Next Week’s worship – 11th September 2011

12th Sunday after Trinity

8.00am : Holy Communion

9.30am: Parish Eucharist

Readings: Genesis 50: 15-21; Romans 14: 1-12; Matthew 18: 21-35

6.00pm: Annual Evensong at St Saviour’s

Cash collection 2nd Sunday of the month: see notices

This week’s Diary commencing 5th September 2011

Monday: / 2.30-4pm / OMF-CMS Prayer group meet. All welcome
Tuesday: / 3.00pm / Interment of Ashes of Peter Holmes in Tetbury Churchyard
Wednesday: / 9.30am
10.00am
5.00pm / Holy Communion in Tetbury Church
Diocesan Finance Committee meet in Gloucester
Wedding Rehearsal in Tetbury Church
Thursday: / 2.00pm
5.00pm / Interment of Ashes of Bella Selwood in St Saviours Churchyard
Wedding Rehearsal at Long Newnton
Saturday: / 2.00pm
3.00pm
5.00pm / Church Fete in Vicarage Gardens
Wedding of David Findlay & Joanna Peglar in Tetbury Church
Wedding of Christopher Fergusson & Harriet Powner in Long Newnton Church
Next Sunday: / 6.00pm / Annual Evensong at St Saviours Church

Rector’s Day off: Friday; Curate’s Day off: Tuesday

Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed)

Monday: Lydia, Serena, Adam, Chico, Chris, Elsie, Lee Ann

Tuesday: Jessica, Martin, Eileen, Heather, Valerie, Lynile, Sue

Wednesday: Charlie, Georgina, Ava, Jasmine, Julie, Steve, Simon

Thursday: Laura, Sarah, Laura, Ethan, Susie, Win, James, Pam

Friday: Patti, Breeda, Mike, Brian, John, Karen, Geoff, Valarie

Departed: Those we remember with love

Praying for the Town: Oxleaze Road, Oxleaze Close & Chestnut Close

TETBURY PARISH CHURCH

Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 4th September 2011

Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. We particularly welcome the family and friends of Stephen Lachlan Jack Drewe and Harry Mark Mario Motti who are to be baptised this morning Please make yourselves known to us. Coffee will be served in the Church after the 9.30am service. Please join us if you can.

There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print copies of the service and the hymn book are available from the sidesmen.

All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Members of other churches who would receive at their own church are welcome to do so here. If receiving communion is not appropriate, please come up to receive a blessing (it helps us if you bring a service book to indicate if you would prefer to receive a blessing). If you would like Communion brought to you please tell one of the sidesmen.

Worship Today

8.00am: Holy Communion

9.30am: Parish Eucharist with Baptism

Hymns 571, 428, 411, 544

Anthem: View me Lord- Richard Lloyd

6.00pm Evening Prayer

Collect

O God, you declare your almighty power most chiefly in showing mercy and pity: mercifully grant to us such a measure of your grace, that we, running the way of your commandments, may receive your gracious promises, and be made partakers of your heavenly treasure; 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.

Rector: Revd Canon John Wright, The Vicarage, 6 The Green, Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: (01666) 502333; Fax: (01666) 500893

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Curate: Revd Lesley Hewish, The Bungalow, Lower House Lane, North Nibley, Dursley, GL11 6DN Tel :0787 677 5290;

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Notices

The Traidcraft stall will be open as usual after the service this morning.

Copy date for the next Beacon is Monday 5th September. Please send your items to Roger and Margo Smith at

Mothers’ Union On Sunday 11th September Judith Bailey will be commissioned as the new Branch Leader of the Tetbury Mothers’ Union during the 9:30 service at St Marys’. Following Janet Edwards who retired in July after many years dedicated service.

Save the East Window-‘Ride and Stride’ 10th September 2011-Gloucester Historic Churches Trust have generously supported our appeal with a grant of £6,000 and in return to support them we have agreed to take part in this sponsored event where any funds raised will be shared between the Trust and our own appeal. We need walkers and cyclists to visit as many as possible of the four churches in our benefice on that day and to seek sponsorship for each church visited. In addition stewards are required at each church for a few hours during the day. Please help if you can- for sponsorship forms and further details please contact John Saynor or the office.

The Chavenage Dinner Tickets for Saturday 15th October,will be £30. There will be a drinks reception followed by a three course dinner. Tickets will be availablefrom Margo Smith after the service on Sunday 4th September. We will be having an Auction after the dinner, so if anyone has any items could they please let Margo know.

Back to Church Sunday 25 September 2011- has become well-established in recent years. The idea behind it is simple. many people do not stop believing but simply loose the habit of going to church. Once a year we make a real effort to some of these to “come back” and see us again, and perhaps come again afterwards. This year it is on September 25th, harvest here at Shipton Moyne and at Beverston. So invite someone who has lost the church habit to come back. Think of the effect it we all invited just one person!

The Harvest Lunch is on Sunday 25 September at 12 noon at St Mary’s C of E VA School. If you would like a ticket to attend please see Liz Wright or Carol Van Sloots (there is no charge).

A list is at the back of Church if you are able to contribute to the meal.

The cash collection next Sunday will be for the Adam Philby Skate Park Fund.

There is a meeting of the Highways Working Party of the Town Council on Thursday 8th September at the Council Offices (upstairs) at 6.30pm. The main business is the proposal by Cotswold District Council to extend Car Parking charges to Sundays, which will obviously affect those coming to worship here at St Marys’. The public are invited to attend this meeting.

There is to be another Men’s Breakfast at the Blue Zucchini on Saturday 1st October. We will meet from 8.30am out by about 10.30. Cost £8.00. The speaker is the Chaplain for Gloucester Rugby Club, Revd Steve Austin Sparks. Please let Revd John know if you want to go.

Church Fete- Please support the Church Fete – in the Vicarage Garden on Saturday 10th September from 2pm – 4pm. Any Cakes or Preserves for the Fete please contact Margo Smith 504114 or deliver to the Vicarage on Saturday morning We do need help moving tables from School to the Vicarage and at the end of the afternoon back to School. If you can help could you speak to Liz Wright or telephone 01666 502333.

Would you like to join us? Glenfall House in Cheltenham are offering a day of Franciscan Spirituality on Monday 12th September 9.30 am till 3.30pm including a three course lunch. There are a few remaining places. Cost £18.75. Lift share will be available. Please contact Rev Lesley Hewish on 07876775290 to book your place.

Concert: Friday 30 September at 7.15 at St Michaels Church, Tetbury featuring, amongst others, The Tetbury Community Choir, The Avening Angels and The Bristol Catholic Choir together with some audience participation. All proceeds will go to support next year's Holiday at Home - a Tetbury Churches Together annual event. This concert is part of the St Michael's Fest Weekend. Please do come to support this concert if you can. Tickets cost just£5 and are available from either Alison Hesketh or Margo Smith.

Parish Administrator, Lesley Lyons, All items for inclusion in the Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 9.00am at the latest.

Tel: 01666 500088; email:

Church web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk

Sunday 4th September 2011

(11th Sunday after Trinity)

First Reading Ezekiel 33.7-11

The word of the Lord came to me: So you, mortal, I have made a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked ones, you shall surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways, and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel, Thus you have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?’1Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Second Reading Romans 13.8-14

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet’; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ Love does no wrong to a neighbour; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armour of light; let us live honourably as in the day, not in revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Gospel Matthew 18.15-20

Jesus spoke to his disciples. ‘If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax-collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.’