word processing, typewriting and even Vietnamese in addition to the normal subjects, while out-of-school activities include field trips to the Isle of Arran, and up to 70 students working for a Duke of Edinburgh Award. Head teacher John Prangley also says that the school is notable for the harmony existing between peo-ple of different races and faiths, for its record in fund-raising for charity, for the wide range of abili-ties of its intake and the high level of participation in public exami-nations - and for its 'phenom-enal' car boot sales!

The school has an interesting history. It was formed in 1984 through the merger of the St Edmund Campion RC and Cowley St John CoE Upper Schools and seeks to combine the two traditions. "We have sepa-rate and joint services, and two chaplains to run them," says the head, John Prangley. "The origi-nal CoE school had a generous missionary role and was open to all the local community regard-less of creed, while the RC school

attempted to nurture the faith of the Roman Catholic children en-trusted to it by their parents. We now attempt to combine both func-tions."

The school is now oversub-scribed and would like to build new classrooms and a sports hall to provide space for the expanded intake. Students are selected ac-cording to their membership of Christian churches, and the head regrets that this may mean the school has fewer places for local students.

The Marlborough CE School, Woodstock, Oxfordshire Head: Mr Ed McConnell Pupils: 734 Marlborough School offers its pupils a wide range of topics to study at both GCSE and A Level, and when they are not studying, pupils are encouraged to get in-volved in their local community. For example, the school has set up a self-guiding nature tree trail

around the school grounds and was one of six entries to a Tree Council competition to win a £500 award for further tree plant-ing.

Meanwhile pupils seem to enjoy their work so much they are willing to sit extra exams just for fun! Seventy-five Marlborough pupils entered the 1993 UK Schools' Mathematics Challenge with 24 reaching a good enough standard to qualify for a certificate. Other extra-cur-ricular activities in the last school year included the hosting of the BBC Radio OxfordMattersAris-ing programme in January. This gave the sixth form the opportu-nity to debate current issues with a panel which included Sir William Goodhart, a Liberal Democrat and lawyer; Steve Akers, trade unionist; John Banbury, County Councillor for Woodstock, and the Revd Judith Mount. Among the subjects dis-cussed were Sunday Trading, primary school teaching and the proposed Woodstock bypass.

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make to society then and now? And what of the future? Discuss these and other questions on a day course called The Monastic Contribution to Society in History and Today in Oxford on Saturday October 23 1993. For full details contact Canon Vincent Strudwick on Oxford (0865) 244566.

One hundred and twenty thousand people attended the 25th DeutscherEvangelischer Kirchentag in Munich this year (June 11 - 14). The four-day event is held every other year in a different part of Germany and although most of the delegates are German, 2,900 came from 74 different countries, making it one of the largest ecumenical gatherings in the world.

Tony Dickinson, team vicar of Chalvey St Peter in Slough, is a regular visitor. "This year's theme, 'Acceptone another' was originally chosen in the light of German experience since reunification," he says. "But it was given a chilling topicality by a number of racist attacks culminating in the murder of a Turkish family only days before the Kirchentag was due to begin."

Each day began with Bible study in hundreds in different churches, halls and buildings around the city. Then, taking the 500-page guidebook (!) the pilgrims selected those events/ exhibitions/concerts they wished to attend. "One of the most familiar sounds of Kirchentag is of thousands of feet pounding up and down the stairs of the underground station as people move from one event to another," Tony Dickinson said.

Tony's wife Sandra also manned the CMS stall in the Market of Possibilites where 530 groups were represented in the five halls of the city's huge exhibition park. As well as dozens of smaller happenings, there were colourful outdoor

events such as the festival of Fronleichnam on Corpus Christi when two huge processions, one Catholic, including local Bavarians in national costume, the other ecumenical, marched through streets decorated with branches of silver birch. "It was

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Eighty-thousand people congregated in the Olympic Stadium for the closing service which was televised live. Konrad Raiser, secretary of the

World Council of Churches, spoke of the reinstatement of Christian Hope - the hope that is waiting and reaching out to God.

For the Revd Geoff Morgan, from St Agnes with St Paul in Reading, who went to Kirchentag with a group of youthworkers from England, Ireland, the USA, Finland and Germany, the highpoint came at the end of the service when a group of gypsies from Dachau marched around the track with banners demanding the right to stay in their camp. • Earlier this year, 53 people came to Oxford from the Council of Churches in Bonn. Taking as their theme 'Principles of Dialogue - our Muslim neighbours in Europe,' the group visited several schools in Cowley and a mosque. The climax was an ecumenical service at the Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes where a short interlude of liturgical dance was a welcome respite from the need to translate everything! A return visit is planned for May 1994.

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£8.99) is a remarkable collection

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common: each person had an

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them to commit their lives to

Jesus Christ.

