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All Saints Guildford
www.allsaintschurchgfd.org.uk
Vicarage Gate, Guildford, GU2 7QJ
Registered Charity no. 1149709
January 2022
50p
Who’s Who
Vicar Revd Beverly Watson 841970
vicar@allsaintschurchgfd.org.uk 07547 416721
Church Office Trish Tye 563173
Mon-Thu 9am-12pm allsaintschurchgfd@gmail.com
Licensed David Barclay 572244
Lay Minister yalcrab5@me.com
Licensed Alison Moulden 565385
Lay Minister agi.moulden@gmail.com
Organist and Jeremy Barham
Choir Director j.barham@surrey.ac.uk
Church Wardens Henrietta Harding - allsaintschurchgfd@gmail.com 458064
Robin Holdsworth - robin@calax.com 571792
Sacristan Henrietta Harding- allsaintschurchgfd@gmail.com 458064
Music Group Leader POSITION VACANT
PCC Secretary Trish Tye - secretary.allsaintsguildford@gmail.com
PCC Treasurer Christopher Lambert - clambert31@outlook.com 537456
Pastoral Marguerite Barclay 572244
Team Leader pastoral@allsaintschurchgfd.org.uk
Safeguarding Julie Lodge 568857
Coordinator safeguardingallsaintsguildford@gmail.com
Children and Jeanette Whiteman 534317
Young People jeanette.whiteman@gmail.com
Children’s Church Julie Lodge 568857
childrens-church@allsaintschurchgfd.org.uk
Toddler Group Vanessa Virgo
toddlersallsaintsguildford@gmail.com
Church Hall Hire Evelynne Gunn - bookings.allsaints@gmail.com 562652
Church Flowers Sue Hemingway - hemingway427@btinternet.com 570742
Magazine Team Editor: Angela Rose -angelasrose@btinternet.com 537757
Production: Jo Smalley - joannapearce@live.co.uk 455006
Trish Tye - trish.tye@gmail.com 562652
Angeline Lee - angeline@email.com 07917 800804
Typing: Yvonne Quittenton - yvonne@quittenton.uk 825340
Advertising: Evelynne Gunn - 562652
bookings.allsaints@gmail.com
Subscriptions/Distribution:
Sylvia & Robin Holdsworth - robin@calax.com 571792
If you’d like to feature anything in the magazine, we would love to hear from you! Arti-
cles should be emailed to allsaintsmag@gmail.com by the 15th of the previous
month, or submitted to Yvonne Quittenton for typing by the 10th. We like to keep con-
tent varied and interesting so almost anything goes. Please get in touch if you have any
questions. Thank you!
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All Saints’ services and opening times
Our pattern of services is as follows:
Morning prayer takes place Monday to Wednesday at 9.15am in the
church and via Zoom for anyone who would like this option.
A service of Holy Communion is held in church every Thursday
morning at 9.15am.
An 8am service of Holy Communion is held in church on the first and
third Sundays of the month (the third Sunday will use the Book of
Common Prayer).
Our 10am Sunday services follow this pattern:
First Sunday: Cafe-style Altogether Worship
Second, fourth and fifth Sundays:
Family Communion with Children’s Church
Third Sunday: Morning Worship
Each Sunday, we hold ‘Tea-Time Church’ at 4pm.
We will continue to have an online service option when we can. This
may be in the form of a ‘live’ service or a recorded service.
We provide a ‘Dial All Saints’ service, for those who wish to have an
at-home audio option. Phone 01483 600674. Calls cost the same as
a local call.
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Thoughts from the Vicarage:
The Gate of the Year…
So, January 2022 and the beginning of a new
year. Instinctively we look back over the year
that has been – with joy at all that’s been good
and life-giving, and maybe with sadness over
the things that have been challenging; it’s a sort
of ‘stock-taking’ moment in our lives. But as
2022 begins, we instinctively look forwards too
– no doubt asking the question, ‘What will
these next 12 months hold for us and for our
world?’
