pew sheet 28th june · - for those who need our prayers: - ralph anthony, joan price, holly...
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The Benefice of St. Withburga, Holkham, All Saints, Warham,
St Nicholas, Wells-next-the Sea and All Saints, Wighton
RectorThe Revd. Brenda Stewart 01328 710628.
[email protected]:St Withburga, Holkham Johnny Coke 01328 738260.
[email protected] Coke [email protected] Saints, WightonAlan Groom 01328 821996
[email protected] Nicholas, WellsBridget Hawes 01328 710683
[email protected] Sheppard 01328 710584
[email protected] Pew Sheet: Rachel Newstead [email protected]: www.stnicholaswells.co.ukYouTube link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbV-lSQ1HQ1jZvnESfrY2A/
In our benefice this week we pray especially: -
- for those who need our prayers: - Ralph Anthony, Joan Price, Holly Vertigan, Amanda Newton, John Crook, Gill Smith, Paul Bishop, Mercedes Edwards, Brian Barker and Jane Savory. - for those who have died recently: - Amy Lowry and Geoffrey White. - and for those who died at this time in years past: - Edna Shaw, David (Burt) Parr, Margaret (Peggy) Briggs, Nina Wilkin and Robert (Bob) Powell.
Funeral of Amy Lowry on Friday July 10th, 1pm at Wells CemeteryPlease keep her family in your prayers at this time.
28th June 20203rd Sunday after Trinity (Proper 8)
Services this weekToday 11am Holy Communion
6.30pm Celtic Evening PrayerWednesday 10am Holy Communion
Communion services are streamed on YouTube live from the Rectory:-YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbV-lSQ1HQ1jZvnESfrY2A/
Evening Prayer will be via zoom. Please email Rev Brenda if you need the access details.
Open ChurchesYou will have heard in the media that churches are going to be allowed to resume worship from July 4th. Revd Brenda has been focussing on getting churches open and we now have Wells open daily and Warham and Wighton All Saints on Sundays. She hopes to have Holkham open by next week. Bishop Graham has stressed the importance of continuing what we have been doing during full lock-down since some will still not be able to attend worship and 'that we move forward slowly, steadily and safely'. To that end Revd Brenda will be discussing with the parishes whether a pattern of 9.30 services can be established rotating around the Benefice and then she will return home to do her usual 11.00am YouTube live-stream. We are not permitted to sing hymns and will have to observe social distancing but will be able to receive communion (wafer only). After three months with our churches locked everything seems to be moving very quickly but it is good to be able to open our churches again and welcome people into them.
St Nicholas Wells-next-the-sea is open daily 10am -4pm and both All Saints Warham and All Saints Wighton will be open on Sundays 10am - 6pm
Revd Brenda will continue to live-stream services from the Rectory on Sundays at 11.00am and Wednesdays at 10.00am, with occasional forays to one of the churches. She is now also doing Evening Prayer on Zoom on Sunday evenings at 6.30pm.THANK YOU to Black Shuck of Fakenham who have donated hand sanitiser to us so that we can safely open our doors for private prayer and to all who are going in to open up, clean and
Our Prayers
" Heritage House is providing a Hot Lunch Service delivered to anyone who otherwise would find it difficult cooking their own main meal. The two-course lunch costs £7 and can be ordered by ringing 01328 711333. Special dietary needs and any special assistance can be catered for. If you know of anyone who could benefit from this service, please pass on the information. "
Foodbank:- Sean Cooper at the Wells Co-op has advised that currently tinned meat and fruit are needed, but NOT pasta!!! All donations welcome.
Traidcraft - Items can be ordered from Peter and Mary Cundy:- [email protected] or phone 01328 710643 or from Kate. Your order can be delivered to you. You can find out what items are available by looking at the website :- www.traidcraftshop.co.uk Please support Traidcraft if you can.
Thank you.
The Collect
Almighty God,you have broken the tyranny of sin
and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our heartswhereby we call you Father:
give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service,that we and all creation may be brought
to the glorious liberty of the children of God;through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,in the unity of the Holy Spirit,one God, now and for ever.
Old Testament Reading Jeremiah 28.5-9
Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord; and the prophet Jeremiah said, ‘Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord fulfil the words that you have prophesied, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles. But listen now to this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes true, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.’
New Testament Reading Romans 6.12-23
Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but
under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Gospel Matthew 10.40-42
‘Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.’
Post Communion
O God, whose beauty is beyond our imaginingand whose power we cannot comprehend:
show us your glory as far as we can grasp it,and shield us from knowing more than we can bear
until we may look upon you without fear;through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Today’s readings
Overseas MissionsUSPG:- The Gambia: Here is an example to the rest of the world how inter-faith relations can be expressed through mutual peaceful coexistence and tolerance. We pray for the active role that the Christian Church plays in Gambian life, in the farms, schools and offices where they work.
Mission to Seafarers:- We pray for their response while the centres around the world have been closed due to COVID-19, and the effect this has had on the sea farers they serve. Many have been unable to leave after their contracts and are worried about their families back home. Against a very challenging background, the supply of food and medical goods continues. Denis Wood, a chaplain, said “One seafarer almost cried when I told him I was the last chaplain still visiting ships in the port.”