"To believe was not hard," writes the actor James Fox. "The

facts were offered to me in

honest and simple truths. . but

to turn was harder. There was

the risk of. yielding up my

liberty." But as he reflected on the words of Scripture left for

him by a man he had met by chance in a Blackpool hotel -

'But God shows His love for us

in that while we were yet sinners,

Christ died for us' - he realised

that he could trust Jesus with his future. "That night I knelt down

beside my hotel bed in simple

response." The book has over 300 such

stories. The most moving are

those by people who had no

previous contact with

Christianity or the Bible, but who one day began to pray, as

the athlete Kriss Akabusi did,

"Lord, if you are there, and I

don't really know if you are, you'd better come and say Hi."

If ever a Christian doubted the

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and preach the good news to all

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few minutes reading this book would convince theifi of the

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Sharing .the Good News

Is your church looking for good Bible discussion material - perhaps for a course in Advent? Are you taking seriously the call to share the

faith with others during the Decade of Evangelism? If the answer to

both questions is 'Yes', then a slim, attractively produced book by

Michael Green may be what you are wanting. Michael Green is one of the Advisers to the Archbishop of

Canterbury for the Decade of Evangelism. In Good News and How

to Share It he offers twelve Bible studies, six on the Christian faith and six on how to share that faith with others.

Each study includes a couple of pages of comment, group

discussion material, a meditation and some prayers. And there are some genuinely funny cartoons too.

Good News and How to Share It is published by the Bible

Reading Fellowship at £3.50. David Winter

The Revd David Winter is the Diocesan Advisor for Evangelism

NEW BEGINNINGS for old Christians

Basic is Beautiful is the name of

Margaret Hebblethwaite's

survey of base communities which has recently been

published by Fount at £9.99.

Travelling from El Salvador

to Liverpool, from Bombay to Colorado, from Negros in the

Philippines to Wolverhampton,

she distils the lessons to be learnt

from a variety of living and lively experiments. "Basic Christian communities re-invent the

Church," wrote Leonardo Boff

in 1986. This is nothing new. Jesus

started with twelve. Ernie

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Parish Comes Alive in Halton,

Leeds. David Wasdell's Urban

Church Project analysed it, and

Trevor Huddleston described it:

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in a world which has little

understanding of community and little time for love, though it

longs for both." Nothing less than 'open heart

surgery' is the result of asking

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surgery is feared in prospect but

results in new life. Such are the real experiences this book

describes, reflects on, and shows its readers how to explore for

themselves in a manner which

is readable and with helpful

diagrams.

Basic Christian communities

are committed to those at the margins. They are not to be

confused with so-called 'House Churches'. Margaret suggests

answers to the questions which

were raised about the future of

the parish at the June Diocesan Synod. From the island of

Negros we in the First World can learn that a priest-less parish

is not a tragedy but a precious

opportunity. This special sort of ministry

reaches those people 'other

churches cannot reach.' The

general approach - listening,

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believes, and more than that, "This should be done

everywhere."

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for One World

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SYNOD MAKES THE MOST'OF LEARNING The Department of Training and Parish Resources

It may be that you are taking on a new job in your church. It is natural to feel anxious. What a good idea to meet up with others who do the same work in neighbouring parishes - to share experience, learn new things and build up confidence. On the other hand, you may be interested in learning more about the Christian faith, in finding answers to all those questions that have puzzled you from time to time.

At its June meeting, Synod agreed to merge Parish Resources with the Christian Training Schemes into a new department of Training and Parish Resources. This means that the best training can be available wherever it is needed.

Throughout the Diocese there are many opportunities to attend courses, or to have some training in your church. Below, Keith Lamdin, the team leader of the department, picks out a few ideas to whet your appetite.

Christian Training Schemes

There are courses and workshops all over the Diocese offering courses in Christian belief, the Bible, prayer and worship, church history, serving and caring, understanding society, healing, drama, banner-making, Taize worship, Bible study and many more. For more information contact your local programme. Abingdon: Jane Lane on 0235 532759 Newbury: Hazel Johnston on 0635 45687 Reading & Bracknell: Simon Baker on 0734 883363 Wantage & Vale: Jim Payne on 0367 710274 Chiltern: Philip Roderick on 0494 481550 Cottesloe: Judy Rees on 0296 713603 Milton Keynes: Ian Jagger on 0908 662092 Thamesway: Jeremy Hurst on 0752 542068 Oxfordshire: Bryan Pettifer on 0865 727444.

Oxford Certificate

The Training Schemes now offer a Certificate from Oxford University and this can open the door to all sorts of higher education learning. Contact the Principal of your Christian Training Scheme.

Ecumenical in Milton Keynes

A brand new training process has been launched this year by the M K Training Commission. Now Lay Preachers and Readers and anybody interested in the Christian faith can learn together on a syllabus agreed by all the major denominations. This course combines studying at home and learning together in groups. Contact Ian Jagger on 0908 662092.

Training for Pastoral Care

In many churches lay people are involved in baptism, marriage, bereavement, hospital visiting or just good quality listening. If this is the way God is calling you then you will be interested to know that a new course is being piloted in Wendover. Contact David Foster on 0494 481550.

SPI-DIR SPI-DIR stands for Spiritual Direction and a course is planned for the third year running. If people are beginning to talk to you about their spiritual journey and you would like to help, then the SPI-DIR course is for you whether you are clergy or lay. If you are looking for a Spiritual Director for yourself SPI-DIR can help. Contact Annete Nixon on 0734 669116.