And I guess we look ahead with a sense of uncertainty. What will COVID
and the Omicron variant throw at us in the coming months? What in-
creasingly challenging weather will our planet face? What impact will
these things have on the poorest people in our world? There are no easy
or obvious answers – except that we’re increasingly ‘all in this together’
as a global community.
So how should we, as Christians, look forward into 2022 and the months
that are coming? What might ‘Christian thinking’ look like at this point
in time?
Well I treasure the words of St. Paul in his first letter to the church in
Corinthians, chapter 13. It’s a passage about love, that we often hear at
weddings: ‘Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud.’ Beautiful words about the nature of love. But at
the end of the chapter, St. Paul says this: ‘And now these things remain:
faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love’. Faith, hope and
love. In many ways they’re three words that can give us stability, as we
step out into the new year.
Faith: Faith is about putting our trust in God. You may know the poem
by Minnie Louise Haskins, ‘The Gate of the Year’. She writes:
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’
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And he replied:
‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.’
Hope: Hope is different from optimism. Hope is about believing in the
sovereignty of God. Over all things, above all things, and beneath all
things he is there; and our lives are held safely within his care. We can
step out into the new year hopefully, because the Lord is with us, and he
will lead and guide our steps.
And love: Love which Paul says is the greatest of the three. Jesus said the
same thing too: to love God and to love our neighbour is the most im-
portant calling of all. We love God by worshipping him; by putting him
first in all our thinking, planning, decision making and choosing. We love
our neighbours by holding their needs as important as our own; by con-
tinuing to reach out, to care, to get things wrong, to forgive, to reconcile,
to heal.
Faith, hope and love – let’s hold them in our hearts and minds, as we
step out courageously into this new year together.
Beverly
Mission Focus:
The North Guildford Food Bank
The North Guildford Food Bank at St Clare’s in
Park Barn, the New Hope Centre in Bellfields
and Bushy Hill Community Centre in Merrow
was set up to provide temporary help for indi-
viduals and families in the Guildford area who
are in need. Working alongside local agencies
and churches, they want to ensure that no-one
goes hungry.
They receive non-perishable food from local
churches, supermarkets, schools and businesses to make up food par-
cels. Various agencies such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, Social Ser-
vices, the Council etc. then refer people who are experiencing short term
financial difficulties, to them.
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Their previous way of operating,
which involved face to face contact
and a friendly chat over a hot drink
and a slice of cake, has sadly had to
change due to COVID. They remain
open for business at their Park Barn
(see left), Bellfields and Merrow
branches. However, food parcels
need to be pre-ordered and clients
are not able to turn up without prior arrangement to collect food. To get
a food parcel, clients need an online referral. Details are given on their
website, northguildfordfoodbank.co.uk. They also offer delivery where
necessary.
Demand for parcels was huge at the beginning of lockdown when they
were giving out more than three times their pre-COVID average. Since
then, things have calmed down; other projects have been put in place
around the town, so that in general they are now about twice as busy as
usual.
Thanks to a huge team of very dedicated volunteers and to many gener-
ous donors, they have been able to continue seamlessly through the
COVID crisis. In fact, they have been able to be more generous in their
parcels so that they last for closer to a week and now include some fresh
items such as bread, cheese, milk and butter (carrots, potatoes and eggs
were already part of the pack).
Here are some ‘thank yous’ from last Christmas:
‘Thank you to all that was involved in the delivery of food items and the
voucher, that I shall use to buy meat for my Christmas dinner. I appreciate
your kind help.’
‘Thank you so much for the food and bits and the voucher. You have no
idea how grateful me and my girls are.’
‘I just received a food parcel from you. I would like to say a massive thank
you - it was really really well needed and after the year that we’ve all had, I
can actually have a sensible Christmas so I want to say thank you to you
and the team at St. Clare’s for all the hard work that you’re all doing in the
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local community. I wish you all a very happy Christmas, lots of love and
prayers.”
