Please could all holders of Children's Society boxes from St Edmund's let Laura Howarth have their boxes for emptying by Sunday May 15th. Many thanks for all St. Osmund’s, your contributions. If you don't have a box but would like one please let Laura know. ,

Friday 20th May: The Soul in the Machine! The story of how YMCA began is being brought to life in a new YMCA-commissioned production that will be visiting Derby Cathedral. The play follows the life of a young Sir George Williams and YMCA’s beginnings. Tickets are £10 (concession £8).

Celebrating Her Majesty the Queen's 90 Years Sat 11th June: 3.00pm Service of Celebration and 'Street Tea Party' at St Edmund's St. Edmund’s, Sat 18th June, 7.30pm Derby Cathedral in honour of the Queen: a Concert for the Padley Homeless - a musical Allenton & celebration for her 90th birthday. Tickets are £15. Archbishop of Canterbury's First Official Visit to Announced The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby will be visiting the Diocese of Derby from 21 to 23 June 2016. The three day visit scheduled for 21-23 June will be the Vicar: Rev Trudie Morris first time the Archbishop has visited the Diocese, and will Phone 01332 704226 enable him to see something of our work; our communit- [email protected] ies; and the opportunities and challenges across the county. We will be sharing more information about the visit nearer Assoc Priest: Rev Norma Bracewell the time but would invite you to an exciting evening Phone 01332 704195 event on Tuesday 21 June from 6.45pm at The [email protected] Roundhouse, . This will be a fascinating evening of discussion and debate and will see the Archbishop taking questions from the floor and a chance www.stosmundsderby.org.uk to worship together. We would love to see representatives from all over the diocese and encourage Sunday 8th May you to invite your friends and family to this special event. If you would like a free ticket to the evening event go to Easter 7. the Diocesan website for the link to eventbrite where you In our service at St Osmund's today we welcome Rose can register for a ticket. Veronica Cunningham in Holy Baptism. This Saturday at St Osmund's St Osmund's St Edmund's An exciting concert event at St Osmund's on 14th May. Celebrant We welcome Canadian singer song writer: Sean Dayton Rev Trudie Morris Rev Norma Bracewell with his Psalms Tour in the UK. Sean Dayton is a recording artist from North Bay, Ontario. He has released Hymns 5 albums along with his wife, Aimee, and garnered H O & N A & M*, NH & WS several GMA Canada awards. 125 Sean Dayton has toured extensively across Canada as On Screen 144* well as the United States performing with artists like 548 170*, omit v3 Aaron Shust, Paul Baloche, and Brian Doerksen. 673 148*, omit v2 In his latest musical project, Dayton has set the Psalms 77 27 to music. With this, he hopes to take people on a rich 652 147* musical and spiritual journey through the Psalms. G Eucharistic Prayer B 7pm. Tickets £8. These can be booked through Chalice Admin Eventbrite, our online ticketing service, via the website Maggie Joyce, Laura www.stosmundsderby.org.uk (If you have no internet access please see Trudie or Steve Clements) Collect for today. Prayer Lists Father, righteous one, It's time to revisit our prayer lists. Whilst there is no time your beloved Son prayed limit or need criteria to be included on the prayer list it is that his disciples in every generation important that it is a live and relevant list. might be one as you and he are one. Please could the person requesting the prayers add their Look upon us name as a contact point as there are several names that gathered in his name. nobody has any relevant information about. If you have Fulfil in us the prayer of Jesus anybody on the list but have not left your name please let and crown our celebration of this Easter season us know. Those without any contact point will need to be with your Spirit’s gift of unit and love. removed. To ensure that names stay on the lists please Amen. see the clergy or wardens. Diary for this week And prayer intentions Sunday – Pentecost. Christian Aid Week begins. Abused children, and all who work with children St Edmund’s St Osmund’s 10.00am Celebration 10.00am Celebration Eucharist Eucharist Sunday - The beginning of A Call to Prayer in the 6.00pm Evensong with the week leading up to Pentecost 2016 Book of Common Prayer YMCA in Wilmorton 10.00am Holy Eucharist 10.00am Holy Eucharist with Holy Baptism Further notices 6.00pm Taize Prayer to From the Archbishops of Canterbury and York: begin Archbishops’ Week A Call to Prayer in the Week Leading up to Pentecost: of Prayer to Pentecost 8-15th May Monday The Archbishops' hope is: Organists and Servers -for all Christians to deepen their relationship with Jesus Christ 11.00am - 12.30pm ACT Job Club at Boulton Lane - for all of us to have confidence to share the Gospel Baptist Church - for all to respond to the call of Jesus Christ to follow him 6.00pm Baptism Preparation in the West End Room at as disciples, to live out the Gospel and to seek God's St Ed's Kingdom from day to day 9.00am Morning Prayer 6.00pm Girl's Brigade We are taking up this Call to Prayer in the following ways: 2.30pm HC at Shelton 1. To invite you to a special Taize Prayer on Sun 8th at Lock Nursing Home 6.00pm. A