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Collect for  Palm Sunday

Almighty and everlasting God, who in your tender love towards the human race sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross: grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; 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. Amen

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Note from the Vicar: As we prepare to enter Holy Week I hope and pray hat you have been having a good Lent.  For many it has been an interesting time, with different life circumstances arising; some positive and a fair few we might wish had not occurred.  Yet God is Good, and He is close to us even when things are hard.  There’s no better time of the year to reflect on this than in Holy Week.

I would like to invite you to consider seriously coming along to something during the week in the run up to Easter.  It is understandable that the scenes which we are reflecting on, the final days of the life of Jesus Christ leading to his crucifixion, are difficult scenes to engage with.  Yet they are nevertheless the gateway into the hope which we have through the resurrection we celebrate on Easter Day.

If there were no trial and injustice in the sentencing of an innocent man there would be no execution on the cross in place of a murder.  If there were no death, no blood shed, there would be no sacrifice which can atone for sins.  If the life of Jesus was simply a populist flash in the pan, his crowds of followers dispersing because he had fled arrest or worse sought to lead them in a violent rebellion against the Romans, then his movement would have been a mere footnote in the annals of history; rather than the single and decisive moment by which all of history has come to be defined and understood in relation to.

There would be no Easter without Good Friday,                                      No resurrection without execution,                                                            No Grace without atonement.

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”  (1 Tim 1.15)

We are those sinners which He came to save, and we cannot enter into the sharing of His eternal life without also sharing in His death.

This Holy Week we shall be creating the space to reflect on the fullness of what Jesus has done for us, and on what that means for us in our own lives.

You are most welcome to join us at:

Monday 14, Tuesday 15 and Wednesday at 9.00pm  at Holy Trinity – Compline (Night Prayer)

Maundy Thursday 17 April at 8pm at Holy Trinity – Holy Communion with stripping of the altars

Good Friday, 18 April:  11am Witness on the Common and 2pm Good Friday Reflections at St Margaret’s

Saturday, 19 April (Easter Eve)  2.30pm Easter Crafternoon for 4 to 11 year olds in the Sanctuary.  For further details please click here.

8pm Vigil Readings and Prayers at St Margaret’s

The Easter Eve Vigil readings is a quiet space to listen to readings from the Old Testament which foreshadow the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It lasts about 40 minutes.

Lastly, may I thank all who have sent in their ideas and suggestions for the future of our Churches. If there is anything you wouild like to be considered, please do email and let me know.My Bible reading plans  are still available by following the link below, please follow this link to a further resource.  https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/sword/

Bible Reading Plans    Please find attached a link through to my Bible Reading plan which you can download, print off and use as you wish!  Let me know how you get on.  Please click here

With Every Blessing, The Revd Samuel S Thorp

As ever, feel free to contact me on [email protected]

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

APCMS  6 and 7 May for Holy Trinity and St Margaret’s respectively at 7pm   If you usuallly write a report for the APCM please can you send it to Revd Samuel (email as above) by 25 April to allow time for the Reports to collated.

08 May 7pm at Holy Trinity – VE Day Commemeration Service with Choir

11 May 10.00am at Holy Trinity Joint service to mark the end of the war in Europe in 1945.

TYGRE We are in Church at the start of the 9.30am service and then cross to The Sanctuary during the first hymn for singing, a Bible story and craft activities. There is also a selection of toys available. Please note, we run on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th (if applicable) Sundays of the month.

Tuesday coffee in the Sanctuary from 10am.  All welcome

Sanctuary Cafe (previously known as Dementia Cafe) from 2.30pm in the Sanctuary starting on Thursday 03 April and thereafter weekly rather than twice a month which is exciting news!  Please  click here for more details or speak to Revd Graham

SAFEGUARDING:  There are safeguarding officers attached to both churches.  Contact details can be found in the porches.