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Dear friends,
On Sunday we enter into the most important week in the Christian year. We warmly invite you to join us for this Holy Week in which each service has its own atmosphere and rituals to help us enter into the events and characters of the first Holy Week and Easter and to find their meaning afresh for our own life today. Do also come into church to see the brilliant artwork and reflection on the Last Supper by Year 4 of our church school which is on display at the back of church throughout the school holiday.
This Saturday 12th April
4pm Messy Church, focussing on Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday 13th April
10am Music & Readings for Holy Week with Holy Communion, followed by coffee; with our extended choir
Maundy Thursday 17th April
6.30pm Holy Communion in Commemoration of the Last Supper
Good Friday 18th April
10am Family Service
beginning around the Cross on The Green then processing up to church;
followed by coffee and hot cross buns
Join us at any point!
Easter Day 20th April
8am Said Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
10am Festival Family Communion, followed by fizz & Easter Egg Hunt
Fire, water, Easter garden, chocolate & more
The church will be decorated with lilies, each one given in celebration of someone we love who has died; come and see – and smell the wonderful scent
ACTION REQUIRED! – ELECTORAL ROLL
If you think you are on our electoral roll, i.e. our official membership roll, then think again! This year sees the compilation of a new roll and EVERYONE MUST RE-APPLY. If you were on the roll, our Electoral Roll Officer Roger Penny will have sent you a letter and a form. The form needs completing and returning to Roger no later than 20th April. If you are not on the roll but would like to be, please also contact Roger for details. Electoral Roll Officer, Roger Penny, 01403 752042; roger@penny1.myzen.co.uk.
Regular services and activities
Sundays: 8am and 10am Holy Communion
Messy Church on the second Saturday of the month for all ages but particularly suitable for families with young and school-aged children; next service Saturday 12th April; details in the parish magazine or from Gussie Walsh 275645.
Little Stars Adult, Baby and Toddler Group Tuesdays 10.00-11.30am in the Church Hall during school term-time; first meeting of next term 22nd April.
Prayer
Lord, your love is broken open
among cheering crowds and traitor’s coins,
deserting friends and hands washed clean,
the mockery of power and the baying mob:
as we follow your way of passion,
give us the faith
to bring our weak and divided hearts
to the foot of the cross
and the door of the guarded tomb
that they might be opened,
astonished and healed;
through Jesus Christ, who carries the weight of the world. Amen.
(Steven Shakespeare ‘Prayers for an Inclusive Church’)
With my love and prayers,
Sally.
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