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1St Sunday After Trinity Newsletter – Sunday 14Th June Issue 14 “We exist to receive and share the love of God” 1st Sunday after Trinity Newsletter – Sunday 14th June Issue 14 Welcome to this fourteenth newsletter during this time when we cannot meet for public worship. This e-mail also includes the prayers, reflections and readings for tomorrow and an update on the second week of the Hurst Virtual Pilgrimage. WORSHIP AND PRAYER CONTINUE You may wish to use the service received with this e-mail at 10am, the time we would usually meet in church so we are praying and worshiping together still even though we are apart. You could join with the National service being broadcast on the Church of England Facebook page at 9am (or watch later) and on the Church of England website www.churchofengland.org. Marking the feast of Corpus Christi, Rev Richard Spinger will speak of and draw parallels with the pain of those who suffer racism, hunger and homelessness. There will be a service from Manchester Cathedral Facebook page on Sunday at 10.30am. Another option is to watch the Sunday Worship programme on BBC 1 at 10.45am on BBC1. This Sunday it comes from Manchester and Holy Trinity Church Platt led by youth minister Sarah Bradley. Join us at 11.30pm for zoom coffee time. The Meeting ID and password remain the same. Meeting ID 258 831 8643 and Password: Coffee 123. (Don’t forget capitial C and space after coffee). Although we are unable to meet together to worship and pray we can still continue to join together each day in prayer at 8 – in the morning and evening. The work of praying the daily office and offering the Eucharist for and on behalf of the parish continues each day at the Vicarage, or now I am allowed, on Sunday’s, in Church. People can participate with this on Facebook and twitter too. If you have any prayer requests please get in touch with me, Revd Liz, 07725739506 or Fr Jack 07999836832 and we will gladly pray for specific prayer intentions. Pictures from Trinity Sunday and worship this week. Corpus Christi On Corpus Christi we usually have a wonderful celebration with others from across the deanery and Bishop Mark and Bishop Michael before him have joined with us in our celebrations. This year was of course quite different. I offered the Eucharist for and on behalf of the congregation and parish on my own at 10am. Then spent an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament praying for racial justice, for all affected by the coronavirsus, all working for a cure and vaccine and for God’s guidance as we navigate these stange times. This was part of a wave of prayer across the world undertaken by priests of the Society of Catholic Priests, of which I am a member called #Adorate2020. Bishops, including Bishop Mark Davies and priests committed to pray before the Blessed Sacrament on Corpus Christi in a wave of prayer that lasted all day around the globe. Revd Liz’s Sponsored 300 mile walk and Virtual Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne I started the week at Cr Mirfield and I’ve walked another 28.4 miles this week bringing the total to 54.11 miles! I virtually reached and was welcomed at Wakefield Cathedral and St Helen’s Hemsworth. The next place I will stop off at is Bishopthorpe. Bishop Sentamu, former Archbishop of York sent a prayer that he used when he did a pilgrimage around the Northern Province a few years ago. As I set out from St Helen’s Hemsworth I used that prayer as I began the 28 mile journey to Bishopthorpe. I have ended the week somewhere around Brotherton and 17.69 miles away from Bishopthorpe. I have physically walked around the parish, to Chadwick Dam and Stamford Park but I have also walked to some of the churches around the Deanery. You can find out more about that in the Pilgrimage newsletter but I have walked around all the churches in the Parish of the Good Shepherd, St George’s Stalybridge, Christ Church Ashton, St Lawrence’s Denton, St Anne’s Haughton, St Mary the Virgin Haughton Green, St Stephen’s Audenshaw, St Hilda’s Audenshaw, Christ Church Denton and St George’s Dane Bank. There is a full report of Hurst Virtual Pilgrimage in a separate document which I hope you will use to pray with throughout this week. Please do share the Pilgrimage e-mail with friends and family and ask if they will sponsor the 309 mile walk. And please sponsor the walk yourself – 309 miles is a long way, especially for my short legs! This is a real challenge for me and I hope you will support that challenge and our church. Thank you so much