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Hello to all our lovely customers 🙂 Following the Governments announcement, we are excited to announce that we will be opening at 12.00 on Saturday 4th July 🎉 We look forward to welcoming you all back, more details to follow 🙂
This week's bell ringing is from Northwood Green Greater London. I have chosen this clip as they are ringing Plain Bob Doubles a method we often ring at Haughton.
Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
HYMN: “Praise my soul the king of heaven”
Pray the Collect of the day.
O God, whose beauty is beyond our imagining and whose power we cannot comprehend;
show us your glory as far as we can grasp it, and shield us from knowing more than we can bear until we may look upon you without fear, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Read the Epistle from Romans chapter 6 verses 3-11
Read the Gospel from St. Matthew chapter 10 verse 24-39
Hymn: “Take up thy cross the Saviour said”
Offer some Prayers
Pray for your own families, friends, and others whom you wish to remember.
Commend Sian to Gods gracious keeping, and pray for Rici and the family in this time of tragic loss.
Thank God for the lives of Mark, and Trina, (both one time churchwardens) and for Doreen (the wife of a churchwarden)
Pray for Revd. Cath, soon to be our new Rector, and for the future of our parishes and churches, whatever that future may be.
Continue to pray for the sick, especially those known to us, and others who need our prayers at this troubled time.
Pray for our schools who don’t seem to know whether to re-open or not.
Pray for local and small shops now re-opening, but with an uncertain future.
Thank God for your own safety and pray that we may have the courage to grasp the opportunities it brings.
And the Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today pour daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.
This Sunday is often observed as sea Sunday. Pray this prayer for all seafarers
O Lord our heavenly Father we commend to your keeping all who sail the seas.
Enrich them with your presence, guard them in danger, protect them in temptation,
sustain them in loneliness and support them in sickness and anxiety.
Bless those who minister to them and guide us all to the haven of eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
HYMN: “Eternal Father strong to save”
The God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Jesus Christ establish, strengthen and settle you in the faith. Amen
Just a thought: As we approach July 4th – is the opposite of lockdown, lockup? I suspect that what many of us have felt over the past three months – locked up!
(Haughton Church will be open from 10.00am to 11.00am on Sunday 21st June for private prayer only)
This week's bell-ringing comes from Oxford University Church Bells St. Mary the Virgin. They are ringing Grandsire Double which we often ring on a Monday night that to the help of the Gnosall Ringers.
God is love and those who live in love live in God and God lives in them.
HYMN: “All my hope on God is founded”
Pray the Collect of the day.
Lord you have taught us that all our doings without love are nothing worth
Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtues without which whoever lives is counted dead before you. Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake, who is alive and
reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever . Amen.
Read the Epistle from Romans chapter 5 verses 1- 8
Read the Gospel from St. Matthew chapter 9 verse 35 to chapter 10 verse 4
Hymn: “Lord of all hopefulness”
Offer some Prayers
Pray for your own families, friends, and others whom you wish to remember.
Commend Sian to Gods gracious keeping, and pray for Rici and the family in this time of tragic loss.
Thank God for the lives of Mark, and Trina, (both one time churchwardens) and for Doreen (the wife of a churchwarden)
Pray for Revd. Cath, soon to be our new Rector, and for the future of our parishes and churches, whatever that future may be.
Continue to pray for sick, especially those known to us, and others who need our prayers at this troubled time.
Pray for our schools who don’t seem to know whether to re-open or not.
Pray for local and small shops now re-opening, but with an uncertain future.
Thank God for your own safety and pray that we may have the courage to grasp the opportunities it brings.
And the Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today pour daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.
Pray this prayer for all whose has been tested during these troubled times
Most merciful God, we pray for those who doubt your love; for those who find it difficult to believe or to pray; for those who have lost a faith they once possessed. May the Holy Spirit enlighten their minds into all truth and fill their hearts with hope; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
HYMN: “Immortal love for, forever full”
I couldn’t resist this:
A LOCKDOWN COMMENT from the Church Times television critic, “Not least amongst the lockdown’s baleful consequences is being deafened by raucous birdsong and assailed by scent-laden blossom and clean air. TV seems to think this is a good thing and offers a slew of celebratory programmes.”
