WEEKLY NEWS

 

for the United Benefice of

 Padstow, St Merryn and St Issey with St Petroc Minor

Rector:  The Revd Dr Stephen Holmes

  rectorpmil@gmail.com              07584 091870

 SUNDAY MAY 12^TH  Fourth Sunday of Easter

 

A warm welcome to visitors who join us today.

Introduction

Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever. We join our voices with those of the heavenly throng, as we praise the Lamb who reigns.

 

THE COLLECT

Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life:
raise us, who trust in him,
from the death of sin to the life of righteousness,
that we may seek those things which are above,
where he reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Amen

 

POST-COMMUNION PRAYER

Merciful Father, you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd,
and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again:
keep us always under his protection,

and give us grace to follow in his steps;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

THE READINGS FOR TODAY (Page 905/907)

First Reading                         Acts 9: 36-43

A good Christian woman is raised from the dead, and becomes a means of bringing others to faith.

Second Reading                    Revelation 7: 9-17

Now beyond all pain, those who have remained steadfast in faith through the traumas of their lives rejoice to worship their Lord in heaven.

 

Gospel                                    St. John 10: 22-30

Jesus responds to a hostile challenge with a promise of eternal life for those who recognise him as their shepherd.

 

Joint Benefice Services in Eastertide and beyond

Ascension Day Sung Eucharist                        6pm, 30 May     St Issey

Pentecost Choral Evensong                            3.30pm, 9 June St Merryn

Sung by the choirs of St Merryn and Padstow, directed by Gareth Stubberfield

Corpus Christi Sung Eucharist & Procession   6pm, 20 June  Little Petherick

Annual Leave

Fr Stephen will be on annual leave from Monday 6^th May – 20^th May inclusive.  If you need a priest please contact either Canon Michael Fisher 01841 521544 email mfisher39@aol.com or Revd Katie Kirby 07970 865049.  For any non-urgent church business contact your churchwardens or the Benefice Office in working hours.

Events – St. Merryn

Summer Coffee Mornings commence at St. Merryn Church Hall from Tuesday 14th May and will continue until the end of September.

Stalls with Bric a Brac,/ Gifts, Cakes, Produce,, Books, Clothing. and Coffee / Tea and Biscuits will also be available. Do come along and meet friends old and new plus many holiday visitors who attend.

     

CORNISH CELTIC WAY

Saturday walk programme

Walks are open to everyone, especially new walkers

 

Padstow to St ConstaNtine Bay| SATURDAY 25th MAY 10am| 6 miles

A beautiful and inspiring walk is planned from Padstow, to the coast at Trevone and then to find the well and chapel in the dunes near Constantine Bay. We will stop for a packed lunch at St Merryn Church where we can see the ancient font that was dug out of the sands and share the stories of the Celtic Saints.

We meet at St Petroc’s Church in Padstow at 10am. Approximate end of walk is 2.30pm. We will return drivers from the end of the walk to their cars in Padstow.

For on-the-day weather concerns or further info contact Penny 07881791914

 

 SUNDAY 12^TH FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

9.30 am            Service of the Word                                   Trevone

9.30 am            Sung Mass                                                   Little Petherick

11.00 am          Morning Prayer (BCP)                                 St. Merryn

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist                                            Padstow

4.00 pm           Family Teatime Service                                Trevone

 

REGULAR PRACTICES: –

Bell Practice:     Monday afternoon 3-4.30 pm                     Padstow

 

Tuesday 14^th

9.30 am            Roman Catholic Mass                                 Padstow

10.30 am          Eucharist in the Osborne Room                  St Issey

 

Wednesday 15^th

10.30 am          Eucharist                                                    Trevone

 

Thursday 16^th  

10.30 am          Eucharist (BCP)                                          Padstow                                    1.00 pm     Roman Catholic Baptism                                                                Padstow

Friday 17^th

6-7.00 pm        Children’s Friday Fun Club                          Padstow

 

Saturday 18^th  

2.30 pm           Wedding                                                    St. Merryn

5.30 pm           Roman Catholic Mass                                  Padstow

 

SUNDAY 19^TH FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

9.30 am            Sung Eucharist                                            Trevone

9.30 am            Morning Prayer (BCP)                                 Little Petherick

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist with Holy Baptism                St. Merryn

11.00 am          Service of the Word                                   Padstow

2.30 pm           Holy Baptism                                              St. Issey

 

 

Benefice Administrator: Mrs Sue Norfolk

Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Church Street, Padstow PL28 8BG

pmilbenefice1235@outlook.com          01841 534898

Office hours Tuesday – Friday 9.30 – 1.30 pm

** All items for inclusion in the Weekly News sheet to be with the administrator by 12 noon on Wednesday**

WEEKLY NEWS

 

for the United Benefice of

 Padstow, St Merryn and St Issey with St Petroc Minor

Rector:  The Revd Dr Stephen Holmes

  rectorpmil@gmail.com              07584 091870

 

 SUNDAY MAY 5^TH  Third Sunday of Easter

 

A warm welcome to visitors who join us today.

 Introduction

This morning, with other disciples, we meet Jesus on the shore of the lake. A new day dawns bringing with it new hope, assurance of the resurrection and a call to serve our Lord by tending his flock.

 THE COLLECT

Almighty Father, who in your great mercy gladdened the disciples
with the sight of the risen Lord:
give us such knowledge of his presence with us,
that we may be strengthened and sustained by his risen life
and serve you continually in righteousness and truth;
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

 

POST-COMMUNION PRAYER

 

Living God, your Son made himself known to his disciples
in the breaking of bread:
open the eyes of our faith, that we may see him in all his redeeming work; who is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Amen

for St Saviour’s, Trevone, see over the page

THE READINGS FOR TODAY (Page 902/904)

First Reading                         Acts 9:1-6

Saul sets off to Damascus to continue his persecution of the followers of Jesus.  An encounter with the risen Lord himself convinces Saul that Jesus is, indeed, the Son of God calling him to a new life in his service.

 

Second Reading                  Revelation 5:11-14

Christ is portrayed as a Lamb who has suffered a sacrificial death.  He is entitled to receive worship with God because of the victory he has won through that death.

Gospel                                    St. John 21:1-19

After cooking breakfast for the disciples by the lake, Jesus restores and commissions Simon Peter, who once denied knowing him, to feed his sheep.

Joint Benefice Services in Eastertide and beyond

Ascension Day Sung Eucharist                        6pm, 30 May     St Issey

Pentecost Choral Evensong                            3.30pm, 9 June St Merryn

Sung by the choirs of St Merryn and Padstow, directed by Gareth Stubberfield

Corpus Christi Sung Eucharist & Procession   6pm, 20 June  Little Petherick

WATERAID

Thank you to everyone who donated to WaterAid ‘Jars of Change’ throughout Lent. The total raised amounted to £334.91 and will be sent to WaterAid to fund clean drinking water and sanitation in Malawi.  Thank you for your generosity.  Sue Norfolk & Sue Hollingsworth.

Annual Leave

Fr Stephen will be on annual leave from Monday 6^th May – 20^th May inclusive.  If you need a priest please contact either Canon Michael Fisher 01841 521544 email mfisher39@aol.com or Revd Katie Kirby 07970 865049.  For any non-urgent church business contact your churchwardens or the Benefice Office in working hours.

St Saviour’s, Trevone – Dedication Festival

The foundation stone of St Saviour’s was laid on the 30^th April 1958 and the Church was Dedicated on 2^nd May 1959 so this year is the 60^th anniversary of the ceremony of Dedication. In a guide book published soon after this, the Vicar, the Revd B.B. Clarke described St Saviour’s as ‘in the centre of the village, in a delightfully picturesque valley going down to the sea’. The church is still at the heart of the village community.

It is relatively new but is named after a medieval chapel in the parish, sited near the Padstow war memorial at St Saviour’s Point, and it is made of ancient stone, some of which is from quarry at Cataclews Point which supplied the stone for the fonts at Padstow and St Merryn and the reredos and holy water stoup at St Issey. The Church is named after Jesus the Saviour and we can give thanks to him for all the good things we have received from him in it and for all the people, the ‘living stones’ we have met there.