to those who have sponsored the walk already through the “donate now” button and those who have given cheques to Janet Matley. So far we have raised a grand total of £981.25 which includes the Gift Aid from online donations of £172.25. That incredible total is from just 17 donors and not all from people associated with church. £488.75 is from my family and friends, £50 from past St John’s congregation members following the pilgrimage on social media and £442.50 from our congregation. One person has sponsored an incredible £1 a mile and another an amazing 50p per mile! As Tesco says though Every Little Helps and any and all donations will be appreciated. We have nearly reached the first target set of £1000 which is incredible in the first 2 weeks! The new target is £2000! Thank you so much to those who have already given so generously. Please do share the Pilgrimage widely with friends and family and encourage them to follow progress on social media @StJohnsHurst on Facebook and Twitter and on our website www.stjohnschurch-hurst.co.uk and our A Church Near You Page. There is a piece in this week’s Tameside Reporter about our Hurst Virtual Pilgrimage and Sponsored Walk. The piece last week was in the online version – this week we are in print! If you are on social media – and in particular Facebook, please do interact with the posts on the pilgrimage. Please like and share each post. That way more people will see what is going on and they may join with us on the Pilgrimage and may donate sponsorship money. 309 miles is a long way to walk when your legs are as little as mine! Please share away! Don’t be embarrassed! Be a witness! Click on the digital map to see my progress You can click on the map to enlarge it and click on the red dots to discover the places I will be visiting and click websites of the places I have visited to find out more about them. It tells you the distance in km as the crow flies to the next stop and you can click on the website link to find out more about each place. Again huge thanks to Alison. To sponsor please donate here. The weblink if you want to share it with friends and family is here https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/stjohntheechurst/donate/ Or you could send this this newsletter or better still the Pilgrimage Newsletter. You can also give directly to St John’s by bank transfer but please put “Pilgrimage” as the reference and let Janet know. Or speak to Janet Matley about the best way of giving for you. Please all of you actively spread the word! If you know people who would like to receive updates then please e-mail me their e-mail addresses and I will add them to the mailing list. Please continue to pray for me as I am praying for you and please join me on this inward journey of the heart to Lindisfarne in faith and prayer. Buon Camino everyone! A Prayer from the former Archbishop Of York, Dr John Sentamu Day by Day with St John Daily Readings – Stage 3 You may choose to read either the Old Testament or the New Testament readings below in addition to the psalm and psalm prayer. 14 June Deuteronomy 10:12-11:1 Luke 11:14-28 1st Sunday after Trinity 15 June Joshua 14 Romans 7:1-6 16 June Joshua 21:43-22:8 Romans 7:7-end Richard of Chichester(Bp) 17 June Joshua 22:9-end Romans 8:1-11 18 June Joshua 23 Romans 8:12-17 19 June Joshua 24:1-28 Romans 8:18-30 20 June Joshua 24:29-end Romans 8:31-end 21 June Deuteronomy 11:1-15 Luke 14:12-24 2nd Sunday after Trinity Missing the biscuits at the tea bar? Which is your favourite?! PHOTO BOOK - A REMINDER I said that I would produce a photo book that would serve as a record of this time for our archives – we are living through history in the making in a way we perhaps haven’t since the Second World War. I am hoping it will also be a beautiful book to keep, to reflect with and to pray with. My hope is also that it will be a fundraiser for our church – in this time when we are unable to raise funds in the usual ways with raffles, coffee mornings, fairs etc. I will begin working on this book and continue to add pictures in over the coming few weeks. I will also include pictures that people have been sending me. If you would like to contribute to this pictorial lockdown record please e-mail or message me pictures either of your worship at home, your prayer corner, your candle lit on a Sunday as we pray for those affected by COVID- 19, of your street clapping for the NHS and other front line staff, your street playing bingo, or pictures from your walks or your garden beginning to bloom.
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