Next Week S Worship 13Th September 2015

Next Week’s worship – 13th September Parish Administrator: Diana Sharp, All items for inclusion 2015 in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 8.30am Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity at the latest. Tel: 01666 500088; e-mail: 8.00am: Holy Communion [email protected] 9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Revd Poppy Hughes BENEFICE OF TETBURY, BEVERSTON, Readings: Isaiah 50-.4-9a; James 3.1-12; Mark 8.27-end LONG NEWNTON and SHIPTON MOYNE 6.00pm Choral Evensong at St Saviour’s Church th Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 6 September 2015 This week’s Diary commencing 7th September 2015 Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please Wednesda 9.30am Holy Communion at Tetbury Church make yourselves known to us. We particularly welcome the y: 1.00pm Funeral of William Willcox at family and friends of Sunny Minachi Shaun Oham who is Westerleigh Crematorium to be baptised this morning. 2.30pm Service of Thanksgiving for William Willcox at Tetbury Church There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print Saturday: 9.30am Beating the Bounds - meet under copies of the service and the hymn book are available from the Bath Bridge sidesmen. Parish Priest’s Day off: Monday All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed) Members of other churches who would receive at their own church Monday: Jim, Michael, Win, Annabel, Eden, Joy are welcome to do so here. If receiving communion is not Tuesday: Stuart, Janet, Peter, Phyl, Clarissa, Sue appropriate, please come up to receive a blessing (it helps us if Wednesday: Maureen, Benito, David, Monica, Anna you bring a service book to indicate if you would prefer to receive Thursday: Heather, Angela, Sheilagh, Ethan, Monica a blessing). If you would like Communion brought to you please Friday: Tony, Murran, Hayley, Kath, Pat, Doreen tell one of the sidesmen. Departed: William Willcox, Eileen Snell Worship Today Praying for the Town Park Close 8.00am: Holy Communion 9.30am: Family Service with Holy Communion and Baptism with Revd Poppy Hughes

Parish Priest: Revd Poppy Hughes, The Vicarage, 6 The The cash collection today is for iSingPOP Green, Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: 01666 502333 Day off: Monday e-mail: [email protected]

: Curate: Revd Kim Hartshorne email: Collect [email protected] Almighty God, whose only Son has opened for us a new and living way into your presence: give us pure hearts and steadfast wills to worship you in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ your Son 10am until 4pm on Saturday and Sunday in the Market House. our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy There will be activities for the children whilst visiting this historic Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen building.

There will be Choral Evensong for the town next Sunday 13th September at St Saviour’s church at 6.00pm.

Ride and Stride - The Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust are encouraging Parishes to participate in the forthcoming Ride and Stride on Saturday 12th September. It is simple to do – decide how many churches you’d like to visit on bike, foot or Notices horseback, plan your route and then spend an enjoyable day out in the towns and villages. If you would like more information The cash collection is in aid of iSingPOP and is being held please email Alisa O’Connor rideandstride@ghct,org.uk, this week. iSingPop is the Innervation Trust's primary school singing and recording project. It give thousands of children the Dates for your diary - will be held on chance to learn an amazing set of specially written pop songs, Prayer for Tetbury record their very own album and perform a fantastic concert in the Saturday 26th September (not 19th) and Saturday 21st local church. In November, St Mary’s Primary School will November at Christ Church. be holding an iSingPOP concert in St Marys’ Church There will be a Service of Welcome on th for everyone to enjoy. The project aims to strengthen Saturday 19 relationships between church and school and creates a platform September for Bishop Rachel Treweek in Gloucester for working together in the future. The songs are extremely catchy, Cathedral at 4.30pm fun to learn and are in a current style that the kids love. They are written from a Christian perspective and they tackle important Save the Children invite you to a Vintage Tea & Music on issues such as Love, Prayer, Friendship, Respect, Role Models, Saturday 19th September. 3-5pm in the Dolphins Hall, Caring for others, Social Justice and Forgiveness. Tetbury Tickets £8-50 from Maureen Clarke The Traidcraft stall will be open this morning after the 9.30 ! This is the time when we begin to service. Christmas is Coming prepare for “Operation Christmas Child”. Between now National Heritage Weekend 2015 – Saturday 12th and and the end of October we hope many people will start filling shoe boxes with goodies to send to children who would not otherwise th - The Feoffees invite you to the Sunday 13 September have Christmas presents. If you would like to fill a complete box th annual Beating of the Bounds on 12 September that would be wonderful, otherwise we would appreciate having a commencing at 9.30am under Bath Bridge and ending with selection of goodies. There will be some leaflets at the back of the refreshment and presentation of the annual accounts in the church which will give you some ideas. Please speak to Hjordis Market House. There will be displays and representatives from the Halliwell or Janet Edwards for more information. History Society, St Mary’s School and Feoffees and Thirteen from Tetbury Music Festival – there is one spare balcony ticket for New Testament Reading James 2.1- two of the performances. Please contact the Parish Office for further details. 10, 14-17 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, ‘Have a seat here, please,’ while to the one who is poor you say, ‘Stand there,’ or, ‘Sit at my feet,’ have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those Parish Office: The Parish Office will be open 9.00am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday & 9.00am – 12 noon Friday who love him? But you have dishonoured the poor. Is it not the web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court? Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked Treasurer: All financial enquiries e-mail: over you? You do well if you really fulfil the royal law according to [email protected] the scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law th SUNDAY 6 September 2015 as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity one point has become accountable for all of it. For the one who said, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ also said, ‘You shall not Old Testament Reading Isaiah murder.’ Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you 35.4-7a have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as Say to those who are of a fearful heart, ‘Be strong, do not fear! those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgement Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy recompense. He will come and save you.’ Then the eyes of the triumphs over judgement. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,’ streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of the thirsty ground springs of water. that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. Gospel Mark 7.24-37 Jesus set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, ‘Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ But she answered him, ‘Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.’ Then he said to her, ‘For saying that, you may go – the demon has left your daughter.’ So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, ‘Ephphatha,’ that is, ‘Be opened.’ And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, ‘He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.’