Tadcaster Benefice

the churches of St Mary’s Tadcaster, St Andrew’s , St Mary’s Kirk Fenton & St John the Baptist &

Sunday 28th June, 3rd Sunday after Trinity

Services today:  8.10am Sunday Worship on Radio 4  10am Morning Prayer with Sunday Explorers via Zoom All our Zoom services use  11.45am Sunday Worship on BBC 1 Meeting ID: 9861012744  1.15pm Songs of Praise on BBC1 password 377646  8.30pm Night Prayer via Zoom or click the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9861012744 Services next Sunday, 5th July  10am Morning Prayer via Zoom  8.30pm Night Prayer via Zoom

Opening churches for private prayer The churches of our benefice will be open for private prayer on Saturday 4th July.

 9-12pm St Mary’s, Tadcaster  9-12pm St Mary’s, Kirk Fenton  12-1pm St Andrew’s, Newton Kyme  1-3pm St John the Baptist, Kirkby Wharfe and Ulleskelf.

The churches will have someone present to assist you during your visit. Each church will have their own constraints on how many people may enter church at the same time, and during busy periods may have to impose a time limit on how long people may stay in church. On entry to church you will be requested to pick up an information sheet, please take this with you on exit.

We are awaiting detailed guidance on the opening of churches for services, and will have more details on this when the information becomes available.

How to support your church financially during the outbreak? As we are unable to support our churches with a collection during the service, you may wish to set up with your bank a regular standing order to donate, or make a one off donation. The bank details for the churches are:

St Mary’s, Tadcaster St Andrew’s, Newton Kyme (Use Tadcaster PCC for bank account name) Sort code: 55-81-11 Sort code: 40-44-01 Account number: 03604608 Account number: 40800236

St John the Baptist, Kirkby Wharfe & Ulleskelf St Mary’s, Kirk Fenton (Use St Mary's Parochial Sort Code: 60-21-13 Church Council ) Account number: 52078361 Sort Code: 40-41-45 Account number: 71459309

Sunday Morning services via Zoom in July We will continue to stream a 10am service on Zoom each Sunday at 10am. 5th July – Morning Prayer 12th July – Family Service 19th July – Morning Prayer 26th July – Morning Prayer with Sunday Explorers

Mon 29th 9.30am Morning Prayer on Zoom 2pm Praise and Play on Zoom th Tues 30 8.30pm Night Prayer on Zoom All our Zoom services use Weds 1st 10.30am Morning Prayer Not on Zoom nd Meeting ID: 9861012744 Thurs 2 10am Collective Worship via Facebook Live password 377646 11am Quiz on Zoom rd or click the link: Fri 3 8.30pm Night Prayer on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9861012744 Sat 4th Churches open for private prayer: 9-12pm St Mary’s, Tadcaster 9-12pm St Mary’s, Kirk Fenton 12-1pm St Andrew’s, Newton Kyme 1-3pm St John the Baptist, Kirkby Wharfe and Ulleskelf Sun 5th 10am Morning Prayer service on Zoom 8.30pm Night Prayer on Zoom

*Church groups Tuesday Fellowship Group, Choir, St Mary’s Bellringers, Thursday Home Group to meet on Zoom as the usual times.

Bible Readings for Morning Prayer: 1st Reading: Acts 12:1-11

12 It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. 3 When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover. 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. 7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists. 8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. 9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. 10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. 11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”

2nd Reading: Matthew 16:13-19 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter,[a] and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[b] will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be[c] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[d] loosed in heaven.”

Curate: Rev Simon Biddlestone 07738 975927 Church Administrator: Rachel Hughes 07545 516949 email: [email protected] @Tadcasterbenefice /tadbenefice @stmarystadcaster /tadcasterbenefice @churchfentonchurch www.stmarystadcaster.co.uk