“Entertaining angels”

Dear All Saints and St Marys

I am very fond of the little snippet that comes from one of the readings for this Sunday. In the letter to the Hebrews we are invited to

"Show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it."

Not only is there something about being abundant, without favour, in a generous way of being with people. There is also something about having that sort of experience of people who are strangers that enrich our own lives. On one very simple level, everyone we may now count as "knowing" was at some point "unknown to us" - a stranger.
For me one of the keenest delights of life is meeting and being with people. Some of these have long and profound impacts on our lives, and some are but fleeting - yet all of them are filled with the possibility that we are in the company of angels, even if we don't know it at the time.

May we gather together in that same way this Sunday for worship, being hospitable to all of us as known and unknown, strangers and angels.

Worship this weekend

Sunday 31st August- Benefice services

8.00am BCP Holy Communion - All Saints
10.30am Benefice Service Holy Communion - All Saints

(Please note there is no service at St Marys this Sunday as we worship with our sisters and brothers at All Saints)

The week ahead

Wednesday 3rd September 9.00am Celtic Morning Prayer - All Saints
Thursday 4th September 10.00am Holy Communion - St Marys
Friday 5th September 11.00am Living After Loss - St Marys Parish rooms
Sat 6th September 10.00am to 12noon Coffee Morning & Repair Cafe - All Saints
Sat 6th September 12noon to 1.30pm Saturday Lunches - St Marys

Sunday 7th September 

10.00am Creative Church (Theme ‘Forgiveness’) - St. Marys
10.30am Holy Communion - All Saints
6.30pm Choral Evensong - St Marys (Patronal Festival)

Please find attached the readings for this week.

Blessings

Revd Lizzie

Vicar of All Saints and St Marys Churches, Fishponds