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Diary Dates
February 2015
Sun 8th
Second Sunday before Lent
Village Praise & Prayer
9.30am, St Mary and St Peter, Lois Weedon
Parish
MonCommunion
4th
10am, St Mary Magdalene, Helmdon
Parish Communion
11.15am, St James the Great, Syresham
Messy Church
3.30pm, Village Hall, Wappenham
Feb 9th – 16th Rector Away
Wed 11th No Midweek Communion
9.30am, St Mary Magdalene
Deanery Synod
7.30pm, Sulgrave
Fri 13th Half Term starts
Sun 15th Sunday Next Before Lent
Matins
9.30am, St Mary & St Peter, Lois Weedon
Benefice Communion
NB:
11am, ST LAWRENCE, RADSTONE
Messy Church
3.30pm, St Loys School, Lois Weedon
Tues 17th Friends of St James Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Lunch & Bring and Buy
Noon-2pm, Vine Cottage, Syresham
Wed 18th Ash Wednesday
Imposition of the Ashes
9.30am, St Mary Magdalene, Helmdon
7pm, St Mary and St Peter, Lois Weedon
Sun 22nd First Sunday of Lent
Parish Communion in Lent
9.30am, St Mary & St Peter, Lois Weedon
Holy Communion in Lent
10am, St Mary Magdalene, Helmdon
Holy Communion in Lent (with Baptism)
11.15am, St James the Great, Syresham
Village Praise & Prayer
11.15am, St Mary the Virgin, Wappenham
Messy Church
3.30pm, St Mary Magdalene, Helmdon
Mon 23rd Schools Back
7.30pm Lent Course at The Rectory
Wed 25th Midweek Communion in Lent
9.30am, St Mary Magdalene
3pm Lent Course at the Rectory
Astwell Benefice MU
7.30pm, 12a Church Street
Sat 28th Marriage Blessing and Baptism
2.30pm, St Mary Magdalene, Helmdon
PEWS NEWS
The Astwell Benefice
St Mary Magdalene Helmdon with Stuchbury and St
Lawrence Radstone and St James the Great Syresham
with St John the Evangelist Whitfield,
St Mary & St Peter Lois Weedon with Weston and
Plumpton and St Mary the Virgin Wappenham.
Sunday 1st February 2015
Candlemas
This Week’s Bible Readings:
Psalm 111
Malachi 3.1-5
Hebrews 2.14-end
Luke 2.22-40
If you are a visitor or newcomer, do make
yourself known to the regulars who will be
happy to chat over coffee after the service.
Do take this home with you as everyone is
welcome at any or all of
our events and services.
Services this Coming Week
Wednesday 4th February 2015
9.30am
Sunday 8th February 2015
Second Sunday Before Lent
ALL OTHER MATTERS
The Reverend Carole Peters
Rector of the Astwell Benefice
The Rectory, The Green, Lois Weedon
NN12 8PN
01327 860798
[email protected]
I take Thursday evening and Friday off but do leave
a message and I will get back to you.
For general parish enquiries
[email protected]
www.astwellparishes.org.uk
Give us your News
Please send any items for Pews News to
our Parishes Administrator Sarah Rudkin or via email
at [email protected]
Midweek Communion
St Mary Magdalene, Helmdon
9.30am
Village Praise & Prayer
St Mary & St Peter, Lois Weedon
10am
Parish Communion
St Mary Magdalene, Helmdon
11.15am
Parish Communion
St James the Great, Syresham
3.30pm
Messy Church
Wappenham Village Hall
To hold in your prayers this week:
We bring before our loving heavenly Father those
who are unwell, recovering from illness or who
are simply having a bad time; all who need our
prayers.
We give thanks for the life of Janet Hughes, member
of St James PCC and Crowfield resident, who sadly
died on Tuesday 27th January. Please pray for her
mother Barbara, her brother David, her partner
Frank, and all her many friends.
And for the life of Lucy Gadd from Helmdon, whose
funeral will take place at St Mary Magdalene on
Monday February 9th at 1pm. Please pray for
Room
Richard and Sally, Nick and Dan and all Lucy’s good
friends in their deep grief.
We also pray for:
From Helmdon:
Irene Inness, Maisie Brown, Joyce Beech, Michelle,
Jason Holt, Olive Holton, Rev’d Douglas Hadfield,
Viv Watson, Celia Terrey.
From Lois Weedon:
Peter French, Aidan Hunt, Tracy Reid, Joan Jacobs,
Evan Jones, Christian Jefferies, Jane Keller.
From Syresham:
David Wyness, Nina Stevens, Derek Hollyoake,
Bruce Coates, Greg Oles. Mary Hutton (Margaret
Miller’s granddaughter), Doreen Moreland
From Wappenham:
Dorothy Abbott, Roger King, Eileen Robbins,
For those known to us:
Gill Goodwin, Marjorie Baxter, William Woof,
Pauline Collis, Christopher Carr, Pip Dandy, Evelyn
Johnson, Alison Wilson, Dr Mike Greenhalgh, Gill
Derbyshire, Tod Wye, Judy Anson, Isaac
Wellington.
We are happy to add anyone to our prayer list providing they are
happy to have us pray for them. You may also know someone who
would prefer private prayers. In either case please let the Church
Wardens or Rev’d Carole know.
Baptism
Please welcome:
Freddie Gilbert Hinton
who will be baptized during the 11.15am service today at St
Mary the Virgin, Wappenham.
This Lent, try “Exploring the Void”
Our 2015 Lent Course uses extracts from the
internationally acclaimed film along with group
discussion, personal reflection and worship.
It is a course that appeals to all ages and shouldn’t
be missed. So come along, either on:
Mondays at 7.30pm
or Wednesdays at 3pm
at The Rectory
starting on February 23rd
WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK
February
Mon 2nd Quinquennial building work at The Rectory
Tues 3rd St Loys School Service
9.30am, School
Whitfield Coffee
10am-noon, Village Hall
Helmdon Café
10am-noon, Reading Room
Weston Soup Lunch
12.30pm, Chapel
Wed 4th Midweek Communion
9.30am, St Mary Magdalene
Syresham Mums & Tots
10am-noon, Village Hall
Secret Keepers
7pm, Syresham Chapel
Rector’s Talk to WI at Lois Weedon 7.30pm, Village Hall
Thur 5th Rector in Syresham School
8.30am
Syresham Café
10.30-12.30, Village Hall
Helmdon Parents & Tots
10am-noon, St Mary Mags
Benefice Choir Practice
6.30-7.30pm, St Mary Mags
Sat 7th
Helmdon Bell ringers practice
9.30-10.30am, St Mary
Mags
News from the Astwell Benefice
As I write this letter we have all just heard the sad
news of Janet Hughes’ death. Janet, as many of you will
know, was a wonderful and vibrant member of our
Church Community, a long-standing member of our
PCC at Syresham and a school governor among many
other things. Janet gave so much of her time to God’s
work in the community and she will be deeply missed
by all who knew her.
I do not know why some of us leave this earth before
others, but I do know that they return to God, to a place
where we are told there are many rooms, where we
will all one day rest on eternal shores, and
where human eyes can finally be opened to all God
wants us to see.
Throughout Christ’s life, a few were given glimpses of
this. And today, at Candlemas, we hear of two: Simeon
and Anna.
And we know from Simeon’s reaction to what had been
revealed that it must be wonderful. After all, he asks
God: “Now let your servant go in peace, for my eyes
have seen your salvation!”
Simeon referred to Jesus as a “light to the nations”.
And it is this light that as Christians we are all called to
reflect out into the world.
It is why at Freddie’s baptism today (Welcome
Freddie!) he will receive a lighted candle to remind not
only him, but all of us, of this call.
We are called to be Jesus’ lights in this world. Janet
clearly fulfilled this and we pray Fredddie may do the
same as he grows up in the love of Christ.
As the prayer goes:
Living God,
Lighten our hearts with the bright beams of the Son
of Righteousness – Jesus Christ our Lord.
And preserve us in the doing of your will on this
earth, safe in the knowledge that at the last we may
shine as stars forever, made whole again, just as
those who have loved and served you here and are
now at rest, shine on in our hearts and in your
eternal joy.
Rev’d Carole
xxx