Parish Magazine for The Benefice of Lower Beeding and Cowfold
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“Never was so much owed by so many to so few” Remembrance Sunday November 8th
November 2020 For the Benefice Readings & Worship Services November 2020 November 1st All Saints Day Revelations 7: 9-end. 1 John 3: 1-3. Matthew 5: 1-12. *November 8th 3rd Sunday before Advent * (Remembrance Sunday) Amos 5: 18-24. 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-end. Matthew 25: 1-13. November 15th 2nd Sunday before Advent Zephaniah 1: 7 & 12-end. I Thessalonians 5: 1-11. Matthew 25: 14-30. November 22nd Christ the King Ezekiel 34: 11-16 & 20-24. Ephesians 1: 15-end. Matthew 25: 31-end. th The First Sunday of AdventSt. Peter’s Church November 29 Cowfold Isaiah 64: 1-9 1 Corinthians 1: 3-9. Mark 13: 24-end.
From the Registers
Times of services – Sundays Lower Beeding St. Peter’s, Cowfold Eucharist: 8.30 at St. Johns St Peters has an 8 o'clock on the 2nd, 3rd and 5th Sunday Eucharist: 10.00 at Holy Trinity 8am BCP Eucharist on Sundays 8th and 15th November Service for the Bereaved: November 1st 6.00pm at Holy Trinity 4pm Short & Sweet on Sunday 8th November 11:15am Eucharist on Sunday 15th November 10 am Short and Sweet on Sunday 22nd November
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Welcome to the November 2020 edition Service for the Bereaved 8 of the Parish Magazine for the Benefice.
Regulars In this month we commemorate the fallen in the annual Remembrance Day Sunday Worship & 1 Services that take place throughout the Readings country. This year the large gatherings From the Vicar 4 have had to be cancelled because of Covid -19 but our clergy are being very News and Views-St John’s 6 inventive in their response to the new circumstances. Revd. Sue, Revd. Martin Tuesday Club 11 and Geoff will be livestreaming from the Parish Churches and they can be LBA 12 watched on Facebook and through the websites. For timings see the Vicar’s Parish Council 14 Letter.
Our cover picture of a magnificent LBHS 18 th Spitefire is a reminder that it is the 80 Gardeners’ World 18/19 anniversary of the Battle of Britain. It reminds us that when a few take a Great Britons 22 principled stand they can overcome apparently insuperable odds so good can Weather Report 25 triumph.
‘When you go home, tell them of us, for Children’s Page 28 your tomorrow we gave our today’
1st Cowfold Scout Group 29 Lesley Hendy Take a Break 32 Acting Editor [email protected] Family Support Work 34 Please stay safe.
Copy date for next magazine- Poetry Cornered 36 Saturday 14th November Caring for God’s Acre 38 Submissions should be sent to [email protected] Sussex Wildlife Trust 40
Pastoral Arrangements 41 Parish Directory 42/3 The views and opinions within this publication are not necessarily those of the editor or the Parochial Church Councils’ of the Benefice. 2
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