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SAINTS ALIVE!
The Parish Magazine of All Saints’ Church, North Hillingdon
Consecrated on 16 July 1933 by The Right Reverend Bertram Fitzgerald Simpson, Bishop of Kensington.
JUNE 2015
Peter-tide edition
55p (suggested minimum donation)
Simply proclaim the Lord Christ
holy in your hearts,
and always have
your answer ready
for people who ask you
the reason for the hope
that you have.
1 Peter 3:15
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Diocese of London & Deanery of Hillingdon
THE PARISH OF ALL SAINTS, NORTH HILLINGDON
THE PARISH MISSION STATEMENT
All Saints’ Church aims to be a welcoming Anglican
community, a place of prayer and worship, providing a
ministry to all, and where people gather to share the love of
Jesus Christ.
SUNDAYS
• Said Eucharist
• SUNG PARISH EUCHARIST WITH SUNDAY
SCHOOL
followed by refreshments in the Church Hall
next door, at which all are very welcome.
• On the 3rd Sunday of each month: Sung Parish
Eucharist in a less formal style:
• On the 1st Sunday of each month: Evening
Service; normally Choral Evensong (BCP)
8.00 am
10.00 am
10.00 am
6.00 pm
HOLYDAYS & WEEKDAYS
The Parish Eucharist on Holydays & Feastdays
On weekdays
Wednesday
Thursday
Saturday (Vigil Eucharist of Sunday)
7.30 pm
10.00 am
6.45 pm
6.00 pm
Please see the Parish Website or the weekly Parish Bulletin on the
church porch notice-board for full details (or notes of any occasional
changes) or telephone the Vicarage (01895 239457).
Enquiries concerning Baptisms, Banns, and Marriages can normally be
made during Vestry Hour in church on Saturday mornings between
9.30 and 10.30.
Parish Website: www.allsaintsnorthhillingdon.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ASHillingdon
Twitter: @ASHillingdon
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SAINTS ALIVE! is the Parish Magazine of All Saints’ Church,
North Hillingdon UB10 9BT and is published eleven times
annually, with a two-month
month edition over the summer.
summer
.
The members of this month’s production team are John & Carol
Clarke, Loralene Bain (the Area Dean’s Administrative Assistant)
and Father Desmond Banister. More items are needed for the
summer edition,, please.
please Copy for the July/August
ly/August 2015 issue
needs to reach John Clarke no later than Friday,
Fri
19 June:
[email protected]
[email protected].
Please don’t forget to mention SAINTS ALIVE! when you contact
those who have advertised in this month’s edition.
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our advertisers for their tangible support of our Parish
Magazine.
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FATHER DESMOND’S MISCELLANY THIS MONTH
PETERTIDE
The month of June seems to have quite a number of
saints’ days, both ancient and modern, including our
own S Alban, the first martyr in these islands, and S
Boniface (pictured here), who hailed from the West
Country, took the message of Jesus Christ to the
Frisians (living just across the North Sea) and was
murdered on 5 June AD754 in North Holland. We
also keep the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of
Jesus Christ (Corpus Christi). These days, this
celebration tends to be transferred to the nearest
Sunday and so it will be at All Saints’ this year. So on
7 June, we shall celebrate and give thanks to God for
the institution of the Holy Eucharist by Jesus himself at the Last Supper. Given
the circumstances of Jesus’ death on the day following the Last Supper, such a
celebration is hardly fitting during Holy Week and Easter itself, so it is delayed
until after the Easter season is over. Towards the end of June, we celebrate the
Birthday of S John the Baptist, cousin of Jesus and his forerunner. Normally,
Christian saints are remembered on the day they went to heaven, but S John the
Baptist played such an important part in the history of man’s salvation, that we
celebrate his Birthday too. We shall remember his death at the end of August.
