Sun 29 THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT God of comfort, these times seem so uncertain, so scary. The world seems Diocese of Chelmsford darker than it has in the past and we are less sure of ourselves. Maybe that's a good thing; maybe now we are turning to you with a realization that we need you so much more and that our lives are not in our own Cycle of Prayer control. Let us not forget all of those around the world who are frightened at this moment. Help those who are victims of terrorism and war. Be with for daily use in those who have lost so much in the past year. Hold us all in your loving October and November 2015 arms and let us be comforted by the strength and peace you want to much to offer us through the birth of your son, Jesus. Thank you for the many gifts you offer us. Out of the depths I cry to you: Lord hear my voice PRAY for the Diocese of West Malaysia (South East Asia) Thu 1 Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 ANDREW THE APOSTLE Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Social Reformer, 1885 Mon 30 Shrub End (All Saints w St Cedd) COLCHESTER EPISCOPAL AREA Clergy: Nicholas Davis (V) Roger Morris, Area Bishop, Annette Cooper, Archdeacon of Colchester, Wivenhoe (St Mary) Robin King, Archdeacon of Stansted, Jenny Tomlinson, Parish Development Clergy: Erwin Lammens (R). Reader: Glyn Stanway. Adviser, Hilary Platts, Area Adviser for Women’s Ministry, Rachel Brett, Area Youth Adviser, Julia Murphy, Chaplain Essex University The retired clergy, readers and lay ministers who live and work in the Deanery of Colchester. The Deanery of Witham Area Dean: Geoff Bayliss. Lay Chair: Mike Robinson The Diocese of West Missouri (Province VII, The Episcopal Church) The Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich (Canterbury) NOTES: Fri 2 West Mersea (St Peter and St Paul) w East Mersea (St Edmund), Peldon (St Where parochial links are known to exist the names of overseas workers are placed Mary Vn), Great & Little Wigborough St Stephen & St Nicholas immediately after the appropriate parish. Clergy: Sam Norton (R), John Pantry (AC) Further information concerning overseas dioceses, including the names of bishops, is Readers: Peter Owen, Ann Owen contained in the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, available on their website http:// The Diocese of St Helena (Southern Africa) www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/main.cfm To contact the Diocese of Chelmsford about the Cycle of Prayer please email internal/ Sat 3 George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 [email protected] Francis of Assisi died on 3 October, lying on the ground surrounded by his friends. He was 44 years old but had changed the face of the church in his ABBREVIATIONS: lifetime. A great evangelist and preacher, he taught that everything we do A Assistant Clergy; AAD Assistant Area Dean; AC Associate Clergy; ACD Associate Clergy and are must point to the good news of God in Christ Jesus. Here is one of Diaconate; AD Area Dean; ARD Assistant Rural Dean; ASM Associate Minister, AT his characteristic sayings: “It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless Assistant Clergy Title Post; AYO Area Youth Officer, BP Bishop; C Community Worker; CA our walking is our preaching.” Church Army; CIC Curate in Charge; CHP Chaplain; EVN Evangelist; HT Head Teacher; The Diocese of St Mark the Evangelist (Southern Africa) MCD Minister of Conventional District; MIN Minister, P Priest; PIC Priest in Charge; R Rector; RD Rural Dean; Rdes Rector designate; RDR Reader; PTO Permission to Officiate; THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY : DISABILITY SUNDAY RES Residentiary Canon; SNP Special Needs Post, T Teacher; TM Team Ministry; TR Team Sun 4 Please pray for the work and ministry of Chaplains to the disabled Rector; TV Team Vicar; V Vicar; Vdes Vicar designate; WDN Warden. PRAY for the Diocese of Sunyani (Ghana) 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 comments and corrections and also any items for prayer and praise to be considered for inclusion from the parishes. 12 1 Fingringhoe (St Andrew) w East Donyland [or Rowhedge] (St Lawrence), Mon 23 Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 Mon 5 Abberton (St Andrew) w Langenhoe (St Mary) Fordham (All Saints) w Eight Ash Green (All Saints) Clergy: Patrick McEune (PiC). Reader: Rhona McEune Clergy: John Parker (PIC). Readers: Peter Holden, Quinlan Terry. Fingringhoe School: Julia Longman (HT) All Saints School, Fordham: Stuart Wainwright (HT), Rowhedge St Lawrence School: Kerry Malcolm (HT) Holy Trinity School, Eight Ash Green, and Aldham School: Heather Hann (HT) The Diocese of Swansea & Brecon (Wales) The Diocese of Warri (Bendel, Nigeria) Tue 6 William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Reformation Martyr, 1536 Tue 24 Stanway (St Albright w St Andrew’s Church Centre) Great Totham (St Peter) w Little Totham (All Saints) and Goldhanger Clergy: Tony Bushell (PIC) (St Peter) The