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Click here or on the logo on the left to download a copy of our weekly newsletter - "The Grapevine" |
'What's On' |
Click here to see details about 'What's On'. |
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St Mary's Youth Newsletter
Click here or on the logo on the left to download a copy of our latest Youth Newsletter - July 2010. |
Picnic following the Children's and Youth Service on 18 July 2010.
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| CYCLING FOR CMS: Warm thanks to all who sponsored Paul Dobbing, our
CMS Link Mission Partner for "cycling for CMS". Jenny
Kirkaldy was able to send him a cheque for £252.00,
given by thirty five people at St Mary's and St James,
Seward's End! Paul returns, with Jean and Jennifer, to
Kathmandu on 22nd August. |
Churches Together. If anyone would like to be part of
a monthly Songs of Praise at Stanley Wilson Lodge,
please contact Revd Murray George - Tel: 01799
523505 email: rev.murray@btinternet.com So far
there are two services booked, Wednesday 15th Sept
and 13th Oct at 6.30 pm. Thank you. Anne Howson. |
NEW DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: I am delighted to announce
that Oliver King, currently Organist at Wellington College,
is to take up this post from the 1st September. David
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Philip Tarris' Ordination to the Deaconate on 4th July 2010 in Chelmsford Cathedral.
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge. Photos include, in addition to the obvious, the 16 Deacons ordained in the morning, Bishop Laurie - acting Bishop of Chelmsford, Revd Canon David Ainge of Great Dunmow and Barnston - where Philip will be based, and Philip with his father. |
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Bradwell Pilgrimage 3rd July 2010
This is a first for St Mary’s, Saffron Walden. Lead by our curate, Revd Anne Howson, a party of 28 of us from St Mary’s set off in a coach at 8.30am on Saturday morning, July 3rd for Bradwell-on-sea.
Our guest Speaker was the Rt Revd John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, who spoke on the pilgrimage theme of “Who is my Neighbour?”
After opening worship outside the church of St Thomas we set off for the chapel of St Peter-on–the-wall. A walk of about two miles, with the last section in silence.
During a day filled with sunshine we could enjoy music, singing, teaching, prayer, art, and the company of approximately 2,000 other Christians from across the county; it was an ecumenical event.
More information about the annual pilgrimage: http://www.bradwellchapel.org/sppilgrim.htm Thanks to Eddie Howson for these photos.
Archbishop blesses us |
Archbishop of York |
Arriving at the Chapel |
Enjoying the sunshine |
Bishop Laurie |
Salvation Army Band |
St Thomas' Church |
St Cedd Banner |
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Anne Howson's Ordination to the Priesthood on 27th June at St John's Stansted followed by Choral Eucharist at St Mary's at which Anne presided. Click here for a recording of this Choral Eucharist.
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| A CONFIRMATION SERVICE will be held here on Sunday 21st November. Anyone interested in being confirmed, please speak to David or one of the Clergy. |
THURSDAY 1pm COMMUNION — we have been trialling
this service since January but very few have found this
convenient so it will stop at the end of July. The healing
service will continue at 1pm on the first Thursday of the
month.
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THE FURNITURE at the west end of St Mary’s has been
rearranged to help give a clearer entrance space and to
assist the sidesmen in preparation for the service. Feedback welcome - please speak to one of the churchwardens or someone in the Parish Office.
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THE LEPROSY MISSION: New church representative
needed: Richard Bray has been St Mary’s link with the
Leprosy Mission for many years. Could you distribute the
magazine and organise the annual recall of the donation
boxes (currently 12)? See Church News for more
information or speak to Pamela, tel: 526901.
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| SMMA Festival Evensong held on Sunday 13th
June 2010. Click here (and then click on appropriate icon and then on the download button, top left) to listen to a recording of this service made by Peter De Vile. Gordon Smith was the Director of Music, with Stephen Penton on the organ. |
SCHOOL LEAVERS' BIBLES: We will once again be presenting
a Good News Bible to each year 6 pupil leaving St
Mary’s School at the end of term. If you would like to make a donation towards the cost of these Bibles (approx £10 each), please put it in an envelope, clearly marked, and hand to a sidesman or drop it into the Parish Office. |
WELCOMERS AT ST MARY’S: Could you welcome our
visitors for a few hours during the Summer? Please sign the rota beside the coffee area if you cna help. |
MANY THANKS to all who supported Sewards End Open
Gardens. £1590 was raised for Support for Sight. |
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ST MARY’S, SAFFRON WALDEN SUMMER FAIR
Saturday 5th June 2010
£2,972 was raised for our church. Click here to see how much each stall made. I should like to thank everyone who helped to
make this possible - it was a very enjoyable event, with a
great atmosphere. Thank you. Bron Ferland.
More photos to follow. |
| ACTING DIRECTOR OF MUSIC - Following David Cook’s
resignation from this post, I am pleased to announce that
Gordon Smith is our new Acting Director of Music. David Tomlinson. 30 May 10 |
| TO ALL COFFEE LADIES: The new coffee rota for July to
Dec is at the back of the Church for you to pick up. If there are any ladies (or men) who would like to join the rota for the 10am service, please phone Gill Lovegrove on 528232. |
| The Revd. Paula Griffiths is on a placement in Littlebury,
Littlebury Green and Wendens Ambo for two Sundays a
month from May to August inclusive. |
| Festival Evensong of the Friends of Saffron
Walden Church held on Sunday 9th
May. Click here (and then click on appropriate icon and then on the download button, top left) to listen to a recording of this service made by Peter De Vile. |
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Mens' Walk around Thaxted 8 May 2010
The weather just held and a most enjoyable time was had by all. Many thanks to Jeremy and Mark for planning and guiding us along this 5.6 mile walk which ended with a pub lunch in Thaxted. We meet on the second Saturday of alternate months so our next walk will be on Saturday 10th July. Contact Jeremy Collingwood 529055 or Mike
Watts 502048 for more details.
Click on the photo on the left to see more photos and a map of our walk produced by Mark Marsden. |
CDs OF GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER SUNDAY
Services, kindly produced by Peter De Vile. One of
Devotional Offering on Good Friday and the other is the
music from Easter Day evensong. If you would like either of
these at £5 each, please contact Lesley Green: tel 521356
or email lag28@uwclub.net. |
| We welcome Debbie Sandom who started work as
the Rector’s secretary on 13th April. She can be
contacted at the Rectory on Tues-Friday mornings. |
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Director of Music
Thank you to all those who made Andrew Malcolm's
final weekend in his post so wonderful.
David
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A message from Andrew Malcolm
My thanks to all those who joined us for the occasion and who contributed in any way to what was for me a very memorable weekend. The many cards and gifts were quite overwhelming and photographs and book an excellent reminder of many happy years with so many lovely people. It was very moving to see so many faces from the past and so kind of them to make the effort to come to see me finally off the premises ; the choir and the band certainly did me proud! |
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Thank you all so much - I shall think of you all with great affection over the years to come ..
Best wishes,
Andrew
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| Click here for more information about the Music at our Easter Weekend, and our farewell to Andrew. |
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St James' Sewards End
Easter Eggstravaganza
Good Friday 2010.
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| Our Child Protection Policy and Guidelines. These are now available on our Young People's Page. |
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Passover Supper 29 March 2010
About 50 parishioners attended a Passover Supper on the day of Passover, 29th March - full moon, to discover more about the the link between the Jewish Passover and our Christian Last Supper.
Many thanks to Rufus Barnes and Jeremy Collingwood for organising this meal and to those who helped to prepare the food.
You can find out more about this at www.cmj.org.uk. |
| New Bishop of Chelmsford. The Right Reverend Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Reading, has been nominated as Bishop of Chelmsford in succession to The Right Reverend John Gladwin. He will be the tenth Bishop of Chelmsford and his formal installation will be in the autumn. Find out more about him on the Diocesan website www.chelmsford.anglican.org |
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'Sermons Online'
We have started to publish our sermons on our website and as podcasts on iTunes. Click on the image or logo to visit our 'Sermons Online' webpage. |
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Men's Walk Saturday 13th March 2010
9 of us enjoyed a splendid 5 mile walk around Hempstead, culminating in a pub lunch at The Bluebell. Thank you to Jeremy Collingwood for leading the walk. We meet every 2 months on a Saturday morning. Our next walk will be on Saturday 8th May. We meet on the second Saturday in alternate months.
Click here for photos that Mark Marsden took of our walk plus a map of our route. |
| Click here for a 360 degree Virtual Tour of St Mary's Church. Thanks to www.f64photo.co.uk. Use your mouse to explore different parts of our Church. It's great - have a go. |
| History of and Guide to the Church. You may be interested to know that the History page of our website has been updated and now contains scanned copies of 3 guides to the Church. Click here to visit the History page. |
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Saffron Walden SOCIAL CAR SERVICE This is organised by 2 of our parishioners Eunice Harris and Ruby Parsons. Journeys are arranged for elderly or frail passengers to the Community Hospital, Doctor, Dentist, etc. in Saffron Walden. If you need assistance then phone: 520254 Mon-Fri 9am-10am or 5pm-7pm. For 'Lifts to Church' contact
Sheila Deutsch 500134. |
| JIMMY’S DONATIONS IN KIND Until further notice
Jimmy’s can only accept specific donations. Please
read noticeboard for details or see their website:
www.jimmyscambridge.org.uk |
| Click here for more information about the suspension of consultations regarding the proposed Parish Consitution to include Debden, Wimbish with Thunderley and the Chesterfords. 16 Feb 2010 |
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Choir performing at Southwark Cathedral on 30 January 2010. Click on the photo to see more. |
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Recordings of Music at St Mary's
Click on the quaver icon on the left to listen to some or our recorded music. |
Holocaust Memorial Service 28 Jan
Over 200 people of all ages, including many schoolchildren, joined in the service at St Mary’s Saffron Walden to remember and reflect on the Holocaust – and pledged themselves to play their part to fight the evils of genocide, antisemitism and discrimination.
Those present were invited to write a prayer on a paper ‘leaf’ and place it on the bare tree to symbolise hope and healing of the nations. See photo on right. Click to enlarge.
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Otto Deutsch, a survivor of the Kindertransport scheme which brought Jewish children to England shortly before World War II, spoke movingly of leaving his family in Vienna and his gratitude to the English couple who had taken him in and brought him up.
Readings and singing at the service included Leslie Wheeler from the Cambridge Reform Synagogue reciting the Jewish Mourners’ Kaddish and pupils from Dame Joanna Bradbury School singing the Prayer of St Francis ‘Make me a Channel of your Peace’. |
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St Mary's Tinies
St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden has re-launched its regular service for young children, parents and carers with the new name of St Mary’s Tinies.
It takes place every week during school term-times on Tuesdays from 2-3pm.
Tinies is a short and very informal service in the church, with songs, a Bible story and simple prayers lasting about 20 minutes, is followed by tea and chat, with craft and toys for the children, in the Parish Rooms. |
| All children under 5 are welcome, together with the adults looking after them. St Mary’s Tinies was formally known as the Pram Service, and has been going now for over 15 years. Leader Margaret Taylor said “It is a privilege to get to know so many lovely parents, carers and children, and to share God’s love with them in practical ways as well as in words. Many lasting friendships have been formed through the group. Anyone with pre-school children is warmly welcome.” Click on the above photo to enlarge. |
BIBLE STUDY NOTES For those of you who have
had Bible Study Notes in the past or if you are about to
take them, you will find an order form in the Church
News, showing the different notes available and the
annual cost. Please complete and return the form with
your cheque for the year to Jennifer Hilton-Thomas.
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St Mary's Church Mens' Walk
We had a magnificent 8 mile walk in sunny snowscape on Saturday 9th January. Thanks to Jeremy Collingwood who led us on our walk to Newport and back with a pub lunch at the Bell in Wendons Ambo - sufficient to burn off some of those excess Christmas calories! Deer and rabbits were spotted in addition to many hedgerow birds.
These walks, organised by Jeremy Collingwood and Mike Watts, take place on a Saturday every 2 months. Watch out for details of the next walk.
Click here to see the photos that Mark Marsden took, plus our route on GoogleMap. |
Dickensian Christmas Fair
Saturday 12th December 2009
Over £4,995 was raised for Church funds.
