Parish Magazine for The Benefice of Lower Beeding and Cowfold
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February 2021
For the Benefice Readings & Worship Services February 2021
February 7th 2nd Sunday before Lent Proverbs 8: 1, 22-31. Colossians 1: 15-20. John 1 1-14. February 14th Sunday next before Lent 2 Kings 2: 1-12. 2 Corinthians 4: 3-6. Mark 9: 2-9. February 21st First Sunday of Lent Genesis 9: 8-17. 1 Peter 3: 18-end. Mark 1: 9-15. February 28th Second Sunday of Lent. Genesis 14: 17-20. St. Peter’s Church Romans 4: 13-end. Cowfold Mark 8: 31-end. .
From the Registers
Times of services – Sundays Lower Beeding St. Peter’s, Cowfold Eucharist: 8.30 at St. Johns St Peters has an 8 o'clock on the 2nd, 3rd and 5th Sunday Eucharist: 10.00 at Holy Trinity
At the time of publication all our churches are 7th) 10am Eucharist closed for the foreseeable future. Services will 14th) 8am BCP Eucharist; 10am Short & Sweet go online and will be live-streamed. These can 21st) 8am BCP Eucharist; 11.15am Eucharist; 6pm be seen on our FaceBook pages. Taize
There will be a livestreamed Eucharist for Ash 28th) 10am Short & Sweet Wednesday at 7.30pm
1 CONTENTS
Welcome to the February 2021 edition of the Parish Magazine for the Benefice. Cowfold Stained Glass 8 New Editor and Advert Manager 14 Needed At the time of publication all our three Regulars churches have been closed for Sunday Worship. Services will still take place but Sunday Worship & Readings 1 live-streamed. You will be able to watch From the Vicar 4 them via our FaceBook pages. There will be a News and Views-St John’s 6 livestreamed Eucharist on Ash Wednesday th LBA 16 February 17 at 7.00 Parish Council 12 LBHS 18 The sharp-eyed among you will have noticed Gardeners’ World 19 the front cover this month. Horsham Holy Trinity CofE Primary 20 Museum has just acquired the paintings of Great Britons 22 the stain-glass windows in St.Peter’s, Weather Report 24 Cowfold. Rachel Weller’s Press Release can Children’s Page 26 be read on p.8 1st Cowfold Scout Group 20 Take a Break 32 The three saints depicted are very Family Support Work 34 appropriate for the times we are living Poetry Cornered 36 through as you can see in the paintings and !st Lower Beeding Brownies 30 as the article on p.9 tells us. Sussex Wildlife Trust 38 Pastoral Arrangements 41 The new vaccine is being rolled out , many of Parish Directory 42/3 you may already have had your first dose. Spring is not far away…in the meantime keep well and keep safe.
Lesley Hendy Acting Editor [email protected] Please stay safe.
Copy date for next magazine- Sunday 14th February The views and opinions within this publication Submissions should be sent to are not necessarily those of the editor or the [email protected] Parochial Church Councils’ of the Benefice.
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