Valley Contacts Lambourn Valley

Vicar: Welcome The Revd. Julie Mintern 208467 St James the Greater Eastbury Mobile: 07749 844600 [email protected] All Saints Rest day Thursday. St Michael & All Angels Lambourn

Associate Clergy: rd The Ven. Christine Allsopp 674108 Sunday 23 February 2020 Mobile: 07801 096345 Sunday next before Lent [email protected] Welcome in the name of Jesus Christ, Church Wardens: especially to any visitors amongst us. Eastbury Paul Reynolds 71001

East Garston Bob Briant 648646 We are a Church family committed to welcoming all Dawn Tonge 648370 those who come as God’s precious and beloved child, Lambourn Amanda Marchant 670083 whatever their age or race, sexuality or experience, Bruce Laurie 71294 background or confidence in Church.

PCC Secretaries: Please tell the priest if you need a gluten free wafer. If Eastbury Jenny Powell 72741 you’d prefer to receive a prayer of blessing, please East Garston Karen Sperrey 648365 come forward with everyone else and keep your head Lambourn Ruth Honey 71158 bowed at the rail.

Website: https://lambourn-valley-benefice.website/ ‘This is my Son, the beloved; with whom I am well pleased: listen to Him’ Matt 17:5 Newbury Deanery Prayer Cycle The Week Ahead East Downland Benefice Today 23rd February John Toogood, Denise Brown, Douglas Dales, 9.00am Holy Communion (Sung), All Saints William McDowell All Saints , All Saints Farnborough, 10.30am Sung Eucharist, St Michael’s St. Nicholas Beedon, 6.30pm Taize service, St James St. Barnabas , St. Mary Monday 24th February St. James the Less Winterbourne, 8.30am Morning Prayer, St Michael’s St. Bartholomew Oare 10.00am Parent & Toddlers, St Michael’s St. Andrew Boxford, St. John 1.30 – 3.30pm Food Bank, Sacred Heart Hall 2.30pm Lent group @ Christine’s home Prayers Tuesday 25th February 8.30am Morning Prayer, St Michael’s Please keep the wonderful Lambourn CE Primary school Ash Wednesday 26th February in your prayers as they advertise for a new Headteacher. 8.30am Morning Prayer, St Michael’s Thankful for the commitment and service of all, let us 7.30pm Eucharist and imposition of ashes, St Michael's pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit as St James, Thursday 27th February Eastbury and All Saints, East Garston seek to appoint 8.00pm Good Friday Concert practice, St Michael’s new church wardens. In planning for the future, give us Friday 28th February vision, in matters of finance give us responsibility, in 8.30am Morning Prayer, St Michael’s dealing with people give us love. Help us in all things to honour your kingdom, and to carry out your will through 10.15 - 10.45am First Steps, St Michael’s Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 12 noon -1.00pm Quiet Time, St Michael’s 7.00pm Choir Practice, St Michael’s Please pray for Edward baptised last Sunday, their Saturday 29th February parents and Godparents. 8.30am Morning Prayer, St Michael’s The prayer list for the sick is updated the first week 8.45am Lent group @ St James with breakfast of each month. Please let me know if you, or someone you have referred would like to remain on our prayer list for February. Thanks for your help. Next Sunday 1st March 2020

The sick: Charmaine Pike, Maureen Leppard, Lent 1 Rosemary Blake, Pauline Ilott, David Ashplant, David 9.00am Holy Communion (BCP) (Said), St James Taylor, Tony Stewart-Smythe, Stephen Morgan, 10.30am Sung Eucharist, St Michael’s

Sorrel Hewitt, James Parker, George Kendall, Readings: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7, Romans 5:12-19, Bryan Marchant, Caroline, Mary Gulliver, Gillian Glover, Matthew 4:1-11 and all those affected by the Coronavirus.

The Recently Departed: Notices & Diary Dates

All those whom we love yet see no more. Jo Sopp, Mark James, Cary Smallhorn, Paul Blockley. Ash Wednesday Eucharist with the imposition of ashes

will take place at 7.30pm at St Michael’s on Wednesday 26th February. Please send items for inclusion in the Lambourn Valley Welcome by 4.00pm on Wednesday at the As Lent approaches we often review our spiritual lives - latest to (Please start Subject Line with VW): and indeed life as a whole. Some people find going to Confession helps. If you would like to know more please [email protected] ask Julie.

Prayers and Readings ‘Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three dwellings here, one for you, one for The Collect for Today Moses, and one for Elijah.’ While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed Almighty Father, them, and from the cloud a voice said, ‘This is my whose Son was revealed in majesty Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen before he suffered death upon the cross: to him!’ When the disciples heard this, they fell to the give us grace to perceive his glory, ground and were overcome by fear. But Jesus came that we may be strengthened to suffer with him and touched them, saying, ‘Get up and do not be and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory; afraid.’ And when they looked up, they saw no one who is alive and reigns with you, except Jesus himself alone. in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, ‘Tell no one about the vision until after The Short Collect the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.’ Holy God, you know the disorder of our sinful lives: Post Communion Collect set straight our crooked hearts, Holy God, and bend our wills to love your goodness and your we see your glory in the face of Jesus Christ: glory may we who are partakers at his table in Jesus Christ our Lord. reflect his life in word and deed, that all the world may know his power to change and Exodus 24:12-18 save. The Lord said to Moses, ‘Come up to me on the This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.’ So Moses Notices & Diary Dates set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God. To the elders he had said, Coronavirus advice from the national church states ‘Wait here for us, until we come to you again; for that at present the risk in this country is assessed as Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a dispute ‘moderate’. Common sense suggests that those with may go to them.’ coughs and sneezes please refrain from handshaking during The Peace and to receive Communion in one Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud kind only. Please do not intinct - as this could covered the mountain. The glory of the Lord settled represent an infection transmission route. Intinction on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; is when the consecrated bread is dipped into the wine. on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord The funeral of Paul Blockley will take place on was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in Thursday March 6th, 2.00pm in St Michael’s. the sight of the people of Israel. Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. Moses was on Lent groups this week February 24th at 2.00pm at the mountain for forty days and forty nights. Christine’s (please bring a piece of holly or something prickly this week). The Vicarage group will be 2 Peter 1:16-21 rearranged. The Lent breakfast group in St James We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we Eastbury (please bring a piece of wood with you) made known to you the power and coming of our begins on Saturday February 29th from 8.45am. Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honour and glory from Mothering Sunday preparations - Join us on God the Father when that voice was conveyed to him Saturday March 21st 10.30am -12.00. Reflection by the Majestic Glory, saying, ‘This is my Son, my time till 10.45am, prayer stations, posies, Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’ We ourselves card making along with planting seeds and heard this voice come from heaven, while we were refreshments. All welcome – do bring friends and with him on the holy mountain. family as we prepare for Mothering Sunday.

So we have the prophetic message more fully Would you be interested in helping out with any of confirmed. You will do well to be attentive to this as to the activities? Please speak to Julie or Sandra. a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. First of all Lambourn Welcome Pack "Sold" signs are you must understand this, that no prophecy of appearing in the village! Please look out for scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, newcomers moving in. If you let Christine Allsopp because no prophecy ever came by human will, but know, she will provide a Welcome Pack for you to men and women moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from deliver or she will arrange for someone else to deliver God. it if you prefer. The Pack is a simple way for us to offer a welcome to our community.

Matthew 17:1-9 Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. Then Peter said to Jesus,