The Parish Church of
HOLY TRINITY, TARLETON
Parish "Webzine" March 2007

Through Lent to Palm Sunday

From the Rectory March 2007

Dear Friends,
Lent is upon us again and I am delighted that so many of you have signed up to the Lent Study Course on Thursday evenings. Traditionally we associate Lent with abstinence but first and foremost it is about giving ourselves more fully to God. This may mean we try to give something up which perhaps we could well do without, or alternatively we might take something on. In choosing to do something extra there is perhaps much more scope for helping others, and ourselves, to deepen our relationship with God. The Lent Course is just one example but there are many others. Each week the daily Bible readings are printed on the pew sheet, along with the names of people who have asked for our prayers. Perhaps you might try to read from the Bible everyday and put aside some time to pray. The more we talk to God, and most importantly, the more we listen to him, the closer we will come to him. There are many helpful inexpensive booklets that can guide you through the daily Bible readings – please just ask if you want some guidance.

Lent is also the traditional time in the Church’s year for preparing candidates for Baptism and Confirmation. We have quite a large number of youngsters who have started their confirmation classes on Sunday evenings at the Rectory, and shortly I will be meeting with the adults who have asked to be confirmed this coming June. Please remember them all in your prayers, as they need all our support as they prepare to make their first Holy Communion.

It is my hope that the Sunday evening confirmation classes may soon evolve into a regular Youth Group for the parish, something which we desperately need if we are going to take our young people seriously – it is as much their church as anyone else’s. We all need to give them space to grow in faith and know that they belong and are not just passing through.

Much good work is already being done in the Sunday School, and Simply Hosanna is a real credit to the young people of Holy Trinity. But so much more could be done in the parish as a whole if this Lent we all resolved to take something on and stick to it. How could you make a difference?

With my prayers and best wishes,
Fr Nicholas

PARISH NOTICE BOARD

FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS 2007
Funerals “Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord”
16th January 2007 Trudie Bannister
13th February Freda Robe
16th February Nellie Walker
23rd February Edna Johnson

Looking forward beyond Easter
Two important Sunday dates in April for your diaries:-

The April Church Family Eucharist will be on Sunday 22nd (not 15th which is Low Sunday) This will be followed by a Family Lunch in honour of St George, with food for all and games for the children. Ticket details in the April magazine - but get it on your family calendar NOW.

On Sunday 29th April, the Annual Parochial Church Meetings will be held after the 10.30 am Parish Eucharist, from around 11.45 am.
Please let Beryl have your reports on activities by the end of March for the Parish Report at the APCM.
All on the Electoral Roll - and only those on the Electoral Roll - are entitled to vote, so see the note about the new ER on page 3

Church Electoral Roll
This year we are required to do a complete revision - that is, start from scratch with a blank sheet of paper. Look out for the forms in church - if you were on the previous ER, there is a letter for you by name. If not, ask for a copy of the form and letter. If you don’t fill one in, you won’t be on the Electoral Roll. Any resident in the parish, and any person who has worshipped regularly here for 6 months (wherever they live), who is aged 16 and over, is entitled to apply to be on the Electoral Roll.
Electoral Roll members can vote at the Annual Parochial Meeting, and stand for election to the PCC. New members are always welcome - but this year all of us have to (re-)apply!
Being on the Electoral Roll is one way of showing your commitment to being a worshipping Christian in the local community.

THANK YOU
I would like to express my gratitude for all of your prayers during this difficult time. My latest results are good, and I will always be grateful for your kindness and support.
Thank you all so much
Janet Lynd

Mothers’ Union March
Our monthly Prayer Meeting will be held on Monday March 5th at 2.00 pm in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.

On Wednesday March 14th at 7.30 pm, we look forward to welcoming the New Dawn Singers.

Canon Riley will share his memories of Holy Trinity on Wednesday March 28th at 2.00 pm.

A Member’s Week will be held from 18th - 25th March to celebrate 80 years of M.U. in the Blackburn Diocese.
• This will begin with the 10.30 am Mothering Sunday Service.
• Monday will be an extra Prayer Meeting (2.00 pm).
• Tuesday we are holding a Pram Service (2.15 pm).
• Wednesday is an Away Day (venue to be announced) following the 10 am Eucharist and tea/ coffee in the Parish Room.
• Thursday we are holding a Workshop from 2.00 pm.
• Friday, we will take part in the midday Eucharist and then hold a Soup Lunch.
• Saturday we are holding a Cheese and Wine Evening at the Rectory by kind invitation of Fr Nicholas; this starts from 7.30 pm.
• Sunday will be the Eve of Lady Day Evensong at 6.30 pm.
We invite all our friends to join us at any of these events to help us celebrate and we offer a very warm invitation to be with us at the Rectory for cheese and wine on the Saturday.
Pat Heap

THE LEPROSY MISSION
I would like to thank everyone for their generosity on Leprosy Mission Sunday.

