ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, HUGHENDEN

ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, HUGHENDEN
26 October 2014 : Last Sunday after Trinity
WELCOME TO OUR SERVICES TODAY. If you are a visitor and usually
take communion in your own church, we hope you will share the sacrament
with us. If you are not a communicant, please still come to the altar, but
carry a book, and you will receive a blessing. Do join us for Fairtrade
refreshments in Church House after the 8:00 am and 9:00 am services and
at the back of church after the 10:45 am service.
A Crèche is available in the North Room during the 10:45 am service. All
children attending the 10.45 am service are welcome to meet in school year
groups during term time as follows:
Bubbles - Pre-school & Reception: North Room
JC Club - Years 1 - 5: Church House
Bell Tower - Years 6 - 9: Bell Tower
Please take this sheet home with you as a reminder of events in the coming
week which you might want to join in with, or pray over.
COLLECTS FOR TODAY'S SERVICES
Collect:
Blessed Lord,
who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning:
help us so to hear them,
to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them
that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word,
we may embrace and for ever hold fast
the hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Post Communion Collect:
God of all grace,
your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry
with the bread of his life and the word of his kingdom:
renew your people with your heavenly grace,
and in all our weakness
sustain us by your true and living bread;
who is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Amen.
Church Notices: please send to notices@hughendenparishchurch.org.uk
Today's readings with their pew bible page numbers are:
Old Testament Reading:
Leviticus 19: 1-2 & 15-18 (page 121)
When Jesus was challenged, as we shall hear, about keeping the
Commandments, he quoted the two great positive laws we are never to
forget, Love God with all your heart and, as Moses told the Israelites in this
reading, love your neighbour as yourself.
New Testament Reading:
1 Thessalonians 2: 1-8 (page 1186)
This reading continues from last Sunday, in Paul's earliest letter. It reminds
the Thessalonians that his mission to them had not been like other
preachers who did it for profit, but under the gentle compulsion of the free
Gospel of God.
Gospel Reading:
Matthew 22: 34-46 (page 991)
In these conversations with Sadducees and Pharisees we find Jesus turning
their arguments upside-down. It was a radical challenge to their authority and
to the respect they normally enjoyed. This passage includes the two great
commandments of love, which Jesus quotes from the Hebrew Scriptures.
8:00 am Holy Communion (Said) (Common Worship)
9:00 am Matins (Sung) (BCP)
Psalm 1 (Oxford Psalter page 23)
10:45 am Family Communion
If at the Family service you would like to receive prayer for healing, general well being,
comfort and strength by our trained Prayer Team, please make your way up early to the
communion rail and then go into the North Chapel (doorway by the organ) where you will be
warmly and confidentially welcomed.
6:00 pm Evensong (Sung) (BCP) (No sermon)
Psalm 119: 89-104 (Oxford Psalter page 236)
Ecclesiastes 11 & 12 (page 676)
Hymn 150
2 Timothy 2: 1-7 (page 1195)
Hymns 449 & 246
Intercessions:
In our prayers this week we remember Joan Gibson, Stella
Blake, Joan Sweet, Annie Coles, Avis Clinch, Ann Way,
Rudi Gelsey, Jim and Anne Long, Florence Pinfield, and all
who care for and about them.
WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK
Morning Prayer is said on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at
7:30 am and on Tuesday and Thursday at 7:45 am. Do join us.
MONDAY 27 October
10:15 am Ladies' Daytime Fellowship & Bible Study. A warm welcome to all.
Further details - Judith Camplisson (565108) or Ann Long (564009)
TUESDAY 28 October Simon and Jude, Apostles
10:00 am Holy Communion: Church
1:45 pm Art Fellowship Group: Church House
WEDNESDAY 29 October
7:30 pm Alpha Course: Church House
SATURDAY 1 November All Saints’ Day
12 noon Service of Sung Eucharist followed by lunch in Church House.
Please book with Arthur by Friday.
Next Sunday:
2 November : Fourth Sunday before Advent
8:00 am Holy Communion (Said) (BCP)
9:00 am Holy Communion (Sung) (Common Worship)
10:45 am All Age Family Service
4:00 pm Service of Thanksgiving and Commemoration
6:00 pm Evensong (Sung) (BCP)
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
9 November – Remembrance Sunday Act of remembrance at 10:20 am
which enables people from all our congregations to come together for the
eight-minute service.
13 November – 24/7 Prayer for Wycombe from 8:00 am to 8:00 am Friday
at home or in the North Room, where the prayer space will be set up. The
sign-up sheet is on the table at the back of the Church and will be joined by
the Prayer Points at the beginning of the month. Prayerfully consider
signing up for an hour, or part of an hour, in prayer for the ministries taking
place in High Wycombe.
20 November – Concert at 6:00 pm (with tea & cake served from 5.30) of
music by Mendelssohn, Holst and Mozart played by Nicky Fairbairn (oboe)
and The Keats Quartet. Music for the ‘Season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness’. Contact Arthur Johnson (01494 521471) for tickets: £11
(student/child £6).
22 November – The Cry - Requiem for the Lost Child A powerful and
moving choral work which uses the Requiem liturgy interwoven with the
words of children who have been effected by war and conflict. At All Saints
Church, High Wycombe at 7:30 pm. Tickets from Helen Byrne (07881
781695) - £12, £10 concession, Children under 12 free but must have a
ticket.
GENERAL
Advance Notice Filming will take place at the Manor on 5th, 6th, 11th, 12th
and 13th November. The car park will have equipment vans in it; but the
film company have been requested that a good amount of space be
available for church business.
The Dorcas Project This Christmas Dorcas will be providing small new
Christmas presents for children including a book, colouring pencils,
colouring books and puzzles. They envisage each present costing
approximately £5. Last year they received 265 referrals for this small
project and they expect to receive something in the region of the same this
year. Donations would be very much appreciated towards the cost of this
project, new books etc. as aforementioned (for children 0-12 years) and,
most importantly, prayer for the children who will be receiving the presents.
If you can help in any way you may leave gifts at Holy Trinity Church office,
Amersham Road, mornings only, or with Yvonne Cook who will be happy to
take them for you. More information from the Dorcas Project in the Dec/Jan
Outlook.
Mission Aviation Fellowship Would you like to further support the work of
MAF, one of our supported charities, by praying regularly with other MAF
supporters? A prayer group meets in High Wycombe every 2 months to
pray for the work of MAF, and the group would welcome new people. The
next meetings will be in November and January. For further details please
speak to David Tester (01494 563354) or call Graham Bunsell, of Totteridge
Baptist church, (01494 535347)
Wycombe Homeless Connection is looking for 50 hardy volunteers to
take part in their Big Sleepout 2014 on Saturday 15th November at Eden
Shopping Centre. No entry charge, but it is hoped that participants will raise
at least £100 in sponsorship. This will help fund our work rebuilding
shattered lives here in High Wycombe. Over 18s only. You'll need to bring
your own sleeping bag and pillow, but cardboard boxes will be provided! A
cold, uncomfortable night will be made better by takeout pizza, hot drinks,
entertainment and a sense of camaraderie. Both our local MP and the
Mayor are taking part so why don't you?! You will really appreciate the hot
shower when you get home...