Quiet Garden The Quiet Garden provides silence, solitude and the appreciation of beauty; the teaching of Christian prayer and experience of creativity and healing in the context of God's love. Courses are planned during the autumn at Stoke Poges. Contact Philip Roderick.

Training for Leadership

Over 90 church wardens in Berkshire have signed up for training to learn more about being a .'arden and to develop confidence about sharing in the leadership of the local church. Other courses in leadership are available in Berkshire. Contact Simon Baker.

Parish Based Learning

Sometimes it is better to gather people together in the parish. After a recent conference for a team ministry the vicar wrote back "Thank you for your help in facilitating the conference. We have made progress in three of the five areas that you helped us with: 1. A pattern for worship across the team parishes has been agreed. 2. A drop-in centre for young people is going ahead.

3. A prayer cycle is being evolved to serve all five parishes. I would very much like you to come to the next team council meeting when we can review progress in all five areas. Then there is the question of on-going consultancy with our ministerial team...... Contact your Parish Development Adviser.

Evangelism David Winter has offered training to over 200 parishes in the last four years and about 500 people have attended the Communicating the Gospel course. This course explores ways of sharing the faith in today's world and is put on twice a year in different parts of the Diocese. Contact David Winter.

Christian Giving Raising money for the church can be such a burden. Keeping the building open and paying

the Parish Share can seem overwhelming. Giving is very liberating and a sign of the spiritual renewal of the church. In the last twelve months David Haylett, our stewardship adviser has worked with 23 parishes and reports increased giving and renewed confidence in the financial affairs of the church. Contact David Haylett.

Kaleidoscope Eighty-six per cent of the children of our nation have no contact with church and do not seem to learn very much about the Christian faith in schools, so the work we do with children is essential. Kaleidoscope is a new training course for those who work with children, sponsored by all the churches. You can learn alongside teachers from other churches. You will not have to travel and together you will be able to think about how you can help children in your neighbourhood learn more about the Christian faith. This course

will build your confidence and give you skills. Contact Roger Fray.

Spectrum Spectrum is the ecumenical course for training youth leaders which has been available in this Diocese for several years. Last year people used it in Reading and Chesham. This year there will be courses in Milton Keynes and Reading. If you want one closer to home it can be arranged. Contact Peter Ball.

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ATHEIST IN OXFORD? The role of the Oxford Pastorate

Christ, loving one another, and serving the world, make it much easier still. That's the raison d'etre of the Oxford Pastorate.

Vision and faith It was Edgar Wallace, the thriller writer, who once said he could not possibly be an atheist so long as he lived in the same street as a certain godly man. The Oxford Pastorate's ambition is to encourage such a shining witness to the love of God that it would be virtually impossible to be an atheist in Oxford. We can't claim that such a dream has yet been fulfilled, but the longing for it was undoubtedly present in the original founders of the Pastorate in 1893. Today we are reaping the fruit of the seeds they planted. In the face of the scorching paganism of the 1990's, something more than a tepid Christianity is required.

First, they had vision. It was in the mid 19th century that a barrister called Edward Hathaway met with a small group of friends to discuss the spiritual needs of Oxford. They were deeply unhappy with the spiritual state of the town and University, and had a vision of a group of churches which would exercise a biblical, evangelistic and pastoral ministry. It is largely due to them that a remarkable ministry was established in St Ebbe's, St Aldate's, St Clement's and St Andrew's.

Secondly, they had faith. Hathaway and his friends devoted themselves to prayer.

It is 7.30am on Wednesday morning. Outside it is cold, dark and wet and about 80 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed undergraduates and graduates from Oxford University have gathered in the Rectory Room in Pembroke Street for praise, prayer, teaching and an informal Eucharist. Just one of the many events organised by the Oxford Pastorate, which celebrates 100 years of evangelism and training at the University this year. Here is one of the ways in which Christian involvement in higher education is expressed.

"A Christian is one who makes it easier for other people to believe in God"

Widespread and deeply felt philosophies such as determinism, relativism and secularism are formed in universities and colleges, where they also take root and make much impact. Thethurch needs to respond effectively to these ideas and one way of doing so is through Christian students and the academics who are coming to grips with them. It is therefore essential for the Church to be aware of what is going on by actively supporting its members who work and study here.

"A Christian is one who makes it easier for other people to believe in God" - at least that's how it should be! And a group of Christians focused on

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They met regularly during lunch times and after work, to bring before God the needs of Oxford, recognising that it is a centre in which the lives of young leaders are being shaped for good or ill. Ratherthan trying to manipulate the situation, or engage in ecclesiastical politics, they threw themselves noon Christ who said "if you ask anything in my name, it will be done for you by my Father." Confidence in the undeserved readiness of God to work in the lives of those who come to him remains central to all that happens.

