Notices (July/August 2010)

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Comings and Goings
Daily Readings – July
Daily Readings – August
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Obituary - R.I.P.: The Revd. Anthony (Tony) Pattison

Comings and Goings

Appointments

The Revd. Katherine Jane Francis, Curate of Sprotbrough in the Diocese of Sheffield is going to be Assistant Hospital Chaplain, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Resignations

The Revd. Clare Van den Bos, Curate of North Shields Team Ministry is to resign.

Retirements

The Revd. Canon Raymond Best, Vicar of Haltwhistle and Greenhead will retire on 30th September, 2010.

Vacant Parishes

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

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

Daily Readings - July

1. Thursday Matthew 9.1-8
2. Friday Matthew 9.9-13
3. Thomas the Apostle John 20.24-29
4. 5th Sunday after Trinity Luke 10.1-11, 16-20
5. Monday Matthew 9.18-26
6. Thomas More, Scholar, and John Fisher, Bishop, martyrs, 1535 Matthew 9.32-end
7. Wednesday Matthew 10.1-7
8. Thursday Matthew 10.7-15
9. Friday Matthew 10.16-23
10. Saturday Matthew 10.24-33
11. 6th Sunday after Trinity Luke 10.25-37
12. Monday Matthew 10.34-11.1
13. Tuesday Matthew 11.20-24
14. John Keble, priest, poet 1866 Matthew 11.25-27
15. Swithun, bishop, Bonaventure, friar, bishop, teacher of faith 1274 Matthew 11.28- end
16. Osmund, bishop, 1099 Matthew 12.1-8
17. Saturday Matthew 12.14-21
18. 7th Sunday after Trinity Luke 10.38-end
19. Gregory, Bishop of Ngssa & Macrina, teachers 394 & 37 Matthew 12.38-42
20. Tuesday Matthew 12.46-end
21. Wednesday Matthew 13.1-9
22. Mary Magdalene John 20.1-2, 11-18
23. Friday Matthew 13.18-23
24. Saturday Matthew 13.24-30
25. James the Apostle Matthew 20.20-28
26. Monday
27. Brooke Foss Westcott, bishop, teacher of the faith, 1901 Matthew 13.36-43
28. Wednesday Matthew 13.44-46
29. Mary, Martha and Lazarus, companions of Our Lord Matthew 13.47-53
30. William Wilberforce, Social reformer Matthew 13.54-end
31. Ignatius of Loyola, 1556 Matthew 14.1-12

Daily Readings - August

1. 9th Sunday after Trinity Luke 12.13-21
2. Monday Matthew 14.13-21 or 14.22-end
3. Tuesday Matthew 14.22-end or 15.1-2, 10-14
4. Wednesday Matthew 15.21-28
5. Oswald, king, martyr, 642 Matthew 16.13-23
6. Transfiguration of Our Lord Luke 9.28-36
7. Saturday Matthew 17.14-20
8. 10th Sunday after Trinity Luke 12.32-40
9. Mary Sumner founder of the Mothers Union 1921 Matthew 17.22-end
10. Laurence, deacon, martyr, 258 Matthew 18.1-5, 10, 12-14
11. Clare of Assisi 1253 Matthew 18.15-20
12. Thursday Matthew 18.21-19.1
13. Jeremy Taylor, bishop, teacher of faith, 1667 Matthew 19.3-12
14. Saturday Matthew 19.13-15
15. The Blessed Virgin Mary Luke 1.46-55
16. Monday Matthew 19.16-22
17. Tuesday Matthew 19.23-end
18. Wednesday Matthew 20.1-16
19. Thursday Matthew 22.1-14
20. Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux, teacher 1153 Matthew 22.34-40
21. Saturday Matthew 23.1-12
22. 12th Sunday after Trinity Luke 13.10-17
23. Monday Matthew 23.13-22
24. Bartholomew the Apostle Luke 22.24-30
25. Wednesday Matthew 23.27-32
26. Thursday Matthew 24.42-end
27. Friday Matthew 25.1-13
28. Augustine, bishop, teacher of the faith, 430 Matthew 25.14-30
29. 13th Sunday after Trinity Luke 14.1, 7-14
30. Monday Luke 4.16-30
31. Aidan, bishop, missionary, 651 Luke 4.31-37

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Hexham Abbey’s series of Saturday lunchtime organ recitals, known as ‘Music in the Abbey’ runs throughout July and August. This season’s programme features a number of distinguished organists, including Newcastle Cathedral own Master of the Music, Michael Stoddart (July 10th), and representatives of other cathedrals in Neil Taylor from Sheffield Cathedral (July 31st) and the Assistant Organist at Ely Cathedral, Jonathan Lilley (August 28th). We are also eagerly anticipating a visit from a young American organist, Adam Brakel from Palm Beach in Florida (July 3rd). In addition, Martin Neary, one-time Master of the Music at Westminster Abbey will giving a recital on August 7th. The “home team” will also be featured, with the Abbey’s Director of Music, Michael Haynes playing on August 21st, and the Assistant Organist, Alex Woodrow, on July 24th. In addition, we look forward to a return visit on July 17th from Henry Wallace, at one time Assistant Organist at Hexham Abbey, and now organist of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. The programme will be completed by a recital from Katy McDermott, a local organist who recently became the winner of the Phelps Organ Award. Katy plays on August 14th. Each recital will begin at 12.30 pm, and admission is free (with retiring collection).

Beadnell St Ebba's will be holding a flower festival over August Bank Holiday Weekend from the 26th to the 29th. The event will open on Thursday evening with a service of dedication, followed by wine and cheese preview of the flowers. Over the weekend the Church will be open from 10.00 a.m. During each day there will be three short musical entertainment's and the event will close with a "Songs of Praise" on Sunday at 4:30PM. Refreshments will be served each day and there will be children's activities.' Proceeds are for the upkeep of the church.

Corbridge Chamber Music Festival, 6 - 8 August : The annual festival of chamber music performed by the Gould Piano Trio (Lucy Gould violin, Alice Neary cello, Benjamin Frith piano) with clarinetist Robert Plane and a number of distinguished guests, will take in St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge from 6 - 8 August. The 2010 programme maintains the tradition of combining a wide range of chamber music classics with unexpected jewels. In the late night concert the nocturnal theme culminates in Schönberg’s romantic masterpiece, Verklärte Nacht for string sextet. The 200th anniversaries of Schumann and Chopin are celebrated, the latter in a Salon Concert, when pianist Benjamin Frith plays Waltzes and Mazurkas with readings from Chopin’s letters interspersed with charming musical miniatures. The popular Saturday morning Family Concert features the Russian tale of Baba Yaga. On Sunday morning the preacher at the Festival Service will be the Very Reverend Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark, and Martin Neary, former Organist of Westminster Abbey, directs the Festival Singers and Strings in Mozart’s beautiful Missa brevis K 192. That evening Mendelssohn’s Octet, played by all the strings, brings the Festival to a rousing conclusion. Further details from: Penny Neary, 44 Radipole Road, London SW6 5DL, 020 7736 5268 penny@mneary.co.uk
www.gouldpianotrio.com/corbridge.asp

Flower Festival at St Bartholomew’s Church, Cresswell, Saturday 28th to Monday 30th August 2010. The Theme for the Festival will be 'AROUND THE WORLD', arranged by the Ellington Flower Club. The Church will be open on Saturday and Monday from 10.00am to 4.00 pm and on Sunday from 10.00 am (Eucharist at 10.45 am - 12 noon) to 4.00 pm. Songs of Praise will begin at 6.00 pm to 7.15 pm. Refreshments will be available every day - there will also be a cake stall and raffle and musical interludes from a variety of sources throughout the event.

Every year a Summer Theatre School is organised by Riding Lights at which over 100 individuals from all walks of life and from across the world come together to take part in a variety of theatre courses. This year, in what is the 16th annual Summer School, the week will begin on Saturday 24th July at Harrogate Ladies College. A new website http://www.ridinglights.org/sts has more information and links to booking forms; there is also a Facebook site http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riding-Lights-Theatre- Company/7184841018 Open to everyone aged over 14 with an interest in theatre.

St Oswald's Heavenfield Pilgrimage: This year’s Pilgrimage will take place on Saturday August 7th . The opening worship will begin at Hexham Abbey at 11.15 am . We shall then walk via St John Lee, where there will be a short act of worship and time to have a picnic [ tea/ coffee will be provided] to St Oswald’s Heavenfield arriving for the closing act of worship at 4 pm followed by tea. The AGM of the Friends of St Oswald’s will take place in St Oswald’s church at 5 pm. All are welcome to join us. For further details contact Revd Christine Bull [Tel.01434 672303]

St Paul's Whitley Bay will be welcoming a familiar face from the past on Friday, 16 July at 7.30 pm, when the solo organ recitalist will be Stephen Bryant, organist of Clifton R. C. Cathedral, Bristol. Stephen was the first ever organ scholar at St Paul's in the early 1990s, when he was a pupil of Monkseaton High School, and his father, Canon Richard Bryant, was Vicar of Earsdon. Subsequently, Stephen's musical career took him to St Nicholas' Cathedral as organ scholar, then to Manchester University and to the organ scholarship at Blackburn Cathedral. Since graduating and qualifying as a teacher, Stephen has pursued his career mainly in the South West, in Bristol and Cheltenham, and currently he presides over the fine Rieger organ in Clifton R. C. Cathedral, from where he was recently heard in a broadcast service on Radio 4. He has also recorded a CD of organ music played on the Clifton instrument.

St Peter The Fisherman Church, Craster: Annual Church Fete by the Harbour on Saturday July 24th 2010. Coffee & Teas from 10.30am. Stalls: plants, books, tombola, cakes and produce.

Northern Magic Circle invites you to join them for two different events at Crosskeys Community Hall, Monkseaton, Saturday 10th July 2010 – a Junior Day of Magic from 4.00pm. Tickets £5.00 including Buffet Tea, Finals of Magic Quiz, Junior Stage Competition, Mini Gala Show, Raffle & Presentation of Awards. Sunday 11th July 2010 – President’s Day, A Gala Show of Magic. Tickets £3.50, 7.15pm (Doors open 6.45pm). Tickets from Cynthia Neptune, 30 Ivanhoe, Monkseaton, Tel: 0191 2529151

Obituary - R.I.P.: The Revd. Anthony (Tony) Pattison

It seems like everybody in the Diocese knew and loved Tony Pattison and so it was with sadness, but with a good deal of joy, so many gathered on 8th June at St John's Killingworth to give thanks for his life after his very sudden death following a heart attack on Trinity Sunday.

Tony was a local lad, born and bred in Shiremoor, and he trained as a pharmacist at Heriot Watt University. He trained for ordination at Salisbury and Wells Theological College, being ordained Deacon in 1987. He served a curacy at St George's Cullercoats, going on to be Team Vicar and Industrial Chaplain at Cramlington, then Team Rector at Benwell before becoming Vicar of Killingworth. In all his parishes and in his associations, he was greatly loved and his ministry, so well supported by Frances, Stephen and John, was well received by all.

As well as being a faithful parish priest, he maintained an interest in world mission, church development and growth, as well as more recently sharing in the work of the national Fresh Expressions team, encouraging what might be called the emerging church. No-one expected that he would not be with us to continue that work in the near future, and we are all saddened by his untimely death. Nevertheless, all who had contact with him had come to enjoy, love and share his easy light touch approach, his deep faith and his passion for the Gospel.

Our prayers remain with Frances and the family as we give thanks for his ministry among us.

Geoff Miller