St Catherine’s Church, Crook

June - July 2014

CHURCH SERVICES (every Sunday) at 11am

June - July

DATE

SUNDAY

SERVICE

THEME

READINGS

June 1st

7th after Easter

Holy Communion (CW)

Jesus’ final

prayer

Acts 1:6-14 John 17:1-11

8th

Pentecost BAPTISM

Morning Worship (CW) Receiving the Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-21 John 7:37-39

15th Trinity Sunday

Morning Worship BCP Trinity - grace, love and fellowship

2 Cor.13:11- 14 Matt.28:16-20

22nd 1st after Trinity

Morning Worship (CW) Both dead and alive

Rom.6:1-11 Matt.10:24-39

29th Peter the Apostle

Morning Worship (CW) Peter the Rock

Acts 12:1-11 Matt.16:13-19

July 6th

3rd after Trinity

Holy Communion (CW)

Christian Life - a burden?

Rom.7:15-25a Matt.11:16-19, 25-30

13th

4th after Trinity

Morning Worship (CW) Christian Life - freedom?

Rom.8:1-11 Matt.13:1-9, 18-23

20th 5th after Trinity

Morning Worship (CW)

ChristianLife children and heirs?

Matt.13:24-30, 36-43

27th 6th after Trinity

Holy Communion (CW) ChristianLife Confident in God?

Rom.8:26-39 Matt.13:31-33, 44-52

Cover photo of Latterbarrow taken by Margaret Blades

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WHO’S WHO AT ST. CATHERINE’S, CROOK

Priest-in-Charge Tel: 01539 730683 St. T’s office

Curate: Rev. Brian Crowe Tel: 015395 68959 E.mail brian.crowe@ymail.com

Licensed Readers: Mr Reg. Bradby Mrs Hilary Fitch Mr Tony Fitch

Church Wardens: Mrs Ruth Hunter Mrs Mary Allcock

Hon. Treasurer: Mrs Hilary Fitch

P.C.C. Secretary: Mrs Ann Heap

Please do not hesitate to contact us for baptisms, weddings, funerals or any pastoral needs. Just ring or Email Brian. We are grateful to those who care for our church and grounds week by week - cleaners, flower arrangers, gardeners. Let us know if you want to help!

FUNERAL

15 April Thomas Wilson Barker ( age 73)

“Rest eternal grant to him, O Lord”

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Forgiveness

In 1972, Jean McConville, a widow with ten children, was abducted by the IRA and later murdered. Her body was not recovered until 2003. During a Radio 4 interview in May this year, her son Michael said “I made a statement a long time ago saying I forgive the people that killed my mother because the reason for that was, I was bitter, I was twisted. It was ruining my life and I thought that the only way round this here was to forgive those people and try to get my life back on track again.”

Michael McConville was articulating what many people experience when they have been deeply hurt, physically or emotionally. The victim identifies that in order to stop being a victim and bring about some sort of healing, ‘forgiveness’ has to be part of the package. Forgiveness has been defined as ‘a gracious and healing response to an unjust hurt’. It does not mean forgetting what has happened or excusing your offender. Nor does it mean that the offender should escape justice. You cannot be made to forgive, nor can you make yourself forgive just by sheer willpower. The benefits of forgiveness for the health of the victim are widely recognised but it is often a long and difficult process to reach the stage where the victim can say ‘I forgive’.

Forgiveness is at the heart of the Christian faith. It features in the teachings of Jesus and is much written about throughout the New Testament. As we ourselves realise that what we have done, or indeed not done, is contrary to God’s loving purpose for our lives, we can ask for and receive God’s forgiveness. As a loving God, it is God’s nature to be forgiving and merciful. This does not mean that we do not have to live with the consequences of our behaviour, but as we repent, we re-align ourselves with God’s objectives for his kingdom and the forgive-ness we have received opens us up to a greater awareness of God’s love. All this may sound very ‘spiritual’, which indeed it is, but it is also very practical for how we live our lives. As we are forgiven, we look away from ourselves and look outwards to other people, with God’s love and forgiveness flowing through us, helping to shape our relationships with others.

As part of the Lord’s Prayer we say “forgive us our trespasses (or sins) as we forgive those who trespass against us”. God’s forgiveness is full and instantaneous. As humans, we cannot forgive in this way. As Christians we might feel that it is our duty to forgive, but forgiveness is more than saying ‘I forgive you’; it requires a change in us as we respond to the hurt we have received.

