I love pancakes. My particular favourites are savoury ones with ratatouille and grated cheese (first tasted in a wonderful crêperie in the Auvergne) and my very guilty pleasure of Nutella and banana crêpes (again a holiday find - this time in Greece). So I’m looking forward to our Pancake Party on Shrove Tuesday to get my annual fix.

Shrove Tuesday is traditionally the day when people confessed their sins and were absolved (shriven) by a priest, and also when householders cleared out all the yummy things from their cupboards, fat, eggs, sugar if they had any, in preparation for the long fast of Lent. The fast was originally severe – only one meal a day, taken in the evening, was permitted and that had to be free of meat, fish, eggs and milk based products – leaving a very restricted diet. Over the years, of course, the fast relaxed and more and more things became allowed and more food was consumed throughout the day.

Nevertheless, Lent was seen as a time of gloom and doom and depression, completely forgetting the words of Jesus, “When you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face so that your fasting may be seen not by others, but by your Father who is in secret.” In other words, be cheerful, don’t go around with long faces, but show your joy in all you do.

So I was really glad to discover a publication called “Love Life, Live Lent – Be generous to yourself, your neighbours and the world”. In a small book featuring a bright and smiling face on the cover and in two editions, one for adults and one for children, it gives suggestions for living a generous Lent. It’s inspired by Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, “You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion”. Suggestions include for adults “spend some time in silence”, “give up your place in a queue to someone who is in a rush, eg in traffic or a shop” (could be difficult that one), “light a candle and pray for someone”. The suggestions for children include “thanking the person who made your dinner, and thanking God for your food”; “offer to do chores that someone else normally does”. None of the suggestions are earth shattering by themselves, but Archbishop John Sentamu suggests that these small, transforming acts of kindness might transform us individually and as a church to reflect more closely the generous love of God. As we receive and acknowledge God’s generosity to us, so we can share all that we have received with others.

So wear a smile not a long face during Lent, and Love Life, Live Lent this year.

Justine

PS If you need some help, the booklets will be available in church from the beginning of February £1 each

What’s on in February?
Thu	1	‘Praise & Play’ service for pre-school toddlers MU&OG. A talk by Molly Bonard on Beekeeping	10.00 am 7.30 pm
SUN	4	THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE LENT Jenifer Davison will be commissioned as MU Branch Representative during the 9.30 am service
Mon	5	Magazine Panel meets at 35 Vanguard Way	10.30 am
Tue	6	Coffee Morning hosted by the Mothers’ Union - the Centre	10.00 am- 12 noon
Wed	7	St Mary’s Guild. Betty Walker gives a talk on her visit to America	2.30 pm
SUN	11	SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE LENT Our Guides & Brownies will join the 9.30 Eucharist Baptisms	11.30 am
Wed	14	St Valentine’s Day
Thu	15	‘Praise & Play’ service for pre-school toddlers	10.00 am
Sat	17	MU Festival Service at Southwark Cathedral	11.00 am
SUN	18	SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE LENT
Mon	19	Slide presentation on Paraguay at Bandon Hill Methodist Church	2.15 pm
Tue	20	Shrove Tuesday ‘Time for God’ quiet worship. Carew Chapel Pancake Day lunch. The Centre	9.30 am 12 noon
Wed	21	ASH WEDNESDAY MU Corporate Eucharist Sung Eucharist (Both services will include the imposition of ashes)	10.00 am 7.30 pm
SUN	25	LENT 1

Lent at St Mary’s

Events during Lent for your diary:

20 February Shrove Tuesday Pancake Lunch in the Centre

21 February Ash Wednesday 10 am and 7.30 pm

Eucharist with imposition of ashes.

26 February Monday 8 pm Evening Lent Course begins in the Centre

28 February Wednesday 10 am Eucharist

10.45 Daytime Lent Course begins

12.30 Lent Lunch in the Centre

10 March Saturday 12 noon-3.00 pm. Fairtrade Lunch and Fashion Show in the Centre

11 March Sunday 7 pm Wallington Baptist Church ‘Without Words’

- a presentation by ‘Springs’, a professional dance company,

18 March Sunday We celebrate Mothering Sunday at our 9.30 am Eucharist

Readings for Sundays and Festivals in February

Sunday, 4 February

Third Sunday before Lent

Isaiah 6 : 1-8

1 Corinthians 15 : 1-11

Luke 5 : 1-11

Sunday, 11 February

Second Sunday before Lent

Readings presented by our Guides & Brownies

Sunday, 18 February

Sunday next before Lent

Exodus 34 : 29-end

2 Corinthians 3 : 12-4 : 2

Luke 9 : 28-36

Wednesday, 21 February

Ash Wednesday

Joel 2 : 1-2, 12-17

2 Corinthians 5 : 20b-6 : 10

Matthew 6 : 1-6, 16-21

Sunday, 25 February

Lent 1

Deuteronomy 26 : 1-11

Romans 10 : 8b-13

Luke 4 : 1-13

Saints and Commemorations in February

Thu 1 Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c525

Sat 3 Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary in Denmark

and Sweden, 865

Mon 5 Agatha, Patron Saint of Bell Founders

Tue 6 Martyrs of Japan, 1597

Thu 8 Kew, sister of Saint Dochau, 5th century

Sat 10 Scholastica, sister of Saint Benedict, Abbess of Plombariola, c543

Wed 14 Cyril and Methodosius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885

Wed 14 Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c629

Thu 15 Sigfrid, Bishop, Apostle of Sweden, 1045

Thu 15 Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of the SPCK and the SPG, 1730

Sat 17 Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977

Fri 23 Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c1555

Tue 27 George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633

From the registers

Funerals

5 January

Olwyn Hugill, age 55 yrs

16 February

Joyce Ryan, age 79 yrs

The Ringers’ Year

Any Rector of St Mary’s automatically becomes the President of St Mary’s Society of Changeringers. So when the Revd Justine Middlemiss arrived in Beddington last January, there was definitely an air of “wonder”. (I wonder what she’ll be like? I wonder if she likes bells? I wonder what she’ll make of the ringers? Etc. etc.) Add to that, the ringers had recently appointed the first lady Master and now a lady President! Could there be some earth-turning in the churchyard?

A year later we pretty much know what Justine’s like. We soon found out she liked bells - luckily; not all clergy do. But what she makes of ringers - you’ll need to ask her.

At our AGM last month, the ringers looked back over the year. It had been a little less frantic than the previous one but there was still plenty going on. Nick Kimber had conducted a Quarter Peal - a special piece of ringing taking about 50 minutes - in February, to welcome Justine.

We had once again held a successful Quiz Night in March and acquitted ourselves well in the Association’s Quiz in April. The fame of our church Quiz must have spread because we have been asked to organise the Association’s Quiz this year!

We did some special ringing for the Queen’s 80th birthday. Anything less than a Quarter Peal doesn’t get published in the Ringing World, so I wrote to let them know we had rung for her Majesty and we received a nice letter of thanks from the Palace.

In May, we went on a short local outing by car, just to get our new ringers used to different bells. We visited Merstham, Nutfield, Bletchingley. Lingfield and Caterham-on-the-Hill. We lunched in the Star at Lingfield and it was voted an excellent day. We hope to do something similar this year.

Opening the tower for visitors is always a hit-and-miss situation. Sometimes the people pour in and other times we are left twiddling our ropes. We never know which is the best time of the year to do this. The Open House Weekend attracted the most people but we had no ringers. We were able to take several interested parties up to see the bells and watch how a bell was rung, but we couldn’t give our usual performance for them. Our display of photographs of the re-hang was a source of interest too. (The DVD / VHS of the re-hang by Chris Kimber, is now available, price £8. It is brilliantly done and is an excellent historical record of a once-in-a-lifetime event. Do watch it; it is most interesting for ringers and non-ringers alike.)

July saw our grand concert for the Royal Marsden It was a huge success and the hospital was enormously grateful to everyone - and so was I!

We had another theatre visit in August, this time to see Evita. Members of the congregation joined us and everybody voted it a great evening out.

The five new ringers we have gained since the re-hang have all found their place amongst us and are doing well. One, a former member of the band, is back to her previous standard and is proving most useful. Another has achieved the standard required to become a full member of the band and the others are progressing well. They have all integrated socially as well and have added to the list of birthdays celebrated with after-practice curries. (Justine, in her role as president, kindly filled the vacant September slot!)

We once again enjoyed our Christmas meal at the Dukes Head. The most dedicated of us probably walked off the effects, as between the Carol Service on the Friday and New Year, we had walked up 400 stairs - and down again!

The Committee remains unchanged for this year, viz: Master - Jean Kimber, Secretary - Diana Harries and Steeplekeeper - Stan Coleman.

Our annual Quiz Night is on Saturday March 17, with the usual format. Organise yourselves into teams and come along and enjoy the evening while supporting St Mary’s.

Jean Kimber

Kith, Kin & Canine Coffee Mornings

Starting: Friday, 30 March (then on the last Friday of every month)

From 10.00 – 11.30am

We offer you a warm welcome

Come and relax, have a chat with a cup of coffee and a slice of home made cake

Tours of the church are available, books and toys for small children and biccies and water for our canine friends (hopefully not tied up outside too close together!)

There will also be occasional sale tables available

We look forward to seeing you there – monies from sale of cake ‘n’ coffee go towards church funds

We Need You

… can you spare an hour or so maybe once or twice a year (more if you’re willing!) to help with the Kith, Kin & Canine Coffee Mornings We are still hoping for more people to come forward and offer to either bake a cake, serve teas, watch kiddies, or be tour guides in the church.

The more volunteers I can gather the fewer slots people will have to do. It isn’t a huge commitment but it will be a great help. If you have any particular dates that you can do please let me know and I will structure the rota around them (this will be issued mid-Feb). We only have to cover twelve mornings a year … we can do it!

Please catch me at church or pop your name, a contact number and volunteered service in the book on the table under the tower. Many, many thanks in advance

Beddington on the Bay

When at my computer, I regularly go to eBay and put in "Beddington Surrey." I like to buy local post cards (which I will willingly show you) and eBay is often a good source to explore.

Last week I came across the offer of a CD of "The Parish Register of St's Beddington from 1538-1673, listing baptisms, marriages and deaths." This has proved very interesting.

Some names appear regularly: Harry Ley, the Rector of Carshalton, had seven sons and nine daughters baptised here. On 2nd June 1579 Alice, daughter of Joan Wonlinge, unmarried and gotten of child by John Webb of Ye Parke, was baptised. There were several named as bastards. Another baptism on 20th September 1579 was of the son of Thomas Chyney, the falconer to Sir Francis Carew.

The Carews and Throckmortons also appear several times. On 18th June 1611, Sir Francis Carew died. It is his alabastar tomb we see in the Carew Chapel.

Listed among the deaths there are plague victims - eight in 1594 and eight in 1636 - of which some came from London. Maybe they were among the many who fled London in the hope of escaping the plague.

If you want a copy of the CD, it is still available on eBay and costs £8.

Pam Vernon

A Time for God

All of us live such busy lives these days - even those of us who have ‘retired’ - that we just don’t seem to get that ‘time for God’ that we so desperately need and desire.

Of course, we can and do include God in our everyday activities, sending up arrow prayers, asking for guidance, for strength, for patience, even talking over with Him particular tasks and responsibilities. BUT, there is still something missing. Could it perhaps be a time when we are not DOING anything at all, not thinking, not planning, not asking, not calling on God for help, but just BEING with Him - feeling His love, His presence, giving Him our full attention and listening to Him in the deep centre of our hearts.

If you have never tried this kind of worship before - and this is what it is, giving WORTH to God just because He is God - why not join us on the third Tuesday of each month at 9.30 am in the Carew Chapel to learn to be still before God. There will be some quiet music to help you relax and let go of all the many worries and thoughts that crowd into the mind; some words from scripture to focus upon and through which we may find comfort, peace or healing - letting God speak to us through them and then using those same words to pray for ourselves and others (the leader will do this, leaving space for you to add names of persons and situations you want included).

There will be lots of space between the music, words and prayers for silence and for being with God. Our first ‘Time for God’ lasted for approximately half an hour and we will see if the time needs to be extended.

Do come along for a ‘taste and see’ session; as the Psalmist says: ‘Taste and see that the Lord is good’. Psalm 34:8.

Jenifer Davison

Carolyn Churchyard came along to the first ‘Time for God’ session. This is what she has to say:

Peace in our Time

How often do we get the time to be still, be quiet, contemplative, get closer to God? Well, if you’re like me it just never happens.much as I love the 8 or 9.30 service on a Sunday, the pace, noise, even just the uplifting and thought provoking content, doesn’t allow for your mind to empty and your heart to search out the Lord.

But the opportunity did come my way, in the form of a new service led by Jenifer at 9.30 am on the third Tuesday of each month.We were warmly welcomed by Jenifer and shown to a seat. To be honest I didn’t really know what to expect, neither did Rob who was with me and also felt a little unsure about what was to come.

Jenifer set the scene with some lovely, gentle music. She asked us to relax in our seats, close our eyes and try to empty our minds – something we all found easier said than done at the beginning.Somehow the shopping list or things to do tried to elbow their way into my thoughts and I really did have to concentrate to send them packing!

After a short while minds were clear and Jenifer spoke some simple words, “Come to me, and rest”.We were asked to picture Jesus calling us to him - repeating the words like a mantra in our minds. Time passed and then Jenifer read prayers linking the mantra to the person/s in the prayers.were given recall time with music to bring ourselves back, sadly all too quickly.commented that the half hour seemed only like ten minutes and we all agreed.

We had a quick post service talk – a ‘how was it for you?’It was unanimous from the group – how we all need that time, space, guidance, towards opening our minds and hearts to God; it provoked all sorts of feelings in us

; it helped us to ‘just be’. ’s hard to sum up the experience in words, you may have to come and see/feel for yourselves

We rounded it off with coffee and a chat in the Centre and all departed keen for the next time.

It’s a new year, and I urge you to put aside some time to join us – you don’t need to bring anything with you, just an open mind, an open heart and a desire to get closer to God in this busy furore that we call life.

Carolyn Churchyard

People Power

...… of Pickled Tongues and Gentlemen’s Sons

The article in last month’s magazine about a recently discovered December 1914 parish magazine brought forth some recollections from a couple of our readers who were able to throw some light on the questions that arose.

Sheelagh Willis writes:

The reminiscences from the 1914 parish magazine brought back some long buried memories - not that, I hasten to add, was I around at the time!

In addition to the MU meetings mentioned, in the snobbish 1930s the ‘Ladies’ met for a working party to embroider table cloths to be sold at the Christmas Bazaar. I still have two of those cloths inherited from my mother. The lowlier ‘women’ enjoyed a ‘Mothers’ Meeting’ or sometimes a Women’s Guild. I think these meetings were largely for a cup of tea and a chat.

Does anyone remember the time when a pew rent could be paid? The name of the lessee on a card would be inserted in a frame on the pew ledge, thus ensuring a reserved seat at all times. No problem should one be late for the service!

Pam Vernon had some memories too:

Slate Clubs

Jean's article about a 92 year old magazine was of interest to me. The Slate Club brought back memories of going with my father every week or month to South Croydon Congregational Church. He was a painter and decorator and some weeks there was plenty of work and at other times, none. Money was very short so he joined the Slate Club. When there was plenty of work, we went to the church hall where some men sat at a table on the stage and we paid in money. At other times, we had to borrow money, which then had to be repaid with interest. There were no state benefits in those days.

The Provident Club

I believe this was started by the Lorraine family of Lorraine House at Wallington Green to provide boots for children. Parents paid in money and more was added by the organisers, who also clothed some of the children in the Sunday School which met in the first Wallington School.

Still no news on the ‘Band of Love’ though. Anyone out there able to help?

Walk of Witness

….to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

The Church of England is to invite thousands of people from across the country to join the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for an historic event on Saturday 24th March to mark the Bicentenary of the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Put the date in your diary now!

The Archbishops will lead the Walk of Witness through parts of the capital to culminate in a large-scale act of worship at Kennington Park. The event, organised by the Church’s Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC), forms the main part of the Church’s wider awareness campaign, Making our Mark, set up following the General Synod debate in February 2006 on the subject of the Bicentenary.

The walk - scheduled to take place in London on Saturday 24th March - is being designed as a high-profile public act of Christian witness, following the formal apology made by the General Synod in February 2006 to the heirs of those who were enslaved. There will be two routes: Whitehall Palace to Kennington Park, or Holy Trinity Clapham to Kennington Park.

Organisers hope the event will be a gathering to acknowledge the lasting legacy of the slave trade and will serve as an act of repentance and confession. The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, chair of CMEAC, explains: "The event will mark the beginning of a healing process and a foundation for future relationships. We hope it will serve as a public acknowledgement of a time in history when people of African origin were barbarically treated, and will present an opportunity to re-commit ourselves to truly live by the values of the gospel - loving, caring and respecting one another as human beings made in the image of God. With these aims in mind, we pray that the walk will become an assertion of the power of the resurrection."

A dedicated website, www.makingourmark.org.uk, offers lots more information on the Walk of Witness, including a map of the route and details of how to register, or you can telephone 0870 321 2005.

Making our Mark is benefiting from funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The venture is also supported by Anglican mission agency USPG. Making our Mark is the Church of England's national contribution to Set All Free, a project of Churches Together in England working to commemorate the bicentenary.

Etiquette for inexperienced cats

1. If you are going to be sick, get onto a chair quickly. If you cannot manage this in time, get to an Oriental rug (a furry rug will do nicely too).

2. Determine quickly which of your family’s guests hates cats. Sit on that lap during the evening. He/she won't dare push you off and will even call you "nice kitty." If you can arrange to have fishy cat food on your breath, so much the better.

3. For sitting on laps or rubbing against trouser legs, select colours that contrast with your own.

4. Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything. Just sit and stare.

5. For guests that say "I love kitties" and mean it, be ready with aloof disdain, claws applied to stockings, or a quick nip on the ankles.

6. Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get one open, stand on hind legs and hammer doorknob with forepaws. Once the door is opened for you, it is not necessary to use it. You can change your mind. When you have ordered an outside door opened, stand half in and half out and think about several things. This is important during very cold or rainy weather.

7. If one person is busy and the other is idle, sit with the busy one. For book readers, get in close under the chin, unless you can lie across the book itself.

8. For ladies knitting, curl quietly into lap and pretend to doze. Then reach out and slap knitting needles sharply. This is what she calls a dropped stitch. She will try to distract you. Ignore it.

9. For people doing homework, sit on the paper being worked on. After being removed the second time, push anything moveable off the table (pens, pencils, stamps) one at a time.

10. Get enough sleep during the day.

Does it matter where we work?

A five-year campaign to promote ‘smarter working practices’ is attracting support from sources as diverse as the British Chambers of Commerce, social welfare groups, major employers, the TUC, the RAC Foundation and the Church of England.

According to Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK, “the need to work from nine to five, five days a week, at a central location is an anachronism in this 24/7 global world. There’s no need for it.” Work Wise calls for flexible working, staggered journeys and part-time home working, claiming that this will provide staff with a better work-life balance and make them more productive. In addition, reducing both commuting and travel for business would make a huge impact on CO2 emissions from transport sources.

Adopting smarter working practices, says Mr Flaxton, will probably be one of the least costly and most effective steps companies could take to make their contribution to cutting emissions. Further benefits will be a fall in peak-time congestion and overcrowding – and a reduction in seasonal accident levels.

Speaking in the House of Lords, the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham (The Rt Rev George Cassidy) has pointed out that the UK has an extensive long-hours culture, with around 3.6 million employees regularly working more than 48 hours per week and almost 5 million people working on average an extra day per week in unpaid overtime. In passing, he noted that many clergy work 70 to 80 hours a week “and some believe there is no limit to their availability.”

Another aspect of the long-hours problem is its impact on parenthood. Research has found that seven out of ten fathers would like to be more involved in childcare than they currently are, and that a third of working fathers work more than 48 hours a week.

The Mothers’ Union believes that if flexible working were to become more mainstream (and not only associated with mothers of young children) fathers would have more opportunities to make the contribution to family life that they would wish. Moreover, mothers would not have to reduce their working hours to the same extent (which worsens the gender pay gap).

Philip Barron

Fairtrade Nuts

– now there’s more choice!

More than 13,000 nut farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and India will benefit from a decision by Tesco to increase its successful Fairtrade nuts range.

Working with alternative trading organisation Twin Trading, Tescolaunched two new products – a 200g Fairtrade peanut and raisin mix, and Fairtrade natural cashews in 150g packs.