time for prayerful reflection on the theme: 'Thy 4.30pm Godly Play Kingdom Come, thy will be done" 7.00pm Final Researchers 2. To invite all of you to personally pray whenever you meeting in the WER can throughout the week: at home; at work; in the Tuesday garden; on a walk; in church (a key for you can be All those who live in the parish arranged, just let us know when you would like to be in church) 9.00am Morning Prayer 7.00pm Eucharist Next Sunday Novena Prayer Cards will be available for you to take and use throughout the week Mothers' Union Quiet Day St Osmund's 10.30am - 3. To invite you to join in the corporate prayer life of our 3.30pm churches: see the Sheet for times of 7.45pm Ministry Team meets at St O Morning and Evening Prayer and mid-week worship Wednesday 4. To invite you to take part in the Mothers' Union Quiet Lakeside Community Primary School & Children's Day on Tues 10th May (see below) Centre FURTHER DETAILS: Mothers' Union Quiet Day: 9.15am Eucharist 10.30am Eucharist This Tuesday 10th May at St Osmund's: 6.00pm Evening Prayer The day is free and open to anyone with music from Taize Theme: THE THREE MARYS 10.30: Coffee/tea and short MU business meeting Thursday 11.00: Reflection 1: Mary, the sister of Martha and The Bishop of Derby, Bishop Alastair Lazarus 11.30-12.45: Time for personal reflection and lunch, using 9.00am Morning Prayer the beautiful space of the church and grounds. 1.00pm ACT Food bank Distribution Please bring a packed lunch. Drinks provided 7.30pm Archdeacon's Visitation at the Cathedral 12.45-1.15: Reflection 2: Mary Magdalene 1.15-2.00: Time for personal reflection 2.00-2.30: Mary, the Mother of Jesus 2.30-3.15: Time for personal reflection Friday 3.15: Tea and plenary The General Synod of the Church of CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 2016: 15th-21st May 9.00am Morning Prayer This is the week we love every neighbour. Jesus calls us to love our neighbour as ourselves, and Saturday not just the ones next door or at the end of the street. Public Houses in the parish Don't miss the ways to give: a Christian Aid envelope is just for starters Don't miss the return of the CAMPBELL'S SOUP 12.00-1.00pm Campbell's Soup Kitchen for Christian KITCHEN to begin the week on Sat 14th May Aid in St O. Church Hall from 11.00 – 1.00 Then to end the week on Saturday 21st join the: 7.00pm at St O. Sean Dayton Concert: his UK debut BIG BREKKIE from 9.00-10.00 at St Edmund's Psalms Tour Readings for today The one who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’

Acts 16.16-34 Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, ‘These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.’ She kept doing this for many days. But John 17.20-26 Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, ‘I ‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.’ those who will believe in me through their word, that they And it came out that very hour. may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in But when her owners saw that their hope of making you, may they also be in us, so that the world may money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have dragged them into the market-place before the given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as authorities. When they had brought them before the we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may magistrates, they said, ‘These men are disturbing our become completely one, so that the world may know that city; they are Jews and are advocating customs that are you have sent me and have loved them even as you not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.’ The have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be my glory, which you have given me because you loved beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe me before the foundation of the world. flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the ‘Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet your name known to them, and I will make it known, so in the stocks. that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.’ About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the Readings for next Sunday foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately Acts 2.1-21 or all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were Romans 8.14-17 unfastened. When the jailer woke up and saw the prison John 14.8-17[25-27] doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had St Edmund's response to the intercessions escaped. But Paul shouted in a loud voice, ‘Do not harm Lord of Glory change us yourself, for we are all here.’ The jailer called for lights, And we shall be changed and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them outside and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ They answered, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.’ They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptised without delay. He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.

Revelation 22.12-14, 16,17,20,21 ‘See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work.13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.’ Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.

‘It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.’ The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.