Next Week’s Worship – 21st February 2016
Second Sunday of Lent
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Peter Hyson
Readings: Genesis 15.1-12,17-18; Philippians 3.17-4.1; Luke 13.31-35
This week’s Diary commencing 15th February 2016
Monday: / 7.00pm7.00pm / Lent Group meet
Lent Group meet
Tuesday: / 10.00am
2.30pm
7.00pm
7.00pm / Clergy and reader team meet at the Vicarage
Mothers’ Union Meeting Dolphins Hall
Lent Group meet
Lent Group meet
Wednesday: / 9.30am
10.15am / Holy Communion at Tetbury Church
Lent Group meet at the Vicarage
Thursday: / 7.00pm / Lent Group meet
Friday: / 12.30pm
5.30pm / Lent lunches in St Michael’s Church Hall
Wedding rehearsal at Tetbury Church
Saturday: / Noon / Wedding of Ryan Woodward and Rachel Brennan at Tetbury Church
Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)
Monday: Brian, Leath, Annabel
Tuesday: Sarah, Steeley, Joe, Dennis
Wednesday: Charlotte-Ann, Charles, Anne
Thursday: Phyl, Justin, Lucy
Friday: Win, Jim, Val
Departed: Those we remember with love
Praying for the Town Chavenage Lane and Five Trees Close
Praying for St Mary’s School Year 2 Class Juniper with Liz Miller/ Judith Selwood and Sandra Avis/Clare Purnell
Please pray for Noah Parr and Harrison Scull who will be baptised in Shipton Moyne Church next Sunday and their parents and godparents.
Years Mind: Jean Neal (18/02)
(“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death – often a difficult time for family and friends)
Parish Administrator: Diana Sharp, All items for inclusion in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest. Tel: 01666 500088; e-mail:
BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON,
LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE
First Sunday of Lent 14th February 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.
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
8.00am: Holy Communion
9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Maslen
Hymns: 557, 95, 496, 203, Sheet
The 2nd Sunday Cash Collection will be in aid of St Mary’s Monday Club
Collect
Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness, and was tempted as we are, yet without sin: give us grace to discipline ourselves in obedience to your Spirit; and, as you know our weakness, so may we know your power to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Post Communion Prayer
Lord God, you have renewed us with the living bread from heaven;
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
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: Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk
Notices
Lent House Groups start this week and they are based on a book by Dominican Friar Timothy Radcliffe. You don’t have to buy the book to do the course, but if you would like to explore things further there are new and second hand copies available on line and copies in St Marys’ bookshop. Pick up a leaflet today.
TACT Soup lunches start on Friday 12th Feb at St Michael’s Church hall. There is a list at the back of church for volunteers to sign up to provide soup and bread etc. For more information please contact Princess on.
Mothers’ Union will meet this week on Tuesday 16th February at 2:30 pm in the Dolphins Hall. Please join us to hear our speaker Father Isidore Obi. Subject of talk: ‘A Mother’s Care’. Do come - visitors always welcome.
Mens’ breakfast, at the Ormond, Long Street Tetbury on Saturday 5th March at 9am. Cooked breakfast and coffee in their function room. Speaker: Revd Peter Hyson, Company Director, teacher and priest who has several books to his credit will give us a short talk called “Careful or you will end up in my novel. He will explore the perils and perks of being a writer. Tickets £10 obtainable from Jim Toogood or at Church after the service.
On 24 April our own Eileen Hodgson, is running, again for Christian Aid, in the LONDON MARATHON. Please Sponsor her. The easiest way is online at www.virginmoneygiving.com. Follow the directions, make a donation – sponsor a friend – enter friend’s name ( Eileen Hodgson) - donate now...... This is a safe way of giving and you can see how near Eileen is to reaching her target. If you can gift aid your donation 25% more will be added by the government so it’s well worth doing! If you haven’t got a computer or don’t like giving in this way, either Eileen or myself will happily receive your donation and get it to the right place.
