The Parish of Great Berkhamsted

St Peter’s Church

 

The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany

27 January 2008

 

 

 

Welcome to St Peter’s Berkhamsted.  If you are new to the parish or this service, please feel confident to introduce yourself to a “welcomer,” one of the Clergy or Sides people. 

Communicant members of all Churches are invited to receive Holy Communion.  If you are not receiving Communion, please come to the Altar rail for a blessing but carry a book so the minister knows.

The Sunday School, Pathfinders and Crèche run in the Court House from 9:30am.  Children are welcome to stay in the service. There are children’s games at the rear of the church.

 

Coffee and biscuits are served in the Court House after the 9.30am service.  All are invited.  Please do come if you have time.

 

TEAM EVENT next Sunday 3rd February at All Saints’ Church Pancakes and Praise.  An afternoon of fun and friendship, centred on the theme of pancakes, starts at 3pm and after tea and cakes there will be a service of praise at 4:30pm.    Please sign list at the west end of church.

 

9:30am service details:  Hymns, Psalm, Collect, Readings, Anthem, Post Communion Prayer & Voluntary will be found on the Insert.

 

6:00pm service details:  Psalm 34;  Hymns NEH 251;  349;  357;

 

Website:  http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk


Notices

§        YOU ARE INVITED to join the Churchwardens and PCC in the Court House after the 9:30am service next Sunday 3rd February to say Thank you to Joan Cook who is stepping down from her position as Diocesan Reader.

§        FAIRTRADE STALLS: St Peter’s stall is now Sunday 10th February but All Saints’ stall is next Sunday 3rd February as usual.   Angela Morris 866992, Julie Wakely 875504 

 

LENT starts Wednesday 6th February

 

ASH WEDNESDAY SUNG EUCHARIST for the beginning of Lent – 8pm at St Peter’s

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LENT GROUPS:

Town-wide study groups are starting in the week commencing Monday 11 February and will run for 5 weeks.  The subject is “The Lord’s Prayer”.   There will be a group led by John Malcolm on Wednesday evenings at 8:00pm in the Court House, starting Wednesday 13 February.  Details of all the groups can be found on the Church notice board and you are invited to sign up for a suitable group as soon as possible.

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CHRISTIAN AID LENT LUNCHES in the Court House
Tuesday 12th February & Tuesday 11th March 12-2:00pm.  Please support the lunches

Surrender yourself to a bowl of delicious home-made soup and
stretch yourself to a generous donation to Christian Aid!

 

 

COWPER SOCIETY TALKS  -  7:30pm in The Court House

28th January        David Hilling ‘Barging all over Britain’   TOMORROW!

11th February      John Screen ‘A British prince in Northern Europe, 1802-03’

25th February      Alison Baverstock ‘Does the Book have a Future?’

10th March           Aymeric Jenkins ‘Romanesque Architecture’

WITH RETIRING COLLECTIONS FOR THE ORGAN FUND

 

 

 

A CONCERT OF PIANO SOLOS & DUETS ON THE THEME OF CHILDHOOD
Saturday 9th February at 7:30pm in St Peter’s Lady Chapel
performed by Anna Le Hair & Adrian Johnson
to include music by Elgar, Bizet, Schumann & Ravel.  
Presented by the Cowper Society FREE ADMISSION – DONATIONS TO SAVE THE CHILDREN

 

§        TUESDAY CLUB 5th February change of speaker.   Roy Hopkins will present Christ Church Oxford: College and Cathedral with slides.   7.45pm in the Court House.

§        MAKE A MOTHERS DAY: Leaflets for the Mothers’ Union Mothering Sunday project are available today.  Please take one and see the range of gifts with a difference that you can buy for Mothering Sunday and so help a mother living in tough circumstances here and overseas.

§        REVIEW MARCH COPYDATE is next Friday 1st  February but earlier receipt of copy would be appreciated.    Copy to Christopher Green 17 Cowper Rd, HP4 3DE (863241), email:  greenc@waitrose.com    

§        WALSINGHAM Fri 2nd – Mon 5th May  Fr Michael will be leading the Parish Pilgrimage to the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham.  Please speak to Philippa Seldon today if would like to go on the list.  Pat Hunt will have the forms next week.  Forms need to be completed and returned with £10 deposit (cheque to PCC of Great Berkhamsted) by Sunday 17 February.  £137 full board for the 3 days.

