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Regular mid-week services:
Wednesdays: Holy Communion at 10.30 a.m. - coffee is served afterwards!
Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. on Oct 5 & 5.30 on Oct 12
Saturdays: Morning Prayer at 9.00 a.m. on Oct 1, 8.30 Oct 8 & 15
Holy Communion: 9.00 a.m. on Oct 15
11.00 a.m. on Oct 1
6.30 p.m. on Oct 8
not on Oct 22 & 29
Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. on Oct 8
Harvest Festival: Come and join us and the Bishop of Hull on Friday 7 October at 7 pm for a traditional Harvest Festival, followed by the Harvest Supper at the Village Hall. All welcome! The service is free - the supper is £2 a ticket, available from June Sellers (420237) or Alison Cope (420313).
Stephen is away (work) October 18 to 29(!).
THE VICAR'S RAMBLINGS
I hope you all know by now that I love Harvest Festival, and we're very lucky to have got the Bishop of Hull to join us in the celebrations this year. But one thing struck me as very strange the other day - of course Harvest Festival originally had to do with the end of the grain harvest, and indeed traditionally the date was never set until the harvest actually had all been safely gathered in. Now, we always have ours on the first Friday in October, and usually it's been gathered in weeks before, and the ploughing is pretty much finished too.
However, even though the date is now symbolic rather than the actual date of ingathering, yet still we always seem to forget our livestock farmers. Sheaves, yes, marrows and runner beans, yes - but this year why not let us remember also to thank God for those who rear pork, beef, lamb, turkey, chicken round these parts - and even ostrich not that far away!
After all, we are supposed to be giving thanks for all good gifts around us, and many a local livelihood still depends to a degree on beasts as well as grain. So thank you, God, for all we eat and drink, and especially for that which is produced locally!
STEPHEN
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