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MARCH 2021 | ISSUE 7
CHESTERTON CHIMES
News from St Andrew's Church, Chesterton
A thriving, open and welcoming church community
for all ages
Welcome!
Inside this March edition of the Chesterton Chimes, you will
find details for our March services - as ever, subject to change
under Government guidelines. We're looking forward to seeing
you at worship online - or indeed, at our two in-person 3pm
Holy Communion services if you are unable to access online Kathleen's collages from
services. prayers at our Informal
Worship service, themed on
There are a couple of changes from the usual pattern of hope in Lent, 21 February
services this month - detailed below and on page 2!
At 8am every week, there will be BCP Holy Communion,
Livestreamed to YouTube.
At 10am, on the 1st and 3rd Sundays we will have Zoom Church
@10, our Zoom-only service created with families and children
especially in mind. On the 2nd Sunday will be our All-Age
Mothering Sunday service on YouTube; on the 4th Sunday, we
will have a Procession of Palms and All-Age Service on
YouTube.
At 11am on 1st and 3rd Sundays only, there will be Zoom
Church @11 - another Zoom-only service created with everyone
else in mind!
At 3pm, on 1st and 3rd Sundays, there will be a service of Holy
Communion in Church. This is aimed towards those who are
unable to access online services and for whom it is important
to receive Communion. You do not need to book a seat.
Finally, at 5:30pm, on the 2nd Sunday, there will be evening
prayer on Zoom, and on the 4th Sunday, there will a Passion
Service.
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What's On: Sundays
SEE THE
7 March, 3rd of Lent
WEBSITE FOR
8:00am *Holy Communion (BCP, L)
10:00am Zoom Church @10
LINKS TO THE
for families and children (Z) SERVICES.
11:00am Zoom Church @11
for everyone else! (Z)
3pm Holy Communion (C)
Z=ZOOM,
14 March, 4th of Lent, Mothering Sunday
M=MEET,
8:00am *Holy Communion (BCP, L) L=LIVESTREAM,
10:00am All-Age Service (L) C=IN CHURCH.
11:00am 'Coffee' (Z)
5:30pm Evening Prayer (Z).
21 March, 5th of Lent
If you would like to receive
8:00am *Holy Communion (BCP, L) Communion at your home,
BOOKING SEATS:
10:00am Zoom Church @10 YOU DO NOT NEED TO email Kathryn or Nick
for families and children (Z) BOOK A SEAT FOR 3PM (contact details on the back
HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE
11:00am Zoom Church @11 (7 & 21 MARCH), WHICH IS page). The possibility of home
for everyone else! (Z) AIMED TOWARDS THOSE Communion will be subject
3pm Holy Communion (C) UNABLE TO ACCESS ONLINE
to Government and Church
SERVICES AND FOR WHOM
28 March, Palm Sunday IT IS IMPORTANT TO guidelines - but we would
RECEIVE COMMUNION. love to discuss it with you if
8:00am *Holy Communion (BCP, L)
PALM SUNDAY MAY BE
you would like to receive.
10:00am Procession of Palms and All-Age
PARTLY IN-PERSON, IN
service (L) WHICH CASE YOU WOULD Zoom Church @10 for
11:00am 'Coffee' (Z) NEED TO BOOK A SEAT.
5:30pm Passion Service DETAILS WILL BE families and children: on
COMMUNICATED VIA THE
FRIDAY MAILING CLOSER
14 Feb we wondered
*Throughout March, it may be that 8am Holy
Communion services begin to happen in church again -
TO THE TIME. about St Valentine!
as well as via livestream. The PCC meet on 8 March; any
decisions will be communicated afterwards.
What's On: Weekdays
Morning Prayer (M)
08:30am Monday-Friday
Mondays
4:30pm Wholeness & Healing Prayer
Group (M); fortnightly, 1, 15 &
29 March
Tuesdays
10:30am Bible Study Group - Living in
Love and Faith (Z), weekly
8-9pm Home Group - Living in Love
and Faith (Z) Online Remember!
Thursdays candlemas Clocks go
10:30am Poetry Reading Group (Z), service, 31 forwards 1 hour
11 & 25 March January on 28 March
8pm Living in Love and Faith
discussion group
All services and events are subject to change under Government and Church guidelines. See
the website and the Friday email for updates. Regardless of changes that may come into
place, there will always be a weekly online service at both 8am and 10am.
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READINGS FOR DAILY PRAYER
Readings for 28 February
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 ,
Romans 4:13-end, Mark 8:31-end Readings for 21 March
Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews
Monday 1 March John 6:41-51
5:5-10, John 12:20-33
Tuesday 2 John 6:52-59
Wednesday 3 John 6:60-end Monday 22 John 11:28-44
Thursday 4 John 7:1-13 Tuesday 23 John 11:45-end
Friday 5 John 7:14-24 Wednesday 24 John 12:1-11
Saturday 6 John 7:25-36 Thursday 25 Romans 5:12-end
Annunciation
Friday 26 John 12:20-36a
Readings for 7 March
Saturday 27 John 12:36b-end
Exodus 20:1-17,
1 Corinthians 1:18-25, John 2:13-22 Readings for 28 March
Mark 11:1-11, Isaiah 50:4-9a,
Monday 8 John 7:37-52
Philippians 2:5-11, Mark 15:1-39
Tuesday 9 John 7:53-8:11
Wednesday 10 John 8:12-30 Monday 29 Lamentations 1:1-12a
Thursday 11 John 8:31-47 Tuesday 30 Lamentations 3:1-18
Friday 12 John 8:48-end Wednesday 31 Jeremiah 11:18-20
Saturday 13 John 9:1-17 Thursday 1 April Leviticus 16:2-24
Readings for 14 March Maundy Thursday
Numbers 21:4-9, Ephesians Friday 2 Genesis 22:1-18
2:10, John 3:13-21 Good Friday
Saturday 3 Hosea 6:1-6
Monday 15 John 9:18-end Easter Eve
Tuesday 16 John 10:1-10
Wednesday 17 John 10:11-21
Thursday 18 John 10:22-end
Friday 19 Matthew 13:54-end
Joseph of Nazareth
Saturday 20 John 11:17-27
4 MARCH 2021 | ISSUE 7
HELLO FROM BRISTOL:
MAGGIE AND TOBY TATE-DRUIFF
After we were married at St Andrew’s in July 2019, Toby We became informally involved with the core team, and
and I moved to Bristol to begin my ordination training at Hazelnut became my placement church last year. We
Trinity College. We’ve been blessed with a spacious flat, helped to launch the project in September 2020 –
rented through the college, high on a hill with a thankfully, we were still able to meet in our new
wonderful Northward view – Welsh Mountains are visible community garden, with social distancing measures. We
on clear days! Toby began a new job as an engineering are learning lots by journeying with this new community
technician with the University of Bristol, working at the that seeks to draw the existing church into greater
Bristol Robotics Laboratory, and I began my studies in engagement with the climate crisis and valuing God’s
Theology, Mission and Ministry – studying the Bible, creation, and to welcome those outside the Christian
Christian doctrine, church history, ethics, and practical community who are passionate about these issues to
ministry studies and placements. engage with creation and Creator through growing food,
meeting with Hazelnut partners across the country (over
A year-and-a-half later, the Covid-19 pandemic has Zoom), and engaging with Christian theology that
deprived us of most of the social opportunities that places God as Creator at the centre.
college life would normally bring. However, my studies
have continued online with lectures, e-books and During the current lockdown, we meet on Zoom at 3 PM
assignment submissions, and Toby has been able to each Sunday, and anyone is very welcome to join us to
continue work, sometimes at the lab and sometimes from see what it’s all about! We are also hosting a free online
home. One joy amid the sorrow of 2020 was acquiring a Sustaining the Church conference in July 2021, all
cat, Tabitha, whose previous owner had been our information and more on the Hazelnut website (with
neighbour who sadly passed away last summer. Tabby is various photos and videos of Toby and I(throughout the
great company, especially when homeworking! Resources if you’re interested…):
www.hazelnutcommunityfarm.com
Another highlight has been our involvement with
Hazelnut Community Farm. As Toby and I began to We enjoy hearing news of Cambridge and St Andrew’s
discuss and imagine our future beyond ordination through Helen and Harry, Toby’s parents, and sporadic
training, in our discernment of the kind of context we catch ups with current and previous members of the
imagined for future ministry, themes of rural Community youth group and St Andrew’s congregation. We hope to
and smallholding farming emerged. Not long after this, in visit over the Easter period, if measures have eased
October 2019, we met John White, a Pioneer Curate, who enough for us to travel to Cambridge.
was gathering a group of people to begin a community
farm in Bristol that would be the home of a new
expression of church.
We send you our love, and hope and pray
that you are all keeping well at this strange time.
Tabby the cat!
MARCH 2021 | ISSUE 7 5
NEWS AND MESSAGES
From Kathryn... Book Review: Dominion: the Making of the Western Mind, Tom Holland
In case you hadn't heard, I have
Richard Newbury reviews Tom Holland's ambitious survey of Christianity's effects on
been appointed as Vicar of
the formation of Western culture and thought.
Sawston and Vicar of Babraham
starting in the summer, although For Tom Holland, already an historian of ancient Persian and Greek history,
my licensing date has still to be “The past changes. It is not just the future that is changing; the past does as
finalised. I will be very sad to well. And our understanding of the past is constantly changing as well
leave everyone St Andrew's, it depending how our future is changing and I think that is particularly true
has been a really enjoyable three of the 1960s.” Born in 1966, Holland, the Cambridge double first, sees the
and a half years, despite 60s' “Age of Aquarius” universalised by mass media as a mirror image of
lockdown! However, I won't be Luther’s use of the printing press. The otherworldliness of the Hippy
leaving until sometime after Culture mirrored the profound expansion of monastic orders, keeping kings
Easter. in order, another half millennium earlier.
Camcrag Collection of clothes Luther was an Augustinian monk and St Augustine’s City of God is the
for refugees in Calais and seminal Latin text that unites all Christians before you travel back along the
Greece. Camcrag (Cambridge “network” of Roman roads travelled by Greek speaking St Paul of Tarsus,
Convoy Refugee Action Group) is who was conscious that a Crucified Christ and his church was a
organising a collection of non- blasphemous parody in comparison with Julius Caesar’s newly founded
food items to alleviate the misery Imperial Augustinian Roman Empire. It has a King Jesus, crowned with
of those living in Europe’s thorns, crucified - the most horrendous Roman punishment - set against a
displaced people’s camps in Roman Emperor, feted as hero for having killed in battle a million Gauls
Calais and in Greece. As you can and enslaved another million. Jesus, and his ceaselessly peripatetic
evangeliser, Paul, preached the dangerously seditious doctrine that men,
imagine, the needs of the
women and slaves were all equal and to be equally respected! A no-hoper
refugees there for warm clothes,
it would seem to all. And yet?
hygiene items, shoes, sleeping
bags etc. is great. For more
As a philosopher/theologian St Augustine separates the Kingdom of
information about Camcrag see
Heaven, which is eternal and fixed, from the earthly kingdom, which is the
https://camcrag.org.uk
limit of human memory, a “saeculum”, [a century]; a dimension of flux. The
rope ladder which the church provides between the two is a “religio”: a
Camcrag are unable to sort
rope ladder. In popular Roman argot it is an insurance policy: if you are
donations so they have created a
unfortunate you haven’t paid enough religio. At the Reformation with
list of specific items that are
Luther’s “priesthood of all believers” the church was cut out of the deal and
needed, which you can find at:
religion entered the private sphere; also politically – and the saeculum has
https://camcrag.org.uk/donating/
been desecrated that is secularised. So what do you believe in?
#needslist. There are drop-off
points in Orchard Avenue at
Birgit Federle’s house and
Is there a book you've enjoyed
another one in Kimberley Road,
recently? If you'd like to review
so this would be a great
a book for the Chesterton
opportunity to sort out your
Chimes, get in touch with
wardrobes or purchase some
Hannah (contact details on the
items and donate them locally.
back page - we'd love to hear
from you, and we'd love to
For Orchard Avenue contact
share those top book
Birgit (birg.federle@gmail.com).
recommendations!
For Kimberley Road contact
donations-eam@camcrag.org.uk
6 MARCH 2021 | ISSUE 7
WHAT'S HAPPENING
An ‘anytime’ concert in aid of Holy Week - with Bishop Graham Kings
the Friends of St Andrew’s During Holy Week this year, Bishop Graham Kings will be leading our short
During the lockdowns, the meditations, leading into Compline, on the evenings of Monday, Tuesday
Friends have been unable to hold and Wednesday (29-31 March, 8pm). In these pre-recorded
their usual series of lunchtime sessions, shared on YouTube, he will be drawing on the sculpture, ‘The
concerts, which were enjoyed by Eighth Hour’ by Jonathan Clarke, which he and Alison bought in 2000. He
many and were an important will also be preaching during the final hour of our Good Friday service,
source of their fundraising. To fill 2.00-3.00pm, when the sculpture will be in church with him.
this gap, Anna Marmion, a former 'The Eighth Hour',
member of the Youth Choir, Jonathan Clarke
currently a postgraduate student
studying singing at Trinity Laban
Conservatoire of Music and
Dance, and Chris Pountain,
former Director of Music at St
Andrew’s, have created an
“anytime” recital of religious and
secular songs, against a
sequence of many photographs
of the church taken by Stewart
Abrey, Nick Moir and Chris and
What do you know about Van-u-atu?:
Mary Pountain. We hope you will World Day of Prayer, 5 March
enjoy listening to the music and If you said: It’s a ‘Y’ shaped group of lots of islands in the southwestern Pacific
seeing details of our beautiful Ocean, approximately 1100 miles east of Australia - it’s on the ’Ring of Fire’ and
church. You can find it here. that means some of the islands are active volcanoes - it was originally called the
New Hebrides and then in 1980, on July 30th, it became independent within the
Commonwealth as the Republic of Van-u-atu - it’s a pacific paradise that cruise
Please consider supporting the
ships dock into - in 2015, Cyclone Pam wrought havoc there on the island of
work the Friends do to maintain
Erromango and in August 2020, Cyclone Harold devastated the island of Espiritu
and improve the fabric of our Santo, - during the pandemic! ...then you have pretty good general knowledge!
historic building by a donation,
however small. But what about the lives lived by the mix of Melanesian and Polynesian people
who live there? What do they eat? Who gets an education? What jobs do they do?
You can do this by BACS transfer What languages do they speak? What religions do they have? Some of these
to The Friends of St Andrews questions are answered on Friday, March 5th, in the afternoon, during the World
Day of Prayer service which, this year, has been written by the women of Van-u-atu.
Chesterton, sort code 20-17-35,
Their strap line is ‘Build on a Strong Foundation’. You can understand why they
acc. no. 80081140, quoting
chose this.
reference ‘Recital’; if you wish to
GiftAid your donation, please Details of how you can join the service, which is hosted by the Church of the Good
contact John Reynolds, the Chair Shepherd this year, will be published nearer the time. We hope you will join us to
of the Friends, at find out more! World Day of Prayer gives money to a wide variety of small
reynolds.4@btinternet.com. organisations the world over who seek to improve the lives of many poorer and
Alternatively, you can give online underprivileged people. This service is their only means of fundraising. Normally,
there would be a collection in church – but - this year, these are possible ways to
here (JustGiving) (but
donate: Send a cheque to: World Day of Prayer, Commercial Road, Tunbridge Wells,
unfortunately you cannot GiftAid
Kent, TN1 2RR Donate online through the website https://www.wwdp.org.uk By
through this link). text message: Text 2021WDP 5 to 70085 to donate £5 Bank transfer: please ask
Chris Pountain Maggie Fernie, North Cambridge branch co-ordinator, for the details.
maggie.fernie@standrews-chesterton.org Please join us! Maggie Fernie
MARCH 2021 | ISSUE 7 7
Junior Church Easter and Holy
Week Packs
INDEX
Book review: Dominion, by 5
Tom Holland
Some of you will receive a delivery of Camcrag collection 5
materials to help you wonder in your families Friends of St Andrew's 6
about Holy Week and Easter. Part of the Concert
Hello from Bristol: Maggie 4
materials are a series of stories to watch, and Toby Tate-Druiff
recorded by Lesley, which you can find on Holy Week with Bishop 6
Graham Kings
our YouTube Channel (on the 'Junior Church'
Junior Church Easter and 7
playlist). Holy Week packs
Kathryn's announcement 5
Readings for Daily Prayer 3
If you are a family with children aged under Thought for the Month 8
11 and didn't receive a delivery but would like What’s On 2
to next time - get in touch with Julia, our World Day of Prayer 6
Junior Church coordinator (details on the
back page).
