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The Ampleforth Benefice
Benefice Notices
Sunday 1 February 2015
Choose between two special services in our
Deanery of Evensong for Candlemas this
Sunday [1st February]: at 6 p.m. All Saints,
Helmsley or 6 p.m. at St Peter and St Paul,
Pickering.
St
Fourth Sunday of Epiphany
Candlemas (transferred)
9.30 a.m. All-age Eucharist at Oswaldkirk
9.30 a.m. Morning Prayer at Gilling
11.00 a.m. Parish Eucharist at Ampleforth
Those who are ill, confined to home and in
need
from Ampleforth: Maureen Benson, Sue
Kitching, Ruby Lupton
from Gilling: Ken Harris, Rita Sutcliffe,
Margaret Wilson
Those who have died and those whose
anniversaries are remembered at this time:
from Ampleforth: Yvonne Wilkie, Bill Bradley,
Herbert William Sunley, Sarah Thompson
from Gilling: Walter Pinkney, Lotty England
To prepare for worship it is good to spend
some time in silence, you may like to say this
prayer:
Heavenly Father, I am here with other faithful
Christians to celebrate the Eucharist as Jesus told
us to do in memory of him. May we be united to
Jesus so that he lives in us, and we in him: and
share in all that he did for your glory and for our
salvation, in his sacrificial life on earth, at his
birth, death, resurrection and ascension. Accept
this, our sharing in his sacrifice offered to you
through Jesus Christ our Lord, with the Holy
Spirit and in the company of all faithful Christians
on earth and in heaven. Amen
Regular services for the coming week
Tuesday 3rd February at 9.00 a.m. Morning
Prayer at Gilling
Wednesday 4th February at 9.00 a.m. Morning
Prayer at Oswaldkirk; at 4.30 p.m. tea-time club
in St Oswald’s
Thursday 5th February at 9.30 a.m. Holy
Communion at Ampleforth
Friday 6th February at 9.00 a.m. Mattins at
Stonegrave; at 6 p.m. Benefice choir at St Hilda’s
Sunday 8th February
Second Sunday before Lent
10.30 a.m. United Benefice Eucharist at
Ampleforth
6.00 p.m. Evening Prayer at Oswaldkirk
Invitation to a birthday party
On Sunday 15th February from 1.15. p.m. at St
Hilda’s Village Hall, the vicar is celebrating her
60th birthday with a buffet lunch party. She would
like to invite her friends from the churches of the
benefice. All are welcome, please let one of the
churchwardens know if you are coming,
by 1st February.
Wednesday 4th February from 10.15 a.m-11.45 a.m.
Ampleforth parish coffee morning at Dhahran, Station
Road. Everyone welcome
Thursday 5th February from 2 p.m.- 4 p.m., at Holy
Cross, Gilling “An afternoon of prayer for the church”
Saturday 7th February at 11 a.m. at 12 Cawton
Road, meeting for Gilling PCC members and other
interested parishioners, to discuss the feasibility of the
re-ordering of Holy Cross Church.
Songs of Praise with Pancakes.
You are invited to the Songs of Praise in
Oswaldkirk Village Hall
on Saturday 7th February at 6pm.
All are welcome.
Lent in Ampleforth Benefice
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday 18th February.
Please collect a leaflet from the back of your
church with details of Lent services and courses
for this special season. Please sign up today to
join a Pilgrim group Course or the York Course.
Musical Evening
There will be a musical evening given by local
children at Holy Cross Church Gilling on Friday
6th March at 6.30pm
Tickets to include refreshments £6, all proceeds to
Holy Cross, Gilling Church
Coffee at St Hilda’s If you enjoy coffee and chat after the Sunday service,
please consider joining the rota and helping
every six weeks, less often if more people help.
Contact Jane on 788870 for details.