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For your Prayers (please also see Diocesan web site for daily prayers) his protection, and give us grace to follow in his steps; through Jesus Christ › Please pray for the children's and youth work, as in Sunday Club in our Lord. Wortham, Palgrave and Brome Village hall, Coffee & Cookies, Youth Café in Diss and Open the Book. Rector: The Revd Adrian Watkins T: 01379 741949 @:[email protected] › For God’s blessing and guidance for our ministry team, especially Adrian, OLM: The Revd Ginny Manning T: 01379 644229 Ginny, our wardens, readers, lay elders and youth workers. @:[email protected] Please pray for those in need or ill › Burgate: Sheila Howard › Palgrave: Colin Manning, Bill Clarke, Violet Ford, Linda Wood, Susie Dyer, Maureen Slinger › Wortham: Peter Lloyd Please pray for the bereaved: › For the family and friends Mr. David Channel (who lived many years in Palgrave) whose funeral is on May 18th at West Suffolk Crematorium. › For the family of Billy Hines whose funeral was on 27th April at Wortham church › For the family and friends of Andrew Edwards whose funeral was 28th Apr. at Palgrave Church. › For the family and friends of Betty Colchester. Her funeral was 26th April at Thrandeston church. Morning Prayer A short 25-30 minute service of Morning Prayer will be said on Mondays in the Parish Churches. This is CW format with some open prayers. All are welcome. 1st May No service | 8th May Burgate 15th May Oakley | 22nd May Brome 29th May No service | 3rd June Stuston Collect Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life: raise us, who trust in him, from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, that we may seek those things which are above, where he reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. (or) Risen Christ, faithful shepherd of your Father's sheep: teach us to hear your voice and to follow your command, that all your people may be gathered into one flock, to the glory of God the Father. Post Communion Merciful Father, you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd, and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again: keep us always under T H E B E N E F I C E O F N O R T H H A R T I S M E R 9.30 Brome Holy Communion - Common Worship Order 1 E 9.30 Stuston Family Service 11.00 Palgrave Holy Communion - Common Worship Order 1 Sunday 7th May 4th Sunday of Easter 11.00 Wortham Holy Communion - Common Worship Order 1 Readings:[Genesis 7] Acts 2.42-end†; 1 Peter 2.19-end; John 10.1-10; 6.30 Thrandeston BCP Evening Prayer Psalm 23 8.00 Palgrave Holy Communion (BCP) 10.00 Brome Vil.Hall Sunday Club incl. Coffee & Cookies and a short family service 10.00 Wortham V.Hall Sunday Club with worship, followed by coffee and cookies 10.00 Palgrave Sunday Club followed by 10.45 Palgrave Coffee and Cookies followed by a short Family Service 11.00 Oakley Morning Prayer 11.00 Thrandeston Sunday Worship with Prayer Book Communion 11.00 Wortham Holy Communion – Common Worship Order 1 Prayer ministry is available through the Prayer Chain and pastoral visits. Please contact Revd Ginny Manning on 644229 for more information.

Benefice Diary (See also http://www.northhartismerebenefice.org.uk/) 08 May (Mon) Wortham (3:00 PM) Wortham School ‘Open the Book’ - (*) Salvation Army building on Sunnyside in Diss (3:15 PM) Integrate YFC After School Youth Cafe ( young people of high school age (12-16) - The Yews, Palgrave (6:30 PM) Palgrave & Wortham Housegroup 09 May (Tue) Palgrave Community Centre (9:45 AM) Palgrave Walking Group - Burgate (Church Hall) (10:00 AM) The Kettle’s On 10-12 noon at St Mary’s 10 May (Wed) (*) Wortham Village Hall (2:00 PM) Tea's Made 11 May (Thu) Palgrave (9:05 AM) Palgrave School ‘Open the Book’ St Peter’s Items marked with a (*) are not organised by the benefice.

Sunday 14th May – 5th Sunday of Easter Readings: [Genesis 8.1-19]; Acts 7.55-end†; 1 Peter 2.2-10; John 14.1- 14; Psalm 31.1-5,15-16 [or 31.1-5] 43 First Reading Genesis 7 Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being 44 7Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark, you and all your household, for done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in 45 I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation. 2Take common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the 46 with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate; 3and seven pairs of the together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad 47 birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. the earth. 4For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved. forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face Alternative Second Reading 1Peter 2.19-end of the ground.’ 5And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. 19For it is to your credit if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering 6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. unjustly. 20If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, where is the 7And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark to credit in that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have escape the waters of the flood. 8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not God’s approval. 21For to this you have been called, because Christ also clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9two and suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded steps. 22‘He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.’ 23When Noah. 10And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth. he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not 11In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. 24He himself seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12The rain fell on righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 25For you were going the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13On the very same day Noah with his astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of your souls. 14 his sons, entered the ark, they and every wild animal of every kind, and all Gospel Reading John 10.1-10 domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the 1‘Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate 15 earth, and every bird of every kind—every bird, every winged creature. They but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2The one who enters by went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3The gatekeeper opens the gate for 16 breath of life. And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in. them out. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and 17 The flood continued for forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, the sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5They will not follow a 18 and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters swelled stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the strangers.’ 6Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not 19 waters. The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high understand what he was saying to them. 20 mountains under the whole heaven were covered; the waters swelled above 7So again Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the 21 the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. And all flesh died that sheep. 8All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming not listen to them. 9I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and 22 creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings; everything on dry will come in and go out and find pasture. 10The thief comes only to steal and 23 land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. He blotted out every living kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Psalm 23 1 2 Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark. 24And the waters The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green 3 swelled on the earth for one hundred and fifty days. pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Second Reading Acts 2.42-end 4Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the me; your rod and your staff— they comfort me. breaking of bread and the prayers. 5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.