Notes from around the Parishes, January 2019

Harpley & the Massinghams

A local quiz for local people!

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.
2. Burnt on Nov 5th plus a short street.
3. For water.
4. An apple drink on a small rock.
5. A bundle of hay or straw.
6. Not a bouncy one but going up.
7. On the beach, on the finger and sometimes on the bone.
8. A pretty colour for a joint.
9. Hold an ice-cream over the policeman’s head and let it do this.
10. The smallest in the boat plus to cross a bridgeless river.
11. A short GP with a monarch.
12. Line of drugs??
13. Stop!
14. Matilda’s dancing with someone who is overacting.
15. An Indian’s greeting with 100mph.
16. Order Ollie’s partner to deal with the weeds.
17 Healthy fibre mixed with unhealthy sugar.
18 Counterfeit an’ cold meat.
19 The corpse has the solution.
20 Giggle and wrap up warm in this.
(Thanks to Mrs Margaret Horn for many of these clues originally published in ‘The Rudham Reflector’.)

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SERVICES ACROSS THE GROUP in January

Sunday, January 6th ~

The Feast of the Epiphany

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
Sunday, Jan 13th ~ The Baptism of Christ ( Epiphany 1)
1030 Group Holy Communion St Andrew’s, Congham
4pm The Gap Pott Row Methodist Chapel
Weds, Jan 16th ~ 9am Holy Communion at St Botolph’s, Grimston

***** Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: 18th January to 25th January *****
Sunday, Jan 20th ~ Epiphany 2
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
January 25th
Commemorates the Conversion of Paul on the road to Damascus.
Sunday, Jan 27th ~ Epiphany 3
1100 Holy Communion St Mary’s, Great Massingham
0830 Holy Communion St Andrew’s, Congham
1030 Family Service St Botolph’s, Grimston
3pm Celtic Service St Mary’s, Gayton Thorpe

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

Our Ministry Team:

www.ggmbenefice.uk
Left: Team Rector
Rev’d Jane Holmes,
The Rectory, Gayton
01553 636227
Right: 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).

Epiphany at Cana A Sonnet for the 2nd Sunday of Epiphany by Malcolm Guite.

Here’s an epiphany to have and hold,

A truth that you can taste upon the tongue,
No distant shrines or canopies of gold
Or ladders to be clambered rung by rung,
But here and now, amidst your daily living,
Where you can taste and touch and feel and see,
The spring of love, the fount of all forgiving,
Flows when you need it, rich, abundant, free.

Better than waters of some outer weeping,

That leave you still with all your hidden sin,
Here is a vintage richer for the keeping
That works its transformation from within.
‘What price?’ you ask me, as we raise the glass,
‘It cost our Saviour everything he has.’

One of the readings set for this day is the story of Jesus changing the water into
wine at the Wedding in Cana ~ often called the first Miracle. In the Gospel,
St John calls it the first sign, as Jesus ‘revealed His glory’. (John 2: 1 – 11).
Harpley School Christmas Service (17th Dec):
£135 was sent to the Children’s Society after Harpley School’s
Christingle Service. The children donated £63.90 in their collection
boxes and the congregation at the service contributed a further£49.95.
Thank you to everyone

From the Registers:

21st December: Nigel Kevin Groome age 55
Funeral at St Lawrence’s, Harpley and Burial in East Rudham Cemetery.

Still available: ~ Harpley Calendars ~ A4 size; a month to a page; packed with

colourful photographs taken around Harpley.
£8 each. Sold in aid of St Lawrence’s. Contact Jean Pocklington: 01485 520368

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.

King’s Lynn Festival Chorus

Saturday, February 9th, 7pm St Nicholas’ Chapel
Soloists Angela Brun, Freya Jacklin, Ben Thapa & Jolyon Loy will perform
Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzer Op 52 (comp 1868) and then
join KLFC for Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (1863).
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
Have you considered joining a choir?? KLFC rehearses on a Monday evening and welcomes new
members throughout the year. Tenors and Basses are especially welcome and offered a
subscription-free first term. See www.kingslynnfestivalchorus.co.uk
Make some new friends, give the brain a work-out and release those endorphins!! Singing is
good for both the mind and the spirit.
Concert on May 4th will be Verdi Requiem in Ely Cathedral with Ely Sinfonia

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