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Buckden Roundabout
March 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 March
Cranfield Way, Cranfield Close, Weir Close, Smith Drive, Lucks Lane, Morris Close
10th March
Buckden Surgery: the doctors, nurses, receptionists, pharmacists, health visitors and midwives;
those we know who are in hospital, the elderly, disabled and housebound
17th March
Farming communities, Taylor’s Lane (West), Hardwick Lane, the residents and staff of Hardwick
Dene, Great North Road, Brampton Road, Perry Road, Buckden Wood
24th March
High Street, Ivelbury Close, York Yard, Lion Yard, George Lane, King George Court, Taylor’s Lane
(East), Wolsey Gardens, Charles Court
31st March
Hunts End, Copes Close, Monks Cottages, Hunts End Court
LENT STUDY LUNCHES
12.30 – 2 p.m. starting 11
th
. March for 5 weeks in the Methodist School room.
Everyone is welcome. Soup and bread lunch.
We will be looking at the Beatitudes using a book with the title, 'Life Attitudes".
St. Matthew's Gospel chapter 5 verses 3 – 10.
Each week will have a different focus:
living well, living openly, living purposefully, living lovingly and living differently.
Contact:
Ann Brittain
on
812012
Thought for the Month
Dear Readers,
Greetings in the Holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ. As
we are entering an important season of the year, the
season of lent I would like to share my thoughts on one
of our aspects of our life which we all do as easily as
possible without having any room for further reflection:
Judgement. I would like to base my sharing on Matthew
7:1-5. He starts with an imperative “Do not judge”. Why
do you think Jesus says to us not to judge? First of all,
judgement is often a means of control, not a means of
looking for the truth. If we look for truth we will halt for
a while before passing a judgement. If we are trying to
control, then our attitude will be judgmental. This is
what Jesus condemns. It is a means of securing the self
or undoing other people by categorizing them. Some-
times we hate and condemn ourselves in the same way.
Jesus does not encourage people to condemn them-
selves either whatsoever the situation is.
That type of judgment is not of God. It’s another way of
eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and
gaining a false sense of security or moral high ground.
We become defensive. Our survival personality is active
to protect ourselves.
Yet there’s another form of judgment that is absolutely
necessary: choosing for ourselves between two options.
This is a value, this is not a value; this is what God is call-
ing me to, this is not what God is calling me to. You may
say we have got to make judgments. Yes, it’s true Jesus
invites us to make choices but not judgments. Jesus calls
us to choose between good and bad, right or wrong. Let
us try to discern during the season of lent what God is
calling us to do. Let us try our best to keep in mind dur-
ing this lent and at all times the golden rule of our Lord
and Saviour. “Do to no one what you would not want
them done to you”. God’s love is always more beautiful
than our desires. I wish you all a good preparation of
Lent for the meaningful celebration of EASTER.
Rev. Antony Arockiam CMF
St Hugh’s Catholic Church
Buckden