CELEBRATING ASHBOURNE ROYAL SHROVETIDE FOOTBALL

One Rule: Do Not Kill Your Opponent

2020 Shrovetide Football News
The back of 2020 Shrovetide Postcard

The Shrovetide Souvenir Postcards Collection
2020

and on the back of the postcard...<

Ashbourne Royal
Shrovetide Football:

It happens in an ordinary market town
interrupts mundane life
a unique event
usually it finishes in the darkness.
at last there is victory!
It’s remembered once a year
It unites the whole community
And breathes life into the town
The centre of Ashbourne’s history
A life-changing experience.

47 days after Shrove Tuesday, it is Easter:

It happened in an ordinary market town,
interrupting its mundane life,
a unique event occurred as Jesus died.
It finished in the darkness at the cross.
Finally there was victory! When he rose from the dead
We remember it once a year,
Its impact unites whole communities,
And its truth breathes life into many towns.
It is the centre of the World’s history
And will be a life-changing experience for you

"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
— Jesus (John 10:10)

Discover more at Ashbourne Baptist Church (www.ashbourne-baptist.org)

You are very welcome to come along to Ashbourne Baptist Church to find out more, or to ask questions.
Ashbourne Baptist Church meets at 11am and 6pm every Sunday at St John's Church (on the hill out to Buxton) in Ashbourne. It's just up from the Market Place. There's a car-park ('PayByPhone' app or cash to pay) behind the church, on Auction Street - from there, please take the footpath around the church hall to the front entrance of the big traditional-style church building.