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THE LINK
MARCH 2016
The Parish Magazine for the parishes of
St Catherine and Holy Trinity Ventnor and St Boniface Bonchurch
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Dear friends,
I write this in the middle of a week of sunshine and cloud. When the sun shines,
here in Ventnor it makes everything wonderfully bright, not only with the direct
sunlight but with the light reflected off the sea. This, in turn, lights up the beautiful
built environment with which we also blessed, and makes you notice things you
might ignore on a dull day.
God, in the Bible, is often compared to light. ‘God is light and in him is no darkness
at all,’ we read in 1 John 1:5. These are wonderful words, especially when you think
of all the beneficial things that come from the sun: warmth, light, growth and general
wellbeing. Yet we all know it is very dangerous to look at sun. It’s the same with
God: the light that is God is not something that we look at, for it says in Exodus that
‘no-one sees my face and lives’. It is rather what we see by. CS Lewis put well, I
think, when he wrote: "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not
only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
These words have a particular resonance for us as we approach Easter. On Good
Friday, we read, that ‘From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three
in the afternoon.’ (Matt 27:45). As Jesus hung there in pain bearing the sin of the
world, the whole cosmos seemed to join in the grief of the occasion. St Matthew
also goes on to write – in the story of Easter morning- of an angel whose
‘appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as the snow.’ (Matt 28:2)
The use of the images of light and darkness illustrate the extremes of mood and
emotion to be found in the Easter story, as well as in our lives, but I dare say most
of us live somewhere in the middle. Just like the English climate, much of our life is
lived in spiritually cloudy weather, when there’s enough light to see by, but not
cheer or warm us over much. Just as we know, on those days, that the sun is there
behind the clouds, so we need to know that God is with us every day.
By our Easter faith we see everything else. When we see individuals in pain, as we
do every day, we know that this pain does not have the last word, any more than it
did on the first Good Friday. When we see sin and evil wreaking havoc across the
world, we know that Christ broke the power of sin and evil. IT may take a long time
but we know that ‘goodness is stronger than evil, love is stronger than hate, light is
stronger than darkness, life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through him who
loved us.’ (Desmond Tutu)
May God help us to believe it.
Your friend and Vicar Hugh
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HOLY TRINITY NEWS
Time to Work out……….
LENT is a time to work out, in all sorts of meanings of the phrase……
Time to work out how you really want to engage with God in every way, in
worship, in private prayer, in study and reading. By the time you read this, the
meeting about Worship at St Catherine’s will have taken place and the Lent
Groups will have started. There are also books on the market written especially
for Lent study. Perhaps any or all of these will enable you (and me too!) to try to
follow God more closely.
Time to work out how best to help other people! This doesn’t have to be a
grandiose gesture or one that the world sees. Many people do their helping at
home within their own family circle…where would many people be without the
help of those closest to them? (Unappreciated though those people often are!)
Outside the home, there are plenty of places that need volunteer help on a regular
or occasional basis. All that is needed is a kindly manner and a reliable presence.
And it may be time to work out whether to restrict your helping out to Ventnor
alone, or sometimes, as in the case of the Street Pastors, to venture further afield
to Ryde or Newport, where the need is often great.
Time to work out your money! Most people juggle their finances and have to
prioritise, but it’s always sensible to keep account (I’m someone who still does take
away sums on cheque stubs!) and then sometimes, but not always, there’s a chance
to make a regular commitment to church and other worthwhile projects, both
home and abroad.
Time to work out your time! As someone who seems to lurch from one thing to
the next, with very little commonsense about leaving breathing space in between,
(or so I’m told!)it may be time to work out a balance between work and study,
leisure and pleasure, rather like a Benedictine monk. (No, I’m thinking of joining!)
And lastly……just time to work out! I’m writing this article early as by the time
you read it I shall be deep in exercises to get my new knee working properly. And
once it’s up and running, (well, walking, anyway,) I am resolved to take more
exercise and to enjoy the countryside more, preferably on my own two much
steadier feet!
It seems a long way away at present, as I’m writing this on Ash Wednesday……but
a very Happy and Joyful Easter to you all.
Gill
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I wrote the following poem some years ago when laid low by an attack of
shingles, but I have a nasty feeling that it is how I’ll be thinking in a couple of
weeks. So it won’t hurt to give it another airing and to dedicate it to all those
people who get frustrated by their physical limitations. It’s called
IMPATIENT PATIENT
I don’t like doing nothing,
That’s just not how I’m made!
And, left to me, I’d rather not
Be idle on parade!
But now this THING has felled me,
I don’t know how to cope,
And so the IMPATIENT PATIENT
Is on the slippery slope!
I don’t like sitting quietly
To watch the world go past.
I’d rather be a Busy Bee
Collecting honey…..fast!
But now I’m forced to sit and read,
Demurely on my chair,
And so the IMPATIENT PATIENT
Is firmly anchored there!
I don’t like being out of sorts
Or crying down the phone,
I’ve just got to put up with pain
And try hard not to moan!
So now I need to take my pills
To stay inside all day,
And so the IMPATIENT PATIENT
Will do so, come what may!
It may be I’ll be better soon,
I pray so, can’t be long!
But ‘til that time, I must be good,
(My friends can’t all be wrong!)
So I will try, oh yes, I will,
To smile and sit and rest.
And so the IMPATIENT PATIENT
Will do her very best!
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St Boniface and Bonchurch
GHANA NEWS
David has recently circulated a second newsletter about the
progress of the Special School in Tamale, run by Solomon
Asaanah and supported by people from all three churches.
There are copies of the newsletter in all our churches and it
gives an excellent account of the project so far and an idea of
what is still needed. There are also some delightful pictures of
the pupils, who otherwise wouldn’t stand much of a chance in
the normal educational system.
Sadly we are no longer able to hold our
Easter Fair on April 12th.
Please put it in your diaries for the
Saturday before Easter NEXT YEAR!
Next Coffee Morning Tuesday March 1st
10 - noon. The little bus will
give you an hour or so there if you take it.
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Friday 4th March
3pm
Women’s
World Day of Prayer at
St Wilfrid’s RC Church, Ventnor.
All Welcome
MOTHERING
SUNDAY 6th MARCH
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
4th March - Women’s World Day of Prayer
6th March- MOTHERING SUNDAY
27th March - clocks go FORWARD
The Hub Shop
Easter cards and Easter Eggs now available.
Please support your shop by buying or ordering
from the catalogues or enquiring whether we can
obtain anything you want or need.
Come and have a coffee and a browse.
Smile Lines
Snoring
A clergyman consulted his doctor about his wife’s snoring.
‘It has to STOP,’ he insisted.
The doctor was intrigued: ‘Does it really bother you that much?
’‘Well, it’s not just me,’ explained the minister.
‘She is bothering the whole congregation.’
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GOOD FRIDAY
On Good Friday there will be a
Walk of Witness from
Ventnor Baptist Church to Holy Trinity
where there will be a soup lunch. (via St Catherine’s Church, Central Car Park
and St Wilfrid’s Church)
All the churches hope to be involved.
People are needed to:
a) take part in dramatized readings.
b) give out hot cross buns.
c) play in a band (as well as just walking).
(Contact Hugh).
This year it will start at 10am.
Could everyone think of taking part in some way,
not necessarily walking the full distance. More details to follow.
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WANTED - USED POSTAGE STAMPS Please save all your used postage stamps. They can be ordinary or picture
ones. British or Foreign. Leave enough of the envelope around them to
prevent the stamp being damaged. Bring them to the HUB at St Catherine's church.
Thank you. Ann R and Kizzie B. Ventnor Inner Wheel
Is something worrying you?
Want someone to listen to you? Why don't you book an appointment
at The Living Room 82-83 High Street, Newport PO30 1BH
On the 1st & 3rd Monday of the month
11am - 2pm. We have trained Acorn Christian Listeners
you can talk to.
Contact Nava Young for an appointment on
01983 852680 or [email protected]
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Mission Weekend
St Catherine’s Church
held
20th and 21st February
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Don’t forget to pick up your free copy of
The Pompey Chimes
The HUB Coffee Shop 10.30 - 12.30 Monday - Saturday
THE CHERUB
Our Cherub likes to listen to all your joys and woes,
He will always try to help you everywhere he goes.
For soon He will be an Angel He is learning very fast
According to experience acquired in his past.
You can see him on a window sill within Saint Catherine’s church,
Above the choir and grand piano, he likes that lofty perch.
He joins in with the choir the lovely hymns they sing,
They lead the congregation with the joy their voices bring.
Billy likes to visit Bonchurch especially Bonchurch pond
To see and feed the water birds of those he's very fond,
The many ducks and moorhens, a lovely sight to see
All dabbling in the water as happy as can be.
Their island is so very small made of rock and stones,
They work to build themselves a nest, artwork all their own,
And when their chicks hatch out in spring, little balls of fluff
Everyone is happy, they have done enough.
