Royston Parish Church News - 31st March 2024 - Easter Day

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Church News: WEEK OF SUNDAY 31st March 2024 - Easter Day

The 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.

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WHAT'S ON

Thu 28th March (Maundy Thursday)

   9-11am Tots in Church

   8pm Sung Holy Communion and the Washing of Feet, followed by Vigil and Taizé Service

Friday 29th March (Good Friday)

   10am Hot Cross Buns and Praise

   2pm-3pm Meditative Service: "An Hour at the Cross"

   7pm A showing of J.S. Bach's "St John's Passion" in church

Saturday 30th March (Easter Eve)

   8pm Tenebrae: The Service of Shadows

Please Note: the clocks go forward by one hour between 30th and 31st March!

Sunday 31st March (Easter Day)

   6:30am Sunrise Service starting in Priory Gardens followed by bacon butties in church

   9am BCP Holy Communion Service

   10:30am Family Communion Service followed by Easter Egg Hunt

Tuesday 2nd April

   6:15-8:30pm Royston Town Band Rehearsal

Wed 3rd April

   9:30-10am Celtic Prayer in Lady Chapel

   11am Said Eucharist followed by refreshments

   7:30pm Men's Group Meeting in Wetherspoons

Thursday 4th April

   2:30pm Ladies Group Meeting in Church

Sat 6th April

   10-11:30am Church Café

    12:30pm Lunchtime Concert - Words and Music to Welcome Spring

Sun 7th April

   9am Said Communion Service

   10:30am Sung Family Communion Service with Church Choir and Children's Church followed by refreshments

Wed 10th April

   11am Said Eucharist followed by refreshment

   7pm Fabric Development Committee meeting in church

Sat 13th April

   10-11:30am Church Café

   12 noon Royston Choral Society set-up for Evening Concert

   7:30pm Royston Choral Society Concert: Verdi Requiem.  See poster at back of church for details.


DATES FOR THE DIARY

      4th and 6th May - Book Fayre


INTERCESSIONS FOR THIS WEEK

As we pray for the Church, we pray for:

For all Christians in the Balkans

For all who worship at Melbourn Baptist Church; in vacancy

For the work of our mission partners: Leprosy Mission

We pray for the community of Royston:

For all our local health centres

For our local Market Stall holders

As we pray for our world and Eco projects, we pray for:

Celebrations of new life at Easter


We pray for the sick and suffering:

Glen Thomas

Neal

Baby Forest Pike

Sarah Murphy

Paul and Pat Tidey

Peter Coates

Baby Eden

Phoebe Strom

Jan McElney

Richard Moss

Ann Milton

Peter Nightingale

Jamie Covington

Lee Cockerill

Roy Rodway

Jackson Herbert

Shelagh Yerrill

Betty Gladstone

Jean Coslett

John Coates

Val Brown

Bishop Alan

Kathy George


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

Deceased                      Bereaved

We pray for those whose anniversaries fall at this time:

1 April                           Pearl Horsman

6th April                        Fred Doughton, Hilda Pearce

NOTICES

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NEXT JULIAN PRAYER meeting will be Thursday 25th April at 7.30pm at 11 Middle Drift.

LENT STUDY AND HOLY WEEK As we journey together through Holy Week to Easter there is an opportunity to join in the final three sessions of our Lent Study course on Monday 25th March, Tuesday 26th March and Wednesday 27th March. Using the Lord’s Prayer we have been considering how prayer deepens our relationship with God. Please note that it is not necessary to have been at any of the first 5 sessions in order to attend this week. The subjects are appropriate for Holy Week as we prepare to wait with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane:

Monday – Contemplation

Tuesday – Listening

Wednesday – Spiritual Warfare

Sessions are at 1.30pm and repeated at 7.30pm. You will be made very welcome.

BETH MOORLEY MESSAGE: On 21st April I am running the London Marathon! I have been given the opportunity to do so and at the same time support a fantastic charity, Keech Hospice Care. As many of you know I am one of the Community Nurses on the Children's Team and everyday I meet amazing and inspiring children, young people and their families. I know what a difference the charity is able to make in their lives, showing compassion, support and care in some of the most difficult circumstances.

Please sponsor me, if you are able, and share my page far and wide! Every penny will make a difference.  https://2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/beth-moorley

Thank you.

HASSOCKS We are selling spare hassocks (kneelers) for £20 each, all proceeds going to church funds. Limited number available.

FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT  Saturday 6th April, 12:30pm in our church. A programme of Music and Words to Welcome Spring, featuring Robin Pegna - Baritone, Ros Holbrow - Clarinet, and John Witchell - piano. Free entry. There will be a retiring collection in aid of church funds. Refreshments available. All welcome.

FIRST COMMUNION: If you have a young person who would like to start receiving communion, or someone who has been receiving communion but has not received any preparation and would like to, then please see Steven by the 18th March.

SPONSORED SWIM FOR WATERWAYS CHAPLAINCY : Emma Sivyer is raising funds to enable the work of Waterways Chaplains as they support those who live or spend time on Britain’s waterways many of whom live in poverty and suffer with their physical and mental health. Over the next 12 weeks she is going to swim 1780 lengths of Royston pool which is the length of our nearest navigable inland waterway, The Lee and Stort. She’d be really grateful if you’d like to sponsor her. Please use her Just Giving link here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/emma-sivyer-waterways-swim or if you prefer you can donate in cash by giving it to her and she will pay it in. 


SUNDAY READING SHEET 31st March 2024 EASTER DAY READINGS

A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles

Peter began to speak to them: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’

Acts 10: 34 - 43

GOSPEL

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” ’ Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her. John 20: 1 - 18


STAFF TEAM

Vicar: Revd Steven Sivvyer

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

Email: [email protected]


Parish Administrator: Joanne Wallis

Working hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 9 am to 1 pm

email: [email protected]

Mobile: 07935 774633


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