BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pews News 21 May 2023 DTSTART:20230518T174500Z DTEND:20230525T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260921T112805Z UID:9470382023-05-18 17:45:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Bowland Benefice\nPews News\n21 May 2023\n7 th Sunday of Easte r\nCollect\nO God the King of glory\,\nyou have exalted your only Son Jesu s Christ\nwith great triumph to your kingdom in heaven:\nwe beseech you\, leave us not comfortless\,\nbut send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us\nan d exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ\n\nis gone before\,\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\n21 May\n\n1 0.30am Benefice Holy\nCommunion in\nWhite Ladies Aston\n\nMonday\n22 May\n \n12 noon Lunch in The Parish\nRoom\, White Ladies\nAston\n\nSaturday\n27 May\n\n12 noon Wedding of Susan\nBate and Wayne\nWing in Broughton\nHacket t\n7.00pm Live Jazz in\nCowsden\n\nSunday\n28 May\nDay of\nPentecost\n\n9. 00am Holy Communion in\nWhite Ladies Aston\n10.30am Hymns and a Prayer\nin Upton Snodsbury\n11.00am Holy Communion in\nPeopleton\nEnjoy lunch for £ 4 with friends and neighbours in The\nParish Room on Monday 22 nd . Please book by\ncontacting margaret.haywood@gmail.com\nCongratulations and all b est wishes to Sue and\nWayne\, getting married in St Leonard’s on Saturd ay\n27 th . May they have a wonderful day and married life\n\ntogether.\n\ nMartin Veasey and Friends will play jazz in the\nConservatory of Cowsden Hall on Saturday 27 th from\n7.00pm. Tickets and further information from Helen\n01905 381490 or Janet 01905 381379.\nThis Sunday is the Benefice Se rvice of Holy\nCommunion in St John the Baptist\, White Ladies\n\nAston.\n \nPlease do support services held beyond your own\nParish when there isn ’t one in your own church. It is a\ngood way to make new friends\, meet up with old ones\nand experience perhaps a different form of worship\n\nav ailable in our Benefice.\n\nThere is still time to support\nChristian Aid Week 2023 (14 to 20 May)\nIt is a week where Christians all over the UK wo rk as\none to support people in all parts of our troubled\nplanet without reference to nationality\, gender or\n\ncreed.\n\nThe theme this year is: No mother should have to\nchoose which child to send to school\nThere is a red Christian Aid bucket in The Pantry shop\nand another at The Crown pub in Peopleton for your\n\nChristian Aid envelopes.\n\nDonations can also b e made directly through the\n\nChristian Aid website.\nFood Banks\n\nWe mu st not forget too\, that even though the\nweather is improving there are m any people in this\ncountry and in our locality struggling with their\nhou sehold bills and feeding their families – there are\ncollection boxes ar ound the Benefice and in\n\nsupermarkets too.\nEvery little really does he lp!\nA poem for these beautiful May days –\nPart of a Meditation by Joy Cowley\nYou big\, bright beautiful God\,\nThis is my day for flying!\nI re ach out to the bigness of you.\nI touch the brightness of you\nand I feel the beauty of you\nin the centre of my living.\nAnd if tomorrow I am groun ded\nby a weight of anxieties\,\n\nif my feet are heavy and there are clou ds between\n\nme and the sun\,\n\nthen let me keep hold of the warm place\ n\nin my heart\nreminding me that today I flew\nand was kissed by God.\nPr ayers for when things get difficult\nLord\, increase my faith that I may e mbrace everything\n\nthat is your will.\n\nLord\, increase my faith that t he mountain of difficulty\n\nmay be removed.\n\nLord\, increase my faith t hat I may never be impatient\n\nor frustrated.\n\nLord\, increase my faith that I may run to you in every\n\nsituation.\n\nLord\, increase my faith that I may trust you in seeming\n\nfailure or defeat.\n\nLord\, fill me wi th faith\, hope and love\, this day and\n\nalways. Amen.\n\nHeavenly Fathe r\, surround us with your love\,\nprotect us from evil and fill us with yo ur Holy Spirit\nthat we may walk in the way of Christ and grow in the\n\nk nowledge of your love.\n(taken from St Ann’s Church Manchester) GEO:-2.092194;52.151631 LOCATION:St Nicholas\, Peopleton URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/18658/service-and-events/events/ 947038/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR