SERVICES SUNDAY10th FEBRUARY 1 BEFORE LENT
Celebrant The Vicar
Celebrant The Vicar
6.30
p.m. Evensong at Burton
Leader Roger Flowers
WEDNESDAY, 13th FEBRUARY ASH WEDNESDAY
7.30 p.m. Holy
Communion with Imposition of Ashes at Great Glen
Celebrants The Vicar and the Revd Gordon Webb
SERVICES SUNDAY 17th FEBRUARY LENT 1
8.30 a.m. Holy Communion
(BCP) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar
10.30 a.m. Holy
Communion (United) at Great
GlenMethodist Church
Celebrant The Revd Gordon Webb
Preacher Joel Payne (from Christian Aid)
6.30 p.m. Gartree
Choral Evensong at Smeeton Westerby
Preacher
The Bishop of Leicester (Bishop Tim)
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
Monday, 11th February
NO Sparklers (half term)
Tuesday, 12th February
7.30 p.m. Burton
Wednesday, 13th February
9 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert's Vicarage
7.30 p.m. Ash Wednesday service at St Cuthbert's
Church
Thursday, 14th February
10.30 a.m. Weekly "Drop-In" at St Cuthbert's
Church
7 p.m. Christianity Explored Course (2) at St Cuthbert's Vicarage
Friday, 15th February
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert's Church
Saturday, 16th February
4.30 p.m. Bell
Sunday, 17th February
6.30 p.m. Gartree Choral Evensong at ChristChurch
Monday, 18th February
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church Hall
FUTURE EVENTS
Wednesday, 20th
February
7.30
p.m. Lent Course 1 at Glen Methodist
Church
Thursday, 28th
February
3.30
p.m. Messy Church at St Cuthbert's
School
Friday,
1st March
2.15 p.m. Women's World Day of Prayer Service at
St Cuthbert's Church (rehearsal on Friday, 22nd February at 2.15 p.m.)
NOTICES
Sunday Breakfast will be served in St Cuthbert's Church at
about 9.15 a.m. - do come and join us today or on any other second Sunday in
the month.
Ash Wednesday - The Communion Service is a particularly
special one on Ash Wednesday with its own particular atmosphere of reflection. If
you've never been, why not come and see what it's like.
Lent Course - This year's Lent Course will take place
at 7.30 p.m. on five Wednesdays from 20th February to 20th March at GlenMethodist Church
Death Watch
Beetle at BurtonOvery - The
good news is that English Heritage have promised a maximum grant of £42,000.
towards the roof repairs to St Andrew's Church at Burton Overy. The not so good
news is that we now have to raise the balance of the total repairs estimated at
just over £108,000. The church has reserves in the building fund and an appeal
is to be launched for £46,000. Please consider if you are able to help in any
way.
New
Churchwardens will be
needed for St Cuthbert's Church after Easter to take over from David who has
served us so well. Please can everyone think and pray about this matter . Two
churchwardens are really needed to steer the church through the interregnum but
they must not be expected to do all the work. Please can you consider seriously
how you may be able to do your bit to help run St Cuthbert's Church in the
coming months.
Treasurer - Arthur Whitfield has offered to manage
the day to day finances (banking, paying bills, etc) and Jane Parkinson has
agreed to continue to produce quarterly accounts for the church. We are
enormously grateful to them both for doing this essential task for St
Cuthbert's church.
Renewal of
Church Electoral Rolls -
Every six years, each parish church has to compile and publish a completely new
version of its Electoral Roll. Everyone who wishes their name to appear on the
new roll must complete a fresh application form - even though their name may
already appear on the current roll, which in April 2013 will no longer be
valid. Application forms may be found inside St Andrew's and St Cuthbert's,
near the entrances. People wishing to be on the new joint roll for Burton Overy
and Carlton Curlieu should return their completed forms to Richard Bloor by 21st March. Completed application forms for Great
Glen should be returned to Roger
Hickling by 27th March. Why apply to be on your parish church's Electoral
Roll? It will entitle you to attend your church's Annual Meeting and vote for
your new PCC and your parish's representatives on the deanery synod. Any person
entitled to attend the Annual Meeting may raise any question of parochial or
general church interest. The Annual Meeting for Burton Overy/Carlton Curlieu is
on Thursday evening, 18th April, and the Annual Meeting for Great Glen is on
Wednesday evening, 24th April.
St Cuthbert's
Church Fete -The PCC have
decided to hold a church fete on Saturday, 1st June, from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.
The fete organisers this year are David Graves (271 4420), David Webster (259
3717) and Roger Flowers (0776 879 4662). They would be grateful for any good
ideas and offers of help.
Church cleaning
at St Cuthbert's– Thank you
to those who have put their names down on the cleaning rota. However there are
still many gaps that need to be filled. PLEASE can you all consider offering to
clean the church, even if it's only once or twice a year. The list is at the
back of church for you to choose which date(s) you can do. See previous notice
for further details or contact Amy Cook (259 2610).
Sound System and
Hearing Loop for St Cuthbert's Church - THANK YOU to everyone who has made a
donation - we are enormously grateful to you. If anyone still intends to
contribute, the fund is still open - just send the money (cheques payable to St
Cuthbert's PCC) to the Vicar who will then pass it all on to the Treasurer
(gift-aided if possible).
Hear Justin
Welby -Mary went with her
daughter, Alice, to hear the new Archbishop-of Canterbury
Humour is a gift – Written by an NHS medical secretary:
"The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be
depressed."
Please
pray:-
· For
Roger Harris, Phyllis Stanley, Richard Shepherd, Laura Record, John Spencer,
Myra Humphrey, Judith Buffrey’s grandson Joel, and all who are ill.
· For
the family and friends of Peter L'homme whose funeral took place last week.
· For
the couples preparing to get married in our churches this year.
· For
those of us dealing with grief and loss.
· For
a resolution to the troubles in war-torn parts of our world.
Proverb of the Week: “The path of the wise leads to life above;
they leave the grave behind.” (Proverbs 15 v24)
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