The Parish of Great Berkhamsted, St Peter’s Church

Registered Charity No. 1130108

Trinity Sunday

30^th May 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.

There will be no Sunday School, Pathfinders or Crèche today, but 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,
Post Communion Prayer will be found on the Insert.
Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity Tchaikovsky

6:00pm service details Evening Prayer Psalm 73:13 & 16-28
Hymns NEH 145, 373, 241

For all pastoral matters please contact
Fr Michael Bowie Rector tel. 01442 864194 email Rector@greatberkhamsted.org.uk

Fr John Pritchard Assistant Curate tel. 01442 870016 email johnapritchard@hotmail.co.uk

Prayer Diary

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

Sunday 30^th Trinity Sunday Sick & Bereaved Memorial	+Rowan Cantuar, +Alan, Bishop of St Albans The Church of the Province of Melanesia The Most Revd David Vunagi Archbishop of Melanesia and bishop of Central Melanesia Chris Billington, Judith Hill, Marjorie Bowden, Ron Peggs, Keith Dawson, Keith, Marion Bellaby Ethel King
Monday 31^st Visitation of the BVM Luke 1: 39-49 Sick & Bereaved	Cyprus and the Gulf - (Middle East) The Rt Revd Michael Augustine Owen Lewis Thomas Coram Middle School and Victoria First School on half term holiday Those who are imprisoned or held against their free will Ron Peggs
Tuesday 1^stJune St Justin Martyr Mark 12: 13-17 Sick & Bereaved	Daejeon - (Korea) The Rt Revd Michael Hi Yeon Kwon The Fairtrade and Transition Town Berkhamsted Cancer Research UK Judith Hill
Wednesday 2^nd Marcellinus & Peter Mark 12: 18-27 Sick & Bereaved	Dallas - (Province VII, USA) The Rt Revd James Monte Stanton Berkhamsted charity shops The Diocesan Exorcist Chris Billington
Thursday 3^rd CORPUS CHRISTI Mark 12: 28-34 Sick & Bereaved	Damaturu - (Province of Jos, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Abiodun Ogunyemi An increase in our faith and devotion Keith Dawson
Friday 4^th Mark 12: 35-37 Sick & Bereaved	Honduras - (Province IX, USA) The Rt Revd Lloyd Emmanuel Allen Vacancy in the post of Suffragan Bishop of Hertford The Meningitis Trust Keith
Saturday 5^th St Boniface Mark 12: 38-44 Sick & Bereaved	Delaware - (Province III, USA) The Rt Revd Wayne Parker Wright Ashridge Business College – Fr Luke Geoghegan (Chaplain) Missionaries Marjorie Bowden
Sunday 6^th June	Readings: 1 Kings 17:17-end Galatians 1:11-end Luke 7:11-17

ST PETER’S	Today Sunday 30^th May Trinity		Next week Sunday 6^th June
SIDESMEN	8:00am Patrick Lepper 9:30am Janet & Mike Eller Helen Pope, Pamela Pennock 6:00pm Philippa Seldon		8:00am Frank Allum 9:30am Barbara & Ron Fisher Mark & Ulrike Grego 6:00pm Susan Holmes
CHALICE	9:30am Rachael Anderson, Graham Tolley		9:30am Michael Anderson, Jane Bartholomew
CRÈCHE	9:30am No crèche – half term		9:30am No crèche – half term
	Sunday 30^th May	8pm Thu 3^rd June		Sunday 6^th June
INTERCESSOR	9:30am Michael Below	Chrichton Limbert		9:30am Young People
SERVERS	8:00am Rachel Hill 9:30am Alan Conway MC Frank Amankwah Cr James Ruffell, Ted Lewis	Rachel Hill MC Peter Matthews Th Alex Evans Cr David N, Ted Lewis		8:00am Mike Hart 9:30am Sam Limbert MC James Ruffell Cr Francesca Gurdon, Claire Below
READINGS	8:00am Patrick Lepper 9:30am Libby Grundy, Frank N	Philippa Seldon		8:00am Patrick Lepper 9:30am Young People
CHURCH CLEANING 31 - May-5 Jun Marion Crawley, Ted Lewis, Elizabeth Jackson, Liz Bellamy, Sue Ruggles

