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St Mary’s are proud to have her as our patron saint.


0 : In recent years Mary has


become quite a popular figure. Dan Brown’s best-selling “The Da Vinci Code” recy­ cled the old tale, for which there is not the slightest evi­ dence, that Mary had Jesus’ child and .ended up in the South of France. ..


' ■: But there is actually li tt le '; information about Mary in : the Gospels, just her name, th a t s h e ,was a.follower o f . Jesus, and tha t she. played a


• significant role in the stories of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus.. . .^ In fact, there was really only one important thing the .


! Evangelists wanted to say -. .- that Mary witnessed the Res- . urrection. T h a t was quite


N Tuesday the Church celebrated St Mary Magdalene, and we at


odd, for in that culture evi­ dence provided by women had no value. So what was God up to? The Resurrection, which Christians claim to have been both world and life-changing, witnessed by a “mere woman” ! We might add to this the mystery of the Shroud of Turin (the cloth in which, i t has been claimed, Jesus’ body was buried, and which displays a rather curi­ ous photographic-negative image of a man with wounds


' not only consistent with cru­ cifixion, but with some of the details we have of Jesus’ death) in which there has been quite a revival of inter­ est since the results of previ­ ous radio-carbon dating, which dismissed "it as a medieval forgery, have been re-evaluated.. :': .


. I recall reading an articled which suggested th a t the


Shroud was evidence of God’s “Monty P y th o n ”-s tyle of humour - providing evidence of something really important in an oblique, enigmatic and baffling manner. We might put this in the form of a fre­ quently asked question: if God exists why doesn’t he make his existence more obvi­ ous? As Peter Cook and Dud­ ley Moore graphically put it in one of their famous “Pete and Dud” dialogues: “ I t would be nice, you know, if every now and again he parts the clouds in a golden burst of sunshine, gives us a wave, you know: ‘Hullo I ’m here you can believe in me’’’!


Theologians, as is their job,


provide all kinds of answers - often very complex- to such


' questions, but there is a sim­ ple one: God doesn’t want to impose! ■ ■ . , . If God provided clear and


irrefutable proof of his exis­ tence, then what choice would we have but to believe? Then understanding exactly what God was, what choice would


• we have, bu t to spend our lives in grovelling obeisance, presumably thinking that if we stray, we’ve had it! The tru th is th a t God is the one who lets us be (just think of how many ways you can


■ interpret that simple phrase): faith is a free response to the


■ hints and clues he provides, ,, some of which are, indeed, mystifying. But th a t is essence of the One who lo\Wr^ so much, he will never push , himself where he is not want- . ed. ■


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PETER SHEPHERD, i Ass is tant Priesl, .. .


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100 years ago ;


FOUR local residents had an extremely lucky escape after being involved in a serious accident. They were travelling in a wagon, belonging to a 'Whalley resi­ dent, when it was in collision with a horse and trap. The force of the impact was so great tha t both vehicles were overturned and the occupants thrown out. The passengers suffered minor cuts and bruises and the shafts of the trap were broken.


• 50 years ago


CLITHERONIANS began their Wakes fortnight with a record holiday purse - about £110,000. They went to the South Coast, the Continent and Lan­ cashire coast resorts. • Cyril Washbrook the Barrow-born


Lancs and England batsman, was play­ ing against Hampshire, when for the first time in his career he "bagged a pair" - no runs in each innings. Lancashire were beaten by six wickets.


25 years ago


THE governors of Clitheroe Grammar Schools had asked for more time to con­ sider objections to their compromise plan for a mixed school at the Chatburn Road premises and a comprehensive sixth form at York Street. • Planning permission was being


sought for a sheltered housing scheme on the Carlton Mill site in Clitheroe. • A new cycle shed at Whalley CE School was built by the schoolboys.


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: ' -7 ” ■ ■ 7 ’ ."T' a''sveekfylook at local issues,'people'alia places; 7 • ■ A matter of opinion


■y ate last week, my esteemed editor . I


J —J going to fax me a reader’s letter and that she would like my comments on it. Apparently her correspondent had some­ thing to say about my writing generally and, in particular, about my recent com­ ments on the murders in Jerusalem. ’ I was enthralled and stood over the fax


telephoned me to say that she was ; As I S’ee I t . . .


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machine until the letter arrived. Unfortu­ nately, it was not a recommendation for the Pullitzer Prize. It contained no sug­ gestion th a t I be allowed a thousand words a week, in place of my customary 500, or that my fee ought to be increased. In fact, the only encouraging thing it said was that the author had read my column every week for the past few months. For a writer, that is at least"something. Apart from that, it was just a little neg­


ative. To be exact, it said that my writing is extreme, reactionary, crude, inf lamma- tory, poorly written and poorly researched. And, to put the icing on the cake, the author castigated my Jerusalem column as having “fallen off a cliff in terms of responsible comment”.


Even worse, the letter was well written,


calm, thoughtful and entirely lacking in that hysterical;' green ink quality that enables one to be dismissive. This was a serious letter, from a serious Sabden resi­


dent and it deserved serious thought. All indications to the contrary notwith­


standing, I am a sensitive soul and, over the weekend, I read and reread the letter obsessively. I did not really know what I was looking for, but I knew I was looking for something. And then, all of a sudden, I found it or, to put i t more precisely, I found what was missing. In an otherwise excellent letter, there


was not a single example of an error of fact or a literary infelicity in my writing


or, indeed, any indication a t all of why . some other approach might be preferred : to the one I generally take in the column. The author Avas clearly annoyed by my •: general approach. He evidently disagreed 4vith it. He would have preferred it not to be printed, but he was not prepared or dare I say it? - was unaijle to show that it was wrong. Frequently facts are so uncomfortable


that some people prefer not to hear them. They cannot disprove them. They cannot even argue against them. So they just try to silence them. I was at the supermarket the other day


when I noticed a woman of a certain age whom I had seen there before. Her hair was black and of a delightfully severe cut. She wore stiletto heeled shoes and jeans tvith rhinestones sewn all over them and her pullover was definitely not too large for her. I was all of a flutter and, when I asked my wife whether I was turning into a dirty old man, she told me, in her know­ ing way, that “all old men are dirty old men”. I must try to silence her.


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OUR picture shows Mrs Janet Harrison, Mrs Gwen Mundy, Mrs Sheila Jones, Mr John .


- Harrison and Mrs Helen Smith (s)


-Celebrating Sheila’s


culinary delights! A COOK loved for her legendary


: Za cakes'and sponge puddings has .ZrAibeen honoured for her 25 years’ service at a Clitheroe school. Mrs Sheila Jones (55), of Kay S to t ,


was awarded a gold watch by joint principals of Moorland School-Mr and Mrs Paul andHelen Smith. ■ “She has been a reliable, loyal and invaluable member of.the catering team,” said Mr Smith. “Sheila is a great cook and nothing is too much trouble.”


.. He added that in today’s world of


job mobility, 25 years’ service is a rari­ ty, putting the longevity of service down to Mrs Jones’ “lovely rapport with the children and staff” as well as


her great sense of humour. ■ Mr and Mrs John and Janet Harri­


son, who were joint school principals from 1988 to 2002, also returned to help Mrs Jones celebrate


date. And it is a former Ribble Valley girl


Bold as brass brings band up to date B


j OLD as brass designs are helping ^ bring the image of one of the ’ world’s oldest bands bang up to


who who has been ins trumental in broadening the appeal of brass bands to . a new generation. Roxanne North - known as Roxy - is


the former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School girlbehind a new,fashion range promoting Besses o'th Barn brass band. Roxy (26), who learned: to play with. Slaidbum Silver Band, now. lives at Rish- 'ton with husband John, the musical


director of Besses o’th Barn. . Founded in'1818 and based at White- field, between Bury and Manchester, the


band has spent the past year on a mis­ sion to modernise its image in a bid to a t tra c t new members and save itself from folding. Key to th a t mission has been Roxy’s brainwave for a new range of fashionable clothing and accessories pro­ moting the band - everything from hoodiestoundies!::;.,


,. She has produced a range of eyet^tch-


ing desi^s, some using the band’s iconic name and eagle logo and others with spe­ cially created slogans,'such as as a baby bib bearing the slogan “I ’m a Besses


Babe”.. ' Using an internet mail order system,


fans of the band can buy 52 items, including beach bags, T-shirts, raiigs, baseball caps and Teddy bears. They can


'Well-known face is


the new president A NOTHER: year


Za has passed and as


L X t h e Rotary Club of Clitheroe enters its 75th year i t has a new man at the helm. Alan Yearing, pictured,


has taken up the chal-.- lenge of serving as the club’s new president. He is a well-known


public figure in the bor­ ough having previously served as both-Mayor o f ; Clitheroe and of the Rib­


ble Valley. ■ He is chairman of the


Pendle Club and can still be seen dispensing the


■ Clitheroe Advertiser and Tijags, along with other


■tij® ! a t Thorougoods newsagents in Waterloo Road.


. . Mr Yearin'g has strong


views on serving the com­ munity and will support many of the things done


• by Rotary in the past, . while also having an open '• mind to fresh initiatives;


The club is looking for­ ward to another enjoy­ able year of fellowship and fun while are serving


, the community. To find out more about


th e R o ta ry Club of Clitheroe ■visit its website. (www.clitheroerotary.org.


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be viewed and bought via the band’s website at: wwwbesses.co.uk Other 21st Century innovations for


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direction for the band, i t ’s one of the many things we’re doing to get Besses back on the map and moving forward into a bright future,” she said. “The range shows we can be committed, but also full of fun.”


The Milky Bars are on him! Hooray


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