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St Michael & All Angels
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Services Timetable
| When | Time | Service |
| 29th January 2012 | | No Service at Shalbourne |
| 5th February 2012 | 11.00 am | Family Service |
| 12th February 2012 | 9.30 am | Holy Communion |
| 19th February 2012 | 9.30 am | Holy Communion |
| 26th February 2012 | | No Service at Shalbourne |
| 4th March 2012 | 11.00 am | Family Service & Baptism |
| 11th March 2012 | 9.30 am | Holy Communion |
| 18th March 2012 | 11.00 am | Mothering Sunday Family Service |
| 25th March 2012 | 11.00 am | Matins - joint with Ham/Buttermere |
The Parish of Shalbourne belongs to the Savernake Team
The Shalbourne Prayer
LORD, Thank you for the wonderful countryside in which we live. May we do nothing to despoil your handiwork, and help us to make our village a beautiful place. Increase the sense of community that binds one to another. Bless the work of our local church that it may give a sense of identity where there is none, provide refuge to those who feel threatened by anonymity, and create a place of belonging, where people know they are welcomed, remembered by name, valued as individuals. And help us celebrate a faith that, in the Word, announces that we are forgiven and accepted, and in the Sacrament, gathered again into the life of the risen Christ. For your name’s sake. Amen.
News
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1875 Restoration
The pages in the slide show below are from a leaflet recently discovered by a PCC member
1875 restoration leaflet
Remembrance Sunday decorations
Remembrance
Harvest Festival decorations
Harvest Festival 1
Bell ringing
The bells at St. Michael and All Angels have been re-energised, thanks to Ian Dalziel's efforts. Practices are held on Thursdays at about 7.15pm.
All levels of ability are welcome, and instruction is provided.
The sessions last about an hour and a half, and both apprentice and experienced ringers have been known to slip off to the pub for a pint to reward their efforts.
Rector retires
Team Rector Nicolas Leigh-Hunt retired at the end of July, 2011.
He writes:
I want to thank everyone in the Shalbourne community for the wonderful celebration finish to my ministry and the very generous gift of a lifetime membership to the RHS, which Liz and I are looking forward to using widely, and we will think of you every time we do.
I have not quite got to grips with the notion of "retirment" as life has been a roller-caoster of action, and we are still in the midst of a building project, which we really would have preferred to have finished by now. We will, I dare say, settle at some stage into new patterns of living.
We greatly miss Shalbourne and particularly the relationships built over many years, and the pastoral interaction of all kinds of processes and events of people's lives, both happy and sad.
With very best wishes and love to you all. Liz and Nicolas
Team Letter
‘Well, all good things have to come to an end’ was a trite little saying commonly trotted out by well-meaning adults trying to console my truculence at the end of a particularly good party or outing to the seaside when I was a child.
As a small boy the logic of this totally escaped me: why? If it was good, why shouldn’t it go on indefinitely!
This is by nature a farewell, for it is the last in twenty years of writing that I will be contributing to the news magazines/bulletins for the parishes of the Savernake Team. Although the prospect has now been common knowledge for what seems an extraordinarily long time, at the end of July the process of retirements of clergy, with myself and Rodney Harrison, begins and we are launched on a period of great change, likely to be drawn out over some time. What you will be pleased to know is that the process for recruiting replacements is also well under way; but for all our faults and failings in the ministry over the years it will be different. That is something to look forward to with excitement, and, I would like to hope, a will to be involved in new vision and new ventures.
Thank you all in the parishes for being great communities to work with. I would be less than honest if I did not say that I shall not regret leaving behind the councils, committees, administration and the frustrations of any large institution, but I will be sorry to leave behind so many whom I have had the privilege of ministering to, both as individuals and families, the schools in particular, and the many of you whom I have worked with and with whom we have shared so much of ourselves together.
‘Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me’
- is the writer Thomas Chisholm’s take on the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah’s intense awe of God’s promise that as surely as the sun sets today, so it will rise again in the morning as his assurance of protection, of blessing, of provision for his people.
May you be assured of that too.
With my love in Christ,
Nicolas
New Bishop of Salisbury
On Friday 22nd July (the Feast Day of St Mary Magdalene), the Revd Nicholas Roderick Holtam was consecrated in St Paul’s Cathedral to become the new Bishop of Salisbury. Born on the 8th August 1954, Bishop Holtam prefers the name “Nick” to Nicholas.
For the past 16 years, he has been Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, where he has presided over a thriving church with a fine musical tradition, and at the same time he has initiated massive alterations to the church premises in order to accommodate the poor and the outcasts of society. The work of St Martin’s is recognised world-wide.
Bishop Holtam’s installation in the Cathedral as Bishop of Salisbury will take place in the autumn.
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