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

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Sunday 5 May                        6th  Sunday of Easter

THIS WEEK'S READINGS
Sunday 5 May                               6th Sunday of Easter
Acts 10:44-end
1 John 5:1-6
John 15:9-17
Psalm 98 Please ring for support:-
Wendy: 218432

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:-
Janice, Alex, Liz, Clive,
Mo, Maureen.
The long term sick and infirm:-
George, Peter, Diana, Keith, Rob.
The recently departed:-
We remember Alex, who has recently died, and
pray for his grieving family. He was the brother-in-
law of Maureen Wilson and husband of Marion.
The Ministry Team:-
Wendy, Ruth, Fiona 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.

In order to watch the livestreamed services please
‘click’ on this link to
make your way to YouTube site:
https://www.youtube.com/c/StokeDamerelChurch

Sunday 5 May           Easter 6
0800 Said Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev Brian Wood
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev Sue Nicholas

Wednesday 8 May
1000 Morning Prayer

Sunday 12 May           Easter 7
0800 Said Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev Preb Jennie Appleby
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev Sue Nicholas
Preacher: Fiona Lang

WELCOME
To the Revd Brian Wood, who will be
leading our 8am service today, and to the
Rev Sue Nicholas, who will
be leading our 10am Eucharist.

FIONA’S FOOTNOTES
As I write today I am taking a short break from
writing an assignment for SWMTC. This is
probably the same assignment I was writing last
week, but hopefully a different one from the week
before. I was told before I began year two that it
was the most intensive of the three years, which
it has proved to be. It seems that I finish one
assignment and dive straight in to the next one. But
once I get to the 16th June all my assignments will
have been finished and I will be able to relax a
bit... until September. I’m hoping that Ross and I
will be able to enjoy a few day trips once we both
finish the academic year. Ross is keen for trips to
railways, and who am I to argue with that!
Recently we enjoyed a day trip to Tavistock where
we managed to find some sunshine. Whilst there
Ross insisted that he had an ice cream, which he
‘breathed in’ a phrase I like to use to describe the
speed with which he demolished the creamy
deliciousness! We enjoyed a wander around the
shops followed by a walk around the park. Ross
loves ducks and so he always takes the opportunity
to feed them while we stroll along the canal, but
knowing that ducks can’t properly digest bread
we make sure to have some proper seeds with us.
Of course, the ducks don’t like the seeds as much
as the bread!



This week has been very busy at the chaplaincy.
Some of you will know that I work alongside
Royal Navy chaplains and this week we served our
famous bacon butties to at least two hundred
people. The butties also facilitated a number of
good conversations, which is the whole reason we
do it. It’s a good thing I’m not keen on bacon as
when we have a bit spare I probably wouldn’t be
able to resist the temptation to have some. We run
a number of events in the chaplaincy building,
with their purpose being to encourage
conversations, whether they are lighthearted ones
with a group of sailors, or a more in depth one-to-
one conversations with someone. It’s a very
rewarding job where I get to talk all day.
This weekend is the penultimate residential for the
academic year, so I won’t be able to join you on
Sunday. However, next Sunday I will be fulfilling
some of my training objectives by not only
preaching but also leading some of the service.
Rev Sue Nicholas will be helping me and I’ve very
grateful to her for stepping in to an additional
service for us. I’m hoping by that weekend we
might have seen at least one day of sunshine!
And don’t forget that this week (on the 9th) we
will begin watching ‘The Chosen’ in the parish
centre, from 11.00 to 12.30, every fortnight. You’re
all welcome to join us as we begin this serialised
version of the life of Jesus and the Apostles.
With love and prayers
Fiona

MARILYN'S MEMOS
Britannia rules the waves and the removals!

Fr Keith and Steve between Stoke and Plympton St
Maurice: on Wednesday the contents of the
Rectory were successfully moved to pastures new
on the far side of the city. I am sure we all join
together to wish them both every happiness in their
new home.


OUR SUMMER FAIR
Canvassing for stall holders starts any day soon.
We still have a couple of years to go before we pay
off the loan for our renovations, which massively
impacted on our ability to open up many more
activities involving our local community and
beyond. Now that we are in a vacancy, it is vital
that we pay our common fund. So it is a combined
effort!
If anyone has an idea for fund raising, however
modest, please let us know. Even better if you can
organise it yourself! A little bird told me there
might be some plants for sale in due course.
Every little helps.

A week in Provence

My cousin and family rented a gite near Vaison La
Romaine, which is a very understated Roman town
with an amphitheatre and excellent Roman
museum.
The house is situated in the middle of wall to wall
Grenache vine terrain and the grapes from the area
are harvested and processed with other varieties in
the Vaison La Romaine co-operative, where we
indulged in a tasting session.



The weather was great for three days with sunshine
and strong winds..... then it turned grey and
miserable! Normally the crickets are a loud feature
around the area but only one lonely insect was
seen on the garden wall.

The supermarkets abound in wonderful fruit and
veg, not to mention the beautiful patisserie. I
confess to turning a little green on more than one
occasion!

Whilst my cousin and family came by car, I flew
from Heathrow to Marseille with BA which takes
an hour and a half and costs not much more than
the return train fare to London.
Marilyn

PLANTS FOR SALE

Cosmos sensation: ideal for back of borders.
Variety of colours on their fine feathery foliage.
£2 a strip of 8 plants.
Proceeds to church funds.
Ann Pitt

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN MAY
Fiona Lang, Diana Cooke, Lorna Bartlett, James
Bridgwater, Peter Harrison, Margaret Bibby,
Elaine Cresswell, Ruth Sayers.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Jul 13 Summer Fair
Sep 7 Devon Historic Churches Open Day
Oct 13 Harvest Thanksgiving
Oct 20 St. Luke’s Thanksgiving
Nov 22/23 Christmas Fair

MORE ON DR. RICHARD DUNNING
OF ALBEMARLE VILLAS
Last week I wrote about the Blue Plaque recently
installed opposite 8 Albemarle Villas, to the
memory of Dr. Richard Dunning who, along with
Edward Jenner, helped to rid the world of the
scourge of Smallpox. Jenner is remembered more
than any other for perfecting a safe treatment.
However, Dunning played his part, as had many
others, both in Britain and in other European
countries.
We can be certain that the two men collaborated
with each other because it is known that Jenner,
when living in Bond Street, London, wrote a letter
to his brother-in-law (Reverend William Davies
D.D., Rector of Eastington, Stroud,
Gloucestershire) on 28th January 1801. In that
correspondence he expressed his enthusiasm over
the success of Smallpox vaccination although, on
that occasion, he actually referred to ‘vaccinism’.
The actual word ‘vaccination’ had first been used
in 1800 by Dunning in Plymouth. This was again
acknowledged much later by Jenner, in a letter to
Dunning, written on 2nd April 1804. He was by
then practising medicine back in his home town of
Berkley, Gloucestershire. Other letters from Jenner
still exist and another one to Dunning starts “My
dear friend”, so we know that they were very
close associates.

JENNER'S SUMMERHOUSE,
BERKLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
It is Jenner who is most remembered for the
success of starting to eliminate smallpox and his
home, The Chantry in Berkley is now a museum
dedicated to his memory. The first patient to be
successfully vaccinated by him was in 1796 and he
continued to give free treatment to local people,
using the small summerhouse in his garden as his
vaccination centre. He called this his "Temple of
Vaccinia".
Sadly, no museum has been created in Dunning’s
memory. His home still remains private which is as
it should be as it is someone’s home. Because of
the mature planting in the garden, it is even
difficult to see the building from the street.

BOUNDARY WALLS OF 8 ALBEMARLE VILLAS
Dunning originally hailed from Aveton Gifford
where he had been born on 6th March 1761.
At some time, he moved to Dock to practice
medicine, marrying Ann White at Stoke Damerel
church on 12th April 1785. As stated last week, in
1841, he was known to be living at 8 Albemarle
Villas.
Although there is no Dunning Museum, the
Richard Dunning Cup is awarded in his honour at
an annual team debate with Plymouth University
medical students. The award was established by
the Plymouth Medical Society, of which Dunning
was a founding member in 1794. At that time, he
was living in St. Aubyn Street.

CARTOON RIDICULING VACCINATION.
BY JAMES GILLRAY-1802
Probably because the treatment was based on a
serum created from Cowpox, which is similar to
but less dangerous than Smallpox, some resisted
the then new treatment. Cartoons like the one
above appeared at the time. In this case, cows are
shown emerging from the bodies of those who had
been vaccinated. Thankfully, this attitude has not
prevented successful treatments over the years.
Tony Barnard