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When we have been deeply hurt by the actions or words of others we feel a loss of trust and self worth. The response is often anger and a desire for revenge. Anger is not of itself a bad thing, as it can be a spur to righting an injustice. However, anger and the desire for revenge can lock a victim into repeatedly reliving the hurt, producing the downward spiral which leads to bitterness and a negative outlook on life. Actually taking revenge perpetuates the pain and spreads the ‘unjust hurt’ to affect more people, often leading to feuds in families or between communities.

The process of forgiving is a painful struggle which may take many years. It has been likened to a journey but one without a known time scale or a precise route. There may be some hurts that are so great that the victim feels that the journey to forgiveness will never be completed. What is important is to have a ‘forgiving heart’ which is willing to set out on this expedition.

Underbarrow and Bradleyfield

SPORTS DAY Saturday 14th June 2014 at 3pm

On Underbarrow village sports field Traditional sports races

Plus rounders and tug 'o' war

And egg throwing competition (bring your own eggs !)

BBQ, bar, raffle Sports cup for local children

Any queries ring: Richard Simpson - 07710 594738

Gary Richardson - 07796 138984

Nicola Swindlehurst - 07902 874523

June 4th

Speaker:- Billy Howarth

“Morecambe Past and Present”

Competition:- A Seaside Picture

July 2nd

Speaker:- Alexandra Brown

Visit to An Arab Stud

(More details at the June meeting)

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CROOK

MEMORIAL

HALL

1st Wednesday

Each month

Usually at

7.30pm

Visitors

Always

theWI Inspiring

Women

Walking Group A walk arranged once a month usually in the south of the county ‘A’ walk 5 – 8 miles with a few ‘ups’

‘B’ walk 2 -3 miles mostly on the level. For Date, Day and Time contact Hilary Crowe 015395 68959

Social Cycling A small group cycling about 20 mile mostly on easy terrain and finishing at a pub/café. For Date, Day and Time contact Aileen Lewis 015394 42264

Sewing & Craft Following Wednesday after W.I. night

7.30pm—9.30pm. For Info. contact Kath Jackson 01539 821415

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Other Activities held at Crook Memorial Hall

Table Tennis Monday and Friday 7.30 - 10pm From September through the winter months Contact:- Margaret Lister 015394 47544

Young Farmers Club Tuesday 7.30 to 9.30pm Sarah Carruthers 07748 584782

Aerobics/body toning Thursday 10 -11am Contact:- Joyce Griffin 015395 68542

Folk Dance Group Thursday 7.30 – 10pm

Contact:- Lynn Green 015395 64026

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Church Cleaning Rota

June July August

7th Margaret Lister 5th Joan Matthews 2nd Thelma Brown

14th Hilary Harman 12th Ann Clarke 9th Ann Heap

21st Sheila Brown 19th Audrey Rowlinson 16th Ann Underwood

28th Vivienne Ford 26th Lillian Atkinson 23rd Mary Allcock

30th Jennifer Gorst

Church Flower Rota

June July August

Jean Filkin Vivienne Ford Judi Webster

Joan Gunning Ann Underwood Hilary Crowe

CROOK MEMORIAL HALL COMMITTEE

Saturday, 7th June at 6pm

Village Walk (suitable for all the family)

followed by a Barbeque on the Outfield meadow

(the village field)

Park at the Hall or in the church car park

Aproximate numbers of people coming by 4th June

please Contact:- Kath Jackson 821415

(P.S. Tray bakes would be most welcome.)

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28th June at 6.30pm Visit to pheasant pens etc.

at Halhead Hall. (Cunswick road end)

followed by light refreshments.

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Wanted - good quality items - for a stall at a car boot

sale later in the year to raise money for village hall

funds. Items to Kath at Ellerbeck , Alison or Catherine,

01539 821415 or 821402 by 8th June. If you think we

can sell it - we will have it!!

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names. He is the SON OF

GOD, the MESSIAH and

CHRIST. He died to save us

from our sins – He is our

LORD and SAVIOUR. He is

also the PRINCE OF PEACE

and He looks after us like a

GOOD SHEPHERD.

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