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH
OPEN FOR
PRIVATE PRAYER
Monday-Saturday:
9am - 4pm
Sunday:
2:30 - 5pm
St Andrew's Church,
Chesterton
St Andrew's,
Chesterton
@standrews_chesterton
Would you like to contribute to April's Chesterton Chimes?
If you have church news or messages that you would like to see in March's Chimes, send them to
Hannah by 19 March (contact details on the back page).
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Thought for the Month
WRITTEN BY NICK MOIR
At Morning Prayer in January and early February we read habit, while the much younger Sister Nathalie Becquart,
through Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. recently appointed as the first woman to have voting rights
at the Vatican, smiles out of the picture dressed and
At times it is sublime and speaks universally and movingly - coiffured as any female politician or headmistress might
‘If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do appear (though perhaps on the ‘plain’ side).
not have love…’
The truth is that in a way the younger sister is more
At times it provides important evidence for our faith – ‘he traditional in her dress: she is wearing much the same as
appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve; then he appeared everyone else but without ostentation, just as nuns did
to more than five hundred brothers and sisters, most of centuries ago. Nuns’ habits – like clergy robes – are relics
whom are still alive.’ of what everyone wore, but plainer. (And, of course, they are
not that dissimilar to what more traditional
At times its teaching of the gospel is compelling – ‘God Muslim women wear today.)
chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God
chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong’. Back in St Paul’s day respectable married women would not
be seen in public without veiling their heads (whilst men
At times its teaching makes us raise our eyebrows – ‘If you rarely did). Similarly men wore their hair short and women
marry you do not sin…. Yet those who marry will experience kept it long. St Paul attempts to give a theological rationale
distress in this life.’ But we put that down to the context: ‘’I for this (at times impossible to understand because we
think that, in view of the impending crisis, it is well for you simply do not know enough background). But in the end he
to remain as you are.’ appeals to the general consensus: ‘Does not nature itself
teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is degrading to
But then there are one or two thunderbolts that seem to him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory?’ We would
come from another world – ‘Any man who prays or honestly have to answer ‘no’ to that question. ‘But if anyone
prophesies with something on his head disgraces his head, is disposed to be contentious we have no such custom, nor
but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head do the churches of God.’ Well, we do. In fact, I can’t think of
unveiled disgraces her head.’ Now a generation or two ago a church in Cambridge that doesn’t.
this teaching was followed – or at least women would wear
a hat (if not a veil) while men would remove their hats when All of this is a reminder that when it comes to judgments
entering a church. Older men still do instinctively today; about how we should behave in the 21st century we can
younger men, wearing a cap or a beanie hat, would not never just simply read an answer from the pages of the
even think it an issue. Bible. As much as I think St Paul would be shocked
to find 21st century women coming to church unveiled I
It is rare to see a woman with her head covered in church suspect he would be even more shocked to find that we
today, even in Roman Catholic churches. The cultural treated his words as some of his hearers treated the Mosaic
transformation that has occurred is illustrated by two Law – as irrevocable commandments. His whole argument is
photographs – the splendid 117 year old French nun who that the coming of Christ has enabled us to move from
survived Covid has her head veiled and is wearing her plain infantile obedience to adult decision-making.
Contact
Vicar: Canon Nick Moir, 303469 (not Saturday), Churchwardens:
vicar@standrews-chesterton.org Maggie Fernie,
Associate priest: Revd Dorothy Peyton Jones, 523485 maggie.fernie@standrews-chesterton.org
dorothy.peytonjones@standrews-chesterton.org Ian Nimmo-Smith, 778667
Curate: Revd Kathryn Waite, 306150 ian.nimmosmith@standrews-chesterton.org
kathryn.waite@standrews-chesterton.org Treasurer: Michael Grande
Youth Work: Hannah Fytche 311360, michael.grande@standrews-chesterton.org
hannah.fytche@standrews-chesterton.org Director of Music: Peter Wadl 07429089719
Junior Church Coordinator, Julia Eisen dom@standrews-chesterton.org
julia.eisen@standrews-chesterton.org Sacristan: John Reynolds
Hall Manager: Rachel Clarke, 306150 249591, reynolds.4@btinternet.com
rachel@standrews-hall.co.uk PCC Secretary: Patricia Abrey
pcc.secretary@standrews-chesterton.org
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