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St. John the Baptist, Hey October 2019

Receiving and Sharing the Love of God Everyday

My friends from the Jewish/Christian Dialogue group have taught me

many things which I call to mind from time to time and while preparing

my sermon on the unrighteous manager, I remembered a Jewish story

that emphasises the point that Jesus made when speaking of serving

either God or money but not both.

A Rabbi was visited by a rich but mean and grasping man. The Rabbi

took the man to the window and said, “What do you see?” “I see people

walking by” said the man. Then the Rabbi stood the man in front of a

mirror, “now what do you see” said the Rabbi. “I see myself” said the

man. And the Rabbi said, “Both the window and the mirror are made

out of glass, through the window which is made of pure glass, you see

other people, but because the glass of the mirror is covered in silver,

you see only yourself. In the same way, when our thoughts are pure,

we see others, but when our thoughts are covered with silver (money),

we cease to see others and see only ourselves.”

What we need to realise is that mirrors have their place, and maybe we

need to take a good long look at ourselves and come to the realisation

that in our homes we need far more windows than mirrors.

Let’s all reflect on our use of money and its place in our lives,

remembering that money can be a blessing if we put God first and use

money in a godly fashion.

May God bless you all.

Contacts at St John

Parish Priest Revd Lyn Woodall 620 5981

[email protected]

Associate Priest Capt the Revd Paul Robinson 628 9019

[email protected]

Assistant Curates Sally Robinson 07496 195 540

Christine Steel

Wardens Brian Saxon 633 1389

John Atkinson 915 2644

Administrator Barbara Ballantyne 626 3630

[email protected]

Pastoral Visiting Ann Knowles 620 7813

Editor David Green 652 1278

[email protected]

Day by Day Scheme 15 Oct Celebrating Audrey’s Birthday

17 Oct Anniversary of My husband Michael Booth’s birthday

Heather Booth

20 Oct In memory of Horace Bennett

21 Oct Sarah & Simon’s Anniversary

24 Oct In memory of great grandfather

29 Oct Norma’s birthday - on behalf of Bill’s girls

The running costs of the church, which include the upkeep of the

buildings and grounds, light and heat and costs of the services,

amounted to £30,795 in 2018 – just over £84 a day.

Thank you to all those who are supporting the Day by Day Scheme

which is used towards these costs.

If you would like to help please speak to a warden or our administrator.

mailto:[email protected]




Holy Baptism 1 Sept Charlotte Fothergill,

daughter of Daniel and Kimberley Fothergill

15 Sept Sydney Francis Owens,

daughter of Samuel Owens & Tori Seton- Jones

15 Sept Charlie and Millie Standring,

children of Steven and Leanne Standring

Street Prayers Week Street 7 Oct Dowry Rd

14 Oct Hey Crescent

21 Oct Stamford Rd Higher

28 Oct Stamford Rd Lower & St Johns Court Prayers for these streets will be offered in Church on the Sundays shown

Any requests for specific prayers please ring the parish office 626 3630

Let us witness to the presence of the church to all in Hey Parish

Faithful Departed

Funeral 17th Sept Margaret Reid

“Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord

and let light perpetual shine upon them”

Bible Readings

6 Oct Harvest Festival

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Luke 17:5-10

13 Oct Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

2 Kings 5:1-3,7-15

Luke 17:11-19

20 Oct Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

Genesis 32:22-31

Luke 18:1-8

27Oct Bible Sunday

2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18

Luke 4:16-24

3 Nov All Saints’ Day

Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18

Luke 6:20-31

Diary Dates October Tue 1 All day Experience Harvest

Wed 2 10am Holy Communion BCP

10.45am Coffee & Chat

11am Holy Communion Oakdene

Thu 3 7pm Come & Praise!

Sun 6 Harvest Festival

8am Holy Communion – Book of Common Prayer

9.30am Family Eucharist

Mon 7 7.30pm PCC

Wed 9 10am Holy Communion



Sun 13 17th Sunday after Trinity

8am Holy Communion

9.30am Parish Communion

Tue 15 All day Children’s Church visit



11am Holy Communion Millfield


Sun 20 18th Sunday after Trinity

8am Holy Communion





Sun 27 Bible Sunday

8am Holy Communion





November

3rd Sunday All Saints’ Day

8am Holy Communion – BCP

9.30am Family Eucharist

3pm All Souls Service

Food Bank

On the next page is a Thankyou from Oldham Food Bank, if you would

like to help with this there are boxes at the back of church for any

donations.

Thank you

31st October

All Hallows Eve – or Holy Evening

Modern Halloween celebrations have their roots with the Celtic peoples

of pre-Christian times.

