PARISH PASTORAL TEAM Parish Priest: Fr Bruce Batstone Hornsey Rectory, 140 Cranley Gardens Tel: 020 8883 6846 Email: [email protected] (Fr Bruce’s rest day is Friday.) Curate: Fr Ben Kerridge 145A Northview Road, London N8 7NB Tel: 020 8341 6962 Email: [email protected] (Fr Ben’s rest day is Monday) Church Wardens: Phil Harnett Tel: 020 8348 1722 Debbie Langdon-Davies Tel: 020 8883 1119 Lay Readers: Vicki Osborne Nathan Oparaeche Tel: 020 8348 1722 Tel: 020 8341 1409 Church Office: Tel: 020 8444 3553 Email: [email protected] Lay Schools Worker, Baptism enquiries, Noah’s Ark: Naomi Malone Tel: 020 8442 1705 Email: [email protected] Chaplain & Fellowship Group: Pam Curran Tel: 020 8888 1942 Pastoral Assistant: Tom Crowley Tel: 020 8340 0050 Email: [email protected] Children’s Champions: Anna Cumbers & Naomi Malone Church Visiting Team: If you, or someone you know, might appreciate a visit from us, please speak to Vicki, Pam Curran or Fr Bruce. Sunday 17th May 2015 Ascension Sunday ____________________________________________ Welcome to Church today 8.00am 10.30am The week ahead Monday 9.00am Morning Prayer & Eucharist 5.15pm Evening Prayer, the Tower Tuesday 9.00am Morning Prayer (CL) 2.00pm Parish Fellowship 5.15pm Evening Prayer YMCA** 8.15pm Contemplative Prayer Group Wednesday 9.30am Noah’s Ark (H) 9.45am Morning Prayer 10.30am Eucharist 11.00am Meeting Point 11.30am Intercessory Prayer Group 3.45pm Tower Praise* 5.15pm Evening Prayer, the Tower Thursday 8.40am Morning Prayer 9.00am Eucharist 9.30am Noah’s Ark (H) 6.30pm Evening Prayer, Holy Innocents, Tottenham Lane Friday 10.00am Morning Prayer 5.00pm All-Age Workshop 5.15pm Evening Prayer, the Tower 7.30pm Youth Fellowship Saturday 10.00am Morning Prayer Sunday Pentecost 8.00am Eucharist 10.30am All-Age Parish Eucharist Wedding enquiries: Please contact Fr. Bruce. Youth Fellowship: Lotte Collett: [email protected] Choir and Director of Music: David Went: [email protected] Kindle Choir: Louisa Livermore : [email protected] Church Hall Information and Bookings: Tony Moseley Tel: 020 8444 3553(checked 1x a week) Email: [email protected] (checked 3x a week) Church Secondhand Bookshop: Open 1st and 3rd Saturdays 10-1pm. Speak to Cathy Edis, email: [email protected] Winter Night Shelter: Linda Turton: [email protected] Lorraine Fincham: [email protected] ___________________________________________ For all other information please check out our website: www.hornseyparishchurch.org Follow us on twitter @hornseychurch or join Hornsey Parish Church on Facebook Eucharist Sung Parish Eucharist All events in Parish Church except: *Tower, Hornsey High St; **YMCA Tottenham Lane; (H) Church Hall; (CL) Church Lane ____________________________________________ Safeguarding Statement The parish of Hornsey believes that safeguarding is the responsibility of everyone and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those who are vulnerable (children, young people and vulnerable adults). We expect all of our staff, volunteers and those who use our premises to share this commitment and value the support of those who worship here in achieving this. ____________________________________________ NOTICES Ascension Day Today is the solemn Christian feast of the Ascension, when we give thanks for the life with God that Jesus draws us to be part of with him. Like many other churches we are celebrating this great day in our Sunday Parish Eucharist. Today is also a baptism Sunday and we welcome Maya. All-Age Pentecost Workshop Our next All-Age service will be for Pentecost, on Sunday 24th May. We hope that lots of you will come to help celebrate the birthday of the Church. We’ll prepare the music, prayers and some drama at a workshop on Friday 22nd, from 5pm 6.30pm, followed by refreshments. We want this to be as ‘all age’ as possible so everybody – adults, children and teenagers – is very welcome. Hornsey Parish Church Sewing Bee We are looking for volunteers to join the Hornsey Parish Church Sewing Bee to help make curtains for the Church Hall and so complete our making Space for God refurbishment. Please help us! Lotte will be on hand to give guidance and encouragement, and with a good team it shouldn’t take too long. Please let Tracey or Lotte know if you want to join the Bee. Quiet Day at Pleshey Saturday June 6th This Quiet Day is an oasis of peace and calm in an otherwise busy schedule. Cost is just £5. There is a sign-up sheet at the back of the church. Christian Aid Week Thanks to everyone who supported the Coffee Morning last week which raised £180. Well done to the organisers. Christian Aid envelopes are available in church and can be handed to the Ministry Team, today or next Sunday, who will pass them on. This will then be added to the money already raised at the Lent lunches. Parish Fellowship Parish Fellowship meets again this month at 2pm in the Church Room. This time our speaker will be Louise Pendoyly from the Church of England Children’s Society. All are very welcome. Weekend Retreat 9th -11th October Our weekend retreat is also taking place at Pleshey, a very beautiful retreat house in Essex. This is an opportunity to enjoy some silence and have an opportunity to pray and reflect in less distracting surroundings. The cost will be £170. Please speak to Debbie Langdon Davies. There are bursaries available if the cost is prohibitive – see Fr Bruce. There is a sign-up sheet at the back of the church National Pilgrimage to Walsingham Monday 25th May is the annual National Pilgrimage to Walsingham, where our very own Fr Ben will be serving as a Deacon. A bus is being organised through Holy Innocents – for more details please talk to Tim Rooke. Confirmation Our parish confirmation will be on Sunday 12th July this year. If you would like to find out more about being a confirmation candidate please speak to Naomi, Fr Bruce, Fr Ben or Tom. Hornsey Pensioners Next meeting is themed Should hearing loss be an embarrassment? This is an opportunity to hear about the local deafness agency in North Finchley ‘Hearing Connect’. Arrive from 1.30pm for a 2pm start, Wednesday 20th May in the Marian Centre. New Pilgrim Course