www.stmaryshitchin.co.uk The Second Sunday of Epiphany Sunday 18th January 2015 Welcome to St Mary’s. If you are a newcomer please introduce yourself to one of the clergy or fill in and hand to one of us the detachable section of our new Welcome Bookmark. Do come and join us for coffee in Church House (opposite the North Door) after the 9.35am service. The Collect Eternal Lord, our beginning and our end: bring us with the whole creation to your glory, hidden through past ages and made known in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 8.00am – Holy Communion President: Canon Michael Roden 9.35am –Sung Communion with storytelling President & Preacher: Setting: Processional Hymn: Lesson Readings: Gradual: Gospel: Prayers are led by: Offertory Hymn: Anthem: Communion Hymn: Recessional Hymn: Canon Michael Roden Appleford 144 Come let us join our cheerful songs – Nativity Revelation 5:1-10 read by Ben Watson I the Lord of sea and sky John 1:43-51 Leon Norton & Sister I cannot tell – Londonderry Air The Lamb – Tavener SGP118 Will you come and follow me – Kelvingrove 458 Forth in the peace of Christ we go – Duke Street 1 Please take your bulletin home 11.15am – Mattins Officiant & Preacher: Introit: Hymn: Offertory Hymn: Canon Michael Roden 144 Come let us join our cheerful songs – Nativity SGP118 Will you come and follow me – Kelvingrove 458 Forth in the peace of Christ we go – Duke Street 6.30pm – United Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at Walsworth Road Baptist Church (see future events) No evening service at St Mary’s Forthcoming Services Morning Prayer (9:05am) and Midday Prayer (12:15pm) is said on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays Tuesday 20th January 10am Holy Communion Thursday 22nd January 12.15pm Holy Communion Sunday 25th January 8am Holy Communion The Conversion of St 9:35am Sung Communion Paul 11.15am Holy Communion (BCP) 4:30pm Christingle (see future events) 6:30pm United Taizé Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at St Mark’s (see future events) th Tuesday 27 January 10am Holy Communion Thursday 29th January 12.15pm Holy Communion Sunday 1st February 8am Holy Communion The Presentation of 9:35am Sung Communion Christ in the Temple 11.15am Storyteller Service 6:30pm Evensong Readings for 25th January Morning Services: Acts 9:1-22; Galatians 1:11-16a; Psalm 67; Matthew 19:27-end 2 Please take your bulletin home Prayers for people We pray for all those who are to be married, including: Migle Zitinskaite & Thomas Girulis We pray for all who are ill, and by name for: Jacqui Brockett, Dot Milton, Alice Hazelwood, Ron Walters, Julie Stewart, Sam, Mollie Jenkins, Mary Frost, Margaret Beddard, Charlotte Sabey-Corkindale, Paul Rushby, Paul, Katherine. …and we pray for all who love and care for them. We pray for church members at home or in residential care: Colin Atkinson, Sheila Axtens, Dennis Cole, John Coxall, Roma Greenaway, Adrian Haigh, Cameron Harrison, Edith Ingram, Cynthia Myers, Sheila Pay, José Perry, Joan Randall, Shirley Robinson, Peg Saunders, Bill Shinn, Mark Vincent, Eileen Warren. …and we pray for all who love and care for them. We also pray for: Ann, Anna, Anne, Alan and Jean Bailey, Sue Bartrum, Bernie Bottesch, Joan Burton, Alison Crisp, David, Scilla Douglas, Ethel Edwards, Mary Foster, Margaret Gorman, Jenny Hall, Helen, Ted Hollingdale, Liz Hughes, Joy Hukin, Jacquie, Jill, Brian Jones, Emily Kilby, Hanna King, Michael Laurens, Alan Lawson, Adrian Lucas, Angela McNally, Agnes Emmanuel Odiachi, Orla, Ann Steward, AIan Stewart, Julia Stocker, Paul Street, Sally Thompson, John Toll, Lewis Willis, June Wimpory, Jenny Yateman. …and we pray for all who love and care for them. We remember before God those who have died: Jean Pay, Duncan Harris, Patricia Jamieson, Vicki Bryder. …and we pray for those who mourn. Prayers for the World Church United society (US), working in partnership with churches around the world to bring health, education, peace and justice, is inaugurating a CONNECT scheme to help churches in the UK to keep better in touch with the areas where their giving is focused. Churches will be given updates online quite frequently, so prayer can be informed and encouragement for money raisers enhanced. Let us pray for the wide take up of the CONNECT scheme, and for closer partnerships across the world to be maintained. 3 Please take your bulletin home Future Events 18th-25th January Week of Prayer for Christian Unity The theme this year is The well is deep based on John chapter 4. The following events are planned: Sundays 18 & 25 January - morning pulpit exchanges Sunday 18 January - 6.30pm: United service at Walsworth Road Baptist Church, including the induction of the Revd John Hardaker of Christchurch as Chair of Churches Together in Hitchin Tuesday 20 January - 7.45pm: Ladies’ united service at St Faith’s Sunday 25 January - 6.30 pm: Taizé service at St Mark’s More information from John Richardson 01462 435595. Material for the Week, can be found at - www.ctbi.org.uk 25th January Christingle service this year will begin in the Market Place at 4.30pm and then in church at 5.00pm. Everyone is welcome to this service, it is one of our ways of raising money for The Children's Society. Pauline 27th January “What is Theology?” Theology Cafe at Hitchin Christian Centre led by Dr Brendan Devitt. The event is free, all welcome, and refreshments will be provided. 30th January 7:30pm for 8pm “Grill Peter Lilley MP for Supper” at St. John’s Church Hall. Supper will be Fish and Chips, wine and soft drinks available. Tickets £10 from Geraldine Mitchell, 01582 834344 or [email protected] 31st January 10am-4pm Parish Quiet Day at the Focolare Centre, Welwyn Garden City. This will be led by Canon Ian Laine, who until recently was Canon Residentiary for Education at St. Albans Abbey. Cost will be £12. It is hoped we will take a mini coach from the Parish so book early. If you wish to come please complete the list at the back of the Church or contact Joan Worboys (434179) or Michael Taylor (459611) 5th February 8pm Wives’ Group “Humpty Dumpty wasn’t an egg and other nursery rhymes” by John Edwards in Church House 12th February 8pm Mothers’ Union AGM in Church House 4 Please take your bulletin home 20th -21st February St Faith's Pantomime – ‘Robin Hood' by Bob Hammond Performances are at 7pm, Friday 20th February, with a matinée performance at 2.30pm, Saturday 21st February, and a final show at 7pm that Saturday. St Faiths pantomime is now in its 7th year and this show should provide for a lot of fun and family entertainment, definitely suitable for all ages. As expected there will be lots of songs, all the thrills of the stage, just the occasional bit of ad-libbing and all mixed together with lots of active audience participation - making for a magical and not to be forgotten experience. Tickets are available from the box office now on Hitchin 451015 and cost £7 per adult and £4 for children (under 12). To avoid disappointment it is advised that you book early. 7th March 10am-4pm Quiet Day at Holy Saviour. Connecting with God - Some Different Ways of Praying both Old and New Notices The 2015 diary for flower requests is now at the back of church. Churches Together in Hitchin Lent Groups 2015 23 February to 27 March inclusive. If you would be willing to HOST a group in your home or you would be willing to LEAD a group in someone else's home during these dates please contact me, Helen Richardson, stating a day of the week you prefer and the time of day or evening that suits you. A host provides a warm friendly environment for people to discuss a theme for Lent. The Leader has the materials to set the session and guide it through within the time frame agreed. If you host it's helpful if you could let me know how many people you can take. We have had groups from 4 to 15 but 10 is really a top figure for real discussion. The material for this year will be “PRAISE HIM – songs of praise in the New Testament”, a 5-session York course written by Dr Paula Gooder. Lent groups are open to members of all churches. The informal small groups are an excellent way of meeting people from different churches and sharing their Christian journeys. Those who have participated in the past have enjoyed making new ecumenical friends and gained fresh insights of well-known Bible passages. I look forward to hearing from you. Helen Richardson 01462 435595/07880 682681 or [email protected] 5 Please take your bulletin home Counting collection money Over the seventeen years I have been doing this job, I have seen cereal tokens and a wide variety of foreign coins. Recently though, there was a first – two chocolate £1 coins! Needless to say, they are now in our stomachs and not in the bank. I ran this one past Michael and he has asked that we refrain from putting chocolate coins in the collection during Lent. Jimmy Dawson. Hitchin Foodbank: The foodbank urgently requests the following items this month: Milk (UHT or powdered), Fruit juice (UHT), Sponge pudding (tinned), Toiletries for men and women Thank you for your continuing contributions. 6 Please take your bulletin home 7 Please take your bulletin home St Mary’s Contacts Team Rector and Vicar - Canon Michael Roden 452758 in the first instance, otherwise 434017. Please send all mail to Church House. Michael’s day off is Wednesday. Parish Office 452758 email: [email protected] Team Rector's Secretary - Dorothy Grieves 432951 Churchwardens – Michael Taylor 459611, Robin Sternberg 684588 & Derry Charman 420665 Verger - Stephen Holland 07904 305743 Director of Music – Alan Childs 01582 883420 email: [email protected] St Mary’s Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/StMarysChurchHitchin All other St Mary’s contacts are published on the first Sunday in the month in the Bulletin Supplement. St Mary’s, through its Charitable Giving Group, supports AquAid Lifeline Fund’s Philip Veale Children’s Centre in Malawi caring for over 150 orphans in Gomani. AquAid can provide a whole month’s child care for just £8. Ask Robin Sternberg 684588 for more details, or look on the Church House noticeboard. All communicant members of the Christian Church are welcome to receive the bread and the wine at a celebration of Holy Communion. Others are welcome at the altar rail to receive a blessing. If you wish for a blessing please ask. For very young churchgoers: Please feel free to be in church during the services, but if you feel very distressed the choir vestry (at the back of church) also doubles as the "early years gurgling room". In there you will find a cabinet of toys. The room has glass doors so that you and your parents can see and hear services, but it also has an environment where you can feel at ease to be yourself and gurgle away. Words and music printed under CCL Licence No 224366 Details of future notices are needed by Wednesday and should be sent ideally by email to [email protected] or left in the “Bulletin Editor” pigeon hole at Church House. The e-bulletin If you wish to be included in the email distribution of this bulletin, please send an email as above. Tracy Watson 8 Please take your bulletin home
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