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SUMMARY:Bowland Benefice Pews News 19 March 2023 Mothering Sunday
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DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News 19 March 2023\nMothering Sunday\n\
 nCollect\nGod of compassion\,\n\nwhose Son Jesus Christ\, the child of Mar
 y\,\nshared the life of a home in Nazareth\,\nand on the cross drew the wh
 ole human family\n\nto himself:\nstrengthen us in our daily living\nthat i
 n joy and in sorrow\nwe may know the power of your presence\nto bind toget
 her and to heal\;\nthrough Jesus Christ your Son our Lord\,\nwho is alive 
 and reigns with you\,\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, now an
 d for ever. Amen.\nThis week in the Benefice\nSunday\n19 March\n\n10.30am 
 Mothering Sunday\nService in Upton\nSnodsbury\n11.00am Benefice Holy\nComm
 union and\ncelebration for\nMothering Sunday\nin Peopleton\n\nTuesday\n21 
 March\n\n7.00pm Lent Course\ncontinues at The\nCrown\, Peopleton\n7.30pm W
 hite Ladies Aston\nPCC meets in the\nParish Room\n\nFriday\n24 March\n\n7.
 30pm Fisherman’s Friend\n2 – Film Night in\nWhite Ladies Aston\n(see b
 elow)\n\nSunday\n26 March\n5 th Sunday of\nLent\nPassiontide\nbegins\n\n9.
 00am Holy Communion in\nWhite Ladies Aston\n10.30am Songs of Praise in\nUp
 ton Snodsbury\n11.00am Holy Communion in\nPeopleton\nFilm Night on Friday 
 will be held in The Parish Room at\na cost of £5 to include an ice cream!
 \nGod is Spirit and those who worship him must\nworship in spirit and trut
 h.\n\nMaggie Pearse\nMaggie’s Funeral will take place on\nWednesday 5 Ap
 ril at 12 noon\nin Pershore Abbey.\nThis will be followed by a cremation a
 t\nThe Vale\, Crematorium\, Fladbury\nat 12 noon on Thursday 6 April.\nRev
 d Claire will be officiating.\nMay Maggie rest in peace and rise in glory.
 \n\nMothering Sunday\n\nMothering Sunday was originally a time when people
 \nreturned to the church in which they were baptised. It\nbecame the custo
 m for young people who worked in\nlarge houses to be given the day off on 
 Mothering\nSunday (the fourth Sunday in Lent) to visit their\nmothers and 
 they often took a gift of food\, flowers or\nhand-me-down clothing from th
 eir employers.\nTraditionally\, people fasted and ate simply during Lent\n
 but on Mothering Sunday many people prepared a\nSimnel Cake to share with 
 the family.\nA Simnel Cake is a light fruit cake decorated with 11\nMarzip
 an balls representing the Disciples\, excluding\nJudas. Legend has it that
  it was named after Lambert\nSimnel who worked in the kitchens of Henry VI
 I\n\naround the year 1500.\nA Prayer for Mothering Sunday\nLoving God\,\n\
 non Mothering Sunday we thank you for mothers\nand all those who are in th
 e ‘mothering role’ for\ntheir families – for all they mean or have m
 eant\;\nfor the love they have shown and the care they\n\nhave given.\n\nW
 e thank you for their qualities of patience\,\nkindness\, concern and unde
 rstanding.\nWe thank you for the part they play in our lives.\nWe thank yo
 u for this day of saying ‘thank you’ -\nfor this opportunity to say wh
 at we so often mean\n\nto say but so rarely do.\nFor mothers and motherhoo
 d\,\nfor fathers\, children and families.\nWe bring you this day our grate
 ful praise. Amen.\nThoughts for Mothering Sunday\nWhen Mums and Dads fall 
 short of what they intend\nto be and do\, help them to forgive themselves 
 and\nmove on. After all we are all human!\nFor all of us\, of whatever age
 \, whose Mother-figures\nhave died. May we remember with gratitude all the
 \njoys\, love and guidance we received from them.\nThank you for our homes
 . Places of rest\, laughter and\n\nforgiveness. Places just ‘to be’.\n
 For the countless thousands who at this time\, for so\nmany reasons do not
  know the joy and security of a\nhappy\, secure and safe family home.
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