The following are usually listed in order of publishing or amendment date.Please scroll down the entire list in case you miss something important. Clicking on a title takes you straight to the respective news story. Of great importance is a reminder of our Prayer for peace in Ukraine and throughout our troubled World.Page 1List of all our News Stories. Grapevine - Latest EditionKnow your Bible? - May.What's in a WordPage 2A Letter for May from Rev'd Alison - The Coronation of King Charles III. News from our Diocese of Truro.A letter of Reflection Upon The Easter Story from Reverend Nicki.Our Daily Prayer Hour.Page 3A Layman's Point of View for April - Till death do us part.Something wonderful happened at St Paternus.Turkey/Syria Earthquakes - War in UkraineUrgent help still needed for the people of Ukraine.Page 4Ukraine without war - Prayer and Peacetime pictures.A Prayer for peace in Ukraine and throughout the World. Do you have any questions or comments on any of the above stories? If so, please use the 'Send Us a Message' form near the foot of our 'Get in Touch' page, choosing 'Other' as a subject, and we will do our best to help.PLEASE NOTE: Our church is open for prayers every day during the daytime and we invite you to visit the church as often as possible to pray for peace in Ukraine and throughout the world.
'Grapevine` announces and gives news of services and events in our Egloskerry and Moorland group of churches, lists church wardens and sets out prayers and reflections appropriate to the time. This latest edition takes us through the period from Sunday 28th May to Sunday 4th June. You can read a printable pdf of 'Grapevine' by simply clicking on the Download button as well the previous week's edition. PLEASE NOTE. This and all other entries in 'News and Notices' are usually listed in order of date published or amended.
Welcome to the fifth edition of our monthly 'Know Your Bible?' quiz. The Book of Ezra.The Jewish people have a turbulent history. One of claiming the promised land as their own and one of losing it to a succession of invaders.A most notable defeat, actually the third of three in that period alone, was to the Babylonians in the years 587-586 BC, when they were forced into exile. The Babylonians wasted no time in destroying the much revered sacred Temple of Solomon, which was subsequently left in ruins for some 70 years. This quiz takes us through the Old Testament Book of Ezra, recounting the period when the Jews returned to their homeland to initially rebuild the temple of Jerusalem. Q1 - This Old Testament book is generally accredited to Ezra, but who else do other scholars think wrote the book? Q2 - Having conquered the Babylonian empire, the King of Persia was appointed by God in the first year of his reign to do something special for the Jewish people. What was it?Q3 - What was the name of this king?Q4 - Apart from servants and temple singers, how large was the company of people who returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple? Q5 - A sizeable donation of 61000 drachmas was made towards the cost of rebuilding. Who by? Q6 - Where did all the people stay during the rebuilding of the temple?Q7 - Was the temple rebuilt on its original site? If not, where?Q8 - What was the first part of the temple to be constructed and why?Q9 - With great ceremony the priests in all their vestments sang a short verse of thanksgiving to the Lord. What was this verse?Q10 - As the temple rebuild and it's surrounds grew, there developed considerable opposition to it. What was the ultimate effect of this?Q11 - Under the reign of Artacerxes' successor, King Daras, permission was given for the Temple building to resume. But as time progressed more objectors came forward and tried to stop the rebuild. In the end, it's future became very doubtful, unless the original decree issued by King Cyrus could be found. Where was it?Q12 - What tainted the resettled Jerusalem society once the temple had been rebuilt?I hope you enjoyed this May edition of our Know Your Bible? quiz and found it not too challenging! Reading through the story, it made me realise just how important this period was in the long and turbulent history of the Israelites. The answers, except for Question 1, can be found in the Bible of course but they are in any case published the following month. The questions and answers for last month's quiz are set out below. Thank you for taking part.I hope you do well!Ken (Ed).APRIL QUIZ - QUESTIONS & ANSWERSQ1 - To which other well-known book in the Holy Bible is St John accredited?A - RevelationsQ2 - What did the crowd shout out as they met him on his entry into Jerusalem?A - "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel!"Q3 - For such a great person, a lowly donkey was seen by the disciples as being unworthy to carry Jesus on his triumphant entry into Jerusalem. What was the reason for Jesus riding on a donkey?A - Because it had been prophesied by Zechariah Ch 9, v 9 - Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.Q4 - When did Jesus predict his death at this time?A - At the feast he attended after arriving in Jerusalem on the donkey.Q5 - What group of people where principal in the condemnation of Jesus?A - The Pharisees.Q6 - What did Jesus do to point out he who would betray him and who was this disciple?A - He dipped a piece of bread into a dish and gave it to Judas Iscariot.Q7 - Jesus predicts Peter's denial of his association with him. What did he say?A - Before the cock crows, you will have disowned me three times.Q8 - What did Peter do to the high priest's servant when Jesus was being arrested?A - He cut off his right ear.Q9 - At the public trial of Jesus, Pontius Pilate reluctantly gave the crowd an alternative prisoner to free instead of Jesus. Who was this man and what had he done to be arrested?A - Barabbas. He had taken part in a rebellion.Q10 - Pontius Pilate had prepared a notice to be pinned on the cross of Jesus. What did it say?A - JESUS OF NAZARETH. KING OF THE JEWS.Q11 - Two people took the body of Jesus to the tomb in a garden. They also took with them a mixture of myrrh and aloes to prepare the body. Who were these two people?A - Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.Q12 - John describes the scene in the empty tomb after Jesus had risen from the dead, on the morning of the first day of the week. Who was the first to witness this scene and what did she see? Then what happened?A - Mary Magdalene discovered the tomb entrance stone rolled away. She was followed by two disciples who later left. She then looked inside the tomb again and saw two Angels sitting where Jesus' body had lain. Then the risen Jesus appeared to her. PLEASE NOTE. This and all other entries in 'News and Notices' are usually listed in order of date published or amended.
Dream. Fans of the late Everly Brothers will remember the title of one of their greatest hits "All I have to do is dream". The sentiment of this song is that the dreamer is pining for his loved one and finds great solice in dreaming about her. We all dream. Those of us who say they don't are just not remembering them. And, contrary to previous scientific assessment, we can dream at pretty well any time during the sleep cycle. They can be states of longing, as in the song that I have just mentioned or of fear, of happiness or of any other state you may find yourself in. They can be of total nonsense too!Exactly what is a dream? Putting it in one sense, it is a series of brain activities that recreate and manipulate the experiences of the wakeful state. There are no limits to dreams. In a dream you can make and hear sounds, be involved or be an onlooker and you can even smell. A dream can be as simple as a series of still pictures or as complex as a blockbuster movie and can last for just a couple of seconds or be as long as well over an hour.It is said that the best way to bore people is to tell them about a dream you have had, so I shan't, except that I AM going to dwell upon an important potential link between the dream state and communication from Heaven.The Bible is full of communications from God and his Angels to earthly beings. Pharaoh's warning of seven years of famine, Jacob's dream of a ladder leading to Heaven and Joseph's visit in a dream from an Angel telling him that Mary was to bear the Son of God. These are all well known and fully accepted examples of such communications. But why dreams and not communications in the wakeful state?From these three examples, I can see a clear prophesy of a massive life changing experience. All three foretold such an event. Pharaoh was able to stave off the effects of seven years of disastrous famine and Joseph, of course, in interpreting the dream from God for Pharaoh, became a very powerful and influential figure throughout Egypt. Jacob was to become the leader of all the tribes of Israel, the Father of the fledgling nation. Joseph and Mary were to become the earthly parents of the Son of God, and you can't get more life changing than that can you!In the state of sleep our minds are generally much more relaxed than when awake. To have to take in what those three recipients had to absorb would need a very, very high state of relaxation and, of equal importance, unchallenging receptiveness. What better way therefore to take on board news of such a life changing experience than when in a state of sleep!We'll never know, of course, how they would have reacted if they had been told when fully awake, going about their everyday and busy lives, but I'm sure that they were jolly glad not to have been!I can remember a dream I had........No, I did promise, didn't I? Perhaps next time!Ken. PLEASE NOTE. This and all other entries in 'News and Notices' are usually listed in order of date published or amended.
