Weekly Pewsheet Service Details and Notices
St Peter & St Paul Langham
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 5 October 2014 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.
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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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Welcome and Opening Sentence O Lord, we call to you: come to us quickly. Hear us when we cry to you. Let our prayers rise up before you like incense. Let our lifted hands be like an evening sacrifice. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. Lord, speak to us that we may hear your word. Move among us that we may behold your glory. Receive our prayers that we may learn to trust you. Amen.
Hymn 1. I, the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry, All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save. I who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright. Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send? Here I am. Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.
2. I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have borne my people’s pain, I have wept for love of them, they turn away. I will break their hearts of stone, give them hearts for love alone, I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send? 3. I, the Lord of wind and flame, I will tend the poor and lame, I will set a feast for them, my hand will save. Finest bread I will provide till their hearts be satisfied, I will give my life to them. Whom shall I send? Words & Music: Dan Schutte (b 1947) © 1981 Daniel L Schutte & New Dawn Music (The Source – 246)
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Confession St Paul says ‘Be imitators of God; love as Christ loved; do not grieve the Holy Spirit; put away all anger and bitterness, all slander and malice.’ So let us confess our sins to God, who forgives us in Christ. God of mercy, we acknowledge that we are all sinners. We turn from the wrong that we have thought and said and done, and are mindful of all that we have failed to do. For the sake of Jesus, who died for us, forgive us for all that is past, and help us to live each day in the light of Christ our Lord. Amen.
Absolution God, the Father of mercies, has reconciled the world to himself through the death and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ, not counting our trespasses against us, but sending his Holy Spirit to shed abroad his love among us. By the ministry of reconciliation entrusted by Christ to his Church, may we receive his pardon and peace to stand before him in his strength alone, this day and evermore. Amen.
The 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.
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Hymn 1. All I once held dear, built my life upon, all this world reveres, and wars to own, all I once thought gain I have counted loss, spent and worthless now, compared to this. Knowing you, Jesus, knowing you, there is no greater thing. You’re my all, you’re the best, you’re my joy, my righteousness, and I love you, Lord. 2. Now my heart’s desire is to know you more, to be found in you and known as yours. To possess by faith what I could not earn, all-surpassing gift of righteousness. 3. Oh, to know the pow’r of your risen life, and to know you in your sufferings. To become like you in your death, my Lord, so with you to live and never die. Words & Music: Graham Kendrick (b 1950) © 1993 Graham Kendrick / Make Way Music (The Source – 11)
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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Sermon – Not Perfect Hymn 1. Such love, pure as the whitest snow; such love weeps for the shame I know; such love, paying the debt I owe; O Jesus, such love.
2. Such love, stilling my restlessness; such love, filling my emptiness; such love, showing me holiness; O Jesus, such love.
3. Such love springs from eternity; such love, streaming through history; such love, fountain of life to me; O Jesus, such love. Words & Music: Graham Kendrick © 1988 Make Way Music (The Source – 465)
Creed Though he was divine, he did not cling to equality with God, but made himself nothing. Taking the form of a slave, he was born in human likeness. He humbled himself and was obedient to death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God has raised him on high, and given him the name above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and every voice proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Intercessions The Lord’s Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
The Peace Christ is our peace. He has reconciled us to God in one body by the cross. We meet in his name and share his peace. The peace of the Lord be always with you. And also with you.
Hymn 1. And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Saviour’s blood? Died he for me, who caused his pain? For me, who him to death pursued? Amazing love! How can it be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
3. He left his Father’s throne above so free, so infinite his grace; emptied himself of all but love, and bled for Adam’s helpless race; ’tis mercy all, immense and free; for, O my God, it found out me.
2. ’Tis mystery all! th’Immortal dies: who can explore his strange design? In vain the first-born seraph tries to sound the depths of love divine! ’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore, let angel minds inquire no more.
4. Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature’s night; thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; my chains fell off, my heart was free; I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
5. No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in him, is mine! Alive in him, my living Head, and clothed in righteousness divine, bold I approach the eternal throne, and claim the crown, through Christ my own. Words: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Music: Sagina, Thomas Campbell (1800-1876) (The Source – 21)
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Blessing Gracious God, you have given us much today; grant us also a thankful spirit. Into your hands we commend ourselves and those we love. Stay with us, and when we take our rest renew us for the service of your Son Jesus Christ. May God keep us in all your days. May Christ shield us in all your ways. May the Spirit bring us healing and peace. May God the Holy Trinity drive all darkness from us and pour upon us blessing and light. And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen. Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God. Blessing, honour and glory be yours, here and everywhere, now and for ever. Amen.
Today
welcome to stay for refreshments afterwards.
HARVEST FESTIVAL All Saints Oakham Services at 8:00am, 10:30am and 6:00pm.
This Week
4:00pm – HARVEST FESTIVAL St Mary Ashwell 6:00pm – HARVEST CHORAL EVENSONG St Peter Brooke Led by Revd Audrey Atkinson, and with the Team Choir, Laudamus. All are
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MONDAY 6 OCTOBER 5:30pm –CHORAL FESTIVAL REHEARSAL Peterborough Cathedral 7:30pm – BRAUNSTON HOME GROUP 52 Church Street, Braunston
TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER
THURSDAY 9 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.
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.
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
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 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.
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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
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.
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.
SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER
Looking Ahead
TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER
MONDAY 13 OCTOBER 7:30pm – ‘THE JOURNEY’ PLANNING MEETING
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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. 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.
SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER 3:00pm – SONGS OF PRAISE FOR BIBLE SUNDAY Oakham Baptist Church More information to follow.
THURSDAY 30 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
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 25 OCTOBER
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER
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.
7:30pm – REMEMBRANCE CONCERT WITH RUTLAND CONCERT BAND All Saints Oakham Free admission, proceeds in aid of Royal British Legion.
THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER
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, Johannes Brahms, Jack Griffin, James Foulds (première), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Irving Berlin, Lennon &
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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.
(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. The Festival will be open for public viewing on Friday (3:30 to 6pm), Saturday (10am to 6pm) and Sunday
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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.
Langham Posada Sets The list is being prepared in early October this year, ready for the
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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.
Give as You Live 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.
Oakham Stewardship
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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.
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).
Sheep knitters needed 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
Tuesday 7 Oct
08:30 Morning Prayer Oakham 04:00 Evening Prayer Oakham 10:00 Holy Communion Oakham
Wednesday 08:30 Morning Prayer Oakham 8 Oct 09:00 Morning Prayer Langham 10:00 Holy Communion J&A 10:30 Holy Communion Ashwell
04:30 Evening Prayer Oakham 05:00 Evening Prayer Langham 07:30 Light Circle Langham
04:30 Evening Prayer Oakham 05:00 Evening Prayer Langham 05:30 Meditation J&A
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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