Prayer Diary

A daily reminder to pray for the Church, Country, Parish & community in Berkhamsted.

Sunday 27th  January

 

Fourth Sunday of Epiphany

Matthew 4:12-23

 

For the Sick

 

 

RIP

Memorial

+Rowan Williams , + Michael Baroi, Bp of Dhaka, Bangladesh

+Christopher Bp of St Albans & Staff. 

 

For our Church Crèches, Sunday School, Pathfinders, and Young People’s

Fellowship groups and for Little Fishes & Chuckles Toddlers group, for all

who attend them and for all who help run them.

 

Judith Hill, Harry Arnfield, Christina Billington, Angela Morris, Tom Hible, Nigel Franklin, Tom Montague, Arthur Williams, Rene Dunford, Ann Bryant, Bill Stead, Baby Cian McHugh

 

Mary Draper RIP, Mattie Franklin RIP;    

Stanley Carter, Clifford Crowson, Eily Smalley, Bruce Da Cunha

Monday 28th

Thomas Aquinas

Mark 3: 22-30

 

Sick, Anxious & Bereaved

+Roger Chuen, Bp of Antsiranana, Indian Ocean

Ruby, Kai, Daniel & Eva Baptised at St. Peter’s yesterday

Philosophers and Teachers of the Faith

Arthur Williams

Tuesday 29th

 

Mark 3: 31-end

 

Sick, Anxious & Bereaved

+William Turei, Bp of Aotearoa, New Zealand & Staff

Removals companies in Berkhamsted, First-time home owners

Inner wheel and Rotary International, The Lions Club

Tom Montague, Rene Dunford

Wednesday 30th

Charles, King & Martyr

Mark 4: 1-20

 

Sick, Anxious & Bereaved

+Gregory Venables, Bp of Argentina

David Gauke MP Representing Berkhamsted

For good relations between Church and State

Tom Hible, Nigel Franklin

Thursday 31st

St John Bosco

Mark 4: 21-25

 

Sick, Anxious & Bereaved

+Martin Shaw, Bp of Argyll and the Isles, Scotland

Jimmy Young, Jammy

Youth workers, Teachers, Salesian Society

Harry Arnfield, Christina Billington

Friday 1st February

 

Mark 4: 26-34

 

+Richard , Bp of Bedford

Galleries and Art shops.  Berkhamsted Art Society

Artists, Metalworkers and Illuminators

Those of our family & friends departed this life

Saturday 2nd

 

Mark 4: 35-end

 

Sick, Anxious & Bereaved

+Christopher, Bp of Hertford

Dacorum Citizens Advice Bureau

The encouragement of Local Volunteers.  Our social responsibility 

Judith Hill, Angela Morris

Candlemas

Readings: Malachi 3: 1-5      Luke 2: 22-40

 

ST PETER’S

Today Sunday 27 January

next week Sunday 3 February (Candlemas)

SIDESMEN

8:00am    Stephen Wade
9:30am    Graham Bashford, Edmund Clarke
              Dorothea Chambers, Pearl Wiggins
6:00pm    Barbara Conway

8:00am    Patrick Lepper
9:30am    Rosemary & Tony Byrne
              David & Victoria Booth, Will Morgan
6:00pm    Philippa Seldon

INTERCESSOR

9:30am    Judith Limbert

9:30am    Claire Below

ELEMENTS

 

9:30am    Katya Khazaneh, Charlotte B, Will M.

COLLECTION

 

9:30am    Francesca G, Olivia B, Alice J, Chris L

CHALICE

9:30am    Mike Eller, Nicky Evans, Carole Dell

9:30am    Kate Hennessey, Chris H., Elizabeth J.

