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Buckden Roundabout
February 2019
Church News
Weekly Prayer Roster
Each week during the year the Churches, in their prayers, remember the residents of particular streets in the village, those who
work in the parish and village organisations. Those to be remembered this month are:
3rd February
The Parish Council, The Village Hall and Playing Field Trust; those who help to run the Village
Hall, and the activities there
10th February
Greenway, Aragon Close, Hoo Close, Bishops Way
17th February
Village shops, and those who work in them; businesses based in the village, hotels, inns, and
those who work at home; homemakers, carers, the unemployed and underemployed, and all
visitors to the village
24th February
Clubs and societies, their leaders and members, volunteers, and the team that produces and
distributes the Buckden Roundabout
STUDY LUNCHES
11
th
February - study lunch
Lent lunches begin on 11
th
March for five weeks
Methodist Church Hall 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
Contact:
Ann Brittain
on
812012
Thought for the Month
Dear friends,
We’re now well into 2019, and it probably won’t be long be-
fore we start saying how rapidly the year seems to be passing!
Maybe it’s a sign of advancing years, but life does seem to be
going by ever more quickly.
Although most of 2019 is still ahead of us, we do know that it
will be an unusually significant year for us in Buckden as well
as in the UK as a whole. Locally our village faces the prospect
of significant new housing development with all the attendant
changes that will bring, and the Parish Council are busy work-
ing to develop a Neighbourhood Plan to allow us to set out
our vision of the future of Buckden. Nationally, of course the
UK is on the cusp (at least at time of writing) of formally leav-
ing the European Union. Whatever our personal views, there
can be little doubt that both these events, along with others
that will no doubt happen during the year will in due course
affect all our lives and those of many generations to come.
So at the risk of stating the obvious we continue to live in a
time of change. But in the midst of that change, many of us
also seek some security, some groundedness. The physical
presence of St Mary’s and the other churches, in the heart of
the village act as a symbol to remind us that whatever else
happens there is a loving God, who is the same ‘yesterday,
today and for ever’. And as long as three thousand years ago
one of the writers in the bible encouraged us to seek this se-
curity when he or she wrote this; ‘Be still and know that I am
God’. At St Mary’s we treasure the fact that the church is
open every day of the year to be a place of quiet peace where
anyone can come to be still, find peace and connect to God
through prayer, and I know that many people both residents
and visitors find this helpful. As life for many of us continues
to pass in a blur, and wherever we stand with God at the mo-
ment that invitation to use St Mary’s as a place to be still re-
mains open to all. I hope that as the year moves on and
changes continue happen many of us will continue to do so.
Best wishes,
Jes
Rev Jes Salt. Priest in Charge, Buckden and Offord
Buckden Bites
Did you know…?
...The vicar of Buckden, Simon, admitted on 17
th
July 1337
that he owed London hosier, Robert, son of William de Tav-
erner, £24 10s. 0d.
From Buckden A Short History and Plan, S.B Edgington, 1980