THE COLLECT

 Almighty God,

to whose glory we celebrate the dedication of this house of prayer:

we praise you for the many blessings

you have given to those who worship you here:

and we pray that all who seek you in this place may find you,

and, being filled with the Holy Spirit,

may become a living temple acceptable to you;

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

 

Father in heaven,

whose Church on earth is a sign of your heavenly peace,

an image of the new and eternal Jerusalem:

grant to us in the days of our pilgrimage

that, fed with the living bread of heaven,

and united in the body of your Son,

we may be the temple of your presence,

the place of your glory on earth,

and a sign of your peace in the world;

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

SUNDAY 5^TH THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER

9.30 am            Sung Eucharist -Feast of Dedication             Trevone

9.30 am            Morning Prayer (BCP)                                 St Issey

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist                                            St. Merryn

11.00 am          Service of the Word                                   Padstow

 

REGULAR PRACTICES: –

Bell Practice:     Monday afternoon 3-4.30 pm                     Padstow

 

Tuesday 7^th

9.30 am            Roman Catholic Mass                                 Padstow

10.30 am          Eucharist in the Osborne Room                  St Issey

 

Wednesday 8^th

10.30 am          Eucharist                                                    Trevone

7.30 pm            Bible Study group meets                             Trevone

 

Thursday 9^th  

10.30 am          Eucharist                                                    Padstow

Friday 10^th

6-7.00 pm        Children’s Friday Fun Club                          Padstow

 

Saturday 11^th  

5.30 pm           Roman Catholic Mass                                  Padstow

 

SUNDAY 12^TH FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

9.30 am            Service of the Word                                   Trevone

9.30 am            Sung Mass                                                   Little Petherick

11.00 am          Morning Prayer (BCP)                                 St. Merryn

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist                                            Padstow

 

Benefice Administrator: Mrs Sue Norfolk

Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Church Street, Padstow PL28 8BG

pmilbenefice1235@outlook.com          01841 534898

Office hours Tuesday – Friday 9.30 – 1.30 pm

** All items for inclusion in the Weekly News sheet to be with the administrator by 12 noon on Wednesday**

 

WEEKLY NEWS

for the United Benefice of

 Padstow, St Merryn and St Issey with St Petroc Minor

Rector:  Revd Dr Stephen Holmes

  rectorpmil@gmail.com              07584 091870

 SUNDAY APRIL 28^th Second Sunday of Easter

 

A warm welcome to visitors who join us today.

 

Introduction

We believe but did not see the rising of the Lord. Alleluia! Let us praise the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

 

THE COLLECT

Almighty Father, you have given your only Son to die for our sins
and to rise again for our justification:
grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness
that we may always serve you in pureness of living and truth;
through the merits of your Son Jesus Christ 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

Lord God our Father, through our Saviour Jesus Christ
you have assured your children of eternal life
and in baptism have made us one with him:
deliver us from the death of sin and raise us to new life in your love,
in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

TODAY’S READINGS – (Page 898/900)

First Reading                         Acts 5:27-32

The apostles find the strength to speak the gospel of the risen Lord, despite the dangers. The power of the Holy Spirit has turned them into people of action.

 

Second Reading                     Revelation 1:4-8

A message to the early church in Asia about the power of Christ and the fact that God is from the beginning until the end of time the Almighty one.

 

Gospel                                                St. John 20:19-31

Thomas the blunt one! Who could blame him for struggling to understand what others had told him. The idea that Jesus was alive was truly amazing and there would be more signs to come.

 

Ascension Day Sung Eucharist                        6pm, 30 May     St Issey

Pentecost Choral Evensong                            3.30pm, 9 June St Merryn

REGULAR PRACTICES: –

Bell Practice:     Monday afternoon 3-4.30 pm                     Padstow

 

Tuesday 30^th

9.30 am            Roman Catholic Mass                                 Padstow

10.30 am          Eucharist in the Osborne Room                  St Issey

 

Wednesday May 1^st

10.30 am          Eucharist                                                    Trevone

 

Thursday 2^nd  

10.30 am          Eucharist (BCP)                                          Padstow                                                     Padstow

Friday 3^rd

6-7.00 pm        Children’s Friday Fun Club                          Padstow

 

Saturday 4^th

9-10.30 am       Holy Dusters Cleaning Team meet              Padstow

1.30 pm           Marriage of Benjamin Fenton and Chloe Vaidya  Padstow

5.30 pm           Roman Catholic Mass                                  Padstow

 

SUNDAY 5^TH THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER

9.30 am            Sung Eucharist                                            Trevone

9.30 am            Morning Prayer (BCP)                                 St. Issey

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist                                            St. Merryn

11.00 am          Service of the Word                                   Padstow

 

Benefice Administrator: Mrs Sue Norfolk

Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Church Street, Padstow PL28 8BG

pmilbenefice1235@outlook.com          01841 534898

Office hours Tuesday – Friday 9.30 – 1.30 pm

** All items for inclusion in the Weekly News sheet to be with the administrator by 12 noon on Wednesday**

 

 

WEEKLY NEWS

for the United Benefice of
Padstow, St Merryn and St Issey with St Petroc Minor

Rector: Revd Dr Stephen Holmes
rectorpmil@gmail.com 07584 091870

SUNDAY APRIL 21ST : EASTER SUNDAY

ALLELUIA! CHRIST IS RISEN!
A warm welcome to visitors with us this Easter Day

Introduction
Without this wonderful day our faith is founded on a hopeful dream. If it was not for the Resurrection, the life and ministry of Jesus would remain simple historical fact and a good and inspiring story rather than the source of life that it truly is.

THE COLLECT
Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him: grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and in all eternity. Amen

POST-COMMUNION PRAYER
God of Life, who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son
to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection
have delivered us from the power of our enemy: grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his risen life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

TODAY’S READINGS –

First Reading Acts 10: 34-43
Because there is no favouritism with God, all are acceptable, all who call can be forgiven, and all are witnesses to God’s life.
Gospel St. John 20: 1-18
Seeing that Jesus had risen led the disciples to believe. Learning more about God from Jesus, Mary Magdalene understood something new of Christ as Lord.
THANKS!

Our thanks to all who have contributed so much during Holy Week and on this Easter Day in our five churches and three parishes.
NEWS & EVENTS
St. Merryn Parish Church

Easter Coffee Morning from 10.15 am Tuesday 23rd April
and Easter Bonnet Competition
St Merryn Church Hall
Judging and parade of bonnets at 11.00 am
Have a go, make a creation its fun !
Also Stalls and a Raffle
Padstow & Trevone WaterAid Jars of Change Lent Appeal. Please could all jars and donations be returned either to Sue Hollingsworth for Trevone or Sue Norfolk for Padstow.

After the recent cyclone in South Africa, and Malawi being one of the countries hit by bad weather, your donations this Lent were even more important as WaterAid try to get fresh drinking water to its people.
The Rector, Fr Stephen will be on leave from the 23rd to the 27th April. During that time please contact the Benefice Office, details overleaf, or if you need a priest please contact Canon Michael Fisher (07970 865049, mfisher39@aol.com) or the Revd Katie Kirby (07745 434266)

During Eastertide we will join together as a benefice on these two great feasts:
Ascension Day Sung Eucharist 6pm, 30 May St Issey
Pentecost Choral Evensong 3.30pm, 9 June St Merryn

REGULAR PRACTICES:-
Bell Practice: Monday afternoon 3-4.30 pm Padstow

Tuesday 23rd
9.30 am Roman Catholic Mass Padstow
10.30 am Eucharist in the Osborne Room St Issey
11.30 am Funeral service of Dennis Brayford Padstow

Wednesday 24th
10.30 am Eucharist Trevone

Thursday 25th
10.30 am Eucharist Padstow Padstow
Friday 26th
2.45 pm Funeral of Janet Fox Padstow
5.00 pm Eucharist of Wholeness and Healing Padstow
6-7.00 pm Children’s Friday Fun Club Padstow

