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SUMMARY:Bowland Benefice Pews News 8 January 2023
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News\n8 January 2023\n\nThe Epiphany\nC
 ollect\nO God\,\nwho by the leading of a star\nmanifested your only Son to
 \nthe peoples of the earth:\nmercifully grant that we\,\nwho know you now 
 by faith\,\nmay at last behold your glory face to face\;\nthrough Jesus Ch
 rist your Son our Lord\,\nwho is alive and reigns with you\,\nin the unity
  of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now and for ever. Amen.\nThis week in the
  Benefice\nSunday\n8 January\n\n10.30am Holy Communion in\nUpton Snodsbury
 \n10.30am Family Service in\nWhite Ladies Aston\n\nFriday\n13 February\n\n
 7.30pm Film Night in White\nLadies Aston\n(see below)\n\nSunday\n15 Januar
 y\n2 nd Sunday of\nEpiphany\n\n10.30am Benefice Holy\nCommunion in\nUpton 
 Snodsbury\nWednesday Morning Prayer\nin St Nicholas\, Peopleton\n\nwill ta
 ke a break until the weather improves in the\n\nspring.\n\nWatch this spac
 e for news of its return.\nFilm Night in White Ladies Aston\nOn Friday\, i
 n The Parish Room\, there will be a showing\nof West Side Story -the 2021 
 version. Cost £5.00 to\ninclude an ice cream. Please book your seat in\na
 dvance with Margaret Haywood (01905 345371).\nAlso\, in The Parish Room\, 
 White Ladies Aston on\nMonday 16 January there will be the first village L
 unch\nof 2023\, from 12 noon to 2.00pm.\nPlease contact Margaret if you wi
 sh to attend.\n\nThank you\n\nOn behalf of everyone in the Benefice who ha
 s visited\none of our wonderful churches during the Christmas\nperiod\, a 
 big thank you to all those responsible for the\nbeautiful decorations – 
 the Christmas cribs\, the\nChristmas trees\, the baubles and tinsel.\nThan
 k you for the time\, trouble and care taken.\nSunday is the Feast of the E
 piphany when we\ncommemorate the arrival of the Wise Men.\nCreator of the 
 heavens\,\nwho led the Magi by a star\nto worship the Christ-child:\nguide
  and sustain us\,\nthat we may find our journey’s end\nin Jesus Christ o
 ur Lord. Amen.\nPlough Sunday\n\nIn many rural communities the second Sund
 ay in\nJanuary is traditionally Plough Sunday.\nThe Church of England says
 \, through its\nEverydayFaith initiative….\n\nThe observance of Plough S
 unday on the First Sunday\nof Epiphany goes back to Victorian times\, but\
 nbehind it there is a much older observance\,\nassociated with the first w
 orking day after the\ntwelve days of Christmas\, hence ‘Plough Monday’
 \n\nin some places.\n\nIn the Middle Ages ploughs were sometimes kept in\n
 the parish church\, and some churches kept a\n‘plough-light’ – a can
 dle that burned over the\nplough throughout the winter.\nIn days when work
  was scarce in winter\, the\nobservance looked forward to the time of sowi
 ng\nwith the promise of a harvest to come.\nSome Christian communities hav
 e reintroduced it as a\nfocus for asking a blessing on human labour near\n
 the start of the calendar year.\nWhilst Plough Sunday remains an important
  marker\nfor the start of a new agricultural year\, this year we\nare enco
 uraging all churches to use this day to\nmark the start of a new year of f
 inding and\nfollowing God in everyday life: to celebrate and\npray for the
  work of cultivating God’s kingdom in\nwhatever we are called to do.\nTh
 e Light of God surrounds me\,\nThe Love of God enfolds me\,\nThe Power of 
 God protects me\,\nThe presence of God watches over me\,\nWherever I am 
 – God is.
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