Weekly Bulletin for Sunday, September 20, 2009

Saint Matthew

Divine Office

The Office of the day of the week is used.
Morning Prayer is said at 9.00 am Monday - Friday.

Order of service for Morning and Evening Prayer.

Services and Events

Sunday, September 20, 2009 (Saint Matthew)
Daily intention: Our Parish
08:00	Mass	Saint George's Church
10:00	The Parish Mass	Saint George's Church.
12:00	Parish Picnic 12noon at Stanstead House. We meet at 12noon in the walled garden for lunch either your own picnic or something from the Pavilion Tea Room. After lunch you can either look around the garden centre, house, chapel, woodlands, have a go on the light railway or play some games. Book the date in your diary now! Stansted Park stands in 1800 acres of ancient beech forest on the borders of Hampshire and Sussex, overlooking the coast. In 1983 the 10th Earl of Bessborough gave Stansted Park, the arboretum, his family home and its beautiful contents to the public. Stansted Forest is enjoyed by thousands of visitors each year and managed to conserve wildlife habitats. The private chapel, splendid mansion rooms and the fully furnished servants' quarters below stairs are open to visitors from Easter to September. Other family attractions on site are the Stansted Park Garden Centre, the Pavilion Tea Room in the walled garden, Stansted Light Railway, and the Salon du Chocolat.	Stansted House
17:00	Evening Prayer.	Saint George's Church.
18:30	Dragons	Centenary Centre
Monday, September 21, 2009 (Saint Matthew Apostle and Evangelist)
Daily intention: The Ambulance Service
10:00-11:30	TOTS @ Saint George's	Centenary Centre
16:00	Healing Prayer Group	Lady Chapel
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 (Feria)
Daily intention: The Police Service
12:00	Mass	Saint George's Church.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 (Ember Day)
Daily intention: For an increase of vocations
09:30	Mass	Saint George's Church.
10:30-11:30	Tai Chi Class £4.50 per class.	Centenary Centre.
14:30-16:00	Tea and Chat.	Centenary Centre.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 (Feria)
Daily intention: The Children’s Society
19:30	Mass	Saint George's Church.
Friday, September 25, 2009 (Lancelot Andrewes, bishop, spiritual writer, 1626)
Daily intention: The Community at Tymawr
Saturday, September 26, 2009 (Wilson Carlile, founder of the Church Army, 1942)
Notes: Ember Day
Daily intention: Our Churchwardens
Sunday, September 27, 2009 (Dedication Festival)
Notes: Saint Michael and All Angels
08:00	Mass	Saint George's Church
10:00	The Parish Mass	Saint George's Church.
17:00	Evening Prayer.	Saint George's Church.

Opening Prayer

O Almighty God,
whose blessed Son called Matthew the tax-collector
to be an apostle and evangelist:
give us grace to forsake the selfish pursuit of gain
and the possessive love of riches
that we may follow in the way of your Son Jesus Christ,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

First Reading

Proverbs 3.13-18

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 119.65-72

Second Reading

2 Corinthians 4.1-6

Acclamation

Alleluia!The tax collectors are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you, says the Lord, because they believed him Alleluia!

Gospel

Matthew 9.9-13

Closing Prayer

Almighty God,
who on the day of Pentecost
sent your Holy Spirit to the apostles
with the wind from heaven and in tongues of flame,
filling them with joy and boldness to preach the gospel:
by the power of the same Spirit
strengthen us to witness to your truth
and to draw everyone to the fire of your love;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Your Prayers are asked for

Those in particular need of healing: Win, Joan, Yvonne, James, Phyllis, Beth, John, Sheena, Paul, Trisha, Shelia, ** Sam, Elizabeth, Gladys. Reg, Maria, John, Leslie, Michael, Nigel, Daniel, Dominique, Richard, Roy, Lynsey, Sheila, Mick, Linda, John

Recently Departed: Daphne Ellingham

Anniversary of Death: Frank Hughes, Veronica Young, Grecian Alma Wilton, Stanley Kerr, Iris Thompson, Ernest Pettit

Notices and Future Dates

TODAY – we welcome Robert Perin from the Childrens Society who is with us to tell us more about the wonderful work that the Society is involved with. Also we welcome Roger & Norma Triggs who now live in Eastbourne but were married in St George’s 40yrs ago on this day! Roger has had a long association with St George’s in that he played the organ at St Mary’s and his father and uncle were Churchwardens at one time or another.

