Sat 29 Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving for the Missionary Work of the Church The South Rodings: Abbess Roding (St Edmund), Beauchamp Roding (St Diocese of Chelmsford Botolph), White Roding (St Martin), Leaden Roding (St Michael) Clergy: Clive Duxbury (PIC) Felsted (Holy Cross) and Little Dunmow (St Mary the Virgin) Cycle of Prayer Clergy: Colin Taylor (V). Readers: Joanna Pratt, Robert Stone. for daily use in Felsted School: Nigel Little (CHP) October and November 2014 The Diocese of Kibondo (Tanzania) Make your way plain for me to follow (Psalm 5) Sun 30 ADVENT SUNDAY Father, through John the Baptist you tried to prepare your people for the Wed 1 Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 coming of Jesus. Will you prepare us too? Prepare our hearts and minds Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Social Reformer, 1885 that we may know what to look for in his coming into our world. May we COLCHESTER EPISCOPAL AREA show the joy of the Advent message in our lives day by day. Roger Morris, Area Bishop; Annette Cooper, Archdeacon of Colchester; PRAY for Falkland Islands (Extra‐Provincial to the Archbishop of Robin King, Archdeacon of Stansted. Canterbury), The Rt Revd Stephen Venner. Area Team: Jenny Tomlinson, Mission & Ministry Adviser; Geoffrey Read, CMD Adviser; Dub Gannon, Rural Evangelism Adviser; Rachel Brett, Youth Adviser; Hilary Platts, Women’s Ministry Adviser; Rosemary Drew, Healing NOTES: & Deliverance Adviser. Julia Murphy, Chaplain, University of Essex. Where parochial links are known to exist the names of overseas workers are placed immediately after the appropriate parish. The Deanery of Witham Rural Dean: Geoff Bayliss. Lay Chair: Mike Robinson Further information concerning overseas dioceses, including the names of bishops, is contained in the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, available on their website http:// The Diocese of Ife (Ibadan, Nigeria) www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/main.cfm Thu 2 Fairstead (St Mary & St Peter) w Terling (All Saints) and White Notley To contact the Diocese of Chelmsford about the Cycle of Prayer please email internal/ (St Etheldreda) w Faulkbourne (St. Germanus) [email protected] Clergy: Robert Kean (PIC) ABBREVIATIONS: Terling School: Maria Rumsey (HT) A Assistant Clergy; AAD Assistant Area Dean; AC Associate Clergy; ACD Associate Clergy White Notley School: Penny Smith (HT) Diaconate; AD Area Dean; ARD Assistant Rural Dean; ASM Associate Minister, AT The Diocese of Ife East (Ibadan, Nigeria) Assistant Clergy Title Post; AYO Area Youth Officer, BP Bishop; C Community Worker; CA Church Army; CIC Curate in Charge; CHP Chaplain; EVN Evangelist; HT Head Teacher; Fri 3 George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 MCD Minister of Conventional District; MIN Minister, P Priest; PIC Priest in Charge; R West Mersea (St Peter and St Paul) w East Mersea (St Edmund), Peldon Rector; RD Rural Dean; Rdes Rector designate; RDR Reader; PTO Permission to Officiate; (St Mary Vn), Great & Little Wigborough (St Stephen & St Nicholas) RES Residentiary Canon; SNP Special Needs Post, T Teacher; TM Team Ministry; TR Team Clergy: Sam Norton (R), John Pantry (AC). Rector; TV Team Vicar; V Vicar; Vdes Vicar designate; WDN Warden. Readers: Ann Owen, Peter Owen The Diocese of Ifo (Lagos, Nigeria) Hon. Editor: Reverend Bill Howes, 26 Westfield Drive, Coggeshall, Colchester, Essex CO6 1PU, 01376 561826 (e‐mail [email protected]) who would be glad to receive Sat 4 Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 comments and corrections and also any items for prayer and praise to be considered for In these difficult times please pray for the members of the Finance inclusion from the parishes. Committee, and its Chair, John Spence, and the various sub‐committees. The Dioceses of Igbomina and Igbomina West (Kwara, Nigeria) 12 1 Sun 5 THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Sun 23 SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE ADVENT CHRIST THE KING Disability Sunday Pray for all those men and women who work in the emergency services Please pray for the work of Denis Hutley, Chaplain for Deaf and Deafblind providing 24 hour care and protection, both in front line and behind the People, and his team. scenes, and pray, too for their chaplains. PRAY for the Church in Wales, The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, PRAY for The Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain (Extra‐Provincial Archbishop to the Archbishop of Canterbury) West Bergholt (St Mary the Virgin) and Great Horkesley (All Saints, St John) Mon 6 William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Reformation Martyr, 1536 Mon 24 Fingringhoe (St Andrew) w East Donyland [or Rowhedge] (St Lawrence), Clergy: Amanda Eames (PIC). Readers: Michael Foster, Sandra Baker, Derek Abberton (St Andrew) w Langenhoe (St Mary) Webber. Clergy: Patrick McEune (PiC) Heathlands School: Neil Matthews (HT) Fingringhoe School: Julia Longman (HT) Bishop William Ward School: Lesley Walder (HT) Rowhedge St Lawrence School: Kerry Malcolm (HT) The Diocese of Kebbi (Kaduna, Nigeria) The Diocese of Ihiala (Niger, Nigeria) Tue 25 Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th Century Tues 7 Great Totham (St Peter) & Little Totham (All Saints) w Goldhanger Isaac Watts, Hymn Writer, 1748 (St Peter) Lexden (St Leonard) Clergy: Jonathan Pearce (R) Clergy: Teresa Wynne (PIC), Richard Allen (AC), David Armstrong (A) The Dioceses of Ijebu and Ijebu North (Lagos, Nigeria) Readers: Rosemary Elden, Pauline Lloyd‐Jarvis. Jean Weir (Nepal) Wed 8 Hatfield Peverel (St Andrew) w Ulting (All Saints) Myland (St Michael) Clergy: Stephen Northfield (V). Readers: Derek Clark, Mary Daw Clergy: Ray Gibbs (PIC), John Chandler. Reader: Colin Turner (RDR) St Andrew’s Junior School: Chris James (HT) The Diocese of Keewatin (Rupert’s Land, Canada) The Diocese of Ijesa North East, Ondo, Nigeria) Wed 26 Wormingford (St Andrew) and Mount Bures (St John) w Little Horkesley Thu 9 Denys, Bishop of Paris, and his Companions, Martyrs, c 250 (St Peter and St Paul) Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 Clergy: John Chandler (PIC) Kelvedon (St Mary the Virgin) and Feering (All Saints) St Andrew’s School: Patricia Derry HT Clergy: Simon Garwood (PIC) The Diocese of Kentucky (Province IV, The Episcopal Church, USA) St Mary’s School: Michael Walsh (HT) Feering School: Jane Pomeroy (HT) Thu 27 Shrub End (All Saints w St Cedd) The Diocese of Ijesha North (Ibadan, Nigeria) Clergy: Nicholas Davis (V) Wivenhoe (St Mary) Fri 10 Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 Clergy: Erwin Lammens (R). Reader: Glyn Stanway. Thomas Traherene, Poet, Spiritual Writer, 1674 The retired clergy, readers and lay ministers who live and work in the North Blackwater Parishes: Tollesbury (St Mary the Virgin), Salcott Virley (St Deanery of Colchester. Mary the Virgin), Tolleshunt D’Arcy (St Nicholas), Tolleshunt Major (St Nicholas) The Diocese of Kericho (Kenya) Clergy: Geoff Bayliss, RD (PIC), Denise Corley, Christine Gorringe (A). Readers: Timothy Whitfield, Isabel Adcock. Fri 28 The Deanery of Dunmow & Stansted Tolleshunt D’Arcy St Nicholas School: Sophie Massey (HT) Rural Dean: Cilla Hawkes. Lay Chair: Belle Beszant The Dioceses of Ijumu (Lokola, Nigeria) and Ikara (Kaduna, Nigeria) The Diocese of Khartoum (Sudan) 2 11 Mon 17 Hugh, Bishop of London, 1200 Sat 11 Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 Colchester (Christ Church w St Mary at the Walls) James the Deacon, Companion of Paulinus, 7th c Clergy: Paul Norrington (R, RD), Jackie Sams (A). Pray for our Archdeacons that they may be strengthened by our prayer in Readers: David Forder, Sara Humphreys, Clive Joyce. their service throughout the Deaneries. The Diocese of Karimnagar (South India) The Diocese of Ikeduru (Owerri, Nigeria) Tue 18 Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Thuringia, Philanthropist, 1231 Sun 12 THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Colchester New Town and the Hythe (St Stephen, St Leonard, St Mary The Week of Prayer for World Peace Magdalene) Pray for those places where war and death are everyday events. Pray, Clergy: Ian Hilton, RD, (R), Hannah Cooper (A). Lay Pioneer Minister: Sister too, for the innocent children whose young lives are being traumatised Nikki Foster‐Kruczek. Readers: Andrew King, Tim Nice. and prematurely ended by the violence. Kendall School: Mark Carter‐Tufnell (HT) PRAY for The Church of the Province of West Africa, The Most Revd The Dioceses of Karnataka Central and Karnataka North (South India) Dr Solomon Tilewa Johnson, Primate & Metropolitan CPWA; Archbishop Wed 19 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Mechtild, Béguine of Magdeberg, Mystic, 1280 Mon 13 Edward the Confessor, King of England, 1066 Colchester St Luke Wickham Bishops (St Bartholomew) w Little Braxted (St Nicolas) Clergy: Jeremy Noles (V), Gill Noles (AC). Reader: Diane Benge‐Abbott). Clergy: Vacancy Colchester (St Peter and St Botolph) Readers: Derek Clark, Sally Forward. Clergy: Mark Wallace (V), Aella Gage (AC). Reader: Duncan Breckels The Diocese of Ikka (Bendel, Nigeria) The Diocese of Karnataka South (South India) Tues14 Thurstable and Winstree TM: Tolleshunt Knights (All Saints) w Tiptree (St Luke), and Great Braxted (All Saints), Layer‐de‐la‐Haye (St John the Thu 20 Edmund, King of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of Baptist) & Layer Breton (St Mary the Virgin) w Birch (St Peter) & Layer England, 1876 Marney (St Mary the Virgin), Copford (St Michael) w Easthorpe (St Mary), Fordham (All Saints) w Eight Ash Green (All Saints) & Messing (All Saints) w Inworth (All Saints) Clergy: John Parker (PIC).