Let us pray Welcome to For our own members: Jim Ford, Gill Grant, Peter and Gwen Green, Amy Head The Cross and Stable, Downs Barn For the Sick : Ken and Joan Brine, Charles Davis, Noleen Kennedy, Joan Ecumenical Partnership Wilson, Marion Peters, Brian Howden, Tracy Goldsworthy, Margaret Painter For the whole of with the Prayer Cycle: Pray for the clergy and people of our rural parishes: Lamp Parishes - and ; Today 14th July, Seventh Sunday after Trinity and ; Gate Parishes - to ; and ; SCAN Parishes - to North 11.00am Holy Communion led by Rev Peter Green Crawley. (Readings: Genesis 45: 1-15; Luke 7: 36-43) Eternal Light shine in our hearts; Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil; 6.00pm Celebration of Forgiveness at St Lawrence, Bradwell Village Eternal Power be our support; Eternal Wisdom scatter the darkness of our ignorance; Eternal Pity have mercy on us and bring us to your holy presence. Amen Next Sunday 21st July Eighth Sunday after Trinity Alcuin of York 11.00am Morning Worship led by Mike Morris (Methodist Local Preacher) (Readings: Genesis 50: 15-21; John 15: 9-15) Events we can take part in 6pm Patronal Festival Service at St Mary Magdalene, Willen . with Quorum

Strawberry Forthcoming Events Tea 29 September: Harvest Festival - signed service Saturday 3rd August Andy and Jane hope to start a Signing Course (BSL Level 1) 3pm to 5pm 5 August: Prayer and Praise: Gill intends joining Forward in Faith at Cross and praying for Milton Keynes from 7-8; after which tea and coffee will be served Stable and there will be prayer for Cross and Stable from 8.15pm All are welcome to join in. Clergy • Websites • Notice Sheets This week at the Cross and Stable Websites Rev Andy Jowitt stantonbury.net Sundays Ecumenical Church 10-1, Word of Grace 13.00, Winning Souls 16.00 Team Vicar Monday Giggles Play and Stay 10.00, FiF Prayers 19.15 of Cross & Stable, Downs Barn Church Notice Sheet: Tuesday U3A Choir 13.30, Please submit notices 1a Atterbrook, Bradwell MK13 9EY Wednesday Weightwatchers 18.30 to Gwen Green Thursday U3A Sequence Dance 1.45, Prophetic Ministry 18.00 Tel: 320850 by Friday 10am: tel 240634 or Friday Bellringers 7.30 Andy’s day off : Tuesday Saturday Winning Souls Event 15.00 [email protected] July 2013 Seventh Sunday after Trinity The Old Testament Reading Genesis 45:1-15 THE GOSPEL Luke 7: 36-43 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all those Generous God, to Luke you give us gifts and make them grow: who stood by him, and he cried out, ‘Send everyone away though our faith is small as mustard seed, from me.’ So no one stayed with him when Joseph made Glory to you, O Lord. make it grow to your glory himself known to his brothers. And he wept so loudly that and the flourishing of your kingdom; the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And through Jesus Christ our Lord. it. Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?’ But his brothers could not answer him, so dismayed a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he AMEN was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar were they at his presence. of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Come closer to me.’ And began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her they came closer. He said, ‘I am your brother Joseph, whom hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed, or angry with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me him saw it, he said to himself, ‘If this man were a prophet, he before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—that she is a sinner.’ Jesus spoke up and said land these two years; and there are five more years in which to him, ‘Simon, I have something to say to you.’ ‘Teacher,’ there will be neither ploughing nor harvest. God sent me be- he replied, ‘speak.’ ‘A certain creditor had two debtors; one fore you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me could not pay, he cancelled the debts for both of them. Now here, but God; he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord which of them will love him more?’ Simon answered, ‘I of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Hurry and suppose the one for whom he cancelled the greater debt.’ And go up to my father and say to him, “Thus says your son Jo- Jesus said to him, ‘You have judged rightly.’ Then turning seph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, towards the woman, he said to Simon, ‘Do you see this do not delay. You shall settle in the land of Goshen, and you woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them children, as well as your flocks, your herds, and all that you with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. have. I will provide for you there—since there are five more years of famine to come—so that you and your household, This is the Gospel of the Lord and all that you have, will not come to poverty.” And now your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is Praise to you, O Christ. my own mouth that speaks to you. You must tell my father how greatly I am honoured in Egypt, and all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.’ Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, while Benjamin wept upon his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his brothers talked with him. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.