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Dear Friends,
As I write this, Autumn seems to have arrived with a bang!! The temperature has dropped, and we are in the midst of an “unseasonably cold” snap with Arctic winds sweeping the country, and it being a lot colder than usual for this time of year.
The great feature in the Church’s calendar for early Autumn is our harvest festivals and living here in the heart of rural Norfolk, surrounded by working farms, the harvest festival has far more meaning than it does when living in the centre of a town.
One thing I am reminded of is that for our farmers the harvest is constant. As once they have finished with one crop they then go onto the next, and the next, from corn to potatoes, to sugar beet, or whatever else they are farming. Even livestock farmers have times when their product is more in demand, Easter for lambs, and Christmas for turkeys and beef.
As the harvest for the farmer is constant, so it should also be for the Christian community, working towards that day when God’s kingdom will be on earth as it is in heaven.
So from harvest we then move to our annual All Souls Service, where on the Sunday nearest All Souls day, we remember all those who have died and whose memories we hold dear. During the service we read out the names of all those who have died within the last year and any others who we have been asked to remember. After all the names have been read out, friends and relatives of the people we have named are invited to come forward and light a candle in their memory.
Our service this year will be taking place on Sunday 3rd November at 3.00pm at All Saints’ Church, Beeston Regis.
If you would like the name of any of your loved ones to be included in our commemoration, please write their names on one of the lists which will shortly appear at the back of each of our five churches or let me know, and please feel free to join us at the service.
All my love and blessings
Psalm 65. 9–13:
You visit the earth and water it,
you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
you provide the people with grain,
for so you have prepared it.
You water its furrows abundantly,
settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
and blessing its growth.
You crown the year with your bounty;
your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
the hills gird themselves with joy,
the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
the valleys deck themselves with grain,
they shout and sing together for joy.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now and shall be for ever. Amen.
PRAYER CORNER
“Prayer is a plant, the seed of which is sown in the heart of every Christian. If it is well cultivated and nourished it will produce fruit, but if it is neglected, it will wither and die.”
Please pray--
SAFEGUARDING, HELP AND ADVICE
Safeguarding means protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of children and adults at risk of, or experiencing, emotional, psychological, physical or spiritual harm and/or neglect.
Safeguarding means enabling those who are affected to live safely, free from any kind of abuse or neglect. It is about people and organizations working together to prevent and reduce both the risks and actual experience of abuse in all of its forms.
We take safeguarding very seriously, at all of the Benefice Churches and care about all those we seek to serve within our churches and our communities.
We conform to the policy of Norwich Diocese which can be found at https://www.dioceseofnorwich.org/about/safeguarding
If you believe that either yourself or someone you know may be at risk of harm or neglect, please contact the Benefice Safeguarding Officer Rev. Paul Yeomans 07437203535 to discuss your concerns and what the next steps might be.
Alternatively, you may contact the Norwich Diocese Safeguarding Team by email at [email protected] or by telephone on: 01603 882345.
If you yourself or someone you know is in immediate danger of being harmed then please call 999 to be advised by the emergency services.