THE PARISH CHURCH OF STOKE DAMEREL
(ST. ANDREW & ST. LUKE)

Email:   info@stokedamerel.church                                          
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Please note: Stoke Damerel Church does not divulge
personal information to third parties.

Sunday 9 August                10th Sunday after Trinity

  Merciful God,
we entrust to your tender care
those who are ill or in pain,
knowing that whenever danger threatens
your everlasting arms
are there to hold them safe.
Comfort and heal them,
and restore them to health and strength;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

PLEASE PRAY FOR:-
The sick:-
Maureen, Margaret W, Graham, John S, Kathy, Mo, Matt,
Bertie, Morwenna, David J.
The long term sick and infirm:-
Diana, Liz & Keith N, Rob.
The recently departed:-
We give thanks for the life of Margaret Bibby,
and we pray for her daughter, Heather, and all
her family and friends at this sad time.
The Ministry Team:-
Ruth and Marilyn.

BLESSED SACRAMENT CANDLE

If you would like to have the candle lit for a week
for a particular prayer / thanksgiving /
commemoration, etc., please send a £5 donation to
Debbie Smith, clearly marking your donation as
being for the candle. Details of your intention can
be emailed to:- sarah.lundstrom@virginmedia.com
so that a mention of the commemoration, etc., can
appear in the Sunday Sheet.

SERVICES THIS WEEK
Stoke Damerel Parish Church is a hybrid church
open for public worship and private prayer and all
services will be live streamed.
By attending a live streamed service, you give
implied permission to have your image captured
on CCTV and to be broadcast as participant in the
liturgy.

Watch our livestreamed services
Please follow the link to make your way to our YouTube page: 

 STOKE DAMEREL YOUTUBE CHANNEL 

Sunday 9 August        10th Sunday after Trinity
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Trevor Filtness
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Trevor Filtness

Wednesday 12 August
1000 Morning Prayer

Sunday 16 August        11th Sunday after Trinity
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Brian Wood
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Fiona Lang

WELCOME BACK
To Rev’d Trevor Filtness.
Next Sunday Rev’d Brian will be with us at 8am.
At 10am we have Rev’d Fiona, taking her first
service with us since being ordained a priest.

DIAMOND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Many congratulations to John and Julia Steere,
who celebrate 60 years of married life together
on Thursday.
The other choir members will do their very best
to hold the fort next Sunday while John and Julia
spend a welcome few special days away
celebrating with their family.

SERVICE STREAMING UPDATE
We will continue to record services and upload them
later 'off-site'. You may need to switch from 'LIve'
option to 'Home' or 'Video' option to watch at
https://www.youtube.com/@StokeDamerelChurch/
videos.
Ian G

MARILYN'S MEMOS

WE HAVE A DATE FOR CELEBRATION
Rev’d Frances French will be “installed” as our
priest-in-charge on Monday evening 7th September
at 7pm. The service will be led by Bishop James
and it follows a particular pattern. We will be in
touch very soon, as there is a great deal to organise
and time speeds by very quickly! We will be
relying on support from everyone in our
congregation to make this very special evening
a joyful occasion. It might be that a rehearsal is
held for the service, as has happened with Rev’ds
Gemma and Keith. You may well imagine a rapid
email was sent to our architect, Ian Crosbie at Le
Page, to speed up the removal of the scaffolding
so that our bell ringers can get a few practices in
before the event.

VISIT OF DAC ETC
It is quite possible that we will have a visit on
Thursday 13th from those involved with sorting
out the repair of the wall, holding the grave stones
and protruding bones in the lower graveyard just
beyond the church garden. Maybe things will
move forward. Let us hope so: it has been a
protracted stream of emails since 2024.
Just in case you are not familiar with the DAC,
it is the Diocesan Advisory Council from Exeter:
those who must be obeyed and who give
permission for all things ecclesiastic following
applications for Faculties and endless emails.
They are a wonderful body who are very
supportive of our pleas for help.

NEXT INSTALMENT ON THE TELEPHONE SAGA
I was informed last week that the BT engineers
would be fixing the line over the 5 following
working days which made it Tuesday evening
latest. I then got a call from another technician
from a different part of the UK to say it was a most
complicated procedure, and BT had been obliged
to get permission from the city council to dig up
the graveyard which took 4 to 5 days. So those
who dig holes are due to dig tomorrow (Friday)
and as soon as the fault is located, an engineer will
be summoned. How frustrating!

WELCOME ATTENDANCE FROM
REV’D JOHN RICHARDS
We have been delighted on two Wednesdays
(Morning Prayer or monthly Eucharist) to
welcome Rev’d John into our midst again. His son
is acting as chauffeur. We sent love to Shirley as
she is not too well now. We also welcomed a
Ukrainian lady who has only been in Devonport
for two weeks.

SAD NEWS

I am very sorry to let you know that Margaret
Bibby died in the early hours of Thursday
morning. Heather would appreciate not receiving
phone calls at this very difficult time. I am sure
we could pass cards to her and family, should you
wish to communicate in this way. Many thanks.

ADVANCE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Sep 19 Devon Historic Churches Open Day
Oct 11 Harvest Thanksgiving Service
Oct 18 St. Luke’s Service
Nov 8 Remembrance Sunday
Nov 13 & 14 Christmas Fair

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN AUGUST
Jack Price, Penny Barnard, Maureen Wilson,
Catherine Gillhespy, Emma Bell, Ann Pitt.

ENYS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Perhaps I should have written this article a few
weeks ago, when any classical music lovers
interested in travelling down from Plymouth to the
Penryn area would have had time to plan a visit.
On the other hand, as this year’s five-day festival
finished last weekend, I am now able to report that
this event goes from strength to strength every
year. After some ad-hoc concerts performed over a
5-year period in the grounds of Enys House, Stefan
Rogers (cellist and conductor) and Ammal Bhatia
(violist and conductor), both young musicians who
had studied at the Royal Northern College of
Music, Manchester, decided to organise a week-
long festival. They gathered together other talented
musicians from that college and arranged the first
festival in 2023, performing in Enys House and
gardens, Penryn, Falmouth, and Mylor. This
proved to be a great success, so the event has been
repeated each year since, at the end of July or
beginning of August. Amazingly, for the external
performances in Enys gardens, the weather each
year has been ideal. Once again, this year the
musicians were able to perform outdoors,
accompanied around the grounds by an
appreciative audience. As can be seen in the
photographs below.





At the end of 2024, the organisation became a
registered charity and in March a partnership was
formed with the Cornwall Music Service Trust.
The intention is to present high-quality accessible
chamber music concerts and to engage with the
local community. As part of this year’s festival,
one day was set aside for visiting local care homes,
and discovery workshops have been held in local
schools. Also, this year, as part of the music to be
heard around Enys gardens, two youngsters from
local schools performed saxophone duets for the
same audience, after which a Masterclass was held
inside Enys House with James Gilbert, principal
clarinettist of the BBC Concert Orchestra.

This free instruction received by the young
musicians must have been invaluable to them.
Apart from James Gilbert, the youngsters were
also accompanied by pianist and broadcaster,
Keelan Carew, who on the following morning gave
a free and very impressive performance of works
by Debussy, Mel Banis, and Lili Boulanger, with a
wonderful encore of Manuel de Falla’s Ritual Fire
Dance.
The highlight of the week was at King Charles the
Martyr church in Falmouth when, for the first time
they managed to assemble an orchestra of over 20
musicians to perform Prélude à l’après-midi d’un
faune, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, and
Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. At the end
they received a rightly deserved standing ovation.
Tony Barnard