Bonchurch is so beautiful at any time of year.
Many famous writers have found inspiration here.
Billy loves dear Bonchurch with its old world rustic charm
And all its natural wild life so peaceful and so calm.
Cherub Billy feels "at home" in a landscape such as this
It fills his heart with gladness, such eternal bliss.
May it live and thrive forever, a paradise indeed
So natural, so relaxing with lots of birds to feed.
Peacefully yours. Ted.
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DON'T TELL ANYONE.
A TRUE AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AT ALL SAINTS CHURCH, BIRLING IN THE
HEART, OF KENT IN THE WINTER OF 1939.
During the winter of 1939 my Father became very ill with pleurisy , leaving him not
only unfit to work but also unable to stoke the furnace beneath our village Church
on a Saturday night to heat the church for the Sunday services.
I had accompanied him on many occasions so I knew his routine and expertise
handling the huge furnace deep beneath the old village church. I volunteered to step
in and do it for him.
All went well on the first Saturday evening stoking which involved not only stoking
but de clinkering and the shutting down process usually at about nine o'clock which
was well after dark . My only means of illumination was a paraffin lantern.
Soon my friend whom I will call Oscar - you will see why I have given him a
fictitious name, got to hear of what I did on Saturday nights. Oscar was the leader
of our village gang with the reputation of a bit of a hero, afraid of nothing, we were
eleven years old. Oscar wanted to join me and I would be glad of his company.
We set off together with my Dad's paraffin lantern, through the graveyard to the
back of the old Church and down the steep flight of stone steps to about 12 feet
below ground level, I had a key to the furnace room. Oscar watched as I did the
Final Stoke, we locked up ready to leave.
It was then that Oscar glanced up and saw the figure of a large Angel seemingly at
the top of the steps in the moonlight. His nerve shattered, He threw himself at me
in terror clinging at my body, I was holding the lantern and it swung wildly causing
large, grotesque shadows to go chasing up and down the walls of the old Church
which did nothing to soothe Oscar's jangled nerves I held on to him very tightly and
kept repeating : "it's all right, Oscar , it's only a statue on a tombstone." He
gradually calmed down and we left the churchyard.
We stopped under the street gaslight on the corner and Oscar put both his hands
on my shoulders, looked straight into my eyes and said: " DON'T TELL ANYONE ,"
I knew exactly what he meant and that is why I have changed his name, here, his
reputation was at stake.
The Church wardens decided that it was not right to allow an eleven year old boy
to stoke the furnace, especially at that time of night. They thanked me for what I
had done and presented me with two half crowns, I was delighted. The Church
wardens did the stoking themselves from then on.
I am pleased to say that my father soon recovered but he did not resume stoking
the furnace until the following winter. The congregation of All Saint's, BIRLING,
knew nothing of the drama going on at that time and the Church remained well
heated.
Yours very warmly. Ted.
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Palm Sunday 9.30a.m. Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Church
10.45a.m. Family and All-age Worship, St Catherine’s Church
10.45a.m. Holy Communion, St Boniface Church
Wednesday 7pm - Stations of the Cross - Holy Trinity Church
Maundy Thursday 7.30pm - Eucharist of the Last Supper with foot washing and stripping of
altars. Holy Trinity Church
Good Friday (in addition to Walk)
1.30pm - Good Friday Liturgy - Holy Trinity Church
2pm - St Boniface Church ‘At the foot of the cross.’
2pm - St Catherine’s Church ‘At the foot of the cross.’
Easter Eve 8pm Easter Vigil and Lighting of the new fire. St Boniface Church
Easter Day 9.30 Holy Trinity Church - Holy Communion
10.45 St Catherine’s Church - Holy Communion
10.45 St Boniface Church - Holy Communion
6.30pm St Catherine’s Church - Easter Praise.
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Write down your Caption suggestion and drop it off at
the Hub. The best will be published in the APRIL LINK.
Isle of Wight Scottish Fiddlers The Isle of Wight Scottish Fiddlers have been playing since 1986, and we
play traditional Scottish acoustic music. We play to raise funds for local
charities and Isle of Wight good causes, and there is no charge for playing at your event.
If you are planning a fund rising event for your Church Hall, local
community, or a local good cause, and would like us to come along and
play for you, then please contact our Booking Secretary -
Moira Henderson, and discuss your requirements with her on
01983 528667, or email her at [email protected]
You can find more details about us along with photos from past Concerts
on our dedicated website: www.scottishfiddlers.co.uk
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Across
1 Made from the fruit of
the vine, symbol of the
blood of Christ (4)
3 ‘You are to set an
ambush behind the city.