On Saturday 21 May – the beginning of Christian Aid Week – Rev. Stuart Radford, the outgoing Minister of Christ Christ Church, and Rev. Noel Sharp, the incoming minister – will be walking from Nailsworth to Tetbury to raise money for Christian Aid and would like others to walk with them. There will be coffee at Christ Church Nailsworth from 10 –12, the walk from 12 - 3 and tea at Christ Church Tetbury from 3 – 5. We will need people to walk with them, drivers and sponsors. I hope you can do one of those three things BUT if you can’t, come and buy a cup of tea or coffee and a bun to support them in that way.
Update on recruiting a Director of Music for St Marys'. As you know, we are hoping to recruit a new Director of Music, to work with Jonathan who continues asour very able organist. This appointment is made by the Incumbent, with the PCC. We have just completed interviews with initial candidates, but sadly not able to make an appointment. We will continue to advertise ... do please continue to pray. With thanks, Poppy.
Volunteers are needed to provide transport to church for the 9.30am service on an occasional basis. The lady lives in the new flats in Lewsey Court. Please speak to the Church wardens.
We need an Electoral Roll Officer. This is an important but not an onerous job. If you are interested, please see Poppy or Diana Challis for details.
Holiday @Home is holding an additional event this year, a birthday party at The Mayfield Hotel in Crudwell on Thursday 21 April at 3 pm to celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday. (Her Majesty will not be attending). We will be taking our usual summer guests and need help to transport them there and back. If you can offer transport please sign up on the sheet on the notice board at the back of the church, TODAY. Until we know how many helpers we have we cannot invite our guests. Alison
Church Stewarding will commence at the beginning of April. All stewards are invited to a coffee morning in Church on Wednesday March 9th at 10.15am. this is an opportunity for our stewards to meet each other, to hear a
Review of 2015 and the plans for this year. We hope as many stewards as possible will be able to come. We do need more stewards, so anyone interested is very welcome to come along, with obligation, just two hours once a month (or more!) is a great help. If you have any questions please ask Diana Challis
Christopher Hallpike, Church warden at Shipton Moyne church, has written a book entitled “Do we need God to be Good” Please see the notice board at the back of church for more information.
Invitation to volunteer from Cirencester Foodbank.As a member of Churches Together, we at St Marys' are pleased to be working withCirencester Foodbank to set up a collection point here in Tetbury. There is real need, so people can easily access this support locally in times of need. The invitation: Cirencester Foodbank are runningan information morning on Tuesday 1 March from 9.45-10.45am at St Mary's Community Centre in Tetbury. Everyone welcome tocome and hear about volunteering opportunities ahead of ouropening in Tetbury. We are looking forward to meeting you!
The Parish office will be closed on Friday 19th and Tuesday 23rd February
Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail:
Sunday 14th February 2016
First Sunday of Lent
Old Testament Reading Deuteronomy 26.1-11
Moses spoke to the people, saying: When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, ‘Today I declare to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.’ When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the LORD your God, you shall make this response before the LORD your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labour on us, we cried to the LORD, the God of our ancestors; the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD, have given me.’ You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house.
New Testament Reading Romans 10.8b-13
What does scripture say? ‘The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The scripture says, ‘No one who believes in him will be put to shame.’ For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. For, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
Gospel Luke 4.1-13
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.’ Jesus answered him, ‘It is written, “One does not live by bread alone.”’
Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, ‘To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.’ Jesus answered him, ‘It is written, “Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.”’
Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, “He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you”, and “On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.”’
Jesus answered him, ‘It is said, “Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”’ When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time.
O happy band of pilgrims
1. O happy band of pilgrims,
if onward ye will tread,
with Jesus as your fellow,
to Jesus as your head.
2. The cross that Jesus carried
he carried as your due:
the crown that Jesus weareth
he weareth it for you.
3. The faith by which ye see him,
the hope in which ye yearn,
the love that through all troubles
to him alone will turn.
4. What are they but forerunners
to lead you to his sight,
the longed-for distant dawning
of uncreated light?
5. The trials that beset you,
the sorrows ye endure,
are known to Christ your Saviour,
whose perfect grace will cure.
6. O happy band of pilgrims,
let fear not dim your eyes,
remember, your afflictions
shall lead to such a prize!
John Mason Neale (1818-1866)