BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pews News 4 August 2024 DTSTART:20240801T150000Z DTEND:20240808T014500Z DTSTAMP:20260530T151647Z UID:10864712024-08-01 15:00:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News\n4 August 2024\n\nWelcome to St Le onard’s Church\n\nthis morning\nA prayer for St Leonard\nAlmighty God\, by whose grace\nLeonard\, kindled with the fire of your love\,\nbecame a b urning\, shining light in the Church:\ninflame us with the same spirit of discipline and love\,\nthat we may ever walk before you as children of lig ht\nthrough Jesus Christ your Son our Lord\nwho is alive and reigns with y ou\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now and for ever. Amen.\n Collect for today Trinity 10\nLet your merciful ears\, O Lord\,\nbe open t o the prayers of your humble servants\;\nand that they may obtain their pe titions\nmake them to ask such things as shall please you\;\nthrough Jesus Christ your Son our Lord\,\nwho is alive and reigns with you\,\nin the un ity of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now and for ever. Amen.\nThis Week in the Benefice\nSaturday\n3 August\n\n6.30pm Summer\nSupper at Jim\nCrow Cor ner\,\nPeopleton\n\nSunday\n4 August\n\n10.30am Benefice Holy\nCommunion i n\nBroughton\nHackett\n\nSaturday\n10 August\n\n10.30am Coffee\nMorning in The\nParish Room\,\nWhite Ladies\nAston\n\nSunday\n11 August\n\n11.00am B enefice Holy\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\nThis Sunday we start our August pil grimage around\nour Bowland Churches to enjoy the friendship and\nfellowsh ip of taking Communion together.\nIt is a wonderful opportunity to visit o ur churches and\nexperience their very different characters and styles.\nR evd Claire and each church’s regular congregation\nlook forward to welco ming you.\n\nPlease do encourage others to travel around with you.\nWe hol d in our thoughts and prayers the tragedy in\nSouthport earlier this week\ , the deaths of innocent\nlittle girls having fun. We pray for our broken world\n Rescue us. Heal us. Be near to us this day. We pray\nthis in Jes us'\; name\, …..a man of sorrows. Amen.\n\nNext Tuesday 6 August is\n The Feast of the Transfiguration\nwhen Christians commemorate the time whe n Jesus\ntook disciples Peter\, James and John up Mount Tabor\nand Moses a nd Elijah appeared to them. Jesus was\n‘transfigured\; and his face and clothes became\n\ndazzlingly bright.’\n\nIt affirms Jesus as the fulfilm ent of the law and the\nprophets. For a moment the glass\, through which o nly\nhalf-truth could be seen\, was removed\, and the\nultimate truth of J esus as the long awaited Messiah\n\nwas revealed.\n\n(Mark 9:2–13\; Matt hew 17:1–13\; Luke 9:28–36).\nFather in heaven\, whose Son Jesus Chris t\nwas wonderfully transfigured\nbefore chosen witnesses upon the holy mou ntain\,\nand spoke of the exodus he would accomplish\n\nat Jerusalem:\n\ng ive us strength so to hear his voice\nand bear our cross\n\nthat in the wo rld to come we may see him as he is\;\nwho is alive and reigns with you\,\ nin the unity of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now and for ever. Amen.\nWe are in Broughton Hackett this morning and in the\nchurch dedicated to St L eonard but…….\nWho was St Leonard?\n\nHe was born towards the end of t he 5 th century near\nOrleans in France to a nobleman who was a high\nrank ing officer in the army of King Clovis 1.\nAt the age of 14 Leonard went t o the monastery of\nMicy in Orleans\, entered Holy Orders and became\nknow n for his compassion and holiness.\nHe saved the life of the pregnant quee n Wisigarde\,\nwife of King Theodebert\, helping her give birth to a\n\nhe althy son.\n\nIn his gratitude\, the King gave Leonard the estate of\nPauv in which became a flourishing monastery\, its\nname being changed to Nobla t.\nLeonard continued healing the sick\, performing\nmiracles and converti ng prisoners to Christianity until\n\nhis death in 559AD.\n\nAfter his dea th his fame\, news of his life and miracles\nperformed in his name\, sprea d. Richard the Lionheart\nmade a pilgrimage to Leonard’s shrine and chur ches\,\nmonasteries\, hospitals and hermitages dedicated to\nhim could be found in France\, Italy\, England\, Scotland\n\nand Bavaria.\n\nThe church in the French town of Saint Leonard de\nNoblat\, became a centre of pilgr image especially for\npregnant women and prisoners of war. GEO:-2.092194;52.151631 LOCATION:St Nicholas\, Peopleton URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/18658/service-and-events/events/ 1086471/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR