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Usual Services At St Mary's
St Mary's Events - Rollestonian (Winter 2017)
Christmas Services - Rollestonian (Winter 2017)
1919-2019 - Rollestonian (Winter 2017)
St Mary's Events - Rollestonian (Autumn 2017)
St Mary's Events - Rollestonian (Summer 2017)
Rector’s Message - Rollestonian (Spring 2017)
St Mary's Church Events - Rollestonian (Spring 2017)
8am Holy Communion [1st Sunday]
9.30am Morning Service [a modern service & family friendly]. Stay & Play crèche
area every week
6.30pm Evening Service [a quieter service using the language of the 17th
century]
Monday Quiet Time in Church
First Monday 6.30pm every month. An opportunity to spend some peace and
reflection with others in the quiet of our church.
Mid-week Communion every Thursday 9.30am A simple service of communion before the Coffee Morning.
Thursday Coffee Mornings
10am to 11.30am in the Old School Room
Bellringing every Thursday from 7.30pm
Choir Rehearsal most Sundays from 7.30pm
For Christenings at St Mary’s contact Emma at stmarys.rolleston@yahoo.co.uk
For Weddings at St Mary’s contact Ian at revirwhite@aol.com
This year of 2017 you could be married at Church from £456
Monthly Munch in the Old Grammar School Room – Fourth Wednesday’s 12.15pm a two course meal with tea/coffee for £4 No booking required you are welcome to just turn up.
4C’s Craft Group in the Old Grammar School Room – second Wednesday’s 2.30pm all sorts of crafts and abilities welcome to come and share.
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Harvest Festival
The church as always was beautifully decorated for the services on Sunday September 24th thanks to Anne and her small team. After the services donated dried and tinned goods were packed to be taken to YMCA while the gifts of fruit and vegetables were removed for the pop-up stall outside Rolleston Club on the following Tuesday. This sale made £61 for the work of the Salvation Army. The Harvest Supper and Quiz on Friday 6th October was enjoyed by guests, and made over £480 for church funds. Thanks go to Verity and her team for organising this.
Future Events
The next event will be the History Day on November 18th and there is a separate advertisement for this elsewhere in this issue.
Then we shall be looking forward to our Advent Festival, “A Taste of Christmas” from Friday 1st – Monday 4th December 1 – 6pm daily. It is always a surprise to see how different the interpretations of the year’s theme can be, and I am sure this time will be no exception. There has been the usual good response from organisations, but it is not too late for more contributions from individuals (or indeed organisations if I have omitted any!) If anyone would like to take part please ring me on 813320 or email martin.43@btinternet.com.
We are to welcome Beatus on Friday 1st at 7.30 for an evening of song and seasonal refreshments and tickets will be available from start of November from “the usual suspects”, or ring 813320.
A spoiler alert, we are planning a “Pudding Party” early in the New Year, so look out for the posters!
Sylvia Martin
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Sunday 3rd December 9.30am
Advent Service
Sunday 17th December 6.30pm
Carols by Candlelight
Sunday 24th December Christmas Eve
9.30am Christingle Service
3.00pm Children's Nativity Service TBC
11.30pm Midnight Christmas Communion
Monday 25th December Christmas Day
8.00am Holy Communion
10.00am Family Holy Communion
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1919-2019 End of the Great War and a Treaty for Peace Anniversary
It is a desire for the Church and community to mark this significant event. In 2019 it will be 100 years since the village came together to mark the great loss to the village of their sons in 1914-1918 and to give them a place to remember their loved ones. The Lych Gate was built from scratch as a designated War Memorial for the village with the gift of seasoned Oak from the Mosley estate.
Since that date an act of remembrance has taken place every year on the 11th November at 11am to gather as a village to say those words carved into the war memorial ‘Lest We Forget’. Recently the uniformed organisations in the village with the support of the Rolleston Royal British Legion have begun a weekly act of remembrance and a marking with a poppy the anniversary of death of the individuals. In these 100 year anniversaries the bells of the church have also been rung out as an act of remembrance.
Our generation like that generation of 100 years ago commit ourselves to remember. To that end the name boards of both wars have been refurbished by a specific villager’s donation but there is also a desire to see this 100 year anniversary of the war memorial commemorated.
It is the intention of the PCC to move the upper steps of the Lych Gate back from the inner arch to allow for better height access and also or more importantly to allow better standing room within the war memorial. It is proposed to carve into the rising steps the dates 1919-2019 and the words Rolleston Remembers.
The Bishop of Stafford has been invited and has accepted the invitation to an Act of Remembrance in November 2019 based around the theme of Peace.
A scheme together with permission is being sought and then costs and funding will be organised. We hope that you can be a part of this within our village and community as a tribute to the past generations.
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Gardens Sunday is just over, with a bumper selection of gardens this year, all much enjoyed by our visitors. In addition to teas at the Scout HQ, where visitors were entertained by “Local Vocals”, a second venue in Dovelea gave people the chance to sit and enjoy a welcome cup of tea and cake at the other end of the village. The Flowerpot people & animals in the churchyard proved popular and the People’s Choice vote went to Rolleston W.I for the Trump Tea Party, family category was won by Roy Clarke & his grandchildren and child category by Jessica & Oliver Ellis.
We are very grateful to all who opened their gardens as well as the stalwart band of helpers who enabled us to raise around £1800 for St Mary’s.
We are now looking forward to a return visit by Diamond Cut, ladies barbershop singers, with Pimms and canapés kindly sponsored by Richard Minns of Johnson Tidsall, Chartered Accountants & Lionel Conner of Samble, Burton & Worth, Solicitors respectively.
