BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pews News 25 August 2024 Peopleton DTSTART:20240822T081500Z DTEND:20240829T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260617T070629Z UID:10903192024-08-22 08:15:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 25 August 2024\nWelcome to St John the Baptist Church\nA prayer for St John the Baptist\nLeader God of hope  for our world\,\nyou chose John the Baptist to announce your reign\nand to prepare a way for Jesus.\n\nMay we have faith like John the Baptist to know your\n\nwill in these times. Amen.\nCollect for today Trinity 13\nAlm ighty God\,\nyou search us and know us:\nmay we rely on you in strength an d\nrest on you in weakness\, now and in all our days\;\nthrough Jesus Chri st our Lord. Amen.\nThis Week in the Benefice\n\nSunday\n25 August\nTrinit y 13\n\n10.30am\n\n2.30pm\n\nBenefice Holy\nCommunion in\nWhite Ladies\nAs ton\nBaptisms in\nUpton\nSnodsbury of\nHenry Baxter &\;\nSophie &\;\ nMegan\nStrefford\n\nWednesday\n28 August\n\n3.30pm Funeral of\nChristabel \nMonaghan in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\nMay she rest in\npeace\n\nFriday\n30 A ugust\n\n1.00pm Wedding of\nIsabel\nSpeakman and\nAlexander\nWatts in Upto n\nSnodsbury\n\nSunday\n1 September\n\n10.30am Family Service\nin Upton\nS nodsbury\n11.00am Holy\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\n6.00pm Evensong in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\nWe send our prayers and best wishes to Henry\, Sophie\nand Megan and their families for a lovely celebration\nfor their baptisms on Sunday in St Kenelm’s.\nOur best wishes and hopes for happiness and long life\ntogether for Isabel and Alex getting married next\n\nFriday in St K enelm’s.\n\nToday we are in the church dedicated to St John the\nBaptist in White Ladies Aston.\nI am sure we all know\, as recorded in the New\nT estament\, that John the Baptist was related to Jesus\,\nas their mothers\ , Elizabeth and Mary were cousins.\nThe visit of Mary to Elizabeth is reco rded in Luke 1:\n39-45. Mary goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth when\nbo th of them are expecting their babies. Elizabeth'\;s\nbaby “leaped in her womb” when Mary entered the\nhouse and called a greeting. This inci dent shows that\neven though they are not yet born\, John acknowledges\nth e superiority of Jesus and recognises that Jesus is\n\nGod’s son.\n\nJoh n was the forerunner of Jesus fulfilling the\nprophecy in Malachi chapter 3 Behold I will send my\nmessenger\, and he will prepare the way before me ….\nJohn baptised Jesus in the river Jordan and that marks\nthe beginnin g of Jesus’ preparation for his ministry.\nJohn meanwhile continued his ministry\, living as a\nprophet in the desert which included calling Herod to\naccount for his illicit relationship with his brother’s\nwife. Hero d arrested him and he was beheaded\,\nprobably in 28AD\, as the story goes \, because Herod’s\nstep-daughter Salome\, daughter of Herodias -the\nfo rmer wife of Herod’s brother- asked for his head on\na plate. This event is commemorated in our church in\na few days’ time this Thursday 29 th August.\nJohn’s body was taken and buried\, and there are\nmany legends and stories as to where bits of his body\nand head ended up. One tradition has it that his head\nis in a shrine in the Umayyad Mosque in the old cit y of\nDamascus. This mosque was formerly the Basilica of St\nJohn the Bapt ist and is still the largest and oldest\nmosque in the world and the 4 th holiest in Islam. John\nis revered as an extremely important and holy\npro phet across the whole Moslem world.\nFollowers of John existed well into t he 2nd century\nAD\, and some proclaimed him to be the Messiah\nawaited b y the Jewish nation. \n\nIn modern times\, the followers of John the Bapt ist are\nthe Mandaeans - an ancient ethnoreligious group who\nbelieve tha t he is their greatest and final prophet.\nThey consider Jesus Christ a de ceiver and they are\ndecidedly anti-Christian and anti-Jewish\, though the y\nbelieve their origins stem from the same tradition as\nthese two religi ons. They turn to the north for daily\nprayers and believe in the delivera nce of the soul in\nthe future at a cosmological day of judgment.\nI am su re for us he will continue to be The voice of one\ncrying in the wildernes s: '\;Prepare ye the way of the\nLord\, make his paths straight’.\nWe send our congratulations and best wishes to all\nthose young people we kn ow who have just received\ntheir GCSE results and are planning the next st age in\n\neducation and life. GEO:-2.092194;52.151631 LOCATION:St Nicholas\, Peopleton URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/18658/service-and-events/events/ 1090319/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR