Readings for this Sunday

28 June 2020 – The Third Sunday After Trinity

Rom. 6. 12-end Matt. 10. 40-end

THE COLLECT FOR TODAY

Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin

and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts whereby we call you Father:

give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that we and all creation may be brought to the glorious liberty of the children of God;

through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Weekly Beacon

News from St Hildeburgh's

The Parish Church of Hoylake Sunday 28 June 2020

The Third Sunday After Trinity

Church Services

Rev’d Paul is available, and you can contact him on 0151 632 3897

St Hildeburgh’s Church

Open for Individual Private Prayer

In line with government advice, St Hildeburgh’s church is now open for individual Private Prayer. The days and times of opening are as follows:

Mondays 9am to 12noon Tuesdays 9am to 12 noon Wednesdays 9am to 12 noon and 4pm to 6.30pm Thursdays 9am to 12 noon Fridays 9am to 12 noon NOT OPEN ON SATURDAYS Sundays 9am to 12 noon

St Hildeburgh’s Church Services

Each Sunday from 5 July 2020 at 10am, Rev’d Paul will conduct a said service of Holy Communion in church. This will be conducted in line with Church of England guidance and may change as things develop. The Church Centre remains closed for the time being.

Wirral Foodbank

Demand for support from the Wirral Foodbank has increased substantially and your donations are needed more than ever.

Urgently needed items: Tinned meat.

Tinned vegetables Tinned fruit

Custard

A typical food parcel contains: Breakfast cereals

Soup Pasta Rice

Pasta sauce Tinned Beans Tinned Meat

Tinned Vegetables Tinned Fruit

Tea or Coffee Sugar

Biscuits Snacks

You can donate non-perishable foodstuffs by leaving them in the

porch at:

The Vicarage, 1 Stanley Road,

Hoylake Wirral CH47 1HL.

Another full pallet of food from our

community.

Keep it coming and thank you

YOUR HELP NEEDED

Recently, several people from other countries have been staying here in Hoylake. Could you help to provide the following items to make their stay more comfortable please? The items are:

• men’s trainers

• men’s underpants

• men’s toiletries Please leave your donations in the porch at The Vicarage,1 Stanley Road, Hoylake, CH47 1HL. Thank you.

St Hildeburgh’s On Line –

Watch this Space

Last Sunday Rev’d Paul filmed a service of Holy Communion. You can view this service by visiting our website: https://www.sthildeburgh.net/onlineservices.html

If you are experiencing difficulties watching the video from the website it is also available on Facebook at facebook.com/sthildeburgh Your Weekly Beacon is available on the website, together with the latest edition of StHildeburgh’s Dispatch newsletter.

Important information from Merseyside Police is also available on https://www.sthildeburgh.net/news.html

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A Notice About Giving From The Treasurer

A big thank you to all of you who have helped to support church funds at a time when there have been no collections at church services. Your contributions help us to maintain our support for the local community. Please use any of these methods of payment: 1. Direct Payment to our Bank

This is the easiest method for everybody if you have computer access or are able to travel to your branch. Our Account Name : Hoylake Parochial Church Council Sort Code : 40-25-08 Account Number : 20445800

2. If you would like to set up a new gift aided donation contact George Dafnis on 632-5927. He will supply the necessary form and information.

3. If you do not have computer access please enclose your donation in an envelope and post it through the vicarage front door. "Cheques should be made payable to Hoylake PCC" If you already subscribe to the envelope system, please use your normal weekly envelope The postal address is The Vicarage, 1 Stanley Road, Hoylake, CH47 1HL if you are self isolating

4. If you have any further queries please contact Lytton Goodwin on 632-6923

Gift Aid

Are you a taxpayer? Did you know that we can claim an additional 20% of your donation back from the Inland Revenue under the Gift Aid Scheme? If you would like to Gift Aid your donation, please include your name and address in any correspondence. Alternatively, if you are making a direct payment to our bank account please send your name and address to the Church Office for the attention of the Treasurer. www.sthildeburgh.parish.office@gmail.com.

SUPPORT OUR NEW CURATE

On Thursday 2 July at 7pm a service to commission deacons-to-be to public ministry in the Diocese of Chester will take place virtually. Amongst those being commissioned will be our new curate Richard Skinner.

Everyone is invited to join via Zoom or Facebook to support, pray and mark this moment. The service is online and can be accessed at 7pm on 2 July by going to www.chester.anglican.org Click on the picture (as shown above) and follow the link.

In normal times this year's cohort of ordination candidates would have been made deacon in July at Chester Cathedral, but the restrictions on public worship have meant that they will simply be commissioned into public ministry without formally being conferred the title deacon. That will now take place in the Autumn when it is hoped family, friends and parishioners can worship and celebrate together in person.

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Voyagers At Home

And we shared a prayer which encourages us to learn from all God's creatures:

"Make me not too much like the hedgehog: always prickly; Nor like the rabbit: always running around;

Nor like the goose: squawking for no good reason; Nor like the fox: skulking in the shadows.

But rather make me more like the lark: singing because it is morning; Like the deer: leaping for the joy of being alive;

Like the dolphin: taking life playfully; Like the seabird: trusting the power of the invisible."

Love and prayers,

Christine

This Sunday we thought about all the lessons that we learn from the birds. They remind us not to worry, because God is watching over us and knows everything that happens. We made a pair of colourful paper sparrows!

The Big Lunch in Ferndale Road

Liz Ardus writes: Our weather delayed BIG LUNCH in Ferndale Rd. This was first initiated in 2009 by The Eden Project to get neighbours, all over the country, together and share food and companionship by getting to know each other amidst our busy lives. It always takes place on the first weekend in June. Ferndale Road joined in from the very beginning and with a closed road, and cars moved, it gave a great space for tables, bouncy castle, and games for the children and for the adults to mingle and chat. This year of course was somewhat different due to social distancing and so we had a doorstep Big Lunch although, with the aid of technology and a microphone, we were still able to enjoy Bingo and a quiz during the sunny afternoon... Some joy during Covid. Hope everyone else is coping ok. Keep safe. Liz

St Hildeburgh’s Dispatch

The latest edition of ‘St Hildeburgh’s Dispatch’ (No. 7) is now available on our website – www.sthildeburgh.net/dispatches

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St Hildeburgh’s – 1898

Liz Ardus has sent the following newspaper clips and Nigel Hall has provided some photographs.

Continued….

St Hildeburgh’s under construction – pictured with some of the people who built it.

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FLOWER OF THE WEEK: PETUNIA

NINTH IN A SERIES

Text and photographs by Peter Surridge. PETUNIAS are the ideal plants with which to fill any spare containers and extend summer’s colourful display in pots and hanging basket. Keep them well fed and watered and they will still be blooming in August when many other plants are fading. Modern varieties have vigour, long-lasting flowers in a range of rich colours, attractive veining and weather-resistance. Petunias originated in South America, and modern varieties come from crossing three wild species from Argentina with flowers of only two colours – white and purple. From those two original colours, petunias have blossomed into almost every imaginable shade and mixture of red, blue, purple, yellow and white. They are now so genetically mixed up they are all known as Petunia x hybrida and, more popularly, by the names of their varieties and series. There are large-flowered Grandifloras, multi-headed Multifloras, long-flowering Surfinias, coloured and frilled-edged Picotees, trailers for pots, boxes and hanging baskets, and even frilly double-flowered forms. Each of the many series has some special quality. Among them are Daddy series – Sugar Daddy, Blue Daddy, etc – very early-flowering; Ultra types including some with striped petals, giving a star-like appearance; Dream series in shades of red, extra weather-resistant; and Wave petunias which are superb for large pots or ground cover because they spread an amazing metre wide.

Left: Petunia Surfinia Pink Vein

Below:

Petunia Flambé Salmon

‘CHRISTIAN WARRIOR KING’

St Hildeburgh's windows: Twelfth in a series Text by Peter Surridge; photograph by Nigel Hall.

Contact St Hildeburgh’s

Vicar Rev’d PAUL ROSSITER

The Vicarage, 1 Stanley Road, Hoylake, Wirral CH47 1HL Tel: 0151 632 3897. E-mail: p.a.rossiter@uwclub.net

Church Office e-mail: sthildeburgh.parish.office@gmail.com

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Weekly Beacon

If you wish to contribute an article or place a notice in the Weekly Beacon please e-mail sthildeburgh.parish.office@gmail.com All advertising and notices are accepted at the discretion of the Editor. Photograph policy. We frequently take photographs at St Hildeburgh’s for publicity purposes – such as printing in this “Weekly Beacon”. If for any reason you would prefer us not to use photographs of any children who may accompany you to church, please mention this to our Vicar, Rev’d Paul Rossiter.

Oswald was born in Britain in 605 and spent many years exiled in Ireland. He returned in 633 to fight, defeat and kill Cadwallon of Gwynedd at Hexham, recovering Northumbria for his father Ethelfrith. Behind his image in St Hildeburgh's window is the wooden cross which he set up as his standard in that battle. Oswald had spent time on the Hebridean island of Iona, a centre of early Christianity, and had become a Christian so, on his return to Northumbria, he sent for missionaries to establish Christianity more fully. He succeeded his father as king in 634, combined the two Northumbrian kingdoms and helped St Aidan translate the bible from the Irish language. After eight years of Oswald’s reign, the heathen Penda of Mercia took up arms and, during the fighting, Oswald was killed. As he fell he was said have been heard praying for the souls of those who died with him. His body was cut into pieces which were nailed to a tree, ‘Oswald’s tree,’ giving rise to the name of the place where he died – Oswestry.

Oswald soon came to be regarded as a saint. Bede says that the spot where he died came to be associated with miracles, and people took soil from the site, which led to a hole being dug as deep as a man's height. Reginald of Durham recounts another miracle, saying that his right arm was taken by a bird (perhaps a raven) to an ash tree, which gave the tree ageless vigour. When the bird dropped the arm onto the ground, a spring emerged from the ground. Both the tree and the spring became associated with healing miracles. Oswald was canonised soon after his death and is venerated as far away as central Europe. His feast day is August 5. The window was given “in memory of Geoffrey Montague Lowdnes and Captain Richard Lewin

Lowdnes, given by their mother, Mrs C.M. Lowdnes,” and installed in 1939.

St Oswald – Christian king

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