Wednesday 30th May, 3 pm: Home Group at 19 Ashwell Road, Oakham. Please note altered time of meeting. Sunday27th May 2012
Offers of lifts: Further offers of help with lifts to church services on an occasional or regular basis would be greatly appreciated. If you are able to help in this way, please let Gill Bruce know (Tel: 756656).
Pentecost
Whissendine Prayer Group - The summer diary is now available from St Andrews' Church, or (tel: 01664 474 454). This issue includes prayers for the Queens Jubilee and the Olympics. Thursday 31st May, 10am – 12pm: Church Flower Guild Coffee morning and Bring and Buy. This will be at held at 58 Ashwell Road Oakham. £1.00 entrance fee. We hope to see you there Joan and Harold. Tuesday 5th June : Diamond Jubilee Celebrations , in Cutts Close. Churches Together will have a tent for tea and cakes. Could you offer an hour or so to help? Or offer a cake or something homed baked? Please let Patrick Wilson know. (723288) Thank you. th
Tuesday 12 June, 10am: Bible Study at 25 Willow Crescent.
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.
Tuesday 12th June, 7.30pm: Good News Van. This will be at 25 Willow Crescent.
At All Saints’ Church, Oakham, large print versions of the hymns and service booklet are available. Please ask one of the sidespersons.
Wednesday 20th June: “Open House” change of date. This is the new date for Helen Bush, 17 Tolethorpe Close. Thank you.
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
Friday 22nd June: Friends and Mothers Union outing to Warwick. Coach and Choral Evening, Church Tour and Tea: £16.00 (£12.00 deposit) Leave 9am outside the Church. Open to all Benefice, sign list by the south door. Enquiries please phone Gordon or Pamela Woods 755371 Saturday 23rd June: Coffee morning at the Methodist Church. Not only will you find Christian fellowship, but also all the proceeds will go to the Bible Society. All Welcome. Tuesday 26th June, 7.30pm: Festival Organ Recital by Paul Butler at Oakham All Saints Church. Admission £6.00 full details and tickets on line at www.oakhamconcerts.info this evening is in support of LOROS. All Welcome to this wonderful event. Tuesday 17th July, 6.30pm : An Evening Garden Party at the home of Mr and Mrs Timothy Hart , The Old Hall, Market Overton. Tickets are £12.50 this includes Drinks and Canapés. All the proceed of this evening will go to the roof appeal of St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Market Overton. Please contact Diana Latchford on 01572 767205 or Stefa Hart at stefa@hambleton.co.uk Saturday 28th July: Please book this date now for the Royal Safari Supper. Do join in to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee and offer to host a course if possible. Please phone Pam Cook on 757191, Coral Pike 759487 or Pamela Woods 755371 Thursday 12th July: The Rutland Osprays. A presentation by Tim Mackrill at the Bird Watching Centre Egleton. £8.00 a ticket Please telephone 723424 or 756050, all proceeds in aid of Egleton Church.
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, 3rd June 2012 Ashwell 18:00 Evensong Brooke 18:00 Evensong Braunston 10:30 Holy Communion Egleton 09:00 Holy Communion Langham 16:00 Jubilee Market Overton 18:00 Evensong Oakham 08:00 Holy Communion 10:30 Holy Communion 18:00 Evensong Teigh 09:00 Holy Communion Whissendine 11:00 Holy Communion 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.
27 May 2012, The Feast of Pentecost The Collect God, Who as at this time taught the hearts of Your faithful people by sending to them the light of Your Holy Spirit: grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things and evermore to rejoice in His holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, Who is alive and reigns with You, in the unity of The Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Acts 2 verses 1 to 21 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with The Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as The Spirit gave them ability. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galil-eans ? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language ? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs - in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.’ All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this mean ?’ But others sneered and said, ‘They are filled with new wine.’ But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: ‘Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: “In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon My slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out My Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on
the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of The Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the Name of The Lord shall be saved.” John 15.26- 7 16.4b-15 ‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning. But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.‘I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, “Where are you going?” But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgement: about sin, because they do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; about judgement, because the ruler of this world has been condemned. ‘I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. Ezekiel 37.1-14 Too large to print
Post Communion Prayer Faithful God, Who fulfilled the promises of Easter by sending us Your Holy Spirit and opening to every race and nation the way of life eternal: open our lips by Your Spirit, that every tongue may tell of Your glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.