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From Fr. Bernard
Hello All, The first thing to say is a reminder that the working party is meeting today up at St Mary’s. There are no services at St Mary’s this morning, but the mowing, weeding, dusting and chatting will all proceed as normal! Please come and help if you can. Also on the subject of St Mary’s, the Friends are meeting after the 10 am Sunday service at St Barnabas, to discuss the St Mary’s Quiz Night. This had to be cancelled last year due to insufficient takers – please come to the meeting if you want it to take place this year! As usual a Cross and Crown for the coming week is on this website. This week is the Sixth Sunday of Easter, also called Rogation Sunday, from the Latin “rogare”, which apparently means “to ask”. This is the time of year when parishes would ‘beat the bounds’, walking their parish boundaries, asking both for God’s protection, and for a blessing on their fields. We don’t quite do that anymore, but (weather permitting, and the forecast looks OK), there will be a group of us walking up the Canal path to St Mary’s for Evensong on Sunday afternoon. We will meet outside Tesco’s at 3 pm, and the walk takes about an hour, which means we will get to St Mary’s in good time for Evensong at 4:30 pm. As we walk, we will pray for God’s blessing on our town, and give thanks for the good things we enjoy. There are limits to my optimism: if it’s pouring with rain, we will give thanks for cars and staying dry instead, and forego the walk, but Evensong at St Mary’s will still happen, either way! This of course means that there will be no Evensong at St Barnabas on Sunday. This week is also Christian Aid week. There are Christian Aid envelopes at the back of Church. Please take one for yourself, and one to give to a friend or neighbour. Envelopes can be returned through the parish office or Vicarage letterboxes, but please don’t just leave them at the back of Church. You can also of course donate to Christian Aid online. Next Saturday, the 16th, there will be a Concert for Christian Aid by the Gospel choir ‘MK Sweet Sound’ at 7 pm in All Saints’ Church. Entry is free and there will be a collection for Christian Aid. There will be Eucharists on Wednesday and Thursday this week, but there are a few changes and additions to the normal pattern. In the first place, we are going to experiment with having the traditional-language Wednesday morning Eucharist at 10 am not 9:30 am. And then, Thursday is Ascension Day, so as well as the usual morning Eucharist at 10 am, there will be a Sung Eucharist at 7:30 pm in the evening at St Barnabas. This will be streamed live, so I attach an Order of Service for Thursday to this email, together with one for Sunday. Also this week, Maggi Stannard’s funeral will be at 11:30 am on Wednesday morning in St B’s. Please come if you can, and please continue to pray for Maggi and her family. I also need to highlight the summer fair. This is now only five weeks away, and we need to know now who will be able to help out at it. If you can help, please sign the last at the back of church on Sunday. We need to know who is available in the next week or so, to help us plan properly. Raffle tickets are also available at the back of church. See you on Sunday! Thank you, and God bless Fr Bernard The Rev'd Dr B Minton Team Vicar of Linslade Ouzel Valley Team |
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