Magazine articles needed
The magazine editors are always looking for material for future editions. Please email any articles to or or put material in the folder at the back of the church.
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.
Arts Trust Tickets
Tickets are available for all shows. Please call on 07548679199 or email:
Foodbank
Has asked for donations of tins of meat (i.e. corned beef) or meat based tin meals and long life milk.
Help keep St Mary’s clean!
If you would like to help clean the church on a regular basis please sign up on the rota. Thank you.
Technical Help
If anyone (over 18) is interested in learning about the projector and sound system would they please see Aimee.
Weekly Sheet
Any notices or items to be included on the weekly sheet should be sent to Also any changes to readers or intercessors.
St Mary the Virgin
Ashford
First Sunday of Lent
14th February 2016
Hymns and songs are on the screen1. / NEH 67 / Forty days and forty nights
2. / SOF 493 / Seek ye first the kingdom of God
3. / CH4 338 / Jesus, tempted in the desert
4. / NEH 358 / Father of heaven, whose love profound
5. / NEH 393 / Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
Anthem / Come down, O Love divine (William Harris)
Organ Voluntary / Voluntary in e (John James)
Collect
Heavenly Father, your Son battled with the powers of darkness and grew closer to you in the desert: help us to use these days to grow in
Wisdom and prayer that we may witness to your saving love in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Reading: Romans 10: 8b – 13 Lucy Wraxall
Gospel: Luke 4: 1 – 13
Intercessor: Gemma Jones
Closing Prayer
Lord God, you have renewed us with the living bread from heave; by it you nourish our faith, increase our hope, and strengthen our love: teach us always to hunger for him who is the true and living bread, and enable us to live by every word that proceeds from out of your mouth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
St Mary’s Diary
First Sunday of Lent
Sunday 8.00 am BCP Holy Communion
14th led by Rev Tim Wilson
10.00 am Family Communion
led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
6.30 pm No evening service
Monday 10 – 12 Take a Break
15th 12.15 pm Monday Meditation
Tuesday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning, Craft and Art
16th 7.45 pm Lent Course
led by Caroline Hannah
Thursday 11.30 am Ordinary Communion
18th led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
followed by Lent Course
7.15 pm Choir Practice
Saturday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning
20th
Second Sunday of Lent
Sunday 8.00 am BCP Holy Communion
21st led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
10.00 am Family Communion
led by Rev Colin Johnson
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
led by Mary Howard
Monday 10 – 12 Take a Break
22nd 12.15 pm Monday Meditation
Tuesday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning, Craft and Art
23rd 7.45 pm Lent Course
led by Caroline Hannah
Thursday 11.30 am BCP Holy Communion
25th led by Rev Eve Lanchantin Piggott
followed by Lent Course
7.15 pm Choir Practice
Saturday 10 – 12 Coffee Morning
27th
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. Kate and Andrew Terry, Jane Kelly, Margaret, Tom Barlow, Freddie Newing, David, Aiden Kelly, Barbara Burbidge, Gavin Williams, Jacky.
Notices
Team Ministry Proposal
The formal notices regarding the Team Ministry Proposal have now been posted – everyone is invited to make comments; further information and details of how to are available at the back of the church.
ELECTORAL ROLL
Make sure you are on St Mary’s Electoral Roll for 2016 Annual Parish Meeting on Sunday 10th April. Application forms are available during services and in church, in a red folder at the West end or from Heather Blanshard or a sidesperson.
Completed forms should be returned by Saturday 19th March. They can be left in the folder or handed to Heather or a sidesperson. A revised roll will be published and made available for inspection in readiness for the Annual Parish Meeting.
Hall Manager
A hall manager is required. This is a paid post not restricted to members of the congregation. If anyone is interested please contact either churchwarden for further details.
Final: NEH 393
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
o’er the world’s tempestuous sea;
guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
for we have no help but thee;
yet possessing every blessing
if our God our Father be.
Saviour, breathe forgiveness o’er us;
all our weakness thou dost know;
thou didst tread this earth before us,
thou didst feel its keenest woe;
self-denying, death defying,
thou to Calvary didst go.
Spirit of our God, descending,
fill our hearts with heavenly joy;
love with every passion blending,
pleasure that can never cloy;
thus provided, pardoned, guided,
nothing can our peace destroy.
Hymns for 14th February 2016
Entrance: NEH 67
Forty days and forty nights
thou wast fasting in the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted, and yet undefiled.
Sunbeams scorching all the day;
chilly dew-drops nightly shed;
prowling beasts about thy way;
stones thy pillow, earth thy bed.
Let us thine endurance share,
and awhile from joys abstain,
with thee watching unto prayer,
strong with thee to suffer pain.
And if Satan, vexing sore,
flesh or spirit should assail,
thou, his vanquisher before,
grant we may not faint nor fail.
So shall we have peace divine:
holier gladness ours shall be;
round us, too, shall angels shine,
such as ministered to thee.
Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
ever constant by thy side;
that with thee we may appear
at the eternal Eastertide.
Gradual: SOF 493
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness,
and all these things shall be added unto you.
Allelu, alleluia.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word
that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Allelu, alleluia.
Alleluia…
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
he shall direct your paths;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
Allelu, alleluia.
Alleluia…
Offertory: CH4 338
Jesus, tempted in the desert, lonely, hungry, filled with dread:
"Use your power," the tempter tells him;
"Turn these barren rocks to bread!"
"Not alone by bread," he answers, "Can the human heart be filled -
only by the Word that calls us is our deepest hunger stilled!"
Jesus, tempted at the temple, high above its ancient wall:
"Throw yourself from lofty turret; angels wait to break your fall!"
Jesus shuns such empty marvels, feats that fickle crowds request;
God, whose grace protects, preserves us, we must never vainly test."
Jesus, tempted on the mountain by the lure of vast domain:
"Fall before me! Be my servant!
Glory, fame, you're sure to gain!"
Jesus sees the dazzling vision, turns his eyes another way:
"God alone deserves our homage! God alone will I obey!"
When we face temptation's power, lonely, struggling, filled with dread,
Christ, who knew the tempter's hour, come and be our living bread.
By your grace, protect, preserve us lest we fall, your trust betray.
Yours, above all other voices, be the Word we hear, obey.
Communion: NEH 358
Father of heav’n, whose love profound
a ransom for our souls hath found,
before thy throne we sinners bend;
to us thy pard’ning love extend.
Almighty Son, incarnate Word,
our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord,
before thy throne we sinners bend;
to us thy saving grace extend.
Eternal Spirit, by whose breath
the soul is raised from sin and death,
before thy throne we sinners bend;
to us thy quickening power extend.
Thrice holy! Father, Spirit, Son;
mysterious Godhead, Three in One,
before thy throne we sinners bend;
grace, pardon, life to us extend.