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TODAY’S HYMNS & PSALMS ST PETER 8.00am (Fr Michael)
( Fr Michael) Please see Service Sheet 6.00pm Evening Prayer - said (Joan Cook ) Ps
139.1-11 ALL SAINTS 10.00am (The Revd Tony Cavanagh) |
PENTECOST 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,
who as at this time taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to
them the light of your Holy Spirit:
grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things
and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ
Jesus our Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever
AMEN Post
Communion: Faithful God, who
fulfilled the promises of Easter by sending us your Holy Spirit and opening
to every race and nation the way of life eternal: open our lips by your
Spirit, that every tongue may tell of your glory; through Jesus Christ our
Lord AMEN We pray this week within the Anglican
Communion for the Episcopal Church of 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 Jordan Addy, Nasya Addy, Claire Below,
Olivia Black, Francesca Booth, Francesca Gurdon, Katya Khazanneh and Robert
Pain taking their First Communion today. for the lonely, the anxious, the bereaved, and
amongst the sick for Douglas Hartley, Judith Hill, Giles Higgins, Brenda
Quarmby, Jenny Cracknell for those who have died recently: Cimmy G. Delglyn and at their anniversaries pray for: Ethel King, Martin Cowley 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 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: Listen Sweet Dove Grayston Ives Notes & Notices EUCHARIST WITH
PRAYERS FOR HEALING tomorrow The
Preacher at SOLEMN EUCHARIST
FOR PETERTIDE FAIR FAIR TRADE STALLS at St Peter’s & at All
Saints’ – today Sunday 4 June Please come
and buy fairly traded goods after morning services. Orders can be taken from the Traidcraft
catalogue. Angela Morris 866992,
Julie Wakely 875504 BERKHAMSTED WALK
Many thanks all participants - walkers, sponsors and
helpers. The amount of money raised
this year will be the greatest for at least a decade – around £9,000. ALMSHOUSE VACANCY
Do you know of anyone who might wish to take up the vacancy in the John
Sayer Almshouses (Berkhamsted High
Street, opposite the Way Inn Post Office)?
Please see further details on the blue notices in St Peter’s, the
Court House and All Saints’ Hall. HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS: Hospice
representative, Rachael Anderson, NEEDS HELP at St
Peter’s perhaps to find
sponsors for fund raising events or to sell either sunflowers in June or
Christmas Bells in December. Please
contact Rachael 871997 HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS – sponsorship needed!
The Revd Liz Hughes, Hospice Chaplain, is running
for the Hospice in the British 10K Run
Sunday 2 July. Funds
raised will go directly to providing special care for patients & their
families. Please
sponsor her - forms now in both churches.
Or apply to Rachael Anderson 871997. STEWARDSHIP
– If you
would like to join our Stewardship scheme or to up-date your stewardship
please look for the Standing Order Forms, Gift Aid forms & return
envelopes which are in church. Thank
you Miles Nicholas, Stewardship
Recorder 871598 WHEELCHAIR available for loan from June Douglas 862860 SECURITY AT OUR CHURCHES It you are passing either church during the
day, do please go in at any time and especially in a holiday period,
in the lunch hour or in the late afternoon, when the open door can welcome
our less well-intentioned visitors. Thank
you Notes & Notices
THE
PARISH OFFICE would love to hear PLEASE from two or
three more people who would be happy to join our splendid team of volunteers
who offer an hour now and again to help with copying etc. Please contact the Parish Office – details
at the foot of this page DIARY 2006: Sat 24 Jun: St Albans Festival Pilgrimage 10.30
Procession, 11.30 Solemn Concelebrated Eucharist, 4pm Solemn
Evensong; Thu 13 Jul: Environment Conference 10am-4pm at
St Albans Cathedral;
PEW LEAFLET
notices, in writing: The Parish
Office, The Court House, Berkhamsted
HP4 2AX This Week’s Diary
at St Peter’s Morning Prayer 8.45am
(7.30am Wed) & Evening Prayer 5pm (Mon–Sat) except Thur. For
all pastoral matters please contact Fr Michael Bowie 864194. Fr Michael takes Thursday off. |
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