Wednesday 1 May 12 noon: Healing Prayer Service at All Saints’, Oakham. Everyone welcome.
Sunday 28 April 2013
Wednesday 1 May - 1.30 pm: Music at Lunchtime. Freddie Buchanan – cornet – will be playing a selection from Mozart, Puccini, Sanders and Zequinha de Abreu. All welcome. Thursday 2 May Come and Chat: We are an informal group for people who've recently lost loved ones. We meet at 2.30 4.30 pm on the first Thursday of the month at the Methodist Church in Northgate where people can chat over a cuppa with each other and our volunteers. If anyone would like a more in depth conversation, clergy and more experienced listeners are present. Please feel free to join us. If anyone you know would benefit, please point them in our direction or better still, bring them along – Hildred. Monday 6 May 11.15 am: Bank Holiday Organ Recital at All Saints’, Oakham (free admission) with David Humphreys (Peterborough Cathedral) followed by lunch in the Church Hall (£5). All welcome. Full details online at www.oakhamconcerts.info. Thursday 9 May Celtic Mid Day Prayer: To be held at St Edmund Egleton 12.15 pm to 12.45 pm. Come and weave a little silence into your day and join us for some mid day prayer and silence. All are welcome. Further details please contact Vyv Wainwright 01572 759157. Saturday 11 May 7 pm: The Friends Celebrate being 20 years old with an evening of memorabilia, slideshow, music and refreshments. Special guest the Very Rev Charles Taylor, Dean of Peterborough Cathedral. Members and guests very welcome, tickets £7.50 – list by the South Door or phone Beryl on 724103. *Anyone with photos for the exhibition from early years please contact Beryl. Sunday 19 May: Just a reminder of the change of time for Evensong at St Peter, Brooke which will be held at the later time of 7 pm NOT 6 pm. Tuesday 21 May 7.30 pm: Crescent, Oakham.
Good News Van at 25 Willow
Bible Study 10 am – dates for your diary: Tuesday 14 May at 17 Tolethorpe Close, Oakham (please note change of address). Tuesday 11 June at 25 Willow Crescent, Oakham. Oakham, Prayers and Readings are ready for collection today. Help yourself. Christian Aid Envelopes: Surely you can spare two or three evenings in Christian Aid Week (12 – 19 May) to deliver and later collect the red envelopes? Note – children can deliver. We need your help! Peter Townsend – 759286. Traidcraft Exchange: Traidcraft Exchange have now raised over £9000 from the recycling of people’s unwanted jewellery - if you would like to take part in this scheme I still have a supply of freepost envelopes. Do get in touch if you would like one. Thank you Denise (722729). Fairtrade: The next dates for the stall will be 12 and 19 May as well as being here before and after today’s combined 10 am service. Denise. Friday 17 May 10.30 am: Coffee at church. If you are interested in knitting, sewing or craft work your help is needed! Do come along and discuss forming a group, which can make items to sell at All Saints’ Autumn Sale in November. If you are unable to come then please contact either Sally Corton 722272, Carol Scothern 720269 or Pamela Woods 755371. Wanted: Instructions and rules for running an old fashioned Beetle Drive. Contact Stephan on 722869.
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 Rev Dr Dominic Coad (Curate) 01572 770024 dominic@oakhamteam.org.uk Oakham Team Office The Team Office is staffed each Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning from 9 am – 12 noon. Notices for inclusion in the pew sheet should arrive by Wednesday at 11 am. 01572 724007 office@oakhamteam.org.uk
www.oakhamteam.org.uk Services for Sunday 5 May 2013 (Easter 6) Ashwell 16:00 Church at 4 Braunston 11:00 Holy Communion Brooke 18:00 Evensong Egleton 09:15 Holy Communion Langham 18:00 Word Worship Response Market Overton 09:00 Holy Communion Oakham 08:00 Holy Communion 10:30 Holy Communion 18:00 Evensong Teigh 09:00 Mattins Whissendine 11:00 Holy Communion Midweek Communion Services Tuesday All Saints’ Oakham Wednesday St John and St Anne Chapel Thursday All Saints’ Oakham Friday (BCP) All Saints’ Oakham
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Every Wednesday at 5.30 pm Christian Meditation Group at St John and St Anne.
28 April 2013, The Fifth Sunday of Easter THE COLLECT Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ have overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires, so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect; through Jesus Christ our risen Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Acts 11.1 – 18 Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, saying, ‘Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?’ Then Peter began to explain it to them, step by step, saying, ‘I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. There was something like a large sheet coming down from heaven, being lowered by its four corners; and it came close to me. As I looked at it closely I saw four-footed animals, beasts of prey, reptiles, and birds of the air. I also heard a voice saying to me, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat.” But I replied, “By no means, Lord; for nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.” But a second time the voice answered from heaven, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.” This happened three times; then everything was pulled up again to heaven. At that very moment three men, sent to me from Caesarea, arrived at the house where we were. The Spirit told me to go with them and not to make a distinction between them and us. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house. He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, “Send to Joppa and bring Simon, who is called Peter; he will give you a message by which you and your entire household will be saved.” And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, “John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?’ When they heard this, they were silenced. And they praised God, saying, ‘Then God has given even to the Gentiles the repentance that leads to life.’
Revelations 21.1 – 6 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.’ And the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I am making all things new.’ Also he said, ‘Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.’ Then he said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. John 13.31 - 35 When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.” I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’ POST COMMUNION PRAYER Eternal God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life: grant us to walk in his way, to rejoice in his truth, and to share his risen life; who is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Amen.