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SUMMARY:Pews News 24 November 2024
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News\n24 November 2024\nCollect for Chr
 ist the King\nEternal Father\,\n\nwhose Son Jesus Christ ascended to the\n
 \nthrone of heaven\n\nthat he might rule over all things as Lord and King:
 \nkeep the Church in the unity of the Spirit\nand in the bond of peace\,\n
 and bring the whole created order\nto worship at his feet\;\nwho is alive 
 and reigns with you\,\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now an
 d for ever. Amen.\nThis Week in the Benefice\n\nSunday\n24\nNovember\n\n9.
 30am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\n\n10.30am\n\nMorning\nPra
 yer in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\n\n11.00am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\n\nTu
 esday\n26\nNovember\n\n2.00pm Christmas\nSparkle in\nSpetchley Park\n\nSun
 day\n1 December\nAdvent\nSunday\n\n10.30am\n\nChristingle\nService in\nUpt
 on\nSnodsbury\n\n11.00am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\n\n6.00pm\n\nAdv
 ent Carol\nService in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\nChristmas Sparkle next Tuesday
  at 2.00pm in the\nLearning Centre\, Spetchley Park Gardens. An event in\n
 aid of Churches Conservation Trust. Tickets £10 to\ninclude mulled wine a
 nd mince pies.\n\nA thank you\n\nThank you to everyone who took part in th
 e\nRemembrance Day service at St. Nicholas Church on\n\n10 November.\n\nIt
  was lovely to see the Brownies\, Beavers\, Cubs\nand Scouts attending and
  taking an active role in\nthe service. The collection of just under £70 
 each\nwent to The Royal British Legion\, Besma. and Scotties\n\nLittle Sol
 diers.\n\nToday is the last Sunday of this Christian Year before a\nnew ye
 ar next Sunday - being Advent Sunday.\nToday is dedicated to Christ the Ki
 ng - a festival only\ninaugurated in 1925 by Pope Pius X1 in honour of the
 \nKingship of Christ. In the era of post first world war\nsecularism\, he 
 perceived a model of Christ as King of\nCreation\, whose just and gentle r
 ule is supreme.\nA Prayer for Today Christ the King\nMajestic and all enco
 mpassing God\, you are the\nauthority over everything that exists in all o
 f creation\,\nand yet you are one with us and we are one with you.\nWe bri
 ng before you now in our thoughts and prayers\,\nour hopes and dreams for 
 a better world\, better\nhuman relationships and of lives restored to\n\nw
 holeness.\n\nIn all parts of our lives we acknowledge you King of\nall and
  seek no more for ourselves than your\n\ngrace allows. Amen.\n\nToday was 
 always know as Stir-up Sunday – a\ntradition\, dating back to the Victor
 ian era - the day\nwhen families would gather and ‘stir’ their homemad
 e\nChristmas pudding five weeks before Christmas\, on\nthe last Sunday bef
 ore the season of Advent begins.\nWhy stir up? Because of the opening word
 s\nof the Collect set in the Book of Common Prayer\nStir up\, we beseech t
 hee\, O Lord\, the wills of thy\nfaithful people that they\, plenteously b
 ringing forth\nthe fruit of good works\, may of thee be plenteously\nrewar
 ded\, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nA meaning of Advent\nAdvent\
 , like Lent\, is a season for prayer and\nreformation of our hearts. Since
  it comes at\nwintertime\, fire is a fitting sign to help us to celebrate\
 nAdvent……if Christ is to come more fully into our lives\nthis Christma
 s\, if God is to become really incarnate for\nus\, then fire will have to 
 be present in our prayer. Our\nworship and devotion will have to stoke the
  kind of\nfire in our souls that can truly change our hearts. Ours\nis a g
 reat responsibility not to waste this Advent time.\n(Edward Hays A Pilgrim
 ’s Almanac).\nAs we look around at our wonderful world at the\nmisery\, 
 destruction and war which man has reeked on\nthe planet\, it is very easy 
 to become totally despairing\n– so what to do? We can only do small thin
 gs.\nI am reminded of a quote from the Prophet\nMuhammad. The best among y
 ou are those who bring\n\ngreatest benefit to others.\nHope for today\n\nW
 e look forward to the time when the power of love\nwill replace the love o
 f power.\nThen our world will know the blessings of peace.\n(William Glads
 tone 1809-1898)
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