Next Week’s Worship – 3rd April 2016
Second Sunday of Easter
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am Family Service with Holy Communion with Baptism Revd Ian Aveyard
Readings: Exodus 14.10-end 15.20-21; Acts 5.27-32; John 20.19-31
This week’s Diary commencing 28th March 2016
Wednesday: / 12.30pm2.00pm / Funeral of Peter Sanderson at Westerleigh
Funeral of Robert Cannan at Beverston Church
Thursday: / 11.00am
4.00pm / Funeral of James Cuff at Tetbury Church
Visiting Group meet
Saturday: / 10.00am
11.00am / Saturday Morning Prayer at Tetbury Church
Church spring clean at Tetbury Church
Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)
Monday: Jane, Kelly, Toby, Dee, Olive, Carmel, Ethan
Tuesday: Dennis, Chris, Val Terry, Alan, Mavis, Brian
Wednesday: Charlotte Anne, Charles and family,Gary
Thursday: Justin, Lucy, Lavina, Susie, Nick, Breeda, Launa
Friday: Tracy, Charlotte, Pauline, Ann, Margaret
Departed: Peter Sanderson, James “Jim” Cuff, Robert Cannon
Praying for the Town Clarrie Road and Cookspool
Praying for St Mary’s School Year 5/6 Class Elm with Adam Welch and Rachel Lee
Years Mind: Margot Holborow (27/03); Bridget “Mini” Combe (29/03)
(“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death – often a difficult time for family and friends
Please pray for William Robert Graham who will be baptised in Tetbury Church next Sunday and his parents and godparents.
BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE
Easter Sunday 27th March 2016
Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please make yourselves known to us. Coffee will be served at the front after the 9.30am service. Join us if you can.
There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print copies of the service and the hymn book are available from the sidesmen.
Alleluia. Christ is risen.
He is risen indeed. Alleluia.
All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Members of other churches who would receive at their own church are welcome to do so here. If receiving communion is not appropriate, please come up to receive a blessing (it helps us if you bring a service book to indicate if you would prefer to receive a blessing). If you would like Communion brought to you please tell one of the sidesmen.
Worship Today
9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes
Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The Green, Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday
e-mail:
Curate: Revd Kim Hartshorne email:
Notices
SAVE THE DATE – On Sunday 10th April we welcome Bishop Rachel for her first visit to our benefices. Everyone is invited to our Benefice Service at 10.00am at St Marys’ Tetbury.
Food Bank opening 12 April. Cirencester Food Bank is opening a branch in Tetbury at St Mary’s Day Centre, St Mary’s Road every Tuesdays 9.30 to 10.45. Those people with vouchers for food will be very welcome to collect their boxes from Tetbury instead of having to go to Cirencester. Please spread the word.
There will be a meeting of the Visiting Group on Thursday 31st March at 4pm
Next Saturday 2nd April, all are welcome for prayer and meditation in St Marys', 10 - 10.30 am, followed by refreshments. Geraldine and Bill Geers
The next Prayer Circle leaders meeting will be on Monday 4th April at 10.30am
The next Julian group meeting will be on Thursday 7th April at 2.30pm for 3.00pm
Cleaning the church: We are cleaning the church in preparation for Bishop Rachel's visit on Saturday 2nd April 1100am – 1400pm
Glass Door Appeal - Many thanks for all the generous donations towards this project. We have now raised over half the projected costs. If anyone still wishes to donate then please pass their gift in a blue envelope marked clearly as "Glass Door" to the churchwardens.
Come-on-Eileen! £921 raised so far. Can we make the pledged £2,000 before 24 April so that Eileen can run the London Marathon for Christian Aid with a light step in the knowledge that every penny will go to help the poorest people in the world out of poverty. Please sign up on the Sponsorship form at the back of the church or visit http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/Come-on-Eileen . As part of her training for the event Eileen has devised a route which incorporates running to all our churches. Come-on-Benefice!
Save ‘n’ Borrow Credit Union still going strong but needing borrowers as well as savers! Open every Thursday at Tetbury Council Offices from 2 until 4 pm and offering an ethical, professional and confidential service and interest on loans from as little as 1%. Why pay 15% from a pay day loan company? Please spread the word especially to those who would benefit.
The Church’s Annual Meeting (APCM) is being held this year on Tuesday 19 April at 7.30 pm at St Mary’s School. All are welcome but only those on the church’s Electoral Roll can vote. At this meeting Church Wardens, members of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) and sidesmen are elected. Please put the date in your diaries. Nomination forms will be available next week.
Electoral Roll this has now be revised for 2016 and a copy is in the board at the back of the church. Please have a look and let Diana Challis know of any omissions or corrections needed.
The Parish Office will be closed next week and will reopen on Tuesday 5th April.
Parish Administrator: Diana Sharp, All items for inclusion in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest. Please limit notices to 75 words. Tel: 01666 500088; e-mail:
Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk
Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:
Sunday 27th March 2016
Easter Sunday
Old Testament Reading Isaiah 65:17-end
For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a fewdays, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime; for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and anothereat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be offspring blessed by theLord— and their descendants as well. Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I willhear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like theox; but the serpent—its food shall bedust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says theLord.
New Testament Reading Acts 10.34-43
Peter began to speak to those assembled in the house of Cornelius. ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ – he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’
Gospel John 20.1-18
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.“’ Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her.