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St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin

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Thank you …

The Organ Project

Work on the organ has begun and will last for several months. A temporary organ will be in place during this time. On occasions, church may have to be locked and apologies for this.

We are collecting nonperishable foods for the coming summer holidays: tins of beans, vegetables, meat, packets of biscuits, savoury snacks etc. All donations are welcome, large or small.
Last date for contributions THIS SUNDAY 6th July.
Thank you, Judy and the FSW team.

Our Annual Pet Service is on Sunday 13th July at
10 a.m.

In this service we’ll also be marking the 50th anniversary of the Kit Wilson Trust, one of our local animal charities.

The Fletching Music and Arts Festival …

is being launched this year, with concerts on October 16th, 17th and 18th. Would you like to be part of this exciting new initiative?
Please get in touch on info@fletchingmusicartsfest.com

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This Sunday the readings are ..

Isaiah Ch 66 v 10 - 14,
Psalm 66 v 1 – 8
and St Luke Ch 10 v 1 - 11

There is a certain conflict in the heart at the moment when we hear from Isaiah that God’s desire is for Israel to expand. Context is all, however, and the context of Israel in the time of Isaiah was quite different. During Isaiah’s ministry (8th century BC) the nation was under fairly constant existential threat with, at one point, the Assyrian army hammering at the doors of Jerusalem.

Isaiah’s vision though is not just about Israel, it is about the coming of an age of peace and justice. It’s probably pushing it a bit to imagine that Isaiah was an internationalist in the way we might understand the phrase. However, if he was a partisan, he was a partisan of God first and foremost. Similarly, Psalm 66 looks forward to a day when all lands will have reason to feel joy.

Finally, in St Luke today we have the calling of the first missionary teams with the observation that the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few. We are asked to pray for help with the task of making God’s work plain to all.

For our prayers …

On the 3rd Sunday after Trinity, we give thanks for the activity of God in the world, working through abundant lives to do good in a myriad of individual ways. We pray too for a greater witness to what God is doing. In the words of Christ in today’s Gospel, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few”.

We pray for the King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and all the Royal Family. We pray for all in authority.

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We pray for all those who suffer through war. We pray for those having, somehow, to carry on living through the appalling violence of the wars between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Iran and the civil wars in Sudan and Myanmar.

We pray for those who are sick. Especially Sue Collins, Sue Campbell, Maureen O’Loughlin, Richard Bradley, Stephanie Bassett, Bertie Going, Scilla Palmer and any others known to us.

May they rest in peace, remembering David Burwood.

O Lord, support us all the day long of this troublous life,
Until the shades lengthen, and the evening comes,
The busy world is hushed, the fever of life is over, and our work done. Then Lord, in your mercy, grant us safe lodging, a holy rest,
And peace at the last.
Amen.
Cardinal Henry Newman

to everyone involved in creating such a special celebration of my 40th last Sunday. I hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did!

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