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SUMMARY:Pews News 13 April 2025 Palm Sunday
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 13 April 2025\nPalm Sunday - Colle
 ct\nTrue and humble king\,\nhailed by the crowd as Messiah:\ngrant us the 
 faith to know you and love you\,\nthat we may be found beside you\non the 
 way of the cross\,\nwhich is the path of glory Amen.\nThis week in the Ben
 efice\n\nSunday\n13 April\n\n10.30am\n\nFamily Service\nin White Ladies\nA
 ston\n\n10.30am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\n\nTuesday\n15 Apr
 il\n\n7.00pm\n\nHoly Week\nQuiet Service\nin Upton\nSnodsbury\n\nThursday\
 n17 April\n\n7.30pm\n\nMaundy\nThursday Holy\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\n\nG
 ood Friday\n18 April\n\n9.30am\n\nStations of the\nCross Service\nin Peopl
 eton\n\n6.00pm\n\nService of\nMeditation in\nWhite Ladies\nAston\n\nSunday
 \n20April\nEaster Day\n\n6.30am\n\nHoly\nCommunion\nwith breakfast\nin Upt
 on\nSnodsbury\n\n9.30am\n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nUpton\nSnodsbury\n\n11.00am
 \n\nHoly\nCommunion in\nPeopleton\nOn Tuesday 15 April - in Upton Snodsbur
 y at 7.00pm\nWalking with Christ to the Cross.\nA contemplative service of
  music and words for Holy\n\nWeek.\n\nThursday 17 April – in Peopleton a
 t 7.30pm\,\, the\nMaundy Thursday service of Holy Communion\nFriday 18 Apr
 il – in Peopleton at 9.30am for Good\nFriday\, The Stations of the Cross
  followed by coffee\n\nand Hot Cross Buns…….and\nin White Ladies Aston
  at 6.00pm\, a Service of\n\nMeditation.\n\nWe continue to follow Stuart T
 ownend as we enter\nHoly Week and Christ’s journey to the Cross.\nThe si
 xth week’s theme is Gethsemane\, Suffering\,\n\nPain\n\nThe reading for 
 this week Matthew 26:36-56\n(a passage describing Jesus in Gethsemane)\nTh
 e idea of worshipping in the midst of suffering and\npain can be an incred
 ibly difficult one. And yet\, we are\ncalled to be worshippers all the tim
 e\, in every area of\nour lives. This does not mean\, however\, that we tr
 y\nand sideline our pains and struggles when we come\ntogether on a Sunday
 \; in fact\, the Bible seems to\ncontinually encourage us to bring those p
 ains and\nemotions before God\, in all their raw agony and\nconfusion. God
  is not just the God of Sunday morning\;\nHe is also the God who cares eno
 ugh about our\nindividual pain that He became human and walked an\neven gr
 eater road of suffering than we do. He knows\nwhat we feel\, not merely sy
 mpathetically as an\nomniscient stranger\, but empathetically as the man\n
 who was despised\, abandoned\, brutalised\, and\n\nunloved.\n\nThe Psalms\
 , and books like Ecclesiastes and Job\, are\nfull of people bringing their
  suffering and righteous\nanger to God\, asking ‘why\, God\, are you let
 ting this\nhappen?’ This is an important and legitimate form of\nworship
  and neglecting to do this will only serve to\nremove those areas of our l
 ives and emotions from\nour relationship with God. This can all too easily
 \nbecome a dangerous habit.\n\nJesus wept when he learned that His friend 
 Lazarus\nhad died\, even though he then immediately went to\nraise him fro
 m the dead! God doesn’t just say to us\n‘you’ll get through this’\
 ; he says ‘I know how it feels’\,\nand weeps alongside us. A resolutio
 n or a miraculous\noutcome further down the road does not lessen the\n\nin
 tegrity of current pain.\n\nHoly Week is a time to remember Christ’s pai
 n and\nsuffering in the garden of Gethsemane\, but it’s also a\ntime for
  us to bring our own pain and loss to God\,\nasking God to ‘take this cu
 p from us’\, while also\nultimately encouraging each other to say ‘yet
  not our\n\nwill be done\, but his’.\nA prayer\n\nGod\, you walked the r
 oad of pain far further than any\nof us ever will. You know us in our sadn
 ess\, our anger\n\nand our frustration.\n\nThank you for becoming like us 
 and sacrificing\neverything just so we might know you. We pray for\nthose 
 of us in deep anguish and pain\, and we ask that\nyou will be with them in
  the depths of their\n\nexperience.\n\nThank you that you don’t offer us
  trite answers\, but\ninstead you give us your blood\, your humanity\, and
 \nyour peace that is beyond all understanding. Be with\n\nus on our journe
 y. Amen.
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