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TODAY’S HYMNS & PSALMS ST PETER 8.00am (Fr Martin) 9.30am (The Ven Helen Cunliffe) NEH 205 Ps 127 186 161 6.00pm Evening Prayer - said (Joan Cook) Ps 31.1-8 ALL SAINTS 8.45am
Holy Methodist
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MOTHERING SUNDAY 6 March 2005 Eucharistic Prayer A will be used at Holy
Communion Services today We welcome all who worship here today. If you are a newcomer please speak to one
of the welcomers or to one of the clergy.
We invite you to complete a card which you will find in your pew, or
on the table near the door of the church, and hand it to one of the
welcomers. Communicant members of
all Churches are welcome to receive Holy Communion. If you are not receiving Communion please come to the altar
rail for a blessing and carry a book so the minister knows. Collect: God of love, passionate and strong, tender and careful: watch over us and hold us all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN Readings:
1 Samuel 1: 20-28
Colossians 3: 12-17 Luke 2:
33-35 Post Communion: Loving
God, as a mother feeds her children at the breast you feed us in this
sacrament with the food and drink of eternal life: help us who have tasted your goodness to grow in grace within
the household of faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN We pray this week for
Christopher our Bishop and for Christopher and Richard his suffragans for ourselves as we are led by the
Churchwardens and the PCC to appoint a Rector who will be able to guide us as
we seek to play our part in God’s plans for the future. for the Centre
for the elderly at Gossoms End, for the Hospice of St Francis and for the
Iain Rennie Hospice at home, for those who need care and for those who
provide care in many ways. for Olivia
Hope Tasker being baptised at St Peter’s today and for her parents and
godparents for all who are preparing for
Confirmation for the lonely, the anxious, the
bereaved; and amongst the sick for
Michael Taylor, Pamela Christmas, Martin Judd, Judith Hill, Brenda Quarmby,
Harry Arnfield, Jenny Cracknell, Christine Tucker, Joanne Smith, Bob Essery,
Alan Cox, Douglas Hartley, Giles Higgins, Edna Campkin, May Kempster for those who have died
recently: and at their anniversaries pray for:
Lawrence Haile, Derek Hughes, Roderick Margree We give thanks for our communion with all the Saints, especially
the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Peter our patron. At All Saints’ the weekly prayers are for everyone who lives in
Gilbert Way PLEASE TAKE THIS PEW
LEAFLET AWAY WITH YOU as a reminder
of dates, subjects for prayer etc.
Do take copies for anyone not here today. |
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Music at St Peter’s Anthem If we believe : John Goss Notes & Notices Today 6 March 9.30am
The Ven. Helen Cunliffe, Archdeacon of St Albans 8pm Monday 7 March
SERVICE OF WHOLENESS & HEALING, St Peter’s Lady Chapel LENT MEETINGS 1.45pm or 8pm
Monday to Thursday during Lent. Our
parish meetings are in the Court House Wednesdays
7.45 (coffee) for 8pm sessions based on the Lent York Courses Better
Together? Our meetings end with
Compline. Do bring a Bible. THE
CHILDREN'S SOCIETY ON
MOTHERING SUNDAY FAIR TRADE STALLS at St
Peter’s & at All Saints’ today Sunday 6 March
GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT GROUP MONTHLY LUNCH 12.30pm Wednesday 16 March
at
The Old Mill, Bank Mill Lane. Whether
bereaved recently or a few years ago you will be very welcome to join
us. If you would like to attend,
need help with transport or would like further details, please contact Thelma
Harris 865785 OUTWARD GIVING 2004 - £38,921 A folder containing the acknowledgement/thank you letters from
the recipients of last year's Outward Giving will be on display for
inspection at All Saints' until Sunday 6 March and then at St
Peter's. CRB VETTING – by law, any person supervising or involved with
children’s activities needs to be vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau. A register of all those who have already
been vetted is now displayed in both churches. If you take part in any activities involving children in either
St Peter’s or All Saints’ and are not on the register, please
contact Stephen Lally 863526 for the necessary form. PARISH PROFILES - a composite pack of profiles of the five
parishes that will be in the proposed Team Ministry has been sent to the
Diocese for issue to applicants for the post of Team Rector, and can be seen
on the St Peter's website: http://www.stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk ELECTORAL ROLL ANNUAL REVISION
If you are not already included, and wish to be, if you are
over 16, baptised and a regular worshipper at St Peter’s or All Saints’, you
are eligible – please apply by 20 March. Where possible anyone on the roll should also be in
Stewardship. Stewardship forms,
Electoral Roll forms and the 2004 Roll (you may wish to check whether you are
already included on the roll) will be found in church. YOU CAN HELP: Serenata Recital - tonight - 7.30pm sunday 6 march at All Saints’ DE PROFUNDIS A Musical
Meditation for Lent, Chiltern Chamber Choir, There will be a
FAREWELL TEA PARTY for Fr Martin and Geraldine 3-5pm All Saints’ JOINT CHOIR
PRACTICES for Easter: 8pm
Mondays Mar 7 & 14. DIARY: 24/25 Mar: 8pm Maundy Thursday & 12-3pm Good
Friday, Preacher Canon Dick Clarkson, St Peter’s Mon 28 Mar: Easter Monday Pilgrimage to St Albans Abbey, from breakfast 7.45am in The Court House Sat 16
Apr: Deanery Confirmation Service,
Preacher: Christopher, Bishop of Hertford, 7pm, St Peter’s
PEW LEAFLET notices, in writing: The
Parish Office, The Court House, Berkhamsted
HP4 2AX This Week’s
Diary
MORNING PRAYER 8.00am at All
Saints’ Tue, Thu, Fri, 7.30am Wed & 8.45am Sat; A priest is always available for the sacrament of confession by
arrangement 864485 |
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