A warm welcome to you on this the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. Please do join us after the service to share in a cup of tea or coffee. All ages are welcome at St. Mary’s, children included. There is also a crèche in the Octagon for the very young if you need it. If this is your first time with us, please do fill in the slip at the end of the newsletter, so that we can keep in touch with you. St Mary’s is fitted with a hearing loop system. Members of the congregation who have a hearing aid with a ‘T’ switch will find that they can hear better when it is switched to ‘T’.
The flowers in the Lady Chapel this week are in memory of Mary Phillips and George McMurray.
Harvest Thanksgiving
Next week is our celebration of Harvest. Lorraine and Tony have decided
that it would be appropriate to have a communion service so next week
will be a communion at 10am. As usual we shall be asking for cans of food
(it is much easier to distribute) and it is our intention to give all
produce to the Open Hands organisation (you may remember a speaker coming
to our 10am service one Sunday this year) and to the Coventry Peace House.
You are welcome to bring some basic toiletries too but please remember
that by far the majority of people helped by these two organisations are
men!
Good News
I am very pleased to tell you that Bishop Christopher has written to me
this week to confirm that he will be pleased to ordain Stella Bailey next
year to serve as a deacon (and then, all being well as priest) here at
St Mary’s. Over the summer I have met with Stella to discuss the
possibility of her coming here as curate and she has also met with our
wardens Barbara and John. We were all of the opinion that it would be
good for Stella to come and she too wanted to come. Having communicated
all this to the bishop he will be pleased to ordain here at a service
in the Cathedral next year on 5th July at 10.30am. Stella is currently
at Cuddesdon Theological College, just outside Oxford and comes from Peterborough
Diocese originally though she has lived in Coventry for some time, worshipping
at Stoke St Michael’s, St James Fletchampstead and also St Thomas
Keresley. She is single, in her early 30’s and was a police officer
before training for ordination.
Coffee Club
The Coffee Club meetings in October will be held on 1st, 15th and 29th.
All at 10.30 am. Price is £1 which includes coffee & biscuits.
All Welcome.
Recipe Book
Do you have a favourite recipe? As part of the campaign to raise funds
for the refurbishing of the church, we are planning to publish a parish
recipe book and we need your help if this is to succeed. If you would
like to take part in this venture would you please write out your recipe
along with a note on why you particularly like it. Contributions should
be given to Sally Vigeon, 10 Hall Lane; or by email to owenvig@talktalk.net
Christmas Fayre
Our Christmas Fayre this year will be on Saturday 15th November. It is
now time to start collecting items for the stalls. Along with the usual
items needed (please see list below) this week we are again looking for
books - this week on the subject of Crime.
Other items needed are:
Cakes Toiletires, Christmas Items, Nearly New Clothes, Bottle Stall, Jar
Tombola, Toys.
Prayer Cards
You should have received two prayer cards with your newsletter this week,
one green (for thank you prayers) and one yellow (for specific requests
for prayer). Please do use the cards either to acknowledge an answer to
prayer or to ask for prayer for some person or situation. It would be
extremely helpful to us too if you could fill the date in that you are
writing the cards. Cards may either be put into the collection plate or
given to Malcolm or the wardens. The yellow card gives a variety of options
- we can either say prayer after the service quietly (two people do this
each week), in the service itself or the request can be put on our prayer
tree or even given to someone to say privately at home. Whichever you
decide your prayers will also be included in the daily prayers said by
the clergy. Please do use the cards and if for any reason you can’t
find one please ask the sidespeople.
How well do you know your Christianity?
Stephen and Lorraine Baker have devised a competition to help raise money
for the Refurbishment Fund. Question papers will be available from Sunday
5 October at the cost of £1 and must be returned by Sunday 26 October.
Alternative one for young people also available at a cost of 50pence.
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
Collect: Faithful Lord, whose steadfast love never ceases and whose mercies
never come to an end: grant us the grace to trust you and to receive the
gifts of your love, new every morning, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
First Reading: Exodus 17. 1-7 Sally Vigeon
Second Reading: Philippians 2. 1-13 Stephen Baker
Gospel Reading : Matthew 21. 23-32 Tony Thistlewood
Intercessor: Sue Morton
Hymns: 81 432 536 335 103
Post Communion Prayer: Holy and blessed God, you have fed us with the body and blood of your Son and filled us with your Holy Spirit: may we honour you, not only with our lips but in lives dedicated to the service of Jesus Christ our Lord.
This week beginning 28th September 2008
This Sunday
8 am Holy Communion
10 am Parish Communion with Baptism
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
Monday 9 am Morning Prayer
7 pm Parish Office
Tuesday 9 am Morning Prayer
Wednesday 10 am Holy Communion
Thursday 9 am Morning Prayer
Saturday 9.30 am Morning Prayer
Sunday 5th October
8 am Holy Communion
10 am “Worship for All” Harvest Thanksgiving
12 noon Baptism
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
