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Pewsheet for Week Beginning 26th April 2016

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 26th April 2016 – sorry for the delay.

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Pewsheet for Week Beginning 17th April 2016

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 17th April 2016.

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Pewsheet for week beginning 10th April 2016

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 10th April 2016, Palm Sunday.

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Pewsheet for Week Beginning 3rd April 2016

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 3rd April 2016.

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One Parish or Two?

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“One parish or two” is one of the questions raised about Worth Parish in the recent Crawley Review.  We currently have two churches in the parish – St Barnabas’, Pound Hill, and St Nicholas’, Worth.

We’d like your views on whether we should split the parish or remain as one.  This page details all the ways you can contact us and please give us your views by 22 April.

The April/May edition of the Parish Magazine will have a short piece on arguments for and against splitting into two.  There will be a report back to the annual meeting on 27 April and the responses will inform discussion at the Away Day on 7 May, to which all are invited.

Correction to Service Times/Venues

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Please note that the Dawn Eucharist at Worth Park Lake on Easter Sunday (27th March) Morning will begin at 6am not 5.30am as was previously advertised in the magazine, and will be followed at am by a breakfast at St Barnabas’.

Also that the 3 hour meditations will be held on Good Friday from 12-3pm at St Nicholas’, not St Barnabas’ as was erroneously stated in the magazine.

The Rector Writes…

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Palm Sunday has a bitter-sweet atmosphere. The crowds welcome Jesus into Jerusalem with the kind of fanfare we can expect for the English rugby team after their Gland Slam victory last night.

The Gospel from the Liturgy of the Palms makes it clear that Jesus no longer tells his disciples to remain silent – the time for decision has come: Jerusalem must crown or crucify her king.  And we know, as we continue through Passiontide into the events of Holy Week recounted in the Passion gospel, that that crucifixion awaits.

In our common life we have a bitter-sweet time after the Nic’s service when the regulars (all welcome to join in!) have a (possibly indoor) picnic to say goodbye to the Moulder family as they make final preparations for a move to Africa.  We wish them the very best and look forward to their return.  May we, with them and, indeed, St Paul strive to confess in word and deed, that “Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”. Luke’s account of the Passion offers us a catalogue of those who avoid or deny this truth and condemn Jesus to a horrid death.  Time and again Jesus is let down, but even in the bitterness of his death we are able to keep an eye on the good news of what that death means for us. Nothing less than our salvation.

Have a blesséd walk with Jesus as you share again in Holy Week .

Anthony

Pewsheet for week beginning 20th March 2016, Palm Sunday

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 20th March 2016, Palm Sunday.

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