In those long-ago days, on the last night of October, the Celts celebrated

the Festival of Samhain, or ‘Summer’s End’. The priests, or Druids,

performed ceremonies to thank and honour the sun. For there was a

very dark side to all this: Samhain also signalled the onset of winter, a

time when it was feared that unfriendly ghosts, nature-spirits, and

witches roamed the earth, creating mischief. So the Druid priests lit

great bonfires and performed magic rites to ward off or appease these

dark supernatural powers.

Then the Romans arrived, and brought their Harvest Festival which

honoured the Goddess Pomona with gifts of apples and nuts. The two

festivals slowly merged.

When Christianity arrived still later, it began to replace the Roman and

Druid religions. 1st November - All Saints’ Day - was dedicated to all

Christian Martyrs and Saints who had died. It was called ‘All Hallows’

Day’. The evening before became an evening of prayer and preparation

and was called ‘All Hallows’ Eve’, The Holy Evening, later shortened to

‘Halloween’.

For many centuries, however, fear of the supernatural remained strong.

During the Middle Ages, animal costumes and frightening masks were

worn to ward off the evil spirits of darkness on Halloween. Magic words

and charms were used to keep away bad luck, and everybody believed

that witches ride about on broomsticks. Fortune telling was popular, and

predicting the future by the use of nuts and apples was so popular that

Halloween is still sometimes known as Nutcrack Night or Snap-Apple

Night.

Today, Christians have learned to turn to prayer instead of charms to

overcome the powers of darkness. And the deeper, true meaning of All

Hallows’ Eve, should not be forgotten. As Christians, we all draw closer

to Christ when we remember and give thanks for our loved ones and for

others who have gone before us through the gates of death.

6th October

William Tyndale, Bible translator and Reformation martyr This month is the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, and so a good time to pay tribute to an outstanding English scholar, translator and martyr of the Reformation. William Tyndale (c. 1494 - 6th October 1536) was born near Gloucester, and studied at Oxford and Cambridge. He could speak seven languages, and was proficient in ancient Hebrew and Greek. As a priest, his abilities would have taken him a long way, but by 1523 Tyndale’s only desire was to translate the Bible, so that English men and women could read it for themselves. It became his life’s passion. For Tyndale had rediscovered a vital doctrine that the Church had been ignoring: that of justification by faith. He had found it when reading Erasmus's Greek edition of the New Testament. In fact, his life’s work was well summed up in some words of his mentor, Erasmus: "Christ desires His mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known." Tyndale’s translation was the first Bible to be published in English, the first to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first English translation to take advantage of the printing press. It was to cost him his life. For Tyndale’s work was seen as a direct challenge to the power of both the Roman Catholic Church and the laws of England in maintaining the Church’s position. When the authorities had tried to stop his translation, Tyndale fled to Hamburg, Wittenberg, Cologne, and finally to the Lutheran city of Worms. It was there, in 1525, his New Testament emerged. It was quickly smuggled into England, and King Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, and others, were furious. Tyndale moved on to Antwerp, where for nine more years he continued his work. Then in May 1535 he was betrayed, arrested, and jailed in a castle near Brussels. Tied to the stake for strangulation and burning, his dying prayer was that the King of England’s eyes would be opened. Sure enough, two years later King Henry authorised the Great Bible for the Church of England, which relied largely on Tyndale’s work. Not only that, but in 1611, the 54 scholars who produced the King James Bible

drew very heavily from Tyndale. Even today we honour him: in 2002,

Tyndale was placed at number 26 in the BBC’s poll of 100 Greatest Britons.

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OCTOBER CROSSWORD

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CLUES

ACROSS

7. Large mall for products (6)

8. Fully recovered (6)

10. Supply (7)

11. Shut (5)

12. Truly existing (4)

13. Round brimless cap (5)

17. Shallow dish (5)

18. Box (4)

22. Stories (5)

23. Personal view (7)

24. Disappear (6)

25. Slender (6)

DOWN

1. Master of ceremonies (7)

2. Seat from old Turkish empire (7)

3. Start (5)

4. Instructor (7)

5. Seat without arms or back (5)

6. Say “Hello” (5)

9. A group from which a choice may

be made (9)

14. Nearest (7)

15. Leaps in the air (7)

16. Hard igneous rock (7)

19. Cooker (5)

20. Long flat piece of timber (5)

21.Walkway in church (5)

Solution to September crossword. Across:4.Biscuit,8.Reebok,9.Penalty,10.Talent,11.Return,

12.Obdurate,18.Campfire,20.Gazebo,21.Pisces,22.Special,23.Starve,24.Studied. Down:1.Oration

2.Ceilidh,3.Joiner,5.Ice cream,6.Crafty,7.Inters,13.Accolade,14.Discard,15.Measles,16.Carpet,

17.Fenced,19.Copies.

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