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St Mary MagdaleneWindmill Hill, Enfield, Middlesex

www.stmarymagdalene.church

Member of The North-West Enfield Group ofChurches

PARISH MAGAZINE

SEPTEMBER 2017 50p donation

30, The RidgewayDear friends,

You may well have heard by now that the Rev’d Barry Oakley, sometime Vicarof All Saints’ Edmonton, and a great supporter, member and retired assistant priest to this parish, died on Saturday 12th August. We send our love to Margaret and jenny and Chris, and remember Barry with gratitude and great affection. The Prayer and Care group are especially indebted to Barry, as he began the Healing Team out of which they evolved. Others will remember Barry and Margaret on our Chinese trip back in 2008; also the sermon he preached on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, and numerous other occasions on which he covered Sunday services.

It will be an honour and a privilege to hold Barry’s funeral at St Mary Magdalene’s, on TUESDAY 5th SEPTEMBER at 2pm (and a reception at Bush Hill Park Golf Club afterwards.

With love to you all,

Gordon

DRAMA GROUP PRODUCTION The Drama Group are presenting 'Murder in the Cathedral' by T S Eliot on 15, 16, 17 September in St Thomas-a-Becket church Northaw (Friday), St. Luke's church in Browning Road (Saturday) and at St. Mary Magdalene church on Sunday evening.

Rehearsals are under way and there will be some new faces as well as familiar ones.

The 'touring' will be great fun and the performance will also include some choral accompaniment. If you would like to take part in the production as one of the chorus or help in any other way, or simply know more about what we are doing, please contact Chris or any member of the company.

Book the dates - it's going to be good!

Chris Moon - 020 8216 5907

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NEWS FROM THE HOME GROUP

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting our opportunity athosting August’s Coffee Morning! Following some enthusiastic sprucing upbefore the event, I’m now ahead with Christmas cleaning preparations andhappy to be ahead with anything! Receiving a few apologies, missed you guys,accompanied by grateful donations, which included some from neighbourswhom Dawn took the time to invite. Our eclectic and colourful mix of, rescued,online auction won, charity shop bargains and gifts of garden chairs andcushions assembled and ready, no matter the preparations, would we even beusing the garden?

Having kept an eagle eye all morning on the lawn, Joon our neighbour’svisiting eleven-and-a-half year old Shih Tzu produced the “necessary”, as Ritawill testify, moments before welcoming our first guests. Resembling moreclosely a Star Wars teddy-bear-like Ewok than the Griffon Bruxellois GeorgeLucas based them upon (in our opinion). Lovely to look at, delightful toknow, her settled temperament reminds me of the peaceful rough haired GoldenRetriever I grew up with “Salome Sam”, “Sandy” for short; one of elevencanine companions I’ve had the pleasure of and blessing Dawn with her missedcanine fix. Unperturbed by events, Joon proceeded to demonstrate heradeptness at social etiquette, by nonchalantly lying at everyone’s feet in turn.

As Rita took the reins in the kitchen, I was released to host. God graciouslyblessed all twenty three of us, including our direct neighbours, withwonderfully clement weather. Save for one cloud insistent upon depositing afew drops, then for some amusing moments brollies went up, joining thecolourful bunting’s parade.

A plethora of raffle prizes, bring-and-buy, scones with jam and clotted cream,Rita’s cake and a selection of gluten-free, added to the enjoyment of this socialand fund raising occasion. The new bargain priced swinging seat, only puttogether by Ken and tested by myself and Dawn the day before, was also acomfortable and popular attraction. Our fun in the sun raising a stunning£197.80 (including gift aid) for the organ.Musing aloud “The things we do for love”, Ken’s slick response was “10cc”(1977!). God bless. Love Laura, Ken and Dawn.

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COFFEE MORNINGS

Our next coffee morning in aid of the organ fund will be held at The Vicarage by Gordon and Jessica so hope to see lots of you there on Tuesday 19th September at 10.45 a.m. as usual.

