THE PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY

THE PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY
Bradford on Avon
www.brad-avon-ht.org.uk
Rector: Revd Joanna Abecassis
Holy Trinity Vicarage, 18A Woolley Street BA15 1AF
Tel 01225 864444 joanna.abecassis@cantab.net
Associate Priest: Revd Dr Ali Green Tel 0785 5470069 alig9@btinternet.com
Licensed Lay Minister: Graham Dove
Tel 07989 930950
22 MARCH 2015
PASSION SUNDAY - THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
LARGE PRINT SERVICE SHEETS ARE AVAILABLE
An audio loop system is in use in the church.
Refreshments will be served after our 9.30 am service, at the back of the church.
Newcomers and visitors are warmly invited to join us.
IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE PARISH, WE WELCOME YOU!
CHILDREN are very welcome at all our services and there is a special area with toys and
books for them. Please also look out for special posters.
TEAM TRINITY meets on the first and second Sunday of the month in the Guide HQ at 9.30
am, during term time. For details, please contact June Harrison (863745).
NEXT WEEK
PALM SUNDAY
THIS WEEK
Sunday
9.30am
3.30pm
6pm
Sung Eucharist
BACT Lent Course, Bearfield
Church
Evensong
10.30am
2pm
mainly music
Saxon Club – Famous
people we have met
10am
2.30pm
Eucharist
Mothers’ Union Deanery
Lady Day Service
Thursday
11am
Faith Explored at the
Vicarage
Friday
12 noon
Eucharist (Traditional
Language) with lunch out
together afterwards
Tuesday
Wednesday
Monday, and
Wednesday to
Saturday
8.30am &
5.30pm
Morning and Evening Prayer
(please enter by the door
opposite the Saxon Church.
No Morning Prayer on
Monday, no Evening
Prayer on Wednesday.
8am
Eucharist (Traditional
Language)
9.30am
Sung Eucharist with
Procession of Palms
EUCHARISTIC READINGS
(NRSV)
Mark 11. 1-11
Isaiah 50. 4-9a
Philippians 2. 5-11
Mark 15. 1-39
EVENING READINGS
(NRSV)
INTROIT HYMN: 96
THE COLLECT:
Most merciful God,
who by the death and resurrection of your
Son Jesus Christ delivered and saved the
world: grant that by faith in him who
suffered on the cross we may triumph in
the power of his victory; 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.
FIRST READING:
Jeremiah 31. 31-34 NRSV
The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and the house of Judah. It
will not be like the covenant that I made
with their ancestors when I took them by
the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though
I was their husband, says the Lord. But this
is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, says the
Lord: I will put my law within them, and I
will write it on their hearts; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people. No
longer shall they teach one another, or say
to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they
shall all know me, from the least of them to
the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive
their iniquity, and remember their sin no
more.
SECOND READING:
Hebrews 5. 5-10 NRSV
Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a
high priest, but was appointed by the one
who said to him,
‘You are my Son,
today I have begotten you’;
as he says also in another place,
‘You are a priest for ever,
according to the order of Melchizedek.’
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up
prayers and supplications, with loud cries
and tears, to the one who was able to save
him from death, and he was heard because
of his reverent submission. Although he
was a Son, he learned obedience through
what he suffered; and having been made
perfect, he became the source of eternal
salvation for all who obey him, having been
designated by God a high priest according
to the order of Melchizedek.
GRADUAL HYMN: 106
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal
glory.
Christ humbled himself and became
obedient unto death, even death on a
cross. Therefore God has highly exalted
him and given him the name that is above
every name.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal
glory.
THE GOSPEL READING:
John 12. 20-33 NRSV
Among those who went up to worship at
the festival were some Greeks. They came
to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in
Galilee, and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to
see Jesus.’ Philip went and told Andrew;
then Andrew and Philip went and told
Jesus. Jesus answered them, ‘The hour
has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a
grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,
it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it
bears much fruit. Those who love their life
lose it, and those who hate their life in this
world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever
serves me must follow me, and where I am,
there will my servant be also. Whoever
serves me, the Father will honour. ‘Now my
soul is troubled. And what should I say –
“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is
for this reason that I have come to this
hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a
voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it,
and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd
standing there heard it and said that it was
thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken
to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘This voice has
come for your sake, not for mine.
Now is the judgement of this world; now the
ruler of this world will be driven out. And I,
when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw
all people to myself.’ He said this to
indicate the kind of death he was to die.
OFFERTORY HYMN: 108
POST COMMUNION HYMN: 122
NOTICES
Please send all Notices to Sally
bradavonba@gmail.com no later than
Wednesday for the following Sunday.
OFFICE COPYING AND PRINTING –
please contact Aylene Clack on
beneficeoffice@brad-avon-ht.org.uk for any
church paperwork.
RE-ORDERING PROJECT SUGGESTIONS
BOX! – please do take an orange ‘Questions
and Answers’ about this from the table at
the crossing. But if you still have a question,
comment or suggestion, please do let
Joanna or Chris know, or just pop it into the
box by the display. Thank you!
