The following are usually listed in order of publishing or amendment date.Please scroll down the entire list in case you miss something important. Clicking on a title takes you straight to the respective news story. Of great importance is a reminder of our Prayer for peace in Ukraine, the Middle East and throughout our troubled World.Page 1List of all our News StoriesJust A Thought - Passing ShipsGrapevine - Latest Edition Getting Real With Easter EggsPage 2Ministry Matters from Rev'd Jess.News from Our Diocese - DecemberJust A Thought - DoubtAngels seen in North Petherwin this Christmas Page 3 Advent & Christmas at St PaternusOur RemembranceA New Bishop for Our Diocese.A Poem for Remembrance SundayPage 4A letter from our Rural DeanSt Piran`s Cross Award for Verna Jones.Safeguarding at St Paternus.Earthquakes, Floods & WarsPage 5Something wonderful happened at St PaternusUrgent Help still needed for the people of Ukraine.Ukraine without war - Prayer and Peacetime pictures.A Prayer for Peace in Ukraine, the Middle East and throughout the World. Do you have any questions or comments on any of the above stories? If so, please use the 'Send Us a Message' form near the foot of our 'Get in Touch' page, choosing 'Other' as a subject, and we will do our best to help.PLEASE NOTE: Our church is open for prayers every day during the daytime and we invite you to visit the church as often as possible to pray for peace in Ukraine and throughout the world.
I had occasion, as is often the case, to be staying in Richmond, on the outskirts of London, to pay my monthly pilgrimage to support my (nearly) lifelong source of joy, heartache, frustration, disappointment and friendship; otherwise known as Brentford Football Club, currently mid table in the Premier League.Although I am a good friend of one of the club's previous star centre forwards, I don't normally get the opportunity to get to know any of the current incumbents.Walking with my wife towards the station for a theatre trip, I was very surprised to have a very close encounter (otherwise known as a near collision) with the Team Captain and Danish International, who I had only been watching play less than 18 hours previous and whom I was destined to see score the winning goal in a televised match just a few days later!A combination of typical British "reserve", respect for his right to privacy, the presence of my wife, who is most definitely not a football fan, and about 0.5% doubt, combined to allow Christian and myself to pass smoothly by (just) in the few seconds it took for the whole event to be over. He was totally oblivious to me, of course.We were like passing ships in the night!. In North Petherwin, if he were ever to decide to live here, it wouldn't take long for he and I to get to know each other. Our parish is like that, isn't it. But in Richmond, or anywhere in London, it is virtually impossible. Although, as it happens, I talk to quite a few people on my travels, but there has to be a good reason or excuse!But I often think about the people on all those passing vehicles, who flash by in an instant. I am highly unlikely to meet or ever get to know them. How can I?And yet, it is very well worth remembering that there is someone who knows each of us intimately, no matter how quickly we pass him by.His name is God.Thank you for reading this,Ken.PLEASE NOTE. This and all other entries in 'News and Notices' are usually listed in order of date published or amended.
'Grapevine` announces and gives news of services and events in our Egloskerry and Moorland group of churches, lists church wardens and sets out prayers and reflections appropriate to the time. This latest edition takes us through the period from Sunday 30th March to Sunday 6th April and is available here for you to download and print.Also available is a downloadable PDF of the previous week's Grapevine.PLEASE NOTE. This and all other entries in 'News and Notices' are usually listed in order of date published or amended.
Getting real with Easter eggsIf you know the Easter story from the Bible, you will remember that the account of Easter Day itself began very early in the morning, whilst it was still dark. A few ladies were making their way to the tomb where they had watched Jesus buried a few days before. They came to make sure that Jesus was given dignity in his death. As they walked towards the grave it never occurred to them that day would be anything other than a day of sadness and grief: a day when their sense of hope – the hope they had placed in Jesus – would finally be demolished by the reality of death.And yet, within a few minutes their lives were turned upside down. The story tells how they found the grave opened and the body gone. Then they met Jesus again. Risen.The account of the resurrection of Jesus is central to the Christian faith – and so central to my world-view, my spiritual life and even my day to day decision making. I accept, of course, that for many reading this piece the importance of the Easter events do not resonate and that the story remains just that – a story. The amazing thing though is that this ‘story’ has transformed the lives of countless millions of people over 2,000 years all around the world and is still changing people’s lives today as people claim to have encountered Jesus for themselves. You may or may not be one of them. If you would like to discover more about the Easter story, then there are churches and chapels that would be delighted to welcome you. But if that is not your scene – if you don’t want too do the church thing, and don’t accept the validity of the Bible account – I wonder if I can ask you to hold on to one possibility?Can you hold onto the possibility of change?Ours is an uncertain and often sad world, in which people are broken and despair is real. It was that kind of world that the women were living in that day on the way to the tomb. But in a moment everything changed for them. Hold on to that hope. The hope of a world transformed. The hope of a life turned around. A personal resurrection experience. For, even as it’s most basic level, that is the truth in the Easter story: despair turned to hope; sadness turned to joy; fear turned to courage; and death turned to life. And all of us could do with holding onto that! As we crack open our Easter eggs and remember the open tomb, our curiosity to look inside the Easter story a little more (rather like those women) can bring new life into the old pattern for us too. Happy Easter! Canon Lynda Barley (Interim Rural Dean)PLEASE NOTE. This and all other entries in 'News and Notices' are usually listed in order of date published or amended.