Don’t go very far from it.
All of you be on —
’ (Joshua 8:4) (3,5) 8
Seep (4) 9 Celebrated
by Jesus on the night of
his betrayal (Luke 22:15)
(8) 11 One of the
supposed sites of Christ’s
burial place in Jerusalem
(6,4) 14 ‘A city on a hill
— be hid-
den’ (Matthew 5:14) (6)
15 He inherited Elijah’s
mantle (2 Kings 2:12–13)
(6) 17 Where Jesus prayed ‘Not as I will, but as you will’ (Matthew 26:36, 39) (10)
20 ‘Only in his home town and in his — is a prophet without honour’ (Matthew
13:57) (3,5) 21 Sail (anag.) (4) 22 How Jesus was punished before his crucifixion
(Matthew 27:26) (8) 23 Eye sore (4)
Down
1 Can’t grow (anag.) (5,3) 2 A servant girl to Peter, ‘You also were with that — ,
Jesus’ (Mark 14:67) (8) 4 Well-being (Proverbs 3:8) (6) 5 Pentecostal denomina-
tion, — of God (10) 6 One of the ‘obvious’ acts of the sinful nature (Galatians 5:19,
21) (4) 7 ‘I preached that they should repent and — to God’ (Acts 26:20) (4) 10 ‘
— , the world will not see me any more, but you will see me’ (John 14:19) (6,4) 12
He betrayed Jesus: Judas — (Luke 6:16) (8) 13 Jesus to Peter: ‘ — of my
sheep’ (John 21:16) (4,4) 16 The centurion said, ‘Surely this man was — of
God’ (Mark 15:39) (3,3) 18 Baked bread (Mark 8:14) (4) 19 ‘Blessing and honour,
glory and power, be — Him’ (Handel’s Messiah) (4)
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Rock Solid What is it? A fun, weekly, Christian based club involving lots of games
and a talk. When is it? Every Wednesday, 4.30 and 6pm
Where is it? From February 24th until the completion of the
Upper Ventnor road works, Rock Solid will be at St Francis School
instead of St Catherine’s Church. Who is it for? Anyone in years 5 - 8.
Who runs it? Hannah Fenton and her amazing team of volunteers!
For more information, email - [email protected]
Flowers were not allowed in Church
during Lent
“I think the D.I.Y. Palm Sunday palm
kit you ordered online is here,
dear……”
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Messy Church MARCH 26th 3pm - 5pm
St Francis School - Upper Ventnor
Theme - EASTER “Come and share a meal with us”
Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian or carer.
Do please tell any families you know about this event.
26th March The Unity Stompers
Easter Jazz
at Carisbrooke Priory Whitcombe Road (opposite the Castle viewpoint car park)
7.30 pm, in the Chapel
Retiring collection for the work of the Priory
Refreshments will be served in the Tea Room
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.carisbrookepriory.org.uk Telephone: 01983 523354
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St. Albans special services during lent.
MOTHERING SUNDAY, March 6th - 9:30am. Solemn Sung Mass,
with distribution of posies. Choir Anthem: 'DAY BY DAY' by Martin How.
PASSION SUNDAY, March 13th - 9:30am Solemn Sung Mass,
Choir Anthem: "O Saviour of the World" by John Goss
PALM SUNDAY, March 20th - PROCESSION assembles at
St Francis School at 8.45am leaving at 9am for the 9.30am Mass.
Choir Anthem: "King of All Ages" by Paul Isom.
DURING LENT.
Discussions on PRAYER take place at St ALBAN'S at 6pm on Wednesday 2nd,
9th, and 16th March. You are cordially invited to participate in these!
HOLY WEEK and EASTER. St Albans are joined by
the Bishop of Richborough, Rt Rev’d NORMAN BANKS.
Full details of arrangements nearer the time.
www.stalbansiw.org.uk
Ventnor Townswomen's Guild Afternoon Social Studies Group.
Subject and speaker to be arranged.
Group Leader: Mrs B Joyner - 857567
2.15pm - Held at The Residents' lounge, Byrnhill Grove.
Park Avenue. Ventnor. £1 per meeting including tea/coffee and biscuits.