Saturday 27th
5.30 pm Roman Catholic Mass Padstow

SUNDAY 28TH SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
9.30 am Service of the Word Trevone
9.30 am Sung Eucharist St. Issey
11.00 am Morning Prayer (BCP) St. Merryn
11.00 am Sung Family Eucharist +Baptism Padstow
1.00 pm Holy Baptism Padstow
Benefice Administrator: Mrs Sue Norfolk
Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Church Street, Padstow PL28 8BG
pmilbenefice1235@outlook.com 01841 534898
Office hours Tuesday – Friday 9.30 – 1.30 pm
** All items for inclusion in the Weekly News sheet to be with the administrator by 12 noon on Wednesday**

 WEEKLY NEWS

 for the United Benefice of

  Padstow, St Merryn and St Issey with St Petroc Minor

 

 Rector:  Revd Dr Stephen Holmes

rectorpmil@gmail.com           07584 091870

 SUNDAY APRIL 14^TH:  PALM SUNDAY

 

A warm welcome to visitors who join us today.  Please take

our love and prayers to your home parish.

 

Introduction

Christ comes into our own lives today, in humility. Like the crowds on the first Palm Sunday, we greet him with joy. We pray for his presence among us as we share in the events of his Passion during this Holy Week.

 

THE COLLECT

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

 

POST-COMMUNION PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ, you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant, and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation:

give us the mind to follow you and to proclaim you as Lord and King, to the glory of God the Father.  Amen

 

TODAY’S READINGS –  As per booklet

 

Liturgy of the Palms –                     Luke 19: 28-40

 

Isaiah 50.4-9a

The prophet writes of the suffering servant, who accepts pain and degradation in the knowledge that God is his helper, who stands with him against his adversaries.

 

Gospel (Feel free to sit  – it’s a very long reading) St. Luke 22.14-23.56

The Passion narrative begins at the Last Supper, and takes us through the

failures of Jesus’ friends, followed by injustice, cruelty, abuse of power,

suffering and death. Through all this we see the dignity of our Lord and at the

end, his burial and the preparations being made by those who love him, which

are to come to their fruition on what we know to be Easter Day.

NEWS & EVENTS

St. Issey

The funeral of David Gwinnell will take place on Tuesday 16th April in St Issey

Church at 2.15pm. May he rest in peace.

 

St. Merryn Parish Church

 

Easter Coffee Morning from 10.15 am Tuesday 23rd April

and Easter Bonnet Competition

St Merryn Church Hall

Judging and parade of bonnets at 11.00 am

Have a go, make a creation its fun !

Also Stalls and a Raffle

 

 St. Petroc’s and St. Saviour’s churches are supporting the WaterAid charity with its 2019 Jars of Change Lent Appeal.  This is to raise money to help support WaterAid in providing clean drinking water, and sanitation.  The country of focus this year is Malawi. Jars will be available to collect from both churches at the beginning of Lent.  Please return them to Sue Hollingsworth for Trevone or Sue Norfolk for Padstow on Easter Sunday.

*****After the recent cyclone in South Africa and Malawi being one of the countries hit by bad weather, your donations this Lent are even more important as WaterAid try to get fresh drinking water to its people.

 

Trevone Flower Team

Please meet in the church 10.00 am on Saturday 21^st April to decorate the church with flowers or as last year bring a vase or jug with Spring flowers in and put them on the window sills sometime Saturday it looked lovely.  Sue Hollingsworth.

 

Special Services for Holy Week and Easter

In addition to the normal Sunday and Weekday Services

 

The Sacred Triduum (‘holy three days’) is the most holy time in the Church’s year, when we follow Jesus from the Last Supper, through the Garden of Gethsemane to the Cross, the Tomb and finally to his rising from the dead during the night. It is a powerful spiritual practice to attend these three services to prepare for the joy, eggs and chocolate of Easter Day.

