Monday 11th - Sunday 17th November Mon 11th
10am-2pm Open Church in St Ben’s. Come and join us! 5.30pm St Ben’s Church booked for Beavers & Cubs.
Tues 12th
9am 9.30am 10.30am 10.30am 1.15pm
Wed 13th
5.30pm 7.15pm
Morning Prayer, St Ben’s Church. Chapter Meeting in Street. Holy Communion, St Patrick’s Chapel. Holy Communion, St Ben’s Church. St Ben’s School Collective Worship, St Ben’s Church. St Ben’s School Governors’ Meeting. St Ben’s PCCmeeting, St Ben’s Church.
9am 10.15am 6pm 6.30pm
Morning Prayer, St Ben’s Church. Glastonbury Voices Choir, St Ben’s Church. St John’s School, Governors Meeting. ReMix Youth Group, St Ben’s Church.
Thurs 9am 14th 9.30am-12 2.30pm 7pm 7.15pm
Morning Prayer, Anne Lampson’shome. Area Deans’ meeting in Frome. Funeral of Irene Luff, Mendip Crematorium. Choir practice, St Ben’s Church. Deanery Mission & Pastoral Group meeting, at the home of Mary Masters
Fri 15th
9am 12noon
Morning Prayer, Abbey House. Soup lunches, St Ben’s Church.
Sat 16th
10am-5pm Carnival Refreshments in St Ben’s Church
P L EA S E CO NT A CT U S: Vicar & Area Dean: The Revd. David MacGeoch Tel: (01458) 834281 Mob: 07712 862 692 Email: vicarabbeyparish@btinternet.com
Welcome to the Benefice of Glastonbury with Meare Pioneer Minister: The Revd. Diana Greenfield Day off Monday Tel: (01458) 446838 Mob: 07921 858 094 Email: dmgreenfield@me.com Trainee Youth Worker: Naomi Peachey Day off Monday 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:
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2019
MONDAY - THURSDAY 9am - 4pm
The Second Sunday Before Advent
[Closed for lunch between 1 & 2pm]
*Vicar taking Benefice Service in Street
FRIDAY: 9am - 11am
8am: Holy Communion [BCP], St Ben’s Church *9.30am: Holy Communion, St Ben’s Church 11.15am: Café Style Church, St Ben’s Church Readings: 2 Thess. 3:6-13; Luke 21: 5-19
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Sunday 10th November 2019
St. Benedict’s 8am: Holy Communion [BCP] Celebrant: The Vicar 10.45am: Act of Remembrance by the War Memorial followed by Remembrance Service in Glastonbury Town Hall Led by: The Vicar Preacher: The Revd. Philip Harbridge 5pm: Healing Service Led by: The Revd. Pamela Heazell St .Mary’s, Meare 10.45am: Village Remembrance Service Leader & Preacher: Mrs. Margaret Wynn
COLLECT Almighty Father; whose will is to restore all things in your beloved Son, the King of all: govern the hearts and minds of those in authority, and bring the families of the nations, divided and torn apart by the ravages of sin, to be subject to his just and gentle rule; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen Hymns for the Remembrance Service in the Town Hall: 558; 537; 356; 413 & 81
“Saying Goodbye!”….We will be having a Benefice Lunch on Sunday 24th November at 1pm in St Ben’s Church to say goodbye to Andrea, Andrew and Laura. If you are able to help with the provision of food &/or you would like to make a donation, please contact the respective Churchwardens of the three churches. The Churchwardens of St John’s will be organising the lunch. Thank you. David, Vicar
READINGS NEW TESTAMENT - 2 Thess. 2: 1-5, 13-end The Man of Lawlessness As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God. Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you? Chosen for Salvation But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth. For this purpose he called you through our proclamation of the good news, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by our letter. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope, comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.
GOSPEL - Luke 20:27-38 The Question about the Resurrection Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die any more, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.’
ON Saturday 30th November [Frost Fayre], we are holding a ‘pop-up’ sale 11am - 3pm in St John’s Centre, Church Lane, Glastonbury and will be ‘setting up’ on Friday 29th November between 2 - 4pm. Please could you bring donations of really sale-able items; clothes, fabric, good household items, etc. Anything that can be sold for church funds! Further info from Pam Burrough & Kay Wych
WANTED - do you have any unwanted adult socks? St. Ben's Soup [Lunch team] would be very grateful if you could donate these. They will then be given to visitors at the Lunch who require them. Many thanks Jenny Randall WE will be having a cake stall in St Ben’s Church for the Frost Fair and would like all you talented, lovely ladies and gentlemen to make some cakes for us to sell! There will be a signup sheet at the back of church, or you can phone me on tel: 440124. I look forward to seeing your culinary masterpieces! Contributions can be left in St Ben’s on the afternoon of Friday 29th Nov or in the morning on Saturday 30th. Thank you! Annie Wynter-Crofts Please keep the following people & their families in your prayers: Amber Liz Affleck-Edwards Dorothy Badman Scott Barki Steve Brain Fr. Robert Featherstone Joan Green Marie Harris Brian & Eve Low Rosemary Martin Valerie Moreton Rick Pudner Jean Rooney Sheila Scott-Evans Rosemary Turnbull RIP: Ian Bateman; Sheila Harmon; Irene Luff;