Firstly. Ian and I thank you all for the wonderful cards and good wishes we received for our Ruby Wedding and for all the donations we received. We are sending £420 to TLM which we have asked to be used for the Kothara Community Hospital appeal for their eye care programme in the central and remote communities of India. Thank you once again.

The money from the boxes amounted to £374 plus £170 which was paid to TLM in December, making a grand total of £544. Again, thank you very much.

New boxes are now available. If you do not already have a regular collecting box and would like one, please let me know. The new boxes are made by trainees from hand-made paper which is prepared using scrap fabric from the dressmaking training course. The training college is at Vizianagaram in India.

Looking Forward
Saturday 17 March in the Parish Room 10.00 - 4.00
Leprosy Mission Sale of goods and Easter Cards etc.
Free entry - Tea & Coffee

Saturday 31 March in Blackburn Cathedral
Come and Sing or Listen to Stainer’s Crucifixion
Please let me know if you are interested.

Very best wishes to you all.
Sue Wells

Estate agent slip-ups ...
Is your house worth up to £60,000? We can sell it for £150.

News from School
It's Friday and we are on the brink of breaking up for half term. This week we had the Life Education Centre Van come to visit the school to help us deliver the Personal, Social, Health Education as well as some of the Science curriculum. The children love to visit the van and each year group has a different focus which can be considering different types of feelings to thinking about the problems with alcohol and smoking and how to say ‘no’.

We have completed our work on Going for Goals and are holding an assembly to demonstrate what we have learned.

The building work is progressing and we are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope that it will be completed on time. I must say, the month of May seems a long way off!

Quite a few of our Year Six children are eagerly awaiting the start of their confirmation classes and we would ask you to remember them in your prayers as they continue their journey with God.

As I close this "epistle" I am reminiscent of St Paul and his letter writing and reflect on the importance of keeping in touch.

We send our love to you all
Sue.

Informal Walking Group Easter Monday April 9th
Assemble at Sollom Canal Bridge (foot of Lock Lane) to leave at 10.30 pm. This is a very small car park, so please double up wherever possible, or you may have to park up in Sollom itself and walk an extra quarter mile!

We will cross the Douglas at Red Bridge (which is now painted green) turn up the Yarrow, then up the Lostock and along Wymott Brook before turning back into Bretherton for lunch at the Blue Anchor.

The food here is excellent and unstinted: you may wish to order the smaller optional sizes for some main courses. They also serve well kept real ales and good house wine.

We will return through Bretherton on back lanes and footpaths, the exact route back to Red Bridge depending on whether the footpaths have been re-instated across the autumn sown cereal crop.
Ian 07767 638996

Co-op Fair Trade wines
Your editor hasn’t given up wine for Lent - but he is only buying Fair Trade wines for use at home. Here is some background about one of the communities where the Co-op Fairtrade wines are made.

South Africa The Co-op Cape Range originates from the Du Toitskloof Co-operative in the Breede river valley. Five wines were launched in 2005 as the Co-op embarked on a huge 5-year project involving 22 farms and close to 800 people. The majority of the money generated in these first 12 months (over £64,000) has gone towards three new crèche facilities. These provide 210 toddlers and infants from 3 months to 5 years old, with pre-school education and development facilities. This lets their parents go to work with confidence about their children, and has created 15 new jobs.

THE CHILDREN’S SOCIETY
Your donations help young people like these:-
Runaway children at risk on the streets. Neglect, abuse and isolation can sometimes make home so unbearable that the only solution is to run away. Each year in the UK, 100,000 children run away from home and many resort to begging, stealing or prostitution to survive. We meet these children at their point of greatest need, helping them find solutions to the problems they face.

Disabled children without a voice
Exclusion, ignorance and disrespect mean that many disabled children are allowed little control over their own lives and disabled children placed away from home are four times more likely to be physically or sexually abused. We ensure that individual disabled children are given a voice in the decisions that affect them, not just now but in the future.

Parish Visiting Team
If you know of anybody who would welcome a visit, either because they are in hospital, or because they are confined to the home for whatever reason, or because they are new to the parish, would you please fill in one of the slips at the back of the church and place it in the box or contact Fr Nicholas on 812614 or Pat Heap on 812991

From Old Parish Magazines:-
Parish Jottings for March, 1903
The night of Thursday, February 26th, and the morning of Friday, February 27th, witnessed a gale of wind the like of which we fortunately but seldom experience. Its violence was felt almost over the whole of the British Isles, and Lancashire suffered severely. A railway train was rolled over by the force of the wind, while crossing the viaduct over the mouth of the river Leven, a few miles East of Ulverston; a temporary church at Holyhead was totally destroyed; and several churches were seriously damaged by the fall of their spires, or parts thereof, upon the roofs below. In our own parish considerable damage was done to stacks, buildings, and trees; the Technical Room was practically demolished, and almost every home lost a few slates at least, bur happily we all escaped without personal injury, so far as is reported; this is a mercy to be thankful for and especially so in view of the fact that many lives were lost both by sea and land during the storm.

