28Th March Team News Letter
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Holy Week and Easter 2021 Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83596730805?pwd=WDkyMldyQ2l2em8yWHZkY014cFFpZz09 Meeting ID: 835 9673 0805 Passcode: 112233 Palm Sunday 4.00pm - A Special Palm Sunday on Zoom 28th March for the young and the young at heart. You will need some Hot Cross Buns, some A4 Paper, scissors and sellotape and be prepared to play some games, specially adapted for Zoom. Holy Week Monday 9.00am - Morning Prayer on Zoom 29th March 7.30pm - Compline on Zoom Tuesday 9.00am - Morning Prayer on Zoom 30th March 7.30pm - Night Prayer with Taizé music on Zoom Wednesday 9.00am - Morning Prayer on Zoom 31st March 7.30pm - Compline on Zoom Maundy 9.00am - Morning Prayer on Zoom Thursday 7.00pm - Agape Meal on Zoom. We will join together (virtually) for a simple 1st April supper (Soup and Bread, followed by a simple desert and ending with Tea or Coffee). During the meal, the Eucharist will be celebrated and the events of that first Maundy Thursday will be recalled. Further details will be sent by email after Palm Sunday. Everyone welcome. Good Friday 9.00am - Morning Prayer on Zoom 2nd April 12.00 - Prayers in St Lawrence’s Churchyard led by Peter West 2.00pm - An Hour at the Cross - St Mary the Virgin Stevington (Please contact Robert Eadie if you wish to attend) 2.00pm - An Hour at the Cross on Zoom 7.30pm - Good Friday Meditation on Zoom Easter Day 11.00am - Easter Service on Zoom 4th April also (Please contact church representative to attend) 08.45am- Eucharist - St Lawrence, Wymington 10.00am Eucharist - St Mary the Virgin, Podington 10.00am Eucharist - St Mary the Virgin, Stevington 11.15am Holy Communion - Harrold United Reformed Church 11.15am Eucharist - All Saints’, Odell Chellington Team Ministry St Lawrence, Wymington + St Mary the Virgin, Podington + All Saints’, Odell + Harrold United Reformed Church + St Peter’s, Harrold + St Mary the Virgin, Carlton + All Saints’, Turvey + St Mary the Virgin, Stevington Sunday - 28th March 2021 Zoom Login Details Palm Sunday For Sunday Service, Morning Prayer, Lent services and Lent groups online: 11.00 Team Eucharist on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83596730805 (Login details opposite) pwd=WDkyMldyQ2l2em8yWHZkY014cFFpZz09 also Meeting ID: 835 9673 0805 09.30 Eucharist - St Lawrence, Wymington Passcode: 112233 09.30 Morning Prayer - St Mary the Virgin, Stevington 11.00 Eucharist - St Mary the Virgin, Podington 11.00 Eucharist - All Saints’, Odell (Please contact your representative if you wish to Church Diary for Holy Week attend. Details on Page 4) 4.00pm - Palm Sunday Family Celebration (See Please see Page 1 for all events. page 3 for more details) For Holy Week and Easter Services, see page 1 !" Readings for Easter Sunday: Acts 10:34-43 John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8 Rest in Peace Elinor Morton (Harrold) The clergy can be contacted as follows: Email: [email protected] Tel: Rev Jacqueline and Rev Peter 01234 720262 Rev Lynne 01234 881654 Church Notices for next week’s Pew sheet Please send by Thursday Midday to: [email protected] Readings for Sunday 28th March 2021 Palm Sunday Collect Gospel - Mark 11:1-11 True and humble king, hailed by the crowd as Messiah: Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark grant us the faith to know you and love you, Glory to you, O Lord. that we may be found beside you 11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at on the way of the cross, Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he which is the path of glory. sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, ‘Go into First Reading - Isaiah 50:4-9a the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never 4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to that I may know how to sustain the weary with a you, “Why are you doing this?” just say this, “The word. Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.” Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear ’ 4 They went away and found a colt tied near a door, to listen as those who are taught. outside in the street. As they were untying it, 5 some 5 The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not of the bystanders said to them, ‘What are you doing, rebellious, I did not turn backwards. untying the colt?’ 6 They told them what Jesus had 6 I gave my back to those who struck me, said; and they allowed them to take it. 7 Then they and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; I did not hide my face rom insult and spitting. and he sat on it. 8 Many people spread their cloaks on 7 The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been the road, and others spread leafy branches that they disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, had cut in the fields. 9 Then those who went ahead and I know that I shall not be put to shame; and those who followed were shouting, 8 he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend ‘Hosanna! with me? Let us stand up together. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me. Lord! 9 It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; David! the moth will eat them up. Hosanna in the highest heaven!’ This is the word of the Lord. 11 Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the Thanks be to God. temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Epistle - Philippians 2:5-11 Bethany with the twelve. 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, This is the Gospel of the Lord did not regard equality with God as something to Praise to you, O Christ. be exploited, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, 8 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death Post Communion — even death on a cross. Lord Jesus Christ, 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant, him the name that is above every name, 10 so that and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation: at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, give us the mind to follow you in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and to proclaim you as Lord and King, 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus to the glory of God the Father. Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Sunday Services - Attendance in your Church Building Please ensure that you contact your representative beforehand. Please wear warm clothes to all services as doors must be kept open to allow for ventilation. Everyone who attends services is asked to observe the following: 1. Telephone or email your representative in the week beforehand. Details of your attendance will be kept for 21 days in case of the need to Track and Trace. 2. Arrive Early. Everyone will need to use hand sanitizer or soap so please allow plenty of time for this. 3. Please follow directions on where to sit in church. The sides people will direct everyone as they enter. Also, leaving the building will need to be controlled, so please follow directions of sidespeople at the end of the service. 4. Unless you have a medical condition which makes you exempt, you are required to wear a face covering in church. Please consider the safety and well being of others and remember to bring one. 5. Please do not attend if you have any of the symptoms of Covid 19 Representatives for each church are as follows: St Lawrence’s Wymington Colin Bramley-Robins 07902 038491 [email protected] St Mary the Virgin, Podington Pauline Cameron 01933 359533 [email protected] All Saints’ Odell Jill Cheadle 01234 720261 [email protected] St Peter’s Harrold Duncan Gray 01234 720882 [email protected] Harrold United Reformed Church Margaret Christopher 01234 720265 [email protected] St Mary’s Carlton Martin Stocker 01234 720909 [email protected] St Mary’s Stevington Robert Eadie 01234 826198 [email protected] All Saints’, Turvey Cindy Woods 01234 888849 [email protected] St Mary the Virgin, Stevington UNICEF UK… St Mary’s Stevington is open for personal prayer are working with the World Every Day 10am-4pm. Welcome to all. Health Organisation to distribute Please observe the measures in place Vaccines to the poorest people in for your health and safety. the world through the COVAX Programme. You can read about St Mary the Virgin, Podington it by following this link: The PCC have made the decision to https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/covax Suspend Public Worship and have also made the decision that the Church building Your two vaccines, depending on which kind will not be open for Private Prayer until further notice you had) might be worth between £4 and £30 plus the time and expertise needed to administer it.