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CHURCH NEWS
Weekly Prayer Roster
Each week during the year the Churches in their prayers, the residents of particular streets in the village, those
who work in the parish and village organizations. Those to be remembered this month are:
2nd November
Cranfield Way, Cranfield Close, Weir Close, Smith Drive, Lucks Lane, Morris Close
9th November
Buckden Surgery: the doctors, nurses, receptionists, pharmacists, health visitors
and midwives; those we know who are in hospital, the elderly, disabled and house-
bound
16th November
Farming communities, Taylor’s Lane (West), Hardwick Lane, the residents and staff
of Hardwick Dene, Great North Road, Brampton Road, Perry Road, Buckden Wood
23rd November
High Street, Ivelbury Close, York Yard, Lion Yard, George Lane, King George Court,
Taylor’s Lane (East), Wolsey Gardens, Charles Court
30th November
Hunts End, Copes Close, Monks Cottages, Hunts End Court
STUDY LUNCHES
The next Study Lunch will be on Monday 10th No-
vember from 12.30 to 2.00 pm in the Methodist
School Room, Everyone welcome. The final lunch
of the year is on Monday 8th December.
Contact:
Ann Brittain
on
812012
Thought for the month
In many Christian Churches the 1
st
November is the feast of All Saints. This is a day when we remember not just
the saints who have a special day, like St. Andrew on 30
th
November, but all the saints in heaven. That includes
not just those who have been officially recognised as saints but all those who have gone before us in faith and are
now in heaven. In this sense we will all have saints in our families.
The feast of All Saints is preceded by Halloween which now seems to have little connection with Christianity but
rather with trick-or-treating, apple bobbing and dressing up as witches etc. The name actually means All Hallows
Eve. Hallows being an old English word meaning holy or saintly which we still use when we say the Lord’s Pray-
er, ‘hallowed be thy name’.
Halloween then, in a Christian context, is a day for preparing to celebrate the feast of All Saints by clearing out of
our lives all that stops us from being saints ourselves. As an alternative to the usual Halloween activities, the
Buckden Churches this year organised for the children an ‘Angels and Saints’ event at the Methodist church from
5-6pm on the 31
st
October. Perhaps this is the emphasis that should be placed on All Hallows Eve.
All Saints’ Day is followed by the commemoration of All Souls. Both days commemorate the dead but the differ-
ence between them is that the first celebrates those in heaven and in the second we pray for those who have
gone before us in faith but are in a place of purgatory being purged of their sins before reaching heaven. We ask
the former to pray for us whilst we in turn pray for the latter. This is what we mean in the Christian Creed when we
say that we believe ‘in the communion of saints’ the community of the living and the dead forming one body in
Christ.
Fr. Chris Newman
1st Southoe & Buckden Scouts Group
This is prior warning that once again the Scouts will
be doing their Christmas Card delivery Service to the
people living in Buckden from December 1st until De-
cember 19th.
We are sorry but we cannot deliver to addresses out-
side the village. More information will appear in next
months’ roundabout.