BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holy Communion 09:30 Sunday 12th March - 3rd in Lent DTSTART:20230312T093000Z DTEND:20230312T103000Z DTSTAMP:20260428T131543Z UID:9161212023-03-12 09:30:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:A Service of Holy Communion with Hymns from Complete Anglican Hymns Old & New\n\n205 Glorious things of thee are spoken\n310 I heard the voice of Jesus say\n303 I cannot tell\n689 Thy hand\, O God\, has guided\ n\nThe Collect\nAlmighty God\, \nwhose most dear Son went not up to joy bu t first he suffered pain\,\nand entered not into glory before he was cruci fied\;\nmercifully grant that we\, walking in the way of the cross\,\nmay find it none other than the way of life and peace\;\nthrough Jesus Christ your Son our Lord\, \nwho is alive and reigns with you\,\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit\, now and for ever. \nAmen\n \nReadings: Exodus 12.1-7\ ; Romans 5.1-11\; John 4.5-42.\n\nExodus 17.1-7\n17 From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages\, as t he LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim\, but there was no water for th e people to drink. 2 The people quarrelled with Moses\, and said\, ‘Give us water to drink.’ Moses said to them\, ‘Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?’ 3 But the people thirsted there for water\; and the people complained against Moses and said\, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt\, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?’ 4 So Moses cried out to the LORD\, ‘What shall I do with this people? Th ey are almost ready to stone me.’ 5 The LORD said to Moses\, ‘Go on ah ead of the people\, and take some of the elders of Israel with you\; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile\, and go. 6 I will b e standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock\, a nd water will come out of it\, so that the people may drink.’ Moses did so\, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He called the place Massah an d Meribah\, because the Israelites quarrelled and tested the LORD\, sayin g\, ‘Is the LORD among us or not?’\n\nRomans 5.1-11\n5 Therefore\, sin ce we are justified by faith\, we have peace with God through our Lord Jes us Christ\, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand\; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that\, but we also boast in our sufferings\, knowing that suffering produces endurance\, 4 and endurance produces character\, and character pr oduces hope\, 5 and hope does not disappoint us\, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given t o us.\n6 For while we were still weak\, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Indeed\, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—th ough perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. 8 But G od proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. 9 Much more surely then\, now that we have been justified by his b lood\, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies\, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son\ , much more surely\, having been reconciled\, will we be saved by his life . 11 But more than that\, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Chri st\, through whom we have now received reconciliation.\n\nJohn 4.5-42\n5 S o he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar\, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there\, and Jesus \, tired out by his journey\, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.\ n7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water\, and Jesus said to her\, ‘Give me a drink’. 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The S amaritan woman said to him\, ‘How is it that you\, a Jew\, ask a drink o f me\, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common with Sam aritans.) 10 Jesus answered her\, ‘If you knew the gift of God\, and who it is that is saying to you\, “Give me a drink”\, you would have aske d him\, and he would have given you living water.’ 11 The woman said to him\, ‘Sir\, you have no bucket\, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob\, who gave us the well\, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’ 13 Jesus said to her\, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again\, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be t hirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water g ushing up to eternal life.’ 15 The woman said to him\, ‘Sir\, give me this water\, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.’\n16 Jesus said to her\, ‘Go\, call your husband\, and co me back.’ 17 The woman answered him\, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus sai d to her\, ‘You are right in saying\, “I have no husband”\; 18 for y ou have had five husbands\, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!’ 19 The woman said to him\, ‘Sir\, I see t hat you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain\, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.’ 21 Je sus said to her\, ‘Woman\, believe me\, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You wors hip what you do not know\; we worship what we know\, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming\, and is now here\, when the true wor shippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth\, for the Father seek s such as these to worship him. 24 God is spirit\, and those who worship h im must worship in spirit and truth.’ 25 The woman said to him\, ‘I kn ow that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When he comes\, he will proclaim all things to us.’ 26 Jesus said to her\, ‘I am he\, th e one who is speaking to you.’\n27 Just then his disciples came. They we re astonished that he was speaking with a woman\, but no one said\, ‘Wha t do you want?’ or\, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’ 28 Then the wo man left her water-jar and went back to the city. She said to the people\, 29 ‘Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cann ot be the Messiah\, can he?’ 30 They left the city and were on their way to him.\n31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him\, ‘Rabbi\, eat some thing.’ 32 But he said to them\, ‘I have food to eat that you do not k now about.’ 33 So the disciples said to one another\, ‘Surely no one h as brought him something to eat?’ 34 Jesus said to them\, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35 Do you not say\, “Four months more\, then comes the harvest”? But I tell you\, lo ok around you\, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36 The rea per is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life\, s o that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true\, “One sows and another reaps.” 38 I sent you to reap that for w hich you did not labour. Others have laboured\, and you have entered into their labour.’\n39 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him becaus e of the woman’s testimony\, ‘He told me everything I have ever done. ’ 40 So when the Samaritans came to him\, they asked him to stay with th em\; and he stayed there for two days. 41 And many more believed because o f his word. 42 They said to the woman\, ‘It is no longer because of what you said that we believe\, for we have heard for ourselves\, and we know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.’\n\nThis week we pray for a ll who live and work in Alexandra Road\, Battery Road\, Brambles Lane\, Co ronation Road\, Upper Moorgreen Road.\n\nAll are welcome to our family fri endly services that last approximately 1 hour and are live streamed on You Tube. Well behaved dogs are welcome.\nRefreshments are served afterwards. GEO:-1.302353;50.765906 LOCATION:Holy Trinity URL:https://www.youtube.com/@holytrinitycowes903/streams END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR