| A warm welcome to you on this Third Sunday of Lent.
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’.
Annual Reports
These are available today in preparation for our Annual Meeting on Sunday
21st March. Please take your copy. Also posted today are nomination forms
for PCC membership and Churchwarden. Please do consider standing for the
Church Council which is responsible for the day to day running of St Mary’s
and needs your support!
Taize Service
Taize Service with Brother Paulo (from Taize) and Bishop Christopher this
week: Tuesday All Saints Bedworth, Wednesday All Saints Emscote, Warwick
and Thursday Warwick University Chaplaincy. All at 7.30 pm. See Stella
if interested in coming to experience the worship of God in this unique
style. Open to all ages.
Roof Appeal
Money is still coming in for the Roof Appeal. Thank you to everyone who
has contributed in every way. I hope to be able to give a running total
at the Annual Meeting but I am hoping that we will be able to meet the
shortfall with the money that has come in and the tax we can reclaim on
gift-aided donations.
Coffee Club
The Coffee Club meets next on Wednesday 17th March at 10.45 am. Cost £1.
All welcome
St Mary’s Charitable Giving 2009
Please see the Mission notice board for thank you letters from:
• Coventry Myton Hospice
• USPG Anglicans in World Mission and Nicholas Wheeler’s newsletter
from Brazil
• The Gurkha Welfare Trust
• Yeldall - a Christian response to addiction
• The Church Army
• Gilead Health
Sue Morton, for Mission Group
Lent
Season of Renewal
Our Lent Course continues on Wednesdays in Lent; there are four more weeks,
both after the 10am service and in the evening at 7.30 pm - details are
given below.
The course will invite us to consider our pattern of Spiritual Growth
in a changing world. These are entitled
1. Seasons of Change (completed)
2. Praying with Jesus (completed)
3. All things new - growing as individuals
4. Depending on the Holy Spirit - resourcing the Church
5. Made new for mission - reaching the community
6. Celebrating the kingdom (after Easter)
Do come along either at 10.30 am or 7.30 pm.
Second Sunday of Lent
Collect: Eternal God, give us insight to discern your will for us, to
give up what harms us, and to seek the perfection we are promised in Jesus
Christ our Lord.
First Reading: Isaiah 5. 1-15 [8am only]
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10. 1-13 [8am only]
Gospel Reading: Luke 13. 1-9 [8am only]
Post Communion Prayer: Merciful Lord, grant your people grace to withstand
the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and with pure hearts
and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This week beginning 7th March 2010
This Sunday
8 am Holy Communion
10 am “Worship For All”
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
Monday 7 pm Parish Office
Tuesday 9 am Morning Prayer
Wednesday 10 am Holy Communion
10.30 am Lent Course
7.30 pm Lent Course
Thursday 9 am Morning Prayer
Saturday 9.30 am Morning Prayer
Sunday 14th
8 am Holy Communion
10 am Parish Communion, Junior Church and Lazers
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
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