I just thought it would be nice to thank all the people who have hosted mornings so far (4 more to come) and to thank all the loyal supporters who have already amazingly raised almost £1,600 as well as enjoying lovely friendlymornings so keep up the good work and, of course, it would be good to see some new faces.

Rita Barker

FLOWERS

Anyone wanting to join the flower team is very welcome, previous experience an advantage but any offers of help welcome for arranging or watering! Speak to Gill Bird.

LUNCHTIME RECITALS

At 12.30 pm on Wednesday 13 September, Susannah Knight (oboe), Michael Lovejoy (violin) and Roddy Elmer (piano) will play for us.

Eleanor Pritchard12.30pm – 1pm

Retiring Collection Ploughman’s Lunch £3.50, if required,

in the Choir Vestry afterwards

Programme for 201711 October – Serafini Trio

8 November – Olive Murray – voice13 December - Michael and Marion Smith – organ and piano

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CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER

Sun 3 TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY8.00 am Holy Communion10.00 am COMMUNION & BAPTISM (Rae Vinton)6.30 pm No Evening Prayer

Mon 4 10.00 am Matins

Tues 5 2.00 pm Barry Oakley’s funeral

Thurs 7 10.30 am Holy Communion

Sat 9 10.00 am Sponsored Event

Sun 10 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY8.00 am Holy Communion10.00 am PARISH COMMUNION6.30 pm Evening Prayer


Wed 13 12.30 pm Lunchtime Recital - Susannah Knight, Michael Lovejoy, Roddy Elmer (oboe, violin and piano)


Fri 15 8.00 pm ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ at St Thomas a Beckett

Sat 16 LONDON OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND7.00 pm ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ at St Luke’s

Sun 17 FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY8.00 am Holy Communion10.00 am PARISH COMMUNION6.30 pm ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ at St Mary’s


Tues 19 10.45 am Coffee Morning at the Vicarage

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Wed 20 2.00 pm Fellowship with the Rev’d Dr Gordon Giles


Sun 24 FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY8.00 am Holy Communion10.00 am PARISH COMMUNION6.30 pm Come and Sing – Charpentier and Rutter



Sun 1 Oct SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY8.00 am Holy Communion10.00 am PARISH COMMUNION6.30 pm Evening Prayer followed by PCC

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME – 2017

October 18th. The Nightingale Hospice will give us an update on their work in Enfieldand surrounding area.

November 15th. Jessica GilesDecember 20th. A Christmas lunch to be arranged.

Hope to see you there.

Maureen Lunn

NORTH ENFIELD FOOD BANK

Week by week we make regular donations to the food bank and obviously their requirements change with the passage of time. Below please find details of their latest needs:-

URGENTLY NEED ITEMS: Tinned veg (400 g), UHT milk (1 litre), tinned meat, pot noodle, tinned tomatoes, meat soup, squash, coffee, juice, washing powder, deodorants, shampoo, toilet rolls, baby toiletries.WE’VE GOT PLENT OF:Pasta, cereal tea, sugar, beans/pulses (kidney, black-eyed peas and lentils).

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COFFEE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - 2017

Here is the rota for the monthly coffee mornings all Tuesdays except 20th November which is a Monday

19th September Gordon & Jessica Giles17th October Betty Buck20th November* Janet & Keith Whelpdale 19th December Rita Barker

*Please note this is a Monday

MAGAZINE AND ROTA

Items for the October 2017 edition to the editor by Sunday 10 September. Please use the magazine section of the pigeon-holes or email to [email protected]. Documents should be in Microsoft Word or plain text. If you know of anyone who would be able to help with stapling orif you are unable to keep the above dates please contact either Michael or Janet Dixon (8363 0338) or Janet Whelpdale (8363 5410)

23 September 2017Peter & Carol Lamb, Eleanor Pritchard28 October 2017

Vic Harrington, Pam Hagan, Helen Clarke25 November 2017Ju (Yezi) Lan Zhen, Val Hayes

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61-63 Windmill HillEnfield

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We have special menus for parties and functions for up to 60 people.Open Monday-Friday lunch 12pm to 2.30pm & dinner 6.30pm to 11pm

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