"Students who have not developed an intellectual understanding of their faith will find it is easily eroded"

For years we have been concerned about the difficulty students have in explaining what they believe. We find that they look first for community, a sense of belonging to a group of people who share similar values. What is most often missing is the desire to grow in the intellectual understanding of their faith. Our fear is that students who have not developed this understanding, who are not capable of answering the questions and challenges of their peers and mentors, will find their faith easily eroded. Intellectual formation can be fostered in many and various

ways. Again and again students report that it is not what they read or what they hear that is most influential but the opportunities they have to talk about their faith with someone else. The variety of areas that provide expression is wide, for example: Student leadership of worship - whether the worship is traditional or not the student selects readings and a format to his/her convictions. Mission teams - for many years the Oxford Pastorate staff, together with about 100 students have gone to a selected town where we help with renewal and evangelism. Students speak at meetings in schools, clubs and pubs and many recount how this experience was a watershed in their Christian commitment. Discussion of lectures and sermons. typically students are invited to discuss what has been said. Discussion rather than the sermon/lecture seems to be critical. Discussion in a safe setting - often after supper in one of the chaplains' homes, at the students' initiative, theology, biblical authority, ethics, or social justice are raised as topics for discussion and debate.

This list could be lengthened easily. We are providing occasions to stimulate students to articulate their beliefs and their intellectual understanding. This then is the inheritance that we have today, and as the Pastorate work grows, and more students are drawn to Christ and trained to serve Him, we pray for vision and faith as we head into the next century.

Revd Chris Pemberton Chaplain to the Oxford Pastorate

Should you require any further information about our work please do contact us at St Aldat.e's Parish Centre, 40 Pembroke Street, Oxford OXI 1BP. Tel: 0965 244713.

Peter Jenner (left) of the Reading University Chaplaincy with Jeremy Anderson (Reading Deanery) and Janet Hodgson (USPG)

Reading was the only British University to be granted its own Charter between the wars. In 1926, when it became independent of Oxford University, Lady Eleanor Palmer endowed a Trust which appointed an Anglican Chaplain to the University. The original Chaplaincy ran a chapel but the present Chaplaincy Team representing six denominations now uses a bungalow as a Chaplaincy Centre. Since there is no formal place of worship, no Sunday services are held on Campus; local churches therefore become aware of the international element of education in Reading. Over a quarter of the students are from overseas; having over 130 nationalities in the University provides a valuable opportunity for British students and other Christians to broaden their knowledge of the world.

Revd Dr Peter Jenner Peter Jenner is the Anglican Chaplain at Reading University

Brookes University was formerly the Oxford Polytechnic and was granted university status last year. We have about 10,000 students, many of them mature or part-time, and about 1,500 staff spread over various sites in Headington and Wheatley. I started as Ecumencial Chaplain in September 1992.1 have six part-time volunteers to help staff the chaplaincy; it's a truly ecumenical team, a mixture of different denominations, male and female, ordained and lay.

The chaplaincy serves staff and students. During the last year we have started a regular fortnightly lunchtime group for Christian staff. We have an open-door policy: about 50 students visit the Chaplaincy room each month, and about 25 staff. In addition there are many conversations with staff and students in the corridors, the common rooms, the dining rooms.

One priority for the coming year is to focus on the multi-faith role of the Chaplaincy. We have students from 100 different countries, and there are Jewish and Muslim Societies, in addition to the Christian Union and the Catholic Society.

We also need to expand our facilities and resources: to obtain funds to make the present post of Ecumenical Chaplain full-time, and to expand the chaplaincy facilities.

David Everett Chaplain to Brookes University

One hundred years ago a group of young men met together to pray about the spiritual nee of the people of Oxford. As a result, the Oxford Pastorate was founded, and today st provides encouragement and opportunites for evangelism for young people.

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• How do those on the margins of our life see things ? - Arrange a SPEAK-UP to give voices to people with no job, or home, without sight, or mobility, a single parent or an overseas visitor. • Take a Second Look is a 24-minute video contrasting images of Oxford and Harare in Zimbabwe. Available from Oxford Develop-ment Education Centre, East Oxford Commu-nity Centre, Princes Street, Oxford OX4 1HU • The One World Quilt which hangs in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes was pieced together from panels made by vari-ous groups in the community. A 'One World Quilt Information Pack' is available for £2.50 from Deirdre Hancock, Clock House, Weston Underwood, Olney MK46 5JZ.

Putting PEOPLE in the Picture is the theme of this year's OneWorid Week.

.It links up with the UN year for Indigenous Peoples - those marginalised peoples, the original inhabitants of many countries in the world, who are made invisible by those who came later and now control their destinies.

-It raises questions about the images that are fed to us by the media, and who decides what they are.

• It provides an opportunity for each one of us to examine our preconceived ideas, to ask why we see things the way we do, and to listen to how others see the same world from their viewpoint. That's why this page of The DOOR is laid out so that you have to read it from every angle

• You can find the rest of the poem The Telly & the Elephant in the OWW '93 Study Action Guide (f-1.75) and colourful A2 poster (80p) from Chris-tian Concern for One World, The Knowle, Deddington, Banbury, 0X15 OTB

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If the doctor can provide a certifi-cate you can make the funeral arrangements by contacting a funeral director. If the deceased left a will, check to see if it Contains any direc-tions regarding funeral arrangements.

