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SERVICES TODAY
8.00am Holy Communion - Ross The Rev’d Canon Marvin Bamforth
9.30am Sung Eucharist - Ross The Rev’d Canon Marvin Bamforth and The Rev’d Colin Leggate Setting: A New English Mass - Appleford Introit: 211 Now is the eternal life Psalm: 133 (said) Grad: 209 Love’s redeeming work is done Offertory: 207 Jesus lives! Post Com: 218 Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son The choir is on holiday today Please join us for coffee after this service
9.30am Family Service - Walford The Rev’d Prebendary Caroline Pascoe and The Rev’d Simon Tarlton Hymn: 485 O for a thousand tongues to sing Hymn: 901 This little light of mine Hymn: 666 The spirit lives to set us free
6.30pm Evening Prayer - Ross Dr Derek Glover Said service
SERVICES NEXT WEEK Thursday 12th April 10.00am Holy Communion - Ross Sunday 15th April 8.00am Holy Communion - Ross 9.30am Sung Eucharist - Ross 9.30am Parish Communion - Walford 11.15am Village Service - Brampton Abbotts School
gardens to keep all the family entertained. This is a unique opportunity to see inside the most interesting “secret” gardens that Walford has to offer as well as views of our surrounding countryside that you’ll never before have been afforded. All money raised will go towards the upkeep of our beautiful church. If you able to offer any help on the day such as manning gates or assisting with parking, please contact Sanna Drummond ([email protected]). We look forward to seeing you on what promises to be a glorious day!
The St Mary's Fundraising Committee has served us well and has organised many good events including the Christmas Tree Festivals. After several years of service some members need a rest! We now need some members of the congregation to join the group. The work is fun and you will make a real difference to our financial positon and our visibility in the town. If you are interested in exploring this or if you have a fundraising idea, please contact me or Val Allen. Sarah
Tuesday 15th May – Community Larder Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday 15th May in St Mary’s Church Hall, starting at 7.30pm. All those involved and/or interested in the work of the Larder, Tea and Toast and Job Club are invited. This is an social evening with the chance to meet other volunteers, business is kept to a minimum and we will be welcoming Julia Richardson who will talk about her work with the Prison Service. Light refreshments will be served. Many thanks Lindsay Cole
Dear friends, because the Festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary (called The Annunciation) is on March 25th (this year Monday of Holy Week) it has been transferred to April 9th; and hence the Patronal Festival of Ross Parish Church is tomorrow. The belief that Jesus was both human and divine is central to Christianity and so because of Mary’s unique significance - as the mother of Christ - respect and honour (for short hand ‘veneration’) is accorded to her within most parts of the Christian Church. This honour and respect varies across the breadth of Anglican churchmanship - but whatever may be our personal views on some of the customs surrounding Mary, the Mother of our Lord was a most remarkable young woman. Mary has held a place of honour within the English Church for 1,000 years; and there are probably more English parish churches dedicated to Mary than any other saint. In 1061 a place of pilgrimage was founded at Walsingham in Norfolk and is referred to today as ‘England’s Nazareth’.
Some of us have our own favourite saints. As a former Tax Inspector I’ve always had a soft spot for St Matthew one of the apostles of
The Rev’d Sarah Jones | 01989 562175 | [email protected] (not Tuesdays)
The Rev’d Simon Tarlton | 01600 890185 | [email protected] (Mon, Tue, Thu, Sun) The Rev’d Canon Chris Blanchard | 01989 762368 | [email protected] (Sun - Wed) The Rev’d Canon Marvin Bamforth | 01989 562305 | [email protected] (Thu-Sun) Team Administrator: Nick Richmond | 01989 562175 | [email protected]
Jesus and regarded by some as the writer of the gospel bearing his name. Over the past 20 years I’ve grown to appreciate St Barnabas - the patron saint of Cyprus - and for me he is the Patron Saint of Encouragers. Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew who became a renowned evangelist as Christianity moved out from its early Jewish, Jerusalem, roots to reach all around the eastern Mediterranean. Barnabas accompanied Paul on his missionary journeys around the Levant and was dearly loved by the Apostle to the Gentiles, who obviously appreciated his ministry of encouragement. At one time devotion to Mary would have amounted to treason against the state but, thankfully, those days are long gone; and especially here and now as we gather in St Mary’s Ross-on-Wye we have the joy of proclaiming Mary as the bearer of our Saviour. Thanks be to God!
Marvin
8th April 2018
Second Sunday of Easter
We offer a warm welcome to everyone at our services today.
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TODAY’S COLLECT Risen Christ, for whom no door is locked, no entrance barred: open the doors of our hearts, that we may seek the good of others and walk the joyful road of sacrifice and peace, to the praise of God the Father.
POST COMMUNION PRAYER Lord God our Father, through our Saviour Jesus Christ you have assured your children of eternal life and in baptism have made us one with him: deliver us from the death of sin and raise us to new life in your love, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE DIED AND WE PRAY FOR THEIR FAMILIES: Rachel Stringer
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading: Acts 4.32-35
32 The whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. 33 With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. 34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. 35 They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
Second Reading 1 John 1.1-2.2
1 We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life 2 this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us 3 we declare to you what we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 We are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. 5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; 7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Gospel Reading: John 20.19-31
19 When it was evening on the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As
Ross and Brampton Abbotts Promises Auction – The PCCs of Ross and Brampton Abbotts are jointly organising an exciting auction of promises that will take place on Saturday 7th July at 7.30 p.m. in St Mary's. More detail will follow about the event but for now we’d like your help to gather in as many exciting promises or lots as possible. Please think about what you might be able to provide, but please also think about with businesses, organisations, shops you have connections with and which you might approach to offer something for the auction. You can make a promise or donate an item now by completing a form that you’ll find at the back of St Mary’s, better still, do it online at rawchurch.org.uk/auction. You’ll also find more detail there. Please help us to make this major fundraising event a great success. – Mark Sanderson
100 Club Draw April 1 2018 1st 70 Arthur Durrant 2nd 19 Pauline Waters 3rd 15 Ruth Johnston. Sue Edwards
Friends of St Mary’s AGM with talk by Heather Hurley ‘The Rector’s box, an exploration of the Archives’. Tue 24th April, 7.30 in St Mary’s. Peter Reynolds
Thank you to everyone who supported the Lent Lunches this year. We are able to send £ 487.45 to St Peter’s Hereford to help with the running of their Winter Shelter and £ 150.00 to the MU Make a Mother’s Day appeal. Margaret Mason
Walford Church is excited to announce the upcoming Summer Open Gardens to be held on Sunday 10th June. The gardens will open at 10am with Castle Brook selling brunch bacon and asparagus rolls. Other destination will take you on a horticultural tour of Deep Dean, Howle Hill, Bull’s Hill, Coughton and Hom Green, closing at 4pm. The cost of a ticket is £5 per adult and children are free. There will be something a little extra at each of the
the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ 24 But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.’ 26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ 27 Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.’ 28 Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ 29 Jesus said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.’ 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
NOTICES
The Friends of St Mary’s present the Hereford Police Male Voice Choir. Sat 14th April, 7.30 in St Mary’s. Tickets £10 from Pots & Pieces (U18 Free). Bar & Raffle. Raffle prizes welcomed from members. Peter Reynolds St Mary’s Electoral Roll The Roll remains closed and no further additions will be made until after the APCM on 18 April. Please check the list of names that will be in Church during this period and contact Peter Raddenbury on 01989 218295 if there are any discrepancies.