Ventnor Townswomen's Guild
16th March - AGM
2.15pm - In the Common Room at Knights Court, Ventnor
St Albans the Martyr Church - Upper Ventnor
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Carisbrooke Priory Open Door Speakers for March 2016
3rd March Alan Brown (Communion)
10th March Bob White
17th March Anne Linington
24th March Easter Prayers
31st March Taizé Open Door Meeting every Thursday at 12 noon followed by lunch in the
Dining Room at approximately 1.00 pm
Priory Art - Every Monday 9.30 am to 4.00 pm – the Art Group in its pre-
sent form is to finish at Easter. Alternative craft activities are currently in the
early stages of consideration, so please look out for further information in
future bulletins
All enquiries to Carisbrooke Priory Trust Phone: 01983 523354
The Wednesday Lent Group 2p.m.
11, Bay Court, (next to Wheelers Bay car park).
Now I have had my knee operation
the remaining sessions will be on the 9th,16th and 23rd of
March. This way, although the last session is in Holy Week,
we shall finish before Easter.
Gill
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Thanks to Mike Wood for our weather information.
VENTNOR WEATHER Rain of 162.0mm (6.38ins) was the wettest January on record!
(2014 had 153.4mm). This was 207% of the average of 78.3mm (3.07ins). We had the average in the first 9 days! Wettest day
was the 10th with 17.2mm (0.68F). Rain fell on 25 days. The mean temperature of 7.5C (46F) was the 5th warmest in the last 31 years. Warmest day was the 24th with 12.0C (54F).
Coldest night was the 16th with 0.5C (33F).
December 2015 Temperatures Many of us will be aware of the extraordinary warmth of December 2015, but just
how warm was it, and what are the comparisons that can be made? Well, it was
quite astonishing. At the weather station at the Botanic Garden, the mean
temperature, 11.9°C, was up by 5.4°C over the 1921-50 average at the Royal
National Hospital. Since observations began in 1839 at Ventnor, the record for the
highest mean has stood for 163 years when in December 1852 10.2°C was
measured. So now this has been exceeded by 1.7°C! The mean night time
temperature was particularly noteworthy, keeping in double figures Celsius at
10.7°C; not only was this 6.4°C over the average night minimum, but it was also
2.0°C more than the average day time maximum!
On New Years Day, Chris Kidd (Curator) tells me that 287 plants were in flower
in the Garden; the norm is 130 at this time of year!
Chris Watts
Don’t forget to put your clocks
FORWARD one hour 27th MARCH
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A Tale from the Graveyard – and a Link to the Weather
In every issue of The Link, there is an interesting article giving
weather details for the previous month from Mike Wood. The
weather station is situated in Ventnor Park where it was first
established in 1913; Mike took over as the observer in the 1980s,
and visits every morning to take the measurements.
Indeed, there is a rich history of weather observation taken at
Ventnor well before 1913. There was a long running weather station (1873-1950)
associated with The Royal National Hospital. And one of the earliest serving
Chaplains at the Hospital, the Rev. Clifford Malden, who was also the vicar of the
Church at St. Lawrence, maintained his own weather station in the area from
1866 until 1885. His memorial plaque is on the south wall of the church, and his
grave is to be found in the grounds of the Old Church up Seven Sisters Road. In
those days it was not uncommon for vicars to have an interest in weather obser-
vation.
But even before the Rev. Clifford, there was some activity. An early weather
station was sited near to the Royal Hotel along Belgrave Road, and the observer
was Dr George Anne Martin, MD. He established the station in 1839, and ran it
until his death in January 1867. It was then taken over by his brother, Dr John
Baratty Martin, MRCS, who maintained the station until 1879, thus completing 40
years observations. He died in April 1890. Both men are buried in St Catherine’s
churchyard in the Martin family grave; this can be found in the north west corner
– if you look towards the telephone kiosk from the front door of St. Catherine’s,
you will see a rather fine four sided headstone. One side is devoted to George
Anne, and another to John Baratty. I wonder how they would have described the
new record busting month of December 2015 which Mike told us about in the
February issue of The Link! In fact, Mike smashed a record that had stood for 163
years as the previous record for December warmth was observed by the Martin
brothers in 1852.
The story of the Belgrave House weather station is told in the book ‘Climate of
the Undercliff’ by J L Whitehead, 1881. It is to be found in the Ventnor Library.
Chris Watts
ACROSS: 1, Wine. 3, The alert. 8, Ooze. 9, Passover. 11, Garden Tomb. 14,
Cannot. 15, Elisha. 17, Gethsemane. 20, Own house. 21, Lisa. 22, Flogging. 23, Stye.
DOWN: 1, Wrong act. 2, Nazarene. 4, Health. 5, Assemblies. 6, Envy. 7, Turn.
10, Before long. 12, Iscariot. 13, Take care. 16, The Son. 18, Loaf. 19, Unto.
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PRAYER CHAIN
All requests for the Prayer Chain
should be first directed to Kizzie Baker on 853779
BEREAVEMENT GROUP….Can we help you?
We are aware that there are a number of
people who have been bereaved and might
like someone to talk to.
If this is YOU or someone you know, please contact any of the
Bereavement Group from St Catherine’s, Holy Trinity and
St Boniface, by telephoning 857795 (outside Hub hours you can
leave a message) or visit the Hub at St Catherine’s any morning
between 10.30 and 12.30. If you’d rather leave a note, there’s a
box in the Coffee Shop. Anything you wish to discuss will be
treated with absolute confidentiality.
HOME GROUPS Thursday Afternoon 4.30pm at 28 North Street. Contact Hilary
Davis 855797
Monday Evening 7.45pm Contact Jenny Holder 852575 -
Tuesday Evening 8.00pm - At Mick and Nava Young’s St Andrews,
Belgrave Road.
WEDDINGS The Wedding Team in our Parishes consists of representatives of
the three churches, whose role is to meet couples whose Wedding
has been arranged with the Vicar, and then to keep in
touch, supporting them in planning details, at their Rehearsal, and
Wedding.
This year at present there are twelve Weddings and one Blessing
arranged, two at Holy Trinity, three at St. Catherine's, and the rest
at Bonchurch.
Ann Allen (co-ordinator), Nicky Evans, Chris and Trevor Dobson.
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We pray for those
recently married.
And we pray for those in hospital.
We remember with love and affection those
who have died recently, especially we pray
for their families.
We pray for those who live on their own.
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Worship for MARCH
March 6th The Fourth Sunday of Lent,
MOTHERING SUNDAY
9.30a.m. Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Church
10.45a.m. Morning Worship, St Catherine’s Church
10.45a.m. Holy Communion, St Boniface Church.
March 13th The Fifth Sunday of Lent PASSION SUNDAY
9.30a.m. Morning Worship, Holy Trinity Church
10.45a.m.Holy Communion, St Catherine’s Church
10.45a.m. Holy Communion, St Boniface Church
6.30p.m. Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Church
March 20th PALM SUNDAY
9.30a.m. Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Church
10.45a.m. Family and All-age Worship, St Catherine’s Church
10.45a.m. Holy Communion, St Boniface Church
The rest of the Holy Week services appear elsewhere in the Link
March 27th EASTER DAY
9.30a.m. Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Church
10.45a.m. Holy Communion, St Catherine’s Church
10.45a.m. Holy Communion, St Boniface Church
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Bible Readings for MARCH
March 6th The Fourth Sunday of Lent,
MOTHERING SUNDAY
Exodus 2:1-10
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
St Luke 2:33-35
March 13th The Fifth Sunday of Lent PASSION SUNDAY
Isaiah 43:16-21
Philippians 3:4b-14
St John 12:1-8
March 20th PALM SUNDAY
Liturgy of the Palms St Luke 19:28-40
Liturgy of the Passion
Isaiah 50:4-9a
Philippians 2:5-11
St Luke 23:1-49 (short version)
March 27th EASTER DAY
Isaiah 65:17-end
Acts 10:34-43
St John 20:1-18
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Sunday Services Please see inside Link for details of Sunday Services
Midweek Services St Catherine’s - Wednesday - 10.30am Holy Communion
Holy Trinity - Thursday - 10.00am Holy Communion (BCP)
The Ministry Team:-
Revd Hugh Wright 853729
Email: [email protected]
David Tamcken Reader 506693
Hilary Davis Reader 855797
Jenny Hopkins Holder Reader 852575
Gill Chaloner Reader 854659
Gill Smith Reader 856134
Morning Prayer Tuesday - Bonchurch Old Church - 8am
Wednesday - St Catherine's Church and Thursday Holy Trinity Church - 9am
Friday - Bonchurch Parish Church - 8.30am
All Welcome
Ventnor & Bonchurch Parish website address
www.ventnorcofe2.btck.co.uk Email: [email protected]
Churchwardens
St Catherine’s John Holder 8525755852575
Steve Northern 856953
Holy Trinity Jo Nicholson Tony Morrish 840570
St Boniface Jonny Fitzgerald Bond 854824
Lyn Ridler-Lee 404508