The Parish of Great Berkhamsted, St Peter’s Church

Registered Charity No. 1130108

Mothering Sunday

14^th March 2010

Welcome to St Peter’s

We aim to give glory to God through Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit

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 and Pathfinders are in church this morning, but the Crèche will run in the Court House from 9:30am. Children are welcome to stay in the service. There are activity bags available for children to take with them to the pews.

Tea and coffee are served in the Court House after the 9:30am service.

All are welcome.

9:30am service details Hymns, Psalm, Collect, Readings
and Post Communion Prayer will be found in the service sheet
Anthem Simon Lindley Ave Maria

6:00pm service Choral Evensong details:

Responses Plainsong Hymns NEH 184, 161 Psalm 30

Canticles Plainsong Anthem Hilton Lord, for thy tender mercies sake

immediately after Choral Evensong A showing of the recent BBC TV Series
A History of Christianity, Tonight 4: Reformation: The Individual Before God

RED BUCKET COLLECTION after services today

FOR CHILE DISASTER VICTIMS

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

For all pastoral matters please contact Fr John Pritchard Assistant Curate

tel. 01442 870016 email johnapritchard@hotmail.co.uk

Fr Michael Bowie Rector is currently off duty

Prayer Diary

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

Sunday 14^th Mothering Sunday Sick & Bereaved RIP Memorial	+Rowan Cantuar, +Alan, Bishop of St Albans The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean The Most Revd Gerald James (Ian) Ernest Archbishop, Province of the Indian Ocean & Bishop of Mauritius Chris Billington, Judith Hill, Marjorie Bowden, Ron Peggs, Keith Dawson, Len Bennett Vera Yorston John Addy, William Baily
Monday 15^th John 4: 43-end Sick & Bereaved	Brechin - (Scotland) The Revd Dr. John Mantle Bp Christopher Foster, Bp Designate of Portsmouth Toynbee Hall, Oxford House Ron Peggs
Tuesday 16^th John 5: 1-3 & 5-16 Sick & Bereaved	Bristol - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Michael Arthur Hill Retired Lay Ministers and Clergy The Swan Youth Project and The Swan Foyer Judith Hill
Wednesday 17^th St Patrick John 5: 17-30 Sick & Bereaved	British Columbia (British Columbia & the Yukon) The Rt Revd James Cowan Northern Ireland The Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland Chris Billington
Thursday 18^th St Cyril of Jerusalem John 5:31-end Sick & Bereaved	Bujumbura - (Burundi) The Rt Revd Pie Ntukamazina The Church and People of Zimbabwe The Ecclesiastical Charities of Berkhamsted Keith Dawson
Friday 19^th St Joseph Matthew 1: 18-25 Sick & Bereaved	Bukavu - (Congo) The Rt Revd Sylvestre Bali-Busane Bahati Fathers Ashridge Business College – The Reverend Luke Geoghegan (Chaplain) Len Bennett
Saturday 20^th John 7:40-52 Sick & Bereaved	Bukedi - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Nicodemus Engwalas-Okille Those who are in Prison or on Death Row The Parish Preparations for Holy Week Marjorie Bowden
Sunday 21^st March	Readings: Isaiah 43:16-21 Philippians 3:4b-14 John 12:1-8

ST PETER’S	Today Sunday 14^th March - Mothering	Next week Sunday 21^st March - Passion
WELCOME	9:30am Young people
SIDESMEN	8:00am Patrick Lepper 9:30am Bernard & June Haile Judith Limbert, Simon Lawson 6:00pm Choral Christopher Green	8:00am Stephen Wade 9:30am Kate & Tim Hennessey Frank Norman, Sheila Miller 6:00pm Philippa Seldon
INTERCESSOR	9:30am Young people	9:30am None - Lent
ELEMENTS	9:30am Young people
CHALICE	9:30am Nicky Evans, Ron F, Carole Dell	9:30am June Haile, Kate H, Elizabeth J
SERVERS	8:00am Rachel Hill 9:30am James Ruffell MC, Sam Limbert Cr Claire Below, Katya Khazaneh	8:00am Mike Hart 9:30am Chris Clegg MC, tba Cr Alan Conway, Francesca Gurdon
READINGS	8:00am Janet Eller 9:30am Young people	8:00am Anthea Lepper 9:30am Rachael Anderson, June Haile
CRÈCHE	9:30am Rachel D, Rachel E, Lucy A	9:30am Matthew & Luisa Size, Karen W
CHURCH CLEANING 15-20 Mar Alan & Barbara Conway, Marion Allum, Patrick L, Janet & Michael E, Liz Young