Parish Picnic – TODAY 12noon at Stansted House.

We meet at 12noon in the walled garden for lunch either your own picnic or something from the Pavilion Tea Room. After lunch you can either look around the garden centre, house, chapel, woodlands, have a go on the light railway or play some games. If you are wanting to come please sign up on the list at the back of the Church. (please also indicate if you can offer a lift to anyone else, please indicate number of seats)

Other family attractions on site are the Stansted Park Garden Centre, the Pavilion Tea Room in the walled garden, Stansted Light Railway, and the Salon du Chocolat.

Hymns and Pimms – NEXT SUNDAY MORNING AFTER MASS.

Please fill in your suggestions for hymns from the Pimms Jug at the back of Church and get your tickets from Kath, Louise or Susan.

There will be the normal wonderful BBQ held after Hymns and Pimms.

All Welcome, why not bring a friend or two?

Harvest – sadly the plans to hold our Harvest celebrations this year in a barn within the parish have not been possible.

We will celebrate our Harvest Festival within the normal Parish Mass at 10am in Church.

However, on the same day we will continue our celebrations in the evening as follows:

6pm ‘Wellie Wanging’ in the Car Park (all ages welcome!)

6.30pm Bring and Share Supper

7.30pm Prize giving for the best creature made from a vegetable! (open to all ages!)

Please sign up on the list at the back of Church so we know how many people are coming and to indicate what sort of food you might bring.

 

Children receiving Communion before Confirmation – After proper teaching, many churches in England now allow children and others to receive communion before being confirmed. We will be hosting a Deanery Teaching and Discussion evening on Tuesday 6th October at 7.30pm. The session will be led by Canon Stephen Lake who has recently written a book entitled ‘let the children come to communion’. This promises to be an interesting discussion and it is hoped that many of you will want to attend.

Christmas Tree Festival – Plans are now underway for this exciting event. The festival will take place from Thursday 26th November – Sunday 29th November. Please book this date in your diary – your help will be needed!!!!

Everyone will be needed to make this huge community festival work, please get ready to volunteer!!!

 

New Comers Leaflet – If you are new please pick up one of these leaflets from the back of church, fill it in and hand it to a member of the clergy. If any of you see a new visitor to St George’s please do welcome them and take them through to coffee and make sure they get a New Comers Leaflet.

NEW , NEW, NEW! – Fr Stuart and Fr James Cooper will be launching a initiative in the church!

From this Autumn we will be launching a new programme of teaching for the whole of the Church. These teaching sessions are for everyone who can make it, young, old, new, and established members of the congregation. We should never stop learning about our God and our relationship with him.

The teaching sessions will happen along this format: An all together in Church for the main input. A couple of weeks later meet in groups around the parish in peoples homes in a similar way to how the Lent groups happen. During the group sessions we follow up the initial input and to discuss further the subject with some supporting material.

Subjects which will be coming your way over the next 12 months: What makes us human? How can we know about God? Who is Jesus? What is salvation? What / who is the church for? The Ethics of a Christian Life.

 

Receiving the Sacrament – throughout the summer we have had the letter from Bishop John about why we are only receiving the sacrament in one kind in the bulletin.

For further information there is a hand out at the back of church about why we are doing this for the foreseeable future. If you have any questions please do talk to one of the clergy.

 

The Old Craggs – following a couple failed events, we go back to a popular event, The Curry Night! Friday 25 th September. Meet at the Bull at 8pm. Please sign up on the list at the back of church. A group of any men associated with St George’s.

 

Tots @ St George’s – starts again on Monday 13 th September. 10-11.30am during term time. All are welcome. Please talk to Laura if you would like to know more.

Future Dates –

Friday 16 th October – Beetle Drive in the Centre! More details to follow!!!

Friday 13 th November – Quiz Night in the Centre! More details to Follow!!!

Did you know we were visited by a Mystery Worshipper a couple of weeks ago……The full report will be available in the next few weeks!!!!