Almost at the very end of June, we shall anticipate another Solemnity, namely Ss
Peter & Paul, hence the name of this season: Petertide. Studying the Gospels
makes us aware of how very human the followers of Jesus were and how difficult
it was for them to realise, really, that Jesus was God’s Son. Peter, who claimed to
be ready to die for Jesus, curses and says before the crucifixion that he never
knew the man. In many ways, he seems to have been the least dependable of the
apostles, yet from the Gospel accounts we learn that Jesus makes him the rock
on which he builds his Church. From the earliest Christian times, Peter and Paul
were remembered together in Rome, the place of their martyrdom, as they are
still to-day. It was only over time that Rome became identified so much with
Peter. As we remember and give thanks for Peter & Paul, these two pillars of the
Church, it is good to reflect on what the Church should mean to us. Her
purpose – the structures, the sacraments, the bishops and so on – is to provide
the place, the space, the time and the opportunity for us, her members, to
become more united with Jesus Christ, her head, to enable the Kingdom of God
to be visible and audible on earth, to allow God’s presence and love to be
evident in our daily lives and to ensure that God’s word is preached and heard.
The Church is not the Kingdom of God, the situation where God is the centre
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and guide of every life, but she exists to point us in that direction. All of us,
potentially at least, play a part in maintaining the proper function of the Church
by keeping our eyes and our hearts on her real purpose, namely to enable us to
become more like Jesus Christ as we journey through this world.
Petertide is also the season when the Church makes new deacons and ordains
new priests. Wee pray for all those being made deacon or being ordained priest
in churches and cathedrals up and down this country in the coming weeks, but
especially for those soon-to--be
be deacons and priests in this Diocese of London.
PARISH PASTORAL ASSISTANT
Our new Parish Pastoral Assistant, Mrs Julie Rochelle, a long-standing
long
parishioner and former PCC Secretary, has now reached the end of the first part
of her training and has received Bishop Pete’s formal permission to help me in
the parish as Pastoral Assistant.
Assistant This will begin shortly, as Julie assists with
visiting, Home & Hospital Communions and with visiting the bereaved. This
additional support will enable more pastoral work to be done across the parish
and we welcome her in this new and important rôle.
THE SUMMER FÊTE...
...takes
takes place on Saturday, 4 July. It is not too early to begin
thinking about how you might contribute to this annual
parish event. Might you be able to bake a cake (or two; large
or small) or grow some plants for sale on the day ? Do you
have any saleable toys which you might donate to our
Children’s Table (which
which will be a new venture this year)
year ?
Above all, please make a note in your diary now and come along on the day with
your family, your friends and your neighbours (and your money).
money).
FINALLY...
The Magazine is a bit thin this time in
terms of articles. We need some more
items for the next edition. Could you
write a review or account of a journey or
visit you have made for
f
possible
inclusion in the summer edition ?
With all good wishes for June.
Father Desmond
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OUR ‘THIRD’ SUNDAYS IN 2015 : As Sunday School happens during the school
terms only, it may sometimes happen on a ‘Third’ Sunday; please check the
termly Sunday School schedule on the Parish Website); we hope very much that
the Sunday School children, their parents and members of the Sunday School team
will come along at 10 o’clock when there is no Sunday School.
Date:
Sunday:
21 June
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time & Fathers’ Day
19 July
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
No ‘Third’ Sunday in August
20 September
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time & Harvest Thanksgiving
18 October
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
15 November
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
13 December
Advent III
OAK FARM LIBRARY, LONG LANE, NORTH HILLINGDON UB10 9BP
(01895) 556242
Opening Hours: 0900 to 1600 Monday to Saturday
(Sometimes these hours are extended.)
extended
Regular activities include the Monthly Reading Group, Computer
Taster Sessions and the Friday Coffee Mornings (1100-1200).
(1100
Please
telephone to find out more.
MEMBERS OF THE ALL SAINTS’ AFTER EIGHT CLUB are travelling to Hythe
in Kent on Saturday,
Saturday 27 June 2015. Hythe is a small town on the
Channel Coast and an
a ancient Cinque Port. Full details of the
departure time and the total cost will appear in Saints Alive! as soon
as we can confirm them. If you are interested in joining us, please
advise the Secretary, Margaret Brown,
Brown by telephone: (01895) 231537). We need to
have definite numbers as early as possible to
confirm the size of coach we shall need.
need We
would also like payment as soon as possible
and at least a week before our departure.
