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SUMMARY:Pews News 21 January 2024 Third Sunday of Epiphany
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 21 January 2024\nThird Sunday of E
 piphany\n\nCollect\nAlmighty God\,\n\nwhose Son revealed in signs and mira
 cles\nthe wonder of your saving presence:\nrenew your people with your hea
 venly grace\,\n\nand in all our weakness\nsustain us by your mighty power\
 ;\nthrough Jesus Christ your Son our Lord\,\nwho is alive and reigns with 
 you\,\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now and for ever. Amen
 .\nWeek of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024\nThis Week in the Benefice\nSun
 day\n21 January\n\n11.00am Benefice Holy\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\n\nMonda
 y\n22 January\n\n7.30pm Illustrated talk\nin The Parish\nRoom\, White\nLad
 ies Aston\n\nSunday\n28 January\nPresentation\nof Christ in\nthe temple\n(
 otherwise\nknown as\nCandlemas)\n\n9.30am Holy\nCommunion in\nWhite Ladies
 \nAston\n10.30am Hymns and a\nPrayer in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\n11.00am Holy\nC
 ommunion in\nPeopleton\nOn Monday at 7.30pm in The Parish Room in White\nL
 adies Aston\, Paul Haywood will give an illustrated\ntalk on The Secrets o
 f Sutton Hoo. The cost for the\n\nevening is £5.00.\nA Thank You from us 
 all….\n\nAfter many years of helping with the preparation of\nour Bowlin
 e magazine\, Jeff Smith has handed over his\nresponsibilities to Andrew Vi
 ckers.\nWe thank Jeff\, (supported of course by Kathleen at his\nside) for
  the many hours of work and care he has\ngiven so generously for the magaz
 ine and community.\nWe wish both Kathleen and Jeff a very happy\n\n‘reti
 rement’.\nA plea for help\n\nDuring this cold spell\, the demands on our
  local Food\nBanks are greater and people’s needs even more\nurgent. If 
 you can\, please do remember the local\nWorcester and Pershore Food Banks 
 as you shop or\nsend a donation. Details of particular requirements\nand h
 ow to help financially are on their websites.\n\nWeek of Prayer for Christ
 ian Unity 2024\n18 January to 25 January\n\nThe parable of the Good Samari
 tan is one of the best\nknown passages in the Bible\, yet one that never\n
 seems to lose its power to challenge indifference to\nsuffering and to ins
 pire solidarity. It is a story about\ncrossing boundaries that calls our a
 ttention to the\nbonds that unite the whole human family.\nIn choosing thi
 s passage of Scripture for the Week of\nPrayer for Christian Unity\, the c
 hurches of Burkina\nFaso have invited us to join with them in a process of
 \nself-reflection as they consider what it means to love\nour neighbours u
 nconditionally in the midst of life in\nthe 2020s with all the present war
 mongering\, civil\nunrest\, disaster and distress everywhere.\n\nA Reflect
 ion\nWe are good because we are loved\,\nnot loved because we are good.\nW
 e are loved\,\n\nbut God wants us to give some love back\,\ngiving and rec
 eiving in a mutual relationship.\n\nLove makes us better.\n\nBeing in a re
 lationship with God means being with\nother people\, doing some good.\nLoo
 king after creation.\nIt means being fair and not exploiting others.\nIt m
 eans giving and not taking.\nIt means being alongside not overpowering oth
 ers.\nIt even means welcoming and respecting the stranger\nin our midst si
 nce the stranger may be the Christ\n\nunannounced.\nA Prayer for this week
 \nBarrier-breaking God\,\nyou embrace all cultures and lands\,\nbut keep a
  special place in your heart\nfor the stranger\,\nthe widow and the orphan
 .\nGrant us the gift or your Spirit\nthat we may become as You are\,\nwelc
 oming all as brothers and sisters\,\nyour cherished children.\nCitizens to
 gether in Christ’s kingdom of\njustice and peace. Amen.\nA reminder\n\nT
 he Prayer Pilgrimage led by the Archbishop of\nCanterbury\, Justin Welby\,
  Saturday 3 rd February 2024\nwill be in our locality as follows:\n12.30pm
 . Prayer lunch at Pershore Abbey.\n(Bring your own picnic.)\n2.15pm. At th
 e Cathedral.\n\nAn interview with the Archbishop followed by worship\nand 
 prayer in various prayer stations.\nAll are welcome.\n\nDuring the day pra
 yers will concentrate on the Church\nof England’s strategic priorities. 
 And there will\, of\ncourse\, be prayers for peace and justice throughout\
 nthe world in 2024 and beyond.
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