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TheLanternThe Parish Magazine of S. Andrew’s, Deal

MAY, 2012

Who’s Who in the Parish

Parish Priest:

The parish is in an interregnum

Honorary Assistant Clergy:

Father Ian Shackleton SSC 01304 379773 Father Roger Marsh SSC 01304 362851

Churchwardens:

Peter Gibson 01304 380860Waveney Brooks 01304 367961

PCC Officers

PCC Secretary: Ali RobertsonPCC Treasurer: Mike CareyElectoral Roll: Bryan Evans

Director of Music: Tim Woodhead

Lantern editor: Peter Gibson

The Parish Office:

S. Andrew’s Church, West Street, Deal CT14 6DY

(01304) 381131 - Email: Office@dealstandrews.org.uk

The Parish Office is not manned full-time but mail and telephone messages are checked every day.

The Parish of S. Andrew, North Deal is in the Diocese of Canterbury in the Church of England.

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In Church each week at S. Andrew’s

Matins is said at 8 am on Saturdays; otherwise at 9 am. on weekdays. Evensong is said at 6 pm.

Sunday 8.00 am Low Mass (Book of Common Prayer)10.00 am Parish Mass (Common Worship)6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction (BCP)

Monday 10.00 am Low Mass

Tuesday 9.30 am Low Mass

Wednesday 10.00 am Low Mass

Thursday 12.00 noon Low Mass

Friday 6.30 pm Low Mass (a priest is normally available

before and after the service for spiritual counsel)

Saturday 8.30 am Low Mass

On Festivals and Holy Days, service times may vary - please see our Notice Board or website or website

Holy Baptism, Weddings and Funerals

Please contact Father Ian Shackleton on 01304 379773 for inquiries about any of these services.

Father Ian writes ......

One of the most important days in the Christian Year is also one of the most neglected and misunderstood. I am referring, of course, to Ascension Day which this year falls on Thursday 17th May. S. mark's Gospel (Ch 16 v 19) and S. Luke's Gospel (Ch 24 v 51) both state that Jesus was parted from His disciples and was carried up into Heaven. The Acts of the Apostles (Ch 1 v 9) amplifies the Gospels' accounts a little; stating 'He was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.'

This is not a scenario with which modern man can easily identify. The culture within which Our Lord lived and moved believed in a 'three storied' universe: a flat earth above which was the domed firmament beyond which was Heaven, and below was Sheol, the place of departed spirits. Given this spatial under-standing of Creation, the only way was up! Mention of the 'cloud' in the Acts of the Apostles. The word 'Shekinah' was used by the Jews in reference to a cloud in which dwelt God's Presence and Glory which must of necessity be hidden from the eyes of men. Thus there could be no doubt among witnesses to the Ascension that Jesus was returning to the realms of God whence He came.

No longer can we understand the Ascension in such spatial terms, but we can and do speak of 'dimensions', those of time and space, and that other unfath-omable dimension which we call Eternity. thus we see the Ascension at a dif-ferent 'level' (pun not intended) of Christ's passing from this dimension into the Shekina - God's eternal Presence and Glory; there to sit at 'God's Right Hand'. His birth, death and resurrection have been gloriously vindicated. His Sacrifice for the sins of the whole world is accepted and as the God-man, Je-sus has opened up the pathway to God, long closed by sins and the arrogance of a human race whose wilfulness and cynicism renders it unconnected and chaotic. That this remains the case is incontrovertible, but we now have the choice of responding to God's love in Christ and re-connect to Him. This is why Our Lord gave us the Church, indwelt by the Holy Spirit to be His con-tinuing presence in the world. This is what we celebrate on Whit Sunday.

The seasonal 'preface' sums up the mystery of the Ascension succinctly. He 'manifestly appeared to all His Apostles, and in their sight ascended up into Heaven to prepare a place for us; that where He is, thither we might also as-cend, and reign with Him in glory.'

Bus Route Number 12Many of us make the journey to Canterbury for shopping, business or leisure, for Cathedral services and church meetings. To save fuel, we are requested to use public transport when we can, but this involves changing trains or until recently rather wandering bus routes.

From the beginning of April a new bus service, number12, came into being. It starts from South Street and once the early service is finished it runs at 43 minutes past the hour until 14.43 and in term-time until 15.43. The last bus leaves at 17.13. There is a regular return service until early evening.

The route is: Walmer - Thompson's Bell; Ringwould - The Five Bells; Whit-field - B&Q and Tesco, Honeywood Road; Canterbury Bus Station. The jour-ney time is just under 50 minutes. Timetables are available at the Landmark Centre and the Library. I have used my Senior Citizens' Bus Pass for the jour-ney and everything ran to time.

Canon Robert Lunnon

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9.30 to 11.30 am

Something for Young people.When is a vicar not a vicar?

“Hello, Vicar.,” is a very common greeting I receive in the street and elsewhere. I hope I reply cheerfully to this inaccurate greeting because although I have been a Church of England priest for nearly forty years, I have never been a vicar. A vicar is a priest who is in charge of a parish. I have never had that job because I have for most of the time worked in schools as either the chaplain or even as headmaster.

So what’s a chaplain? A chaplain is a priest attached to an institution like a school, prison, hospital or the armed forces. Sometimes the priest is attached to a particular person like the Queen or a bishop as their chaplain.

Below is a picture of a bishop. He is senior to a priest and is in charge of the church in a large area which is called a diocese. His central church is called a cathedral because that is where he has his cathedra or throne. He wears a special pointed hat called a mitre and carries a shepherd’s crook because everyone in his area is his flock.

The next picture shows a man wearing a stole, a coloured sash, over his left shoul-der. That is because he is not a priest but a deacon. Deacons are people who help priests but cannot do all that a priest does. He cannot, for example, say mass or for-give sins in confession.

All clergy begin as a deacon, most a year later become priests and some are later still made bishops. A few become archbishops, but there are just two of them in the Church of England. Because our bishop is the Archbishop of Canterbury he has the Bishop of Dover to run the diocese for him. Most bishops have one or two other bishops to help them. Also, they have a few priests who have very important jobs with special titles.

Why are we having a new priest called a rector and not vicar? We will leave that and other questions to next month. Father Roger

Then folk long to go on pilgrimage

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

And bathed every veyne in swich licóurOf which vertú engendred is the flour;

Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breethInspired hath in every holt and heeth

The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,

And smale foweles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open ye,So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

So begins Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales started sometime around 1387. The beginning of the Prologue has a familiar ring to it this year as it speaks of April showers ending the drought of March, although we cannot expect the hose pipe ban to end that dramatically.

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are the stories told by members of a group of pilgrims setting out from London, on horseback or foot, for the long journey to Canterbury. Their stories or tales were told to entertain one another when-ever they stopped for refreshment or the night. They are the classical works of the period of Middle English.

Canterbury Cathedral with its tomb of the martyred Thomas A Becket was an extremely important and wealthy place of pilgrimage, but perhaps even great-er was a small village in north west Norfolk called Walsingham. Why? Be-cause in 1061 the lady of the manor of Little Walsingham had a vision in which she saw Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary was at Nazareth, the place where she received the message from Gabriel about Jesus’ birth. Our Lady Mary told the Lady Richeldis to build a replica of the house of Nazareth in Walsingham. This Richeldis did, after overcoming all kinds of difficulties and by being shown where to site the house by the appearance of a spring of

water. In a very short time pilgrims started visiting to pray to Jesus and to ask for Mary’s help and her prayers. The waters of the spring were shown to be miraculous and healings occurred. The number of pilgrims grew and grew.

The story of Walsingham is really the story of the Church in England. At the Reformation the one-time pilgrim, King Henry VIII destroyed the Shrine and it had to await the beginning of the Twentieth Century for the then Vicar to rebuild the Shrine and for pilgrimage recommence.

