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PARISH NEWSLETTER
The Holy Trinity, Penn & St Margaret’s, Tylers Green, Forty Green & Knotty Green
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APRIL
2015
Special Easter
Services ……
Holy Week
From the Vicarage …
Desmond Tutu’s book ‘Made for Goodness’ is the
extraordinary story of Desmond Tutu’s hope in what
appeared to be a hopeless situation. He lived through
the Apartheid years of South Africa and chaired the
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission where he sat
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through six months of the most appalling stories of man’s
inhumanity to man. Yet still he maintains that we were made for goodness.
He starts his book by taking us back to the book of Genesis where after each
of the first five days of creation where God said ‘let there be’ he stands back
to admire his work with the words ‘and it was good’. But on the 6th day he
creates mankind and the end of that he stands back and says ‘and it was very
good’. Bishop Tutu comments that the normal state for man is to be good.
When we do wrong, hate, are cruel, we diminish ourselves and our humanity.
When we are good we are living out our God given goodness and divine
image. As we forget this, we continue to live our lives as though we are
ordinary when God created us to be extraordinary – in fact ‘in his image’. In
the Anglican liturgy of confession each week we say that ‘his image within us
is marred’ and pray that the damage we do to ourselves through the sin that
diminishes us will be healed and the image will be restored.
(Monday 2nd April)
Monday to
Wednesday – Night
Prayer at 9pm in Holy
Trinity Church
Maundy Thursday –
Holy Communion at 8pm
in St Margaret’s
Good Friday
Meditation in Holy
Trinity at 12 noon
Easter Eve – Vigil
Service 8pm in St
Margaret’s
Easter Day
From anyone other than Desmond Tutu this belief in the goodness of man
would sound glib. He goes on to talk about the sacrificial love that takes
Jesus Christ to the cross, the sacrifice of God that has the power to undo the
de-humanising effects of our own selfishness, cruelty and hatred. All this
Christ took upon himself on the cross. We cannot imagine the agony of spirit
that the only truly kind and loving person to have ever walked the earth
suffers on the cross as he catches a glimpse of all the horror, cruelty and sin
of mankind as it is all laid upon him in that moment that he cries out. Easter
is the turning point of history. Allow it to be the turning point of your life.
Blessings
Revd Mike Bisset
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6am – Sunrise
Service at Holy
Trinity
8am – Holy
Communion (BCP)
at Holy Trinity
9.30am – Family
Communion at St
Margaret’s
11am – Parish
Communion at Holy
Trinity
visit our website at www.holytrinityandstmargarets.co.uk
for up to date information on service times, phone numbers, rotas, photographs and much, much
more. You can also listen to recent sermons or download the text.
Dates for your Diary
Great Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Plant Sale at Watercroft
Saturday 13 June, 2 – 4pm
How to get tickets:
In advance from 1 May, price £4 and 50p
for children ages 5 – 18 from The Church
Office, after Church on Sunday at both
Holy Trinity and St Margaret’s, Joe
Gleeson Butchers and JJ’s Delicatessen.
Online, price £5 and 50p for children
from the internet, details of the website
will be given nearer the time on the Holy
Trinity and St Margaret’s website and in
the weekly newssheet.
On the door, price £5 and 50p for
children. If you are able to offer help with
Plants, Cakes for the Cake Stall, Tombola
items, Bottles for the Bottle Tombola
please contact Veronica Millward 01494
814009 or Jean Ricketts 01494 814402. If
you are able to help with refreshments
please contact Ali Bisset on
01494 816700
Come and join us
on the Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday
(5 April) after morning service in the
Holy Trinity Church grounds.
Great fun for all the children and the
adults too!
Easter Monday Walk and Lunch
How about planning to join us for the Easter Monday walk and
lunch on 6 April. If you don’t feel like the walk then you are
welcome to just come for the lunch - usually in a pub. We meet at
The Sanctuary at St Margaret’s at 10.30am. The walk is about 3
miles long. Families, children, singles, dogs - all are welcome, but
you need to book your place for lunch at The Hit or Miss in Penn
Street, or sign up on the sheet in The Sanctuary, St Margaret’s by 29
March. For more information phone Gail on 813254 or email
[email protected]
Curry Evening in aid of Sharon International Ministries
Friday, 9 May, 7.30pm St Margaret’s Parish Rooms.
Tickers are £10. For more information please contact Tom Holyer
(01494-676373) and/or visit SIM’s website
http://www.simindianruralschool.org.uk/
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Groups of six
will get together
for dinner - you
choose, well
before the
evening,
whether you
want to be a
host or a guest, but until the evening
you do not know who is coming (if you are a host) or who will be
cooking for you (if you are a guest). Guests meet at 7.30pm in Holy
Trinity Church car park where you find out who your host is and where
you are going.
You are equally welcome to join in this annual event whether you
attend church or not. Come alone or as a couple. To become involved
or for further information contact Annette Bruce 817487 or Ali Bisset
816700.
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‘Gue
Dinner’
A Spring Classical Concert with the
Aldren Brothers and Friends
Saturday 2 May, 7.30pm, St Margaret’s Church
Tickets £15, £7.50 students and OAPs from Hege
Aldren. [email protected]. Tel 01494 811918.
See page 8 for more information.
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April
Camping weekend 26-28 June 2015
More dates for your diary:
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Open Gardens – 5 July
Pet Service 19 July Holy Trinity
21 July Cream teas and Songs of Praise on the Common
27-31 July Lighthouse Week
2nd August New Wine
This year we plan to go back to Swiss International site
at Henley. We expect heavy demand for the available
tent and caravan pitches. Final arrangements are still being made but
Friday 26 June to Sunday 28 June is the probable weekend, so make a
note and watch for further announcements or contact Jules Dent
(817570) or [email protected] and Emma Byrne (812611).
Recent Events
Family Service
At our Family Service in
March our prayers were
represented by bubbles.
The children (and David
Carter and Paul Newcombe!)
blew bubbles as we prayed
for our neighbours, those in
war zones and children who
were homeless and hungry.
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Wycombe Homeless Connection receives The
Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
On the 8th of March 2015, Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, Lord
Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, as The Queen's representative,
presented WHC with a commemorative crystal and a certificate
signed by Her Majesty. He said:
“This award is a fitting recognition
of the work of the charity, which is
even more crucial with the growth
in homelessness.”
The bubbles seem so frail
and fleeting, almost unreal. Our prayers may often feel like that
but just as we remember the bubbles from the service, so the Lord
remembers our prayers however insubstantial and fleeting they
may be.
The Lord’s prayer needed larger bubbles, so Revd Mike produced
his rather larger bubble pot which produced rather larger bubbles.
The award was received by Wendy
Langford, representing the
charity’s 300 active volunteers.
Many have served WHC since its
inception in 2008. The award was given for: “Helping
individuals to escape from homelessness and rebuild
their lives, by offering resettlement advice and support
and by running the Wycombe Winter Night Shelter”.
Mother’s day service at Holy Trinity and St Margaret’s
2015 Pancake Party Report
What do you get if you add 36 eggs, 8
bags of flour and 18 pints of milk?
Answer … a lot of pancakes! Shrove
Tuesday saw our annual Pancake Party in
the Sanctuary at St Margaret’s in
preparation for Lent. Revd Mike, Jo
Oliver and Corrine Summers were
The service was followed by the Mothers' Union annual cake sale which raised £112.10. flipping pancakes for over an hour.
Holy Trinity, 11.00 am service
At the commencement of the service two ladies namely, Juliet Gorton and Patricia
Hoare were enrolled into Holy Trinity, Penn Mothers' Union. Both ladies had mothers
who were members of Mothers' Union in the past and Patricia was enrolled with her
mother's MU Badge. Rev'd Mike and Doreen Wood carried out the enrollment. The
usual communion service took place with hymns we all knew and a wonderful sermon
given by Mary Lee.
These funds are to support our projects. The three main projects being - providing a
Picture/Story Bible for every child baptised in Holy Trinity plus a Baptism Anniversary
Card. We also support the MU charity "Away From it All" which
provides holidays for families and carers who are unable to afford
this type of respite.
St Margaret’s 9.30 am service
Bunches of daffodil’s were distributed to Mum’s by the children at
the end of the morning service. As you can see in the pictures
there were smiles as a result.
One year we will remember to count.
RECENT EVENTS
OBITUARY OF – DICK BARNARD
WHAT’S ON?
MONDAYS
Dick was a faithful supporter, and much loved
member of Holy Trinity Church from 1967, when he
and his wife, Lorna and their three children came to
live in Knotty Green, part of Penn parish in the Revd
Oscar Muspratt’s time as vicar. They worshipped
here together until Dick died in January. He
struggled bravely through his long illness, and his
memorial service was held here on January 6,
attended by many friends and relations. He had
served this church in many ways: including member
of the PCC, sidesman, and starting a group of
volunteers to care for the churchyard, until
contractors took it over, with a fund for the purpose. He also attended to many small
repairing jobs around the church, while Lorna did the flowers.