BACT LENT REFLECTIONS – are guided
this year by Ali Green and focus on the
events of Holy Week. The last meeting will
be held at Bearfield Church at the NEW
TIME of 4pm with tea at 5.30pm.
SKITTLES EVENING - Friends of Holy
Trinity, including a Ploughman's Supper at
the Winsley Social Club. Friday 17 April at
7.30pm. Friends £10, Non-Friends £10.50.
Contact Mike Fuller if interested 01225
864122 or fullermike@btinternet.com or
sign the form in church.
THE HUB@BA15 now has a co-ordinator,
building works have been taking place, and
they are opening ON FRIDAY! They are
seeking volunteers to help in lots of ways If
you are interested in this, or in helping at
all, please contact Avril Clarke on: 01225
865598 – 07588 682224 - or
jart.clarke@btinternet.com
ELECTORAL ROLL 2015 – the revision
process has begun so please can you
check your entry at the crossing – and take
a form if you are not yet a member.
HOLY TRINTY STEWARDS – URGENT!
Last year we opened the Church from 14
April until the end of September – and
managed to open for 118 days out of a
possible 170 days. So unless we can
recruit more stewards, or stewards can do
additional days, we will be in an even
worse situation in 2015! Please have a
word with David Milne or the churchwardens if you can help?? It is a really
rewarding ministry and you can meet some
fascinating people!
ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH
MEETING (APCM) – will take place this
year at 11.15am on Sunday, 12 April and
will be followed by a shared ‘pot-luck’ lunch
- a really important opportunity to celebrate
the past year together and to look forward
to the new one. So please put the date
firmly in the diary! There are 3 vacancies
on the PCC, and we so far have 3
nominations, but there may be more, so
please talk to Joanna if interested.
FRIENDS OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
CRAWL - your chance to see examples of
recently re-ordered churches in Somerset,
including a kitchen “pod” and tower room
on WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY, leaving BoA
Station Car Park at 9am and returning by
6pm. Cost £12 approx. Opportunity to buy
Lunch in Blagdon. Names on the list at the
crossing please.
‘CHILD SLAVERY, Exploitation &
Trafficking Conference’ – Tuesday 28
April at Sarum Academy, Salisbury. Aims:
to help equip & resource people to both
expose this practice and to provide loving
care to its survivors. For further information
and to book go to:
http://www.salisbury.anglican.org/learning/y
outh-and-children/people-trafficking-childslavery-child-exploitation-conference
FOR OUR PRAYERS
Please pray for all who are sick,
remembering especially:
Eloise Appleby, Zac Bailey, Dawn Bennett,
John Burgess, Matthew Cox, Betty Dove,
David Fielden, Joy Harris, Jane Hinde, Ann
Holland, Dennis Holloway, Muriel Metcalfe,
Michael O’Connell, Eileen Page, Alison
Penny, Florence Prior-Mangum, Bob Steel,
Frances Taylor, Kathleen Thompson, Paul
Weymouth and Doreen Wilkins.
churches. You are also invited to walk any
part of the route with them. Full details of
the pilgrimage route at:
http://www.salisbury.anglican.org/whoswho/bishops/the-bishop-of-ramsbury/lentwalks-2015.
HOLY WEEK & EASTER
AT HOLY TRINITY
Pray for all those who mourn and for
those who have recently died
remembering especially any known to
us in this parish.
And we pray for all those whose
anniversary of death falls at this time,
remembering especially:
Philip Tanner, Joan Fletcher and Jean
Pike.
Please always let Joanna, Graham or
any other member of the Pastoral Care
Team know of any pastoral need – any
kind of pain or loss, illness,
hospitalisation, loneliness – or simply
cause for prayer.
FOR PRAYER THIS WEEK
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Vanuatu and the Melanesian Mission
Christian Aid
BACT
Wingfield APCM
The Hub@BA15
The choir and Director of Music
JOIN BISHOP ED – AND NOW
ARCHDEACONS RUTH AND ALAN!! FOR PRAYER IN BRADFORD ON AVON
- Bishop Ed and the Archdeacons are
undertaking a Pilgrimage Walk on
Wednesday, 1 APRIL – please note new
date - in and around Bradford on Avon.
They will arrive at Holy Trinity at 8.10am
and the Saxon Church at 8.40am, and you
are welcome to join them in prayer at both
PALM SUNDAY
9.30am – start by the Saxon
Church and then process into
church, with Holy Communion.
MONDAY – WEDNESDAY
30 March – 1 April
6pm – Eucharist with short
reflection on the gospel
Wednesday – 1 April
10am – Eucharist
MAUNDY THURSDAY – 2 April
8pm – Liturgy with foot-washing,
Holy Communion, Watch until
Midnight
GOOD FRIDAY – 3 April
11am – BACT Walk of Witness
from Westbury Gardens
2pm – Liturgy
HOLY SATURDAY – 4 April
8pm – Easter Vigil & First Eucharist
of Easter
EASTER DAY
8am – Eucharist with Bishop Bill Ind
9.30 – Sung Eucharist
Bishop Ed will be joining us on
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday
and Holy Saturday!