Prayer focus for the week beginning 29th January 2023: Prayer focus for the week beginning 29th January 2023: • Tetbury Praying the Town: Shearers Way, Woolsack Close & Merchants Walk • The Parish of Beverston (especially the PCC meeting on Thursday 9th Feb) • The Departed and those who mourn their loss remembering especially Godfery “John” Sharpe (Funeral Tuesday 31st January North Wilts Crematorium at 2pm). We give thanks for their lives, and pray for God’s comfort for their family and friends. • Year’s Mind: Frances Hamilton (2/2). (“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death –often…
Big Garden Birdwatch is fun, free and for everyone. And you don’t need a garden to take part! Counting birds from your balcony, or your local park will play a vital role in helping us understand how UK birds are doing. Sign up for your free guide and let’s look out for birds together on 27-29 January. The fact that we’ve lost 38 million birds from UK skies in the last 50 years underlines that nature is in crisis. We see it in our own back gardens with house sparrows struggling and starlings undergoing a severe decline. As a conservation…
Sunday 29th January 2023 Share in our new pattern of Benefice Worship for 5th Sundays 8.30am Benefice BCP Holy Communion at St Marys’ Tetbury followed by 10am Benefice Worship on Zoom We celebrate Candlemas together! Through Epiphanytide, we have heard of Jesus revealed as Emmanuel to the Magi and the first disciples. We end the season this Sunday, as the new-born Christ is presented in the Temple, and the encounter with Simeon and Anna. These faithful, trusting, hopeful people, recognising the Christ child, come as the light of the world Please click on the link to join the service Dial…
St Marys’ Tetbury 9.30am, Wednesday 25th January: Bishop Robert, Bishop of Tewksbury, will officiate at the Confirmation Service of Ronnie Hodges. Followed by refreshments. Please do come along and support Ronnie. Please remember Ronnie in your prayers, as she prepares for confirmation: Lord, You send out Your Spirit to touch the hearts of all people, so that they may believe in You and in Jesus whom You sent. Look kindly on Ronnie and all candidates for Confirmation as they listen to Your voice. Open their hearts to Your Spirit and bring to fulfillment the good work that You have begun…
Prayer focus for the week beginning 22nd January 2023: • Tetbury Praying the Town: St Marys Road • The Parish of Shipton Moyne • Our vergers, supporting families coming for baptisms, weddings and funerals • The Departed and those who mourn their loss, remembering especially Stephen Gregg (Funeral Monday 23rd January, 12 noon in St Marys’ Tetbury) and Godfery “John” Sharpe (Funeral Tuesday 31st January North Wilts Crematorium at 2pm). We give thanks for their lives, and pray for God’s comfort for their family and friends. • Praying for St Mary’s School: Reception Lime Class with Mrs Pike and Mrs…
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Praying together Would you like to pray with others? Every Tuesday: 8.15 – 8.45am you are invited to join us for prayers. Using a shortened form of morning prayer and the weekly prayer focus, do join us as we pray together for the things that are on our hearts and minds this week. All prayers spoken or written in the chat boxes will be treated in confidence. Click on the link to join the zoom prayers Dial in on a land line (local rate call): 0208 080 6591 Meeting ID: 859 0979 6485 Passcode: 453971 One tap mobile +442080806591,,87065629885#,,,,*358791# United…
Worship in St Marys’ on Sunday 22nd January, Third Sunday of Epiphany. 8.30am: BCP Holy Communion 10.00am: Family Communion Worship is led By Revd Peter Hyson Share in the 10am worship in church or on live stream Please click here to join the service or watch the recording later Please click here for the readings and hymns for Sunday 22nd January Please click here for the order of service for Holy Communion in Epiphany
WE ARE NOW IN THE DEPTHS OF WINTER And the Churchwardens and I are very aware that the church is very cold. We are doing our best, but also of course facing very significant increases in energy costs*. So – because we need to be economical – the church building is colder than usual overall, and more difficult to heat for Sunday morning. In addition to the heating, we are also now taking other steps: When it is bitterly cold, to make the services shorter, we will adopt a combination of the following: – No Gradual Hymn, and few verses…