Newsletter 2017_18

REDESDALE RITES

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN

Elsdon

Otterburn

Horsley

Byrness

Revd Peter Mander 01830 520212 redesdale.vicar@gmail.com

Services and Events

A Message from ‘Otters’

The poster is on display at the back of St John’s Church

Sunday 28th May

Sunday after Ascension Day -

Readings: Acts 1.6-14 & John 17.1-11

9.00 am: Parish Communion, Holy Trinity Horsley

11.00 am: Mattins (BCP), St Cuthbert Elsdon

2.00 pm: ELSDON TEA SET

Tea, Coffee, Sandwiches, Cakes and Company

Elsdon Village Hall

All welcome

Last week’s mystery photo.

The head of the lectern eagle at St John the Evangelist, Otterburn, ‘an exceptional piece of Victorian woodwork, made of oak and given to the church in 1863 by Thomas James of Otterburn Tower’

THE FLYING eagle is the symbol of John the Evangelist (see Revelation, ch 4, v 7) who proclaimed Christ as 'the Word of God' at the beginning of his Gospel. The flying eagle is thus a suitable emblem from which God's word is read, reaching (we hope) the ends of the earth. The eagle is also thought of as the bird which flies nearest to heaven.

Another picture next week

Wednesday 31st May

10.00 am: Holy Communion with prayer for healing

2.15 pm: Funeral Service for Margaret Scott,

West Road Crematorium Newcastle

Thursday 1st June

Bishop Mark Tanner,

Suffragan Bishop of Berwick will be visiting the Deanery. I will be showing him round our part of the parish in the afternoon. He will then be at the Deanery Synod.

7.30 pm: Deanery Synod Meeting,

Corsenside Village Hall, West Woodburn

Sunday 4th June

(Day of Pentecost - Whit Sunday)