SERVICES SUNDAY 26th JANUARY EPIPHANY 3
Celebrant The Revd Peter Hobson
10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) at Burton Overy
Celebrant The Revd Peter Taylor
SERVICES SUNDAY 2nd FEBRUARY
PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE
8.30 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) at Burton Overy
Celebrant The Revd Bernard Higgins
10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Revd Gordon Richmond
SERVICES SUNDAY 9th FEBRUARY 4
BEFORE LENT
8.30 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Revd Bernard Higgins
10.30 a.m. Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
Celebrant The Revd Emma Davies
6.30 p.m. Evensong at Burton Overy
Leader The Revd Canon Philip
Norwood
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, 27th January
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church
Tuesday, 28th January
7.30 p.m. Special PCC Meeting at St Cuthbert's
Church with the Rural Dean
Wednesday, 29th January
9 a.m. Prayer Group at 2 Stonehill Drive, Great Glen
Friday, 31st January
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert's Church
Monday, 3rd February
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church
Wednesday, 5th February
9 a.m. Prayer Group at 66 Coverside Road, Great Glen
Friday, 7th February
7.15 p.m. Choir Practice at St Cuthbert's Church
Monday, 10th February
9.30 a.m. Sparklers at Glen Methodist Church
FORTHCOMING
EVENTS
The
next Area Choral Evensong takes place at St Cuthbert's Church, Great Glen
on Sunday, 16th February at 6.30 p.m.
There will be a choir of over 30 choristers and the service will be led
by the Rev Canon Philip Norwood.
Concert
at St Cuthbert's on 22nd March 2014 - We have booked Yvonne Bloor, an
accomplished classical guitarist and composer to give a concert.
Yvonne
has given concerts in many parts of the UK and abroad and her CD
"Promise"
was released last December. It promises
to be an entertaining concert given by a very high-quality artist. It will also be a fund raising event
for the Parish. Please put this date
into your diaries now. Full details of
the arrangements for the concert will be announced shortly.
NOTICES
Thursday
Drop-In at St Cuthbert's - Just a reminder that the Thursday Drop-In does
not take place during January and February.
If you could help when it re-starts, please let Amy Cook know.
A
reminder
that Sally Muir who has raised £373 to date from the sale of jigsaw puzzles
showing a picture of St Andrew's Church for Burton Overy's Death Watch Beetle
Fund still has a few left for sale!
A
copy of the Report from the General Synod Meeting in November,
with special reference to the position reached regarding Women Bishops, is in
the blue folder on the table in St Cuthbert's Church for anyone to read.
The
Children's Society - We have received a letter from The Children's Society
thanking us for our donation of £136.47 raised at the Christingle Service.
St
Cuthbert's Church Flowers - A big "thank you" to all the St
Cuthbert's Flower Arrangers for their support throughout 2013. There is a calendar on the table at the back
of the church and perhaps you could please write down the dates when you will
be able to arrange the altar flowers during this year. Of course, new flower arrangers are always very
welcome to join the existing group.
Please contact Phyllis Hallam on 259 2205 if you can help.
It
has been suggested that some members of our congregation might like to make a
contribution towards the cost of sending some flowers in appreciation of all
that they did for our Church to Jennie and Graham Wearne who have moved to
Somerset. Anyone wishing to make a
donation, please contact Anne Folwell on 259 2052.
Pudding
Nights at Launde Abbey - If the pudding course is always the best part
of the meal for you, why not go along to Launde Abbey and indulge yourself
properly. Enjoy a modest savoury first
course followed by six delicious puddings, until you have to say "I'm
full!". Price £20. per person. 7.30 p.m. for 7.45 p.m. supper. Dates available:- 13th February, 13th March,
3rd April, 22nd May, 19th June, and 24th July.
Please contact suzanne@launde.org.uk to add your name.
Taize
Prayer
is a candlelit service of prayer, chants and silence taking place on most
Thursday evenings throughout the year at Launde Abbey with specific breaks for
Easter and Christmas. The chants are
easy to learn, meditative and simple and everyone is welcome to come along and join in.
There is a simple vegetarian supper before the service at 7 p.m. at a
small charge of £5. Please let Launde
Abbey know if you would like supper first on 01572 717 254
The
Provost Hole Lecture this year is to be given by the Very Revd David
Monteith, Dean of Leicester, on Thursday, 27th March, at 6 p.m. in the Hugh Aston
Building of De Montfort University.
Refreshments are served from 5.30 p.m.
The topic is "Faith in the City". To register your interest in this event,
please complete the online booking form.
Please note that these events are very popular and places are
limited. To contact the event organiser,
Michaela Gibbins, please contact the Events Office on 0116 250 6031 or by
emailing eventsoffic e@dmu.ac.uk
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.
Hearing Loop – If you wear a
hearing aid at St Cuthbert's or St Andrew's, adjust the switch to the T
position and you will hear the service clearly.
Keeping people in
touch
– Please do take copies of this news-sheet to anyone you know who might be
interested, especially to those who can’t get to church at the moment.
Humour
is a gift
– Misprinted Classifieds: "Wanted. Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or
drink."
Please pray:-
·
For Alan Selway, Phyllis Stanley, Keith Blythe, Arthur
Whitfield (knee op), Peter Wood, John Spencer, Myra Humphrey, Judith Buffrey’s
grandson Joel, Rachel Stevens, and all who are ill.
·
For all young people and especially those in our
villages of Great Glen, Burton Overy and Carlton Curlieu and for the schools
that they attend.
·
For all the farmers who are again suffering as the
ground is waterlogged and there is no grass on which to feed their animals.
·
For peace in all the troubled countries of the
world.
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