Bowland Benefice - Pews News
20 April 2025 - Easter Day!
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!

Alleluia!

A warm welcome to everyone taking part in our

services today.

If you are a visitor and in our Benefice for the
first time, please stay and meet us after the

service.
This week in the Benefice

Good Friday
18 April

9.30am

Stations of the
Cross Service
in Peopleton

6.00pm

Service of
Meditation in
White Ladies
Aston

Sunday
20 April
Easter Day

6.30am

Holy
Communion
with breakfast
in Upton
Snodsbury

9.30am

Holy
Communion in
White Ladies
Aston

11.00am

Holy
Communion in
Peopleton

Sunday
27 April
Easter 2

9.30am

Holy
Communion in
White Ladies
Aston

10.30am

Hymns and a
Prayer in
Upton
Snodsbury

11.00am

Holy
Communion in
Peopleton
Tomorrow on Good Friday – coffee and hot cross
buns will be served following the Service of The
Stations of the Cross in Peopleton.
On Sunday in Peopleton there will be an Easter Egg
hunt for children and chocolate and refreshments
served following the 11.00am service.
A big thank you to everyone who has worked to
get our churches ready for the Easter celebrations.
Thank you to those who have cleaned and dusted,
tidied our churchyards, arranged wonderful flower
displays and hidden Easter eggs!

The final Theme for our Lenten journey is
Resurrection and salvation

The reading is Colossians 1:13-14 (a traditional Easter
passage on salvation and redemption)
Easter Day is a day of celebration and the
consequences of Easter span our whole lives. Our
faith is not built upon speculative theology and
theories; it is built upon the historical footsteps of
Christ on this very earth, his historical death and his
historical resurrection. Having a calendar day
especially dedicated to his resurrection helps us to
remember that we are celebrating a real day in
history on which death was defeated.
We need to celebrate both the everlasting and all-
encompassing nature of Christ’s death and
resurrection, and at the same time remember that
Christ lived, died and rose again as one of us, on our

earth, at a set point in time.

Easter is a time to heighten our understanding of who
God is and the depth of love he showed, and
continues to show, to us.

Our Easter Day services should, of course, be fun,
happy and celebratory, but we must also embrace the
magnitude of the day which we are remembering in
awe, wonder and thanksgiving.
Prayers for Easter
Loving God,
give your Peace
to my heart and life,
to my home and family,
to my community and country,
to the whole world and all its peoples
through Jesus Christ, our living Lord. Amen.
Lord, the resurrection of Your Son
has given us new life and renewed hope.
Help us to live as new people
in pursuit of the Christian ideal.
Grant us wisdom to know what we must do,
the will to want to do it,
the courage to undertake it,
the perseverance to continue to do it,
and the strength to complete it. Amen.
Christ yesterday and today,
the beginning and the end,
Alpha and Omega.
All time belongs to him, and all ages.
To him be glory and power,
through every age and for ever. Amen.
We remember those who have died. We thank them
for their love and guidance, for memories happy and
significant and for all they have meant to us.
For Christians who cannot celebrate openly today
because they live in parts of the world where there
are repressive, intolerant and brutal regimes.