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SUMMARY:Pews News 2 March 2025 Sunday next before Lent Collect
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 2 March 2025\nSunday next before L
 ent Collect\n\nHoly God\,\n\nyou know the disorder of our sinful lives:\ns
 et straight our crooked hearts\,\nand bend our wills to love your goodness
 \nand your glory in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\nThis week in the Benefic
 e\nSaturday\n1 March\n\n12.30pm\n\nBaptism of\nMatilda\nMcGhee in\nPeoplet
 on\n\nSunday\n2 March\n\n10.30am\n\nFamily Service\nin Upton\nSnodsbury\n\
 n11.00am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\n\n6.00pm\n\nEvensong in\nWhite 
 Ladies\nAston\n\nAsh\nWednesday\n5 March\n\n7.00pm\n\nHoly\nCommunion\nwit
 h\nImposition of\nAshes in\nPeopleton\n\nFriday\n7 March\n\n2.00pm\n\nWorl
 d Day of\nPrayer in The\nBaptist Church\,\nPershore\n\nSunday\n9 March\n\n
 10.30am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\n\n10.30am\n\nFamily Servi
 ce\nin White Ladies\nAston\n\n2.00pm\n\nBaptism of\nPoppy\nSaunders in\nUp
 ton\nSnodsbury\nWhat a joy this week!\n\nTwo little girls to be baptised i
 n our Benefice!\nThis Saturday\, on her first birthday Matilda will be\nba
 ptised in Peopleton. We send best wishes to\nMatilda\, her parents Eleanor
  and James and\ngodparents and sponsors Charlotte\, Jemma and Joe.\nNext S
 unday 9 th we welcome Poppy (nearly six months\nold!) with her parents Rut
 h and Thomas and\ngodparents and sponsors Emma\, Alice\, Craig and\nJacob 
 to Upton Snodsbury.\n\nMay the Lord bless you and keep you as you journey\
 n\nthrough life.\n\nCollect for Ash Wednesday\nHoly God\, our lives are la
 id open before you:\nrescue us from the chaos of sin\nand through the deat
 h of your Son\nbring us healing and make us whole\nin Jesus Christ our Lor
 d. Amen.\nHow should we prepare for the Season of Lent?\nGive something up
  that we may indulge in - chocolate\nand wine spring readily to my mind 
 – or do we do\nsomething positive – be more aware of opportunities\nfo
 r little acts of kindness\; set aside time for prayer\;\nlisten to uplifti
 ng music\; meditate or just be\ncompanionable with God – just sit in sil
 ence as you\nwould with a close friend……..and wait and listen.\nWe are
  all on the journey through the next six weeks\nuntil we reach the joy of 
 Palm Sunday\, the despair of\nHoly Week and at last the glory and reassura
 nce of\nEaster Sunday’s Resurrection. We could resolve to\nmake the seas
 on of Lent 2025 really mean something.\nWe can’t do much better than loo
 k at The Rule of\nBenedict from a millenium and a half ago. St Benedict\nd
 oesn’t talk about ‘giving up things’ but he teaches us\nto add to ou
 r lives things which are missing and would\nhelp our inner being to grow a
 nd help guide us when\nlife gets difficult and dark. Put at its simplest\,
  he\nadvocates spending time reading to nourish\ncontemplation and setting
  aside quiet times to be\naware of the Presence of God and to think about 
 the\nimportant things in life and the beauty around us.\nThe hope at the e
 nd of Lent is that we have a sense of\nrefreshment\, armed with renewed in
 ner insight and\nouter courage to better trust that every day of our\nlive
 s is meant to be a good one.\nOver the next weeks Pews News will include\n
 suggestions for setting aside a little time just for God\nand you – devi
 sed by Stuart and Joseph Townend\nincorporating a Bible reading and a Lent
 en theme.\nRevd Claire hopes you will find these little offerings\nhelpful
 . I know she would welcome feedback (both\npositive and negative) as the w
 eeks go by.\nWith Ash Wednesday just a few days away\, I finish\nwith my f
 avourite Sandskrit poem. –\nLook well to this day\,\nfor it is life\,\nt
 he very best of life.\nIn its brief course lie all\nthe realities and trut
 hs of existence\,\nthe joy of growth\nthe splendour of action\nthe glory o
 f power.\nFor yesterday is but a memory\nand tomorrow is only a vision.\nB
 ut today\, if well-lived makes\nevery yesterday a memory of happiness\nand
  every tomorrow a vision of hope.\nLook well therefore to this day.
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