Events This Week The Benefice of Sturminster Newton Monday 18th March Hinton St Mary and Lydlinch 3.30 pm JAY and JAM after school clubs Making Christ's Love known to All. Tuesday 19th March 10.30 am Lent study at the Vicarage 2.00 pm Hinton Village Hall, Lent study on the Passion from St John’s THE CHURCH Gospel OF ENGLAND 2.30 pm Lent study at 12, Brinsley Close Wednesday 20th March 10.00 am Holy Communion at St Mary’s Sunday 17th March 2013 11.00 am Silent Intercessory prayer in chapel at St Mary’s 11.00 am Holy Communion at Nazareth Lodge The Fifth Sunday of Lent, 11.30 am LPA Meeting at the Vicarage Passion Sunday. St Patrick’s Day 7.30 pm Lent study at 19, Selwood Close Today’s Services 7.30 pm Bell Practice at St Mary’s Thursday 21st March ST MARY'S, STURMINSTER NEWTON 2.30 pm on BBC 2 Enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury. 8.00 am HOLY COMMUNION (Order Two) Friday 22nd March 9.30 am Sung Eucharist (Order One) 12.00 noon Ministry Team meet at the Vicarage Setting: Marbecke 2.00 pm Stour View Hymn Singing Hymns: NEH 79, Psalm 126, 379, 439, 94 6.30 pm Choir Practice at St Mary’s Anthem: ‘God so loved the world’ by Goss 7.00 pm Rehearsal for ‘The Crucifixion’ by Stainer in St Mary’s Organ Music: Antienne by Gigout Saturday 16th March Toccata in F by Bach 09.30 am Bell Practice at St Mary’s until 10.30 am 12.15 am Holy Baptism 6.00 pm EVENSONG (BCP) SUNDAY, 24th March Readings: 2 Chronicles: 35:1-6 & verse 10-16 Luke 22:1-13 Palm Sunday Psalm and Hymns: Psalm 35vv 1-9, NEH 418, 159, 249 St Mary's, Sturminster Newton Organ Music: Choral III by Franck 8.00 am Holy Communion Antiphon – ‘I thank thee dearest Lord’ by Karg-Elert 9.15 am Short Ceremony in The Square followed by Procession 09.30 am Sung Eucharist ST PETER’S, HINTON ST MARY 6.00 pm Evensong 10.00 am Holy Communion (Order One) Hymns:- NEH 418, 459, 297, 436 St Peter's, Hinton St Mary 10.00 am Holy Communion ST THOMAS', LYDLINCH St Thomas’, Lydlinch 8.30 am Holy Communion ( Order Two) 11.00 am Holy Communion

41 41 Please remember that on Palm Sunday, which is Next News and Notices Sunday , the 9.30am Eucharist at St Mary’s will be For reflection this week, verses from Psalm 130: preceded by a short ceremony in the Market Square at 9.15am, when the palms will be blessed and the palm Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord, Gospel read. Lord, hear my voice! This will then be followed by a procession to church for O let your ears be attentive the main service which will begin at the usual time. to the voice of my pleading. Members are invited to gather in the Square or go straight to church if they would prefer not to process. My soul is waiting for the Lord, I count on His word. The Christian Aid Lent Lunches continue this Wednesday My soul is longing for the Lord from 12 noon until 1.15pm in the Methodist Church. Do more than watchmen for daybreak. support this if you are able. Soup, bread and cheese with tea or coffee. Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption, Electoral Roll Israel indeed will redeem If you have not yet completed an application form to join the new Elec- from all its iniquity. toral Roll of your parish, please do so as soon as possible. The Rolls are completely revised every 6 years and 2013 is the year! Hinton St Mary Church Coffee Morning Enthronement of the new Archbishop of Canterbury March 20th 10.30 - 12.30 am at Robin and Gina Gibb's On 21st March, The Most Revd Justin Welby , the 105th Archbishop of 7 Old School Lane. All Very Welcome Canterbury will be enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral. The ceremony will be witnessed by 2,000 people inside the cathedral and 16 cameras will relay the Many thanks to the kind people who have sponsored Aaron for his pictures to millions more around the world . proposed Mission Trip as part of his Bible College Course. Any financial help, On Wednesday March 27th of Holy Week at 8.00 pm however small, would be a real blessing and enable him to fulfil the call of God on THE CRUCIFIXION by John Stainer will be sung at St Mary’s his life. Please see Aaron or Jan Kerntiff at Church, or Tel: 01258 473374 or Church. As on previous occasions singers are welcomed to form Email: [email protected] an augmented choir. Peter Lattimer is organising this devotional evening and would like to hear from anyone inter- This year on Maundy Thursday at St Mary’s, after the 7.30pm ested in taking part. Eucharist, we shall be keeping a watch of prayer until midnight. This Please contact Peter at home: 1 Philip Road, Blandford, DT11 7NS or by phone (454171) or by email: [email protected] is a common practice in churches in their keeping of Our Lord’s Passion, and please let Peter know whether you sing Soprano, Contralto, and it reflects Jesus’ words to the disciples ‘Could you not watch with Tenor or Bass. me one brief hour’ (words which famously begin Stainer’s Crucifixion). If Rehearsals will take place at 7.00 pm on Friday, 22nd March, you would like to cover half an hour, or more, of the Vigil, please add and at 6.30 pm before this evening event. your name to the rota which is at the back of St Mary’s. It is hoped that Copies of the music can be supplied. there will always be at least two people on duty at any one time. Women's World Day of Prayer Today at St Mary’s, we have a very special baptism service at 12.15pm. Thank you to all those who helped make the service such a special oc- Not only are two small children to be baptised but both mothers and casion, and it was lovely to have such a good representation from the one of the godparents have requested adult baptism. Please remember local churches. We raised £100 for the work of the organisation. in your prayers the two babies Lexus Lilly Cordina and Alfie Brian Toby A concert by the Musicians of Sherborne Girl’s School in St Mary and St James Walters, and the young adults Sammy-Jo Roake, Aaron John Roake and Church, Hazelbury Bryan, Thursday 21st March. £7 Chamber Orchestra, Amanda Matthews. Madrigal Choir and Jazz Band.

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