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FTT^he wonderful grace of Our Lord Jesus ’ H can be claimed by all his followers, even JL though none of us are ever worthy of
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■' Our Lord’s message, as outlined in St Lukes Gospel ch. 4 vv 16 - 24 is "Good News to the poor, release for the captives, sight for the blind and liberty for the oppressed." We welcome release from the captivity of sin most grateful-x^ ly, along with the new insight and spiritual eye-, sight for those of us who have been blind to the possibilities of the new life offered with Christ
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The Jews of our Lord’s day thought of God as a great avenger who punished sinners to the
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utmost into following generations. They could not imagine a loving, forgiving God. They preached everlasting hell fire and eternal damnation for sinners.
As descendants of Abraham they thought ■ .
that they qualified for a special dispensation and heartlessly'expected God's severest punish ments to descend on sinful Gentiles, inevitable fodder for the fires of hell. They, anticipated
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1/3 THE ARCADE, KING LANE, CLITHEROE yearsago. C
litheroe’s Mrs Patty Trotter could not have known who was knocking at her front door one December day nearly three
j I past family connection she knew little about,
Neither could she have envisaged that on answering the door she would be opening up a
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I She was nonplussed when the man at the door introduced himself in a soft American accent as Mike Kelly, the godfather she knew she had, but
and a future kinship th a t would lead to a Transatlantic trip of a lifetime.
had never met. He had been at her christening some 40 years before, but she had heard nothing of him herself,
so it was with a good deal of curiosity that she ushered the dark, grey-haired stranger in
I through her front door that winter's day - with 101 questions pouring through her head.
life - the epitome of the American dream - which had seen him rise from his origins as an Irish born labourer to being a land-owning millionaire living on a spacious estate on the mellow plains 1 of Pennsylvania..^,
She listened intently as he told her about his
Ribble Cement on the Waddihgton Fell water tunnel. He had made many friends in the area,.. including work colleague Mr Mervin Booth. Mr Kelly became a great hit with the Booth
He had come to Clitheroe in 1952 to work for. :
family, and when Mrs Booth's aunt, Mrs Mar garet McGough, asked him to be a godfather to
i But just weeks after the christening of the baby - later Mrs Trotter - he was on the move, to Greenland, where he found work in the com- munications industry. After years there and in
her expected child, he naturally agreed,
I the wilds of Alaska, he eventually found his for- tune working for the Bell Telephone Company in the United States.
I Kelly now had the opportunity to look back to his days in the Ribble Valley and the god-daugh ter he had seen christened, but had not watched
130 acres of prime pasture land to farm on the side. Having worked like a demon all his life, Mr
He was successful enough to be able to buy . grow up. In the 1980s, Mr Kelly made a three-month ,
trip to Clitheroe. Like so many who passed through and then returned years later, he discov ered that time is in no hurry in the Ribble Val-
| ley, and little had changed.
ABOVE: Mr Kelly's beautiful home in
Pennsylvania and, right, enjoying a meal,
US-stylc, from the left, Mr Kelly, his wife,
Mary, Mrs Trotter and her husband, Eric
says Mr Kelly. "Shoppers milled in leisurely fashion round the town and if anything, there was less traffic than before. There had been buses taking people all over Lancashire but when I returned I only saw a handful." In spite of the inner peace bestowed upon
"I more or less found the place as I left it,"
him,” recalled Mrs Trotter fondly. After the first tentative meeting, a corre
spondence was struck up and further visits arranged. Soon a warm relationship took root. Earlier this year it was Mrs Trotter and her
r; .;. ::; ■ tions to rest in his mind. "I was reluctant to
him by the surroundings, he did not feel ready, at that point to spring himself upon his unsus pecting god-daughter and he returned to the States, leaving the silt of the past undisturbed. But he was unable to lay his family connec-:,;
‘ become a godfather in the first place, because^ I knew I would soon be on the move, but it inagged at me that I hadn't kept in touch, he
explained. And so in 1995 he took the bold step of arriv
ing on Mrs Trotter's doorstep completely unan nounced in order to introduce himself. HeAvas. expecting a cool reception after all this time, but Mrs Trotter proved his concerns were
unfounded. "She gave me a big hug and I melted away.
She was really pleasant to me and very exuber ant. We hit it off but I thought it was going to ‘ be a one-off. I didn't expect anything more than that," said Mr Kelly. Mrs Trotter was completely overwhelmed by
the meeting. "I had got it in my head that I would never see him. I just accepted it. So when he turned up out of the blue, I was amazed. I couldn't believe who he was, this stanger with
an American accent. "I didn't know what to say at first, because
43 years is a long time. He said he wanted to see how I had turned out, so we spent the afternoon just talking. I think he wondered how I would re-act - 1 just thought it was really nice to know
Light up for Christmas CLITHEROE'S schools and organisations are being asked to light up — literally — at this year s I Late Night Shopping event.
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For the town's Chamber of Trade is hoping to hold the best-ever Lantern Festival at the event on Decem-
I her 8th and is offering locals the opportunity to get their creative juices flowing and create their own illu minated masterpieces.