 

Maundy Thursday Evening Eucharist and Watch 7pm, 18 April   Padstow

Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion                    2pm, 19 April   Padstow

Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday                            9pm, 20 April   Padstow

 

In Eastertide we will join together as a benefice on these two great feasts:

Ascension Day Sung Eucharist                        6pm, 30 May     St Issey

Pentecost Choral Evensong                            3.30pm, 9 June St Merryn

 

SUNDAY 14TH PALM SUNDAY

9.30 am             Sung Eucharist                                          Trevone

9.30 am             Sung Mass                                             St Petroc Minor

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist                                           Padstow

11.00 am          Morning Prayer – BCP                               St Merryn

4.00 pm             Teatime Family Service                               Trevone

 

REGULAR PRACTICES:-

Bell Practice:     Monday afternoon 3-4.30 pm                     Padstow

 

Tuesday 16^th

9.30 am            Roman Catholic Mass                                 Padstow

10.30 am          Eucharist in the Osborne Room                  St Issey

2.15 pm           Funeral Service of David Gwinnell               St Issey

 

Wednesday 17^th

10.30 am          Eucharist                                                    Trevone

 

Thursday 18^th

7.00 pm            Eucharist of The Lord’s Supper followed by The Watch                                                  Padstow

Friday 19^th

12 noon           Walk of Witness                                         Padstow

2.00 pm            Liturgy of the Passion                                 Padstow

 

Saturday 20^th

2.30 pm           Wedding of Luke Chown and Chloe Jackson Padstow

9.00 pm            The Great Vigil of Easter                             Padstow

 

SUNDAY 21^ST  EASTER SUNDAY

8.00 am            Eucharist                                                    Padstow

9.00 am            Roman Catholic Mass                                  Padstow

9.30 am            Eucharist                                                    Trevone

9.30 am            Eucharist                                                    St Issey

11.00 am          Eucharist                                                    St Merryn

11.00 am          Eucharist                                                    Padstow

7.30 am            Concert by Wadebridge MVC                    Padstow

 

Benefice Administrator: Mrs Sue Norfolk

Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Church Street, Padstow PL28 8BG

pmilbenefice1235@outlook.com          01841 534898

Office hours Tuesday – Friday 9.30 – 1.30 pm

** All items for inclusion in the Weekly News sheet to be with the administrator by 12 noon on Wednesday**

 WEEKLY NEWS

   for the United Benefice of

  Padstow, St Merryn and St Issey with St Petroc Minor

 

  Rector:  Revd Dr Stephen Holmes

  rectorpmil@gmail.com           07584 091870

 SUNDAY APRIL 7^TH  : The Fifth Sunday of Lent

           Passiontide begins

 A warm welcome to visitors who join us today.  Please take

our love and prayers to your home parish.

 

Introduction

When Judas used the poor to justify his own intransigence, Jesus said, ”You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”  While we are with Jesus today, let us enjoy his company as we worship God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 

THE COLLECT

Most merciful God, who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ delivered and saved the world:  grant that thy faith in him who suffered on the cross we may triumph in the power of his victory; through Jesus Christ our Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

 

POST-COMMUNION PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us that what we do for the least of our brothers and sisters we do also for you:  give us the will to be the servant of others as you were the servant of all, and gave up your life and died for us, but are alive and reign, now and forever.

 

TODAY’S READINGS – (Page 834/835)

 

First Reading                         Isaiah 43: 16-21         

God is about to do a new thing.  God will make a way in the wilderness and produce rivers to water the desert.  God’s people will be properly nourished.

 

Second Reading                   Philippians 3: 4b-14

Paul can boast of impeccable antecedents, but he regards all this as so much

rubbish beside the amazing value of a personal relationship with Jesus.

 

 

Gospel                                    St. John 12: 1-8

At a dinner party, Mary anoints Jesus’ feet with perfume and wipes them on

her hair, thus scandalising Judas Iscariot’s sense of propriety.  But Jesus is

unfazed.  He accepts her actions and tells Jesus to leave her alone.

 

 

St Issey and St Petroc Minor Annual Church Meeting

 

The Annual Meeting of Parishioners and Annual Parochial Church Meeting for the Parish of St Issey and St Petroc Minor will be on Wednesday 10 April at 7pm in the Osborne Room, St Issey. Nomination forms for Churchwardens and PCC members are available in both churches.