Autumn will bring our Harvest celebrations starting with the 9.30am. service on Sunday 24th September when gifts of home grown produce & flowers are welcome together with tins of food / dried goods suitable for the YMCA food bank. On Tuesday 26th from 9.00 we shall be selling produce outside Rolleston Club in aid of the Salvation Army, so make a date to come and pick up a bargain! Harvest Supper this year will be Friday October 6th, tickets from church.
Finally, we look forward to the Advent Festival, this year, Dec 1st – 4th on the theme of ”A Taste of Christmas”. This year will be our 12th Festival and each year has produced amazing and thought provoking interpretations of the theme, St Mary’s is very fortunate that so many village organisations and individuals are willing to join in this event. Anyone interested in being part of this year’s Festival is invited to a very short meeting in church on Wednesday September 6th at 7pm.
The opening concert will see a welcome return of “Beatus”, choral group on Friday December 1st, tickets from “the usual suspects”, or ring 01283 813320.
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We shall be running the Grand Garage Sale Tour in conjunction with Transport Day on Monday 29th May. For any newcomers to the event, it is an opportunity to declutter your home by holding a sale in your garage/garden which will be advertised on our Sale Map. The map will be available with the Transport brochure on sale on the day, the vintage bus touring the village will enable buyers to visit the sales. You will find the registration form for the Sale elsewhere in this Rollestonian. As usual there will be a Sale on the Rectory drive and if you would like to donate goods for this please take them to the Rectory during the week before the Sale.
We shall also be working hard providing refreshments in the Old Grammar School, offers of help as well as cakes will be very welcome.
With the warmer weather thoughts move towards gardening and our Open Garden Sunday on July 2nd. We are always looking for new gardens and I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who might want more information, or even just to take the plunge and join us. Rolleston prides itself on the variety of gardens on show, so yours cannot be too small, too large, not tidy enough or any other excuse (!), just give me a ring on 01283 813320. Thank you !
If you don’t want to open your garden, give a thought as to whether you could join in the Flower Pot People display in the churchyard. There is great scope for your imagination, but to start you off here are some glimpsed in Buxton last year. Entries should be taken to the churchyard on July 2nd after 11am where they will be registered. As usual there will be a “People’s Choice” vote from visitors during the afternoon.
There will be a “Pimms and Canapes” evening on Friday July 21st with entertainment by “Diamond Cut”, the amazing Ladies Barbershop group who entertained us last December. Posters and more information will be around nearer the date.
Lastly we are to hold a repeat of the Craft Fair in church in conjunction with the Rolleston Club Gala on Monday August 28th. We are particularly looking for people who are willing to demonstrate their hobbies and encourage others to have a go. If you have a skill we would love to hear from you.
Sylvia Martin
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After the celebration of Christmas comes to another event ... the Christmas stuff to be packed away again for another year and doing so finding a lot more ‘stuff’ that we have accumulated. It is the same every year – “Why do we have so much stuff?” This was brought home to me at Church when in time for the church’s celebration of Epiphany [the arrival of the Kings] the stable, animals, Mary & Joseph and even Jesus had been packed off into storage. Nowhere for the Kings to visit and the loss of a sermon illustration! It still keeps me on my toes to stay fresh.
Trying to stay fresh comes to us all. Sixteen Christmas’ now and sixteen Christmas messages, nearly fifteen Easters and fifteen Easter messages and then we have had numerous village events and special services in addition to the regular week by week services and the opening up daily of the church.
Each and every time I open up church in the morning and ‘say one for you’ and each time I take a service I am reminded that I am doing this out of love; the love for this village and the love of being here. A God given love which I thank him for daily in sending us to you back in 1999.
We as people often continue to remember because of Love, and it is through Love that we remain fresh in whatever situation we have been called to.
For me here in Rolleston it is a growing realisation that here in this village God is at work in lives and situations I couldn’t even have guessed at when I first came here. It takes time to see that, like realising that whilst some ‘stuff’ has to be put away other ‘stuff’ has to be kept for today out of love.
Ian Whitehead Rector
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The last event of 2016, “A Winter’s Tale” was said by many of our visitors to be the best yet! The creativity of those who took part and helped to fill the church with over 40 displays, ranging from “Tales to Tails” was amazing and we are so grateful to all of them, not forgetting the “snowflake cottage industry”.
Money raised from the Festival was to go towards new lighting in the church.
The Barbershop Evening featuring “Gem Connection” which opened the Festival was well received, and the group very generously donated half of their fee towards the lighting project. This helped to raise over £2,800 during the long weekend.
Fund raising for this project over the past year has gone well and the work of providing up-to-date lighting within the church will start soon. We hope to invite “Gem Connection” to return and perform in the new setting.
We expect to be running the “Grand Garage Sale Tour” again this year in conjunction with Transport Day, Monday May 29th. This event proves popular with visitors and Rollestonians alike and for those who do not want to hold their own sale there is usually room on the Rectory stall.
Thoughts now turn to our other major fund raiser, Garden Sunday, this year July 2nd.
My usual plea, would you like to join in and invite visitors to your garden? It doesn’t have to be big, the odd weed is welcome, we just want people who enjoy their garden and would like to share it with like-minded others! Please do think whether you could be part of the day and give me a ring on 813320, when I would be happy to talk to you about the event.
I’m sure from previous years people remember Scarecrows, Barmy Barrows & Potty Pots, well, this year’s challenge will be Flowerpot People, inspirational pictures in next Rollestonian!
Sylvia Martin
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Last updated: 12 November 2017