Erm ….
Music for Good Friday
14th April at 7 pm
HANDLES PASSION & VIVALDI’S GLORIA
St Mark’s Church Tunbridge Wells

PARISH DIARY for March
NORMAL SUNDAY SERVICES
8.00 am Holy Communion,
10.15 am Sunday School and Crèche
10.30 am SUNG EUCHARIST
(3rd Sunday, FAMILY PARISH COMMUNION)

MARCH
Thursday 1st St David
7.00 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm Lent Course: Parish Room
Friday 2nd 12.15 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm WWDP All Saints, Hesketh Bank
Sunday 4th Second Sunday of Lent
8.00 am Eucharist
10.15 am Sunday School
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST
6.30 pm Compline
7.00 pm Young People’s Confirmation Course, Rectory
Monday 5th 2.00 pm MU Prayer Group:
Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Tuesday 6th 10.00 am Eucharist: Oakgate Close
6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 7th 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP) +coffee
Thursday 8th 7.00 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm Lent Course: Parish Room
Friday 9th 12.15 pm Eucharist
Sunday 11th Third Sunday of Lent
8.00 am Eucharist
10.15 am Sunday School
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST
6.30 pm Lent Evening Service - see pew sheet
7.00 pm Young People’s Confirmation Course, Rectory
Tuesday 13th 6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 14th 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
7.30 pm MU: Parish Room:
The New Dawn Singers
Thursday 15th 7.00 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm Lent Course: Parish Room
Friday 16th 12.15 pm Eucharist
Saturday 17th 10 am to 4 pm Parish Room
TLM Stall with Easter Cards and Gifts

Sunday 18th Mothering Sunday
8.00 am Eucharist
10.30 am CHURCH FAMILY EUCHARIST
Start of week to celebrate 80 years of the MU in Blackburn Diocese
6.30 pm Lent Evening Service - see pew sheet
7.00 pm Young People’s Confirmation Course, Rectory
Monday 19th 2.00 pm MU Prayer Group:
Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Tuesday 20th 2.15 pm MU Pram Service
6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 21st 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Then tea/ coffee in the Parish Room with the MU
Followed by MU ‘Away Day’ (venue tba)
Thursday 22nd 2.00 pm MU Workshop
7.00 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm Lent Course: Parish Room
Friday 23rd 12.15 pm Eucharist
then Soup Lunch with the MU in the parish room
Saturday 24th 7.30 pm Cheese & Wine at the Rectory with the MU
Start of European Summer Time: Clocks Forward by 1hr
Sunday 25th Fifth Sunday of Lent
8.00 am Eucharist
10.15 am Sunday School
10.30 am PARISH EUCHARIST
6.30 pm Evensong of the Eve of the Annunciation
7.00 pm Young People’s Confirmation Course, Rectory
Monday 26th The Annunciation (transferred)
7.00 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm PCC: Parish Room
Tuesday 27th 6.50 pm Choir practice
Wednesday 28th 10.00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
2.00 pm MU Parish Room: Canon Bill Riley ‘Memories of Tarleton’
Thursday 29th 7.00 pm Eucharist
7.30 pm Lent Course: Parish Room
Friday 30th 12.15 pm Eucharist
Saturday 31st 7.30 pm Listen to the ‘Come & Sing Stainer’s Crucifixion’ at Blackburn Cathedral
& support TLM

APRIL
Sunday 1st PALM SUNDAY
8.00 am Eucharist
10.15 am Sunday School
10.30 am BLESSING & PROCESSION OF PALMS with Tarleton band,
DRAMATIC READING OF THE PASSION GOSPEL
and PARISH EUCHARIST
6.30 pm Palm Sunday Evensong with Address
7.00 pm Young People’s Confirmation Course, Rectory
Monday 2nd 2.00 pm MU Prayer Group: Blessed Sacrament Chapel
7.30 pm Eucharist
Tuesday 3rd 10.00 am Eucharist: Oakgate Close
7.30 pm Eucharist then Choir practice
Wednesday 4th 10.00 am Eucharist (BCP)
7.30 pm Stations of the Cross
Thursday 5th MAUNDY THURSDAY
8.00 pm Commemoration of the Lord’s Supper and Vigil

Friday 6th GOOD FRIDAY
10.00am The Good Friday Liturgy
2.00 pm The Final Hour on the Cross

Saturday 7th 8.00 pm Easter Vigil
then party at the Rectory

Sunday 8th EASTER DAY
7.00 am Dawn Eucharist at St Mary’s
8.00 am Eucharist
10.30 am Festival Eucharist of Easter
12.30 pm Holy Baptism