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office can be found in the telephone book.

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or if there is no will the laws of intes-tacy.

Depending on the value and nature of the net assets you may have to obtain a grant of representation. This is the court's authority that the execu-tors (where there is a will) or the administrators (where there is no will) have the right to deal with the assets. Joint assets usually pass to the surviv-ing joint owners.

You can make a personal applica-tion for a grant at a local probate reg-istry but you will have to attend an interview. Do not overlook inheri-tance tax which may be payable on the estate. Assets may need to be sold and insurances maintained. If in doubt about the administration of the estate you should consult solicitors experi-enced in work of this nature.

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Pictured right :Young campers with the Bishop of Oxford. Above : Richard Pape, Robert Shearcrofl, Thomas Neil! and Richard Vicary from SS Mary and John, Finchampstead

The Berkshire Clothes Show Logos, the Youth Group of St George's Church, Wash Common, are organising a major fashion show called 'Berkshire takes a Bow' in January 1994. It will be held at Newbury's new Corn Exchange where all kinds of clothing from swimwear to wedding dresses will be shown off in a series of choreographed dance sequences at a black tie champagne evening for 350 people.

The organisers hope to raise over £10,000 which will launch an appeal by St George's for £400,000 to build a new

community centre and refurbish the church. The project is also being run on the lines of a business enterprise to give the Group's teenagers a chance to understand and take responsibility for all aspects of running a company.

The Logos Fashion Show will be launched on September 9 at the Foley Lodge Hotel, Newbury at reception attended by business, local authority and media representatives. Money from sponsorship by local businesses has already paid for the cost of the launch.

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I hope you enjoyed looking at the pictures and reading about Children's Gift Day in the last issue of The DOOR. There is something very special about working together, enjoying new experiences and celebrating by praising and worshipping the Lord - with lots of children present.

Polly Dolly and I have visited a lot of parishes around the Diocese in the last three years - in all sorts of weather, along narrow country lanes, and along sweeping motorways. Everyone has been keen to know how to help children get to know God better.

You know, we adults might look a bit old and crinkly sometimes (!) but we too are God's children, and we should all be trying to find out more about God together. God can have a special message for any of us, from the very youngest to the very oldest, and we need to listen to each other.

Talking of special messages, God has told me that he wants me to go to college for two years to learn more so that I can become ordained (in other words work as a vicar).

As you've probably guessed - this will mean! have to give up being Children's Adviser and this is my last 'Roger and Out'. Hopefully, there will eventually be someone to take over my job, and they can have their own 'slot' in The DOOR! Meanwhile, I hope you have all had a good summer break.

Ben, my wife, and I were in Wales recently - with lakes and mountains around us, together with forests and wild animals. Thinking about it afterwards - that hymn "0 Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the works Thy hand hath made" came into my mind. The language might be a bit "old fashioned" but reading the verses through, (with some help

perhaps!) really sums up God's love for all of us - and all He wants in return is for us to come to know and love Him, and His ways. Quite a challenge, but at the same time very reassuring to know we have Him as our friend forever!

Roger Fray

That's Roger in the photo. On behalf of you all we send him our -love and prayers for the future.

Yellow Braces Diocesan Youth Camp at Whitchurch near Aylesbury was as popular as ever this year. We are delighted that so many young people see this as such an important part of their lives as young Christians. Everyone was delighted that the Bishop of Oxford joined us during the weekend and for the chance to speak to him in such an informal atmosphere. Our thanks go to the people of Whitchurch who always welcome us so warmly. Thanks too to those who helped to make this year's camp the success it was - including of course, the young people themselves.

Peter Ball, Diocesan Youth Officer

The well known Christian Rock Band, EDEN BURNING, are performing with local group, Shanti, in Reading on September 10. The event is being organised by Greyfriars Church Youth Group with the aim of taking the church into the community. The gig will be held at 21 South Street, Reading. Doors open 7.30pm. Tickets £3.50 in advance from Greyfriars Centre, 0734 587369 or £4.50 on the door. Come early!

CLASSIFIEDS SITUATIONS

ELLESBOROUGH CHURCH Nr AYLESBURY

ORGANIST To share duties for morning services and to rehearse small mmd choir,

manual Bryceson organ.

Contact: Church Warden C. Fitzjohn on 0926 623093

St Mary Magdalen Tilehurst

ORGANIST REQUIRED to work with established lady Choir

Master ASB Rite A. BCP Evensong

and Choir Practice. Please contact:

The Revd RAY SMITH Tel No: 0734 427234

MUSIC DIRECTOR St AkIates (lurch, Oxford witha large congregation and ministry to students is looking for a full-time Music Director.

Details and salary scale on application to:

The Rector, David Maclimes, 40 Pembroke Street,

Oxford OX11 BP

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Valuable background for National Curriculum Studies in Art, Religious Education, and History (KS2: CSU

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ST ALDATE'S CHURCH, OXFORD Two administrative posts available in an evangelical Church in central Oxford, with a large staff team. Both positions are

full-time and require a commitment to Christian faith.

OXFORD PASTORATE ADMINISTRATOR To provide support for the work of the Pastorate Chaplains in

the ministry to the student congregation.

PARISH CENTRE RECEPTIONIST/SECRETARY This requires a pleasant telephone manner, good secretarial skills and enjoyment of a varied working day dealing with

members of the congregation and public. Further details and salary scale from the

Parish Co-ordinator, St Aldate's Parish Centre, 40 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP (0865 244713)

OXFORD SCHOOL OF MASSAGE Member of the British Massage Therapy Council

INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELLING SKILLS A 10-week course on Tuesday evenings beginning on September 21st (BAC Approved) SWEDISH REMEDIAL MASSAGE (including sports injuries) starts Thursday 23rd September. Duration 6 months. AROMATHERAPY TO ITEC LEVEL Monday 20th September 9.30am-3.00pm

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Farm Aftica appeal in Oxfdrd

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Open 12-2pm Mon - Fri; 2-5pm Sat and Sun. Sat 4, Sun 5 SANDFORD ON THAMES flower festival at St Andrews Church. Sat: 10am-6pm. Sun: 11 am-6pm. Also grand fete on Sat 4 at the church. Sun 5 UFFINGTON and every Sunday in Sept: teas at St Mary's Church from 3pm. MU groups and wheelchairs welcome. Details: 0367 820363. Sun 5 ROTHERFIELD GREYS church fete at Greys Court 2-5pm. House and gardens open. Sat 6 & Sun 7 OXFORD St Giles Church open to welcome visitors to the Fair from 11am till late. Flower festival, paintings, local history & cups of tea! Mon 6 - Thu 9 CHICHESTER Springboard Conference with Bishop Michael Marshall, Dr Tom Wright and Michael Green. £76 payable to Chichester Theological College, Chichester, West Sussex P019 1SG. For clergy and laity. Fri 10- Sun 12 BURGHFIELD Flower Festival St Mary's Church. Fri 10 READING Eden Burning plus Shanti at arts' centre 21 South Street 730pm. Details: Hannah Scott on 0734 482015. Fri 10- Sun 12 BURGHFIELD Flower Festival at St Mary's Church. Open Fri/ Sat 10am-4pm. Sun 2-4pm followed by Songs of Praise at 6pm. Sat 11 FENNY STRATFORD St Martin's Church open day 10am-5pm. Festival concert 730pm. Also open Sun 12 12-5pm. Details: 0908 372825. Sat!! HOLTSPUR Vocations Breakfast St Thomas Hall, 830am £2.50 payable to Mrs H Unwin, Moreton, Chiltern Rd, Amersham HP6 5PH. Sat 11 SHINFIELD St Mary's Church Fete on Shinfield School Green 2pm. Sat!! SILCHESTERSt Mary's church open for sponsored bike ride visitors.

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Sat 11 BLETCHINGDON Concert of classical music St Giles Church 730pm. Sat 11 Sponsored Bicycle Ride in aid of Historic Churches Trust. Contact your local organiser. Sat!! DORCHESTER Salvation Army Band 730pm in the Abbey.Tickets £2.50. Sat 12 - Sun 26 RADLEY Teaching Mission with Bishop Richard Harries. Details Revd Fr Keith Kinnaird 0235 554739. Tue 14- Sun 19 STANFORD IN THE VALE Exhibition of watercolours by local artist Bill Giant in church. Fri 17 CHESHAM Concert by AYF Band and Choir from Uganda 8pm in parish church. Details: Tim Yates 0494 772914. Fri 1.7 OXFORD Oxford Pro Musica Singers at St Andrews Church Old Headington 730pm. Tickets £5. Tel 0865 750220. Sat 18 GARSINGTON St Mary's Church Fete 2pm in grounds of Manor House. Sat 18 WEMBLEY CONFERENCE CENTRE Many but One: with Rt Revd John Dennis, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Write toThe Focolare Centre for Unity, 69 Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 6HH. Sat 18 WESTON TURVILLE Flower Festival in St Mary's Church. Open 111am-4pm with lunches 12-2pm. Cheese and wine concert at 730pm with Wingrave Singers. Tickets £2.50. Sat 18 IIAMBLEDEN Regent Brass Quintet St Mary's Church. 730pm. Tickets £6 from Mrs C Allen, Hamblebrook House, Hambleden, Oxon RG9 6RP. (Cheques payable to Hambleden Concerts). Sat 18 MILTON KEYNES Ecumenical Media Awareness Project (MAP) day conference Making Sense of the Media' in the Guildhall, Christ the Cornerstone. Fee £5. Details MAP, 24 Tufton St, London SWIP 3RB. Sun 19 WESTON TURVILLE At St Mary's Church Pets' Service (1 130am) follows Eucharist (lOam). Everyone welcome to bring all pets, large or small. Songs of Praise 6pm: everyone welcome. Sun'19 - Sun 25 SLOUGH Exhibition on Today's Youth-Tomorrow's Future in St Mary's Church 10am-4pm. Mon 20 BEACONSFIELD. Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship dinner. 8pm White Hart Hotel, Aylesbury Road. Meal £8.50. Speaker Malcolm Wood. Details from Bob Sutton: 0494 874689. Mon 20-26 MARSH GIBBON Arts Festival. Choral music with St Mary's Warwick choir £3 Sat 730pm; Folk Night Mon 8pm, Three plays in Grendon Prison Wed and Thu 6pm (Tickets for Grendon £2/fl 0296 770301). Other details David Hiscock 0869 277297. Tue 21 THAME AYF Band and Choir from Uganda in concert in St Mary's Church Thame 8pm. Tickets £2: phone 0844 213491. Thu 23 SLOUGH Concert with Denise Lawrence and her Storeyville Tickle Jazz Band 8pm St Marys Church.