Websites

Our own St Peter’s site http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk

We are a Fairtrade Parish http://www.fairtrade.org.uk

and your challenge for Lent! www.challenge2010.org

Register on the website to receive a verse from St Luke’s Gospel every day.
Leaflets with more detail are available at the back of church

SUNDAY Mothering Sunday 14^th March 2010

For use at 8:00am only

Collect

God of compassion, whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal; 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 1 Samuel 1:20-28

A reading from the first book of Samuel

In due time Hannah conceived and bore a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, "I have asked him of the LORD."

The man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he may appear in the presence of the LORD, and remain there forever; I will offer him as a nazirite for all time."

Her husband Elkanah said to her, "Do what seems best to you, wait until you have weaned him; only-- may the LORD establish his word." So the woman remained and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. She brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh; and the child was young.

Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.

And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the LORD.

For this child I prayed; and the LORD has granted me the petition that I made to him.

Therefore I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives, he is given to the LORD." She left him there for the LORD.

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply Thanks be to God)

Second Reading No Second Reading

Gospel John 19:25b – 27

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)

Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son."

Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

This is the Gospel of the Lord

(Reply Praise to you, O Christ)

Post Communion Prayer

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

This Week’s Church Diary

O= services where the PA Loop system is in use

SUNDAY 14^th March Mothering Sunday	8:00am EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr John Pritchard 9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O Pr: The Revd Penny Nash Crèche. Sunday School & Pathfinders in church 4:30pm Choir practice for .... 6:00pm CHORAL EVENSONG O no sermon during Lent 6:45pm A History of Christianity 4: Reformation: The Individual Before God
Monday 15^th	9:00am Morning Prayer	5:00pm Evening Prayer 6:00pm EUCHARIST 7:55pm Quarter Peal
Tuesday 16^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:30am EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Road.	5:00pm Evening Prayer 5:15pm Choir Practice (6:15pm)
Wednesday 17^th St Patrick	7:30am Morning Prayer 8:00am EUCHARIST	5:00pm Evening Prayer 7:30pm EUCHARIST before Lent Group
Thursday 18^th	No Morning Prayer 11:00am EUCHARIST	No Evening Prayer 7:55pm Bellringing (9:15pm) south door
Friday 19^th St Joseph	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:15am EUCHARIST	5:00pm Evening Prayer 7:00pm Choir Practice (8:30pm)
Saturday 20^th	9:30am Morning Prayer 10:00am EUCHARIST 3:00pm Organ/piano: Jon Lee (5:00pm)	5:00pm Evening Prayer
SUNDAY 21^st March Passion Sunday 5^th of Lent	8:00am EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr John Russell 9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O Pr: Bill Hewis of the Leprosy Mission Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders 11:30am HOLY BAPTISM 2:30pm Primary School Choirs’ Festival (Caroline Fitzgerald) 6:00pm EVENING PRAYER no sermon during Lent 6:45pm A History of Christianity 5: Protestantism - The Evangelical Explosion

Other Church Activities Today Sunday Sunday@5 5:00pm Sunnyside Church

Monday	Fourth Berkhamsted Brownies 6:00-7:15pm Court House. Carolina Bowie 864194 Pastoral Network 7:45pm Court House. Philippa Seldon 871534
Tuesday	Chuckles Toddlers 10-11:30am All Saints’ with 10:15am Songs Jenny Wells 870981 Mothers’ Union 2.30pm 57 Meadow Road. Lent Eucharist led by The Revd Tricia Gibson. All welcome. Details from Jenny Wells 870981
Wednesday	Pathfinder Games Club (yrs 5-8) 7–8:30pm Court House. Gill Malcolm 874993
Thursday	Berkhamsted Carers Support Group 1:30-3pm Lagley House, Douglas Gardens. Jo Chan 259049
Friday	Little Fishes Toddlers 9:30-11:30am Court House. Tracy Robinson 863559
Saturday	Association of Berkhamsted Churches Prayer Breakfast 8:00am at St Mary’s, Northchurch

Future Dates at St Peter’s unless otherwise stated

W. 24 Mar 8:00pm	The Annunciation of the Lord Solemn Eucharist
F. 26 Mar 9:30am	Victoria School Palm Sunday Service
Sn 28 Mar 6:30pm	Palm Sunday The Cowper Society presents: Chiltern C. Choir Mozart Mass in C minor
M. 29 Mar 7:30/8pm	Monday in Holy Week 7:30pm Eucharist & 8:00pm Liturgy of Penitence & Healing
T. 30 Mar 7:30/8pm	Tuesday in Holy Week 7:30pm Eucharist & 8:00pm Stations of the Cross
W.31 Mar 12noon 7:30/8pm	Thomas Coram School End of Term Service Wednesday in Holy Week 7:30pm Eucharist & 8:00pm Tenebrae
Th 1^st Apr 9:30am 8:00pm	Easter Holiday Club for young people - to yr 8, under 5s with adult (ends 3pm) All Saints’ Maundy Thursday Sung Eucharist of the Last Supper
F. 2 Apr 12noon	Good Friday Three hour devotion (3pm)
St 3 Apr 9:00pm	Easter Eve The Easter Vigil Eucharist with Holy Baptism and Confirmation
Sn 4 Apr all day	Easter Day 8:00am Eucharist; 9.30am Sung Eucharist; 6:00pm Choral Evensong
F. 16 Apr 1:00pm	The Cowper Society presents: Lunchtime Recital Pelléas Trio – viola, harp & flute

Notices

The Cowper Society presents next Sunday 21^st March at 2:30pm in St Peter’s
Local Primary School Choirs Festival - an hour of music in which many local primary schools are participating as are the children from St Peter’s choir
free entry, retiring collection

§ The Leprosy Mission: STOP PRESS: Bill Hewis, our local area representative, will be preaching at St Peter’s next Sunday 21^st March at 9:30am.
If you still have a Box to be emptied, please contact Judy Ewart on 864860. Many thanks.

SOLEMN EUCHARIST OF THE ANNUNCIATION 8pm WEDNESDAY 24^th MARCH

§ Power, Passion And Poetry NEXT Friday 19^th March 7-9pm at All Saints’ Church. An evening of classic and contemporary verse in support of Christian Aid.
Entry £4.00 - all for Christian Aid. Tickets email: suehampton@btinternet.com

§ GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT GROUP MONTHLY LUNCH NEXT Wednesday 17^th March 12:30pm 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

THE MEETING OF PARISHIONERS for the ELECTION OF CHURCHWARDENS SUNDAY 18^th APRIL 11:00am in the COURT HOUSE immediately followed by
THE ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING at 11:05am.
This is the meeting which all church members on the Electoral Roll are invited to attend. One of its tasks is to elect members to serve on the PCC.
Nomination forms are now available in both churches.
If you have a question which you wish to bring to the meeting it would be helpful
if you would notify the PCC Secretary beforehand: Julian Dawson 871614 juliandawson@juliandawson.plus.com
It is expected that shortly after 22^nd March the Annual Report will be available online http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk Some copies will be put into church and if you would like a printed copy for the meeting please ask the parish office to set one aside for you.

Electoral Roll Annual revision If you are not already included, are over 16, baptised and a regular worshipper here, you are eligible. Please make sure you are included.
Check the first draft of the 2010/11 Roll now on the church table.
Names can be added for another two weeks. Where possible those on the roll
should be in Stewardship. Stewardship forms are also on the table.

§ ANNUAL REVISIONS

§ Sidesman Rota If you would like to be a sidesman or know that you cannot continue as sideman until April 2011 please tell the Churchwardens before the APCM on 18^th April.

§ Cleaning Rota – more help needed!! Please speak to the churchwardens or call the office (details below) and allow us to add your name to one of our six teams.

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