“I just opened the Christmas card that you sent me. I forgot about it last
night and put it up on the shelf and I’ve just opened it to find I have a £30
Tesco voucher. Thank you so so much from the bottom of my heart. “
‘I am emailing you to say a massive thank you for the package that you
sent me at Christmas. It helped me a lot and made me feel like someone
cared for me over the Christmas period. I massively appreciate it.’
If you wish to donate, please drop items at a collection box (Sainsburys
Burpham or Worplesdon Road, Waitrose Guildford, Wine Rack Burpham,
plus other seasonal locations). Donations can be made directly at Park
Barn on Mondays, 9:30-11am. A regularly updated list of the items they
need most is posted each week on their Facebook page,
@NorthGuildfordFoodBank. They are also grateful for financial dona-
tions which allows them to buy the food they need at any one time and
reduces storage and sorting requirements.
Mike Truman
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UPDATE
The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of All Saints’ Church meets every
other month, with a Standing Committee meeting in the intervening
months. In this feature, we’ll list the main topics discussed at the PCC. If
you’d like to know any further detail on any of these topics, just ask Bev-
erly or one of the members of the PCC.
November’s meeting covered the following points:
• Our Treasurer, Chris Lambert, updated us on the finances. We look
to be on target to generate a surplus this year, largely due to the
successful letting of the church and church hall. The recovery in
lettings after COVID has been quicker than we anticipated. We’ve
also invested in our premises too, with a new Reading Room car-
pet, a new shed and some other key maintenance work.
• Alison Moulden attended the meeting as chair of the Eco Vision
Group. Alison outlined our steps to achieving the Eco church gold
award which is our target over the coming months. Key to this will
be reducing our carbon footprint through a reduced reliance on
gas for heating. The PCC also agreed a new Eco-Policy which in-
cludes:
Offsetting our carbon footprint annually, whilst continuing
to reduce our carbon to zero as soon as we can.
No pesticide use on church premises.
No glyphosate weed killers to be used on church premises.
No single-use plastics to be used – for example plastic cups
and cutlery.
We implement the ‘No Mow May’ mowing regime, to protect
pollinating insects.
We commit to promoting Earth Hour annually (26th March
2022), and undertaking the RSPB bird survey annually (28-
30th January 2022).
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• The PCC agreed the beneficiaries of our Mission giving in 2022, as
presented by Peter Nicholls, the chair of the Missions Vision
Group. In 2022 the beneficiaries will be: Friends International, Mo-
saic Middle East, United Society Partners in the Gospel, Five Tal-
ents, North Guildford Food Bank and Guildford Town Centre Chap-
laincy. We will continue to support the Koens family as our special
missions project. Christian Aid, Mission to Seafarers and A Rocha
International will be beneficiaries of special collections during the
year.
• The PCC agreed the first draft of the calendar for 2022. This sets
out our main festivals, events and PCC meetings during the year.
These events can be found in the online calendar that is displayed
on the home page of our website.
I hope this gives a taste of our meeting. The next update will be in the
February magazine, following our meeting in January.
Trish Tye, PCC Secretary
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Onslow Village Garden Club
Welcome to 2022! The Garden Club Committee has been busy preparing
for the new year, hoping that our full programme of ten meetings and
three shows can take place without interruption. While the periods of
lockdown may have given the opportunity to spend more time in our
gardens, we have all missed the chance to meet together; we look for-
ward to meeting and the opportunity to build on and develop new
friendships.
Our programme of meetings for the year begins on Wednesday 19th
January with Roger Beck from RSPB, who will speak on garden birds.
The meeting will take place in Onslow Village Hall at 7.30pm. Please do
join us!
What to do in the garden in the coming weeks? The weather may not be
conducive to outdoor activity, but you might wrap up warm and think of
it as healthy exercise! You may find some dead or damaged wood in
shrubs or fruit trees that can be cut out. It’s good to do this before
spring, when things start to grow again.