Diocese of Washington (Province III, The Episcopal Church USA) Clergy: Jonathan Pearce (R), Susan Godsmark (A) The Diocese of Swaziland (Southern Africa) Wed 25 Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century Isaac Watts, Hymn Writer, 1748 Wed 7 Hatfield Peverel (St Andrew) w Ulting (All Saints) West Bergholt (St Mary the Virgin) and Great Horkesley (All Saints, St John) Clergy: Stephen Northfield (V), Derek Clark (A). Reader: Mary Daw Clergy: Mandy Elmes (PIC). St Andrew’s Junior School: Chris James (HT) Readers: Michael Foster, Sandra Baker, Derek Webber The Diocese of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) Heathlands School, West Bergholt: Jeremy Hallum (HT) The Bishop William Ward School, Great Horkesley: Toby Bull (HT) Thu 8 Kelvedon (St Mary the Virgin) and Feering (All Saints) The Diocese of Wau (Sudan) Clergy: Simon Garwood (PIC) Kelvedon St Mary’s School: Michael Walsh (HT) Thu 26 Lexden (St Leonard) Feering School: Jane Pomeroy (HT) Clergy: Teresa Wynne (PIC), David Armstrong (A). Reader: Rosemary Elden The Diocese of Tabora (Tanzania) Jean Weir (Nepal) Myland (St Michael) Fri 9 Denys, Bishop of Paris, and his Companions, Martyrs, c 250 Clergy: Ray Gibbs (PIC), John Chandler (AC). Reader: Colin Turner. Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 The Diocese of Wellington (Aotearoa, NZ and Polynesia) North Blackwater Parishes: Tollesbury (St Mary Vn) w Salcott Virley (St Mary Vn) Tolleshunt D’Arcy (St Nicholas) w Tolleshunt Major (St Nicholas) Fri 27 Wormingford (St Andrew) and Mount Bures (St John) w Little Horkesley Clergy: Geoff Bayliss (PIC), Denise Corley, Christine Gorringe (AC) (St Peter and St Paul) Readers: Isabel Adcock, Tim Whitfield Clergy: John Chandler (SSM) (PIC). Reader: Ronald Blythe Tolleshunt D’Arcy St Nicholas School: Sophie Massey (HT) St Andrew’s School: Maggie Branfield HT The Diocese of Taita‐Taveta (Kenya) The Diocese of West Ankole (Ugana) Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 Sat 10 Sat 28 “God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. Thomas Traherene, Poet, Spiritual Writer, 1674 He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one The Teacher of peace and Master of unity did not wish prayer to be offered would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the individually and privately as one would pray only for himself when he prays. neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.” We do not say: 'My Father, who art in heaven,' nor 'Give me this day my ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer bread,' nor does each one ask that only his debt be forgiven him and that he be led not into temptation and that he be delivered from evil for himself The Diocese of West Buganda (Uganda) alone. Our prayer is public and common, and when we pray, we pray not for one but for the whole people, because we, the whole people, are one. – Cyprian of Carthage. The Diocese of Taiwan (Province VIII, The Episcopal Church USA) 2 11 Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Thuringia, Philanthropist, 1231 THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Wed 18 Sun 11 Colchester (Christ Church) w (St Mary at the Walls) The Week of Prayer for World Peace Clergy: Paul Norrington (AD) (R), Jackie Samms (A). Pray for those places where war and death are everyday events. Pray, too, Readers: Sara Humphreys, Clive Joyce. for the innocent children whose young lives are being traumatised and The Diocese of Virgin Islands (Province II, The Episcopal Church USA) prematurely ended by the violence. PRAY for the Diocese of Tamale (Ghana) Thu 19 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Mechtild, Béguine of Magdeberg, Mystic, 1280 Mon 12 Wilfrid of Ripon, Bishop, Missionary, 709 Colchester New Town and the Hythe (St Stephen, St Leonard, St Mary Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845: Edith Cavell, Nurse, 1915 Magdalene) Wickham Bishops (St Bartholomew) w Little Braxted (St Nicolas) Clergy: Ian Hilton (R), Hannah Cooper (A). (LPM). Clergy: Hilary Le Seve (PIC), Derek Clark (A) Lay Pioneer Minister: Nikki Floster‐Kruczek Reader: Sally Forward Readers: Andrew King, Tim Nice. The Diocese of Tanga (Tanzania) Kendall School: Mark Carter‐Tufnell (HT) The Dioceses of Southwestern Virginia and Virginia (Province III, Tue 13 Edward the Confessor, King of England, 1066 The Episcopal Church USA) Thurstable and Winstree Team Ministry: Tolleshunt Knights (All Saints) w Tiptree (St Luke), and Great Braxted (All Saints), Layer‐de‐la‐Haye (St John Fri 20 Edmund, King of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 the Baptist) & Layer Breton (St Mary the Virgin) w Birch (St Peter) & Layer Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of Marney (St Mary the Virgin), Copford (St Michael) w Easthorpe (St Mary), England, 1876 & Messing (All Saints) w Inworth (All Saints) Colchester (St Luke) Clergy: Anne‐Marie Renshaw (PIC), Vacancy (TV), Julia Russell Grant (AC), Clergy: Jeremy Noles (V), Gill Noles (AC).