The Parish of Great
Berkhamsted
St Peter’s Church
A Registered Charity
The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity: Back to
Church!
27th September 2009
Welcome to St
Peter’s Berkhamsted. If you are new to
the parish or this service please introduce yourself to a “welcomer” or to 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 back 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.
9:30am service
details Hymns, Psalm, Collect, Readings,
Post Communion Prayer will be found on the Insert.
Anthem: Glorious is thy Name W A Mozart
Voluntary: Toccata
Théodore Dubois
6:00pm
service details Evensong & Sermon
Psalms: 120, 121, Hymns: NEH 54, 357, 417
For all pastoral matters please contact
Fr Michael Bowie Rector tel. 01442 864194 email Rector@greatberkhamsted.org.uk
or
Fr John Pritchard Assistant Curate tel. 01442 870016 email johnapritchard@hotmail.co.uk
Notices
HARVEST FESTIVAL is next
week Sunday
4th October BRING A GIFT - Our gifts will go
to DENS Action Against Homelessness
and The Hospice of St Francis. DENS particularly needs toiletries and
non-perishable foods – see small brightly coloured lists in St P.
HARVEST LUNCH also Sunday 4th 12:30 for
1:00pm in the Court House.
Tickets adults £6 / children £3 from Barbara Conway 865798 or Marion Crawley
871495
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ASHRIDGE COLLEGE Choral Evensong 6:30pm tonight
Sunday 27th September. Guest preacher Dr Max Weaver, former
Deputy Vice Chancellor London Metropolitan University and Charity Chief
Executive will speak on Education Rights
and Rites. All welcome.
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THE CHILDREN’S SOCIETY Thank all who so generously supported their
recent coffee morning and helped to raise the grand total of £325
The Children’s Society Annual Box
Opening during October Please bring
your box to one of the 9:30am services during October. If Kathie is not in St Peter’s please hand
it to one of the Churchwardens or call Kathie Lally 863526
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PATHFINDER GAMES (Years 5-8) has started again! - 7:00-8:30pm in the Court House. Come and meet Penny Nash (865217) your
new Youth Minister
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FAIRTRADE
STALLS at All Saints’ next Sunday 4th October & at St Peter’s
Sunday 11th October Come and buy fairly traded goods after
morning services. Orders
can be taken from the Traidcraft catalogue and the New Autumn Catalogue is
available to borrow at any time. All
Fairtrade enquiries to Angela 866992
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REVIEW
NOVEMBER COPYDATE is NEXT Friday 2nd
October but earlier
receipt of copy would be appreciated. Copy
to Christopher Green, 17
Cowper Rd, HP4 3DE
(863241), email: greenc@waitrose.com
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MARJORIE BOWDEN has now moved to Ashlyns Residential Home, in Berkhamsted, and would appreciate visitors.
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STEWARDSHIP PACKAGE MESSAGE If you have
taken a stewardship package please note that the address on the small brown
return envelope should read 46 Fieldway.
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SATURDAY COFFEE BAR needs more bakers, and more helpers to join one of the teams – one
Saturday per month either baking a cake or helping to serve coffee for approx 3
hours per Saturday. Please contact
Kathie Lally 863526
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THE PARISH OFFICE would
greatly welcome one or two more volunteers to help with copying and collating (especially
on a Friday) and there is a task for one with PC skills too !
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RAISE FUNDS FOR THE HOSPICE OF
ST FRANCIS a
few of many ideas – join a Sponsored ‘Go Ape’ 18th Oct. in Wendover
Woods, or take part in
this year's Firewalk Challenge, Thursday 12th Nov, 6pm at the Watermill Hotel, Bourne End
(full training given). More information
on www.stfrancis.org.uk
The
Cowper Society presents at 1:00pm NEXT Friday
2nd October
The Rainbow Ensemble plays Schubert’s Trout
Quintet
And
coming soon!
The Cowper Society presents DIGBY FAIRWEATHER AND HIS HALF DOZEN
for the Rector’s ‘Semi-Centenary’ Concert
- Monday 19th October
at 7:30pm
Tickets £10 (under 18s free) from Cole Flatt, in St Peter’s or at the door
Prayer
Diary
A daily reminder to pray for the Church,
Country, Parish & community in Berkhamsted.
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Sunday
27th
TRINITY 16
Sick & Bereaved
RIP
Memorial
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+Rowan
Williams, +Alan, Bishop of St Albans,
The Most Revd David Chillingworth, Primus of the
Scottish Episcopal Church
Chris
Billington, Judith Hill, Marjorie Bowden, Ron Peggs, Peter Shields, Keith
Dawson
John Screen, John
Gilbert Pr., Vera Imber
Evelyn Scott,
George Allen, Florence
Morgan
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Monday 28th
Luke 9: 46-50
Sick & Bereaved
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St Asaph -
(Wales) The Rt Revd Gregory Cameron
The Political
Assemblies of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
St Peter’s
Pastoral Care Group, Philippa Seldon
Ron Peggs
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Tuesday 29th
St
Michael & All Angels
John 1: 47-51
Sick & Bereaved
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St David's -
(Wales) The Rt Revd John Wyn Evans
Sunnyside Parish
Church, David Abbott Vicar
St Peter’s
Tuesday Club
Judith Hill
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Wednesday 30th
St Jerome
Luke 9: 57-end
Sick & Bereaved
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St
Edmundsbury & Ipswich - (Canterbury,
England) The Rt Revd William Stock
Cancer
Research UK
Adrian Davis,
Director of Music; Jon Lee, Organist; Jean Wild, Assistant Director
Chris
Billington
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Thursday 1st
Luke 10: 1-12
Sick & Bereaved
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St Helena - (South Africa)
The Rt Revd John Salt
Teachers in Religious Education
Muriel Lander
leaving Berkhamsted
Keith Dawson
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Friday 2nd
Holy Guardian Angels
Luke 10:13-16
Sick & Bereaved
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St Mark the
Evangelist - (South Africa)
The Rt Revd Martin Breytenbach
Tradecraft,
Fairtrade
The Hospice
Movement in Berkhamsted
Peter Shields
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Saturday 3rd
Luke 10: 17-24
Sick & Bereaved
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Sunyani - (West Africa) The Revd Canon Festus Yeboah-Asuamah
The
Archdeacon of St Albans, The Venerable
Jonathan Smith
Sundays
Together Lunches, Liz Jackson
Marjorie
Bowden
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Harvest
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Joel 2: 21-27 1 Timothy 6:6-10 Matthew
6:25-33
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ST PETER’S
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Today Sunday 27th
September
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Next week Sunday 4th
October
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WELCOME
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9:30am
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9:30am Young people
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SIDESMEN
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8:00am Liz
Jackson
9:30am Paul & Beverly Jullien
Ian Imber, Sheila Hartley
6:00pm John Cook
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8:00am Stephen Wade
9:30am Kathie & Stephen Lally
Barbara Conway, Liz
Bellamy
6:00pm EP
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INTERCESSOR
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9:30am Elizabeth
Jackson
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9:30am Young
People
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CHALICE
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9:30am Nicky
Evans, Ron Fisher, Kate H
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9:30am Tony Byrne, Christopher Green, Liz J
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ELEMENTS
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9:30am
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9:30am Young people
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COLLECTION
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9:30am
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9:30am Young people
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SERVERS
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8:00am Peter
Matthews
9:30am David Northcott MC, Ron Fisher Cr
Simon Good, Ted Lewis
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8:00am Mike Hart
9:30am Sam Limbert MC¸ James Ruffell Cr
Claire Below, Katya
Khazaneh
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READINGS
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8:00am Mike
Eller
9:30am Miles Nicholas, Anne Vickers
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8:00am Elizabeth Prosser
9:30am Young People
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CRÈCHE
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9:30am Karen
Walker, Nicola B., Hilary O
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9:30am Kate Rennie, Rebekah Powell, Hayley G
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CHURCH CLEANING 28Sept-3
Oct Alan & Barbara Conway, Marion Allum, Patrick Lepper, Janet &
Michael E, Liz Y
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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.
Website: http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk
This Week’s Diary
In
Church O= services where the PA
Loop system is in use
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SUNDAY 27th
September
The Sixteenth
after Trinity
Back to Church!
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8:00am EUCHARIST O(Fr Michael Bowie)
9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O (Fr John Pritchard) Pr Fr Michael Bowie
Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders
11:30am HOLY BAPTISM
6:00pm EVENSONG &
Sermon (John Malcolm)
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Monday 28th
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9:00am Morning Prayer
2:45pm Thos Coram Yr 6 visit (Fr John P & The
Revd Penny Nash)
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
6:00pm EUCHARIST
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Tuesday 29th
ST MICHAEL
& ALL ANGELS
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7:30am Morning Prayer
9:30am EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Rd.
9:30am Victoria Sch. Practice (10:30am)
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12:15pm Thos Coram Yr 6
visit (The Revd Penny Nash)
5:00pm Evening Prayer
5:15pm Choir Practice
(6:15pm)
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Wednesday 30th
St Jerome
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7:30am Morning Prayer
8:00am EUCHARIST
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5:00pm Evening Prayer
6:45pm Tuning
& Reh. Rainbow Quintet (10:00pm)
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Thursday 1st
October
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7:30am Morning Prayer
9:30am Victoria School
Harvest Service
11:00am EUCHARIST
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
7:45pm Bellringing
(9:15pm) south door
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Friday 2nd
The Holy
Guardian Angels
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7:30am Morning Prayer
9:15am EUCHARIST
10:00am Service Little
Fishes
1:00pm Recital: Rainbow Quintet: Schubert’s Trout Quintet
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
7:00pm Choir
Practice (8:30pm)
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Saturday 3rd
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9:30am Morning Prayer
10:00am EUCHARIST
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3:30pm WEDDING Duncan Walkinshaw &
Sophia Desouza
5:00pm Evening
Prayer
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SUNDAY 4th
October
Harvest
Thanksgiving
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8:00am EUCHARIST O(Fr Michael Bowie) Speaker Judith Limbert
9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O Youth Service (Fr
Michael Bowie)
Speaker Judith Limbert Crèche, Sunday
School & Pathfinders
6:00pm EVENING PRAYER
- said (Fr Michael Bowie)
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Other Church Activities Today Sunday Sunday@5 5:00pm
Sunnyside Church
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Monday
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House Group
8-9:30pm at 36 Trevelyan
Way.
Tracy Robinson 863559
Fourth
Berkhamsted Brownies 6:00-7:15pm Court House. Carolina Bowie
864194
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Tuesday
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Chuckles
Toddlers 10-11:30am All Saints’ with 10:15am Songs Jenny Wells 870981
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Wednesday
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Pathfinder
Games Club (yrs 5-8) 7–8:30pm Court House. The Revd Penny Nash 865217
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Thursday
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Age Concern Teas 1:45-3pm Lagley House, Douglas
Gardens. Jo Chan 259049
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Friday
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Little
Fishes Toddlers 9:30-11:30am Court House, with
Service 10:00am St Peter’s.
