Dear All

I hope this finds you keeping well. 

Firstly, don’t forget to place a jar of flowers on a grave in the churchyard this weekend, to thank God for the lives of those who have gone before us -and also join in with our nature count- all that you need is in church by the font! Details below.

Secondly, Sunday is Trinity Sunday and this year it coincides with Father’s Day.

In our Epistle reading this Sunday, St Paul writes : And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us (Romans 5:5)

It is God’s very nature to love and the Trinity is a community of love which the Church is called to replicate. It is the Holy Spirit who gives us this love- which is not a vague feeling of nice-ness but practical, challenging and life- changing.So it seems an appropriate work of the Spirit both to communicate God’s love for us and to make it possible for us to love God. This, perhaps, is the Trinitarian word for the day. Christ has acted out God’s love for us. It is that same love of the same God that the Spirit pours out to, and through, us.

And as we give thanks for our earthly fathers and those who have been like fathers to us in our lives, we can also give thanks for the glimpses of God’s love through them.

A prayer for Trinity Sunday

Holy Trinity, one God, 

Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
empower us by your presence,
and fill us with your love.
Take us and form us
as people of good news
to praise, love and serve you
that the world may believe.
Glory to you, now and for ever!
Amen.

SUNDAY’S READINGS

Proverbs 8: 1- 4, 22-31

Romans 5: 1-5

John 16: 12-15

THIS WEEK

Sun 15th June Trinity Sunday- Father’s Day

8am Holy Communion (traditional language)

10am All Age Father’s Day Service- Bring your Dads & Grandads!-With music from the singing group and a little gift for him. Details below.

2-5pm      Bishop Stephen and his wife Carol invite you to this year’s Summer Fete in aid of Salisbury Sudans Medical Link.Adults admission £2. Children go free! South Canonry, Salisbury SP1 2ER. Details below.

Weds 18th 

9am         Morning Prayer

10.30am  School worship

Sat 21st 

4pm         Revd Lin’s leaving/retirement service at Cheap St Methodist Church, Sherborne, followed by refreshments 

NEXT WEEK

Sunday 22nd June Trinity 1

8am Holy Communion

10am Parish Communion 

LOOKING AHEAD

Sat 28th 

9am-11am Monthly working party. Refreshments provided 

Sun 29th 

10am Service of the Word (5th Sunday) 

Weds 2nd July 

11am Monthly Holy Communion

2pm Funeral & Thanksgiving for Jannie Redman

Sun 6th July

Revd Angela Syer is taking both services as Revd Gaenor is away

Friday 11^th July

12 pm     “An Ecumenical Village Prayer service will take place at Our Lady’s RC Church: “to celebrate the Tercentenary, and we would like to invite everyone to this event. Following the service, a light lunch will be available in our small side chapel so that people can mingle together and look at the exhibition. Please do come and share in this wonderful witness of Christian faith.” Jacintha Bowe, RC member of Churches Together in Marnhull

w/b Sunday 13th and 20th July Share your story. Over the summer I will be inviting congregation members to share something of their story of faith and what it means in every day life. The diocese also have some new banners (and videos online) that share stories of faith and the banners will be here for 2 weeks in church to look at and have an opportunity to share what faith means to you. Details below.

PRAYERS

• Please pray for Christian churches whose declaration in our Trinitarian God puts them in danger or persecution- for faith and hope 
• Pray for all ecumenical organisations that work to bring greater unity among churches- for perseverance and joy
• We give thanks for all Dads and those who have been father figures in our lives
• Pray for new Dads as they adjust to new responsibilities- for courage and love
• Pray for the ongoing work of NGOs and charities seeking to bring food, water and aid to devastated communities in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria and Yemen- for success and protection
• Please pray for all in or from our parish who are currently ill in body, mind or spirit- for healing and wholeness

CONTACT US

Rector Revd Gaenor Hockey    

01258 821605  [email protected] 

Part time: Sunday, Wednesday and Friday 

Licensed Lay Minister Judith Male 

07852 780517 [email protected]

Churchwarden Barrie Jenks 

01258 821604 [email protected]

Church is open daily:  9am – 4.30pm

ONLINE

Parish: www.stgregorysmarnhull.org.uk

Facebook pages: stgregschurch & musicatstgregs

Diocese: www.salisbury.anglican.org