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PARISH of ST BARTHOLOMEW WESTHOUGHTON St Bartholomew St Thomas St George PARISH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW WESTHOUGHTON St Bartholomew St Thomas St George Sunday 23rd August 2020 – St. Bartholomew the Apostle PEWSHEET PLUS TODAY ’ S SERVICES There will be a Service of Holy Communion at St. Bartholomew’s Church at 11:00am led by Revd Carol Pharaoh The same guidelines and regulations will apply, please see the sheets available or the website for details or do contact us. We pray for: Those who are ill: Irene Booth, Cassie Buono, Brian Cato, Joyce Cunliffe, Christopher Davies, Revd Malcolm Edwards, Marlene Fielding, Lisa Ginniff, Irene Halliwell, Jenny Harris, Keith Haworth, Mario Heaton, Edith Ibbotson, Patricia James, Mike Johnson, Eileen Marsh, James Tonge. Those who have died recently: And on their anniversaries this week we remember: June Allen, Annie Clare, Ethel Crowder, Susan Littler, Alan Marsh, Hilda Pemberton, John Southern, Edna Thurlington. This week: Many thanks to all who subscribe by e-mail to our weekly pewsheets. Today we have a service of Holy Communion at St. Bartholomew’s at 11:00am led by Revd Carol Pharaoh as we celebrate St. Bartholomew’s Day. Next Sunday 30th August, there will be a service of Holy Communion at St. Bartholomew’s church led by Revd Barrie Gaskell. In the daily readings we move to the New Testament with a brief look at St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians before we move onto his First Letter to the Corinthians that we’ll go through over the coming weeks. The daily prayers follow the St. Bartholomew Patronal Festival theme as we think about the life and work of our churches. It’s particularly appropriate this year as it’s 25 years in October since we re-opened, 30 years since the fire in November and 150 years since the first peal of bells in December 1870. As we remember St. Bartholomew on our Patronal Festival this weekend, we thank again all those who are making services happen at this difficult time – our clergy, readers, those leading intercessions and preparing service sheets, those taking registers and stewarding and especially those coming in to clean on Saturdays without whom none of this would be possible. We also have the mother and son team of St. Monica and St. Augustine of Hippo to celebrate this week [Hippo is the former name for Annaba in Algeria where they lived and nothing to do with the animal. Also, don’t confuse him with St. Augustine of Canterbury who we looked at on 26th May in your leather bound editions of the Pewsheets Plus]. School Form Signing: we have received a letter from Deborah Smith, Director of Education for the Diocese of Manchester, clarifying the current situation for signing school forms. In summary, attendance patterns at public worship can start to be observed again when there is unrestricted and open access to all for public worship in the church building. Where this is not possible, the church is regarded as technically closed for public worship. Also, for the purposes of observing church attendance at public worship to meet criteria in Admission Arrangements it has been decided nationally that no digital or on-line format will be recognised. As we are unable currently to open St. George’s or St. Thomas’ churches and are only able to offer one weekly service with limited attendance at St. Bartholomew’s church [i.e. no 8:00am, midweek or café church services] in line with these diocesan and national guidelines, we cannot sign school attendance forms until we can have open access for all. Please ask us if you have any questions. As the lockdown continues, we’ll send another Pewsheet Plus out again next weekend. Do keep any news, views and feedback coming. Please also check our Team YouTube channel for online services: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx266HLh9ShYeBJnON8ODg Ed PARISH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW WESTHOUGHTON St Bartholomew St Thomas St George The Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your word: grant that your Church may love that word which he believed and may faithfully preach and receive the same; through Jesus Christ 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. First Reading Acts 5. 12 - 16 12Many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. 13None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem. 14Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, 15so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. 16A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured. New Testament Reading 1 Corinthians 4. 9 - 15 God of wonder and new life, 9I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become we thank you for the beauty of this holy place a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals. 10We raised in hope from the ashes and held in are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in grace; Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held For all who have loved and cared for it through in honour, but we in disrepute. 11To the present hour the passing years we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and and for those who do so today. beaten and homeless, 12and we grow weary from the May we, like them, be inspired to play our part work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when in its ministry of prayer and welcome, persecuted, we endure; 13when slandered, we speak mission and service, kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, love and care for all. the dregs of all things, to this very day. 14I am not writing Fill your people with your vibrant love this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my that we may be formed into living stones beloved children. 15For though you might have ten who sing your praises, thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many live the faith of Jesus Christ fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I became your father and risk all in his service; through the gospel. who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Gospel Reading: Luke 22. 24 - 30 Amen. 24A dispute also arose among the twelve as to which one [Revd. Canon Ian Black, Peterborough 900 Prayer] of them was to be regarded as the greatest. 25But Jesus said to them, ‘The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those in authority over them are called 26 benefactors. But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the 27 leader like one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. 28You are those who have stood by me in my trials; 29and I confer on you, just as my Father has conferred on me, a kingdom, 30so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.’ PARISH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW WESTHOUGHTON St Bartholomew St Thomas St George HOMILY Revd Angela Wynne May I speak in the name of the living God. Father Son and Holy Spirit. Amen Today we are celebrating the Feast day of St Bartholomew. It’s always a bit tricky really because we don’t have a lot to go on. We’re not even sure who he was. Bartholomew is listed as one of the 12 disciples in Matthew Mark and Luke’s Gospels but he doesn’t appear in John’s Gospel. However in John’s Gospel there is a disciple called Nathanael who doesn’t appear in the other Gospels so it is very possible that Nathanael and Bartholomew are one and the same. If that’s true then Bartholomew was there at all the major events in Jesus’ ministry. He would be there at the last supper and he was a witness to the resurrection and he would have been there when the Holy Spirit came to the disciples at Pentecost. But what happened afterwards is somewhat of a mystery. It is thought he went abroad to India and Armenia to preach the Gospel. A copy of Matthew’s gospel was discovered in India in the second century and was described as being left behind by Bartholomew. Like many of the disciples he was martyred by being flayed alive and then beheaded. He became the patron Saint of tanners because of his gruesome fate. His bones became relics and eventually brought to Rome and kept on an Island in the middle of the River Tiber. The island was an interesting choice. It was already reputed to be a pagan centre of healing for people with infectious diseases, an isolation hospital if you like and Bartholomew’s bones were believed to have healing properties. A church and a hospital were built dedicated to St Bartholomew and other hospitals have been named after him such as the famous St Bartholomew’s hospital in London.
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