Today, many parish churches, like Saint Andrew’s, has a small replica of the image of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Walsingham holding the child Jesus. A group of parishioners, called a cell, gathers each month for a special mass and to say the rosary. A lamp burns in Walsingham for the prayers of the people of north Deal alongside others for places across the globe. Each year in May this group, joined by whoever wishes to come, goes on pilgrimage to Walsingham for two days in order to pray to Jesus aided by the prayers of his Mother, at this special place which people call England’s Nazareth.Why not join us this year?

Fr.Roger

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What’s On in May and JuneMonday 7th May

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Parish Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of WalsinghamThursday 17th May

Ascension Day 7.00pm Solemn MassSunday 27th May

Whitsunday 8.00am Low Mass10.00am High Mass with Procession6.00pm Solemn evensong and Benediction

Sunday 3rd JuneTrinity Sunday 8.00am Low Mass

10.00am Parish Mass6.00pm SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING TO MARK THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF HM QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Monday 4th JuneBank Holiday 3.00pm onwards JUBILEE GARDEN PARTY

In the Rectory Garden. Scrumptious tea andjolly larks.

Saturday 9th June8.00am onwards Sale in aid of Church Fundsat the Town Hall Undercroft.

Sunday 10th JuneCorpus Sunday 8.00am Low Mass

10.00am High Mass followed by the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament through local streets.6.00pm Solemn Sung Evensong and Benediction.

Saturday 16th June2.00pm onwards in the ChurchyardANNUAL GARDEN PARTY

Sunday 1st July 10.00am DEAL FESTIVAL MASSPreacher: Rt Revd Michael Turnbull

THE SRI LANKA TEST MATCH SERIES 2012

Sri Lanka is a tropical island of exquisite beauty in the Indian Ocean. On vis-iting there today one is immediately aware of the devastation wrought by the tsunami of December 2004. The tourist industry was badly hit - only now are the hotels being rebuilt.

Someone decided to hold the recent series of Test Matches in the hottest four weeks of the year ie 41 degrees out in the middle with 87% humidity. In a warm-up game, Matt Prior, the England wicket-keeper, kept wicket without pads and lost 8lbs in body weight. At 06.30am (when they breakfasted) it was already 36 degrees and the Sri Lankan ladies were using their parasols.

Two intrepid English ladies, one called Barbara, and her cousin, Enid, went off to support the England Team. Privately, Enid's three sons thought they were 'nutters' and indeed they were but it was an adventure to end all adven-tures. Somehow they coped with the heat and appalling conditions at the Gal-le and Colombo Test Grounds. They have not regretted their adventure; they will live with the memory for a long time. And it was a privilege to visit Sri Lanka and meet her charming people.

Their first hotel was Chaayatranz in Hikkaduwa which had been rebuilt fol-lowing destruction in the 2004 tsunami. It was Hollywood. The Galle Test Match umpires were staying there together with the Australian Channel 10 commentators whose expertise was used by Sky over here. Tony Greig was principal commentator and much to the writer's surprise proved a pleasant chap. She had mixed views about Mr Greig in 1997 when he was Kerry Packer's main recruiting agent. However, by recruiting so many of our top test team, those two young turks, Ian Botham and David Gower, were instant-ly promoted. Thus the hotel had a certain cachet.

Such fauna and flora; it was all so exotic. Turtles walking along the beach at 4am; strange creatures which watched the humans eat their breakfast outside -they looked like small alligators. From their balcony the ladies could touch the coconuts.

Galle test ground looked picturesque on your TV; it was not. Its facilities be-longed to the dark ages. Each day got worse. Did the ICC visit the two test venues? How will it work out for the World Cup T.20 in September?

England lost that test but did not play badly. Bell came back to form in the first innings but received a dubious lbw decision in the second innings. So, onto Colombo to equal the series and for England to remain top of the Test Match world.

Our journey in daylight to Colombo showed clearly the poverty of the people. They cannot afford the tickets for the Test Matches. To them cricket is more than a game, it is a religion. One sees little boys batting with bottles. Our fa-vourite waiter at Chaayatranz asked Enid if she wanted to let him have the discarded cricket gear of her grandsons for his sons. She is arranging to send it air-freight - boots, bats, pads etc.

