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SUMMARY:Pews News 6 April 2025
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 6 April 2025\nLent 5 – Passionti
 de Collect\nMost merciful God\,\nwho by the death and resurrection\nof you
 r Son Jesus Christ\ndelivered and saved the world:\ngrant that by faith in
  him\nwho suffered on the cross\nwe may triumph in the power of his victor
 y\;\nthrough Jesus Christ your Son our Lord\,\nwho is alive and reigns wit
 h you\,\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now and for ever. Am
 en.\nThis week in the Benefice\n\nSunday\n6 April\n\n10.30am\n\nFamily Ser
 vice\nin Upton\nSnodsbury\n\n11.00am\n\nHoly\nCommunion\nService in\nPeopl
 eton\n\n6.00pm\n\nEvensong in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\n\nMonday\n7 April 7.00
 pm\n\nBroughton\nHackett Annual\nMeeting\n\nWednesday\n9 April\n\n7.00pm\n
 \nUpton\nSnodsbury\nAnnual\nMeeting\n\nSunday\n13 April\nPalm Sunday\n\n10
 .30am\n\nFamily Service\nin White Ladies\nAston\n\n10.30am\n\nHoly\nCommun
 ion in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\nOn Monday (7 th ) at 7.00pm\, the Annual Parochi
 al\nChurch Meeting will be held for St Leonard’s\,\nBroughton Hackett in
  church.\n\nOn Wednesday (9 th ) St Kenelm’s\, Upton Snodsbury will\nhol
 d its meeting at 7.00pm in church.\nThose on the Electoral Rolls of each c
 hurch are\n\nentitled to attend.\n\nDetails of Holy Week events and Easter
  Services will\nbe in next week’s Pews News.\nA Prayer for Passiontide\n
 Almighty and everlasting God\,\n\nwho in your tender love towards the huma
 n race sent\nyour Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him\nour flesh
  and to suffer death upon the cross:\ngrant that we may follow the example
  of his\n\npatience and humility\,\n\nand also be made partakers of his re
 surrection\;\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nLent is a time of pr
 eparation\, waiting and penitence\nand the five weeks of Lent leading up t
 o Holy Week\nmake for an appropriate time to reflect upon our own\nlives -
  our struggles\, our goals\, our prayers - in light of\nChrist’s life\, 
 death and resurrection.\nWe continue to follow Stuart Townend as we near t
 he\n\nend of our Lenten journey.\n\nThe fifth week’s theme is Waiting\, 
 Anxiety\, Trust\nThe reading for this week is Isaiah 40:3 (a passage\nabou
 t the strength gained by waiting on God)\nWe spend a lot of our lives wait
 ing for things.\nAnd we sometimes find some time on a Sunday to\nwait on G
 od and see what he wants to do or say to us\nin a service. Learning to see
  a period of waiting as\nvaluable is so important if we want to live life 
 to the\nfull\, whether that be five minutes in Church or a few\n\ndecades 
 in our private lives.\n\nThe longer you wait for something\, the more you 
 have\nto trust it will arrive\; and the more you have to trust\nthat the w
 aiting process is happening for a reason\,\nand that God might be teaching
  you things through\nthe waiting that might otherwise pass you by.\nFurthe
 r\, living in a state of anxious waiting has the\npotential to remind us o
 f God’s centrality in our lives.\nIt often takes the prospect of losing 
 something to\nremind us\, albeit perhaps painfully\, that God is indeed\nb
 igger than the thing or scenario we were waiting on\n\nand hoping for.\n\n
 Waiting can help us not only to deepen our trust\, but\nto heighten our li
 stening and desire for God.\nLearning to see and partake in these gifts in
  the midst\nof waiting can be a life changing shift for a Christian.\nI th
 ink it’s important\, especially during Lent\, that the\ndays we spend an
 ticipating Easter are days of value\, of\n\nlearning and of growing.\nIt m
 ight be helpful to consider how this can be\nreflected in sung worship on 
 a Sunday\; some hymns –\nGreat is thy faithfulness and The Lord is my Sh
 epherd\nfor example - are ones that focus on God’s\nunchanging faithfuln
 ess through our changeable and\n\nhidden futures.\n\nIf we can enter into 
 a place of worship\, where we are\nseeking God’s peace in and through ou
 r worries and\nour waiting\, without sidelining or diminishing them\nand y
 et without allowing them to become obstacles\nthat rival God in size and i
 mportance\, then I think we\nare in a healthy and expectant place.\n\nA pr
 ayer\n\nGod\, help us to see our times of waiting as\nopportunities to gro
 w in our relationship with you.\nThank you that you are with us in uncerta
 inty\, offering\npeace\, joy and unchanging hope in all moments of our\nli
 ves. Guard our hearts from trusting too heavily in\nearthly things and hel
 p lift our vision to the eternal\npicture of who we are and what we have i
 n you.\n\nAmen.
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