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Pewsheet for Week Beginning 22nd January 2017

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 22nd January 2017.

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Pewsheet for Week Beginning 8th January 2017

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 8th January 2017.

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What is Epiphany for you?

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It is strange that sometimes we can come across the word ‘Epiphany’ in the text of a newspaper article, such as ‘It was then I had an epiphany moment’.
The Greek word Epiphany means “showing forth” or “manifestation”.
The story of the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus is intended to demonstrate or show forth that Jesus is for the whole of human kind.  So to have an “epiphany moment” is a way of saying, to use a more day to day expression, that “the penny dropped”.  It is a realisation, a sudden awareness of something important that had previously been hidden.
The story of the wise men adorns our Christmas cards and is the subject of some favourite carols.  But what about everyday life?  What about 2017?  Can we be instruments of Epiphany moments for other people in helping them to see Jesus Christ not as a figure of history but a presence in our day to day lives?
Our task is to “show forth” Christ whenever and however we can by acts of love and consideration for other people.
Epiphany Blessings to you all for the New Year!
Roger Brown

Pewsheet for Week Beginning 11th December 2016

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 11th December 2016.

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Pewsheet for the Week Beginning 4th December 2016

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With 4th December being the Patronal Festival of St Nicholas, each of our churches had a different pewsheet, only one of which is published here.  The notices are the same but not the readings.  If you wish to view the St Nicholas’ version of the pewsheet, email magazine@worthparish.org.uk and I’ll send you a copy, else click here to see the pewsheet as distributed at St Barnabas’.

From the Rural Dean…

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Following on from the Year of Mercy, the Bishop has designated 2017 ‘The Year of the Bible’. During the year, there will be all sorts of events going on to help us engage more deeply with this hugely important text for the Christian journey.  If you do not do so already, I urge you to think about getting bible reading notes.  These are available on the bible reading fellowship website http://www.biblereadingnotes.org.uk/

New Daylight is a particularly good one for those starting out on this but there is a whole selection on the website.  For those of you who are technically minded you can even download them now straight to your phone or computer!  However, if you would prefer us to order them for you please sign up on the list at the back of church and I will organise it for you.  The new notes begin in January and what better new year’s resolution could there be than to spend time with God’s word every day.

The Bishop has also recommended we pray the Bible Sunday collect as a regular inspiration to us all.

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

 

Pewsheet for Week Beginning 27th November 2016

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Sorry about the slight delay in getting this pewsheet to the website.  But it’s here now!

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