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SUMMARY:Bowland Benefice Pews News 16 March 2025
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 16 March 2025\nSecond Sunday of Le
 nt Collect\nAlmighty God\,\nby the prayer and discipline of Lent\nmay we e
 nter into\nthe mystery of Christ’s sufferings\,\nand by following in his
  Way\ncome to share in his glory\;\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n
 This week in the Benefice\nFriday\n14 March 10.00am\n\nChurchill\nchurch y
 ard\ntidy up!\n\nSaturday\n15 March\n\n6.30pm\n\nBeetle Drive in\nUpton\nS
 nodsbury\nVillage Hall\n\nSunday\n16 March\n\n10.30am\n\nBenefice Holy\nCo
 mmunion in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\n\nMonday\n17 March\n\n12 noon\n\nMeet and Ea
 t\nin The Parish\nRoom\, White\nLadies Aston\n\nSaturday\n22 March 10.30am
 \n\nBroughton\nHackett Coffee\nMorning\n\nSunday\n23 March\n3 rd Sunday of
 \nLent\n\n9.30am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\n\n10.30am\n\n
 Songs of Praise\nin Upton\nSnodsbury\n\n11.00am\n\nLate breakfast\nCafé C
 hurch in\nPeopleton\nEnjoy this Saturday’s fast and furious fun in the f
 orm\nof a Beetle Drive in Upton Snodsbury Village Hall!\nWe once again wel
 come Revd Alma Organ and\nhusband Robin to our Benefice in Upton Snodsbury
 \nto lead our Benefice Service of Holy Communion.\nA coffee morning to rai
 se funds for the upkeep of St\nLeonard’s\, Broughton Hackett takes place
  next\nSaturday\, 22 March\, at 6 Manor Court. For more\ninformation or to
  offer help please ring Di on 07530\n\n406096.\n\nCome along next Sunday a
 t 11.00am to Peopleton for\na Café Church Service. A relaxed and informal
  time\nwith croissant\, coffee\, singing and prayer. Stef Jones\nwho found
 ed the charity Onwards and Upwards which\naims to support and change the l
 ives of ex-prisoners\,\nwill be coming along to tell us about its work.\n\
 nLent is a time of preparation\, waiting and penitence\nand the five weeks
  of Lent leading up to Holy Week\nmake for an appropriate time to reflect 
 upon our own\nlives - our struggles\, our goals\, our prayers - in light o
 f\nChrist’s life\, death and resurrection.\nThe second week’s theme is
  Forgiveness and\n\nCommunity\n\nThe reading for this week is Ephesians 4:
  31-32 – a\npassage on letting go of anger and bitterness and\nforgiving
  those who have sinned against us.\nIn this second week of Lent\, we are e
 xploring what it\nmeans to be forgiven by God\, and consequently what\nfor
 giveness looks like in our own relationships and\n\nchurch communities.\n\
 nThis is such an important area to consider both on\nour own and communall
 y\, and Lent is a great time to\nreflect and deal with what is sometimes a
  very\ndifficult and challenging subject.\nThe tradition of giving somethi
 ng up over Lent can be\na hugely beneficial practice\, but it’s importan
 t we\ndon’t turn it into a time of discipline for the sake of\ndisciplin
 e\, or a season of self-improvement purely for\n\nour own sake.\n\nAre we 
 giving up chocolate to help draw our sight\ntowards God and as an act of s
 piritual discipline\, or\nbecause we want to be a bit healthier and feel b
 etter\nabout ourselves over a time that it is popularly\nconsidered a deto
 x period?\n\nThere is nothing wrong with the latter\, but the former\nis s
 urely what Lent is meant to be about.\nForgiveness is perhaps the ultimate
  call to ‘give\nsomething up’\; it is the process in which we are able
 \,\nby the grace of God\, fully and lovingly to ‘let go’ of the\nthing
 s which might be damaging our relationships -\nthings done to us or things
  that have happened\n\nbetween us.\n\nThis can be a long and difficult pro
 cess\, but the truth\nof Easter is that forgiveness is possible\, not only
  for us\nas sinners but for us as those who have been sinned\nagainst by b
 rothers and sisters.\nGod welcomes everyone\, no matter who you are or\nwh
 at you’ve done. Forgiveness and community\;\nharmony and love are possib
 le for us because of who\nGod is and what He has done for us. His death on
  the\ncross\, and the celebration on Easter Day tells us of\nthe unending 
 and unlimited love and support\navailable to us in all our human relations
 hips today.\n\nA Prayer\n\nGod\, help us to be a community of loving peopl
 e. We\npray you’ll be the centre of and inspiration for all of\nour rela
 tionships\, inside and outside the Church. Help\nus to live in the reality
  of your love and forgiveness\ntoday by forgiving others who have hurt us.
  Help us to\nforgive ourselves\, too\, as we know in our hearts the\npower
  of your forgiveness over us. Amen.
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