If you would rather stay indoors then you might take the opportunity to
gaze out of the window and plan a redesign of a flower bed - what to do
with a plant that has grown too large or which plants or shrubs might be
added to fill some gaps. If you have a suitable space available indoors
then January is not too early to be planting seeds for sweet peas, lobelia
and antirrhinums. They take some time to grow and be ready to flower,
so benefit from an early start. For good germination they need a little
warmth and light, so use a propagator or cover the seed tray with glass
and stand them in a sunny window sill. The soil needs to stay moist, so
will need occasional watering.
A reminder of what the new year will bring…
Peter Nicholls
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Thanks so much to Paul Kerensa
(aka Paul Young), Jude Simpson
and Julie Shaw (on piano and re-
corder) for providing us with such
a memorable evening of comedy
and carols. And thanks to Joseph
Young who helped with the tech!
12News from Queen Eleanor’s…
For their creative writing homework for this half
term, the Year 3 students at QE were asked to write a
newspaper article about a topic of their choice. One
of our young people at All Saints chose to write about
the Children’s Choir that performed at the Nine Les-
sons and Carols service last month, and has kindly
agreed to share her work with readers of the maga-
zine - see opposite page. It’s witty and expertly pre-
sented...Well done Alice! We hope to bring you more from the children
at QE in future editions of the magazine, so watch this space.
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News from the
All Saints Band
Hello there! I thought I might introduce to you our growing All Saints
Band. Here’s who they all are and what they play or sing:
Sara - Acoustic guitar & vocals James - Drums
Katherine - Violin Andy - Bass guitar & vocals (tenor)
Julie - Keyboards & piano Annie - Vocals (tenor)
Beverly - Keyboards & piano Mike - Vocals (tenor)
Alice - Flute & vocals (soprano) Linda - Vocals (alto)
Ellie - Flute, piccolo & vocals Maddie - Vocals (soprano)
(soprano)
Liz - Cello Gwen - Vocals (soprano)
Amazingly we have 14 band members, with eight different instruments
and spanning a wide vocal range.
We recently upgraded our drum kit through a very generous donation
on long term loan and have just bought new sound equipment to mic up
all the members. We’ve grown so big that we have also just taken deliv-
ery of what is called a fold-back speaker so the band can hear them-
selves play and sing to you all.
We play every other Sunday and specifically mid month and at the Alto-
gether Worship services. Most recently we’ve played at the Autumn
Fayre, where we did 16 songs in two sets, at the Light Party in October
and on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
15We have also started to meet once a month to just play and practise to-
gether.
Each month we look to bring in new songs. In recent months we have
introduced Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord, 2000 Years Ago in Bethle-
hem and When I Think Upon Christmas.
But, we want to expand our band. We’d love to have new mem-
bers. Whether you are a beginner or not, there’s a place for you to play
or sing...or both.
Coming along to our practice sessions is a great way to find out if you’ll
like it. There's no audience or congregation - just us playing for fun. So
you’ll be amongst friends! Our next practice session is Saturday 29th
January in the church at 4pm. You can, of course, join us at any-
time. We’d love to see you.
Best wishes from us to you and peace be with you all.
Andy, from the All Saints Band
The Young Adult Safe Haven is a pilot service that
launched in Guildford in November 2021 and will initial-
ly run as a six month trial with the potential to extend
and become a permanent fixture.
This new service will offer a safe place for young adults (18-25 year olds)
to talk openly and confidentially about their feelings and emotions with
peers and young adult support workers.
You can drop into the Young Adult Safe Haven from 5pm - 9pm, 7 days a
week - no appointment needed.
It is located next door to the current
Guildford Safe Haven: Oakleaf, Wal-
nut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey
GU1 4UQ.
16Greetings from Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea
We've often shared photos and videos of the Bible dedications that take
place after many years of prayer and hard work. This month's pictures,
however, come from the Domung language group, where Jonathan and
Jenny Moe are in the early stages of translation work.
In order for the Domung
people to be able to read
in their own language,
they first need a con-
sistent and clear spelling
system.
The Domung speakers
have been testing out the
spelling system that has
been developed so far, to
see how intuitive and
easy to use it is.
After a village visit this year, Jonathan
Moe reported, "Every Sunday, we
passed out the trial copies of the
Domung-English picture dictionary. It
was exciting to see people trying to
read their own language for the very
first time! The alphabet needs more
work and testing, but it was a huge
step forward!"
If you'd like to read more about the
technical side of translation, check
out Jonathan's blog post.
I (Clare) am glad to be a small part of
this work by helping to provide an
education for the Moes' children at Ukarumpa International School.
17Prayer Points…
As our family moves into a time of transition, we are so glad to know
that many are praying for us:
* Please pray for the Moe family and the Domung language group as
they work together to translate God's Word into Domung.
* Many of you have been praying faithfully for someone to fill the Au-
toshop manager position. In the next few weeks, one of Andrew's col-
leagues, Sam Nutter, will become the new manager! Please pray for
Sam as he takes on this challenging role. Pray that Andrew will be able
to provide support to Sam even in this time of preparing to leave the
country.
* On 17th December, I will finish my temporary role of vice principal
at Ukarumpa International School. After that, I'll focus less on my work
at the school and more on planning and preparing for our time of Home
Assignment. Please pray that our travel arrangements will come to-
gether easily, and that flights won't be cancelled once tickets are
booked.
* Please pray for all of us as we enter our last couple of months of work
and school, and get ready for a time of change. In particular, we'll need
to make decisions about our aging dog, who has been with us for our
whole marriage; the children have never known life here without him.
* Please pray that we would see an increase in gifts sent towards our
Wycliffe ministry; currently the amount being received is less than Wyc-
liffe requires us to raise.
With thankful hearts,
Andrew and Clare Koens, with Levi,
Heidi and Eowyn
18I worried
Mary Oliver
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?
Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?
Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows
can do it and I am, well, hopeless.
Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia?
Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang.
***
Lord
When you tell me not to worry
Please also remind me of your promises.
Lord
When you tell me not to fear,
Please also remind me of your presence
Lord,
When you tell me not to give up,
Please also remind me of your power.
For you Lord, are not only the Christ who leads us,
But also the Spirit who inspires us
On our life’s journey with you.
Amen
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Onslow Village Residents’ Association
Ada Lovelace: Her Life and Afterlife
Tuesday 11th January 2022, 7.45pm
Onslow Village Hall
Presented by Roger Price
Ada was the only legitimate daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She was
kept in total ignorance of her famous father until she came of age to be
introduced to London society. There she met Charles Babbage, designer
of the first computer, and that set her on the path as a computer pro-
grammer. Certainly ahead of her time.
Doors open 7pm. Complimentary tea and coffee served from 7.15pm.
Entry fee is free to OVRA members or £5 for non-members.
Please bring your membership card or join/renew on the night.
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So Loved - 26 words that can change your
life
By Martin Salter, IVP £5.99
Here’s an astonishing claim. John 3:16 appears
on everything from fridge magnets to sports
stars’ faces. But what does it actually mean?
And how does it relate to you and me?
With warmth, personal stories and humour,
the author explains God’s love, His Son, His
sacrifice, and the all-important connection
with us today. This is an invitation for anyone
to dive straight in and take the first step in an
exciting, life-transforming journey of faith.
Doing Time – a spiritual survival guide
By Jonathan Aitken and Edward Smyth,
Lion Books, £6.99
Jonathan Aitken and Edward Smyth both ex-
perienced a dramatic fall from grace. Each of
them found themselves removed from their
homes and loved ones, locked up in prison
and having to deal with the fallout of their
actions. However, in the middle of their low-
est point they discovered something life-
changing. God hadn’t forgotten about them.
‘Doing Time’ offers encouragement and ad-
vice on how to survive and even make the
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dom that only comes from personal experience, it shows that it is never
too late for God to help us find a new way forward in our lives.
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25Remembering Ralph Vaughan Williams
One hundred years ago, on 16th January
1922, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Pastoral
Symphony was performed for the first
time, in London.
Later designated Symphony No. 3, it was
said to be inspired by the composer hear-
ing a bugler practising and is frequently
thought of as a memorial for the fallen of
the First World War, many of whom
Vaughan Williams knew. He later said he
saw music as an antidote to a war-torn
world.
He had been born in 1872: his father was
vicar at Down Ampney in Gloucestershire,
but he died two years later. His mother, an evangelical Christian, was al-
so the niece of Charles Darwin. This combination of events may have led
to his uncertainty in questions of faith: his second wife Ursula said he
“drifted into a cheerful agnosticism, but he was never a professing Chris-
tian”.
Nevertheless, Vaughan Williams frequently attended church, where he
found musical inspiration. His first job after graduation was as a church
organist, and he wrote many compositions for the Anglican Church, in-
cluding well known hymn tunes. He edited The English Hymnal in 1904
and wrote an opera of The Pilgrim’s Progress. But he said there was “no
reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass”.
A Pastoral Symphony received some criticism at first but was later re-
garded as stunningly beautiful, combing the grace of the wildly popular
The Lark Ascending with the deep sadness of war.
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26Reducing your black bin bag
to zero…
Inside your magazine this month you’ll find
a two-page document showing you where to recycle a vast number
of household items, that would otherwise end up in your black bin.
Stick this list up in your kitchen and challenge yourself to reduce
what goes into the bin!
We are proud to host several TerraCycle collection containers in
the All Saints’ Church foyer, so please do check what you can recy-
cle there, and take a look at recyclenow.com for more information.
For those reading the magazine online, the two-pager document
can be found on the All Saints website.
27Cathedral Tour Continued…
Welcome back to our cathedral tour, the November leg of which sees us
take in four more cathedrals!
We stayed in Cambridgeshire for a week this
time and our first visit was up to Peterborough.
The front of the cathedral is quite beautiful and
has Saints Peter, Paul and Andrew looking down
from the three high gables. Inside, two famous
women are remembered. Firstly, Edith Cavell
who devoted her life to nursing in the First
World War and who was put to death by the
Germans in Belgium. She is
remembered in Peterbor-
ough as she attended
school there. Secondly,
Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England as
the first wife of Henry VIII, is buried at the cathe-
dral. Catherine was buried in Peterborough Cathe-
dral with the ceremony due to her position as a
Dowager Princess of Wales, and not a queen. Henry
did not attend the funeral and forbade their daugh-
ter Mary to attend.
For our next cathedral, we jumped on the train to
Norwich. Norwich is a beautiful city which hosts
one of the country’s largest medieval cathedrals.
We were lucky enough to join in with a tour and so
learnt a little more about the
cathedral. Building work be-
gan in 1096 and was complet-
ed in 1145. The large cloisters
are only exceeded by those at
Salisbury Cathedral.
A notable feature inside the cathedral is the magnif-
icent stone vaulted ceiling. This replaced a flat
wooden ceiling in the 15th and early 16th century.
There are hundreds of bosses on the ceiling, with
28the central ones depicting Bible stories beginning with Adam and Eve at
the easterly end. Although we visited during the afternoon, the cathedral
was notably light, helped by the clerestory windows.
Next on the list was Ely - one
that has been much hyped by
friends - and it didn’t disappoint!
The weather was a bit gloomy,
but actually this added to the
atmosphere on the fens. We ar-
rived quite early and so the ca-
thedral was beautifully quiet for
us to have a good wander round.
The cathedral has its origins in
AD 672 when St Etheldreda built
an abbey church. The present
building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in
1109.
The most notable and unique feature of the ca-
thedral is its central octagonal tower with a lan-
tern above. We had booked a tour of the lantern
and it was amazing, especially as we were the
only guests. We climbed up a very narrow, stone
staircase and into the octagonal tower. You
could then see the wooden lantern which is ba-
sically wedged into the stone tower. The lantern
has panels showing pictures of musical angels,
which can be opened,
with access from the
octagon roof-space, so
that real choristers can sing from on high. Pop-
pies are dropped from the lantern on Remem-
brance Sunday.
The Lady Chapel is also wonderful and is the
biggest in the country. It apparently has a sev-
en second reverberation and so is poor for
speeches, but great for singing. The chapel was
built in 1321-2. After the reformation it was
29redeployed as the parish church (Holy Trinity) for
the town, a situation which continued up to 1938. In
2000, a life-size statue of the Virgin Mary by David
Wynne was installed above the lady chapel altar.
The statue was criticised by local people and the ca-
thedral was inundated with letters of complaint.
(Mary does look like she’s throwing her hands up in
despair!)
Three down and one to go. St Edmundsbury
was our next cathedral. We were a little ex-
cited to learn that there was a Christmas
market in Bury St Edmunds too - we hadn’t
expected it to be inside the cathedral! The
whole space was taken up with stalls.
There has been a church on this site since 1065 when St Denis' Church
was built within the precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. St Denis’
Church was rebuilt and dedicated to St James. Further building and al-
terations have taken place over the centuries and from 1959, renewed
work transformed the church into a cathedral. The tower is very recent,
having been completed in 2005.
Inside, if you look up into the
tower, you can see the coats of
arms of all the UK dioceses. Of
course, we had to find Guild-
ford, and you can see it in this
picture - the one with the
crossed keys and sword and
the blue border. Outside, we
wandered around the grounds of the Abbey
ruins. All very interesting.
Our next tour will take in some of the London
cathedrals. More of this in the February mag-
azine!
Trish Tye
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32Dates for your Diary - January
Sunday 2nd Epiphany
Friday 7th, 3pm Friday Group
Friday 7th, 9.30am Toddler Group
Saturday 8th, 9am Prayer Group
Monday 10th, 10am Pastoral Team Meeting
Monday 10th, 7.30pm PCC
Wednesday 12th, 12.30pm Wednesday Lunch Group
Thursday 13th, 8pm Premises Vision Group
Friday 14th, 9.30am Toddler Group
Sunday 16th, 4pm Songs of Praise!
Monday 17th, 2.15pm Hearing Clinic
Monday 17th, 3pm Hard of Hearing Group
Tuesday 18th, 5.30pm Worship Vision Group
Wednesday 19th, 2.30pm Dray Court Service
Wednesday 19th, 6pm Safeguarding Team
Friday 21st, 9.30am Toddler Group
Friday 21st, 3pm Friday Group
Saturday 22nd, 7.30pm ‘Build-your-own’ Quiz
Monday 24th, 7.30pm Finance Vision Group
Wednesday 26th, 2.30pm Tea-time Church Planning
Friday 28th, 9.30am Toddler Group
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is
ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has
called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14
33Get your brain in gear for the New
Year…
It’s puzzle time!
Medium-level
Sudoku
Solution on page 37
Crossword
grid
Clues on opposite
page and solution
on page 37
34Across
8 How the Abyss (NIV) is described in the Authorized Version
(Revelation 9:1) (10,3)
9 Frozen water (Ezekiel 1:22) (3)
10 The Ten Commandments (9)
11 In Roman Catholic theology, neither heaven nor hell (5)
13 Des cons (anag.) (7)
16 ‘Though [your sins] are red as — , they shall be like wool’ (Isaiah
1:18) (7)
19 Keen (Romans 1:15) (5)
22 Repugnant, loathsome (Jeremiah 24:9) (9)
24 Drink like an animal (Judges 7:5) (3)
25 First and last (Revelation 22:13) (5,3,5)
Down
1 Father of Ahi, a Gadite (1 Chronicles 5:15) (6)
2 Where David found the stone with which he killed Goliath (1 Samuel
17:40) (6)
3 ‘Hour by hour fresh lips are making thy — doings heard on high’ (8)
4 ‘And there were shepherds living out in the fields near by, keeping
watch over their — at night’ (Luke 2:8) (6)
5 United Society for Christian Literature (1,1,1,1)
6 ‘If he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would — —
or a tax collector’ (Matthew 18:17) (1,5)
7 Where Paul was taken when things became difficult for him in Berea
(Acts 17:15) (6)
12 Istituto per le Opere di Religione (Vatican Bank) (1,1,1)
14 ‘Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new — ; the old has gone, the
new has come!’ (2 Corinthians 5:17) (8)
15 Used to colour ram skins red for use in the tabernacle (Exodus 25:5)
(3)
16 Vat car (anag.) (6)
17 ‘Be joyful — — , patient in affliction, faithful in prayer’ (Romans
12:12) (6)
18 ‘The parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,
while our presentable parts — — special treatment’ (1 Corinthians
12:23) (4,2)
20 Ancient rowing boat (Isaiah 33:21) (6)
21 Say again (2 Corinthians 11:16) (6)
23 What Jesus did in the synagogue in Nazareth after he stood up (Luke
4:16) (4)
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Sudoku and crossword solutions from page 34:
37Worship and Readings
2022 8am 10am 4pm
2nd January, Holy Communion Altogether Worship Tea Time Church,
Epiphany Epiphany
Isaiah 60:1-6, Isaiah 60:1-6,
Ephesians 3:1-12 Ephesians 3:1-12 Isaiah 60:1-6,
and Matthew 2:1 and Matthew 2:1-12 Ephesians 3:1-12
-12 and Matthew 2:1-12
9th January, Family Communion Tea Time Church,
Baptism of Baptism of Christ
Christ Isaiah 43:1-7, Acts
8:14-17 and Luke Isaiah 43:1-7, Acts
3:15-17,21-22 8:14-17 and Luke
3:15-17,21-22
16th January, BCP Communion Morning Worship Tea Time Church:
Epiphany 2 Songs of Praise
Isaiah 62:1-5, 1 Isaiah 62:1-5, 1
Jesus changes Corinthians 12:1- Corinthians 12:1-11 Isaiah 62:1-5, 1
water into 11 and John 2:1- and John 2:1-11 Corinthians 12:1-11
wine 11 and John 2:1-11
23rd January, Family Communion Tea Time Church
Epiphany 3
Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-
Jesus reveals 8-10; 1 Corinthians 6, 8-10; 1
his identity in 12:12-31a and Luke Corinthians 12:12-
Nazareth 4:14-21 31a and Luke 4:14-
21
30th January, Family Communion Tea Time Church
Presentation of
Christ in the Ezekiel 43:27-44:4, Ezekiel 43:27-44:4,
temple 1 Corinthians 13 and 1 Corinthians 13
Luke 2:22-40 and Luke 2:22-40
38More Who’s Who
Beavers, Cubs, Scouts Janice Payne 567687
Church Hall Montessori Group Elena Buchholdt 07977 019887
The Arts Society Guildford Sian Davis 07836 550355
Guildford County School Jack Mayhew 504089
Mothers’ Union Diana Reiblein 828587
Onslow Football Club Darren Creely 07795 333109
Onslow Infant School Katherine Donlon 532726
OV Garden Club Anne Bradbeer 563421
OV Residents Steve Mills 566353
OV Tennis Club Paul Mortlock 07904 196652
OV Guides Lucy Wallis 302122
2nd OV Brownies Lucy Wallis 302122
3rd OV Brownies Sam Mitchell 07841 480247
4th OV Brownies Sarah Bennett 07956 962686
QE (CofE) Junior School Jo Davies 561323
Village Hall Chairman Mike Gadsby 577302
Village Hall bookings Julia Clayton-Eke 07771 546009
Village Hall Playgroup Karen Hatton 503565
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