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February 2024 Issue 80 Lent 2024

Our 80th issue and this month we look forward to Lent 2024 and all that we have on offer to mark it as a Parish.  All the usual features plus a NEW monthly quiz! No man ever said, at the end of his days, ‘I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul.’ J. C. Ryle February24_autocolour.pdf Issue 80 – February 24 Post expires at 1:25pm on Saturday February 1st, 2025

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Notes for Sunday 28 January 2024

Dear friends, The year has gone off with a flying start for our churches. The already popular after school club and preparations in full swing for the revival of ‘Open the Book’, the Lent course and the Quiet Day. Read more in the notes attached. Lent lunches will be back this year following the success from last year. More information will follow soon. The dates are already in our website calendar together with all the latest information for all the PCC activities: www.capelandockleychurch.org.uk/events-calendar/ The pictures today are from two different walks, both quite nearby: Leith Hill and Beare Green to Anstiebury Farm. We are so lucky to live in this beautiful part of the world. God Bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20240128.pdf Weekly Notes Readings-20240128.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 11:43am on Monday January 27th, 2025

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Candlemas Bells

Revd Liz RichardsonWell I hope this letter finds you well?! January was a really nasty winter month for those pesky winter germs, coughs, and all sorts, as well as the cold weather. As we come into February I am sure we will be encouraged by the growth of the early flowering spring bulbs and blossoms. February for us at church looks to be quite a busy month. The season of Lent is early this year beginning with Ash Wednesday on the 14th of this month and of course it is also Valentine’s Day! This year we are invited for a special service of Holy Communion with what is called the Imposition of Ashes (you get a lovely black mark on your forehead!) at St Peter’s Church Newdigate. Then we will be running a Lent Course this year called ‘Be Still’. The course is about prayer and explains how we don’t necessarily have to be physically still in order for our hearts to be still and how even in the midst of a full, busy life, we can all spend quiet time with God. I am really looking forward to doing this course! Each of the five sessions takes about an hour and… Read More

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Notes for Sunday 21 January 2024

Dear friends, That was a short sharp spell of winter weather! The pictures this week were taken on a walk in Warnham Nature reserve. What a privilege to have that little gem on our doorstep: a wildlife oasis hemmed in between Horsham town and two busy roads. The attached notes give details of several Lent initiatives so please read. Next week we will also be starting the campaign for the Lent lunches. These proved very successful last year and we hope to attract even more people this time around. We look forward to a time of looking inward and go out into the community. God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20240121.pdf Weekly Notes Readings-20240121.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 11:28am on Monday January 20th, 2025

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Notes for Sunday 14 January 2024

Dear friends, What turbulent weather we have had! The picture attached is of the river Mole at Flanchford bridge. I took it on the day I collected Dik from East Surrey Hospital, which was just hours before the bridge was flooded. It’s good to see how well a flood plain works and why we shouldn’t be greedy and use the land for other purposes than summer grazing. It’s also a reminder to look after our rivers: make sure they don’t get polluted and in turn contaminate the land and our food chain. I hope you all enjoy the calm, crisp winter weather that we are now having. God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20240114.pdf Weekly Notes Readings-20240114.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 9:05am on Monday January 13th, 2025

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Notes for Sunday 7 January 2024: Epiphany

Dear friends, The first image of the year is of new shoots of unforced rhubarb in our garden. What a wonderful early sign of spring. The old leaves have not yet entirely died down and are still feeding the root system that will be producing many young shoots to come. I feel there’s a lesson in there somewhere. Happy new year and God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd Readings-20240107.pdf Weekly Readings notes-20240107.pdf Weekly Notes Post expires at 12:23pm on Monday January 6th, 2025

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January 2024 Issue 79

Happy new year to all our readers!  A packed issue to see in the New Year with the regular items and some interesting articles and puzzles to while away the cold, dark January days! A New Year’s Resolution To begin with oneself, but not to end with oneself; To start from oneself, but not to aim at oneself; To comprehend oneself, but not to be preoccupied with oneself. By Martin Buber (Austrian born Jewish philosopher) January-2024.pdf Post expires at 10:43am on Thursday January 2nd, 2025

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Notes for Sunday 31 December 2023

Dear friends, The last day of the year is upon us and even if we don’t make new year’s resolutions, we probably think a bit about new projects or things we plan to do differently. For me, I will take Rev Liz’s Christmas sermon to heart and be creative: imagine what the future could be like and change my ways to make it happen. Let us remember but not dwell on the past and move forward into the future we imagine, guided by the Light of the world. God bless, Dineke van den Bogerd notes-20231231.pdf Weekly Notes Readings-20231231.pdf Weekly Readings Post expires at 11:02am on Monday December 30th, 2024

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Hope…

Revd Liz RichardsonIn our churches as the year drew to an end and we begin the new year there have been some small booklets published by the Church of England called ‘Follow the Star – Join the Song – 12 Days of Reflections for Christmas and the New Year. The booklet invites you to hear and respond to the angels’ invitation to gather in the presence of the newborn Jesus. Well as you read this you may well be thinking about or have already put away the Christmas decs for another year but of course the Christmas story goes on leading us through Jesus’ childhood with the story of Simeon and Anna – people who recognised him in the Jerusalem Temple when he was brought by his parents to be presented to God as was the Jewish custom. The Christmas child grew up and began his ministry at the age of thirty. A ministry that lasted only three years before the authorities found a way to silence him or so they thought! Our church year soon turns from Jesus’ birth to adulthood and his experience in the wilderness, led by God’s Holy Spirit. Lent begins in earnest as we follow Jesus to… Read More

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