Notices (April 2010)

Comings and Goings
Daily Readings
Noticeboard
Obituary – Brother Edward SSF

Appointments

The Revd. Ian Hennebry has been licensed as NSM Curate to the parish of St. Cuthbert, Bedlington.

The Revd. Dr. Rob Kelsey, Team Vicar in the Glendale Group is going to be Incumbent of Norham with Duddo, Priest in Charge of Cornhill with Carham and Branxton, and Area Dean of Norham

The Revd. Allison Fenton, Curate of St. George, Newcastle is to be Curate of Newcastle Christ Church with St. Ann.

Captain David and Sister Susan Maguire, currently serving as Church Army Officers in the Diocese of Sheffield, are to be Church Army Fresh Expressions Evangelists in the Parish of Shiremoor.

Mrs Allison Harding has been licensed as Lay Chaplain of the Northumberland Church of England Academy.

Vacant Parishes

St. Augustin North Shields (NSM)
Chaplain amongst Deaf people
Mitford (half time)
North Tyne & Redesdale Team (House for Duty)
Tweedmouth
Spittal with Scremerston
Gosforth St. Hugh (House for Duty)
Chollerton w Birtley and Thockrington
Fenham, Holy Cross
Whorlton, St. John
Ovingham
Whittingham & Edlingham w Bolton Chapel
Marden w Preston Grange & Billy Mill
Holy Island

Expressions of interest for any of the above vacancies would be welcomed by the Bishop and Archdeacons.

Daily Readings

April
1. Maundy Thursday John 13.1-17, 31b-35
2. Good Friday John 18.1-end of 19
3. Easter Eve Matthew 27.57-end or John 29.38-end
4. Easter Day John 20.1-18 or Luke 24.1-12
5. Monday in Easter Week Matthew 28.8-15
6. Tuesday in Easter Week John 20.11-18
7. Wednesday in Easter Week Luke 24.13-35
8. Thursday in Easter Week Luke 24.35-48
9. Friday in Easter Week John 21.1-14
10. Saturday in Easter Week Mark 16.9-15
11. Second Sunday of Easter John 20.19-end
12. Monday John 3.1-8
13. Tuesday John 3.7-15
14. Wednesday John 3.16-21
15. Thursday John 3.31-end
16. Friday John 6.1-15
17. Saturday John 6.16-21
18. Third Sunday of Easter John 21.1-19
19. Alphege, archbishop, Martyr, 1012 John 6.22-29
20. Tuesday John 6.30-35
21. Anselm, abbot, archbishop, teacher of faith John 6.35-40
22. Thursday John 6.44-51
23. George, martyr, patron of England C. 304 John 15.18-21
24. Mellitus, bishop 624 John 6.60-69
25. Fourth Sunday of Easter John 10.22-30
26. Mark the Evangelist Mark 13.5-13
27. Tuesday John 10.22-30
28. Wednesday John 10.22-30
29. Thursday John 13.16-20
30. Friday John 14.1-6

Noticeboard

The Diocesan Advisory Committee invites interest from members of Diocesan Synod who would like to be considered for membership of the DAC. Would-be members are asked to say what interests and skills they might bring to the DAC, and the final decision about membership rests with the Bishop’s Council. The Committee is being reconstituted under the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991, which requires such action within one year after the formation of every second Diocesan Synod. The Bishop’s Council of June 28 will consider membership, and responses are requested by May 14. Nigel Foxon.

Petition to save the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: This major source of funding is due to end on 31st March 2011. The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (LPWGS) enables listed places of worship to claim back 100% of VAT incurred on repairs and maintenance to the building, professional fees and repair works to fixtures such as bells and organs. The LPWGS has provided great relief to places of worship faced with raising enormous sums for maintenance and repair, and has enabled those who look after these valuable heritage and community buildings to maintain them for future generations. The Scheme was introduced in April 2001 and to date has paid out over £100 million to places of worship across the United Kingdom. Please support the campaign to extend the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, beyond March 2011 by signing the petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/VAT-refundscheme/

Gillian Allnutt returns to Shepherds Dene as part of Hexham Book Festival to lead a writing workshop on April 28. A warm welcome is extended to budding and would-be poets and authors to get advice from Gillian whose latest collection How the Bicycle Shone was published in 2007. Gillian teaches creative writing at Newcastle University and won the Northern Rock Foundation Writers Award in 2005. To book a place, contact Queens Hall, Hexham, or Shepherds Dene. The full Shepherds Dene programme can be viewed online at www.shepehrdsdene.co.uk or obtained by contacting Kathryn Hope on 01434 682 212 any weekday morning.

St. Lawrence Church, Warkworth, Saturday April 17 at 7pm. The Singers, conducted by Donald Halliday, will be giving a concert to celebrate the completion of the internal restoration of the church. Music by Dering, Victoria, Attaingnant, Claude le Jeune, Certon, Rheinberger, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Tickets £5, available at the door.

Obituary – Brother Edward SSF

Brother Edward, SSF, has died at Alnmouth Friary, aged 88.

Born Christopher John Lees- Smith, his father was to become Postmaster General in Ramsay MacDonald’s first Government, and Christopher was sent to Westminster School, followed by Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with strong parental expectations that he would make politics his career.

The war interrupted his education, and he was among the liberators of Belsen concentration camp in 1945. The horrors of that experience changed his life, and he abandoned politics for ordination, later becoming Brother Edward SSF.

In 1959 Brother Edward was among the founders of Alnmouth Friary. He was Assistant Guardian to Brother Michael, and then Guardian from 1964 until 1973. After nine years in the leadership role at Alnmouth, it was time to move to the ministry which occupied the rest of his active life and for which he will be remembered the most.

He became Chaplain of the Third Order, and lived at the House of the Divine Compassion in Plaistow, in London’s east end. In 1991 Edward returned to Alnmouth where he remained until his death. In 1999 he was awarded the Silver Cross of St Augustine by Archbishop George Carey , and he managed a daily walk to the beach until the last months. May he rest in peace, and rise in glory.

Brother Alan Michael