Graham Taylor

8th Sunday after Trinity

The services for this year have been planned taking into account the current Spanish government regulations, and the recommendations of the Diocese in Europe.

25th July – The Eighth Sunday after Trinity

11am Said Eucharist – Celebrant & Preacher: The Revd Rachel Ganney

12 noon Tenerife Virtual Church – This week we will join the multitude as they’re fed by Jesus. We will be live on YouTube https://youtu.be/QJLWkuAPzik Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/564485441080665 as well as on all of these websites http://tenerifevirtual.church/ and http://tenerifesouthchurches.com/

As always, the service sheet can be found at http://tenerifevirtual.church/servicesheet.pdf and please be ready with something similar to bread and wine if you’d like to join in with the agape meal part of the service.

APCM 2021

At the APCM on the 5th May, a new Chaplaincy Council was elected. Below are the members of the council.

In addition, flowers were presented to three people who have stepped down from the council or from specific roles.

Thanks to all who have contributed to the smooth running of the All Saints Chaplaincy, particularly during the very difficult pandemic period.

Fr Ron Writes . . .

Please click here for the archive page of Fr Ron’s letters

28th July 2021

Dear Friends,

Last week I considered the incredible influence that the sea has on our mental well-being and how important it is for many of us to be near the sea and those who have great skills that ride the gigantic forces that the sea exudes and the way in which people are renewed by its effect and power.

Whilst walking by beautiful rivers this same effect can be evident not just by the beauty of the reflection of the water from the sun or the swarms of fish and insects who live in rivers like the Test in the UK or the Dee in Scotland. But because water is actually emblematic of us. St Francis said in his famous Canticle, “Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Water, which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste”.

You see when I say water is us, we know water makes up 60-75% of the human body weight. A loss of just 4% of total body water leads to dehydration, and a loss of 15% can be fatal. Likewise, a person could survive a month without food but wouldn’t survive 3 days without water. This crucial dependence on water broadly governs all life forms. We are then naturally drawn to water’s essence because we are mainly made up of this crucial ‘element’, and maybe its swirling free effect reminds us that we are born to be free thinking in Christ and free acting individuals governed only by love, in a creation which is without doubt a moral universe. Within our moral universe it is being said by some Christian thinkers that the Corona Virus pandemic is a test. It’s a test of medical capacity and political will. It’s a test of endurance and forbearance, for believers a test of religious faith. It’s a test, too, of a different kind of faith, in the strength of the ideas humans choose to help them form moral judgments and guide personal and social behaviour. The epidemic forces everyone to confront deep questions of human existence, questions so profound that they have previously been answered, in many different ways, by the greatest philosophers. It’s a test of where all humans stand.

Pope Francis invoked sympathy for the most afflicted as he addressed a prayer to an empty St. Peter’s Square.
“We have realised that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other”.

Rowing together as Christians means that we can overcome the evils of the day, it means that we can work at the commandments of our God of the universe, by caring for others, feeding the hungry, taking the homeless off the streets, comforting the broken, and caring for the sick.
Jesus said,

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ (Matthew 25:31-40 NIV)

A Prayer:

Most High, good Lord,
You reveal to us through the creation
that all creatures are related as brothers and sisters.
Grant us, Lord, the grace to see Your beauty and likeness
in created things, that we may grow closer to you in loving and serving them and in showing care for you creation.
Amen.

Fr Ron Corne
Chaplain

Important Announcement

Car Boot Sales

PLEASE NOTE: It had been hoped that we would be able to have a Car Boot Sale in February, however this will not be possible. We are continuing to monitor the Government regulations and hope that we will be able to restart them soon, although at this stage we have no idea when that will be.

Wendy Sanderson – Churchwarden
31st January 2021

Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal

This year’s Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal raised €491.17. Due to the pandemic only 10 poppy tins were distributed which included 2 used by All Saints.

Many thanks to both campuses of the British School of Tenerife, Los Realejos and La Luz, who between them raised over 50% of the total. Breakdown as follows:
British School of Tenerife – Los Realejos campus €57.68
British School of Tenerife – La Luz campus. €198.49
All Saints Church raised €138.12

On top of the above monies will be added the proceeds of the collection from Remembrance Sunday, totaling €233.70, making a grand total of €724.87. Thanks to ALL who contributed!

Wendy Sanderson
Churchwarden

Remembrance Day Service, 8th November

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Today we were blessed to be able to hold our Remembrance Day Service at All Saints. A very poignant Service. Celebrant and Preacher The Revd Ron Corne. The wreath was laid by Peter Lockyer. Flowers by Kath Delgado and Judith Rigby. A beautiful rendition of God Save the Queen by Graham Taylor.

Worship Schedule

Until further notice, our service schedule will be:

Sunday 11am – Said Eucharist in Church (with 40 people maximum, socially-distanced).
Sunday 12noon – Online service – details of the links will be posted here each Saturday.
Wednesday 10am – Said Eucharist in Church, followed (at 11:15am) by Bible Study or Prayer Group on alternate weeks.

Any changes to this schedule will be notified here and on our All Saints Facebook page

Events at All Saints

Harvest Festival – Sunday 11th October
All Saints’ Day – Sunday 1st November
Remembrance Day – Sunday 8th November

Donate to All Saints

Dear Friends,

Thank you for visiting our website, we welcome you to our beautiful Church of All Saints Tenerife, to our Website and to online worship, as Jesus said, ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me’” (Matthew 25:35).

We are here to be as Jesus and so we seek to welcome you as we would Jesus!

These recent times have been most difficult for so many and also for us financially. Nevertheless, we are called to be here for you and although Covid has severely affected our finances we intend to keep our work here going both now and into the future but it has become necessary for us to make an appeal for financial assistance. May I commend to you our Treasure’s message.

With blessings
Fr. Ron Corne.
Chaplain

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

After our recently socially distanced Annual Parochial Church Meeting, I explained to the congregation the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on All Saints finances. One of the outcomes of the lockdown has been our monthly expenditure exceeding our income. Our main source of fundraising income, the monthly Car Boot sales and other events, have been stopped by the new covid-19 safety measures. We hope to resume these as soon as possible, but I doubt this will happen in the near future. If you are able, now would be a good time to take a moment to reflect upon your financial support of the Church and how you give.

As Treasurer, I would like to take this opportunity to encourage those who would normally put a regular donation into the plate to sign up to make their donations online. If you are a visitor to our website and feel called to help us in our mission to minister to God´s people and our wider community, please consider donating to All Saints. You will be in our thoughts and prayers.

Be Blessed and stay safe.

Cheryl Douglas
Treasurer

Licensing Service

On 6th August, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, Fr Ron Corne was licensed as Chaplain of All Saints, North Tenerife. The Celebrant and Preacher was the Venerable David Waller, Archdeacon of Gibraltar.

Click here to see a photo album of the occasion

Thanks to our Assistant Priest, the Revd Rachel Ganney, and Paul Ganney for their work in recording the service. Also, thanks to all those who made the occasion so special with arrangements in the church, and for the lunch afterwards.