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SUMMARY:Pews News 10 March 2024 Mothering Sunday
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 10 March 2024\nMothering Sunday Co
 llect\nGod of love\,\npassionate and strong\,\ntender and careful:\nwatch 
 over us and hold us\nall the days of our life\;\nthrough Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. Amen.\nThis Week in the Benefice\n\nSunday\n10 March\nMothering\nSun
 day\n\n10.30am Mothering\nSunday Service\nin Upton\nSnodsbury\n10.30am Mot
 hering\nSunday Family\nService in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\n11.00am Holy\nComm
 union in\nPeopleton\n4.00pm Mothering\nSunday Family\nService in\nBroughto
 n\nHackett\n\nTuesday\n12 March\n\n7.00pm Lent Course at\nThe Rectory\,\nP
 eopleton\n\nWednesday\n13 March\n\n1.00pm Funeral of Les\nDale at Vale\nCr
 ematorium\n\nFriday\n15 March\n\n7.30pm Film Night at\nThe Parish\nRoom\, 
 White\nLadies Aston\n\nSaturday\n16 March\n\n10.30am Churchyard\ntidy-up i
 n\nUpton\nSnodsbury –\nrefreshments\navailable!\n\nSunday\n17 March\nPas
 siontide\nbegins\n\n10.30am Benefice Holy\nCommunion in\nWhite Ladies\nAst
 on\nLeslie Dale - Funeral on Wednesday\nWe think of Julia and family at th
 is time.\nBless those who mourn\, eternal God\,\nwith the comfort of your 
 love\nthat they may face each new day with hope\nand the certainty that no
 thing can destroy\nthe good that has been given.\n\nA short meditation and
  prayer for the\nFourth Sunday in Lent\nLord\, grant us simplicity of fait
 h\nand a generosity of service\nthat gives without counting cost.\nA life 
 overflowing with Grace\npoured out from the One\nwho gave everything\,\nth
 at we might show\nthe power of love\nto a broken world\,\nand share the tr
 uth\nfrom a living Word.\nLord\, grant us simplicity of faith\,\nand a yea
 rning to share it.\nMothering Sunday\n\nMothering Sunday was originally a 
 time when people\nreturned to the church where they were baptised. It\nbec
 ame the custom for young people who worked in\nlarge houses to be given th
 e day off on Mothering\nSunday to visit their own mothers and they often t
 ook\ngifts of food\, flowers or hand-me-down clothing from\n\ntheir employ
 ers.\n\nPeople fasted and ate simply during Lent\, but this was\nrelaxed f
 or Mothering Sunday and Simnel Cakes were\noften prepared and shared with 
 the family.\nA Simnel Cake is a light fruit cake decorated with 11\nMarzip
 an balls representing the Disciples\, excluding\nJudas. Legend has it that
  it was named after Lambert\nSimnel who worked in the kitchens of Henry VI
 I\n\naround the year 1500.\n\nIt is a time to remember and be grateful for
  the love\nand guidance of mothers and the security of home\nand family li
 fe. Places of rest\, laughter and\nforgiveness. Places just ‘to be’.\n
 \nA time to remember all those who have never and will\nnever experience t
 he happiness and protection of a\nstable\, loving home. We think of all th
 ose uprooted by\nwar\, politics and natural disasters struggling to protec
 t\nand maintain their families and keep children safe.\nA Prayer for Mothe
 ring Sunday\nLoving God\, on Mothering Sunday we thank you for\nmothers 
 – for all they mean or have meant\;\nfor the love they have shown and th
 e care and\nguidance they have given.\nWe thank you for their qualities of
  patience\,\nkindness\, concern and understanding.\nWe thank you for the p
 art they play in our lives.\nWe thank you for this day of saying ‘thank 
 you’ -\nfor this opportunity to say what we so often mean\n\nto say but 
 so rarely do.\nFor mothers and motherhood\,\nfor fathers\, children and fa
 milies.\nWe bring you this day our grateful praise. Amen.
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