St Mary the Virgin Twickenham Sunday 8th April EASTER II WELCOME to the Church`s Worship as we continue to celebrate the presence of the Risen Lord. Thank you again to all who cleaned and decorated the church so beautifully for Easter and to all who delivered cards around the parish inviting people to join us, they did! We had in total over 350 people at last week`s Eucharists! Coffee wil be served in the church hall after this morning`s main service, to which all are welcome. Our hosts today are St. Mary s Families. 8.00 am Holy Eucharist Reading Gospel Acts 4: 32-35 (David Wardrop) John 20: 19-end 9.30 am Parish Eucharist Organ music Prelude in D Telemann Hymns 270, 324, 563, 24, 228 Reading Acts 4: 32-35 (Fiona Poole) Gospel John 20: 19-end Intercessions Judy Britton Organ music Minuet & Trio Mozart 10.45 am Burial of Ashes service for Linda Evans in the Garden of Remembrance. 11.00 am Burial of Ashes service for Peter King in the Garden of Remembrance. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer Psalm Psalm 85 1 st Lesson Wisdom 9: 1-12 2 nd Lesson Galatians 4: 1-5
Intercessions We pray for all members of our congregation. We pray for Friends of Mengo Hospital UK. We pray for our candidates preparing for their First Communion next month. We pray for all those seeking God s intervention, guidance and healing in their lives, amongst them: Eileen Hayden Stephen Pilgrim Michael Ben Nicholas Beryl Mason Jill Dennison Don McClen Blaise Nelson Bernice McCabe Dell Gillespie-Gilbert Jinny Monica Palmer Imogen Snelling Craig Ola Kay Lawson Angela Peters James Donovan Jan Schofield Barbara Jenkins Raoul Franklin Simon Bargate Carmen Alonso Sophy Newman Nick Sarah Ashford Ann Falconi Christine Bartlett We pray for those who have died that they may know new and eternal life. Trevor Baylis June Anderson John Barker Margaret Hastings and for Linda Evans and Peter King whose ashes are to be buried in our Garden of Remembrance today. If you would like the names of anyone included or re-added to the Intercessions list, please contact the Parish Office. Please can we remind you to keep your valuables with you at all times while you are in church. Thank you.
Today Summer Fayre Stall Holders and Volunteers Meeting, after the 9.30am service today. If you haven't yet volunteered it isn't too late! Just email, text or call me or just show up at the meeting today. Kind regards Liz Sledge liz.sledge@btinternet.com 07903 183930. Gift aid envelopes Packs of the new envelopes are now ready to collect from the rear of the church. Mengo Hospital There will be a collection for this Christian hospital in the hall after the 10.00am service. Please give generously to a worthwhile cause. Traidcraft stall in the hall today We have new stocks of hand-made cards from women s craft groups, as well as all our usual goods coffee, tea, biscuits, nuts, dried fruit, sugar, etc. and some interesting gifts and fair-trade cleaning products. Take a copy of the new season s catalogue to browse! Forthcoming Events Interfaith Knitting will meet next Saturday, 14 th April, 10.30am 12.30pm in the Windsor Room. Charity Sunday Next Sunday, 15 th April, Tina English will speak to us about the work of Embracing Age, one of the charities which we support, and there will be an opportunity to donate to that and our other chosen charities in a retiring collection. Hymn Singing at Nightingale House will take place next Sunday,15th April. New singers very welcome. Meet Pat Ingham at 10.50am in the Hall. St. Mary s Group Please come to the Windsor Room at 8.00pm on Monday 16 th April to hear Paul Leonard tell us about Twickenham in the past. Visitors are welcome too.
Mothers Union Members and friends will meet on Tuesday,17th April at 2.30pm at 34 Sion Court (enquiries on 020-8892-3798). "Holy" quizzes, non-competitive! Preparation for 1 st Communion For those who are preparing for their first Communion on Sunday 20 th May, the first of the four sessions will begin on Sunday 15 th April, with the commission, and continue on the following two Sundays, 22 nd and 29 th April, with the final session on Sunday 13 th May, all at 4.00pm in the hall. Prayer partners are invited to attend these sessions. General Notices MANY THANKS to all those who have cleaned and decorated the church to be a fitting venue to celebrate the resurrecton of Christ, your efforts are very much appreciated. Readers and Intercessors The new rota for the period from Easter Day to the end of June is now displayed on the noticeboard at the back of church, new contributors are welcome. The Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) Sunday 22 nd April PCC membership nominations There are six vacancies for the PCC, with nomination forms at the back of the church. Current members whose term ends this year who want to continue are reminded that they need to return forms. For those interested in standing for the first time you are very welcome to talk to the churchwardens about what it entails. If there are more nominations than places, there will be an election at the APCM. Please return completed forms to the churchwardens or James in the church office. Electoral Roll Revision The current Electoral Roll has to be revised for the Annual Parochial Church Meeting on the 22nd April. The necessary notice has been pinned up on the notice board at the back of the church. No action is necessary unless your details have changed. New applications have to be made by 4th April as instructed on the notice with application forms. Rafael Carmona. Electoral Roll Officer. 07973 429 606
Dear Church Users, This is to ask you to book in/check with the office when you are planning to come into the church to do all your wonderful activities, sacred and secular. This is always a good idea, but more imperative with the lack of Vestry facilities, as there is more likely to be overlap. For instance, Jeff may be meeting people in church rather than in the Vestry or Sacristy. During the Vestry works the church will not be open during office hours. There will also be no entry to the church via the Vestry. If you need to borrow a key, please ask the office. Christian Aid Street Collections - Would you be willing to distribute and collect envelopes in one of our parish streets between 13 th and 19th May? This work is vital to Christian Aid, which depends upon the annual street collections to help the poorest of the world's inhabitants with projects such as access to safe drinking water and the improvement of crop yields. If you can spare a couple of hours to do this, please contact Peter Mence on 020-8977-3679; m.p.mence@btinternet.com giving some indication of the venue in which you might like to collect. Food Bank - Due to the extraordinary generous offerings of mens socks and pants the supply at the Vineyard is in a healthy position of having enough for the moment. The Food bank is now in short supply of the following: long life milk, juices, rice, cereals, fish, toiletries (toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, soap). They do however have many tins of baked beans! Many thanks for all you have given, it is so much appreciated. Giving to St Mary s - If you wish to give money to St Mary s to help fund its running costs you can now do so by texting a donation in addition to using our established giving schemes. Whilst we do not wish to encourage people to use their mobile phones at all during the service, if you would like to donate this way as you leave the church, or whenever is convenient to you if you cannot be with us on a Sunday, please text STMY12 and the amount to be given to 70070 e.g STMY12 10. You will receive a text message thanking you and asking if you want to gift aid the donation. Email and contact details - If you are already on our parish list and have recently changed your contact details, or if you would like to add your name, please use the welcome card from either the pews or the back of church and pass to a sidesperson or churchwarden to ensure that our records are kept up-to-date.
