March 30th, Lent Lunch 12 noon – 1.15pm: The lunch will be held at the Church Hall all proceeds go to Christian Aid.
Sunday, 25th March 5th Sunday of Lent
Easter Lilies: If you would like to make a donation towards the cost of an Easter lily in memory of a loved one (approx £2.00 per lily). Please place your money in the boxes in Church during Sunday Services. For Lilies at Whissendine please contact either Alec Peel or Kate Franklin. For Market Overton please go to the Market Store by the end of March (£2.50 each) March 29th: Market Overton Lent Lunches These will be held at Market Overton Bowls Club from 12.30 – 2pm. Advanced booking preferred to Lin Rider or just turn up on the day. Saturday 31st March, 7.15pm: Handel’s Messiah, The Cantus Choir and Orchestra. This event will be held at All Saints Church Oakham. Tickets are £9 each which can be purchased on line at www.oakhamconcerts.info/messiah or from Kevin or on the door. Friday April 6th Good Friday 9.30 – 11.30am: Children’s Activity Morning for primary aged children (4-11yrs) at Whissendine Church. Places are limited so please book with Revd Janet Tebby. Saturday 14th April, 7.30pm: Classic Concert by Melton Classic Orchestra at St Andrews Church Whissendine. Tickets £6.50 which includes a glass of wine can be purchased from Hilda on 01664 474392 or email handj5@talktalk.net. Please come and support us. Lent/U.S.P.G As usual I have Lent offerings boxes available for the use during this season. Please return them to me after Easter. All money received will be sent to support the hospital of St James Lesotho. Boxes can be found on the table by the south door. Alf Harding Children’s Society Rita Butler has taken over the collection of Children's Society boxes. This society helps make lives better for thousands of children who are neglected, living in poverty or in fear of violence. If anyone would like a box, please speak to Rita after the service or phone her on 01572 720631. Thank you. Thursday 26th April: Friends Spring Outing Tour to Lyddington Bede House. Then on to Stoke Dry Church for a talk and home-made afternoon tea (£5.50). Meet at Lyddington at 1.30 pm shared cars. Please sign up, list on table. Examiner for the Church Accounts - By now you should all have received the Annual Report containing the Church Accounts. After several years as Examiner, Edward Gibson is retiring and so the Church is looking for someone with an appropriate background to take over this task. Looking over the completed accounts is a once a year activity, usually undertaken in February each year. Ideally the Examiner for 2012 should be elected at this year's Annual Meeting and so we would appreciate hearing from someone as soon as possible. Anyone interested should contact John King on 01572 722796 or Peter Hill on 01572 724529. Wednesday 20th June: “Open House” change of date. This is the new date for Helen Bush, 17 Tolethorpe Close. Thank you. Weekly offering envelopes are an efficient form of planned giving, with Gift Aid also possible. The New year starts April 8th. Would you like to start now? Please sign list at South door. Queries, contact Gordon 755371
WELCOME If you are new to this church or visiting, please make yourself known to the clergy or churchwardens. If you wish to receive Holy Communion in the pew where you are sitting, please inform a sidesperson before the start of the service. At All Saints’ Church, Oakham, large print versions of the hymns and service booklet are available. Please ask one of the sidespersons. Oakham Team Clergy Rev Canon Lee Francis-Dehqani (Team Rector, Oakham) 01572 722108 lee@oakhamteam.org.uk Rev Audrey Atkinson (Team Vicar) 01572 723154 audrey@oakhamteam.org.uk Rev Janet Tebby (Team Vicar) 01664 474096 janet@oakhamteam.org.uk Rev Hildred Crowther (Assistant Priest) 01572 767779 hildred@oakhamteam.org.uk Oakham Team Office The Team Office is staffed each weekday morning from 9.15am. Notices for inclusion in the pew sheet should arrive by Wednesday at 11am. 01572 724007 office@oakhamteam.org.uk www.oakhamteam.org.uk Services for Sunday, 1st April Palm Sunday (6th Sunday of Lent)
Braunston Egleton Langham Oakham Teigh Whissendine
10:30 09:00 18:00 10:00 09:00 11:00
Holy Communion Holy Communion Ecumenical Service Palm Sunday Service Holy Communion Holy Communion
6pm Joint Ecumenical Service for Palm Sunday at Langham Midweek Communion Services Tuesday All Saints’ Oakham Wednesday St. J. and A. Chapel Thursday All Saints’ Oakham Friday (BCP) All Saints’ Oakham
10.00 a.m. 9.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. 10.00 a.m.
Every Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. Christian Meditation Group at St. John and St. Anne.
25 March 2012, The Fifth Sunday of Lent
The Collect Most merciful God, who by death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Chirst delivered and saved the world: grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross we may triumph in the power of his victory; 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 Jeremiah 31.31 -34 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. Hebrews 5.5 – 10 Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’; as he says also in another place, ‘You are a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
John 12.20 – 33 Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus.’ Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honour. ‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. Post Communion 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 servent of others as you were the servent of all, and gave up your life and died for us, but are alive and reign, now and for ever. Amen
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