Royston Parish Church (Herts)

Royston Parish Church News - Sunday 15th September

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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 us
To 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.

Saturday 7

10 am – 11.30 am Church Café

7 pm Cheese and Wine evening

Sunday 8

9 am Said Communion Service

10.30 am Sung Communion Service with Church Choir, Children's Church and refreshments

3.30 pm Tea Time Praise! With the Baptism of Jude Duncan

Tuesday 10

9 am Morning Prayer in the Chapel

Wednesday 11

11 am Said Communion service followed by refreshments

1 pm Knit and Natter in Church

Thursday 12

9 am – 11 am Tots in Church

6pm Fabric Meeting in Church (Note early start time!)

Friday 13

9 am Flower Arrangers in Church

12 noon Set up for Heritage Open Day

Saturday 14

10 am – 11.30 am Church Café

10am - 4pm Heritage Open Day

Sunday 15th September

9am Said Communion Service

10:30am Sung Communion Service with Church Choir, Children's Church and refreshments

12:30pm The Baptism of Albert Cooney

Tuesday 17

9 am Morning Prayer in the Chapel

Wednesday 18

11 am Said Communion service followed by refreshments

1 pm Knit and Natter in Church

7:30pm PCC meeting

Thursday 19

9 am – 11 am Tots in Church

7:30pm - Julian Prayer meeting at Carol Cardwell's (11 Middle Drift)

Friday 20th

5:15pm Set up for Arts Festival Opening Concert - Megson

7:30pm Megson Folk Concert

Saturday 21sth

10am-11:30am Church Café

4pm Herts and Beds Trust Church Visit with Refreshments

DATES FOR THE DIARY

SUNDAY 10:30am Sung Eucharist - Rob Fox to be inducted as a Lay Leader of Worship

TAIZE SERVICE Sunday 22nd September 6:30pm

ORGAN RECITAL BY STEVEN Friday 27th September 7.30 pm

HARVEST SUPPER: Saturday 28 September in Church

HARVEST FESTIVAL: Sunday 29 September 9 am (Said) and 10.30 am (Family Communion)

We pray for all Christians worldwide:

For all Christians in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

For all who worship at Barley, Barkway and Reed Churches; Revd. Mark Bridgen

For the work of our mission partners: Helping Herts Homeless

We pray for the community of Royston:

For our local health centres

For all who visit and volunteer at The Barn

We pray for our world and ECO projects:

Pray for Fair Trade Fortnight (9-22nd September)

We pray for the sick and suffering:

Sarah Murphy
Paul & Pat Tidey
Baby Forest Pike
Ron Monksfield
Baby Eden
Phoebe Strom
Peter Coates
Neal
Richard Moss
Ann Milton
Jan McElney
Roy Rodway
Jamie Covington
Lee Cockerill
Betty Gladstone
John Hutchins
Jackson Herbert
Helen Yerrill
Val Brown
Pauline Tasker
Jean Coslett
Margaret & John Coates
Angi and Ken Rushall
Kathy George
Mary Atkins
Lynn Fricker
Mike

We pray for those who have died in the faith of Christ:

We pray for those whose anniversaries fall at this time
16th September John Nicholl

22nd September Sarah Milton

NOTICES

HARVEST 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 [email protected].

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 [email protected] / 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 Steven

HARVEST SUPPER: Saturday 28th September 6.30 pm Tickets £10 each or £25 Family. Scan the QR code to book tickets or click on link

https://bit.ly/4bxvzZW

Tickets 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: [email protected] mobile:07591 136702). Thanks in advance.

Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust - SPONSORED BIKE ‘n HIKE - Saturday 14th September 2024

Last year we in Royston raised over £ 2,000 which was divided equally between BHHCT and our own parish funds. This far exceeded the amount raised in previous years and we hope to do just as well this year. Select your own route for cycling or hiking between the churches – there are over 600 churches to choose from so make it as long or as short as you wish. Most churches will be open on the day. The Sponsorship Packs are now available and if you would like a pack, please contact
Mike Maze (245606 or [email protected])

There is always the easier option which is to sponsor online one of the participants so please visit:-
Mike's fundraising page Rodney's fundraising page

Sunday 1st September: come and hear the guest speaker, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of “Wasteland” Royston Parish Church Eco Group Some of you may have read the book “Wasteland” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis (Joanne Wallis’ son-in-law!) or heard it broadcast as the book of the week on BBC Radio 4. If you haven’t already, then the Eco Church group encourage you to read it, and are very excited to learn that the author will be coming to speak at our Sunday morning services (9 am and 10.30 am) on 1st September – don’t miss it!

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 you

READINGS FOR 15TH SEPTEMBER

A Reading from the Letter of James

Not 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 - 12

GOSPEL

Jesus 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 TEAM

Vicar: Revd Steven Sivyer (rest day MONDAY)

Telephone no. 01763 243145

Email: [email protected]

Assistant Priest: The Reverend John Fidler

Telephone no. 01763 241886

Email: [email protected]

Reader: Emma Sivyer

Telephone no. 07851 688610

Email: [email protected]

Reader: Canon Reg Bailey

Telephone no. 01763 250637