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Magazine articles needed
John Small and Ben Jones, our new magazine editors, are always looking for material for future editions so please support them by emailing articles to or or put material in the folder at the back of the church.
Help keep St Mary’s clean!
If you would like to help clean the church on a regular basis please sign up on the rota. We especially need someone to clean the children’s corner. Thank you
Booking St Mary’s Space
Please contact Brian Jarrett if you are interested in booking this wonderful space for an activity such as an Arts Display, a show or a conference. For further information please contact Brian on or 07500159367 or 01233 638042.
Foodbank
Has asked for donations of tins of meat (i.e. corned beef) or meat based tin meals.
Julie Khovacs
Julie is planning to visit St Mary’s on the morning of Saturday 21st November and is looking forward to seeing everyone.
Weekly sheet
Any notices or items to be included on the weekly sheet should be sent to . Also any changes to readers or intercessors.
St Mary the Virgin, Ashford
Second Sunday
before Advent
15th November
Hymns and songs are on the screen1. / CH4 198 / Let us build a house where love can dwell
2. / NEH 461 / There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
3. / NEH 333 / All my hope on God is founded
4. / SOF 398 / My Lord, what love is this
5. / NEH 235 / Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go
Anthem / There is a redeemer (arr R Marvin)
Organ Voluntary / Gavotte, 12 short pieces, No. 9
Samuel Wesley
Collect:
Heavenly Father, whose beloved Son was revealed to destroy the works of the devil and to make us the children of God and heirs of eternal life: grant that we, having this hope, may purify ourselves even as he is pure; that when he shall appear in power and great glory we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom where he is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Reading: Hebrews 10: 11-14, 19-25 Katie Ridley
Gospel: Mark 13: 1 – 8
Intercessor: Paul Forder
Closing Prayer
Gracious Lord, in this holy sacrament you give substance to our hope: bring us at the last to that fullness of life for which we long; through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
St Mary’s Diary
2nd Sunday before Advent
Today we welcome Rev Tim Wilson as our Celebrant for both services
Sunday 8.00 am BCP Holy Communion
15th 10.00 am Family Communion
6.30 pm Evening prayer
led by Mary Howard
Monday 10-12 Take a Break
16th 12.15 pm Monday Meditation
7.30 pm Worship committee
Tuesday 10-12 Coffee Morning, Craft and Art
17th 7.30 pm PCC meeting
Thursday 11.30 am Holy Communion led by
19th Rev Dawn Stamper
7.00 pm Choir Practice
Saturday 10-12 Coffee Morning
21st 7.00 pm Murder Mystery Evening
Feast of Christ the King
Sunday 8.00 am BCP Holy Communion
22nd led by Rev John McKenzie
10.00 am Family Communion
led by Fr. Colin Johnson
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
led by Mary Howard
Monday 10-12 Take a Break
23rd 12.15 pm Monday Meditation
Tuesday 10-12 Coffee Morning, Craft and Art
24th
Thursday 11.30 am Holy Communion led by
26th Rev Brian Chalmers
7.00 pm Choir Practice
Saturday 10-12 Christmas Fayre
28th
Please pray
Your prayers for: Street Pastors, the homeless, our Mission link - the Church in Cameroon, Ashford Food Bank. The work of the Children’s Society and the work of The Living Well. Refugees all around the world and the work of the church to help them.
Sick: Steve John, Alice Jones, Jim Babbs, Sally-Ann Nash, Allan Foad, Rosalind and Brian Locking, Lizzie Hopthrow, David Tucker, Richard Simpson, Steve Apted. Kate and Andrew Terry, Jane Kelly, Margaret, Tom Barlow, Freddie Newing, Eric Cooney; Derek and David, Aiden Kelly.
Notices
Advent Sunday 29th November
The evening service on 29th November will be at Willesborough Church at 7.00 pm.
St Mary’s School
The school has a vacancy for a Midday Supervisor, hours 12.00-1.40pm every day. Application forms available from the school office.
Freewill and Gift Aid envelopes
These will soon be available for distribution. If you don’t already use these envelopes but wish to do so please see either Brian Davies or Mary Jarrett.
Murder Mystery Evening.
Tickets for this event on Saturday 21st November are available from Caroline Hannah or any member of the social committee. Tickets cost £10 each and include a Ploughman’s Supper. Further details can be found on the posters.
Christmas fayre
Items are required asap for the following stalls: Christmas gifts and decorations, bottle tombola, cakes. Cakes are also required for refreshments and there will be a raffle. Ken needs small jars for marmalade – 110g, 220g and 340g. Please no bric-a-brac or books.
Hall Manager
After several years of loyal service, Cyril Bishop wishes to retire as Hall Manager and we need to find a replacement. Duties include arranging bookings, ordering supplies and handling enquiries. If you could be interested and would like to find out more – ask Alison Thompson.
Final: NEH 235
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go
my daily labour to pursue;
thee, only thee, resolved to know,
in all I think, or speak, or do.
The task thy wisdom hath assigned,
O let me cheerfully fulfill;
in all my works thy presence find,
and prove thy good and perfect will.
Thee may I set at my right hand,
whose eyes my inmost substance see:
and labour on at thy command,
and offer all my works to thee.
Give me to bear thy easy yoke,
and every moment watch and pray;
and still to things eternal look,
and hasten to thy glorious Day.
For thee delightfully employ
whate'er thy bounteous grace hath given,
and run my course with even joy
and closely walk with thee to heaven.
Hymns for 15th November 2015
Entrance: CH4 198
Let us build a house where love can dwell
and all can safely live,
a place where saints and children tell
how hearts learn to forgive.
Built of hopes and dreams and visions,
Rock of faith and vault of grace;
here Christ’s love shall end divisions;
all are welcome in this place.
Let us build a house where prophets speak,
and words are strong and true,
where all God's children dare to seek
to dream God's reign anew.
Here the cross shall stand as witness
and a symbol of God's grace;
here we claim the faith of Jesus:
all are welcome in this place.
Let us build a house where love is found
in water, wine and wheat:
a banquet hall on holy ground,
where peace and justice meet.
Here the love of God, through Jesus,
is revealed in time and space;
as we share the feast that frees us:
all are welcome in this place.
Gradual: NEH 461
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea;
there’s a kindness in his justice, which is more than liberty.
There is no place where earth’s sorrows are more felt than up in heaven;
there is no place where earth’s failings have such kindly judgment given.
For the love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind;
and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.
But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own;
and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own.
There is plentiful redemption in the blood that has been shed;
there is joy for all the members in the sorrows of the Head.
There is grace enough for thousands of new worlds as great as this;
there is room for fresh creations in that upper home of bliss.
If our love were but more simple, we should take him at His word;
and our lives would be all gladness in the joy of Christ our Lord.
Offertory: NEH 333
All my hope on God is founded;
He doth still my trust renew.
Me through change and chance he guideth,
only good and only true.
God unknown, He alone
calls my heart to be his own.
Pride of man and earthly glory,
sword and crown betray his trust;
what with care and toil he buildeth,
tower and temple, fall to dust:
but God’s power, hour by hour,
is my temple and my tower.
God’s great goodness aye endureth,
deep his wisdom, passing thought:
splendour, light and life attend him,
beauty springeth out of naught.
Evermore from his store
new-born worlds rise and adore.
Daily doth th’Almighty Giver
bounteous gifts on us bestow;
His desire our soul delighteth,
pleasure leads us where we go.
Love doth stand at his hand;
joy doth wait on his command.
Still from man to God eternal
sacrifice of praise be done.
High above all praises praising
for the gift of Christ his Son.
Christ doth call one and all:
ye who follow shall not fall.
Communion: SOF 398
My Lord, what love is this
that pays so dearly,
that I, the guilty one,
may go free!
Amazing love, O what sacrifice,
the Son of God giv’n for me
my debt he pays, and my death he dies
that I might live, that I might live!
And so they watched him die,
despised, rejected;
but oh, the blood he shed
flowed for me!
Amazing love…
And now this love of Christ
shall flow like rivers;
come wash your guilt away,
live again!
Amazing love…