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Assistant Priest: The Reverend Barrie Cooper Tel: 07969 514982

Churchwardens Alnmouth: Catherine Whyte 01665 830028, Isabel Chalmers 01665 830362 Lesbury: Gill Bland 01665 830720, Nick Naylor 01665 830733 Longhoughton: Andrew Willmott 01665 577456, Simon Rippon 01665 577385 Howick: Lena Tait 01665 605462, Jimmy Grey 01665 577672

There are no formal collections taken in our churches; Boisil of Melrose please place your offering in the collection plate at the back of the church before the service begins. Gift Aid describes Boisil as a ‘priest of great envelopes are available in each church. virtue and of a prophetic spirit’. He was prior of the monastery at Melrose, which was then th Sunday 4 July 5 Sunday after Trinity part of the Kingdom of , having 9.15am Holy Communion, Alnmouth been trained on by Aidan. Such 10.30am Sunday Worship, Longhoughton was his reputation that the young 11.00am Holy Communion, Lesbury chose to go to Melrose, rather than the Holy Monday 5 July Island, to embark upon his journey as a religious. Bede tells us how Cuthbert arrived 7.30pm Bible Study, Longhoughton church on horseback, still dressed as a layman, and Tuesday 6 July Thomas More, scholar, and was dismounting to go straight into the church John Fisher, martyrs 1535 to pray, when Boisil spotted him from the Wednesday 7 July Boisil of Melrose, prior 661 monastery gate and declared ‘Here is a servant of the Lord’. Thursday 8 July He is said to have been a skilled healer, using 10.00am Iona service with Holy Communion, Lesbury local herbs and the iron rich waters of the wells which still exists near , Friday 9 July named for him, today. Even after he became Saturday 10 July abbot in AD659, Boisil would often leave the NEXT SUNDAY 11 July 6th Sunday after monastery precincts with Cuthbert to preach Trinity the gospel in the neighbouring villages. 8.00am Holy Communion, Lesbury Boisil predicted his own death of the plague – 9.15am Holy Communion, Longhoughton and spent the last seven days of his life 11.00am Holy Communion, Howick studying the Gospel of John with Cuthbert. Buried in Melrose, his remains were Readings for next Sunday translated to in 1030, and deposited Amos 7.7-15 Psalm 85.8-end near those of Cuthbert, his student and Ephesians 1.3-14 Mark 6.14-2 protegé. Celebrating the Northern Saints, a resource for the Diocese of Newcastle

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