BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bowland Benefice 19 May 2024 Pews News DTSTART:20240516T163000Z DTEND:20240522T231500Z DTSTAMP:20260911T080511Z UID:10716922024-05-16 16:30:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\n19 May 2024 Pews News\nThe Day of Pentecost\ nCome Holy Ghost our souls inspire!\n\nCollect for The Day of Pentecost!\n Holy Spirit\, sent by the Father\,\nignite in us your holy fire\;\nstrengt hen your children with the gift of faith\,\nrevive your Church with the br eath of love\,\nand renew the face of the earth\,\nthrough Jesus Christ ou r Lord. Amen.\nThis Week in the Benefice\nSaturday\n18 May 1.30pm\n\nWeddi ng of\nAndrew Lewis\nand Kate\nRoddy in White\nLadies Aston\n\nSunday\n19 May\n\n10.30am Holy\nCommunion in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\n\nMonday\n20 May\n\n1 2.00noon Lunch in The\nParish Room\,\nWhite Ladies\nAston £5.00\n\nFriday \n24 May\n\n7.30pm Film Night in\nThe Parish Room\n\nSunday\n26 May\nTrini ty\nSunday\n\n9.30am Holy\nCommunion in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\n10.30am Song s of Praise\nin Upton\nSnodsbury\n11.00am Holy\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\nW e send love and congratulations to Andrew\nand Kate getting married in Whi te Ladies Aston\n\non this Saturday.\n\nAndrew was born in the village\, l oves the village and\nits life and now begins\, with Kate\, the next stage of\nlife’s journey\, as a married couple.\nMay their married life be bl essed with happiness\nand good health in all the years to come.\nThis Sund ay\, Whit Sunday\, we commemorate the\ncoming of The Holy Spirit to the di sciples - so often\npictured as tongues of fire or a dove. What a great\nd ay to get together as a Benefice to celebrate with a\nBenefice Service of Holy Communion in St Kenelm’s\n\nUpton Snodsbury.\n\nWhat joy music of a ll kinds brings …….\n“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people . It’s\ntransporting\, for sure. It can take you right back\, years\nbac k\, to the very moment certain things happened in\nyour life. It’s uplif ting\, it’s encouraging\, it’s\nstrengthening.” (Aretha Franklin)\nY ou may think it strange but Worcester Cathedral\nquite often hosts ‘pop concerts’ – They have quite\nrecently held a Elvis concert and last we ek an ABBA\ntribute band took to the ‘stage’!\nThe concert was very we ll supported with 800 or so\npeople enjoying the uplifting music that brin gs release\nand joy in the most wonderful sacred and ancient\nsurroundings . It was the first time many of the\naudience had set foot over the thresh old\, after all\nchurch is not for them – it is unapproachable\, formal\ nand the words impenetrable……..\nCanon Stephen Edwards the Cathedral ’s Acting Dean\,\nwelcomed the assembled crowd amid a cacophony of\nexci ted chatter\, and explained how the cathedral had\nhosted music for centur ies\, and that as well as music\,\nthe cathedral was a place of prayer – and so the\nconcert would begin in prayer.\nHis prayer was based on ABBA songs and at the end\nwas met with loud and very enthusiastic applause – \nthe church in action reaching out and meeting\neveryone through music. H ere is his prayer. How\nmany ABBA songs do you recognise?.....\nGod of lov e in whose presence every hour\,\nevery minute seems to last eternally\,\n the one whose shoulder we can cry on\,\nour best friend\, the one we must rely on:\nthere is something in the air tonight\,\nthe stars are bright\,\ nwith people everywhere\;\na sense of expectation hanging in the air.\nWe thank you for the music\, the songs we’re\n\nsinging\,\n\nthanks for all the joy they'\;re bringing.\nWe believe in angels\,\nsomething good in everything I see.\nAnd believing in angels\, I have a dream\, a song to\n \nsing.\nBless us this night O Lord\,\ntake us in your arms and hold us ti ght.\nI know it'\;s gonna mean so much tonight.\n\nAnd dear God\,\nbeca use of the love you gave me\,\nnothing else can save me\,\nso lay all your love on me.\nNow and for ever. Amen.\n…….Apparently ‘Elton John’ is coming next…..\nWe can’t always choose the music life plays for us …..\nBut we can choose how we dance to it. GEO:-2.092194;52.151631 LOCATION:St Nicholas\, Peopleton URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/18658/service-and-events/events/ 1071692/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR