SERVICES SUNDAY 17th MARCH LENT 5
PASSION SUNDAY
Celebrant The Vicar
Celebrant The Vicar
Leader Angela Allen
SERVICES SUNDAY 24th MARCH
PALM SUNDAY
Celebrant The Vicar
Celebrant The Vicar
6.30 p.m. Passion
Sunday Service at Great Glen
Celebrant The Vicar
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,
18th March
9.30
a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist
Church Hall
7.30
p.m. Great Glen PCC
Wednesday,
20th March
7.30
p.m. Lent Course (5) at Glen Methodist
Church
Thursday,
21st March
10.30
a.m. St. Cuthbert’s Primary School
Easter Service at St Cuthbert's Church
12.45
p.m. Funeral of Richard Shepherd (79)
at St. Cuthbert’s Church
7
p.m. Christianity Explored Course (6)
at St Cuthbert's Vicarage
Friday,
22nd March
10.00
a.m. Leicester Grammar Junior School
Easter Service at St. Cuthbert’s Church
7.15
p.m. Choir Practice at St. Cuthbert’s
Church
Monday,
25th March
9.30
a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist
Church Hall
FUTURE
EVENTS
Monday, 8th April - Theology Group at Mowsley
NOTICES
Church
Electoral Roll Forms DUE NOW - Please don’t
burden our electoral role officers by leaving it to the last minute to return your
completed forms – only half have been returned so far. To Richard Bloor by 21st
March or to Roger Hickling by 27th
March.
There will be a pony as usual to take part in the procession after the Palm
Sunday service which begins at 10.30 a.m. at Burton Overy church on Sunday,
24th March. The children make palm
branches during the service to use during the procession - it's a family event
for everyone . Do come and the pony will
happily be patted and be sat upon afterwards.
Good Friday Breakfast - Songs, prayers and activities for all ages will take
place as usual from 8 a.m. in Burton Overy Village Hall. Do come and join us! Why not invite your
grandchildren or any new neighbours who have moved into the village. It is a
very sociable event.
Easter Sunday United
Service - Following breakfast in the
Methodist church hall, we shall start the 10.30 a.m. Family Service in the
Methodist Church (with the young families downstairs this year!), then process
up to St Cuthbert's for the Holy Communion part of the service, followed by the
children's Easter Egg treasure hunt.
Enter the events of Holy
Week by coming to the Choral Passion Service at St.
Cuthbert’s Church led by the choir at 6.30pm on Palm Sunday.
Holy
Week reflective Services: Musical Reflections for Holy Week.
Mon, Tues, Wed 7.30 - 8pm. Listen to a
recording and reflect upon 3 pieces of classical choral music. Each evening we
will focus on a different piece, with some background to the composition and
how it links to Holy Week. There will be a related bible reading and prayers.
Mary's last Sunday here will be 21st April. If you are going to her
Institution on 5th May please
contact David Graves (271 4420, email davidjgraves@btinternet.com) or Anne
Bloor (259 2550, email bloor@burtonovery.freeserve.co.uk) by the end of March.
Lent Courses -Each Wednesday session starts at 7.30 p.m. at Glen Methodist
Church York
HELP
NEEDED
with young families work. Sparklers is going to need a leader (preferably two
leaders) to run it after Easter. There
is a team of young mums who do the crafts, so it's not very time-consuming. Tessa Mynott will also need some assistance
with Messy Church
Easter
Lilies
- If anyone would like to make a contribution towards the church Easter lilies
at Great Glen, would you please give your donation to Arthur Whitfield as soon
as possible.
Christ
in the Centre 10th Anniversary
CHRIST
IN THE CENTRE is a full, dramatic recreation of the Easter story – it’s
one of the biggest and most effective pieces of Christian outreach staged in
the country. The 2013 production will be
staged on Good Friday, March 29th in Humberstone Gate, Leicester. There will be
two performances – the first
starting at 11am and the second at 2pm. This year will feature a new
script by noted author Meg Harper, based on her existing play “The First
Easter” with several new scenes written especially for the Leicester
event.
Quiet
Days Near Swithland Wood on 20th March. A day of quiet, study and prayer
with the opportunity to walk in Swithland Wood and Bradgate Park
1.45
Quiet: 2.45 Prayer with music: 3.45 Tea and Depart. To book email:
jstwoolmer@gmail.com
Craft
Fair at Scraptoft - A Craft Fair will be held on Saturday, 23rd March from 10
a.m. until 3.30 p.m. Stalls will be
genuine crafts only. Refreshments will
be available on the day. Entry fee
£1. All proceeds towards the upkeep and
maintenance of the church.
Hearing Loop – St Andrew’s Church at Burton Overy has a hearing
loop as part of the loudspeaker system.
If you wear a hearing aid, adjust the switch to the T position and you
will hear the service clearly.
Children during the 10.30
a.m. Communion Services - There are bible quizzes, colouring
pictures, bible stories, etc available in a children's area in the north aisle
(whether at Glen or Burton
Lifts
to Services
– If you need a lift to any of our services, please contact Howard Bartlett
(259 3747) at Glen or Richard Bloor (259 2440) at Burton Overy and they will
arrange one for you.
Humour
is a gift
– Written by an NHS medical secretary:
"She is numb from her toes down."
Please pray:-
·
Give thanks for the safe arrival of Eliza Harriet
Ireland (Mary’s granddaughter)
·
For John Spencer, Phyllis Stanley, Joyce Whelband,
Laura Record, ,Myra Humphrey, Judith Buffrey’s grandson Joel, Rachel Stevens,
and all who are ill.
·
For the family and friends of Richard Shepherd who
died on Monday.
·
For our schools, that the children might hear and
receive the Easter Story.
·
For wisdom for world leaders concerning the
situation in Syria
Proverb
of the Week: “Do not fret
because of evildoers; don’t envy the wicked.” (Proverbs 24 v19)
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