News in the Pews

TWO WEEKS COMMENCING 4th APRIL 2010


SERVICES 4th APRIL EASTER SUNDAY

8.30 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) at Burton Overy
Celebrant The Vicar

10.30 a.m. All-Age Communion at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar

SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY 11th APRIL EASTER 2

8.30 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar

10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) with at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar

6.30 p.m. Short Songs of Praise at Great Glen followed by AGM
Leader The Vicar

SERVICES SUNDAY 18th APRIL EASTER 3

8.30 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar

10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar
Preacher Angela Allen

6.30 p.m. Evensong at Burton Overy
Leader Roger Flowers


At Communion Services
If you are a communicant member of a Christian Church, you are welcome to come up to receive the bread and wine. Otherwise you are welcome to either remain in your seat or come up to receive a blessing. Keeping your hands down by your side will signify to the Vicar that you wish to receive a blessing. If you have difficulty coming up to the Communion Rail and would like the Vicar to come to you, then please inform a sidesman.

DIARY
Wednesday, 7th April
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Thursday, 8th April
10.30 a.m. Drop-In at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday. 9th April
6.00 p,.m. Wedding Rehearsal
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

Saturday, 10th April
3 p.m. Wedding of Victoria Fairly and Ben Stanley

Monday, 12th April
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at St Cuthbert’s Church
2.15 p.m. Funeral of Archibald Ratcliff at St Cuthbert’s Church

Wednesday, 14th April
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage
10 a.m. Essence Course (6) at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage

Thursday, 15th April
9 a.m. Churches Together meeting at St Cuthbert’s Vicarage
10.30 a.m. Drop-In at St Cuthbert’s Church
11.30 a.m. Holy Communion at St Cuthbert’s Church
6.15 p.m. Canon Dr Giles Fraser Lecture at Leicester Cathedral

Friday, 16th April
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

FUTURE EVENTS
Wednesday. 21ST April at 7.30 p.m. – Back to Church Sunday Roadshow at St Cuthbert’s Church
Sunday, 2nd May – Rogation Pilgrimage from Carlton Curlieu to Great Glen

NOTICES
A Coffee Morning and Bring & Buy in aid of LOROS is being held by Anne Folwell on Wednesday, 7th April from 10.30 a.m. until 12 noon at her house,
2 Stonehill Drive. Please do support this event as LOROS runs such a wonderful service for us.

St Cuthbert’s Church needs a new deputy churchwarden. Please give serious
consideration as to whether you might be able to help the church in this way. For more information about the work involved, please speak to the vicar, current churchwardens and deputy churchwardens. The Annual Parish Meeting will be held on Sunday, 11th April 2010, in the evening after a short Songs of Praise at 6.30 p.m. Please do come and join our discussions as we review the past year and contemplate the next. Nomination papers for PCC members and churchwardens are at the back of church – please leave completed nomination papers in the envelope provided.

Back to Church Sunday – The Mission Partnership is running a training about this at St Cuthbert’s Church at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 21st April. Please can all churchwardens, sidesmen, etc attend this if possible so we can decide whether to take part in this growing national annual event.

Sunday Children’s Work and Technology Team – Both teams could do with an extra member or two. If you could give a little help to this important work, please contact the vicar or those involved.

St Cuthbert’s Church Cleaning – We desperately need more volunteers for this. If you can help, even if only once or twice a year, please put your name down for a date or two on the list at the back of the church.

At the recent Burton Overy and Carlton Curlieu Annual Meeting, the churchwardens were elected for the coming year. Burton Overy elected Richard Bloor and David Pease and Carlton elected Sir Geoffrey and Lady Clarissa Palmer. Thanks were expressed to Paul Hadfield for his three years in office and also to Julie Kirk who stepped down as Secretary. Nicola Langton has taken on the role of Secretary. Kit Burrows was re-elected Treasurer to the joint Parish and to Burton Overy DCC and Jonathan Brankin-Frisby Treasurer to Carlton Curlieu DCC.

Battlefield Ethics for the 21st Century – The Far and Near Club Lecture by Canon Dr Giles Fraser takes place on Thursday, 15th April, at 6.15 p.m. at Leicester Cathedral. What challenges does the contemporary operating environment pose for our understanding of what ethics look like? And can a rule-based approach to ethics cope with the demands of the modern battlefield? Canon Dr Giles Fraser is Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral and teaches ethics and leadership for the British Army at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Wiltshire. He writes a column in the Church Times and is a familiar voice to many from BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. The lecture will be followed by questions and a drinks reception. Free. All Welcome.

General Election Hustings takes place on Tuesday, 20th April at 7.30 p.m. at Trinity Methodist Church, Harborough Road, Oadby. The three main candidates for the Harborough Constituency - Edward Garnier (Conservative), Zaffar Haq (Liberal Democrat) and Kevin McKeever (Labour) - have accepted the Rural Dean’s (Michael Rusk) invitation to speak and answer questions.

The audio and text downloads of all five of Bishop Tim’s Lent Lectures are available on http://www.leicester.anglican.org/your-church/subsite/bishop-of-leicester.aspx

Launde Abbey are in urgent need of a large chest freezer to store cakes, etc ready for the Flower Festival at the end of May. Does anyone have an old one that might live another couple of months that they want to get rid of, or alternatively have one they would like to sell? Launde Abbey are happy to arrange collection. Please contact Suzanne Page on 01572 717 254 or via email Suzanne@launde.org.uk

Words of Wisdom : “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” Abraham Lincoln

Proverb of the Week: “Don’t weary yourself trying to get rich. Why waste your time?” (Proverbs 23 v4)