THOUGHT FOR JUNE
"We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging
grand-parents."
A Pope Francis ‘Tweet’
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MEMBERS OF THE ALL SAINTS’ AFTER
EIGHT CLUB are organising another
outing. This one is on Monday,
Monday 10 August
2015 and they are going to visit
Marlborough in Wiltshire. Marlborough is
a lovely place with quaint shops & eating
places to rest your legs after after a look
round in what is a wonderful High Street.
After that, we shall leave for Kintbury,
Kintbury
where we have booked a trip on a horse-drawn
horse
barge down the Kennet & Avon
Canal. The cost is £25, inclusive of canal trip,, which costs £9. We leave from the
Dentist in Long Lane opposite All Saints’ Church at 9 am sharp. All are welcome.
Please
lease advise if you wish to join us as soon as possible by telephoning the
Secretary, Margaret Brown: (01895) 231537 or contact her through any member
of the After Eight Club.
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DONATION PLEA
We urgently need more donations of good quality toys for this year's Summer Fête.
This stall has the potential to raise a good amount of money and yet we have
struggled to create a good display in the past few years.
Last year I trialled selling some brand new toys and football merchandise, but
seemingly this wasn't what people attending the Fête wanted. If your house is due to
have a declutter of old toys in good repair and good quality teddies, please consider
doing it in time for our Fête. Any donations can be brought to church on Sunday or
passed to Father Desmond. I'll try to ensure that they all get good homes! Thank you.
Anne Robinson
TO BE OR NOT TO BE: NATIONAL SERVICE
We were famously urged to re-introduce National Service last month and, as with
such banner headlines, comes lots of anecdotal evidence, hindsight, rose-tinted specs
and dwindling actual memories involved.
The world is so very different now, but what hasn’t changed are the numbers. Since
the 1960’s around 500,000 people reach the old 18 years of age qualification every year,
so, with a two-year period of service, a million people would need to be available. This
would include both young men and women, for in to-day’s world we can hardly
“select out” only young men.
Our current numbers in uniform are around 150,000, so you can see the problem.
Where would we send, keep or place another 1,000,000 ? Next to nobody in the world
wants or is suitable to absorb a larger British
fighting force. The Army said years ago that they
had no wish to fill the rôle of social corrector or
educator and the logistics are insurmountable.
Back when I was a young man, every boy knew he
was in for two years’ “call-up” and, as it had been
going on for twenty-five years, it was pointless
fearing it or trying to avoid it. It was authorised
total conscription. No mother to-day would
welcome its return any more than mining-village
mothers would welcome their sons’ toiling at the
coal-face. So such a return is impractical and too
gut-wrenching for families.
However, those of us who did complete our time,
seemed to benefit from it and even enjoy most of
it. The strange thing is that if we could have been
released early from our time, most would have
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gladly caught the first train home. Having said that, people like me had a fulfilling
time for two years; I was abroad, spent time living in the Arctic Circle, north of
Finland. I remember the winter arctic starlit sky at night with distant mountain peaks
being tear-jerkingly beautiful; you could not buy it; skiing for months each year in
three countries and spending summers competing in rifle-shooting competitions.
Easy promotion gave for early responsibility and authority.
I can’t speak for the corps and any attached servicemen, but the county regimental
system in the Army was totally family and close. The care and concern they exercised
was, on reflection, comforting, as they usually stepped in between the foreign civil
power and us with persuasive understanding, should any friction occur. Countless
kindnesses were commonplace.
It’s like seeking a return to a better, more stable and ordered past; I’m afraid that is
where it always is: in the past.
Brian Rockell
THE ALL SAINTS’ AFTER 8 CLUB PROGRAMME : MID 2015
Our meetings usually take place at 8 pm on Thursdays in the Small Hall at All
Saints’. New members are always welcome.
