Dear Friends,
This Sunday 15th September there will be a 10am service at St Michael & All Angels, Great Tew with Revd William Burke.
The readings are: Phil 2 : 5-11 & John 3. 13-17
Duties
Sacristan – Carol Burke
Reader – Robert Fraser
Intercessions – Tom Wesson
Sides person – Chloe Colchester
Offertory – T and Z Wesson
Chalice – Rosie Rowe
Coffee – Charlotte Woodward
HELP WANTED – CAR BOOT SALE – Sunday 15th September
Volunteers are needed at the Little Tew Church car boot sale on Sunday 15th September. It is an early start for people helping to set up but we can offer a sausage sandwich. Or if you can help slightly later, tea and cake.
We’d also love cake donations if you are happy to bake us a cake to sell at the event. Slabs are better as they are easier to work with without forks. If you can help – please let Claire know on [email protected]
Thank you so much
Ride & Stride – Saturday 14th September
Water Project at Little Tew Church
Little Tew Church have set up a just giving page to help raise money towards their water project – to provide mains water, a working WC and baby changing facilities to the church. If you wish to make a donation, please see the link below – Thank you.
SAVE THE DATE – CAR BOOT SALE – SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER
ROLES IN CHURCH
If anybody wishes to read or intercede or take on other roles at any of our churches during our services please let the vicar know
PCC SECRETARY
We are looking for PCC secretary volunteers at Heythrop and Little Tew Churches. Their primary task is preparing for the PCCs and taking the minutes and liaising with the vicar and Kate, our very efficient Administrator.
Foodbank Appeal
We are aware that the local food bank supplies are running low so if you can manage to, please bring a donation along to church each week – there will be a box at the back of the church.
Items in urgent need are:
TINNED TOMATOES
RICE PUDDING
LONGLIFE MILK
LONGLIFE JUICE
TINNED VEGETABLES
Propers for Holy Cross Day
Holy Cross Day has some resonances with Good Friday, hence the hymns but it is more celebratory – The Exaltation of the Holy Cross , recalling the Cross as a sign of the triumph over sin and death. Historically, the feast commemorates the day in 628 that the piece of the cross taken by the Persian Empire was recovered by the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
Hymns NEH
338 At the name of Jesus – tune Evelyns omit vss 5 and 6
95 When I survey the wondrous cross – tune Rockingham
86 My song is love unknown – tune Love Unknown omit vs 4 and 6
305 Soul of my Saviour – tune Anima Christi
368 Guide me O thou great Redeemer – tune Cwm Rhonda
Collect
Almighty God,
who in the passion of your blessèd Son
made an instrument of painful death to be for us the means of life and peace: grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ
that we may gladly suffer for his sake;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Post Communion
Faithful God,
whose Son bore our sins in his body on the tree
and gave us this sacrament to show forth his death
until he comes:
give us grace to glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
for he is our salvation, our life and our hope,
who reigns as Lord, now and for ever.
Epistle A reading from the Letter of Paul to the Philippians.
Though he was in the form of God, Jesus did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death — even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Phil 2 : 5-11 Alleluia, alleluia.
Alleluia We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you,
because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
Alleluia
The Gospel according to John
Jesus said to Nicodemus, “No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
John 3. 13-17
The Peace
Christ is our peace.
He has reconciled us to God
in one body by the cross.
We meet in his name and share his peace.
Preface
And now we give you thanks
because, for our salvation,
he was obedient even to death on the cross.
The tree of shame was made the tree of glory;
and where life was lost, there life has been restored.
Blessing
Christ crucified draw you to himself,
to find in him a sure ground for faith, a firm support for hope,
and the assurance of sins forgiven; and the blessing of God almighty,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
be among you and remain with you always.
Future Services
15th September 10am St Michael & All Angels, Great Tew Holy Communion
22nd September 10am St John Little Tew Harvest Holy Communion
29th September 10am St Michael & All Angels, Great Tew Holy Harvest and Patronal Festival Sun Eucharist
Chutneys & Jams
Does anyone have a surplus of homemade jams, chutneys, etc. that they would be willing to donate to the St Michael & All Angels, Great Tew. We would like to sell them for church funds.
Wish List
Members of the congregation are asked to propose to the PCC via the wardens or Vicar any enhancements that they would like to see in church. These proposals will be taken to the PCC for approval and once agreed they will be added to a “wish list”.
The Daily Office
The Angelus and Mattins – Morning Prayer (usually from the Book of Common Prayer) is said every day from Monday-Saturday at 9am in Great Tew Church
The Angelus and Evensong – Evening Prayer is said every day at 6pm
For your Prayers:
Michael Barnes, Tom White, Ryan Walker, Victoria Gibbens, Maggie Tustian, Katherine Leadson, Tim Mayne, Grace Treglown, Lisa Mayne
Vicar’s Contact Details
Revd William Burke
Mobile telephone number 07770 630202
Email [email protected]
The Vicarage, New Road, Great Tew OX7 4AG
Best wishes
Kate
