Friends of All Saints Church Oakham The membership/programme cards for 2014/15 are now available and have been sent out to those that have paid their subscription. In order to save us the cost of sending out reminders would those who have not yet paid please send their subscription of £5 per person to John King, 64 Stamford Road, LE15 6JA.
Sunday 18th May 2014
Wednesday 21st May, 7.30 pm: Home Group at 19 Ashwell Road, Oakham.
Team Walking Group - the next walk is on Thursday 22nd of May starting at 10.30am from Burrough on the Hill. It is 5.75miles with some ascent onto the hill fort. Parking at or around the Church. Picnic lunch required. Group contact Dennis Corton 722272. New walkers always welcome National gardens scheme open in Whissendine 25th May 2 - 5 pm. Tea/cakes served in St Andrews Church in aid of Church funds. All most welcome Thursday 5th June, 7pm: St. Joseph's Church Room.. Please support Julian and Caroline Lott, who will be giving an illustrated talk on their work in Malawi. There will be refreshments: bring and share. All welcome. FRIDAY 4 – SUNDAY 6 JULY ‘ART FOR HEART’S SAKE’ ART SHOW St Peter & St Paul Langham Painting, sculptures, photographs, textiles etc, most for sale, full details are available from www.artforhearts.co.uk. ‘Meet the Artist’ sessions, refreshments by Langham WI and also on display all the Christmas Card entries from Rutland schoolchildren in the competition sponsored by the former Rutland High Sheriff. The Art show will be open from 10.00am each day to 8.00pm Friday, 5.00pm Saturday and 4.00pm Sunday. Admission £2 per adult in aid of Chain of Hope children’s heart surgery charity and local charities including Langham church
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 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 9am- 1pm, Thursdays 11am-3pm and Fridays by email. Notices for inclusion in the pew sheet should arrive by Wednesday at 11 am. 01572 724007 office@oakhamteam.org.uk
www.oakhamteam.org.uk th Services for Sunday 25 May 2014 Easter 6 Ashwell 11:00 Holy Communion Braunston 16:00 Church @ 4 Brooke 08:00 Holy Commuion Egleton 09:15 Holy Communion Langham 11:00 Holy Communion Market Overton 09:00 Holy Communion Oakham 08:00 Holy Communion 10.30 Family Communion 18:00 Evensong Teigh 09:15 Holy Communion Whissendine 11:00 Holy Communion Midweek Communion Services Tuesday All Saints’ Oakham 10.00 am Wednesday St John and St Anne Chapel 10.00 am Thursday All Saints’ Oakham 8.30 am Friday (BCP) All Saints’ Oakham 10.00 am Every Wednesday at 5.30 pm Christian Meditation Group at St John and St Anne.
18 May 2014, The Fifth Sunday of Easter The Collect Almighty God, Who through Your onlybegotten 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. Amen. Acts 7 verses 55 to 60 Standing before the high priest and the council, Stephen, filled with The Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God !’ But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him. Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’ Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them.’ When he had said this, he died. 1 Peter 2 verses 2 to 10 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation - if indeed you have tasted that The Lord is good. Come to Him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in scripture: ‘See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious; and whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.’ To you then who believe, He is precious; but for those who do not believe, ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner’, and ‘A stone that makes them stumble, and a rock that makes them fall.’ They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received
mercy, but now you have received mercy. Saint John 14 verses 1 to 14 Jesus said to His disciples: ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you ? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.’ Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way ?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you know Me, you will know My Father also. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.’ Philip said to Him, ‘Lord, show us The Father, and we will be satisfied.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know Me ? Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, “Show us The Father” ? Do you not believe that I am in The Father and The Father is in Me ? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own; but The Father Who dwells in Me does His works. Believe Me that I am in The Father and The Father is in Me; but if you do not, then believe Me because of the works themselves. Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to The Father. I will do whatever you ask in My Name, so that The Father may be glorified in The Son. If in My Name you ask Me for anything, I will do it.’ Post Communion Collect 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. © The Archbishops' Council 2000