From the Archives An occasional article in a series on a topic from the St. Mary s Archives Ted Morris & the Tower pigeons Edward (Ted) Morris wrote several letters in 1991 to Donald Simpson, the first St Mary s archivist, following his request to record as much as he could remember about alterations and repairs during his time as a bell-ringer (1922-1980). The following item is one of many anecdotes relating to the Tower that he recalled and is a topical item as the louvres on the Tower are currently being reinforced yet again. While Assistant Tower-Keeper (in the 1930s), I was asked by the Vicar (Rev. W.P. Cole Sheane, 1923-1949) to examine the inside of the roof, which no-one other than workmen had visited for years, and report to him on its state from the point of view of dirt, rubbish and pigeons droppings. The amount of the latter was horrifying because for years and years the birds had had completely free access to the Tower and the roof. The Vicar found a London firm specialising in pigeon clearance and he asked me to open up the Tower so that the operation could be undertaken. It was one dark winter evening when the man appeared, with a van, dozens of sacks and a rifle fitted with a telescopic sight and silencer, and he forbade me to follow him into the roof. There was then no electricity up the Tower stairs or in the bell chamber; he had just one powerful torch. Down below I could hear him padding about above, and his frequent muffled shots. Finally he came down with the sack of bodies which he loaded into his van. He then spent a good half hour picking off with deadly aim those pigeons that had been disturbed and were perched on and around the roof. The man told me that the dead birds would be taken to the Zoo next day for food for the animals. The Vicar swore me to secrecy as he did not wish to be confronted by bird lovers. I suppose that the exterminator s fee appeared in the accounts, somewhere or somehow perhaps from the Vicar s Discretionary Fund.
Please pray for these events which are taking place amongst the Church family during the coming week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Saturday 10.00 am-5.00 pm The organ will be in use. 12.00noon Mass and Dedication of a stained glass window at St James` Roman Catholic Church, in memory of the Portuguese Dead of the Great War and of the humanitarian work of H.M. King Manuel ll of Portugal. 2.00 pm-3.30 pm The church will be cleaned. 11.00 am-12.00noon Minnows will meet in the church. 10.00 am 10.45 am-6.00 pm 8.00 pm 10.00 am-12.00noon 10.30 am-12.30 pm Eucharist The organ will be in use. Bells practice The organ will be in use. Interfaith Knitting meet in the Windsor Room. Sunday 15th April EASTER III 8.00 am Holy Eucharist Acts 3: 12-19 Luke 24: 36-48 9.30 am Parish Eucharist The guest Preacher at 9.30am is Tina English from Embracing Age. Acts 3: 12-19 Luke 24: 36-48 11.30 am Holy Eucharist Acts 3: 12-19 Luke 24: 36-48 6.00 pm Evening Prayer Psalm 142 Deuteronomy 7: 7-13 Revelation 2: 1-11
St Mary the Virgin Church Street Twickenham Middlesex TW1 3NJ www.stmarytwick.org.uk Parish Priest The Revd R J Hopkin Williams email: hopkinwilliams@btinternet.com tel. 020-8892 2318 Assistant Priest The Rev d Dr.Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski email: piotrashwin@btinternet.com tel. 020-8891 5421 (Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays) Churchwardens Judy Britton: tel. 020-8891 2305 Katherine Cox: tel. 07775 677842 email: chris.britton@blueyonder.co.uk email: katherinevcox@blueyonder.co.uk Director of Music Canon Adrian Mumford email: acm142@hotmail.com tel. 07984 257782 Parish Verger Audrey Thomas tel. 020-8892 9628 Parish Office tel. 020-8744 2693 (9am-12noon daily Monday-Friday & 2pm-4pm Monday & Friday) email: communications: administrator@stmarytwick.org.uk finance: finance@stmarytwick.org.uk Parish Visitor Co-ordinator Margaret Mence tel. 020-8977 3679 Parish Giving Recorder Peter Sheil email: giving@stmarytwick.org.uk tel. 020-8755 0454