The hotel in Colombo, Mount Lavinia, was for two hundred years the resi-dence of the governors of Ceylon in the days of the British Empire. The por-ters (in that heat) still wear British traditional uniform. Lavinia was a local beauty who won the heart of Governor Maitland. It was a superb hotel but packed with English supporters so it was 'Butlin's' at times.

Monday night the two ladies accompanied their group to the Sri Lanka Crick-et Club (founded 1899) to enjoy a splendid evening with members of the Test Match Special team. Jonathan Agnew (Aggers) was in great form. The food was delicious.

And so to the Colombo Oval, also founded in 1899. Nothing has been done since as far as the Ladies were concerned!!! The only flush toilet gave up be-fore the match was over.

It was a superb Test. England played well - the batters were back on form and Swann was on form. Pietersen turned the match on the third day. He can take a game apart when he is in the mood. It was fitting he should win the Test with a mighty six.

The two intrepid ladies rushed onto the pitch to hear the speeches. They re-membered it was 41 degrees so they rushed off again to avoid being hospital cases. Was it only 41 degrees? Surely it was more.

Enid enjoyed her birthday on the first day of the Test. The coach sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the way. In the evening the Head Waiter came in with special cake and champagne.

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The fourth day was Good Friday but for the Buddhists it was BAK POYA. It commemorates the second visit of Buddha when he came to settle the dispute between two kings 2600 years ago. No alcohol is allowed to be sold. How quiet it was for the Barmy Army that day - just water.

Contrary to popular belief, the Barmy Army are decent chaps; without their help the two intrepid ladies would never have been able to climb to their allocated seating at Galle and then down again. Steps had not been invented at Galle Test Ground.

Barbara Ann

The Origins of Saying GraceThe word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving. Although the expression of gratitude to God for His bounty is by no means exclusively Christian still in the Christian dispensation, following the personal example of our Saviour (John 6:11 and 23), the ob-ligation of thanksgiving seems to have been emphasised from the very be-ginning. Thus, we are told of St. Paul (Acts 27:35) that "taking bread he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all and when he had broken it he began to eat".

Many anecdotes also might be cited from such early writers as Gregory of Tours and Bede, clearly attesting the prevalence of the practice of saying grace. Bede, for example in his 'History of the English Church and People', when he wishes to tell us that King Oswald and Bishop Aidan were about to begin dinner, remarks that "they were on the point of stretching out their hands to bless the bread".

In the religious orders, naturally the custom of grace was much insisted upon. A special section is assigned to it in Chapter 43 of the Rule of St. Benedict, and this was much amplified in later expositions. The early mo-nastic rules in fact generally required that each dish brought to table should be separately blessed before it was set before the community. The souls of

faithful are also prayed for in the thanksgiving after a meal.

Great importance was attached to the proper learning of the grace by children. It is commonly a prominent feature in the Books of Curtesye and other medi-eval works for the instruction of the young. Moreover most educational foun-dations, like the English public schools and the colleges at the universities, had special forms of grace prescribed for them, often metrical in part, some of which are maintained to the present day.

Here follow Latin graces that are still used by Religious Orders and educa-tional institutions.

BEFORE A MEAL

Bless, O Lord, us and your gifts,which from your bounty we are about to receive, and grant that, healthily nourished by them, we may render you due obedience,through Christ our Lord.

Bless us, Lord God, and theseThy gifts which of Thy bounty we are about to receive,through,Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen

May the Blessed One give a blessing.

Let a Blessing be given by the Blessed One.

The Editor

ANTE PRANDIUM

Benedic, Domine, nos et dona tua,quae de largitate tua sumus sumpturi,et concede, ut illis salubriter nutrititibi debitum obsequium praestare valeamus,per Christum Dominum nostrum.

Benedic nobis, Domine Deus, atque eis donis tuis, quae de tua largitate sumus sumpturi, per Jesum Christum Dominum nos-trum.

Benedictus benedicat.

Benedicto benedicatur.

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