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SUMMARY:Pews News 26 February 2023 First Sunday of Lent
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 26 February 2023\nFirst Sunday of 
 Lent\nCollect\nAlmighty God\,\n\nwhose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days 
 in the\n\nwilderness\,\n\nand was tempted as we are\, yet without sin:\ngi
 ve us grace to discipline ourselves in obedience to\n\nyour Spirit\;\nand\
 , as you know our weakness\,\nso may we know your power to save\;\nthrough
  Jesus Christ 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 we
 ek in the Benefice\nSunday\n26 February\n\n9.00am Holy Communion in\nWhite
  Ladies Aston\n10.30am Hymns and a Prayer\nin Upton Snodsbury\n11.00am Hol
 y Communion in\nPeopleton\n\nTuesday\n28 February\n\n7.00pm Lent Course\nc
 ontinues at The\nCrown\, Peopleton\n(see below)\n\nFriday\n3 March\n\n2.00
 pm World Day of Prayer\nat The Pershore\nBaptist Church (see\nbelow)\n\nSa
 turday\n4 March\n\n10.30am Coffee Morning\nAt Pump Cottage\,\nCowsden\n(se
 e below)\n\nSunday\n5 March\n2 nd Sunday of\nLent\n\n10.30am Family Servic
 e in\nUpton Snodsbury\n11.00am Holy Communion\n6.00pm Evensong in White\nL
 adies Aston\nOn Tuesday at 7.00pm the Lent Course continues at\nThe Crown 
 in Peopleton. If you weren’t able to make\nit last week\, please do go a
 long for the second of the\nsix sessions. More information from Revd Clair
 e.\nThe annual World Day of Prayer on Friday 3 March has\nbeen prepared by
  the Christian women’s community\n\nof Taiwan.\n\nOn 4 March\, a coffee 
 morning from 10.30am to 12\nnoon at Pump Cottage\, Cowsden. Betty and Hele
 n will\nmake you very welcome and you can enjoy coffee\,\ncakes and a chat
  with friends and neighbours. Raffle\nand bring and buy to raise money for
  St Kenelm’s\n\nrotten church floor!\n\nA Thank You\n\nThank you to ever
 yone who contributed in whatever\nway to the magnificent sum raised at Whi
 te Ladies\nAston’s coffee morning for the Ukraine on Saturday 18\nFebrua
 ry. With the PCC’s matched funding a total of\n£1164.67 will be sent to
  help the country as it faces\n\nyear 2 of the conflict.\n\nThere are plan
 s to hold a similar coffee morning for\nthe Turkey/Syria earthquake appeal
  in April. If you\, as\nan individual or through your business or through 
 the\ncompany you work for could/would consider matched\nfunding please con
 tact the coffee and raffle team by\n\nemailing:\n\nmargaret.haywood@gmail.
 com\n\nWorcester Diocese issues a prayer diary every quarter.\nIt covers a
 nd prays for in turn all the parishes in the\nDiocese and any special even
 ts or initiatives that are\nbeing marked and celebrated. It is certainly a
  way of\nkeeping in touch with and finding out about fellow\nChristians ac
 ross Worcestershire. It is available in\nchurches in paper form but if you
  would like an\nelectronic version of the Diocesan Prayer Diary it can\n\n
 be found on the link below:\n\nhttps://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/prayer-di
 ary/\n\nThe Season of Lent\nbegan with Ash Wednesday last week.\nHistorica
 lly the Church has called us to prayer\,\nfasting\, and almsgiving at this
  time.\nLent is a penitential season – a time to remember\,\nmaybe to re
 gret\, to forgive ourselves and others and\nto reflect on our commitment t
 o Jesus and the Church\nhe founded all those centuries ago.\nThe world see
 ms a broken and sorrowful place\nwherever we look so maybe in 2023 this se
 ason has\neven more importance for those who profess the\n\nChristian Fait
 h.\n\nI don’t know where I am going but I will travel well\nwhen my hand
  is held in yours.\nFirst of ten thoughts during Lent about ‘praying’\
 nThe first and last thing we ever do is breathe.\nIt’s important and mea
 ns we are alive!!\nIn eastern mysticism\, different faiths and western\nre
 ligions\, for centuries\, breathing has been a way of\nconnecting us – t
 he created – with our creator.\nBy concentrating on our breath in quiet 
 moments we\n\ncan get closer to God.\nTo breathe is to pray.\n\nSecond of 
 ten thoughts during Lent about ‘praying’\nSmile and the world smiles b
 ack. Your smile for\nsomeone conveys a wish of wellbeing and a silent\n‘
 thank you’ for them and for all they mean to you.\nA smile received is v
 ery likely a smile returned\, with\n\nthe warmest of wishes.\nPrayer is en
 twined with your smile.\nSend out love today.
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