This June we are hoping to run the Pilgrim course at Church, a fellowship course about sharing the big questions of faith held in small house groups. We're finalising days and times, but if you'd like to know more please sign up on the sheet at the back of church. Haringey Foodbank The Food Bank takes place at Holy Trinity Church every Sunday between 1.30pm and 3.30pm. If you are interested in helping, please contact Mari-Wyn on 07904 959771 or [email protected]. Non-perishable food donations can be left in the box at the back of church, near the font. At the moment, we are short of sugar, tinned fruit, tinned vegetables, and oil, but we have more than enough pasta. Recorder Consort We are re-launching the recorder consort which there used to be here - both for the fun of playing music together and in order to contribute to the very occasional service or other event. Age is unimportant, but players should be able to play music of moderate difficulty one or two to a part with limited rehearsals, so it is unlikely to suit school players unless they have a fair bit of musical experience. Time commitment will be limited. If you are interested, please contact Chris Ward via [email protected] or 8348-0921 17th May 2015 Ascension Sunday that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed. Reader: This is the word of the Lord Response (all): Thanks be to God “While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.” TODAY’S MUSIC Hymns: 255 Hail the day 580 Rejoice the Lord is King 84 Breathe on me 644 The head that once was… COLLECT Risen Christ, you have raised our human nature to the throne of heaven: help us to seek and serve you, that we may join you at the Father’s side, where you reign with the Spirit in glory, now and for ever. Amen. FIRST READING A reading from the Book of Daniel (7:9-14) As I watched, thrones were set in place, and an Ancient One took his throne; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and flowed out from his presence. A thousand thousand served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him. The court sat in judgement, and the books were opened. I watched then because of the noise of the arrogant words that the horn was speaking. And as I watched, the beast was put to death, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. As I watched in the night visions, I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him. To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion PSALM 47 Response (All): Sing praises to God, sing praises to God, the King of all the earth. Choir: Clap your hands together, all your peoples; O sing to God with shouts of joy. For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is the great King over all the earth. Response (all) Choir: He subdued the peoples under us and the nations under our feet. He has chosen our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loves. Response (all) Choir: God has gone up with a merry noise, the Lord with the sound of the trumpet. O Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. Response (all) Choir: For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with all your skill. God reigns over the nations; God has taken his seat upon his holy throne. Response (all) Choir: The nobles of the peoples are gathered together with the people of the God of Abraham. For the powers of the earth belong to God and he is very highly exalted. Response (all) SECOND READING A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (1:1-11) In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over the course of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. ‘This’, he said, ‘is what you have heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.’ So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He replied, ‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’. Reader: This is the word of the Lord Response (all): Thanks be to God GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Choir: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia Cantor: Go and make disciples of all nations, says the Lord. Remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age. All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia GOSPEL READING Hear the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St Luke (24:44-end) Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.’ Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God. Reader: This is the Gospel of the Lord Response (all): Praise to you O Christ POST COMMUNION PRAYER God our Father, you have raised our humanity in Christ and have fed us with the bread of heaven: mercifully grant that, nourished with such spiritual blessings, we may set our hearts in the heavenly places; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For our Prayers We remember the departed whose anniversary occurs this month: 1998 Elizabeth Alice Jones 2001 Betty Hallewell 2001 Sophie Netherton 2002 Phyllis Ivy Rose Bissell 2008 Lilian Brereton 2009 Tom Emmett 2011 Jean Harrison We also pray for the recently departed: Murat Malitte, Fernando, Richard, Charlie Wander, Collette Dudley, Marion Wilson, Fernando Special Prayer Intentions Christian Aid Maya who is baptized today Earthquake victims in Nepal Prayers for the Parish/Streets Carysfort Road and Harvey Road In your prayers this week, please remember among the sick and housebound: David Thompson, David Loftus, Barbara Greensmith, Alex, Rose, Nicky Storey, Janet Boswell, Phyllis Grove, Sheila Cocks, Diane England, Dennis, Alexander Harries, Sylvie, Helené Gold, Dorothy Buckett, Lucy Lowles, Lucy, Lynn, Paul Walker, Athelae, Christine, Cherry Pommells, Thomas Lewis, Laura Wright, Earl Jarvis, Wilbert Ferris, Emma, Rosalind, Beatrice, Judy Marshall, Rosemary Went, Sonja Phillips, Amelia Morley, Mary Imbekwan, Andrea; Debbie, Koray, Gary Anglin and Ayse Mallitte; Amaiyah-Lily From our electoral roll we pray for: Helen Swannie; Joan Taylor and Family; Thelma Tennant; John Tibbit; Linda Turton and Tony Moseley; Nele Van Ginneken, Jan, Leon and Josephine; Delia Walsh, Gunner and family; Lotti Wander
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