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Services at St Michael & All Angels Cuxton Sunday 3 rd May 9.30 Family Communion Acts 4 vv 5 -12 p1095 Easter 4 John 10 vv 11-18 p1076 Sunday 10 th May 9.30 Holy Communion & Holy Baptism Genesis 22 vv 1-18 p22 Easter 5 Acts 8 vv 26-40 p1101 I John 4 vv 7-21 p1227 John 15 vv 1-8 p1083 Sunday 17 th May 8.00 Holy Communion Revelation 3 vv 14 -22 p1236 Easter 6 Luke 22 vv 24-30 p1058 9.30 Holy Communion Isaiah 55 vv 1-11 p742 Acts 10 vv 44-48 p1105 I John 5 vv 1-6 p1228 John 15 vv9-17 p1083 Thursday 21 st May 7.30pm Holy Communion Daniel 7 vv 9 -14 p892 Ascension Day Acts 1 vv 1-11 p1092 Luke 24 vv 44-53 p1062 Sunday 24 th May 9.30 Holy Communion Ezekiel 36 vv 24-28 p868 Easter 7 Acts 1 vv 15—26 p1092 1 John 5 vv 9-13 p1228 John 17 vv 6-19 p1085 Sunday 31 st May 9.30 Holy Communion Ezekiel 37 vv 1-14 p868 Pentecost Acts 2 vv 1-21 p1093 Romans 8 vv 22-27 p1135 John 15 v26 – 16 v15 p1083 Sunday 7 th June 9.30 Family Communion Isaiah 6 vv 1 -8 p690 Trinity Sunday John 3 vv 1-17 p1065 Sunday 14 th June 9.30 Confirmation Ezekiel 17 vv 22-24 p844 Trinity 1 Mark 4 vv 26-34 p1006 Services at St john the Baptist Halling & the Jubilee Hall Upper Halling Sunday 3 rd May 8.00 Holy Communion Revelation 2 vv 12-17 p1234 Easter 4 Jubilee Hall John 6 vv 30-40 p1-70 11.00 Holy Communion Genesis 7 vv 1-5 p8,Genesis 7 vv 11-18 p9, Genesis 8 vv 6-18 p9, Genesis 9 vv 8-13 p10, Acts 4 vv 5-12 p1095 1 John 3 vv 16-24 p1227 John 10 vv 11-18 p1076 Sunday 10 th May 11.00 Holy Communion Genesis 22 vv 1 -18 p22 Easter 5 Acts 8 vv 26-40 p1101 I John 4 vv 7-21 p1227 John 15 vv 1-8 p1083 5.30 Evening Prayer Isaiah 60 vv 1-14 p746 Jubilee Hall Revelation 3 vv 1-13 p1235 Sunday 17 th May 11.00 Stop! 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Listen! & Holy Isaiah 55 vv 1 -11 p742 Easter 6 Communion & Holy Baptism Acts 10 vv 44-48 p1105 I John 5 vv 1-6 p1228 John 15 vv9-17 p1083 Thursday 21 st May 9.30 Holy Communion Acts 1 vv 1-11 p1092 Ascension Day Luke 24 vv 44-53 p1062 Sunday 24 th May 11.00 Holy Communion & Holy Baptism Ezekiel 36 vv 24 -28 p868 Easter 7 Acts 1 vv 15—26 p1092 1 John 5 vv 9-13 p1228 John 17 vv 6-19 p1085 Sunday 31 st May 11.00 Holy Communion Ezekiel 37 vv 1-14 p868 Pentecost Acts 2 vv 1-21 p1093 Romans 8 vv 22-27 p1135 John 15 v26 – 16 v15 p1083 Sunday 7 th June 8.00 Holy Communion Revelation 4 vv 1236 Trinity Sunday Jubilee Hall Mark 1 vv 1-13 p1002 11.00 Holy Communion Isaiah 6 vv 1 -8 p690 Romans 8 vv 12-17 p1134 John 3 vv 1-17 p1065 Sunday 14 th June 9.30 Confirmation at Cuxton Trinity 1 5.30 Evening Prayer Jeremiah 7 vv 1 -16 p764 Jubilee Hall Romans 9 vv 14-26 p1136 Wednesday Communion at Cuxton 9.30 am Thursday Communion at Halling 9.30 am 6th May Acts 12 v25 – 13 v5 7th May Acts 13 vv 13 -25 John 12 vv 44-end John 13 vv 16-20 13 th May Acts 15 vv 1-6 14 th May Acts 1 vv 15-end John 15 vv 1-8 S Matthias John 15 vv 9-17 20 th May Acts 17 v15- 18v1 21 st May Acts 1 vv 1-11 p1092 Rogation Day John 16 vv 12-15 Ascension Day Luke 24 vv 44-53 p1062 27 th May Acts 20 vv 28 -end 28 th May Acts 22 v30 – 23 v11 John 17 vv 11-19 John 17 vv 20-end [email protected] http://www.cuxtonandhalling.org.uk Copy Date June Magazine 15 th May 8.30 am Rectory. On Thursday afternoons we have a Mother & Toddler service at Halling at 2.00 and at Cuxton every Wednesday also at 2.00. Saints Alive! (formerly Sunday School) is at Cuxton Church Hall at 9.30 (not first Sundays or school holidays). After School Club , Thursdays @ St John’s. Music in June This Summer the Brook Concert Orchestra and Cuxton Music Group will be putting on a concert at St John’s Church, Halling. The programme will be light classics and music from the shows. The date is our Patronal Festival, 24 ththth June. The starting time is 8.00pm. The Patronal Festival Eucharist will be at 6.30 pm. Sophie Webster people like her. She tried to swindle the Peacocks In case you don’t know, in the buying and selling of houses. Sally has had Sophie Webster is a character several affairs. We never see her or Kevin in Coronation Street. She is praying or reading the Bible. My guess is that supposed to be in her early to they pray only in emergencies and that somewhere mid teens and she has “got in the Webster household there is a family Bible, religion”. She has fallen for Ben Richardson, which is treasured but unopened. The Websters hunky captain of her school swimming team, and never go to church except for weddings and started going to his Church. There is nothing funerals and, as we all know, weddings and wrong with this in itself. Most of us start going to funerals in Soapland are generally disgraceful Church with somebody else, a family member or a affairs, with a benign, but ineffectual, vicar friend. What matters is whether, in the long run, impotently wringing his hands while cast we come to know Jesus personally or whether we members bellow hideous accusations at one just go for social reasons. another. In Soapland, normal Church is a small gathering of well-meaning and mainly elderly What amuses me is the effect all this is having on people like Emily Bishop, who do things like run her parents, Kevin and Sally Webster. Sally tells the League of Friends shop at the local hospital. Sophie that there is no need to go to Ben’s Church (or any Church). She is already a Christian. They Sally and Kevin are bemused by Ben’s lively are a Christian family, Sally tells her, but there has Christian faith. They like the fact that he is polite been precious little evidence of this in Sally’s life and that he is not after casual sex with Sophie, but so far. Sally looks down on Janice Battersby and they think it’s all a bit weird. They aren’t sure whether they want their daughter getting mixed up When you think about it, it is obvious why they in a group that stands a little aside from what’s couldn’t. They wasted their lives on rock concerts normal for teenagers. when they should have spent their time in worshipping God and humbly serving humanity. I should say that the Websters are like a lot of English families. They have given up being May sees two major festivals. 21 st is Ascension Christians without even noticing that they have. Day. On the fortieth day of Easter, Jesus Indeed, they still call themselves Christians. ascended into Heaven. He reigns at God’s Right Maybe they get a bit cross when the local council Hand. He ever lives to pray for us. He opens the bans school nativity plays “in case they upset the gate of Heaven to the human race. He pours out Moslems”, but there is nothing really especially His Holy Spirit on the world. I can guarantee that Christian about their lives. If it were against the there is almost nothing that you could be doing on Law to be a Christian in this country, there 21 st May this year more important than celebrating wouldn’t be enough evidence to convict them! our Lord’s Ascension. We have two services of Holy Communion that day – 9.30 am at Halling Things come to a bit of a head in the Webster and 7.30 pm at Cuxton. (See p8 for details of household when Sally wants to take Sophie to buy procession.) I am sure that most people could a new pair of shoes one Sunday morning. Sophie make one of them. If you are coming to either by insists that she can’t go shopping because she’s car, maybe you could offer a lift to someone for got to go to Church. Doesn’t that make you pause whom it is too far to walk or who might be for thought? In 20 years we have changed from a nervous about walking alone. society in which the shops stayed shut on Sundays out of respect for the Christian religion into a 31 st May this year is Pentecost or Whitsun when society in which it is taken for granted that, not we celebrate God’s gift of the Holy Spirit. The only will the shops be open on Sundays, but also Spirit is God with us and God within us.