PEWS NEWS The Benefice FORTHCOMING SERVICES St Mary Magdalene with Stuchbury & St Lawrence , St James the Great with St John the Evangelist Whitfield, th Sunday 25 July – Eighth Sunday after Trinity St Mary & St Peter Lois Weedon with Weston & Plumpton, and St Mary the Virgin . NO ONLINE SERVICE (Revd Diane on holiday) www.astwellparishes.org.uk 10.30am Syresham Benefice Communion & https://www.facebook.com/astwellbenefice/ Patronal Festival of St James (Revd J Roberts) 6pm Lois Weedon Benefice Evensong th Sunday 18 July 2021 Sunday 1st August – Ninth Sunday after Trinity Seventh Sunday after Trinity NO ONLINE SERVICE (Revd Diane on holiday) 9.30am Lois Weedon Lay Led/Private Prayer 10am Helmdon Morning Worship 10.30am Syresham Benefice Communion Today’s Services: (Revd J Roberts) 10-12pm Whitfield Private Prayer 8.30am Online Morning Prayer 11.15am Wappenham Morning Worship 10.30am Helmdon Benefice Communion & Sunday 8th August – The Transfiguration of Our Lord Patronal Festival of St Mary Magdalene 8.30am Online Morning Prayer 6.30pm Plumpton Evensong 9.30am Lois Weedon Matins 10am Helmdon Holy Communion 10-12 Whitfield Private Prayer To access the online service, please 11.15am Wappenham Morning Worship (or use this Zoom link: Breakfast Church TBC) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85894936136?pwd=Y 2pm Helmdon Baptism W5qSWo4MEw5Q1dvUG9WWTdabkNjdz09 6pm Syresham Joint Service with Chapel Meeting ID: 858 9493 6136 (at the Chapel) Passcode: 011195

th th Sunday 15 August – 11 Sunday after Trinity Services will be available on Facebook approximately one hour after ‘live-stream’ on Zoom. 8.30am Online Morning Prayer https://www.facebook.com/astwellbenefice/ 9.30am Lois Weedon Holy Communion 9.30am Whitfield Morning Worship 10am Helmdon Prayer & Praise 11am Syresham Morning Worship 11.15am Wappenham Prayer & Praise NOTICES: Please note that Revd Diane’s day off is Friday - please contact your churchwarden or Sarah Rudkin in her absence.

§ Revd Diane is on holiday from Monday 19th July until Saturday 7th August. Please contact your churchwarden or Sarah Rudkin in her Online Benefice Prayer Meeting absence.

Please join Revd Diane on Monday evenings at § Midweek Holy Communion Services will be 6pm using the following Zoom link: held at Helmdon at 10am on Wednesday https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85894936136?pw 21st July and 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th August. d=YW5qSWo4MEw5Q1dvUG9WWTdabkNjdz09 There will be a Morning Worship Service on Meeting ID: 890 3407 6266 Passcode: 545720 Wednesday 28th July. Dial by your location: +44 203 901 7895 +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom § St James the Great, Syresham will re-open on +44 203 051 2874 United Kingdom Monday 19th July.

The Collects and Readings Gospel Reading: John 20:1-2, 11-18

for the 1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still Festival of St Mary Magdalene dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the Collect: tomb. 2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said Almighty God, to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, whose Son restored Mary Magdalene and we do not know where they have laid him.’ to health of mind and body 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she and called her to be a witness to his resurrection: wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12and she forgive our sins and heal us by your grace, saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of that we may serve you in the power of his risen life; Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other who is alive and reigns with you, at the feet. 13They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away one God, now and for ever. my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ 14When she had said this, she turned round Old Testament Reading: Song of Solomon 3:1-4 and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why 1Upon my bed at night are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ I sought him whom my soul loves; Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, I sought him, but found him not; ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you I called him, but he gave no answer. have laid him, and I will take him away.’ 16Jesus said 2 ‘I will rise now and go about the city, to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in in the streets and in the squares; Hebrew,‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). 17Jesus I will seek him whom my soul loves.’ said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have I sought him, but found him not. not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my 3 The sentinels found me, brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my as they went about in the city. Father and your Father, to my God and your ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’ God.” ’ 18Mary Magdalene went and announced to 4 Scarcely had I passed them, the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told when I found him whom my soul loves. them that he had said these things to her. I held him, and would not let him go until I brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. Post Communion Collect:

God of life and love, whose risen Son called Mary Magdalene by name New Testament Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 and sent her to tell of his resurrection to his apostles: 14For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are in your mercy, help us, convinced that one has died for all; therefore all who have been united with him in this eucharist, have died. 15And he died for all, so that those who to proclaim the good news live might live no longer for themselves, but for him that he is alive and reigns, now and for ever. who died and was raised for them. 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. 17So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!

TO HOLD IN YOUR Prayers by Florence Gundle PRAYERS THIS WEEK:

Creator God, who made our beautiful world, We bring before our loving heavenly Father those in appointed us as its guardians and gifted us with our villages and others we know who are unwell, everything we need, forgive us for the times we recovering from illness and all those who need our cause it harm; for the times our way of life affects prayers for any reason during this difficult time: our neighbours. Inspire us to care for the From Helmdon: Joyce Beech, Philip Gulliver, Emma, environment; to help rebuild lives and communities; Jon, Ellouise, Lilly & James, Barbara Buxton, Diane to share in the griefs and anxieties, joys and hopes Thorpe, Vanessa Vicars, John Thorne, Alison & Cara, of all your people, so that all your creation may Margaret Reardon, David Bowen-Jones, and Claire & flourish. family.

From Lois Weedon & Weston: Joan Jacobs, Lis Cockrell, Jeremy “Jez” Wilcox, Jenni Liversidge, Glorious Father, we ask you to grant all those who John Maleham, Elsie Hatton & family, and are sick divine health. Take sickness away from John Busby. them and may they prosper. To those who seem to be plagued by ill-health we ask that you offer your From Syresham: Derek Hollyoake, Peter Sims, support and healing hands. We pray that their John Widdowson & Collette Andrewartha. discomforts will turn to comforts, their pains to blessings and their sorrows to pleasures. Cause us From Wappenham: Judy King and Claire Kennett. all to walk in divine health for the rest of our lives. For those known to us: Pauline Collis, Christopher Carr, Evelyn Johnson,

Jonnie D’Arcy, James Smillie, Peter Sheen, Penny You are the God who loves freely: the God whose Bonnymeade, Barbara Whitlock, Ollie Dotterill, love is unconditional and infinite. You love each of Marina & Froede Amundsen, Cara Wilson, us eternally: enfold us into Your embrace; grant the Chloë Fletcher, Sam & Jackie Cowlishaw. freedom of Your people and the fulfilment of our Please pray for those bereaved, and the family & prayers. So, Lord who lifts all burdens – protect us friends of: through ways known and seen and ways which we cannot yet comprehend. Guide and tend to us Baby Anna, Andy Seckington, Win Wood, Liz Threlfall, beyond our knowing and seeing. Keep our faith Ernie Wheeler, Dennis Read, Gillian Clube, Barry strong and our acts wise and compassionate. Pocock, Doris Street, Stan Howell, Doug Hatton, Jayden Shaler, Winnie Varney, Alex Paterson, Ann Widdowson, Christine Cason, Jack Hawkins, John Snow, Pat Johnson,, David Sheppard, Steve Goodwin, Dorothy D'Alton (nee Abbot), Sally Gore, Teresa Fleetwood, James Gadd, Ron Pratt, Margaret Hinton, Judith Allen, Marcus Durant, Tom Samways, Greg Oles, Mike Durant, Stewart Gundle, Ian Kidd, Richard Tims, Peter Payne, Ivan Hathaway, Robin Oliver, Sue Corbishley, Jason Holt & Shirley Holt, Dennis Hackett, Dick Wilson, Mark Kilby, Keith Hawkins. Also, for the Bearman family, Susan Clarke & family, Kathryn and Peter Oliver, & Geoff and Jo Abbey.

Also, please pray for the work of the Beacon Centre, the Wolverton Mission, the Hope Centre, Katharine House Hospice, Women's Aid and The Women’s Refuge. We also continue to pray for all refugees fleeing persecution, all victims of terror, and all those affected by the Covid-19 virus.

BENEFICE CONTACTS 2021 Diary Dates Rector: All events are subject to the prevailing Revd Diane Whittaker Covid-19 restrictions July Tel: 01327 226245 Thu 22nd Wedding of Laura Waddilove & Email: [email protected] Fraser Turner, 2pm, Helmdon Wiggy Smith, Reader [email protected]/Tel: Sat 31st Wappenham Dog Stroll & Show 9am – 1pm, 01295 760953 Wappenham Village Hall

Paul Stothard, Reader August [email protected]/Tel: 01295 760816 Sun 8th Baptism of Kit Williams, Helmdon, 2pm Bill Elkington: Lay chair and Benefice PCC Sat 14th Wedding of Constance Watson & Charles Mawle, [email protected]/Tel: 01295 760438 2pm, Helmdon Judith Elkington ([email protected]): Sat 21st Astwell Benefice Barn Dance, Manor Farm, BPCC, BRICC, Deanery & Benefice Communications Wappenham, 7pm. Alice Palmer: All financial matters Mon 23rd BPCC Worship Comm Mtg, 7pm, at Rectory TBC [email protected]/Tel: 01280 850252 Rachel Wheeler, Benefice Safeguarding Officer September [email protected]/Tel: 01295 768613 Wed 1st Churchwardens Mtg, 7pm, Wappenham V Hall Sarah Rudkin: Parishes Administrator & Pews News Sun 5th Induction of Revd Diane Whittaker, [email protected]/Tel: 01327 830965 11am, Benefice Service at Syresham th Mon 6 Open Meeting for Final Vote on United Benefice, Churchwardens (for individual church matters): 7pm, Syresham Sports & Social Club th Helmdon: Bill Elkington ([email protected]) Sat 11 Wappenham Village Fete th & Cliff Netten ([email protected]) Sun 12 Baptism of George Cooper, Whitfield Baptisms at Lois Weedon Lois Weedon & Weston: Frank Hunter Mon 13th BPCC Meeting, 7.15pm, Wappenham V Hall ([email protected]) Radstone: Penny Bonner ([email protected]) Regular Events: Syresham: Malcolm Orr-Ewing

([email protected]) - Mums & Tots at Helmdon Church - Thursdays 10am – 12pm during term time Wappenham: Edwin King ([email protected]) & Sheena Warren ([email protected]) Whitfield: Claire Bonner ([email protected])

Please send details of Benefice committee meetings, fetes, fund-raising events and all PRE-BOOK regular gatherings to [email protected]

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FOOD BANK VOUCHERS Revd Diane can provide vouchers for and Food Banks for anyone in need in Helmdon, Lois Weedon & Weston, TO PRE-BOOK YOUR TICKETS AND FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Radstone, Syresham, Wappenham, Whitfield and the CONTACT SHEENA WARREN surrounding area. EMAIL: [email protected] MOBILE: 07515 287909 IN AID OF ASTWELL BENEFICE Please contact her for details