Our Sunday Service

Dear All

I hope this finds you keeping well. 

The weather has been so dull and dreary so the first signs of snowdrops and early daffodils have been a welcome sight!

This week the lectionary focuses on the conversion of St Paul and the dramatic revelation of Christ to the most unlikely person, someone who had been actively persecuting the early followers of Jesus with religious fervour.

The testimony of St Paul is a good reminder of the way that Christ calls us to follow- where we are. That God works in us through the Holy Spirit, not as an already finished product but as a work in progress, which lasts a lifetime.

Last Sunday morning, we joined with our Methodist friends to renew our commitment to God together with this wonderful prayer. 

I offer it to you to make your own this year.

A covenant with God

I am no longer my own but yours.
Put me to what you will,
rank me with whom you will;
put me to doing,
put me to suffering;
let me be employed for you,
or laid aside for you,
exalted for you,
or brought low for you;
let me be full,
let me be empty,
let me have all things,
let me have nothing:
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things
to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
you are mine and I am yours. So be it.
And the covenant now made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven.’

The Methodist Covenant Prayer

THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Acts 9:1-22

Matthew 19:27-end

THIS WEEK

Sunday 25th January  Conversion of St Paul/Epiphany 3

8am        Holy Communion (traditional language)

10am      Parish Communion with coffee afterwards

Weds 28th

9am Parish Prayer

10.30am School Worship

Sat 31st

9-11am Working party.  Bacon rolls and coffee provided.

NEXT WEEK

Sun 1st February  Candlemas

8am        Holy Communion (traditional language)

10am      Parish Communion with coffee afterwards

4 pm       Christingle Service for all the family

LOOKING AHEAD

Weds 4th Feb 

11am Monthly Eucharist

Weds 11th Feb

10am-12pm St Greg’s Coffee morning at the British Legion.Everyone is welcome.

Weds 18th Feb  Ash Wednesday

11am  Ash Wednesday Parish Eucharist with imposition of ashes (no evening service)

Thurs 19th Feb

2.30pm Thanksgiving Service for Barrie Jenks

Fri 20th Feb

12pm-1pm Churches Together weekly Friday Lent Talk 1/6 followed by a soup lunch at Marnhull Methodist Church, Burton St.Theme: Exploring the meaning of the hymns we love to sing. Everyone is welcome. 

Weds 25th Feb

7pm PCC meeting at the Rectory

OTHER NEWS

• Are you interested in a 6 week Lent Bible study group? Weds afternoons 2.30-4pm held at the Rectory 25th Feb-1 April. The theme is Journeys and Resting Places-written by local priest Tim Heaton. Please sign up in church or speak to Revd Gaenor asap.

PRAYERS

• We pray for the persecuted Church, especially in sub saharan Africa- for freedom to worship without fear 
• We pray for those we know open to hearing the good news of Christ- that they would take a step of faith 
• In this Epiphany season of revelation we pray for Christ’s light, presence and truth to be known and heard in our society and in our village.
• We pray for our own church community- for faith, hope and love outworked in the coming months
• 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] 

Judith our LLM is on holiday until March 24th

Parish Safeguarding Officer   Miriam Gaston 

01258 821573   [email protected] 

Organist   Gordon Amery

07817 379006     [email protected]

Singing Group Louise Cousins

                         [email protected] 

ONLINE

Parish: www.stgregorysmarnhull.org.uk

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Diocese: www.salisbury.anglican.org

Church is open daily:  9am – 4.30pm