Notes from around the Parishes, February 2019

Harpley & the Massinghams

A local quiz for local people! -- The Answers

Sorry no prizes – hope you had a bit of fun working them out!
Solve the clues to find the name of a place in Norfolk:
(Note: The spelling is not always correct ~ use the sound)
1. Telephones Mr Heath. Ringstead
2. Burnt on Nov 5th plus a short street. Guist
3. For water. Wells
4. An apple drink on a small rock. Syderstone
5. A bundle of hay or straw. Bale
6. Not a bouncy one but going up. Castle Rising
7. On the beach, on the finger and sometimes on the bone. Sandringham
8. A pretty colour for a joint. Pinkney
9. Hold an ice-cream over the policeman’s head and let it do this.
Melt-on Constable
10. Coxford
The smallest in the boat plus to cross a bridgeless river.
11. A short GP with a monarch. Docking
12. Line of drugs?? Pott Row
13. Stop! Holt
14. Matilda’s dancing with someone who is overacting. Walsingham
15. An Indian’s greeting with 100mph. Houghton
16. Order Ollie’s partner to deal with the weeds. Stanhoe
17 Healthy fibre mixed with unhealthy sugar. Brancaster
18 Counterfeit an’ cold meat. Fakenham
19 The corpse has the solution. Stiffkey
20 Giggle and wrap up warm in this. Tittleshall
(Thanks to Mrs Margaret Horn for many of these clues originally published in ‘The Rudham Reflector’.)

King’s Lynn Festival Chorus

Saturday, February 9th, 7pm St Nicholas’ Chapel
Four excellent soloists will perform Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzer Op 52
and then will join KLFC for Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle
Conductor: Tom Appleton;
Piano: Ben Horden and Nick Tudor Harmonium: Matthew Searles
Tickets £20 (under 12’s free) available from the Corn Exchange
01553 764864 or www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk
 A message from Rev’d Judith
Home is where the heart is - that’s what they say. Recently our eldest
son, Joseph, who is disabled, returned home to live with us full-time and
it has made a huge difference to our lives! The washing machine is
never off!
Sharing your private, personal space with others can be an interesting
challenge. We like things to stay the same and may get into rut where
what we are familiar with must be protected at all costs.
Home, sweet home! “...Where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not
cloudy or grey.” Sadly, our skies have been pretty cloudy and grey for ages. Do we live
surrounded by our loved ones, our friends and families? Some people do not; my mother
in Nottingham continues to live alone (and unaided) in the family home, which is now
becoming rather burdensome to her – but she is deeply resistant, unsurprisingly, to trying
a new way of being ‘at home’.
homes, however we define them, provide us with wide-ranging security which can only
be sustained through stability: in our job, our income, our relationships. Without
stability it is very difficult to maintain a home. Years ago I worked for the Department
of Employment, coming into contact with people in differing circumstances; and those
who were most difficult to reach out to and help were people with no fixed address.
Having very little stability in their lives, they tended to have complex problems and were
deeply vulnerable to harm.
Our hearts go out to the homeless people throughout the world we hear about in the
news; people who are dispossessed, forced to leave their homes (or what passes for a
home) due to war and oppression - so much misery, grief, despair: migrants fleeing
situations devoid of hope, asylum seekers, refugees, vulnerable unaccompanied children.
I read of a teenager who tied himself to the chassis of a lorry for hundreds of miles in
order to smuggle himself into the UK. Our hearts cannot fail to be moved in the face of
such desperation. We see people crossing the Channel in tiny boats, yearning for a
different reality, their frantic searching for home, their right place to be.
Many UK citizens now live in the European Union and vice versa; we have long been
encouraged to develop closer ties with our European neighbours. After 40-odd years of
lives being intertwined, our citizens are all mixed up - in work and family living and in
retirement. What will happen now? There is such uncertainty around the future for us
all. We must pray for stability - and for justice to prevail.
Home: what does this simple little word really mean to us? In the prayer of
thanksgiving after Holy Communion we say: “Father of all, We give you thanks and
praise that when we were still far off you met us in your Son and brought us home.”
When we share together in fellowship, in caring for one another, in worship, the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, here and now. We are already at home in God’s love.
Heaven can be a place on earth. God reminds us of this truth always: He sent his only
Son to meet us and bring us home. The first will be last and the last first.
Let this hopeful thought make its home in our open hearts.
With my love to you all, Judith.
SERVICES ACROSS THE GROUP in February
February 2nd is Candlemas
celebrating the Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Sunday, February 3rd ~ The fifth Sunday before Lent

