Manor Farm Barn

Folly Lane

Hough On the Hill

Grantham

Lincolnshire   Ng32 2BA

01400 250037

01400 261061

Church Services  

Hough Parish

Hough on the Hill, Gelston and Brandon Villages

To contact us:

St Mary’s Catholic Church Grantham

1, North Parade (Tel. 01476 563935)

Masses Saturday 6.00 pm Sunday 8.00 am, 10.00 am Most weekdays 9.00 am

GRANTHAM CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH.

Sunday Services are normally at 10.30am and 6.00pm

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Text Box: Services for July 2010 
Sunday 4th July				5th after Trinity 
09.30	Hough on the Hill			Matins
09.30	Marston				Holy Communion
10.45	Barkston				Matins
11.00	Belton			                          Family and Holy  Communion                                                                                       
Sunday 11th July				6th after Trinity 
09.15	Syston					Holy Communion
09.30	Hougham				Holy Communion
09.30	Hough on the Hill			Matins
10.45	Barkston				Holy Communion 

Wednesday 14th July  
14.15	St Nicholas Centre, Barkston		Holy Communion

Sunday 18th July 				7th after Trinity 
08.00	Hough on the Hill			Holy Communion
09.30	Marston				Holy Communion
10.45	Barkston				Holy Communion
10.45	Brandon				Family Service 

Sunday 25th July 				8th after Trinity 
09.15	Syston					Holy Communion
09.30	Brandon				Holy Communion
09.30	Hough on the Hill			Family Service
10.45	Barkston				Chocolate Church
17.00	Hougham				Evensong 

Wednesday 18th August  
14.15	St Nicholas Centre, Barkston		Holy Communion

Dear Friends

 

I read in the Church Times of 7th May that during the week before Easter (Holy Week), a vicar in the Diocese of Worcester displayed a flag outside his church, depicting Christ on the cross, and the words “This is Holy Week”. He was warned by his District Council that he needed to apply for advertising consent from the planning department as the church was advertising Christianity. The vicar “described his initial reaction as one of ‘shock and horror’. It seemed to him that it was further evidence of attempts by a ‘vocal minority’ to erode Britain’s Christian heritage.” As he said, “If you can’t fly a flag with a crucifix during Holy Week, what can you do?” (Quote from The Church Times, 7 May 2010. p5.)

 

What will happen next? A ban on church bells at weddings; not being able to wear a cross unless you sign a paper declaring that it’s nothing more than a piece of jewellery and has no religious significance; a priest not being able to comfort the dying; all crosses having to be removed from the exterior of churches; a ban on the distribution of parish magazines; a ban on infant baptism? Ridiculous? Well a couple of months ago, in a London Borough, a church was forbidden to put up a poster in it’s local library advertising it’s coffee morning.

 

Your local church may not be very important to you day-to-day. You may only go at Christmas or for family events. But there is a phrase that is very apt: “Use it or loose it”. It would be awful if we woke up one day and found our village churches closed through lack of interest, because not enough people had decided to stand up for the church and it’s Christian presence. If you want your village church to still be here in fifteen years time, as a place where your children can be baptised, where couples can be married and our departed loved ones commended to God, then I beg you to head the call… “YOUR CHURCH NEEDS YOU”

 

Every blessing, Reverend Lesley