Dear Sisters and Brothers, Welcome to our weekly pew sheet and updates blog. Remember to try and keep this sheet digital but do print copies for those who may need them.
Sunday Morning:
The link for our readings:
Please note the complete readings are in full at the end of the blog.
Collect Prayer:
O God,
the strength of all those who put their trust in you,
mercifully accept our prayers
and, because through the weakness of our mortal nature
we can do no good thing without you,
grant us the help of your grace,
that in the keeping of your commandments
we may please you both in will and deed;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Post Communion Prayer:
Eternal Father,
we thank you for nourishing us
with these heavenly gifts:
may our communion strengthen us in faith,
build us up in hope, and make us grow in love;
for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Upcoming Dates This Week:
Sunday 2nd June - Trinity Sunday
9.30am: St Peter's Holy Communion - the service will be live streamed on ww.facebook.com/huttonparish
11.15am: All Saints' Morning Prayer
6.00pm: All Saints' Memorial Service
Monday
2.00pm: Bible Study
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
9.00am: Live streamed Morning Prayer ww.facebook.com/huttonparish
Wednesday
9.00am: Morning Prayer in the Cafe
9.30am: Holy Communion at All Saints
7.00pm: Bible Study
Friday
Daily Bread Cafe & Food Hub reopens
Next Sunday: 9th June - Second After Trinity
9.30am: St Peter's Holy Communion
11.15am: All Saints' Holy Communion with Baptism
4.00pm: Younger & Older Youth
Notices
Decoration of Food Hub and Daily Bread Office
To enable us to carry out the work it will be necessary to make the following changes to the Food Hub and Café opening times.
The Food Hub will be closed from Saturday 25th May to Thursday 6th June inclusive, re-opening on Friday 7th June.
Daily Bread Café will be closed from Tuesday 28th May to Monday 3rd June inclusive, re-opening on Tuesday 4th June. Little Fishes will not meet on Thursday 6th June..
A short introduction to the hope, peace and purpose that can be found in Jesus.
Learn about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
Come along to a short introductory 3 session course to ask any questions and spend time exploring what hope is found in Jesus.
Wednesday 26th June, 3rd July and 10th July 12-1pm in Daily Bread café.
Rooted Community
Please email rooted@huttonparish.com for more details.
Youth Group (for Year 6 - 10)
For food, friendship, faith and fun held at St Peter's, please email sue@huttonparish.com. The next session will be this Sunday 9th June.
Older Youth
Join us for exploring faith, creating friendship and having fun. For more information please email andy@huttonparish.com.
Bible Study
The next Monday meeting is scheduled for 3rd June at 2.00pm - St Peter's. The Wednesday meetings will continue to be on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Men's Breakfast
For more information please contact andy@huttonparish.com
Do join us on 6th July for the Bradwell Pilgrimage to register your interest or click here.
Mothers’ Union
Future dates - June 12th at Bonnies for afternoon tea £19.50. October 9th – lunch, details to follow.
We look forward to seeing you. Please contact Margaret Morris 01277 217398 for more details.
Afternoon Prayer and Meditation
“Be still and know that I am God”. Psalm 46 v 10.
Quiet Prayer and Meditation on the 4th Wednesday afternoon of each month, the next session will be 26th June in the Chapel.
With every blessing, Andy
Deuteronomy 5.12-15
12 Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 For six days you shall labour and do all your work. 14 But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. 15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day
Psalm 81.1-10
1 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.2 Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.5 He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over[a] the land of Egypt.
I hear a voice I had not known:6 ‘I relieved your[b] shoulder of the burden; your[c] hands were freed from the basket.7 In distress you called, and I rescued you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
2 Corinthians 4.5-12
5 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. 11 For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Mark 2.23-28, 3.1-6
23 One sabbath he was going through the cornfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’ 25 And he said to them, ‘Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? 26 He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.’ 27 Then he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; 28 so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2 They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3 And he said to the man who had the withered hand, ‘Come forward.’ 4 Then he said to them, ‘Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?’ But they were silent. 5 He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6 The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.