Tracy Robinson 863559
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Sunday
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Harvest
Lunch: 12:30 for 1:00pm in the Court House
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Future Dates at
St Peter’s unless otherwise stated
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T.13 Oct 8:00pm
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Parochial Church Council,
Court House
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St 24 Oct 7:00pm
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Bellringing – District Bellringers (9:00pm)
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M. 2 Nov 8:00pm
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All Souls’ Solemn Requiem
(using Duruflé Requiem)
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W. 4 Nov 8:00pm
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Showing of Songs of Praise televised at St
Peter’s in May 1978 and broadcast in Feb ’79
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F. 13 Nov 1:00pm
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Cowper Society presents:
Recital Anna Markland piano, Catherine
Van der Geest violin
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St 14 Nov 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Bridgewater Sinfonia
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St 21 Nov 8:00pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Berkhamsted Music Society - Steven
Osborne piano
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Sn 22 Nov 6:00pm
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St Cecilia Choral Evensong
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Sn 29 Nov 6:00pm
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Advent Carol Service
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M. 30 Nov 8:00pm
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Consecration of the New Lady
Chapel Altar
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Sn 6 Dec 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Berkhamsted Choral Society
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T.8 Dec 8:00pm
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Parochial Church Council,
Court House
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W. 23 Dec 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Chiltern Chamber Choir Bach Mass in B
minor
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2010
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W. 6 Jan 8:00pm
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Solemn Eucharist for the
Epiphany
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M. 25 Jan 8:00pm
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The Cowper
Society presents:
Forty Years of Photographing Antiques JP
Gates-
Court House
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M. 1st Feb 8:00pm
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The Cowper
Society presents:
??? Michael Soole-2nd
of 5 Talks- Court
House
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T. 2 Feb 8:00pm
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Solemn Eucharist for the Presentation
of Christ in the Temple
(Candlemas)
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T. 9 Feb 8:00pm
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The Cowper Society presents: John Henry Newman Monsignor Roderick Strange-St Peter’s
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St 13 Feb 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Bridgewater Sinfonia
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M. 22 Feb 8:00pm
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The Cowper
Society presents:
Geographical Globes Bill Willett-Court
House
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St 6 Mar 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Bridgewater Sinfonia
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M. 8 Mar 8:00pm
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The Cowper
Society presents:
Stonehenge-Its Archaeology & Geology CP
Green,
Court H’se
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Sn 18 Apr 11:00am
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Annual Parochial
Church meeting in the Court House
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St 5 Jun 7:30pm
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Cowper Society presents: Bridgewater Sinfonia
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SUNDAY Back
to Church The 16th after Trinity 27th September 2009
Hymns NEH
Introit 433
Gradual Psalm 19:7-9, 14 see below
Offertory 295
Recessional
368
Collect
O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people
who call upon you; and grant that they
may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have
grace and power faithfully to fulfil them;
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
First Reading Numbers 11:4–6, 10–16, 24–29
A reading from the book of Numbers.
The
rabble among the people had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept
again, and said, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we used to
eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and
the garlic; but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but
this manna to look at.’
Moses
heard the people weeping throughout their families, all at the entrances of
their tents. Then the LORD became very angry, and Moses was displeased. So
Moses said to the LORD, ‘Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I
not found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on
me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should
say to me, “Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,” to
the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors? Where am I to get meat
to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, “Give us meat
to eat!” I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy
for me. If this
is the
way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once – if I have found favour
in your sight – and do not let me see my misery.’
So the
LORD said to Moses, ‘Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you
know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the
tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you.’
So
Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered
seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. Then the
LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that
was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon
them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again. Two men remained in the
camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on
them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent,
and so they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, ‘Eldad
and Medad are prophesying in the camp.’ And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of
Moses, one of his chosen men, said, ‘My lord Moses, stop them!’ But Moses said
to him, ‘Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD’s people were
prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them!’
This is the word of the Lord
(Reply Thanks be to
God)
27th September 2009
Psalm 19:7-9, 14 ¯
Psalm 19:7-9, 14
¯
R The heavens are
telling the glory of God
The law of the
Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure and gives
wisdom to the simple. R
The statutes of the Lord are right
and rejoice the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure and gives light to
the eyes. R
The fear of the
Lord is clean and endures for ever; the judgements of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether R
Let the words of
my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my
strength and my redeemer R
Second Reading James 5:13–20
A reading from the letter of James.
Are
any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing
songs of praise. Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the
church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the
Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up;
and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins
to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer
of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being like us,
and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months
it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain
and the earth yielded its harvest.
My
brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought
back by another, you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from
wandering will save the sinner’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of
sins.
This
is the word of the Lord
(Reply Thanks be to God)
27th
September 2009
Gospel Mark 9:38–50
The
Lord be with you
(Reply And also with you)
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark.
(Reply Glory to you, O Lord)
After
Jesus had finished teaching the disciples, John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw
someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he
was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a
deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me.
Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a
cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose
the reward.
If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of
these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great
millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your
hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life
maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And
if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter
life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell. And if your eye
causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom
of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where
their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched. For everyone will be
salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you
season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.’
This is the Gospel of the Lord
(Reply Praise to you, O
Christ)
Post Communion Prayer
Almighty God, you have taught us through your Son that love is the
fulfilling of the law: grant that we may
love you with our whole heart and our neighbours as ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN