Our Sunday Service

Dear All

I hope you are keeping well.

Our Gospel reading this week focuses on the healing ministry of Jesus and the response of those with leprosy who have reached out to Jesus and been healed, notably that only one in the ten who were healed came back to Jesus to thank God.

As in other parts of Luke’s Gospel Jesus has concern for the outcasts of society and with that, their faith and healing go hand in hand (eg Luke 5:20; 8:48; 8:50). The one person who comes back experiences more than just a liberation from his isolating and debilitating disease- he is able to see beyond his now whole body to the one who makes it whole. His actions of delight and gratitude, which distinguish him from the others, demonstrate his trust in Jesus, God’s agent of healing… and furthermore, the model of faith turns out to be the ultimate ‘outsider’ of the day -a Samaritan.

So we are made aware that not all who are helped by Jesus come to faith. Some take the help, perhaps as a sign of what they deserve or even their ‘right’ a just recompense for their years of suffering and others are too busy with their newly restored life to give thanks and praise to the one who has healed them.

Healing God, we praise you for the Christ

who, without fear, met those with leprosy

and gave them new life.

May that healing touch 

reach the fears and darkness of our world.

Touch us, caring Jesus, 

to take from our hearts 

that fear which makes us keep our distance 

from all deep agony.

Touch us, caring Jesus,

to heal that fear for ourselves 

which bars us from understanding 

mental illness, disfigurement and the approach of death.

Touch those, caring Jesus,

who have been segregated, rejected cast adrift

because they offend our competitive society.

And touch those with hope, healing Jesus,

those who give themselves to combat 

grim illness and all that threatens life.

I am come that they may have life and may have it in all its fullness.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Written by Bernard Thorogood, A Restless Hope

THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS

Jeremiah 29: 1, 4-7

2 Timothy 2: 8-15

Gospel: Luke 17: 11-19

THIS WEEK

Sun 12th Oct  Trinity 17

8am Holy Communion 

10am Parish Communion- followed by coffee

Weds 15th Oct

9am Parish Prayer

10am School Service

12.30pm-3pm Village Harvest Lunch hosted by Churches Together in Marnhull at the Methodist Hall. Tickets via Nick Lalor. £5pp or local stores. All money raised to go to Christians Against Poverty, Gillingham. 

Sat 18th Oct

5pm Deanery Confirmation at East Stour- our parish candidates are Aimee Gale and Katie Gale.

7pm         Autumn Concert 6:  Brian Willoughby & Cathryn Craig (folk)Ticket £12pp via Gordon- see contacts.

NEXT WEEK 

Sun 19th Oct Trinity 18/ St Luke

8am Holy Communion

10am All Age Worship- followed by coffee

Deanery pulpit swap- Revd Gaenor is at Compton Abbas and Revd Dr Helen Williams (Team Vicar, Shaftesbury Team) will preside/lead and Judith will preach at both services.

3pm Autumn Concert 7: Louise Cousins and Friends: Movies and Musicals. Donations to church funds welcome. Refreshments afterwards.

Tues 21st Oct

10am -12pm Coffee Morning in church- Olivia hosting- all welcome.

Fri 24th Oct

12pm Funeral of Peter Collis

Sat 1st November (change of date!)

9am-11am Churchyard/ church Working Party. All welcome.

LOOKING AHEAD

Sun 2nd November

3pm         Autumn Concert 8: Stephen Binnington (organ) plus pieces by Ian Jordinson played by Ian, Olivia and Gaenor.

7pm All Souls’ Service- ‘for all those whom we love, but see no longer’ -remembering anyone who has died and everyone is welcome. Please sign the sheet in church if you would like a loved one remembered by name. 

Sun 9th Nov Remembrance Sunday

10am       Parish Communion- with 2 minute silence

3pm RBL Village Remembrance Service

Tues 11th Nov

11am Village Armistice Service at the War Memorial 

Saturday 22nd Nov  Gift Day

1am-12.30pm Christmas Floral Workshop in church with Sandy Milne, Chair of Sturminster Newton Floral Group. £5pp.For more details/to book contact Revd Gaenor

PRAYERS

• Give thanks for the healing and reconciling ministry of the Christian Church- for its impact locally and globally 
• Pray for the national and local work of Christians Against Poverty- bringing help and restoration of lives
• Pray for lasting positive impact of the recent peace deal in Israel and Palestine
• Pray for all those in our deanery being confirmed on Saturday 18th- especially Aimee and Katie- for the joy of the Lord
• 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] 

Licensed Lay Minister Judith Male 

07852 780517 [email protected]

Churchwarden Barrie Jenks 

01258 821604 [email protected]

Organist and Music Season      Gordon Amery

07817 379006  [email protected]

Singing Group Louise Cousins

[email protected] 

Bell ringers Keith Woodward

01258 820537

Flower arrangers Eileen Woodward

01258 820537

ONLINE

Parish: www.stgregorysmarnhull.org.uk

Facebook pages: ‘stgregschurch’ & ‘musicatstgregs’

Diocese: www.salisbury.anglican.org

Church is open daily:  9am – 4.30pm