The Parish of Great Berkhamsted

St Peter’s Church

Pentecost

11^th May 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 sidesmen. 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.

RED BUCKET COLLECTION 11^th & 18^th May

BURMA APPEAL

There will be a RED BUCKET collection after services

in the next two weeks.

If you are a taxpayer please

USE & COMPLETE the Gift Aid Envelope (thus giving an extra 28%)
Cheques payable to PCC of Great Berkhamsted.

The money raised will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee
National Appeal

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

6:00pm Choral Evensong service details: Hymns, Psalm, Responses, Canticles, Anthem & Voluntary will be found on the next page

Website: http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk

Notices

6:00pm Choral Evensong service details:

Hymns: NEH 138, 431 Psalm: 67 & 133 Responses: Rose

Canticles: Aston in F Anthem: Praise the Lord, ye servants John Blow

Voluntary: Sonata in F Major K332, (i) Allegro WA Mozart

The 40^th Children's Society BERKHAMSTED WALK TODAY Sunday 11^th May
The walk is being celebrated with an official start (from outside the Court House) at 10.15am by Peter Drury, TV Sports Commentator. Contact Kathie Lally 863526

§ FLOWER FESTIVAL at St John's Church, Boxmoor.
Last day today 11^th May from 10am-6pm – entrance £2.50
Refreshments are available. They are raising funds towards the cost of their new organ.

§ CHRISTIAN AID MARKET STALL 8:30am-12noon NEXT Saturday 17^th May
outside Tesco. Contributions of cakes and plants are needed.
They can be brought to the stall early or to Margaret Burbidge 862139.
And please come and buy and support Christian Aid!

CORPUS CHRISTI EUCHARIST 8:00pm THURSDAY 22^nd MAY St Peter’s

Wanted! For the PETERTIDE FAIR ON 14^th JUNE
good quality Bric-a-Brac (please no mains powered electrical items),
bottles for the Bottle Tombola, plants and books.
Contact Paul Jullien on 07775 525546 if collection is needed.

Also volunteers needed! What can YOU do to help?

Petertide Fair - the Prize Draw Tickets have now been distributed. Please sell the tickets and make an early return of the counterfoils, cheques (to PCC of Great Berkhamsted) or cash to Tony Bailey, York House, 1 Murray Road, HP4 1JD or hand them in at Sunday 9:30am services. For additional tickets please contact Tony 872581

§ GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT GROUP MONTHLY LUNCH 12.30pm Wednesday 21 May at The White Horse, Bourne End. 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 Sylvia Banks 871195

§ Loving your Neighbour in a Chaotic World 8:00pm Tuesday 20^th May at St Mary’s Northchurch. This lecture given by Edgar Wille OBE will offer challenging ways of looking at the world and what we can do to make a difference. Edgar Wille is a Reader at St Mary’s and author of Maps for the Journey - an easy-to-read introduction to each book in the Bible.

§ IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE HOSPICE:
Would you like to hold a Barbecue Party for as few or as many people as you like?
or Walk with the Stars (women only but men needed for marshalling)? Leaflets about both are on the table at the back of the church, along with the latest Hospice newsletter.

ST ALBANS FESTIVAL PILGRIMAGE – SATURDAY 21 JUNE

10:30am Pilgrimage Procession from Roman Verulamium 11:30am Festival Eucharist Pr Angela Tilby. From lunchtime food & drink available from the Café at the Abbey and stalls on the Abbey Orchard, along with chariot racing, lion taming, face painting, bouncy castles, circus skills and lots more. 2:00pm & 3:00pm Shrine Prayers held at the Shrine of St Alban. 4:00pm Festival Evensong Preacher Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Reading.

NUMBERS NEEDED Please sign up in church or tell Parish office 878227
CAR PARKING FREE But please apply for the free parking permit.

Prayer Diary

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

Sunday 11^th May Pentecost Memorial / RIP	+Rowan Williams, +Christopher Bp of St Albans & Staff +Peter Lee, Bp of Christ the King , South Africa Judith Hill, Harry Arnfield, Christina Billington, Angela Morris, Tom Montague, Arthur Williams, Rene Dunford, Alex Wright, Clare Wallington, Lily Underwood, Bob Essery, Dorothea Chambers Jean Meyer, Margaret Barnard, Joan Walker RIP, Marjorie Smith RIP, Jean Hicks RIP
Monday 12^th Mark 8:11-13 Sick, Anxious & Bereaved	+Bishop of Chotanagpur, North India to be appointed Voluntary and charitable giving within Berkhamsted Burma; humanitarian aid agencies Arthur Williams, Judith Hill
Tuesday 13^th Mark 8: 14-21 Sick, Anxious & Bereaved	+Mouneer Anis, Bp in Egypt with North Africa Pet owners and breeders Explorers and mountaineers Tom Montague, Harry Arnfield,
Wednesday 14^th Matthias the Apostle John 15: 9-17 Sick, Anxious & Bereaved	+David Coles, Bp of Christchurch, New Zealand Traitors, those who betray; spies All who will be collecting for Christian Aid Christina Billington, Alex Wright
Thursday 15^th Mark 8: 27-33 Sick, Anxious & Bereaved	+Francis Mori, Bp of Chuba, Japan Local hospital radio in Hemel and Stoke Mandeville All who work in communications and the media Angela Morris, Rene Dunford
Friday 16^th Mark 8: 31- 9:1	+Michael Jackson, Bp of Clogher, Ireland Berkhamsted School Choirs and peripatetic music teachers Pop musicians & the music industry Those of our family & friends departed this life
Saturday 17^th Mark 9: 2-13 Sick, Anxious & Bereaved	+Masilamani Dorai, Bp of Coimbatore, South India The Samaritans and local Citizens Advice Bureau All who are trying to make sense of their lives Clare Wallington, Lily Underwood
Trinity Sunday	Readings: Isaiah 40:12-17, 27-end 2 Corinthians 13:11-end Matthew 18:16-20

ST PETER’S	Today Sunday 11^th May	next week Sunday 18^th May
SIDESMEN	8:00am Patrick Lepper 9:30am Carole & Geoff Dell Ann Wallington, Sheila Miller 6:00pm Christopher Green	8:00am Elizabeth Prosser 9:30am Bernard & June Haile, Barbara Northcott, John Cook 6:00pm John Cook
INTERCESSOR	9:30am Penny Abbott	9:30am Michael Below
CHALICE	9:30am Kate Hennessey, Chris H., Carole Dell	9:30am Paul Jullien, Jane Morgan, Graham T.
CRÈCHE	9:30am Ali Allsop, Karen Walker	9:30am Rachel Dell, Nicola Beadle
SERVERS	8:00am Mike Hart 9:30am David Northcott (MC) Simon Good (Cr) Ron Fisher, Ted Lewis	8:00am Chris Clegg 9:30am Rachel Hill (MC) Alan Conway (Cr) Francesca Gurdon, Claire Below
READINGS	8:00am Elizabeth Prosser 9:30am Anne Vickers, Sam Limbert	8:00am Elizabeth Prosser 9:30am Marion Crawley, David Crawley
CHURCH CLEANING 12-17 May Alan & Barbara Conway, Marion Allum, Patrick L, Janet & Mike Eller, Liz Young

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.

This Week’s Diary

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

SUNDAY 11^th May PENTECOST	8:00am EUCHARIST O(Canon Anthony Lathe) 9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O (Canon Anthony Lathe) Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders 4:30am Choir rehearsal for …. 6:00pm CHORAL EVENSONG & Sermon O (Fr Michael Bowie)
Monday 12^th St Pancras	7:30am Morning Prayer 2:00pm Funeral: Joan Walker	5:00pm Evening Prayer 6:00pm EUCHARIST
Tuesday 13^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:30am EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Rd.	5:00pm Evening Prayer 5:15pm Choir Practice (6:15pm)
Wednesday 14^th St Matthias	7:30am Morning Prayer 8:00am EUCHARIST	5:00pm Evening Prayer
Thursday 15^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 11:00am EUCHARIST O 2:15pm School visit to the ringing chamber (Priscilla Watt)	5:00pm Evening Prayer 7:45pm Bellringing (9:15pm) south door
Friday 16^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:15am EUCHARIST	5:00pm Evening Prayer 7:00pm Choir Practice (8:30pm)
Saturday 17^th	8:00am Association of Berkhamsted Churches’ Prayers 9:30am Morning Prayer 10:00am EUCHARIST 10:45am Servers Training (Alan Conway)	1.30pm choir rehearsal … 3:00pm Wedding: Jason Kingdon & Katherine Green (& Holy Baptism of Alma Jean) 5:00pm Evening Prayer
SUNDAY 18^th May Trinity Sunday	8:00am EUCHARIST O(Fr John Russell, Pr The Revd John Pritchard) 9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST with HOLY BAPTISM O (Fr Michael Bowie, Pr The Revd John Pritchard) Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders 3:30pm Service of Thanksgiving for Baptism 6:00pm EVENSONG & Sermon O (Richard Hackworth)

Other Church Activities today Sunday@5 service 5:00pm Sunnyside Church.

Monday Prayers for our Schools 9:00am –10:00am in The Breukelman Room, Sunnyside Church. Please let us know of any prayer requests. Marjorie Davies 01494 783034.

House Group 8-9:30pm at 36 Trevelyan Way. Tracy Robinson 863559.

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

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

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

Friday Little Fishes Toddlers 9.30-11.30am Court House. Carrie Wegener 877404

Future Dates

22May 8:00pm	Corpus Christi Eucharist, St Peter’s
7Jun 7:30pm	bridgewater sinfonia with Chiltern Chamber Choir: Vaughan Williams, Mahler, St Peter’s
8Jun 4:00pm	Social occasion for those who attend services other than 9:30 Sunday Eucharist, Court House
14Jun 10-3pm	Petertide Fair in and around St Peter’s and the Court House
20Jun 1:00pm	Lunchtime Recital: Takami Weaver piano, Lady Chapel, St Peter’s
21 Jun 9:15am 10:30am	Full peal to mark John Pritchard’s ordination, St Peter’s Start of St Alban Festival Pilgrimage at Roman Verulamium, St Albans details on handbills
27 Jun 1:00pm	Lunchtime Recital: Trio Artemis, violin, ’cello, piano, Lady Chapel, St Peter’s
28 Jun 4:00pm 7:30pm	John Pritchard’s Ordination, St Albans Abbey Chandos Chamber Choir Brahms Requiem with piano duet accompaniment, St Peter’s
29 Jun 9:30am	Patronal Festival Eucharist, also The Revd John Pritchard’s First Mass Vierne Messe Solennelle, St Peter’s - to be followed by drinks & lunch in the Court House & church grounds

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 PENTECOST 11^th May 2008

Hymns NEH

Processional 142 & 138

Offertory 132

Post-Communion see page 3 of this insert

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

First Reading Acts 2:1–21

A reading from A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – in our own languages we hear them speaking

about God’s deeds of power.’ All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this mean?’ But others sneered and said, ‘They are filled with new wine.’

But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, ‘Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: “In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”’

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply Thanks be to God)

Psalm 104.26-27, 32-37

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Psalm 104.26-27, 32-37

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R Bless the Lord, O my soul.

O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.

There is the sea, spread far and wide,
and there move creatures beyond number, both small and great. R

When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. May the glory of the Lord endure for ever;
may the Lord rejoice in his works;

He looks on the earth and it trembles;
he touches the mountains and they smoke. R

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will make music to my God while I have my being.

So shall my song please him while I rejoice in the Lord.

Let sinners be consumed out of the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul. R

Second Reading 1 Corinthians 12:3b–13

A reading the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians.

No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply Thanks be to God)

Gospel John 20:19–23

The Lord be with you

(Reply And also with you)

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

(Reply Glory to you, O Lord)

It was evening on the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’

This is the Gospel of the Lord

(Reply Praise to you, O Christ)

Choir Anthem

All people that on earth do dwell Thomas Tallis

Post Communion Prayer

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

Post-Communion Hymn

Spirit of God, unseen as the wind,
Gentle as is the dove,

Teach us the truth and help us believe,
Show us the Saviour’s love

You spoke to us, long, long ago,
Gave us the written Word;

We read it still, needing its truth
Through it God’s voice is heard.

Without your help, we fail our Lord,
We cannot live his way,

We need your power, we need your strength,
Following Christ each day.

Piano Voluntary

Rhapsody no 2 in G minor Op 79 Brahms