Next Week S Worship 15Th March 2015

Next Week’s Worship – 15th March 2015 Mothering Sunday BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON, 8.00am: Holy Communion LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE 9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Ian Aveyard th Third Sunday of Lent 8 Readings: 1 Samuel 1. 20-end; Col.3. 12-17; John 19.25b-27 March 2015 Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please This week’s Diary commencing 9th March 2015 make yourselves known to us. Coffee will be served at the front Monday: 7.00pm Lent Group meet 7.30pm Shipton Moyne PCC meet in Shipton after the 9.30am service. Join us if you can. Moyne Church Tuesday: 7.00pm Lent Group meet in Shipton Moyne There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print 7.00pm Lent Group meet copies of the service and the hymn book are available from the Wednesday: 9.30am Holy Communion at Tetbury Church sidesmen. 10.15am Lent Group meet at the Vicarage 7.00pm Lent Group meet in Long Newnton All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Thursday: 7.00pm Lent Group meet Members of other churches who would receive at their own 7.30pm Tetbury PCC meet at St Mary’s Primary School church are welcome to do so here. If receiving communion is not 8.00pm Taize at St Michael’s Church appropriate, please come up to receive a blessing (it helps us if Friday: 12.30pm Lent lunches in St Michael’s Church Hall you bring a service book to indicate if you would prefer to receive 2.00pm Service of Thanksgiving for Ken Hancock a blessing). If you would like Communion brought to you please at Tetbury Church tell one of the sidesmen. Saturday 2.30pm Thanksgiving Service at Kingsley House Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday Worship Today 8.00am: Holy Communion 9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed) Hymns: 395, 533, 386, 368 Monday: Anne, Nicola, Sadie, Jonathan Anthem: Teach me, O Lord – Byrd Tuesday: Catherine, Christine, Stuart, Ken Wednesday: Hazel, Nathan, Peter, Valerie The Second Sunday cash collection today will be for WaterAid Thursday: Cyril, Kevin, Stephen, Jessica Friday: Gareth, Veronica, Alan, Joe Departed: David Martin Collect Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he Praying for the Town: Chipping Street suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find Years Mind: Rosabelle St Clair (12/03) it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ (“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death – often a difficult time for family and friends) 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.

Post Communion Prayer Merciful Lord, grant your people grace to withstand the March Alan and Judith Bailey celebrate their 40th temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and with pure Wedding Anniversary today and ask you to please join them hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus for Cake and Drinks following the 9:30 am Service. Christ our Lord. Amen. Church Spring Clean The Church Spring Clean will take place on Saturday 28th March from 10am to 3pm. Please feel free to Notices drop in, for as long as you can manage, and help within that period. Everyone is welcome no matter what your capabilities. Lent Groups continue this week. Please see the leaflet at the Please join us for a bit of fun in preparing our church for Easter. back of church for more information. The passage for this week is Most cleaning materials will be available but feel free to bring your Luke 1:39-45. Long Newnton's Lent Group now meets at own. We are usually short of vacuum cleaners so please bring Arthur and Heather’s home in Long Newnton. one if you can. Please add your names to the sheet at the back of the church. Lent Lunches – as usual Tetbury Area Churches Together are holding their ever popular charity soup lunches. These will take Following the death of her dear husband Bill, Valerie Trumper place in St Michael’s Church Hall every Friday in Lent from 12.30 will be 'At Home' on Tuesday 10th March from 10.00 am to until 1.30pm. We need volunteers for the 13th and 27th March to 8.00 pm. This is to mark Bill's birthday and to celebrate his life. provide soup of any kind and/or bread. Please put your name on Please do call by. the list on the board at the back of church as appropriate. Any queries please contact Princess. Will those members of the PCC who have not already done so, please collect from their pigeon hole an envelope containing The Traidcraft stall will be open today after the 9.30am service financial reports to be considered at the PCC meeting on 12th March 2015. The 2nd Sunday Cash Collection today will be for WaterAid. The jar will be out in church during Sunday services Christian Aid. It’s again the time of year when I’m looking for collecting for WaterAid during Lent. collectors for Christian Aid Week, 10 – 16 May. If you didn’t collect last year and are not therefore on my list please do Those who remember Joan Sherwood may like to know that sign up on the sheet at the back of the church. We try to cover all she has recently died and that her ashes will be interred in due roads in Tetbury as well as Avening, Beverston, Long Newnton course with those of Revd Michael Sherwood here in Tetbury. and Shipton Moyne and more help really would be appreciated. Please contact me for further details, and also please let me know if you’ve helped in the past but cannot do so this year for what Church Flowers - If you would like to give a donation towards ever the reason. Alison Hesketh the cost of the church flowers for Easter, there will be a box at the back of the Church. Thank you. Experience Easter On Thursday 26th March we will be welcoming 72 children from the school to learn more about the Easter Story. We need quite a few stones/pebbles (3 – 4” in size) for the children to write on. If you could find just a few in your garden, could you please bring them to church and leave them in fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast the south ambulatory, we would be most grateful. Many thanks love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep Margo Smith my commandments. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The the LORD your God; you shall not do any work – you, your son or Green, Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the e-mail: [email protected] alien resident in your towns. For in six days the LORD made

Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the Wednesday and Thursday & 9.00am – 12 noon Friday seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. Parish Administrator: Diana Sharp, All items for inclusion in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am at the latest. Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be Tel: 01666 500088; e-mail: [email protected] long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. You shall [email protected] not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your th Sunday 8 March 2015 neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or Third Sunday of Lent anything that belongs to your neighbour. Old Testament Reading Exodus 20.1-17 New Testament Reading 1 Corinthians Then God spoke all these words: I am the LORD your God, who 1.18-25 brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; The message about the cross is foolishness to those who are you shall have no other gods before me. perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of For it is written, anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to discerning I will thwart.’. Where is the one who is wise? Where is them or worship them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Gospel John 2.13-22 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ They then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.