Weekly Pewsheet Service Details and Notices
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 5 October 2014
St Edmund Egleton
Oakham
Harvest Festival 8:00am Holy Communion (CW Trad) 10:30am Parish Communion 6:00pm Evensong
Whissendine
11:00am Holy Communion
Ashwell
4:00pm Harvest Festival
Teigh
9:00am Matins
Market Overton Langham Braunston Brooke Hambleton Egleton
9:00am Holy Communion
6:00pm Word, Worship & Response 11:00am Holy Communion 6:00pm Harvest Festival No service 9:15am Holy Communion (CW Trad)
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 your pew, or would like a large print version of this Pewsheet, please ask a sidesperson.
Please take this Pewsheet home
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Oakham Team Clergy Revd Canon Lee Francis-Dehqani Team Rector (Oakham) 01572 722108 lee@oakhamteam.org.uk Revd Audrey Atkinson Team Vicar (Langham, Braunston, Brooke, Hambleton, Egleton) 01572 723154 audrey@oakhamteam.org.uk Revd Janet Tebby Team Vicar (Whissendine, Teigh, Ashwell, Market Overton) 01664 474096 janet@oakhamteam.org.uk Revd Hildred Crowther Assistant Priest 01572 767779 hildred@oakhamteam.org.uk Revd Dr Dominic Coad Curate 01572 770024 dominic@oakhamteam.org.uk
Lay Ministers Mr Vyv Wainwright Reader – 01572 759157 vyv@oakhamteam.org.uk Mr Alan Rudge Reader – 01572 755570 alan@oakhamteam.org.uk Mr David Pattinson Reader – 01572 723884 david@oakhamteam.org.uk Ms Robin Robson Reader – 01572 757404 robin@oakhamteam.org.uk Mrs Gail Rudge Parish Evangelist – 01572 755570 gail@oakhamteam.org.uk Mrs Jenni Duffy Parish Evangelist – 01572 720064 jenni@oakhamteam.org.uk Mrs Madeleine Morris Pastoral Assistant – 01572 868418 madeleine@oakhamteam.org.uk
Director of Music Mr Kevin Slingsby – 01572 898242 kevin@oakhamteam.org.uk
Oakham Team Office Mrs Janine Weaver Team Administrator 01572 724007 office@oakhamteam.org.uk The Team Office is staffed on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 9am- 1pm, Thursdays 11am-3pm and Fridays by email. Notices for inclusion in the pew sheet should be sent to notices@oakhamteam.org.uk or delivered to the office by Wednesday at 11 am.
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Collect O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; 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.
First Reading – Isaiah 5.1-7 Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watch-tower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!
Second Reading – Philippians 3.4b-14* If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Gospel – Matthew 21.33-46 Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: ‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 3ut the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, “They will respect my son.” But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, “This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.” So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ They said to him, ‘He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes”? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.’ When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.
Post Communion Prayer Almighty God, you have taught us through your Son that love is the fulfilling of the law: grant that we may love you with our whole heart and our neighbours as ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Today HARVEST FESTIVAL All Saints Oakham Services at 8:00am, 10:30am and 6:00pm. 4:00pm – HARVEST FESTIVAL St Mary Ashwell
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6:00pm – HARVEST CHORAL EVENSONG St Peter Brooke Led by Revd Audrey Atkinson, and with the Team Choir, Laudamus. All are welcome to stay for refreshments afterwards.
This Week MONDAY 6 OCTOBER 5:30pm –CHORAL FESTIVAL REHEARSAL Peterborough Cathedral 7:30pm – BRAUNSTON HOME GROUP 52 Church Street, Braunston
TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER 10:00am – BIBLE STUDY GROUP 25 Willow Crescent, Oakham Submitting 1 Timothy to our continuing study and seeing its relevance to our life today. Do come and join us.
WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER 10:30am-12:00pm – COFFEE MORNING & CAKE STALL St Joseph’s RC Church, Station Road Organised by Women’s World Day of Prayer. Coffee and cake £1.50. Discovery Day information prepared by Christian women from The Bahamas will be available. 1:30pm – MUSIC AT LUNCHTIME All Saints Oakham Matthew Curtis tenor Donizetti Una furtiva lagrima Leoncavallo Mattinata Tosti Ideale; A vuchella 6:00pm – COME AND MEDITATE Chapel of St John & St Anne, Westgate, Oakham Come and join us and explore Christian meditation. Come and be still and know God. See a short presentation DVD, discuss and have a go! Light
Refreshments available. Further details from Vyv Wainwright (Reader) 07973 204191 or Chris & Barbara Bamber 01664 474360. 7:30pm – HOME GROUP 19 Ashwell Road, Oakham
THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER 12:15-12:45pm – CELTIC MIDDAY PRAYER – St Edmund Egleton Come and weave a little silence to your lips, weave a little silence into your life and come and join us if you can. All Welcome. For further details please contact Vyv Wainwright 01572 755752. 7:00pm –CHORAL FESTIVAL REHEARSAL All Saints Oakham 7:30pm – RUTLAND THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Oakham Methodist Church, Northgate Issues of Peace and Reconciliation – Revd Sam McBratney. £5 per attendance or £20 for six meetings. Sam McBratney is Tutor for International Students at the Centre for Graduate Research at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. He will speak on issues of peace and reconciliation with particular reference to Ireland and Sri Lanka. The Graduate Research Centre, works through a collaborative partnership with the University of Gloucestershire and Newman University and offers a range of higher degrees aiming to nurture the vocation to rigorous
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theological study, as a key expression of the Church's witness to the world. Cost £5 per attendance or £20 for six meetings. For further information visit www.rutlandtheologicalsociety.co.uk.
FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER 7:30pm – RUTLAND THREE ARTS SOCIETY MUSIC GROUP Methodist Church Hall, Northgate Duets from Conflicting Countries – Paul Butler & Linda Hall Non-members welcome (£3 charge).
SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER 5:30pm – PETERBOROUGH DIOCESAN CHORAL FESTIVAL Peterborough Cathedral Choirs from all over the Diocese will be singing, including our own – please do come and join us for the service if you can. 7:30pm – SUPPER AND RACE NIGHT Braunston Village Hall In support of Braunston Church. Tickets from 01572 774388 or 755570.
SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 11:00am – HARVEST FESTIVAL St Andrew Whissendine 5:00pm – HARVEST FESTIVAL St Andrew Hambleton 6:30pm – ‘COME AND SING’ FAURE REQUIEM St John’s Church Peterborough Rehearsal at 4:30pm. Please contact Kevin Slingsby if you are interested. Please note change of date from 9 November.
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Looking Ahead MONDAY 13 OCTOBER 7:30pm – ‘THE JOURNEY’ PLANNING MEETING All Saints Church Hall, Oakham Looking ahead to Christmas 2015, we hope to organise a Living Nativity through the streets of Oakham during the late night Christmas shopping. If you would be interested in helping, either taking part or organising, please join us for this preliminary meeting.
TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER 10:00am –MOTHERS’ UNION QUIET MORNING Uppingham Please contact Meg Dyer or Pamela Woods for further details.
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 1:30pm – MUSIC AT LUNCHTIME All Saints Oakham Isobel Thompson violin Music to include: Vivaldi ‘Spring’ (Allegro pastorale)
THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER 10:00am -12:00pm – OPEN HOUSE Home of Rita & Paul Butler, 20 Uppingham Road, Oakham All are welcome.
SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER 4:00pm – LEAVING SERVICE FOR REVD AUDREY ATKINSON St Peter & St Paul Langham Please note there will be no service at Oakham or Brooke that evening.
TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 7:30pm – GOOD NEWS VAN Common Room, St John & St Ann, South Street, Oakham This is a Christian lending library with books, CDs and DVDs. All invited and welcome.
TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER WHISSENDINE PRAYER GROUP We meet alternate weeks and circulate around various homes: If any wish to join us we would be pleased to see you. Pick up a diary from St Andrew’s Church, or tel 01664 474454/474360/474882.
THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 10:30am – TEAM WALKING GROUP Launde Abbey Parking at or around the Abbey with lunch there afterwards. New walkers always welcome, just turn up suitably attired. Group contact Dennis Corton 722272
SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER 2:00pm – BRAUNSTON BLOKES CLUB (BBC) All Saints Braunston Meet at the churchyard at 2:00pm to do a tidy up of the churchyard paths, hedges and headstones. Followed by a late afternoon recuperative pint (and planning session for future meetings) in the Blue Ball once the work is done! Come armed with work boots, spade and gloves. We hope to have someone to instruct us in the ancient art of hedge weaving so it should be a great
afternoon. For more information contact Rob Anderson 774388, Jon Butler 345035 or Alan Rudge 755570.
SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER 3:00pm – SONGS OF PRAISE FOR BIBLE SUNDAY Oakham Baptist Church More information to follow.
THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER FRIENDS OF ALL SAINTS OAKHAM TIDE LUNCH The Harbour Café Bar & Restaurant, Whitwell Mark Powell from Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance will be the speaker, and the money collected from the Coffee Morning will be presented to him. Good venue. Good menu. Good Charity. All welcome. See table near South Door for more information or Beryl Kirtland 01572 724103.
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 7:30pm – REMEMBRANCE CONCERT WITH RUTLAND CONCERT BAND All Saints Oakham Free admission, proceeds in aid of Royal British Legion.
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 7:30pm – CONCERT BY MOSAIC St Peter & St Paul Market Overton ‘At the Going Down of the Sun’ Songs of Remembrance and Farewell The 8 Voices of MOSAIC perform music by Hubert Parry, Sergei Rachmaninov, Maurice Duruflé, Josef Rheinberger,
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Johannes Brahms, Jack Griffin, James Foulds (première), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Irving Berlin, Lennon & McCartney, Hoagy Carmichael and others. Tickets: £8/£15 for two (refreshments during interval included) from the Village Shop or Lin Ryder (01572 767666). In aid of Church funds.
The Festival will be open for public viewing on Friday (3:30 to 6pm), Saturday (10am to 6pm) and Sunday (10am to 4pm). On Saturday there will be refreshments in the village hall and also craft stalls. On Sunday there will be light refreshments available in the Church.
SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER
2:30pm – ANNUAL FAMILY PANTOMIME Key Theatre, Peterborough This year it’s Jack and the Beanstalk. The tickets are booked – the best seats in the house! Posters out soon but let me know if you definitely want seats. Beryl Kirtland.
ALL SAINTS AUTUMN SALE All Saints Oakham Please keep the date free, as helpers and buyers will be needed. The Craft Group are busy making items to sell and would willingly receive any materials you have to spare. Please contact Pamela Woods on 01572 755371 or Sally Corton on 01572 722272. Jackie and Pat are collecting bottles for the Bottle Tombola at the Autumn Fair. Please leave any contributions with them or Janine in the office. Thank you.
FRIDAY 28 – SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER CHRISTMAS TREE & CRIB FESTIVAL St Peter & St Paul Langham Entry forms available from the church porch, just one form for both tree and crib entry. Forms can also be downloaded from www.langhamvillage.com/churchevents. htm. Please return this ASAP. Live Music will again feature during Saturday and Sunday. If anyone reading this is a musician and would like to play please contact us.
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SATURDAY 3 JANUARY
Please pray for The family and friends of those who have died recently – Bill Steele, Hazel Redman, Stuart Hoyles and Edith Fox, whose funerals have taken place this week; Dot Dickinson, who died last week, and whose funeral is tomorrow at 12 noon at Whissendine; Daniel Lacey and Kerry Marshall, married yesterday at Oakham; The hostages held by religious extremists and their families and friends The victims of the Ebola outbreak and those working to stop it The girls kidnapped in Nigeria and other victims of religious extremism; The families of those who died in the air disaster in the Ukraine Simon Tyler and the MSF team in Burma;
The people whose lives are torn apart by war and violence, especially in Syria, & Iraq; The Rutland Food Bank; The Drop-in Centre for more people to join the cooking team; Justin and John our Archbishops and Donald and John, our Bishops; All who are persecuted for their faith, especially in Sudan, CAR, Kenya, Syria, Somalia, Eritrea, North Korea, China, Indonesia, Northern Nigeria, Iran, Egypt and Pakistan; Madeleine McCann and her family and all missing children.
Dot Dickinson It is with great sadness we learned of the death of Dot Dickinson last week. Dot was a much loved and valued member of St Andrew's Whissendine, and of Laudamus choir. Please hold her husband Mike and the family in your prayers. Dot's funeral will take place tomorrow, Monday 6 October at 12 noon at St Andrew's.
Changes in the Team We are pleased to announce that Revd Audrey Atkinson has had her appointment as Chaplain at Full Sutton Prison confirmed and she will be leaving the Team. We congratulate her on this appointment and wish her well. Her last Sunday will be 19 October and there will be leaving service at 4pm at Langham Parish Church. We are pleased that the Bishop has licensed Mrs Robin Robson as a
Reader in the Team. Robin has been a Reader for 18 years, the last 12 of which she served in the Lyddington Benefice. It will be good to have Robin’s experience to call upon, especially her considerable gifts in Children's Work
Oakham All Saints PCC The Minutes of the 29 September PCC meeting are now displayed in Oakham Church on the noticeboard by the north door.
Fairtrade September’s sales amounted to a healthy £196.10. Many thanks to all who support - the stall is here at Oakham after today’s 10:30 service as today is our Harvest festival with donations to the food bank you may wish to consider a Fairtrade purchase as your offering. Thank you. Denise.
Medecins Sans Frontieres The Medecins Sans Frontieres Oakham Branch would like to say thank you to all those who donated in kind and money and cakes etc. The total was £233, including personal donations of £91, Cake Stall, Jams, Pickles, Chutneys etc £113, and the Raffle £27. Thank you also to those who helped in person, it was much appreciated, and what we have collected will be gratefully received. Thank you to the ladies from the Langham, Braunston and Uppingham branches for their continuing help. Yvette N-A.
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Langham Posada Sets
Oakham Stewardship
The list is being prepared in early October this year, ready for the Posadas to start their journeys on Advent Sunday, November 30th. As usual, if you’ve had a Posada before, you will be on the 2014 list. Please contact Susan Holford on 01572 723532 or susan.j.holford@gmail.com if you wish to have the Posada for the first time. Many families see having the Nativity Crib set overnight as part of their Christmas routine. There will be envelopes for donations to the Toybox charity, which helps homeless and vulnerable children in South America, in the bags that contain the cribs, and these envelopes can be brought to church on Christmas Eve.
If you missed the Stewardship Presentation you can still watch it on the website (oakhamteam.org.uk – follow the link to Oakham Stewardship 2014). Please return your pledge slip by 19 October.
Give as You Live
Sheep knitters needed
Do you shop online? If so, consider signing up to Give as You Live, and a small percentage of your purchases will be donated to the church. We have one account in the name of All Saints Oakham, but donations from your spending will be directed to your own church. See page 15 or contact Beryl Kirtland or Kevin Slingsby for details.
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Rutland Foodbank for Harvest Offerings of produce at next week’s Harvest Festival at Oakham will be donated to the Rutland Foodbank, and we would ask that you consider donating something from this list of items: long-life fruit juice, UHT milk, small packets of granulated sugar, tinned veg, tinned meat pies, toiletries (toilet paper, shampoo, toothpaste, soap etc). Every year the Oakham travelling nativity sets leave a sheep behind in each house, and we urgently need more knitters to replenish the supply ready for Advent this year – please contact Viv Ufton for a pattern if you can help on 01572 720237. paper, shampoo, toothpaste, soap etc).
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Services During The Week Monday 6 Oct
08:30 Morning Prayer Oakham 09:00 Morning Prayer Langham 02:00 Pram & Toddler Oakham
04:30 Evening Prayer Oakham 05:00 Evening Prayer Langham 07:30 Light Circle Langham
Tuesday 7 Oct
08:30 Morning Prayer Oakham 04:00 Evening Prayer Oakham 10:00 Holy Communion Oakham
Wednesday 08:30 Morning Prayer Oakham 04:30 Evening Prayer Oakham 8 Oct 09:00 Morning Prayer Langham 05:00 Evening Prayer Langham 10:00 Holy Communion J&A 05:30 Meditation J&A 10:30 Holy Communion Ashwell Thursday 9 Oct
09:00 Team Communion Oakham 12:00 Ecumenical Prayer Oakham 09:45 Tiny Tots Oakham 12:15 Celtic Prayer Egleton 04:30 Evening Prayer Oakham
Friday 10 Oct
08:30 Morning Prayer Oakham 12:30 Village Prayers Braunston 09:00 Morning Prayer Langham 04:30 Evening Prayer Oakham 10:00 BCP Communion Oakham 05:00 Evening Prayer Langham
Services Next Sunday – 12 October (Trinity 17) Oakham Whissendine
08:00 Holy Communion (CW Trad) 10:30 Parish Communion 08:00 Holy Communion 11:00 Harvest Festival 09:00 Holy Communion (BCP)
Teigh Market Overton Ashwell Langham 11:00 Holy Communion Braunston 11:00 Matins Brooke 08:00 Holy Communion (BCP) Hambleton Egleton
06:00 Evensong
06:00 Evensong
05:00 Harvest Festival
Next Week’s Readings at Holy Communion Trinity 17 readings: Isaiah 25.1-9; Philippians 4.1-9; Matthew 22.1-14 Harvest readings: Deuteronomy 8.7-18; 2 Corinthians 9.6-15; Luke 12.16-30
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