14 May
28 May
11 June
25 June
9 July
23 July
Ann Morisy: Age on the Agenda
Becky Haggar: Fun Account of life with a tumour mixed with
work as a Borough Councillor
Fiona Castle: Visit to Burma and other places
Mr T Smith: Bee Keeping
Past Mayor & Mayor: Councillor Allan Kauffman:
Our Mayoral Year
Farewell Meal
Please telephone the Secretary, Margaret Brown,
for any further information: (01895) 231537.
RAF NORTHOLT
100 Year Anniversary Open Day
SATURDAY, 13 JUNE 2015
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Tickets now available from:
www.raf.mod.uk/rafnortholt/events/rafnortholtopenday2015.cfm.
or telephone: 0208 842 6066;
no tickets for sale on the day.
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ALL SAINTS’ SOCIAL CALENDAR : 2015
FURTHER INFORMATION FROM THE CONTACTS BELOW.
Saturday, 20 June
Saturday, 20 June
Saturday, 4 July
Saturday, 21 November
12 noon to 2.30 pm: Table-Top
Table
Sale. Set up
in the Hall from 11.15 am.
Contact: Daniel Kornish: 07776 197 390
7.30 pm for 7.45 pm: Quiz Night (in the
Hall)
Contact: Carol Clarke: (01895) 812374
12 noon to 3 pm: Summer Fête
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12 noon to 3 pm: Christmas Bazaar
• Please delete your earlier copies of this list. Further dates will be
published in due course.
• You can now book a table at our Table-Top Sales through the Parish
Website.
• Offers of help or suggestions to Carol Clarke, please: (01895) 812374.
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THE PARISH OF ALL SAINTS, NORTH HILLINGDON
SUNDAYS, SOLEMNITIES, FEAST DAYS & COMMEMORATIONS
IN EARLY SUMMER 2015
Date:
Sunday:
Solemnity/Feast
Remarks, if any:
Day:
JUNE
7
The Body & Blood 6
pm:
Choral
of Christ (Corpus Evensong
Christi)
(transferred)
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11 Sunday in O/T
Saturday, 20
S
Alban,
first
Martyr of Britain,
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12 Sunday in O/T
‘Third’; Sunday &
Fathers’ Day
Wednesday,
The Nativity of S 10
am:
Said
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John the Baptist
Eucharist
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Ss Peter & Paul,
Apostles, +AD64 &
AD67 (anticipated)
JULY
Friday, 3
S
Thomas,
Apostle, +AD72
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5
14 Sunday in O/T
6
pm:
Choral
Evensong
Saturday, 11
S Benedict, CoPatron of Europe,
+AD543
th
12
15 Sunday in O/T
Sea Sunday
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The Dedication of ‘Third’ Sunday
All Saints’
Saturday, 25
S James, Apostle,
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17 Sunday in O/T
ADVANCE NOTICE IN AUGUST
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2
18 Sunday in O/T
8 am is BCP Rite.
No
Choral
Evensong to-day.
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13
14
15
16
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ADDITIONAL/WEEKDAY SERVICES & EVENTS AT ALL SAINTS’,
IN JUNE & EARLY JULY 2015
(The Eucharist will be celebrated unless otherwise shown.)
JUNE
(The week-day celebrations of the Eucharist return this month to the North Chapel.)
Wednesday, 3
1000
S Charles Lwanga & Companions,
Martyrs of Uganda, +1885-1887
Celebrant: Father Michael Bedford
from S Mary’s, South Ruislip
Thursday, 4
1845
Feria in Ordinary Time
Vestry Hour; later to-day than the usual time
Saturday, 6
1100-1200
Baptism of Arthur Bernard Paul Stacey
1330
1800
Vigil Eucharist of the Sunday
Sunday, 7
1800
Choral Evensong for Corpus Christi
Tuesday, 9
1930
Standing Committee meets in the Sacristy.