0930 Family Service St Lawrence’s, Harpley
1100 Holy Communion St Mary’s, Great Mass
0830 Holy Communion All Saints’, Ashwicken
1030 Holy Communion St Botolph’s, Grimston
1030 Morning Praise St Nicholas’, Gayton
3pm Prayer Meeting the Rectory, Gayton

Weds, 6th Feb 2019 9am Holy Communion at St Lawrence’s, Harpley

Sunday, Feb 10th ~ The fourth Sunday before Lent

1030 Group Holy Communion St Nicholas’, Gayton
4pm The Gap Pott Row Methodist Chapel

Sunday, Feb 17th ~ The third Sunday before Lent

0930 Holy Communion St Andrew’s, Little Massingham
1100 Family Service St Mary’s, Great Massingham
1115 Sung Holy Communion St Lawrence’s, Harpley
0830 Holy Communion All Saints’, Roydon
1030 Holy Communion St Nicholas’, Gayton
1030 Morning Praise St Botolph’s, Grimston

Weds, Feb 20th ~ 9am Holy Communion at St Botolph’s, Grimston

Sunday, Feb 24th ~ The second Sunday before Lent

1100 Holy Communion St Mary’s, Great Massingham
0830 Holy Communion St Andrew’s, Congham
1030 Family Service St Nicholas’, Gayton
3pm Celtic Service St Mary’s, Gayton Thorpe

Sunday, March 3rd ~ The Sunday next before Lent

0930 Family Service St Lawrence’s, Harpley
1100 Holy Communion St Mary’s, Great Mass
0830 Holy Communion All Saints’, Ashwicken
1030 Holy Communion St Botolph’s, Grimston
1030 Morning Praise St Nicholas’, Gayton
3pm Prayer Meeting the Rectory, Gayton
6pm Sung Evensong St Andrew’s, Congham
 Weds, 6th March Ash Wednesday
Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes,
9am at St Lawrence’s, Harpley
7pm at St Botolph’s, Grimston

Friday, March 1st ~ Women’s World Day of Prayer

2pm Pott Row Methodist Chapel
“Come - Everything is Ready!”.
Everyone is welcome at this service. Women of Slovenia have
prepared this year's service, and they encourage us to reflect on the
barriers they have faced since the end of the Second World War when their
country was a part of Yugoslavia, a Marxist socialist republic. They share the
challenges they have met and the hopes they have for the future.

From the Registers:

4th January: Frances Russell Duncan age 86
Funeral & Burial at St Andrew’s, Little Massingham.

Congham Coffee & Cake is BACK!!

Saturday 2nd February, in St Andrew’s;
1030 to 12 noon; £3 (free refills)
Great Massingham Afternoon Teas
will be held at 3, Abbeyfields during the winter months. ,
By kind invitation of Mary and Judith,
Keep cosy and carry on . . . . Every Wednesday from 2pm

Come & Sing with Julian Thomson: Meets fortnightly at 10am on

Friday mornings in St Mary’s, Gt Massingham. This is a good time to
get together for a vocal warm-up All welcome: contact Julian on 01485 520721.

For more information see our website: www.ggmbenefice.uk

Team Vicar Judith Pollard, The Rectory, Grimston 01485 601251
To arrange Baptisms, Marriages, or Funerals please contact the Rev’d Judith
(her day off is Friday).

Please send items for inclusion in the March issue of the ‘Parish Notes’ to the editor
by 20th Feb ~ Rosemary Mehers rosemarymehers@hotmail.com or Tel: 01485 521866