He had a successful, long and interesting career in engineering and a happy family life.
He and Lorna were both keen gardeners and had many interests. They were married
for almost 68 years and enjoyed travelling in this country and abroad, visiting historic
sites and watching wildlife. Dick is sadly missed.
In Desmond Tutu’s book ‘Made for Goodness’ at the end of each
chapter he invites us into stillness and to listen to God speak with the
voice of the heart. This is the meditation at the end of the third chapter.
The voice is that of God.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for my yoke is easy and my
burden light.
Match your pace to mine, imitate me.
You are free to choose, you can choose to be like me.
Wherever you are you can create beauty.
Moment by moment you can create joy.
Instant by instant you can offer kindness.
Now and always you can make me seen.
You can be as I created you to be.
The visible likeness of the invisible.
You will see as I see.
And your heart will break
For all the sadness in the world.
For all the hunger and pain.
You will cry every tear with me
And share every joy with me.
You will see every sparrow fall.
You will see each dying blade of grass.
You will hear every child’s cry and every father’s despairing sigh.
Terrified screams and angry moans will be woven into the song of who
you are and your heart will be broken again and again.
And then you know a heart of flesh and not a heart of stone.
You will be alive.
From Made For Goodness by Desmond Tutu, published by Rider. Reproduced by permission of The Random House
Group Ltd.
Bell Ringing Practice at Holy Trinity
7.45-9.15pm. Ringers meet in the
bell tower. Contact Alison Bayley,
Bell Tower Captain (725686).
Village Christian Book Club meets
2nd Monday in month, 7.30 for 8pm
at The Vicarage. Call Ali Bisset
(816700)
TUESDAYS
Coffee in the Sanctuary
Please drop in any week between 10
and midday for coffee at St
Margaret’s Sanctuary. Everyone
welcome - very friendly!
Morning Home Group weekly from
10-11.30am at 13 New Road. Call
Edwina Sarkissian (812837).
Bible Study Group every Tuesday
morning at various local venues. Call
Annik Heal (673188).
Evening Home Groups
*Every 1st and 3rd week, 8.00pm at
Birnam Cottage, Church Road, Penn.
Contact Tilly Perfect (812679) or Sue
Wallace (812879).
*Fortnightly, 8-10pm, led by
Geraldine Howell. Call Norman
Veacock (713797).
*Alternate weeks at Nigel & Pauline
Stowe’s home, Widmer End (call
Nigel on 717496).
*Alternate weeks at 8pm at Martin &
Ella
Dominguez’s
home,
40
Hazlemere Road (816582).
WEDNESDAYS
St Margaret’s Toddler Group
10-11.30am, term-time at the Parish
Rooms, St Margaret’s. Call Ali Bisset
(816700).
Evening Home Groups
*1st/3rd weeks at David and Anthea
Carter’s home, 4 Rushmoor Ave.
Call 813015 - location may vary.
* Every 1st and 3rd week at 8.00pm
led by David Ellingham at the homes
of various members. Call Pam or
David on 816260
THURSDAYS
Coffee follows the 10am service at
Holy Trinity on the 1st Thursday.
Evening Home Group
*1st week of month at Roger &
Christine Edwards home, 7
Woodlands Drive, Beaconsfield. Call
672021
FRIDAYS
Mothers’ Union meets in the North
Room of Penn Parish Hall at 10am,
first Friday of month. Contact
Doreen Wood on 672306.
Herbert Druce's memories - A secret passage from the Old Vicarage to Penn Church
I went to see Herbert Druce, a few weeks after his 100th birthday, with the thought of recording his long memories of Holy
Trinity, Penn, which start in 1922 when he was a 7 year-old choir boy and there was no electricity or water in the church. It
will take two or three articles to recount all his memories and I will start with the secret passage.
When the Penn and Tylers Green Society started, in about 1980, to collect information about local houses of interest, the then
owners of the Old Vicarage next door to the church said that when they first came to the house there was an underground
passageway to the church from their cellar which they had blocked up.
This account is confirmed by Herbert Druce, who was told about the underground passage before the last War, by Bert Randall
who was Captain of the Tower. Herbert doesn't know the line of the tunnel, but assumes it had been revealed when Bert
Randall was involved in putting a boiler house at the back of the tower. There was no west door in the tower at that time.
Herbert himself had been in the Old Vicarage cellar. He was locked in there as a joke when a boy and remembered it was
always flooded. He didn't know anything about an entrance at the time and doesn't remember seeing one there.
