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around the Parish This page shows the latest news in the life of the worshipping Community of St Wilfrid’s, the wider Diocese of Chichester alongside our national and international links. If you have any news or pictures, we would be grateful to receive these for the website. Ron Thomas It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of our much loved Verger, Ron Thomas on Thursday 18th February 2010 at the age of 73. Ron had been battling with a short illness before his death and had been continuing to serve as Verger until very recently. He was a much loved member of the congregation and undertook all Verger roles within the life of the church with care and diligence. The Funeral service will be in St. Wilfrid's Church at 1pm on Thursday 11th March.
The Cross - Meditations on
a Theme
On Sunday evening Fr. Andrew started to realise an 8yr ambition to do a series of talks during the Sundays in Lent on Meditations which utilise not only the sense of sound through prayer, readings from scripture and literature but also the visual senses in paintings - all to meditate on a specific theme - The Cross. Each of the 4 Sunday meditations uses the same reading from Isaiah 53:1-12 and this, the first, was using The Message translation by Eugene H. Peterson. The picture used as a visual focus was the arresting picture of the Crucifixion painted by Stanley Spencer in 1958.
The spoken parts of the service
Click here to listen to the service or go to the
Podcast Page
This series of Meditations in Lent is highly
commended - see the
events page for
the remaining Sunday evening services.
John Hayward
Our dear friend John Hayward passed away
on Sunday 14th February at St. Richard's Hospital. The
funeral service was held at St. Wilfrid's Church at 12:00
noon on Thursday 4th March. A full account of John's remarkable life
is being built up on our People's Page section and you
can read the first draft
with links to a recording of the complete service here.
from the Funeral Service at St. Wilfrid's
Church
Whole Funeral Service (52 mins)
Prayers Parish Lunch Youth Style 14th February Wendy Morris and her young helpers provided us with veritable feast
of entertainment served in three courses with some lunch thrown in for
good measure too! The free event (the cost of the food was met by the
group) was extremely well attended and no-one who wanted to come along
along after the morning service was turned away. Donations raised for
the HIV Charity was an amazing £423.50. Everything from the placing of
the tables, the table displays, the hall decorations to the wonderful
central setting of the cake deserts (see above) featured hearts and
focused on love. A huge thank you to all concerned for such a heartening
event and well done on raising so much money for such a worthwhile
cause. Auction of Promises
A huge thank-you to all who supported this successful event. Thank you to all who generously donated items to be auctioned and also to those who supported the evening by bidding for all the lots. It was great fun to see so many people bidding against one another for the lots in the catalogue - items ranging from dog walking to a dinner for ten, an airport taxi to house-work were all sold successfully. Our thanks must also go to our auctioneer supreme for the evening - Jonathan made things go very smoothly with his light-hearted quips and professional skills. A wonderful total was raised on the night of £3,106, this total will increase as we still have to include the generous sponsorship by Henry Adams & Leaders. Hopefully we will be able to publish the final figure in the next bulletin. From the Social Committee.
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