The churches of St Michaels Cornholme, St Marys Todmorden, St Peters Walsden
It was a fabulous scarecrow festival in Walsden even though the weather didn’t co-operate. Thank you to all involved.
Here are a few pictures of the winners some of the brilliant runners up ! Oh and a piece of Cake that was on sale in church !! A good weekend!
If you go down to Walsden on the weekend of September 29th and 30th, you can be sure a few surprises!!
The Annual scarecrow festival has expanded to two days and our lovely village will be full of scarecrows all over the place.
St Peter’s Church team have organised the event and the church will open for refreshments and a craft fair too, all weekend!
On Wednesday 11th September Revd John Jukes will be licensed as our full time priest-in-charge of our benefice. The service is at St Mary’s at 7:30 ( but get there early as we are expecting a crowd.
Here is is his hello letter!!
This Sunday 25th August we say good bye to our well liked interim priest in charge. The entire benefice will join together at St Mary’s in Todmorden for his last service at 10:30. The Service will be followed by a Jacobs join ( bring and share lunch)
Our new Priest will be licensed on Wednesday the 11th September at a service at St Mary’s, more to follow!
As the summer holidays arrive and we wish all the pupils in our school a good break and all the best to those who are moving school or going on to jobs or university, we have some news !
On September 11th we will be welcoming Rev John Jukes as our new full time priest-in-charge. We are are going yo be welcoming Rev John Bell of the Iona community at the beginning of November for a weekend,
Rev Martin Parrot who has been our part time interim Priest in Charge is leaving and we will be saying goodbye to him on the 25th August at a joint service at St Marys on that day.
It is all go at the moment !! I think I need a holiday !!
The really busy time of the year has flown by and suddenly we are in the new sunlit uplands of the time between Easter and Pentecost!
This Sunday coming ( 5th May ) we have some more exciting stuff happening. A folk Communion at St Mary’s and a Cafe Church at St Peter’s – two very different ways to worship and meet with God both happening at 10:30 so sadly you cant go to both, for the traditionalists there is a our Monthly Evensong at St Mary’s in the evening at 6:30.
I was wondering over Easter why it is that the English word for Resurrection Sunday is unlike nearly all other European languages. For some reason we use the name of a the Saxon spring goddess (Eostre) where are everyone else uses a word like Pasg (welsh) or Pasque (french), which in turn echo the Hebrew for Passover (pesach). I think its a shame in some ways, but in another it speaks of the universal appeal of the festival, Saxon names remain in English for the real things – eg sheep and cow – Norman french gives us the words for Mutton and Beef, the posh expensive things. So perhaps using Easter means that this is for all of us and that the hope and joy of Jesus rising from the dead as the firstborn promise for us all speaks to all humanity.
It is – and this week sees the start of Lent!
It is a good time lent as it gives us time to prepare for Easter, by taking up something good or giving up something bad. There are sorts of things we can do.
We can remember to pray more often, perhaps to give more to charity, go to a weekly bible study. It is import to do something though because then we will remember we are looking forward to a big event – Easter!
We are are doing something again this year we did a few years back. In the week before Easter on the Thursday – Maundy Thursday we are having a special meal that attempts the recreate feel of the last supper and we will be holding this at St Peters
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A bit belated I know, but my Dad before Christmas and it was a long wait for for the funeral so I have been distracted. He was a Methodist minister and I spoke at his funeral and remembered what the Apostle Paul said about love in his letter to the Corinthians, he reminded us that it lasts, persisting even through death. The love we share with people will never fade and binds us still to those who have gone before us into the arms of God
It is is Of course still Christmas in the church calendar until the 2nd of February – or the feast of Candlemas to use the old name! St Peter’s is having a Cafe church on that day at 10:30, St Mary’s is holding its usual 8am and 10:30 am services.
The churches in the town are marking the week of prayer for Christian Unity this week, when we celebrate all that binds us together as Christians.
Wishing you all the best for this new year, each year is different and we never st growing and learning. God go with you as you go on.
It has started – the looking forward to Christmas. It is funny time of year because we try to forget what we know is the end of the story but at the same getting excited because we know !
Special events are happening in our benefice, A family Carol service and communion on Sunday at St Peters, Bp Jonathan taking the service at St Marys on the 23rd – Messy Christingle on the 16th at St Peter, school concerts in our churches all sorts of stuff!
perhaps the best service of all are the crib services (both at 4pm) at St Peters and St Mary’s when we remember the real meaning of what Christmas is about – in peaceful but happy and fun celebrations.
Well yes it is – I don’t believe it either! Advent Starts a Week on Sunday and then it will be Christmas.
Well we are starting off with a bang – Bishop Nick – the Bishop of Leeds is coming to to lead our worship on Advent Sunday (2nd December) at St Mary’s at 10:30 followed by a Jacobs Join (Trans: Faith Lunch )
Then we have a Messy Christingle in support of the Children’s Society at St Peters at 10:30 on the Sunday after. The Children’s Society are a great bunch of folk who work with the most difficult age – teenagers !! – all over the UK. Come along and make you own christingle ( never made one – dont know what it is ? come and find out!!)
The are lots of other events of course, Carol services, Crib services, all the usual special Christmas events, which we will publicise on here and our Face book pages
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