I think nearly everyone in the village knows that every year I organise a day trip for the retired residents of the village and if there are any available seats other residents and friends.
We travel by coach to our destination, usually by the sea, and arrive back in time for dinner at The Shropshire Inn. The cost is £5 per person for the coach and dinner for the retired people of the village and a little more for others,
To cover the cost I manage two weekly lotteries, based on the National Lottery Lotto. There is one winner on each lottery and they each receive £40 prize money. There are 49 people in each lottery and they each pay £5 a month which is collected by standing order.
People inevitably drop out of the lottery for various reasons, at this particular time I have a considerable number of vacancies on each lottery. In the past, I have been able to fill the vacancies but on this occasion, I would greatly appreciate it if anyone would like to contact me with a view to joining the lottery
The Outing has been running for more than 60 years. I took it over some years ago to keep alive the tradition started by Horace Wilshaw.
It would be most unfortunate if we were unable to continue with our annual day out, I think It has become an important feature in the life of the village. If you would like to join the lottery please call me on 780550.
This is written on behalf of the many Haughton villagers who would like to say thank you to Trevor Lock for tolling the bell at the recent funerals of our friends, colleagues, neighbours, and fellow villagers. In these unsettled times when we are unable to attend the funerals of those we care about, it has been a comfort for many to hear the bell toll.
Thank you Trevor for giving your time to be there; we would like you to know that it has been very much appreciated.
This week's Bell Ringing is from Enville Staffordshire
The majesty of God. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.
HYMN: “Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty”
Pray the Collect of the day.
Almighty and eternal God, you have revealed yourself
as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and live and reign in the perfect unity of love.
Hold us firmly in this faith, that we may know you in all your ways
and evermore rejoice in your eternal glory, who are three Persons in one God,
now and forever. Amen.
Read the Epistle from 2 Corinthians chapter 13 verses 11-13.
Read the Gospel from St. Matthew chapter 28 verses 16-20
Hymn: “A man there lived in Galilee”
Offer some Prayers
Pray for your own families, friends, and others whom you wish to remember.
Commend Sian to Gods gracious keeping, and pray for Rici and the family in this time of tragic loss.
Pray for our Schools as they begin to re-open and for shopworkers preparing to open again in a few days.
Continue to pray for the doctors, nurses and care workers who tend the sick.
Thank God for the lives of Mark, and Trina, (both one time churchwardens) and for Doreen (the wife of a churchwarden)
Pray for Revd. Cath, soon to be our new Rector, and for the future of our parishes and churches, whatever that future may be.
Continue to pray for sick, especially those known to us, and others who need our prayers at this troubled time.
Thank God for your own safety and pray that we may have the courage to grasp the opportunities it brings.
Pray this prayer
Lord God almighty, you have given us a vision of your holiness, and thereby of our own unworthiness to be your witnesses; touch, we pray, our lips with your cleansing fire; so that cleansed and hallowed, we may go out into the world with the authority of your commission; for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.
And the Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today pour daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.
HYMN: “We have a gospel to proclaim”
Glory be to you O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
You have power, wisdom and majesty: receive from us honour, glory, worship and blessing. Great and marvellous are your works, just and true are your ways:
Blessing and honour and glory and power be to him who sits on the throne,
And to the lamb through the one eternal Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
Trina Busby's Funeral Procession will take place tomorrow (Tuesday 2nd June), just after 2pm. A Church Bell will ring half muffled 84 times as it goes by the back of the Church and continues around Moathouse Drive and the remaining of the village.
Anyone who would like to pay their respects, please be outside and adhere to social distancing (2 Metres - 6ft apart) at 2.10pm