Wednesday, 10
1000
Feria in Ordinary Time
1900-2100
PCC Members’ Training Evening
at Holy Cross Church, Greenford UB6 9JT
Thursday, 11
1845
S Barnabas, Apostle, +AD61
Saturday, 13
No Vestry Hour to-day.
Tuesday, 16
1915
Hillingdon Deanery Synod
meets at S Anselm’s, Hayes Town UB3 4DF
Wednesday, 17
1100
Feria in Ordinary Time
(not 1000)
Celebrant: Father Clive Pearce
from S Anselm’s, Hatch End
Saturday, 20
1800
Vigil Eucharist of the Sunday
Wednesday, 24
1000
Birthday of S John the Baptist
Thursday, 25
1845
Feria in Ordinary Time
ADVANCE NOTICE FOR EARLY JULY
Wednesday, 1
1000
Feria in Ordinary Time
Thursday, 2
1845
Feria in Ordinary Time
Saturday, 4
1800
Vigil Eucharist of the Sunday
Sunday, 5
1800
Choral Evensong on the 14th Sunday in O/T
Wednesday, 8
1000
Feria in Ordinary Time
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ALL SAINTS’, NORTH HILLINGDON
PARISH DIRECTORY
(Unless otherwise indicated, the area code is 01895.)
New members are always welcome at our organisations.
Parish Priest
Father Desmond Banister SSC
239457
[email protected]
& Area Dean of
All Saints’ Vicarage,
Hillingdon
Ryefield Avenue,
North Hillingdon UB10 9BT
Churchwarden
Mr Ken Marriott
238368
95 Windsor Avenue, UB10 9AX
Churchwarden
Mrs Lesley Thompson
233509
1 Sedgwick Avenue, UB10 9DF
Honorary Deputy
Mrs Lynn Taylor
258393
Churchwarden
213 Windsor Avenue, UB10 9BD
Parish Pastoral
Mrs Julie Rochelle
460955
Assistant
87 Victoria Avenue, UB10 9AJ
PCC Treasurer
Mr Martin Dawe
238149
22 Floriston Avenue, UB10 9DZ
PCC Secretary
Mrs Anna Hillier
253815
8 Harthill Close, UB10 9LH
Stewardship Secretary
Mrs Lesley Turner
236301
85 Victoria Avenue, UB10 9AJ
Hall Bookings’
Mrs Anna Hillier
253815
[email protected]
Secretary
8 Harthill Close, UB10 9LH
Electoral Roll Officer
Mr Bryan Child
462588
43 Floriston Avenue, UB10 9EB
Sunday School
Mrs Sara Rainbird
904744
Mrs Mary Ratchford
258991
Mrs Kerry Stonely
231501
Sacristans
Mr Ken Marriott
238368
Miss Anne Robinson
235400
Altar Servers
Mr John Clarke
812374
Music Co-ordinator
Mr Brian Rockell
239749
Guides, Brownies &
Mrs Carolyn Green
253316
Rainbows (Contacts)
Miss Claire Murphy
234022
All Saints’ After 8 Club Mrs Margaret Brown, Secretary
231537
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Parish Priest & Area Dean of Hillingdon:
Father Desmond Banister SSC
All Saints’ Vicarage, Ryefield Avenue, North Hillingdon UB10 9BT
Telephone: (01895) 239457; e-mail: [email protected]
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• Father Desmond gladly takes Holy Communion to the sick and the
housebound. Please tell him if you are unwell - by telephone, through
another member of the congregation or by e-mail. He will also visit;
please tell him if you would like him to call.
• When at home or in church, he will normally make himself available to
see anyone at any time, though an advance telephone call is always
appreciated.
• Anointing of the sick and of the dying can be arranged with Father
Desmond.
• Father Desmond will hear confessions by appointment or can put you in
touch with another priest outside the parish.
• To book Banns of Marriage, Weddings or Baptisms or to deal with other
parish business, please come to Vestry Hour in church on a Saturday
between 9.30 and 10.30 am.
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