Websites

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

Petertide Fair site http://www.petertidefair.org.uk

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

This Week’s Church Diary

O= services where the PA Loop system is in use

SUNDAY 30^th May TRINITY SUNDAY	8:00am EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr John Russell 9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr John Russell No Crèche, Sunday School or Pathfinders – half term 2:00pm HOLY BAPTISM 6:00pm EVENING PRAYER Pr: Fr John Pritchard
Monday 31^st	Visitation of the BVM BANK HOLIDAY NO SERVICES
Tuesday 1^st June	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:30am EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Road.	5:00pm Evening Prayer No Choir Practice (half-term) 8:00pm Occasional Talk Look Behind You
Wednesday 2^nd	7:30am Morning Prayer 8:00am EUCHARIST	5:00pm Evening Prayer
Thursday 3^rd CORPUS CHRISTI	7:30am Morning Prayer No 11:00am Eucharist	5:00pm Evening Prayer 8:00pm SOLEMN EUCHARIST of Corpus Christi
Friday 4^th	7:30am Morning Prayer 9:15am EUCHARIST	5:00pm Evening Prayer No Choir Practice (half-term) 7:30pm Rehearsal Bridgewater Sinfonia (10pm)
Saturday 5^th St Boniface	9:30am Morning Prayer 10:00am EUCHARIST 1:30pm Rehearsal Bridgewater & CCC	5:00pm Evening Prayer 6:45pm Access Front of House for 7:30pm Concert Bridgewater Sinfonia
SUNDAY 6^th June The First after Trinity	8:00am EUCHARIST O Pr: Fr John Pritchard 9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST Youth ServiceO Pr: Medical Director of Karunashraya Hospice Bangalore No Crèche, Sunday School or Pathfinders 6:00pm EVENING PRAYER – said

Other Church Activities Today Sunday No Sunday@5 5:00pm Sunnyside Church

Monday	No Fourth Berkhamsted Brownies 6:00-7:15pm Court House. Carolina Bowie 864194
Tuesday	No Chuckles Toddlers 10-11:30am All Saints’ with 10:15am. Jenny Wells 870981 Tuesday Club 7:45pm Court House. Dr Brenda Harold: The New Genetics: Dream or Nightmare? Barbara McKenna 871159
Wednesday	No Pathfinder Games Club (yrs 5-8) 7–8:30pm Court House. The Revd Penny Nash 865217
Friday	No Little Fishes Toddlers 9:30-11:30am Court House. Tracy Robinson 863559

Future Dates at St Peter’s unless otherwise stated

St 12 Jun 10-3pm	Petertide Fair
St 19 Jun 8:00pm	The Cowper Society presents: Petertide Event - Chris Garrick Jazz Quartet concert
St 26 Jun 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Petertide Event - The Chandos Chamber Choir
Sn 27 Jun 9:30am	Patronal Festival Eucharist Patronal lunch; 6:00pm Patronal Festival Choral Evensong
St 3 Jul 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Petertide Event - Ashlyns Big Band. Retiring collection
Fr 9 Jul 1:00pm	The Cowper Society presents: Recital Fiona Duncan violin, Kevin Vockerodt piano
St 17 Jul 2:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Berkhamsted Choral Workshops concert (Yvonne Brener)
Sn 22 Aug 1:00pm	Parish Picnic in Thomas Coram School grounds
St 4 Sep 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Berkhamsted Choral Society concert
St 18 Sep 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Bridgewater Sinfonia concert
Fr 8 Oct 1:00pm	The Cowper Society presents: Recital Rainbow Ensemble John Reader piano (6 players)
St 16 Oct 11:00am 7:00pm	Berkhamsted Arts Festival: Come and Sing Berkhamsted Choral Society Visiting Bellringers (9:00pm)
Sn 17 Oct 7:30pm	Berkhamsted Arts Festival: Bridgewater Sinfonia concert with Leon Bosch
Sn 24 Oct 7:30pm	Berkhamsted Arts Festival: Cowper Society Poetry Reading Wartime Poets
St 30 Oct 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Gaudeamus concert
Tu 2 Nov 8:00pm	Service: Requiem for All Souls
St 20 Nov 7:30pm	The Cowper Society presents: Bridgewater Sinfonia concert
Sn 21 Nov 6:00pm	St Cecilia Choral Evensong
St 27 Nov 2-5pm	Advent Workshop

Notices

PETERTIDE FAIR SATURDAY 12^th JUNE 10am-3pm in and around St Peter’s

§ Sarah Dawson running for Petertide Fair causes TOMORROW 31^st May in the BUPA London 10000. Sponsor form available at the back of church after the 9:30am service or online at http://www.justgiving.com/sarah-dawson10km

§ Raffle Mailing – stubs, money or unsold tickets are due back NEXT SUNDAY 6^th June

§ Chris Garrick Jazz Quartet Sat 19^th June, 8pm Tickets £15/£10 under 18s free, Cole Flatt

§ Patronal Lunch Sunday 27^th June see flyers Meal Tickets BBQ or quiche+dessert £6 under 12s free from Philippa Seldon 871534, Rosemary Byrne 873001 Or bring your own picnic

Another Secret Life to be revealed in our Occasional Talk series
Chrichton Limbert Look behind you 8:00pm NEXT Tuesday 1^st June in the Lady Chapel

ST ALBANS FESTIVAL PILGRIMAGE SATURDAY 19^th JUNE

10:30am Procession from Roman Verulamium, giant puppets & costume; 11:30am Festival Eucharist; 11:30am-4:30pm Fun events and stalls on the Abbey Orchard, Sumpter Yard and Vintry Garden, with chariot racing, lion taming, circus skills, medieval fire juggling, lots more; 4:00pm Festival Evensong in the Cathedral

Numbers Needed Sign TODAY and ALSO Request FREE PARKING PERMIT TODAY

§ The Hospice of St Francis - urgently need Women WALKERS & men as marshals Walk With The Stars 19^th June. Call 869555 for details or visit www.walkwiththestars.org.uk

§ Hospice of St Francis Ashridge Garden Party 2-5pm Sunday 30^th May Tickets £5 [£4 in advance], under 16s free from the Hospice or shops. Details: www.stfrancis.org.uk

§ Review July Copy-date is Friday 4^th June but earlier receipt of copy appreciated.
Copy to Christopher Green, 17 Cowper Rd, HP4 3DE (863241) email greenc@waitrose.com

§ Forward in Healing Wednesdays 9^th June–14^th July 8pm at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth A course for clergy or anyone interested in the healing ministry. £5 per session / £25 for all six. Refreshments from 7:45pm. For details or to book: The Revd Canon Carl Garner 01707 326677

§ Third St Mary’s Northchurch Parish Lecture 7:30pm Thursday 17^th June A Christian view of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Dr Naomi Pritchard. See notices & flyers

The Cowper Society presents at St Peter’s:
BRIDGEWATER SINFONIA NEXT SATURDAY 5^th JUNE at 7:30pm
Walton Crown Imperial; Ebrasim Uykusuzluk; Necromancy; Copland Appalachian Spring
Holst The Hymn of Jesus (with the Chiltern Chamber Choir)
tickets: £12/£10 under 18s free from Aitchisons, online www.bridgewater-sinfonia.org.uk or tel 873205

§ The Children's Society Committee THANKS all who supported the Berkhamsted Walk: those who walked and contributed to pledged sponsorship of £6,500 and those who helped on the day. The continuing support for this UK charity is greatly appreciated.

§ Saturday Coffee Bar help needed, about three hours, once a month - Kathie Lally 863526.

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 01442 878227
PARISH OFFICE hours this week: Tuesday – Friday 9:30am-1:00pm

SUNDAY Trinity 30^th May 2010

Hymns NEH

Introit 148

Gradual Psalm 8: 4-9 see below

Offertory 343

Recessional 146

Collect

Almighty and everlasting God, you have given us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity: keep us steadfast in this faith, that we may evermore be defended from all adversities; 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 Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

A reading from the Book of Proverbs

Thus says the wisdom of God:

Does not wisdom call,

and does not understanding raise her voice?

On the heights, beside the way,

at the crossroads she takes her stand;

beside the gates in front of the town,

at the entrance of the portals she cries out:

‘To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.

The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.

Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Before the mountains had been shaped,

before the hills, I was brought forth –

when he had not yet made earth and fields,

or the world’s first bits of soil.

When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,

rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.’

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply Thanks be to God)

Psalm 8: 4-9

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R Lord our governor, how glorious is your name in all the world’ as the response

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have ordained, What are mortals, that you should be mindful of them;
mere human beings, that you should seek them out? R

You have made them little lower than the angels and crown them with glory and honour. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands and put all things under their feet. R

All sheep and oxen, even the wild beasts of the field, The birds of the air, the fish of the sea and whatsoever moves in the paths of the sea. R

Psalm 8: 4-9

30^th May 2010

Second Reading Romans 5:1–5

A reading from the Letter of Paul to the Romans.

Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

This is the word of the Lord

(Reply Thanks be to God)

Gospel John 16:12-15

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)

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

This is the Gospel of the Lord

(Reply Praise to you, O Christ)

Post Communion Prayer

Almighty and eternal God, you have revealed yourself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and live and reign in the perfect unity of love: hold us firm in this faith, that we may know you in all your ways and evermore rejoice in your eternal glory, who are three Persons yet one God, now and for ever AMEN