MAGAZINE July 2015

Hello and welcome to our July issue of the magazine.

June saw the choir’s annual trip out to sing Evening Prayer. This year

it was at Cartmel Priory. As opposed to last year, the weather this

time was much better which added to everyone’s enjoyment of the

day. There are some photographs at the back of the magazine and a

report from Tracy which helps capture the day.

July sees the Wives Table Top Sale on the 11th and Open Gardens

on the 25th & 26th of July. Full details of which gardens are open will

follow shortly. The cost to view all the gardens is £3. A good

weekend’s entertainment. All we need is good weather to make it

special.

July kicks off with the ordination of

Marcus Bull at Ripon Cathedral at

3pm on the 4th July. I hope as

many of you as possible will go and

support him on the day. Marcus will

be preaching the day after (5th) at

both churches. I am sure that on

behalf of everyone at the two

Churches I can wish Marcus a

happy and prosperous ministry.

Congratulations Marcus

Over the last couple of years a lot of photographs have been taken of

Church and community events. If you have internet access you can

now view them all from the Church website. To get to the website do

a search on Erringden Benefice. Once on the website, towards the

bottom of the page, you will see a heading ’Look at our Photo Albums

on Flicker’. Click the link and it will take you to the albums There is

lots to see so get reminiscing. Also on the website you will find links

to the Church magazine (IN COLOUR) and the latest Erringden

Eagle.

Enjoy the read —Alan

The Wives group met in June and were transported to Venice

via beautiful slides and photographs from Kathryn Ogden.

The reflections in the water and sunsets were very beautiful.

July is going to be a busy month for us as we have our Table Top Sale on Saturday July 11th.

Come along and see if there is something to tempt you as well as tea, coffee, bacon butties and cakes.

Our speaker in July is Sue Nuttall who is speaking about marathon running.

A date for your diary is August 20th when we have an open meeting. Our speaker is Pat Osborne and she will speak about the ‘The mysterious life of Agatha Christie’. The meeting starts at 8.00p.m. Jackie

Events in the world and our own country often spark mixed

emotions as we read, see and think about them. Perhaps the events

in Charleston in June is one

such event that invokes all

sorts of thoughts and

emotions as 9 members of a

black Christian Church are

gunned down during a Bible

Study.

Did you watch the

indictment of Dylann Roof

for the murders? What has

staggered most people was

the way in which those most

hurt by the loss of a loved

one openly forgave Roof for

his heinous crime.

Whether we agree or not with their act to forgive, we cannot help but

be amazed and astounded—no hate, no thirst for revenge, no

bitterness—just love. What sort of people are these who can forgive

such a man? Put simply they are Christian people living out what

they are called to do by Christ. That is, to forgive and overcome hate

with love.

This doesn’t mean they are not hurting or their pain and grief has

been washed away. They will most probably hurt for the rest of their

lives on earth.

We at the two Churches of St John’s (Cragg Vale) and St Michael’s

(Mytholmroyd) are currently looking at the Lord’s Prayer in a series of

Sunday sermons. As I think of the events in Charleston my mind is

drawn to part of the Lord’s Prayer ‘Forgive us our sins (trespasses)

as we forgive those who sin against us’ Jesus tells us that unless we

forgive we cannot be forgiven. That is a very, very serious statement

by Jesus and we need to pay heed to it as our life depends on it.

So why do we need to forgive? Put simply we all do some bad

things, some a lot, lot worse than others. If we sit in judgement on

others and offer no hope of forgiveness, then we can’t expect

forgiveness for our wrong doings.

However there is another serious reason why we need to forgive, and

that is the damage un-forgiveness can do to us. If somebody wrongs

me and I get hyper angry and hate that person and see no good in

them and get bitter and cynical who is damaged me or them? Worse

still it often affects my view of other people and i could end up taking

it out on the ones I love. Do I become suspicious of other peoples

motives? Do I start not trusting people? It is me who gets damaged

by the very powerful emotions that can result from being unwilling to

forgive.

So how does one go about forgiving? The worst thing is to try and

ignore the emotions you feel. You may need to acknowledge the fact

that you don’t want to forgive but you need to.

If you have a faith then tell God, tell Jesus about how you feel. You

may need to confide in a close friend, a family friend or the vicar. You

need to talk. But you need to be honest and say you are struggling to

forgive if that is the case. It is not easy but something we need to

learn to do.

By forgiving somebody we don’t mean it’s ok what you did so carry on

doing it to others. The law is there to protect people and it is up to the

law to administer justice for wrongdoing. Anger, hate and bitterness

has no part in justice. Roof hates black people. If I hate Roof am I

any different than him? No, we need to learn to forgive as it will stop

us turning into the very thing that harmed us.

Alan

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2nd July 9.30am Angels

3rd July 9am Parish Prayers in the Erringden Room.

7.30pm Quiz Night including pie & pea supper. Bar open.

4th July 10am Guild Coffee Morning

3pm Ordination of Marcus Bull at Ripon Cathedral

Sunday

5th July

11am Worship For All

6.30pm TGI meet

6th July 10.30am Brew meet for a coffee & Chat in the Erringden Room

7th July 2pm Guild Meet

7pm PCC meet in the Erringden Room

9th July 9.30am Angels

7.30pm House Group meet at 25 Mt Pleasant

10th July 9am Parish Prayers in the Erringden Room.

