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Booking St Mary’s Space
Please contact Brian Jarrett if you are interested in booking this wonderful space for an activity such as an Arts Display, a show or a conference. For further information please contact Brian on or 07500159367 or 01233 638042.
Foodbank
Donations of food are always needed, particularly tins of meat (i.e. corned beef) or meat based tin meals and long life milk.
Technical Help
If anyone is interested in helping with the projector and sound system on a Sunday morning would they please see Alison or Lesley.
Celebrate with St Mary’s
Everyone is invited to participate in a joint project making bunting for the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations in June. See the May magazine for details or find out more from Margaret Warner on Tuesday mornings or after the 10am service on Sundays.
Learn to Listen
To help learn how to listen to children and young people the diocese is running a ‘Learn to Listen’ training day on Saturday 7th May at Singleton Village Hall. For more details and to book a place go to www.canterburydiocese.org/events/learn-to-listen-day
St Mary the Virgin
Ashford
Fifth Sunday of Easter
24th April 2016
Hymns and songs are on the screen1. / HON 522 / Sing a new and joyful song
2. / HON 1 / A new commandment
3. / NEH 332 / All hail the power of Jesu’s name
4. / HON 232 / Let there be love shared among us
5. / AON 568 / Praise the Lord of heaven
Anthem / I give you a new commandment (Peter Ashton)
Organ Voluntary / A Paschal Fanfare (Malcolm Archer)
Collect
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ have overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires, so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect; through Jesus Christ our risen Lord, who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Reading: Acts 11: 1 – 18 Irena Bushnell
Gospel: John 13: 31 – 35
Intercessor: Paul Forder
Closing Prayer
Eternal God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life: grant us to walk in his way, to rejoice in his truth and to share his risen life; who is alive and reigns, now and forever. Amen
St Mary’s Diary
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Sunday 8.00 am Holy Communion
24th led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
10.00 am Family Communion
led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
led by Mary Howard
Monday 10 – 12 Take a Break
25th 12.15 pm Monday Meditation
Tuesday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning, Craft and Art
26th 7.30 pm Mission committee
Thursday 11.30 am Holy Communion
28th led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
7.15 pm Choir Practice
Saturday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning
30th
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Sunday 8.00 am Holy Communion
1st May led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
10.00 am Café Church Communion
led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
4.00 pm Choral Evensong
led by Charlotte Cole
Monday Bank Holiday Church closed
2nd
Tuesday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning, Craft and Art
3rd
Wednesday 10 – 12 British Legion Drop In
4th
Thursday Ascension Day
5th No 11.30 am service
7.30 pm shared service at Kennington
Saturday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning
7th
Please pray
Your prayers for: Street Pastors, the homeless, our Mission link - the Church in Cameroon, Ashford Food Bank. The work of the Children’s Society and the work of The Living Well. Refugees all around the world and the work of the church to help them.
Sick: Steve John, Alice Jones, Jim Babbs, Sally-Ann Nash, Allan Foad, Rosalind and Brian Locking, Lizzie Hopthrow, David Tucker, Richard Simpson, Steve Apted, Margaret, Tom Barlow, Freddie Newing, David, Aiden Kelly, Barbara Burbidge, Jacky, John Williams, Lilian Gorman, Leigh Jury, Nick Holyer.
Notices
Sunday 24th April
Our church is being prayed for at evensong, 3.15pm, in the Cathedral. Eve will be there to robe up and represent us in an official capacity but everyone is welcome to attend the service.
Sunday 1st May
A new experience – a Café Service which has as the reading the account, in Acts, of Paul’s dream. Please read the inserted flyer. If you would like to submit your dream(s) for the panel to judge the email address is The closing date is 3rd May and the BAFTA Dream Award is….made of chocolate!
Sunday 8th May 3pm
“Organ Plus” fund raising concert for church funds. Come and enjoy a musical afternoon with tea and cake. Tickets cost £5.
Sunday 15th May Pentecost
This will be a whole Deanery service, here, led by Archdeacon Philip Down.
Gift Aid
Confirmation of gift aid donations will be delayed this year. Those donors who are required to complete HRMC gift aid forms may wish to delay their returns until we are in a position to send out confirmatory letters which will be as soon as possible.
Coffee Rotas
New rotas for Saturday and Sunday mornings are out – could you help by offering to do at least one? See Caroline for details
Final: AON 568
Praise the Lord of heaven,
praise him in the height;
praise him, all his angels,
praise him hosts of light.
Sun and moon together,
shining stars aflame,
planets in their courses –
magnify his name!
Earth and ocean praise him,
mountains, hills and trees;
fire and hail and tempest,
wind and storm and seas.
Praise him, fields and forests,
birds on flashing wings,
praise him, beasts and cattle,
all created things!
Now by prince and people
let his praise be told;
praise him, men and maidens,
praise him, young and old.
He, the Lord of glory!
We, his praise proclaim!
High above all heavens –
magnify his name!
Hymns for 24th April 2016
Entrance: HON 522
Sing a new and joyful song
to God who makes us one;
he the nations’ hope reveals
by power of love alone.
God’s presence is around us,
and yet we have no fear;
we find no accusation
nor condemnation here.
Sing a new and joyful song…
On Christ alone depending
the life divine we share,
and fruits of peace and justice
the healthy vine will bear.
Sing a new and joyful song…
God gives us grace and courage
this gospel to proclaim:
the word of perfect freedom
and justice, in his name.
Sing a new and joyful song…
Gradual: HON 1
A new commandment I give unto you,
that you love one another as I have loved you,
that you love one another as I have loved you.
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples,
if you have love one for another.
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples,
if you have love one for another.
A new commandment…
I am the true Vine; my Father is the gardener.
Abide in me: I will be with you.
I am the true Vine; my Father is the gardener.
Abide in me: I will be with you.
A new commandment…
Offertory: NEH 332
All hail the power of Jesus' name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
bring forth the royal diadem
to crown him, crown him, crown him,
crown him Lord of all!
Crown him ye martyrs of your God,
who from his altar call:
praise him whose way of pain ye trod,
and crown him…
Ye seed of Israel's chosen race,
ye ransomed of the fall,
hail him who saves you by his grace.
and crown him…
Hail him, ye heirs of David's line,
whom David Lord did call,
the God incarnate, Man divine,
and crown him…
Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget
the wormwood and the gall,
go spread your trophies at his feet,
and crown him…
Let every tribe and every tongue
to him their hearts enthral,
lift high the universal song
and crown him…
Communion: HON 232
Let there be love shared among us,
let there be love in our eyes,
may now your love sweep this nation,
cause us, O Lord, to arise.
Give us a fresh understanding;
brotherly love that is real;
let there be love shared among us -
let there be love.
Let there be peace shared among us,
let there be peace in our eyes,
may now your peace sweep this nation,
cause us, O Lord, to arise.
Give us a fresh understanding;
sisterly love that is real;
let there be peace shared among us -
let there be peace.
Let there be joy shared among us,
let there be joy in our eyes,
may now your joy sweep this nation,
cause us, O Lord, to arise.
Give us a fresh understanding;
brotherly love that is real;
let there be joy shared among us -
let there be joy!