Prayer focus for the week beginning 14th November 2021: Tetbury Praying the Town: Old Ilsom Farm Road We give thanks for all those recently involved in organising and planting wild garlic and snowdrop bulbs along the footpath through the woods west of the Bath Road kissing gate The Parish of Long Newnton The Departed and those who mourn their loss, remembering especially Reginald “John” Sheppard. We give thanks for their lives, and pray for God’s comfort for their family and friends. Praying for St Mary’s School: Year 3 Beech Class with Mr Walters/Ms Makin and Mrs Ravenhill National issues: for rural parishes struggling…
Advent Home Groups 2021: God in the everyday The theme for our Advent Home Groups this year finding God in the everyday. Drawing on our lockdown experience of sharing Zoom worship at our kitchen table, we reflect on our relationship with God in the “warp and weft” of our lives. Jesus Christ is at the heart of our reflections, as we prepare to celebrate the Incarnation at Christmas. In our Quiet Day on Friday 26th November, we wonder at the meaning of those words of the much-loved carol, “Hark the Herald Angels sing”: “veiled in flesh the Godhead see; hail…
THY KINGDOM COME! In these final weeks of the Church year, we mark “Kingdom Season”. We reflect on what means to believe in the coming of God’s Kingdom here on earth. This is what we pray and work, for here and now – bringing in God’s reign of love, justice and peace for all people and nations. And we look forward to the fulfilment of God’s promises in Jesus Christ, when suffering is ended, and all creation is gathered in God’s loving arms. Join our worship on Sunday 14th November 2021 for a Eucharist for Remembrance Sunday 10.00am in the Parish Church of…
Acts of Remembrance, Sunday 14th November St Saviour’s War Memorial, Tetbury, 2.30pm: Remembrance Service St Mary the Virgin, Beverston: 10.50am Remembrance Service St John, Shipton Moyne: 10.50am Remembrance Service Holy Trinity, Long Newnton: 10.50am Remembrance Service
St Marys’ Christmas Fayre on Saturday 4th December St Marys’ is going to try and hold a scaled down Christmas Fayre on Saturday 4th December between 10am – 12.30pm in the Market Hall. We will be looking for quality donations for the tombola and a Christmas themed raffle. We hope to offer beverages with mince pies so a team to do this will be great and for the bake off fans homemade cakes & produce. For further information about stalls please speak to Michèle and let’s see if we can make this work.
Have you thought about being confirmed? If you would like to take this step in your faith journey, please contact me for information about the confirmation preparation this autumn. Attached is a leaflet which explains more, and answers some questions people often ask. With love and prayers, Poppy Please click here to download a leaflet which explains more, and answers some questions people often ask. T. 01666 502 333 E. poppy_hughes@hotmail.co.uk
The Gift of Love Autumn 2021 Stewardship Campaign At St Marys’ Tetbury this Sunday (7th November), we continue to think about the call to Christian giving. As we celebrate “Kingdom Season” we reflect on our work to bring in God’s reign of love, justice and peace, and how our giving enables our loving service in this place. During the service, as part of the sermon, the Treasurer Mike Hardwick will talk about how church finances work. We hope you can join us. Poppy
After a few technical and audio difficulties, a recording of the All Souls service from St Marys’ on 31st October is now available:
Tetbury Advertiser/News from St Marys’: November 2021 Lest we forget. These words – now so treasured – come from a refrain in a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, “Recessional”. I love the way this poem – or hymn – talks about the time when “the tumult and the shouting die” and we allow silence to fall, to honour and to remember. It will be a privilege to share in our remembering, both at the 11am two-minute silence on Thursday 11th November, and then on Remembrance Sunday. This year, loving concern to keep everyone safe means we will again hold the…