The present Old Vicarage we see today was built in 1825, but stands on the same ground as its many predecessors so the
passageway could have been built at any time. Of course, it could have been simply to give a warm, dry passage to the church
rather than to allow a Catholic priest secret entry to the church, but we do have to remember that the Reformation was a
dangerous time for churchmen. We should also have in mind that the manorial Penn family remained Catholic in sympathy for
nearly a century after the Reformation.
On 30 August 1539, Thomas Cromwell was sent a letter reporting that Thomas Grove and William Culverhouse had accused
the Vicar of Penn of ‘the utterance by him of certain
opprobrious words’. The Vicar’s own confession was
enclosed and he had been committed to gaol in
Aylesbury. Both the Vicar’s accusers were from wellestablished Penn families and may well have been the two
churchwardens. It was an extraordinary event and allows us
just a glimpse of the conflict and turmoil that the process of
reformation had stirred up in a country parish. One wonders
how the confession had been encouraged.
Finally, I was intrigued by a comment from a map dowser,
who without any prior briefing, reported that he had found a
3 ft wide passageway entering the Vestry, which is indeed
where you would expect it to go to.
Miles Green
March 2015
New Charity Support by St. Margaret's
St Margaret's reviews its chosen charities annually.
In December 2014 it was decided alter the mix of
charities we support. Open Doors was
recommended as it has been serving persecuted
Christians for the past 60 years.
Open Doors originated in 1956 when a young Dutchman known as
Brother Andrew started smuggling bibles across the Iron Curtain to
the persecuted church. Now, some 60 years later, Open Doors is an
International ministry serving millions of persecuted Christians in
over 50 countries, - including some of the most dangerous places in
the world. It supplies Bibles, leadership training, literacy courses,
livelihood support and advocacy services, and not only seeks to
mobilise the church in the UK and Ireland to serve persecuted
Christians, but also to learn from them what it means to be a
disciple of Jesus.
With the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and Boko
Harem in Nigeria, the persecution of Christians has increased
dramatically. In January this year at Westminster, over 70 MP’s
attended a crucial discussion with Open Doors and were shocked to
hear of the scale and severity of persecution against Christians. They
heard a moving speech by a Nigerian Pastor about Boko Harem
atrocities in Northern Nigeria. The MP’s were presented with
evidence that the rise of Islamic extremism in places like Nigeria,
Kenya, Iraq and Syria has dramatic implications for the future of the
global Christian community.
In early February, at the launch of the Religious Liberty Commission
(of which Open Doors is a member), the Archbishop of Canterbury
highlighted the persecution of Christians, the attacks against the
Jews in Europe and the firebombing of Mosques. He said that
“ the quiet, creeping removals of freedom that create a climate of
fear and animosity is why we must speak out, and that silence is not
an option. “
The Religious Liberty Commission ( RLC) is calling on the British
Government to intervene to prevent religious cleansing and is
pressing the Department of International Development to make
religious freedom a strategic priority. With its 60 years of experience
in this field, Open Doors added its weight to the recommendation of
the RLC that the Government appoint a UK special envoy for
freedom of religion or belief, as a visible indication of the UK’s
commitment to promoting and protecting this important right.
WHO’S WHO?
From the Registers
Vicar
St Margaret’s
Revd Mike Bisset
816700
[email protected]
Baptisms
Associate Priest
Revd Derrick Carr
[email protected]
Jan 18 - Harrison James
Brooman
442212
Licensed Lay Minister
Mary Lee
Feb 19 - Helen Carter & Michael Ullman
Church Wardens
Paul Ricketts
Oliver Heal
PCC Secretary
Gail Wellings
Parish Administrator
Gail Wellings
Treasurer
John Scurrell
Electoral Roll Officer
Sheila Knox
Churchyard Guild
Jane White
Parish Archivist
Miles Green
Parish Hall Bookings
Gail Wellings
Flower Coordinator
Anna Taylor
Baptism Coordinator
Mary Lee
Bell Tower Captain
Alison Bayley
Pastoral Care Coordinator
Shirley Walsh
Wedding Coordinators
Michael & Alison Bayley
Funerals
Jan 21 - Gabrielle Stables
Holy Trinity
Baptisms
March 1 - Arabella Anna Hancock
Funerals
Feb 2 - Dick Barnard
Feb 28 - Rosemary Gobert
678107
814402
673188
813254
813254
813181
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813254
815262
678107
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813594
725686
The Village Show
Independent Financial Adviser
St Margaret’s, Tylers Green
Licensed Lay Minister
David Carter
Churchwardens
Roy Bentham
Kathryn Grudgings
PCC Secretary
Gail Wellings
Parish Administrator
Gail Wellings
Treasurer
Sue Wallace
Electoral Roll Officer
Jean Stables
Organist and choirmaster
Alan Yeates
Parish Rooms Bookings
Mary Coker
Parish Rooms Treasurer
John Daniell
TYGRE Club
Jules Dent
Flower Coordinator
Corrine Summers
Baptism Coordinator
David Carter
Pastoral Care Coordinator
Anthea Carter
Toddler Group
Ali Bisset
Wedding Coordinator
Corrine Summers
813015
630735
814220
813254
813254
812879
816044
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812117
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Next Newsletter — June 2015
Copy deadline 2 May
All articles to [email protected]
Saturday 27th June
Tylers Green Village Hall
(Monday-Friday 9.00am-2.00pm)
Parish Office, Holy Trinity Church
Hall, Church Road, Penn, HP10 8NY.
Tel 01494 813254
email:
[email protected]
website:
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Holy Trinity Penn & St Margaret’s Tylers Green
Schedule of Services April-May
Date
Time
Holy Trinity
1 April
Maundy
3 April
Good Friday
12pm
Time
St Margaret’s
8pm
Holy Communion
8pm
Vigil
A Spring Concert with the Aldren
Brothers and Friends
Meditation
4 April
Easter Eve
5 April
Easter Day
6am
8am
11am
Sunrise
Holy Communion
Parish Communion
9.30am
Family Communion
12 April
8pm
11am
Holy Communion
Parish Communion
9.30am
Family Communion
19 April
8am
10am
Holy Communion
Family Communion
9.30am
Family Communion
26 April
8am
11am
Holy Communion
Family Service
9.30am
Family Communion
3 May
8am
10am
5pm
Holy Communion
Family Service
Evening Service
8am
9.30am
Holy Communion
Family Service
10 May
8am
11am
Holy Communion
Parish Communion
9.30am
Family Communion
14 May
Ascension
10am
Holy Communion
17 May
8am
11am
Holy Communion
Parish Communion
9.30am
Family Communion
24 May
Pentecost
8am
11am
Holy Communion
Parish Communion
9.30am
5pm
Family Communion
Taize
31 May
Trinity
8am
10.30am
Holy Communion
Joint Service
1030am
Service at Holy Trinity
Local musicians Alexander (tenor),
Thomas (violin) and Benjamin Aldren
(clarinet), who are currently studying at
the Royal Academy of Music in London,
invite you to an evening of classical
music.
They will be joined by colleagues from the
Royal Academy to perform a varied
programme by Debussy, Grieg, Vaughan
Williams and others.
Saturday May 2nd at 7.30pm
St Margaret’s Church, Tylers Green
Tickets £15, £7.50 students and OAPs
available from Hege Aldren.
[email protected]
01494 811918
Proceeds to Chiltern Music Academy and
St Margaret’s Church
Morning Coffee in The Sanctuary
Please drop in any Tuesday between 10am
and mid day for coffee at
St Margaret’s Sanctuary.
Everyone welcome - very
friendly!
Village Christian Book Club
In March we shared our feelings on two of
Desmond Tutu’s books. The first was In God’s
Wow! What a fantastic start to the year for our reading group.
Hands (The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book
2015). One of the group suggested this might be
In January we shared a huge range of books received from Secret Santa. a good book for a new Christian.
February found us having second helpings of Bakewell tart and imagining The second book Made for Goodness championed
what life would be like 1400 years ago in Yorkshire.
forgiveness sighting many examples from South
Africa. It promoted the fact that we, as humans,
Hilda of Whitby: A spirituality for now by Ray Simpson has been my
are made in the Image of God and therefore
favourite book this year. After visiting the Abbey last summer on holiday
this book brought it to life. It details how this amazing and inspirational are inherently good.
Finally we must share our choices for April
woman trusted God and let him infuse every part of her community.
and May’s fellowship. War of the Worlds by
The church wasn’t separate to everyday life as it sadly often is for us in
st
Adrian Plass and The Cactus Stabbers by Jeff
the 21 Century. She strove for unity of the Celtic and Roman Christians
and never lost sight of the love of God. Some of our group found the
Lucas.
history a bit hard going but if you enjoy this or are planning a trip to the
area I would highly recommend this book.
Growing our faith though reading Christian
We have also been savouring the pearls of wisdom from John Pritchard’s
books is our aim, please come and join us.
How to Explain Your Faith. (This is the book on which our Church
Contact Philippa ([email protected] or
sermons have been based this year). We’ve chosen to read it over
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several months and it has stimulated some though provoking discussion.
An added bonus was meeting the author a St Margaret’s last year.
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