11th July 10am Table Top sale in the Hall

Sunday

12th July

11am Holy Communion

6.30pm TGI meet

13th July 10.30am Brew meet for a coffee & Chat in the Erringden Room

7.30pm Churches Together Committee Meet

8pm House Group at 23, Eaves Ave, Hebden Bridge

16th July 9.30am Angels

8pm Wives Meet—My World of Marathons with Sue Nuttall

17th July 9am Parish Prayers in the Erringden Room.

7.30pm St Michael’s Amateurs Aladdin

18th June 7.30pm St Michael’s Amateurs Aladdin

Sunday

19th July

11am Holy Communion

20th July 10.30am Brew meet for a coffee & Chat in the Erringden Room

Church Calendar for July

24th July 9am Parish Prayers in the Erringden Room.

25th July 1pm-5pm Open Gardens

Sunday

26th July

11am Holy Communion

1pm-5pm Open Gardens

27th July 10.30am Brew meet for a coffee & Chat in the Erringden Room

28th July Royd Regeneration Meet in Erringden Room

31st July 9am Parish Prayers in the Erringden Room.

1st Aug 10am Guild Coffee Morning

Sunday

2nd Aug

11am Worship For All

3rd Aug 10.30am Brew meet for a coffee & Chat in the Erringden Room

4th Aug 2pm Guild Meet

7pm PCC meet in the Erringden Room

7th Aug 9am Parish Prayers in the Erringden Room.

7.30pm Quiz Night including pie & pea supper. Bar open.

10th October Lay Reader Licensing at St Michael’s (Jane Hoyle)

25th & 26th July from 1-5pm

Entry £3 (covers both days &

all gardens)

Refreshments Plant Stall

See Eric or Jackie for details

Hi my name is Rosie and I am the vicarage dog.

Have you ever thought why dogs can hear at 200 metres what you

humans can only hear at 20 metres or why our sense of smell is

hundreds if not thousands of times better than yours? Perhaps once

your senses were as good as ours.

This is pure speculation but let me explain. I don’t know whether you

believe literally or metaphorically the story in the Bible about Adam

and Eve and God placing them in the garden of Eden to live. But let’s

say it’s true. Although we don’t know the size of the garden I think we

can assume it was fairly big as it involved parts of four rivers.

Now Adam and Eve were told to look after the garden. Well, Alan has

enough trouble looking after the vicarage garden and it must be tiny

compared to the garden of Eden. So how did they do it, it seems

impossible for anyone to tend a garden of that size.

To tend that garden they would have had to be super-human with

skills and abilities way beyond modern man, beyond your imagination.

So what went wrong and why don’t people today have those powers

that Adam and Eve had? Well we are told that they separated

themselves from God and went their own way. Their powers waned

and they lost their ‘super human’ abilities.

So before the fall (separation from God) what were these abilities

like? A clue perhaps is given by the life of Jesus. We are told that He,

Jesus, is the second Adam born the complete man.

When we look at Jesus, the power to heal every illness, disease,

physical affliction, to turn water into wine, to control the sea and calm

storms. To walk on water, to multiply food to feed the hungry. With

Rosie’s Ramblings from

The Vicarage

those abilities perhaps Adam and Eve could have easily tended the

garden of Eden.

So is it possible that in Jesus we see the potential that all humans

once had? A future reality for all humans who put their faith in Him.

Maybe God allowed some animals like dogs to keep their hyper

senses just to remind humans what their senses would have been like

if they had stuck with Him.

Hey I am only a dog what would I know. But could I be right? What

do you think?

Rosie the philosopher.

Good news from

Angels

Our Angels playgroup

is thriving and we

often have 30+

children and babies on

a Thursday morning, +

parents and

carers. The little ones have a

great time playing while the parents have a brew and a chat and

then we go into the Erringden Room for story time, singing and

prayers, followed by a healthy snack for the children, then more

brews for the grown ups! With all these refreshments we are very

busy in the kitchen and we really need another kitchen assistant.

So, if you are interested in helping out in the kitchen on Thursday

mornings during term time, please have a chat with us.

Bebe - tel- 883549

Joanne - tel- 843890

A puzzle for the kids

If you have a

Children’s Society box

then it’s time to bring

them in to be emptied.

Please pass them to

Geoffrey.

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CHOIR TRIP TO CARTMEL

We set off in the coach from mytholmroyd with choir members and their supporters.

The coach journey is a great opportunity to catch up with friends, and try and win the cash raffle organised by Geoffrey We arrived in cartmel at lunch time and despite the poor weather we had a brief visit at the priority before the most vital part of the day .lunch.

There are several tea rooms and a few pubs to choose from so we all had a good meal. Then the we all had a tour around the very picturesque village , and the weather started to improve.

The choir had a very successful practise . Then we all had time to enjoy the sunshine before the service. The Evening Song service was conducted by our Martin McDonald, with readings by Eric, and Tracy. Eric drew the short straw with the longest reading ever!

The choir sung beautifully, ably conducted by professor David Baker, and our organists David barker and Henry our young scholar .

It was an outstanding service much enjoyed by all who attended.

The coach trip home was broken up with evening meal in a local hotel in Kendall

Thank you Geoffrey Greenwood and Malcolm Rogers for organizing everything . Tracy

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Deadline for August magazine is 15th July

PARISH CONTACTS

Vicar

Revd Cathy Reardon 01422 883944

reardoncathy@gmail.com

Assistant Ministers

Revd Martin Macdonald 01422 881543

Revd Graham Cansdale 01422 706761

Revd Marcus Bull 01422 614759

Churchwardens

Eric Alston 01422 883911

Ruth Crossley 01422 847294

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