August

Pewsheet for Week Beginning 28th August 2016

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Pewsheet for Week Beginning 21st August 2016

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August Hymns

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Hymns that will be sung this month (no choir) are shown below:

7th             The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity       

327           Awake, awake: fling off the night

641ii         Glorious things of thee are spoken

291           Christ is made the sure foundation (v.5, 7, 8, 9)

757           One more step along the road I go

652           Guide me, O thou great Redeemer

 

14th           The Blessed Virgin Mary  10am Parish Eucharist at St Barnabas’

258           O thou who camst from above

315           Sing we of the blessèd Mother

232           The head that once was crowned with thorns

602           Blest are the pure in heart

394           Tell out, my soul

 

21st           The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity

766           Praise my soul, the king of heaven

520           Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old

132           O for a heart to praise my God

679           In Christ there is no east or west

814           Thy hand, O God, has guided

 

28th                  The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity   

584           All my hope on God is founded

704           Let all the world in every corner sing

664           How sweet the name of Jesus sounds

695           Jesus, these eyes have never seen

238           Come down, O Love divine

Pewsheet for Week Beginning 7th August 2016

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Pewsheet for 23rd August 2015

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From the Curate…

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IMG_3280I know that it seems very hard to believe (or maybe it doesn’t), but I have been on a few diets in my time and the diet market is going strong as a growth (ironic really) industry in this country with most magazines promising quick fix ways to shed the pounds that will then make you truly happy. Let me see – for me there has been the Rotation Diet, the Atkins Diet – (high protein and no carbs – I got sick of it – for a time I couldn’t face seeing someone eat let, alone me eat, another Ham and Cheese Omelette in a police canteen), Weight Watchers (and its point system), the Fasting Diet (surely I should have been good at this one – but I wasn’t!) and the latest that I have yet to try the Dukan Diet (a hyper protein one, healthy and natural – apparently).

Then there are the diets offered in our readings – a fine flaky substance/manna from heaven and the bread of life – Jesus. These diets don’t promise to make us thin, but if grasped and taken they will sustain us through thick and thin (like what I did there?).

The results of these diets were for the Israelites a renewed faith and entry to the Promised Land, whilst to Christians a way never to hunger. We are only hungry when we take our eyes off of Him and try to fill ourselves from the worldly stuff that looks so tempting (like the Chocolate Brownie I am eating right now!) but never fills us. If we faithfully eat the bread of life of Jesus we are then promised the gifts of Ephesians – so as we go on holiday, rest assured I won’t be dieting from food but I will hope to feed always on the bread that Jesus offers

Steve