Diary for Week Commencing 27Th January 2008

Next Week’s worship – 1st April 2012 TETBURY PARISH CHURCH Palm Sunday Fifth Sunday of Lent 25th March 2012 8.00am: Holy Communion Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please make 9.30am: Parish Eucharist – beginning under Market Hall yourselves known to us. Coffee will be served at the front after the Readings: Isaiah 50.4-9a; Philippians 2.5-11; Mark 14.1-15.47 9.30am service. Join us if you can. 6.00pm Evensong There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print copies of the service and the hymn book are available from the sidesmen. This week’s Diary commencing 26th March 2012 Monday: 12.00pm Wedding Rehearsal at Shipton Moyne All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Members 1.30pm Curate leads Act of Worship at School of other churches who would receive at their own church are welcome to Tuesday: All day Curate at College do so here. If receiving communion is not appropriate, please come up 10.00am Site visit from Diocesan Advisory to receive a blessing (it helps us if you bring a service book to indicate if Committee at Church you would prefer to receive a blessing). If you would like Communion 5.00pm Wedding Rehearsal at Shipton Moyne brought to you please tell one of the sidesmen. 7.00pm Primary School Governing Body meets Wednesday: 9.30am Holy Communion in Tetbury Church Worship Today 7.00pm Bishop's Council meets at Cheltenham 8.00am: Holy Communion 7.30pm Lent Course 9.30am: Parish Eucharist Thursday: 11.00am Rector at SWChairs of Finance meeting Hymns: 496, 532, 109, 622 at Wells Anthems: Nolo mortem peccatoris - Morley 7.30pm Alpha Course at St Mary’s Centre Hide not thou thy face - Farrant Friday: 11.00am Wedding of David Knapton & Kathryn 6.00pm: Evening prayer Taylor at Shipton Moyne Church During Lent we collect for Water Aid. Please see the jar at the back of 12.30pm Churches Together Lent Lunches at St church and offer some of your change. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church Collect 1.00pm Wedding of Carl Baker and Bertha Zvenyika in Shipton Moyne Church Most merciful God, who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ delivered and saved the world: grant that by faith in him who Saturday: 10.00am Saturday Morning Prayers led by suffered on the cross we may triumph in the power of his victory; members of the congregation. through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with Rector’s Day off: Friday; Curate’s Day off: Thursday you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed) Post Communion Prayer Monday: Safia Maria Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us that what we do for the least of our Tuesday: Roy, Ian, John brothers and sisters we do also for you: give us the will to be the servant Wednesday: Thomas and family of others as you were the servant of all, and gave up your life and died Thursday: Alan, Iain, Mary for us, but are alive and reign, now and for ever. Friday: Marie-Claude Departed: Jennifer Moss, Philip Randall, Barbara Slezak Parish office- The Parish Office opening hours are; Tuesday & Wednesday 9.30-12.30 and Thursday 8.30-1.30pm. All items for Praying for the Town: Cirencester Road and Hardie Close inclusion in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest please. Notices HOLY WEEK

There will be a Passover Service followed by a meal on the Wednesday Next Sunday is Palm Sunday. We shall begin, as usual, under the th Market Hall, joining members of other churches for a short Act of 4 April at 6.30pm in the Market Hall. Tickets are £5 for adults, £1 Worship and Blessing of Palms at 9.30am, after which we shall return for children. If you require a vegetarian meal please order this when to St Marys’ for our Eucharist. purchasing your ticket. Tickets are available today from Pam Bird, Anne Glanville, Liz Wright (01666 502333) or Diana Sharp (Parish Office). APCM Reports - are now needed to be emailed over to the parish office Numbers are limited so please get your tickets ASAP. for this year’s publication. Thank you. Many of you will remember the plays we have put on which were written The St George’s Day Concert due to be held in April will now not take by Neville Boundy, a Retired Canon from Bristol. Many of us found place due to both schools finding the date difficult. A similar sort of FIVE SIDES of a CIRCLE and FATHER & SON: SON &FATHER concert is being planned for Friday 1st June and will start off the Jubilee moving and helpful in Holy Week. This year Neville is bringing celebrations. More details will appear soon on the newssheet. DEATH & RESURRECTION - A meditation with words and music for Tuesday in Holy Week rd DAILY PRAYERS DURING LENT Once again the Bishop has asked April 3 2012 at 7.30 pm that we pray each day in church during Lent. The times are: with Neville Boundy – and MARK LEE Monday 12.00 midday; Tuesday 12.00 midday; Master of the Choristers and Organist of Bristol Cathedral Wednesday 9.00am; Thursday 4.30pm; Friday 12.00 midday. The meditation will include works by Faure and Handel, and R. S. On Saturday we will follow the pattern of Saturday Morning Prayers. Thomas, Shakespeare, Roger McGough, and others together with This will be between 10am and 10.30am. The reflections will follow recitation of the Passion according to St. John. If this is anything like as the Easter Story and will be led by members of our congregation. See good as his previous works this should not be missed. There will be no notice board for further information. Thank you. charge but there will be a retiring collection to defray the costs. However we do need to have an idea of numbers so we ask you to obtain Ladies Breakfast – Saturday 12th May at the Snooty Fox, 9am till a ticket either from the office in the week or from the churchwardens 10.30am. The guest speaker will be Emma Crichton-Miller, columnist after the service today. for the Financial Times, Royal Academy and Prospect Magazine. Put the date in your diary and watch out for posters and further information in Parish Administrator, Diana Sharp, All items for inclusion in the the pew sheet after Easter. Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest. Tel: 01666 500088; email: [email protected] Church web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk The Experience Easter Day for Key Stage 2 of the Primary School in Church on Monday was a great success with 150 children learning about Rector: Revd Canon John Wright, The Vicarage, 6 The Green, the Easter story. A particular "Thank you" to the many people who Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: (01666) 502333; Fax: (01666) 500893 helped, by lending items which were used in the displays (which may e-mail: [email protected] now be collected), and others who helped on the day. Thank you to you all. A special word of thanks and congratulations to our Curate, Revd Curate: Revd Lesley Hewish, The Bungalow, Lower House Lane, Lesley Hewish who master-minded the whole thing and did an excellent North Nibley, Dursley, GL11 6DN Tel :0787 677 5290 job in so doing. Liz Harding (one of their teaching staff) said 'Please e-mail: [email protected] thank the Church we had a lovely morning which was not only educational, but great fun too.' Sunday 25th March 2012 having been designated by God a high priest according to the Fifth Sunday of Lent order of Melchizedek.

Old Testament Reading Jeremiah 31.31-34 Gospel John The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a 12.20-33 new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt – a and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus.’ Philip went and told covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of answered them, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate or say to each other, ‘Know the LORD’, for they shall all know me, their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. Whoever serves me, the Father will honour.

‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say – “Father, save New Testament Reading me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to Hebrews 5.5-10 this hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, appointed by the one who said to him, ‘You are my Son, today I ‘An angel has spoken to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘This voice has have begotten you’; as he says also in another place, ‘You are a come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgement of this priest for ever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ He said supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,