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OCTOBER Fri 1-Sun 3 KENNINGTON Harvest Festival of Flowers at St Swithuns Church. Church lOam-SpmFri and Sat. Concert Fri 7pm. Cheese and wine Sat 730pm. Sun: Church open 12-5pm. Hand bell-ringers 3-4pm, Songs of Praise 630pm. Details 0865 739229. Sat 2 WINDSOR Children's activity day at Clewer St Stephen. Details 0753 858720. Mon 4 HIGH WYCOMBE Bishop of Buckingham to speak on 'It's my belief' at All Saints Church 8pm. New church-goers especially welcome. Toes 5 HIGH WYCOMBE CCTP Course: Windows: The Beauty of Seeing in Stillness. Four-week course on icons at St Mary & St Geroge Church Hall. Cost £9. Details: 0494 481550. Thurs 7 GERRARDS CROSS 9-week CCTP Coursg: Exploring the Old Testament at St James'. Cost £23. Details: 0494 481550. Sat 9 HIGH WYCOMBE Start of CCP course on Christian faith and living. From £23. Full details on 0494 481550. Sun 10 BRILL CCTP Course at All Saints Church 2.30-5pm on Leading Village Worship. Costfl.50. Details 0494 481550. Tue 12 OXFORD Clergy are invited to attend 8-week course on the early Church with Professor Hinchliff. Write to John Drury, the Dean of Christ Church. Sat 16 WESTMINSTER CHAPEL Fourth UK Christian Human Rights Conference lOam-Spm. Tickets £5 and £3 unwaged, OAPs and students. Send cheques payable to CSI, P0 Box 48, Witney, Oxon OX8 7DD. Sat 16 - Sun 17 READING Ellel Weekend for church leaders, both clergy and lay, at St Agnes Church, Northumberland Ave. Cost £10. Details: Fred Attwood on Reading 876177. Mon 18 AYLESBURY Bishop Simon speaks on 'It's my Belief' at Holy Trinity

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Happy News In an off-the-cuff remark. Martvn Lewis one of the 5CflfOT:..

newscaster,, of the BBC ft tnt's called for more balanced'..'.

Oulloms w ith more space for what he called 'happy 11 . rem rrf pros oked immediate criticism troni some

his ',cnIr,r colleagues, but was heartily applauded by the general public who in subsequent correspondence voted 10:1 in his favour. Some years ago I had a similar experience in York, when I ventured in a sermon to make the same point. The broadoasting authorities of the day took it seriously, and 1 was even invited to a conference with the news cditor. As

the rest of the news. I still treasure a Giles cartoon published at the same time making the same point in his inimitable way. But this is one aspect of a much larger issue - reminder of what the 'gospel' stands for. The world always has been and always will be In!l ol had news - natural disasters on the Mississippi scale, virulent epidemics, incessant warfare, hid-eous cruelty by men towards their fellow men. That could be why the gospel made such an immediate impact upon the ancient world The first century public was ionging tor some good news, and perceived and welcomed it in the life and teaching, the death and resurrection of that first century man,

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content just to blame the mass media for the surfeit of had news, it'it is not energetic in representing andproclaiming the out,, good news there s - the good news of Christ. "Tins is a day of good tidings and we do nut well to hold our peace.' Hence th importance of the Decade of Evaugciism

It would he sad if Martyn Lewis' remark were ignored or proved to he prejudicial to his career in the BBC. The 10:1 Public verdict in his favour shows ho.k many pcope share his views and long fur some'happy news.

Stuart Blanch I and B/an h it the formcr A ,clr,treslro rr of York. He tries

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Space for Prayer God, you are merciful to us in all our doings, good and bad. You do not insist on your right but aquit us and accept us: everything is possible with you. Give us the spirit to follow you, make us merciful to each other so that the world may know who you are: nothing but love, our Father, God.

Written by Huub Oosterhuis, a Jesuit priest who ministers to the student community in Amsterdam. The prayer is printed in the Fount Book of Prayer, edited by Robert Van de Weyer and published by HarperCollins at £16.99.

The Witney Feast opens with a service from the galloping horses roundabout. Last year the preacher was the Bishop of Oxford seen here with Canon Roland Meredith, Witney Team Rector and the then Town Mayor, Councillor Michael Chadwick

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All the fun of the Feast'. The very mention of the Witney Feast is enough to bring a flutter of excitement to the heart of anyone brought up in Witney and the surrounding villages. It is the highlight of the year when Church Green in the centre of the town is transformed for two days into an exotic collection of roundabouts and sideshows by day and a swirling sea of lights and sound by night.

Witney celebrates 750 years

But this year when the caravans and lorry loads of fairground equipment trundle into the town on the second Saturday of Sep-tember, there will be a double cause for celebration. For the 1993 Witney Feast marks the 750th anniversary not only of the fair itself but also of the parish church of St Mary's.

The Feast is held on the first Monday and Tuesday following September 8, the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Mary's Patronal Festival. The fair traditionally begins with a Sunday evening service in the church, followed by a procession to the Green for a service on the gaUoping horses roundabout.

However, no direct connec-tion used to be made between the consecration of the church on September 8, 1243, and the founding of the fair. Instead it was thought that the Feast had its orgins in 1231 when Witney was granted a spring and au-tumn charter fair to bring profit to the lord of the manor.

But seven years ago Joy Russell-Smith, then a Deacon

s.at the church, decided to re-search the history of St Mary's. Her delving showed that in 1243 there had been a royal grant of

two deer from the nearby Wychwood Forest to a prospec-tive rector of Witney "to hold his feast of the church of Witney". She also disovered that Roduiphus Grossi, Provost of the Cathedral of Aosta and Witney's first Rector, had been presented to the church in Witney in April 1243 while in France (non resident clergy were common then!). So, concluded Joy Rn5ell-Smith, it is very likely that the present Witney Feast had always been a sepa-rate event from the charter fairs and that it was first held in Sep-tember 1243 to celebrate the con-secration of St Mary's Church.

This at any rate has been the basis for Witney's celebrations this year which have included services for local schools, a steam fair, exhibitions and a flower festival. There will also be a visit by the present Bishop of Lincoln for a Deanery Sung Eucharist on September 8 as a

reminder that the parish used to be in the Diocese of Lincoln while the Dean of Windsor will preach at the fairground service on September 12 at 7.15pm.

According to Canon Roland Meredith, Rector of Witney for the past 14 years, there is much to celebrate in this anniversary year quite apart from the church's 750 years. A major restoration and redecoration of the building at a cost of150,000 has just been completed. Anew curate, Graeme Arthur, was or-dained on July 4 and the par-ish's first woman team minister will take up her appointment in October "because we feel that in a team ministry of four one should be a woman". There are three flourishing church schools and a chaplaincy to the West Oxfordshire College of Further Education in the town has re-cently been set up.

Looking to the future, prepa-rations are underway for an ecu-

menical week of mission in Witney in May 1994 led by the Bishop of Oxford as part of the national Pentecost Fire. Increas-ingly too there are links with the wider Church family. St Mary's is in regular touch with its former curate, James Gardom, now in Zimbabwe with his wife and two children, while Roland Meredith himself is Commis-sary for the Bishop in Nandyal in South India and has made several visits there.

The Feast like the life of St Mary's has changed over the years and steam engines and wurlitzers have given way to lorries and electronic music. But the magic is still there and when the lights go out on Tuesday night it will be impossible not to feel a pang of regret that the fair is over for another year. Until of course you remember that in Witney the Feast goes on in the life of St Mary's church.

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The Right Revd Richard Harries, Diocesan Church House,

North Hinksey, Oxford 0X2 ONB. Tel: 0865 244566.

AREA BISHOPS AND ARCHDEACONS Berkshire

Bishop of Reading: The Right Revd John Bone, Greenbanks, Old Bath Road,

Sonning, Reading RGI OSY. Tel: 0734 692187. Archdeacon: The Venerable Michael Hill,

Foxglove House, Love L.ane,Donnington, Newbury RG13 2JG. Tel: 0635 552820.

Buckinghamshire Bishop of Buckingham: The Right Revd Simon

Burrows, Sheridans, Grimms Hill, Great Missenden, Bucks HP6 9BD. Tel: 0494 862173.

Archdeacon: The Venerable John Morrison, 60 Wendover Road, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 9LW.

Tel: 0296 23269.

Oxfordshire Bishop of Dorchester: The Right Revd Dr Anthony

Russell, Holmby House, Sihford Ferris, Banbury, Oxon OX1

SRG. Tel: 029 578 583. Archdeacon: The Venerable Frank Weston,

Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP. Tel: 0865 276185.

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I I SiI VAIL A major Crafts Festival now in its 12th year

Craftspeople and artists from all over the country will be exhibiting and selling their

work in the magnificent interiors and grounds of Mentmore Towers

MENTMORE TOWERS, MENTMORE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, BEDS.

28, 29 and 30 August 1993 (Bank Holiday Weekend)

Open daily 10.30am-6.00pm

Admission (including Festival House & Grounds): Adults: £3.50, Children (546 yrs): £1.50

Adult tickets reduced by £1 if paid in advance (send SAE)

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