CURRENT NOTICES
CONGRATUALTIONS - A NEW ARRIVAL!
Our love, congratulations and prayers for Sharon, Andy and Ben Macauly
on the birth of Grace who was born at 1.25am on Wednesday weighing 6lb 5ozs.
Mother and daughter both doing well!
Good
start to Suttons Seeds fund raisingMany thanks to members of All
Saints’ congregation who have placed orders to date.
They have all been sent off, and you should hear from Suttons shortly.
Further catalogues and order forms are available at the back of the church.
Feel free to take them to give to a friend or relative.
Spring is late this year - there's still plenty of time!
'Love for the Future'
This year’s Lent Course, produced by the Diocese of Bath and Wells is being followed by
six groups, meeting at various times on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Feedback about the course will be available after Easter - perhaps even some anecdotes.
LENT PRAYERS
We are aiming to ensure that our churches are prayed in every day during Lent; why not join us?
In addition to the existing pattern of Morning and Evening Prayer and the Eucharist,
Evening Prayer will be said in All Saints at 5pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
There will be a short time of prayer in St Mary’s at 12 noon on Tuesdays.
If you would like to use the Lent Prayer material at home, please pick up a copy from church,
or ask one of the Churchwardens if all the copies have been taken.
EASTER LILIES
Donate the
cost of a lily at St Nicolas’ this Easter in memory of a loved one.
Please pkace money in one of the envelopes on the table by the South Porch.
together with the name of the person to be remembered.
13 MAR -
CHELTENHAM CAMERA CLUB
Final day of the Camera Club's Annual Photographic Exhibition, 10am to 4pm.
13 MARCH - CHURCHDOWN MALE VOICE CHOIR
A concert to raise funds in support of the Holst Organ Fund.
7.30 pm. Tickets £6
in advance from the Church Treasurer or on the door.
14- 20 MAR - LENT ACTIVITIES
House groups and Lent Prayers continue.
17 MAR - TEMPO
Dave Walton will give a talk on ‘Gloucestershire Poets’
in the John Wood Room, All Saints' Church, at 2.30pm
27 March - Exploring Christian Vocation Day
Vocation is not just about ordination!
Lent is a good time for all of us to think about how we live out God’s calling in our lives.
Why not join other people who are on the same journey?
Glenfall House,10am until 4pm. Cost £20 (includes lunch).
Call the Team Office (244373) for a booking form.
28 March - Palm Sunday
Blessing of Palms, a hymn and a Gospel Reading, beginning at 10am outside the Cotswold Grange Hotel on Pittville Circus Road. Continuing with the procession to All Saints. The service will begin on our arrival.
Please join us at the Cotswold Grange - take your car if walking would be difficult,
or wait for us in church and then come outside to meet us
28 March - seven last words
A Meditation in words and music at 6.30pm in Al Saints' Church
Music of Heinrich Schutz, Seven Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross
28 MARCH - PPY
AGM Sunday
6pm at St Nicolas’ Church from 6pm. Celebrate the successes of 2009 and look
ahead to the future!
The evening will combine reports and elections with contributions from young
people
and a chance to recognize Stephen Murton’s amazing contribution though his epic
cycle ride.
To join PPY and
have a vote at the AGM, collect a membership form from Tricia Wilson
LOOKING AHEAD
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
Stations of the Cross and Mass.
Monday - St Nicolas
Tuesday - All Saints
Wednesday - St Mary's
PASCHAL TRIDUUM AT ALL SAINTS
Maundy Thursday - Mass of the Last Supper - All Saints' 7.30pm
Good Friday - Family Service - All Saints 10.30am
Liturgy of the Cross - 2.00pm
First Mass of Easter - 5.45am Easter Day
EASTER DAY
Said Mass - 8am
Festal Eucharist - 10.30am
Choral Evensong with Benediction - 6.30pm
30 April - 3 MAY
- Team Pilgrimage to Walsingham
Application
forms are being distributed to all those who have expressed interest.
The cost of £149-25 (children £89-55, under 5 – free), covers accommodation
and all meals from supper on Friday up to and including breakfast on the Monday.
Booking forms and non-returnable deposit of £20 should be returned to
Colin Holman.
2 MAY
- FR MICHAEL TO BE A CANON
Fr
Michael is being installed as a Canon in Gloucester Cathedral on Sunday May 2
but it has been decided that we should still go ahead with our pilgrimage.
2-6 June - National Conference in Vaxjo, Sweden
The Diocese
of Vasteras has invited two women from the Diocese of Gloucester
to join two women from the Diocese of Vasteras at an international women’s
meeting.
The theme title will be “Another world is possible from a women’s perspective.”