Monday 13th - Sunday 19th January 2020 Mon 13th
10am-2pm Open Church in St Ben’s. Come and join us!
Tues 14th
9am 9.30am 10.30am 10.30am 1.15pm 7.15pm
Wed 15th
9am 10.15am 11am 3pm 6.30pm
Thurs 9am 16th 7pm Fri 17th Sat 18th
Morning Prayer, St Ben’s Church. Chapter meeting in Street. Holy Communion, St Ben’s Church. Holy Communion, St Patrick’s Chapel. St Ben’s School Collective Worship, St Ben’s Church. St Ben’s PCC meeting, St John’s Centre. Morning Prayer, St Ben’s Church. Glastonbury Voices Choir, St Ben’s Church. Staff meeting at the Vicarage. Visiting team meeting, at the home of Sue Gowland. ReMix Youth Group, St Ben’s Church.
7.45pm
Morning Prayer, St Mary’s Church, Meare. Choir practice, St Ben’s Church. Bell-ringing practice, St Ben’s Church.
9am 12noon
Morning Prayer, Abbey House. Soup lunches, St Ben’s Church.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity [18th - 25th Jan]
10am-12 Open Church in St Ben’s. Come and join us! 12.15pm Prayer meeting & light lunch, St Mary’s RC Church
12.30pm
Bell-ringers meeting & lunch, St Ben’s Church.
P L EA S E CO NT A CT U S: Vicar & Area Dean: Day off Monday The Revd. David MacGeoch Tel: (01458) 834281 Mob: 07712 862 692 Email: vicarabbeyparish@btinternet.com Pioneer Minister: Day off Monday The Revd. Diana Greenfield Tel: (01458) 446838 Mob: 07921 858 094 Email: dmgreenfield@me.com Trainee Youth Worker: Naomi Peachey Day off Saturday Email: Naomi.youthwork@hotmail.com College Tuesday
BENEFICE OFFICE: 3, Church Lane, GLASTONBURY, Somerset, BA6 9JQ. Tel: (01458) 830060 E-mail: abbeyparishes@gmail.com OFFICE OPEN THIS WEEK:
The Second Sunday of Epiphany
MONDAY - FRIDAY 9am - 4pm [Closed for lunch between 1 & 2pm]
9.30am: Holy Communion, St Ben’s Church 11.15am: Café Style Service, St Ben’s Church at St Mary’s...11.30am: Baptism Readings: 1 Cor.1:1-9; John 1:29-42 —————————————-
3pm: Ecumenical Service at the URC Guest Preacher: The Very Revd. John Davies, Dean of Wells Cathedral
Sunday 12th January 2020 St. Benedict’s 8am: Holy Communion [BCP] Celebrant: The Vicar 11am: URC in St Ben’s Leader & Preacher: Mrs. Philippa Chapman 5pm: Healing Service Led by: The Revd. Pamela Heazell St .Mary’s, Meare 11am: Holy Communion Combined Service
Celebrant: The Vicar Preacher: Mrs. Di Grenter COLLECT
SUNDAY 19TH JANUARY 2020 8am: Holy Communion [BCP], St Ben’s Church
Welcome to the Benefice of Glastonbury with Meare
Please visit your church website to check for recent updates: St John's: stjohns-glastonbury.uk St Ben’s: www.stbens.ukpc.net St Mary's, Meare:: is.gd/stmarymeare Abbey Parishes online diary:www.apdiary.ukpc.net
Eternal Father, who at the baptism of Jesus revealed him to be your Son, anointing him with the Holy Spirit: grant to us, who are born again by water and the Spirit, that we may be faithful to our calling as your adopted children; 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. Hymns for the 11am Service at St Mary’s Church, Meare: 49; 53; 394 & 172
Acting opportunity!
READINGS
Calling two budding female actors to fill the last remaining roles in the 'Floods' play.
NEW TESTAMENT - Acts 10:34-43
GOSPEL - Matt.3:13-end
Gentiles Hear the Good News
The Baptism of Jesus
Then Peter began to speak to them: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’
Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?’ But Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfil all righteousness.’ Then he consented. And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’
Rehearsals Weds and Thurs nights, St Benedict's church 7pm from Weds 4th March. Production 27th & 28th March - Friday evening and Saturday matinee. Please contact Philippa Chapman on tel: (01458) 833075 or by email at philippa@uksingers.com
Please keep the following people & their families in your prayers: Amber Liz Affleck-Edwards Dorothy Badman Alan Barki Scott Barki Steve Brain Fr. Robert Featherstone John Foreman Joan Green Rosemary Martin Jim Nagel Valerie Moreton Rick Pudner Robin & Sylvia Ray Ev Ridout Jean Rooney Sheila Scott-Evans Rosemary Turnbull Anne Walsh-Waring Sister Liz For those to be baptised: Dougie Bennett [19/01/20 at St Mary’s Church, Meare]
RIP PEGGY HEXT;
BASIL POWELL