 

 NEWS & EVENTS

 

South Camel Christians Together

 

LENT TALKS 2019

 

These will take place each Tuesday in St Johns Methodist Church Padstow at 7:30pm. Each session will be led by a member of the Clergy and the Topic this year is the SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY.

Tuesday 9^th April       The Crucifixion.                   Revd Alistair Sharp

 

PLAINCHANT COMPLINE, a short candlelit service for the end of the day (lasting about 20 minutes), will be sung in St Petroc’s Church after each Tuesday Talk at 8:30pm.

All are welcome to sing or just be present.

 

STATIONS OF THE CROSS will be followed each Friday in Lent at 12 noon in St Petroc’s Parish Church (apart from Good Friday when the Walk of Witness will take place accompanied by St Minver Silver Band).

St. Petroc’s and St. Saviour’s churches are supporting the WaterAid charity with its 2019 Jars of Change Lent Appeal.  This is to raise money to help support WaterAid in providing clean drinking water, and sanitation.  The country of focus this year is Malawi. Jars will be available to collect from both churches at the beginning of Lent.  Please return them to Sue Hollingsworth for Trevone or Sue Norfolk for Padstow.

*****After the recent cyclone in South Africa and Malawi being one of the countries hit by bad weather, your donations this Lent are even more important as WaterAid try to get fresh drinking water to its people.

 

St. Petroc’s Church Needs You – Can you help out with any of the following jobs in St Petroc’s Church?  We are looking more volunteers for the Coffee Rota, help with Holy Dusters, choir and flowers.

There is also a need for more Servers in the Church for the Sunday and mid-week Eucharists.   Linda Morey is retiring from being our Sacristan after several years of loyal service, if this or any of the above jobs are of interest to you and you would like more information of what the job entails then please talk to Linda, Fr Stephen, or Sue.

 

Special Services for Holy Week and Easter

In addition to the normal Sunday and Weekday Services

 

Maundy Thursday Evening Eucharist and Watch 7pm, 18 April   Padstow

Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion                    2pm, 19 April   Padstow

Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday                            9pm, 20 April   Padstow

Ascension Day Sung Eucharist                           6pm, 30 May     St Issey

Pentecost Choral Evensong                               3.30pm, 9 June St Merryn

 

SUNDAY 7^TH FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT  – Passiontide begins

9.30 am             Morning Prayer – BCP                                 St. Issey

9.30 am             Sung Eucharist                                            Trevone

11.00 am          Service of the Word                                   Padstow

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist                                        St. Merryn

 

REGULAR PRACTICES:-

Bell Practice:     Monday afternoon 3-4.30 pm                      Padstow

 

Tuesday 9^th

9.30 am            Roman Catholic Mass                                 Padstow

10.30 am          Eucharist in the Osborne Room                  St Issey

11.00 am          Funeral Service of Alan Constance              Padstow

7.30 pm            Lent Talk                           St. John’s Methodist Church

8.30 pm            Plainchant Compline in St. Petroc’s              Padstow

 

Wednesday 10^th William Law, Priest

10.30 am          Eucharist                                                    Trevone

7.30 pm           St Issey APCM                                            Osborne Room

 

Thursday 11^th George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop and Missionary

10.30 am         Eucharist – BCP                                          Padstow

 

Friday 12^th

12 noon           Stations of the Cross in St. Petroc’s             Padstow

 

Saturday 13^th

5.30 pm            Roman Catholic Vigil Mass                           Padstow

 

SUNDAY 14^TH PALM SUNDAY

9.30 am            Sung Eucharist                                            Trevone

9.30 am            Sung Mass                                      St. Petroc Minor

11.00 am          Sung Eucharist                                            Padstow

11.00 am          Morning Prayer – BCP                             St. Merryn

4.00 pm           Teatime Family Service                                Trevone

 

Benefice Administrator: Mrs Sue Norfolk

Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Church Street, Padstow PL28 8BG

pmilbenefice1235@outlook.com          01841 534898

Office hours Tuesday – Friday 10.00 – 1.00 pm

** All items for inclusion in the Weekly News sheet to be with the administrator by 12 noon on Wednesday**