A very warm welcome to all
Pentecost 5
Readings: Deuteronomy 30.9-14; Colossians 1.1-14
Gospel: Luke 10.25-37
In today’s Gospel
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is making a point. Any help is better than none, but many problems do not have an easy and immediate solution. Often the most important choices we make are not, when we help someone once, but when we make a commitment to be there to help them again and again, for as long as they need. Now, that is a difficult commitment to make, and it’s not something we can do every day, or need to do every day, but it is one of the most noble things a person can do.
War in Ukraine
Please continue to offer prayers for our brothers and sisters caught up in the mayhem that is Ukraine. Please think about what you can do to help in any way for those who continue to reach out to the rest of Europe and beyond for our assistance. Whatever method or organisation you use to make donations, please do it rather than thinking about it.
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who attended our ‘Hymns 4 U’ event here at St Mary’s yesterday (Saturday). I would like to express my gratitude to all who contributed their favourite hymns and I am sorry that not all of them could be played, otherwise we could have been here for hours! I would particularly like to thank our Director of Music, Matthew McVey who worked extremely hard putting this together.
Tidy Up
As some of you may have noticed, the area leading to the side entrance has been tidied up and weeded. This was down to a lot of hard physical work by Mrs Anne Farquhar, Mr Matthew McVey and Mr Malcolm Hay. There is a lot more to do and I am putting out a request to anyone who is willing to spare some time to do likewise around the front of the Church, especially before our Lambeth Evensong on the 24th of this month.
Diocesan Get-Together
The next Diocesan ‘Get Together’ is scheduled for : Saturday, 16th July 2022.
Starting Venue : St Machar’s Cathedral, The Chanonnry
Start Time: 1.30pm
Tours : 14.00 – Tour of The Cruickshank Botanical Gardens
14.45 – Guided tour of Kings College Chapel.
15.10 – Organ Recital by Matthew McVey
15.30 – Picnic venue : Bring your own – King’s College Quad
Time: Approx 3.30pm
16.00 – Evening Prayer : Kings College Chapel
If you have any questions, and hope to come along, or would like a lift please speak to Fr Roger revrogdyer@davidrosewarden
Lambeth Evensong
The Lambeth Evensong will take place here at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Sunday the 24th of July, commencing at 5pm. There will be a total of five Bishops in attendance, three from America, our Primus, The Rt Rev’d Mark Strange, and our own Diocesan Bishop, the Rt Rev’d Anne Dyer. There will also be a significant choir in place being directed by Mr Matthew McVey. This is a significant event and I urge all of you to consider attending.
Jewellery
As mentioned in previous weeks, we asking you to look through your jewellery boxes to see if you are prepared to part with something that you really haven’t used for years or maybe you just feel like donating something you have no further use of. Of course, it doesn’t have to be gold, it could be any type of jewellery that we might be able to sell on to a jewellers. Please speak to Fr Terry upon his return if you have anything to offer.
Coffee/Tea helpers
As I said last week, we have put the search for someone to look after a rota for helping with teas and coffee after our service ‘on the back burner’. Thanks to Mrs Gillian Rose, we now have a sheet displayed in our Choir Vestry with the dates of upcoming Sundays. Please take a look at it and if you are free, and willing to help, put your name on the list next to the date that is most convenient for you. It it probably useful to have two people on any particular date.
Vestry Vacancies
We have two vacancies on St Mary’s Vestry for Ordinary Members, and I would strongly urge those who feel that they could offer something to assist in the management of our Church to speak to me. Vestry membership is a rewarding role and provides an insight in to how we reach the decisions we do in our work here at Carden Place.
Reading Scripture
Our Peoples Warden Mr Iain Stewart has asked me to put out a call for more people to consider volunteering to read scripture and intercede at our worship. Should you feel so inclined, I encourage anyone who is considering this valuable ministry to approach Ian in the first instance.
All Saints : Holiday Club
All Saints : Holiday Club 17-20 Oct for those aged 4-11(inc P7) at St James, Holburn St. A joint project between St James, St John’s and St Mary’s. Please speak to Fr Roger if you are a young person who would like to come along or to have a conversation about volunteering.
Photography Competition 2022
Photography Competition 2022 : After the successful competition of last year 1st July marks the start of this year’s contest. We have until (date to be finalised!) to submit entries to Mr David Rose via the St Mary’s email address stmaryscardenplace@gmail.com There is no limit to the number of photos that you may enter but they have to be taken by you or a family member with their permission. The entry fee for each shot is £2 with those judged to be the best three receiving a prize. Photographs of people are not encouraged to avoid the requirement to obtain express written permission. For full details of Competition Rules (inc. how to pay, display, publishing and royalty rights) please see church website stmaryscardenplace.org.uk under ‘What’s On’.
Services/Events Commencing Sunday the 10th July 2022
Sunday 10th July at 8 am – Said Eucharist (1970 – Cn Terry)
Sunday 10th July at 10 am – Pentecost 4 Sung Eucharist (1982 – Cn Terry)
Monday 11th July- Provincial Online Service being recorded at St Mary’s
Tuesday 12th July at 10am – Morning Prayer (Fr Roger)
Tuesday 12th July at 7.30pm – Vestry Meeting
Wednesday 13th July at 10am – Holy Communion (1970 – Fr Roger)
Thursday 14th July – Cn Terry – Day Off
Friday 15th July – Compline (Cn Terry)
Saturday 16th July at 1.pm – Diocesan Get-Together
Sunday 17th July at 8 am- Trinity 1 Holy Communion (1970 Cn Terry)
Sunday 17th July at 10 am- Trinity 1 Sung Eucharist (1982 – Cn Terry)
Readings: Genesis 18.1-10a; Psalm 15; Colossians 1.15-28
Gospel: Luke 10: 38-42
“The Christian vocation is to be in prayer, in the Spirit, at the place where the world is in pain, and as we embrace that vocation, we discover it to be the way of following Christ, shaped according to his messianic vocation to the cross, with arms outstretched, holding on simultaneously to the pain of the world an to the love of God.”
(N.T. Wright – The Challenge of Easter)
Blessings Always
Rev Roger Dyer
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