The move follows the successful introduction of shelled own-brand Fairtrade brazil nuts to Tesco stores in March last year. These now account for more than a quarter of brazil nuts sold in the fresh produce category of Tesco and the product has been rolled out to more than 600 Tesco stores.

The peanut and raisin mix shows a photo of Judith Harry, a Malawian peanut farmer and single mother of a teenage daughter, who says: “In Mkanda where I live most farmers live below the poverty line. They earn below $1 a day and do not have enough food to last them the whole year. The guaranteed fair price which comes with Fairtrade is important as we make a profit when we sell our nuts and we can use the money to lift up our lives.” The Fairtrade raisins in the peanut and raisin mix have been sourced by Traidcraft and come from the Eksteenskuil Farmers Association of 119 smallholder farmers near the Kalahari in South Africa. The peanuts are also available in roasted and salted form from Co-op stores nationwide.

Thomas Kalappurackal, a cashew farmer in India and joint secretary of the Fair Trade Alliance Kerala (FTAK)is supplying some of the nuts says: “Farmers’ debts have steadily mounted in Kerala. There is growing impoverishment and some farmers have taken their own lives, unable to bear the burden of debt. The guaranteed fair price which comes with Fairtrade is a move away from this terrible insecurity.”

Significant market opportunities exist with these products because of the ever increasing popularity of Fairtrade and because of the huge rise in nut buying thanks to their well-publicised health benefits.

The world nut market is dominated by a small number of large trading houses, with local traders and processors controlling supply chains in some of the world’s poorest countries. Those at the bottom of the chain – small-scale farmers – tend to gain little in return for their intensively hard work whilst their crops generate significant returns to those further up the supply chain. Many nut farmers have seen the real value of their crop decrease year on year and they are struggling to survive.

St Kew

8 February

St Kew has nothing to do with gardens or the ‘Q’ of James Bond fame. This Kew lived in Cornwall in the 5th century, and should be the patron saint of girls with difficult older brothers.

Kew’s older brother, St Dochau, was a hermit who felt his younger sister was not worthy to even visit his cell. But big brothers often underestimate their younger sisters, and he was no exception. One day Big Brother saw a wild boar charge out of the woods towards his sister. She spoke to it kindly in tones of such purity and sweetness that it immediately slowed down to a peaceful walk.

Big Brother was so shaken by this that he repented of his superior attitude. When he then bothered to spend time talking with young Kew, Big Brother discovered her nature to be of “rare virtue and holiness”. Other people thought so too, and after her death they decided Kew had been a saint, and should have the parish church named after her.

Perhaps the moral of all this is that if you want to win over an difficult older brother, you should first practise on wild boars.

Daily prayer topics in February

Thu 1 Rosemary Kempsell, the new MU World Wide President

Fri 2 Thanksgiving for Christ the Light of the World

Sat 3 The people of Denmark and Sweden

Sun 4 St Mary’s branch of the Mothers’ Union

Mon 5 Readers Area Meeting at St Matthew’s Church, Croydon

Tue 6 The Queen and all the Royal Family

Wed 7 Marriage and all that strengthens family life

Thu 8 The MU Away From It All Holidays for needy families

Fri 9 MU Marriage and Parenting Courses here and abroad

Sat 10 MU overseas work worldwide

Sun 11 Our Guides, Brownies and Rainbows

Mon 12 The people of Sierra Leone and the easting of tensions

Tue 13 All who work for peace, freedom and justice

Wed 14 An increase in love and respect for all God’s creation

Thu 15 The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and

the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel

Fri 16 Our community and neighbourhood

Sat 17 The Church, clergy and people of Uganda

Sun 18 Action Against Poverty

Mon 19 The people of Paraguay

Tue 20 All attending our Pancake Lunch today

Wed 21 For grace to keep Lent faithfully

Thu 22 That we might walk in the way of Christ

Fri 23 That Christ may be revealed in our actions and witness

Sat 24 All who are suffering for their faith

Sun 25 For strength to stand against all that is evil

Mon 26 Fairtrade Fortnight

Tue 27 The Deanery Synod Meeting tonight

Wed 28 Our Link Diocese of Zimbabwe - Bishops Jakazi, Wilson

and Ishmael