You can download the paper copy of our news sheet from the link at the side of this page. The diocese’s Living God’s Love Prayer:Living God, draw us deeper into your love; Jesus our Lord, send us to care and serve;Holy Spirit, make us heralds of good news.Stir us, strengthen us, teach and inspire usTo live your love with generosity and joy,Imagination and courage; for the sake of your world and in the name of Jesus, Amen. Please note: The Parish Office email has changed to admin@roystonparishchurch.org.uk. If you would like regular copies of the Notice Sheet emailed to you please email this account. Friday 20th5:15pm Set up for Arts Festival Opening Concert - Megson7:30pm Megson Folk ConcertSaturday 21st September10am-11:30am Church Café4pm Herts and Beds Trust Church Visit with RefreshmentsSunday 22nd SeptemberFINAL DAY FOR PURCHASING HARVEST SUPPER TICKETS!9am Book fo Common Prayer Holy Communion Service10:30am Sung Communion Service with yje Induction of Rob Fox as a Lay Leader of Worship , Church Choir, Children's Church and refreshments6:30pm Taizé service of MeditationTuesday 23 September9 am Morning Prayer in the ChapelWednesday 2511 am Said Communion service followed by refreshments1 pm Knit and Natter in Church7:00-8:300pm Choir PracticeThursday 269 am – 11 am Tots in ChurchFriday 27th September7:30pm Organ Recital by Revd Dr Steven Sivyer (more details in Notices)Saturday 28th 10am-11:30am Church Café6:30pm Harvest Supper (more details in notices)Sunday 29th September9am Said Conmunion Service10:30am HARVEST FESTIVAL FAMILY SERVICE (more details on Harvest Gifts in notices)We pray for all Christians worldwide:For all Christians in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, PeruFor all who worship at Kneesworth House Hospital, Ged McHaleFor the work of our mission partners: Royston HomestartWe pray for the community of Royston:For our local health centres For all who visit and volunteer at Royston Community TransportWe pray for our world and ECO projects: Pray for the Great British Beach CleanWe pray for the sick and suffering: Sarah MurphyPaul & Pat TideyBaby Forest PikeRon MonksfieldBaby EdenPhoebe StromPeter CoatesNealRichard MossAnn MiltonJan McElneyRoy RodwayJamie CovingtonLee CockerillBetty GladstoneJohn HutchinsJackson HerbertHelen YerrillVal BrownPauline TaskerJean CoslettMargaret & John CoatesAngi and Ken RushallKathy GeorgeMary AtkinsLynn FrickerMike We pray for those who have died in the faith of Christ:We pray for those whose anniversaries fall at this time22nd Sept Sarah Milton24 September Maureen Pendrick27 September Floss BlairNOTICESNEW CURATE FOR ROYSTON. We shall be receiving Curate next year. Jaime Roberts will be ordained deacon on 29th June in St Albans Cathedral and she will then serve her curacy in Royston. She is currently studying at Ripon College in Cuddesdon near Oxford. More information about Jaime will be posted in a few weeks.SHOE BOX APPEAL 2024The P.C.C. has decided that this year we should renew our tradition of having a Shoebox Appeal for Christmas.Under the scheme church members each fill a box with a variety of useful small gifts. You can collect from church a leaflet (and a empty shoebox) which explains all the details. It contains suggestions of gifts for all family members, so no-one is left out, and includes items such a shower gel/shampoo, family games, stationery items, ideas for mum and dad and grandparents, as well as sweets, soft toys, hats and scarves, and lots more.The filled boxes are then brought to the church to be collected by a charity, which takes them abroad to be distributed to needy families as Christmas gifts. The charity we will be working with this year is a Christian organisation called Link to Hope. Their annual family shoebox appeal has been running since 1992 and has sent over 800,000 boxes to hundreds of different locations. Link to Hope’s aim is to combat poverty and give humanitarian aid and has special concern for the most disadvantaged.This year our shoeboxes will go to the poorest people in Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania.Link to Hope believe that sending shoeboxes shows love from British people to those in war-torn or poverty-stricken circumstances, regardless of their background, colour or creed.We will be launching the scheme at St. John the Baptist in October - watch out for details - and we will send the boxes off in early November.THE CHURCHES TOGETHER LIGHT PARTY is returning on 31st October 2024 at Coombes Community Centre. We need at least 35 volunteers from our partner churches to make this event possible. Please would you share details of the event with your congregations and ask them to contact Louise Bradley as soon as possible if they are able to help at the event. We are also seeking volunteers for a prayer team who will be on site, in an upstairs room, praying for the event and the families who join us.Please contact Louise Bradley on 07742 927160 or louise@louisebardleyva.comHARVEST FESTIVAL 29 SEPTEMBER: We will celebrate a Said Communion service at 9 am only, the 10.30 am will be a sung Family Service. Harvest gifts of non-perishable goods may be brought to both services. These will be taken to the Food Bank during the week. Help to get these down to the Food Bank would be greatly appreciated. Please speak to Joanne if you can help. THE ANNUAL ALL SOULS' SERVICE will take place at Sunday 3rd November at 6pm. During this service there will be some well-known hymns, a reading from the bible, some prayers and a short address. There will be an opportunity to remember and give thanks for those we love who have died, to commemorate them by name and have candles lit as their name is read out as a prayerful expression of remembrance. If you would like your loved one remembered by name then you can contact Joanne Wallis on 07935 774633 or at admin@roystonparishchurch.org.uk.John Fidler would like to thank everybody who in various ways has been in touch with good wishes for his health. He is recovering but still needing to rest and hopes to be back in circulation soon.COLOUR FOR THE VICARAGE GARDEN Dear friends - the vicarage garden is beautiful and green but needs some other colours. If any of the gardeners amongst the congregation have any surplus plants we would be really grateful. As we are not knowledgeable gardeners please message Emma on emma@sivyer.org.uk / 07851688610 to arrange a time when you can come to the vicarage and suggest where we should plant what you have. Thank you Emma and StevenHARVEST SUPPER: Saturday 28th September 6.30 pm Tickets £10 each or £25 Family. Scan the QR code to book tickets or click on linkhttps://bit.ly/4bxvzZWTickets must be purchased in advance, for catering purposes. Please bring own plate, bowl and cutlery. All proceeds in aid of BRAVE Trust. If you are able to help with the catering by providing a casserole and/or fruit crumble, please can you contact Ruth Savage (email: ruth_savage@hotmail.co.uk mobile:07591 136702). Thanks in advance. ORGAN RECITAL BY STEVEN Friday 27th September 7.30 pm To celebrate 50 years of our twinning between Royston and Groβalmerode, Rev Steven will play music from Germany and England across the ages. Raising funds for the Church. To book tickets please use the QR code or click on the link https://bit.ly/organ24 Thank youREADINGS FOR 15TH SEPTEMBERA Reading from the Letter of JamesNot many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits.How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh. James 3: 1 - 12GOSPELJesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’ He asked them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Peter answered him, ‘You are the Messiah.’ And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him. Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’ He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’ STAFF TEAMVicar: Revd Steven Sivyer (rest day MONDAY)Telephone no. 01763 243145Email: vicar@roystonparishchurch.org.ukAssistant Priest: The Reverend John FidlerTelephone no. 01763 241886Email: johnhfidler@aol.com Reader: Emma SivyerTelephone no. 07851 688610Email: emma@sivyer.org.ukReader: Canon Reg BaileyTelephone no. 01763 250637Email: regbailey@aol.com Parish Administrator: Joanne WallisWorking hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 9 am to 1 pm email: admin@roystonparishchurch.org.ukMobile: 07935 774633www.roystonparishchurch.org.ukemail: admin@roystonparishchurch.org.ukwww.facebook.com/roystonparishchurch.herts
SUNDAY READING SHEET 22nd September 2024 17th Sunday after TrinityCollectAlmighty God,you have made us for yourself,and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you:pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself,and so bring us at last to your heavenly citywhere we shall see you face to face;through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,who is alive and reigns with you,in the unity of the Holy Spirit,one God, now and for ever.Amen. A Reading from the Letter of JamesWho is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth. Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish. For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.James 3: 13 - 4: 3, 7 - 8aFor the word of the LordAll: Thanks be to GodGOSPELHear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark All: Glory to you, O Lord.They went on from there and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.’ But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, ‘What were you arguing about on the way?’ But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, ‘Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.’ Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.’Mark 9: 30 - 37 This is the Gospel of the Lord.All: Praise to you, O Christ.Post Communion Prayer:Lord, we pray that your gracemay always precede and follow us,and make us continually to be given to all good works;through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
