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Buckden Roundabout
October 2017
St Hugh’s and Methodist Church
Catholic Church of St Hugh of Lincoln, High Street,
Buckden
Telephone:
01480 810344
Website:
saintshughandjoseph.churchgoers.co.uk
In the pastoral care of the Claretian Missionaries:
Fr. Chris Newman cmf
Fr. Angel Ochagavia cmf
Fr. Peter Wareing cmf
Fr. Paul Peter Alphonse cmf
Sunday Masses
- Saturday evening at 6.30 pm and Sundays at
9.45 am.
Weekday Masses
- Monday to Saturday at 9.30 am in the Lady
Chapel.
Morning and Evening Prayer
Monday to Saturday at 9.15 am
and 5.45pm in the Lady Chapel.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
every Saturday from 10.00 to
10.30 am.
The Rosary
is prayed each Monday morning after the 9.30 am
Mass.
Catechism Classes
for school age children each Sunday from
9.00 am in term time. Formal classes for primary age children.
Silent Adoration.
There is half an hour of silent adoration be-
fore the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday following the 9.30
am Mass and ending with Benediction at 10.30 am.
Would any newcomers to the Village who are Catholics
please let Fr. Chris Newman know their contact details
.
Buckden Methodist Church
Minister:
Rev. Paul Beard
(01480 473444)
Stewards:
Angie Barnes (810102)
Bob Baxter (810092)
Carol Swepstone (810053)
Services in October
Sunday 1
st
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Mjr. McClenahan (Salv. Army)
Sunday 8
th
10.30 a.m. Holy Communion Service: Rev. Paul Beard
Sunday 15
th
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Rev. Pam Siddall
5 p.m.
Circuit Tea & Service at Ramsey
Sunday 22
nd
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Mr. Don Moorman
Sunday 29
th
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Mrs Wendy Beard
Activities in October
Friday 6
th
:
10 a.m.
Coffee Morning
Monday 9
th
:
12.30 p.m.
Study Lunch
Tuesday 10
th
:
9.30 a.m.
Quiet Time
Friday 13
th
:
12 noon
Coffee Morning
Friday 20
th
:
10 a.m.
Soup and Sweet Lunch
Tuesday 24
th
:
9.30 a.m.
Bible Study
Friday 27
th
:
10 a.m.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Two Kings, two Queens and great turmoil (1551-1559)
Part 7 in the story of Buckden Church, celebrating the 800
th
anniversary of William de Bugden, our first recorded priest in 1217.
Last month, we spoke of vicar Henry White; not only did he pray with Katherine of Aragon and bury two dukes, but he was pre-
sent at the death of Bishop Henry Holbeche (who died of the ‘English sweat’, a virulent virus, like the two Dukes of Suffolk only
one month previously). Bishop Henry had been the first Bishop of Lincoln permitted to wed, marrying Joan in the 1540s. It is
likely that Henry White was our first married vicar, although we have not yet traced his wife.
The sixteenth century was a time of great turmoil in the English church and society. Henry VIII declared himself head of the
church (in place of the Pope) in 1534 and began the destruction of the monasteries and stripping of some churches. Buckden
seems to have survived this period, but when his Protestant son King Edward VI came to power in 1547, his advisors visited all
churches removing items of value for the treasury. St. Mary’s lost 5 of its, then, 6 bells, almost all its silver, valuable vestments
etc. in 1552. Gild chapels, Lady Chapels and rood lofts were considered superstitious and ours were closed and removed at that
time.
Catholic Queen Mary succeeded her brother in 1553 and replaced the Protestant bishops with her own if the incumbents did
not convert back to the ‘old religion’. Bishop of Lincoln, John Taylor refused to convert and was only saved from the scaffold by
his timely natural death. Thomas Dematte, St. Mary’s vicar, was replaced by the Catholics Philip de Rus, Robert Taylor and Rob-
ert Neelson in fairly quick succession.
When Queen Elizabeth I succeeded Mary in 1558, Neelson was replaced by a Protestant vicar, William Ambre soon after. All
but two of Mary’s bishops swore allegiance to Elizabeth and became Protestants. One of the two being Thomas Watson of Lin-
coln, he was sent to the Tower of London in 1559, thence to a cell in Wisbech Castle where he died, still a staunch Catholic, 25
years later.