CRÈCHE

9:30am    Karen Walker, Rachel Dell

9:30am    Nicola Beadle, Hilary Ozcan

SERVERS

8:00am    Mike Hart
9:30am    Rachel Hill (MC)
              Will Morgan (Cr)
              Sam Limbert, Francesca Gurdon

8:00am    Chris Clegg
9:30am    Alan Conway(MC)
              Ron Fisher (Cr)
              Libby Grundy, Ted Lewis

READINGS

8:00am    Elizabeth Prosser
9:30am    Juliet & Jane Morgan

8:00am    Janet Eller
9:30am    Stephen Jullien, gospel Jessie Malcolm

CHURCH CLEANING  Catherine Imber, Helen Pope, Christopher Green, Pearl Wiggins, Richard Davies

 

This Week’s Diary 

In Church                                                                                          O= services where the PA Loop system is in use

SUNDAY 27th 

The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany

8:00am      EUCHARIST O(Fr Michael Bowie, Pr The Revd John Pritchard)

9:30am      SUNG EUCHARIST O (Fr Michael Bowie, Pr The Revd John Pritchard)
Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders

10.45am    Young people’s rehearsal for next Sunday (11.15am)

11:30am    Holy Baptism (Fr Michael Bowie)

6:00pm      EVENSONG & Sermon O (The Revd John Pritchard, Pr Fr Michael Bowie)

Monday 28th

 

7:30am      Morning Prayer

2:00pm     Funeral: Mary Draper

5:00pm     Evening Prayer

6:00pm     EUCHARIST

Tuesday 29th 

Thomas Aquinas

7:30am      Morning Prayer

9:30am      EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Rd

10:30am   Organ: Bill Thom (11:30am)

5:00pm     Evening Prayer

5:15pm     Choir Practice (6:15pm)

Wednesday 30th 

King Charles the Martyr

7:30am      Morning Prayer

8:00am      EUCHARIST

5:00pm     Evening Prayer

 

Thursday 31st 

St John Bosco

7:30am      Morning Prayer

11:00am    EUCHARIST O 

2:00pm     Collegiate School Yr 1 visit (3pm)

5:00pm     Evening Prayer

8:00pm     Bellringing (9:15pm) south door

 

Friday 1st  February

 

7:30am      Morning Prayer

9:15am      EUCHARIST

10:00am    Little Fishes Service

11:00am    Recital practice time

1.00pm     Recital: Edward Beckett, flute

5:00pm     Evening Prayer

7:00pm     Choir Practice (8:30pm)

Saturday 2nd

 

9:30am      Morning Prayer

10:00am    EUCHARIST

3:00pm     Organ: Jon Lee (5:00pm)

5:00pm     Evening Prayer

SUNDAY

3rd FEBRUARY

 

CANDLEMAS

8:00am      EUCHARIST O(Fr Michael Bowie)

9:30am      SUNG EUCHARIST O (Fr Michael Bowie, Pr Jimmy Young )
Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders

5:00pm      Sunday@5 service Creative Worship event

6:00pm      EVENING PRAYER - said (The Revd John Pritchard)

 

Other Church Activities

Sunday          Sunday@5 service 5:00pm Sunnyside Church. Jesus at the movies - "Superman returns"

Tuesday        Chuckles Toddlers 10-11:30am All Saints’.  This week 10:15 Service.   Jenny Wells 870981

Bible Course 8:00pm Landswood, Shootersway.  John Malcolm 874993  

Wednesday   Pathfinder Games Club (yrs 5-8)  7 – 8:30pm All Saints’ Hall.  Jimmy Young 384929

Julian Meeting 11:30am 1 Montague Rd.  Half hour of quiet prayer.  Ruth T-B 863268

Thursday       T.E.s (youth club for yr 9+) 7 – 9pm Court House.   Jimmy Young 384929

Buildings Committee  8:00pm 17 Cowper Road.  Christopher Green 863241 

Friday           Little Fishes Toddlers 9.30-11.30am Court House.  This week: 10:00am Service St Peter’s.   Nicole Addy-Varndell 864094

Future Dates

Next Friday 1st February   1:0 0pm   Lunchtime Recital: Edward Beckett, flute, St Peter’s

Tomorrow 28th Jan + 11th & 25th Feb, 10th Mar: Cowper Society Talks, The Court House – see p.2 for details

3rd Feb    5:00pm Sunday@5 service at St Peter’s.  Creative Worship event

6th Feb.   8:00pm Solemn Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes, St Peter’s

9th Feb.   7:30pm Save The Children Anna Le Hair & Adrian Johnson Piano Duets, Lady Chapel, St Peter’s

23rd Feb. 7:30pm Gaudeamus Choral concert, St Peter’s

1st Mar.   7:30pm The Bridgewater Band: Rossini, Beethoven, Brahms, St Peter’s

16th Mar. 6:30pm Chiltern Chamber Choir Baroque & Renaissance (including Striggio 40 part), St Peter’s

2nd – 5th May             Fr Michael is leading the Parish Pilgrimage to the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham.

 

PEW LEAFLET notices, in writing:  The Parish Office, The Court House, Berkhamsted   HP4 2AX
email ChurchOffice@greatberkhamsted.org.uk   tel.878227 & rota swaps by 2pm Wednesday please
PARISH OFFICE hours this week:  9:30am-5:00pm Tue & Wed;  9:30am-12noon Thu & Fri.

For all pastoral matters please contact Fr Michael Bowie 01442 864194 or

The Revd John Pritchard 01442 870016.   Fr Michael takes Thursdays off and John takes Tuesday off.

SUNDAY   The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany           27th January 2008

Hymns NEH

Processional 56

Offertory 311

Post-Communion 57

 

Collect

God our creator;  who in the beginning commanded the light to shine out of darkness:  we pray that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ may dispel the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, shine into the hearts of all your people, and reveal the knowledge of your glory in the face of 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

 

First Reading Isaiah 9:1–4 

A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah. 

There will be no gloom for those who were in There will be no gloom for those who were in anguish.  In the former time he brought into contempt  the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,  but in the latter time he will make glorious  the way of the sea,  the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; 

those who lived in a land of deep darkness –

on them light has shined. 

You have multiplied the nation, 

you have increased its joy; 

they rejoice before you 

as with joy at the harvest, 

as people exult when dividing plunder. 


For the yoke of their burden, 

and the bar across their shoulders, 

the rod of their oppressor, 

you have broken as on the day of Midian. 

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply  Thanks be to God)

 

Psalm  27.1-5, 16 & 17  

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R The Lord is the strength of my life;  of whom then shall I be afraid?

 

The Lord is my light and my salvation;  whom then shall I fear?

The Lord is the strength of my life; 
of whom then shall I be afraid?  R

 

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not be afraid, and though there rise up war against me, yet will I put my trust in him.  R

 

One thing have I asked of the Lord and that alone I seek:  that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,  To behold the fair beauty of the Lord and to seek his will in his temple.  R

 

I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Wait for the Lord;  be strong and he shall comfort your heart;  wait patiently for the Lord.  R

 

Psalm  27.1-5, 16 & 17   ¯

 

 

Second Reading  1 Corinthians 1:10–18 

A reading from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians. 

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,  by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,  that all of you be in agreement  and that there be no divisions among you,  but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose.   For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people  that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.  What I mean is that each of you says,  ‘I belong to Paul,’  or ‘I belong to Apollos,’  or ‘I belong to Cephas,’  or ‘I belong to Christ.’  Has Christ been divided?  Was Paul crucified for you?  Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?  I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,  so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name.  I did baptize also the household of Stephanas;  beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.  For Christ did not send me to baptize  but to proclaim the gospel,  and not with eloquent wisdom,  so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power. 

For the message about the cross is foolishness  to those who are perishing,  but to us who are being saved  it is the power of God. 

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply  Thanks be to God)

 

Gospel  Matthew 4:12–23  

The Lord be with you 

(Reply  And also with you)

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.

(Reply  Glory to you, O Lord)

When Jesus heard that John had been arrested,  he withdrew to Galilee.  He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea,  in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah  might be fulfilled: 

 

‘Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, 

on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, 

Galilee of the Gentiles – 

the people who sat in darkness 

have seen a great light, 

and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death 

light has dawned.’ 

From that time Jesus began to proclaim,  ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ 

As he walked by the Sea of Galilee,  he saw two brothers,  Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother,  casting a net into the lake – for they were fishermen.  And he said to them,  ‘Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.’  Immediately they left their nets and followed him.   As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother Johnin the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them.   Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.  

Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.

This is the Gospel of the Lord

(Reply  Praise to you, O Christ)

 

Choir Anthem

Lift up your heads  William Mathias

 

Post Communion Prayer

Generous Lord, in word and Eucharist we have proclaimed the mystery of your love:  help us so to live out our days that we may be signs of your wonders in the world;  through Jesus Christ our Saviour.   AMEN

 

Voluntary

Chorale no. 3 in A minor César Franck