Many thanks to all who supported and helped at this event.
Click on the photo on the right to find out more about this most successful event in our parish.
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Bellring 350 - Sunday 13th December
This was the Sunday in the middle of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which runs from the 7th to the 18th December. An international service was held in Copenhagen Cathedral on Sunday 13th at which the Archbishop of Canterbury preached. The World Council of Churches invited churches around the world to use their bells to call people to prayer and action in the face of climate change.
It wsas suggested that bells be rung 350 times – to symbolise the 350 parts per million that mark the safe upper limit for CO2 in the atmosphere according to many scientists.
Our Bellringers rung the bells at St Mary's Church from 3.30 until just before the Christingle service at 4pm.
Click here to listen to an interivew with Roger Collins, secretary to our bellringers, on BBC Radio Cambridgshire's Matt Jamison's Easy Sunday on 13th December. You can pick up the 2½ minute interview 1h16m13s into the programme.
Further information can be found at www.bellringing350.org and you can visit our bellringers website at www.saffronwaldenbells.org.uk |
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St Mary's Youth Newsletter
Click here or on the logo on the left to download a copy of our latest Youth Newsletter |
Jamie Oliver’s Magic Christmas.
In early October members of our Choir took part in the filming of ‘Jamie Oliver’s Magic Christmas’ at his home, not far away from here. The choir appeared in the last programme in the series on Friday 18th December. |
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Confirmation Service Sunday 22nd November 2009
10 candidates for our parish were confirmed today by the Rt. Revd. Christopher Morgan, the Bishop of Colchester at St Mary's Saffron Walden.
The above photos show Bishop Christopher with some of the candidates after the service. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge. |
Quiz and Fish and Chip Supper Sat 21st November 2009
Over 100 people attended this most successful Quiz Evening in our Parish Rooms. Many thanks to our quizmaster Steve Hasler; Gill Lovegrove who organised the event: and to Judith Hasler, Ruby Parsons and Sue Birchall for their help. Thanks also to Christine Flitney for the photos. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge. |
| Church Noticeboards. The Communications Committee wish to remind you that any posters or displays
you wish to be placed on the church notice boards MUST be given to the Parish Office. Where
this procedure is not followed, items may unfortunately be removed. |
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'Sing Hallelujah' 31 October 2009
Click on the photo on the left to see and hear more.
Now contains copies of the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire recording. |
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Parish Weekend at Letton Hall 22 to 24 May 2009.
Click on the photo on the left to see more. |
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Aftershock “ Ride & Stride” Sponsored Walk
Afterschock a sponsored walk “ Ride & Stride” on 12th September 2009. Click on the photo to see more.
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Choristers' Apple Pie Sale
Saturday 10th October.
Our Choristers made a total of £198.50
for our Church Music.
Well done, and thank you to all who helped.
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SMMA Treasure Hunt
Sunday 20 September 2009
What a glorious afternoon! The sun shone and the countryside was really beautiful!
We were due to meet at the Common Car Park, but we had not realized that there was a Dog Show in progress, resulting in a packed Car Park, so we transferred to Boots Car Park instead for our briefing. Unfortunately there were only two cars taking part, but we set off with enthusiasm! |
The directions took us out in the country firstly to Audley End and Littlebury Green, then to Duddenhoe End, Little Chishill, the Pelhams, Berden and eventually to Widdington. We studied house names, watched for road signs and notices and visited churches to identify them and also collect treasure. We didn’t think we were the leading car and didn’t read our instructions properly, so took all the treasure from the first three churches, then realizing our mistake, left it all at Brent Pelham!! I was always scolded at school for not reading the question properly! David and Diana Hoy had worked extremely hard in the planning. The clues were sometimes challenging, and neither car scored 100%, but we all arrived at the end within minutes of each other. A big thank you is due to our hosts, Alastair and Alison Griffiths, for their hospitality. It was a glorious evening to sit in their lovely garden and have a barbecue.
Jim, Françoise, Anne, Sheilah, Christine and Kathleen join me in saying well done and thank you to David, Diana, Alastair and Alison. |
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