The business group stepped in to save the day alter ■
I Rural Arts, who have sponsored the event for the past two years, announced it could no longer fund what is one of the highlights of Clitheroe's winter calendar. In order to get as many people
involved.in the festival
I as possible, a number of workshops, run by artists from Blackburn's Action Factory, will be held between now and
December, the first in the next few weeks. The workshops, which are open to everyone, are free of
i The number of sessions, which will be held during the evening, will depend on the level of interest.
charge and all materials and equipment will be provided,
' Some local businesses have already sponsored the event and it is hoped more will come forward to make it as spec
i Anyone wanting to attend one of the workshops, or,to sponsor the event, can contact Mrs Jackson on 01200 I 423757, or Kim Walmslcy on 01200 423882.
tacular as possible.
. Washington, New Jersey and Niagara Falls. ; In between the sightseeing, all the logistics
farm surroundings.
once could have only dreamt about visiting. "I hadn't a clue how wealthy Mike was. He
For Mr and Mrs Trotter it was a place they , .,
has a beautiful house, a lovely wife, his own fishing pond, and it takes him eight hours to mow his front lawn," said Mrs Trotter. "Everybody was so friendly and treated us
fire officer husband Eric’s silver wedding and Mr Kelly helped them celebrate in style by inviting them to visit him on his farm in Penn sylvania. It did not take them long to decide to take him up! on his offer and they embarked upon a grand excursion which took them to
were organised by Mr Kelly and they stayed with him and his wife, Mary, in their idyllic
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Opportunity knocked and a distant family ill
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^ r 4KiwSirtn, t2ukn*MJ2EW TtL0120022324 was reunited after a 40-year break
• The relationship they have forged promises to stand the test of time and the distance across the Big Blue. It also should serve as a monument to the fact that it is never too late to re-kindle old family ties or to make that move to contact that person you may have neglected to get in touch with oyer the years. Go on, drop them a line - you might not
so well. We got on really well with his family. He is very family orientated and treated me like a daughter. I t was a wonderful trip, I doubt whether we will ever get the chance to do something like that again. "Mike is so kind and generous - he is that kind of person, but down to earth with it."
regret itl
Lindsay’s survey puts disabled facilities under the spotlight
D Lindsay Bremner (19) earned four top-
isabled facilities in Clitheroe town centre have come under the spot light from an unusual source.
grade A-levels after seven years at CRGS, clinching a place at St Catherine's College,
Oxford. She is studying experimental psycholo
gy, but the survey was for another reason altogether - it was part of the "service as a citizen" section of her Queen's Guide
Award. L in d s a y , w h o u s e d to p la y th e f lu t e in
th e s c h o o l o r c h e s t ra , h a s b e e n a m em b e r of t h e W a d d o w R a n g e r s f o r t h e p a s t f o u r
y e a r s . As part of her eight-section Queen s
Guide project, she has had a special inter est in disability access and concludes that it is generally good, bearing in mind the
age of many central buildings. " T h e r e a p p e a r to b e s u f f ic e n t p a r k in g
s p a c e s in c o n v e n ie n t p la c e s a n d r am p s in to m o s t p u b l i c a r e a s a n d b u i l d in g s , " s a y s
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with joy the forthcoming anguish and misery of the despised Samaritans. Too many of them were blind to their own
- kept to the letter of the law. Never feeling any need for repentance themselves, they regarded all non-Jews as sinners, without realising their own need for spiritual discernment. . Before you pass judgement on them as very
shortcomings. They were apt to have a "holier than thou" attitude in their pride for having
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eyes are opened to new possibilities. New chal lenges and opportunities for doing the Lord’s will come our way in the most unexpected ways. We begin to see things from an entirely
■ new point of view. In our gratitude for the new, hitherto undisclosed gifts of God, we feel
otrange people, pause a moment to consider your own attitude. You have no need for repen tance? That is a great deal to claim, for are not we all sinners, one way or another? It is essential for us to acknowledge our sins
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and truly repent Tor them before we can expect to recceivo the beneficial gift of God's Grace. With most of us, it is the sins of omission that loom most largely in our memories, the things we ought to have done but didn't, or our lack of deep concern for the needy ones we could have
helped. The Grace of our Lord covers all our sinful
ness and helps us to make new beginnings, Our k
■ impelled to be more sympathetic towards oth ers, and tend to have a more generous nature as we learn to give more as we ourselves have freely received. With greater spiritual insight, we are more
■ conscious of our shortcomings than in past days, and seek to make some kind of . restitu tion, where possible. Sensing the love that has
. prompted God to share his Grace with us, it i becomes natural for us to want to give, and give : again that which we have received in such great measure ourselves. Suddenly, we are aware that the Grace.of God is sufficient for all of ua who
. ■ realise our own weaknesses. (2 Cor 12 w 9 and 10.)
- Joe Stansfield V
Lindsay. - "The textured pavement at pedestrian
crossings improves safety for blind people. "However, there are a few areas where
improvements could be made. Shops tend to have narrow aisles and only stairs up to first floors. It is unfortunate that the Cas tle Museum also lacks a lift and a disabled toilet. Funding is the difficulty here and I was told tha t changes would be made should the Lottery fund grant be success
ful. "I would, of course, be interested to hear
the opinions of others on this subject, par ticularly wheelchair users and other dis abled people. "As a final point, I would like to encour age people to become involved in activities
for the disabled. Last year I helped at the interactive Saturday Morning Club at Trinity Youth and Community Centre, open to children with or without disabili ties, and I found it a very rewarding and enjoyable experience."
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