SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Sunday after Ascension
Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, Alleluia!
8.00 am. Holy Communion
11.00 am. Matins – Psalm 8
Hymns: 167, 490, 172, 398.
Next Sunday, 19th May: Pentecost. 11.00 am. Family Communion with the St. Giles’ Singers
Today’s Old Testament reading at Matins: Ezekiel 36: 24-28:
I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Annual Parochial Church Meeting: This will take place in church on Monday 13th May at 6.00 pm. At this meeting reports are given on the business of the PCC in the last year; accounts are approved and elections held for the positions of churchwardens, parochial church council members and deanery synod representatives.
The Bishop of Worcester, the Rt. Revd. Dr. John Inge, has announced his retirement for the autumn after 17 years in the post. There will be a farewell service in Worcester Cathedral on Sunday 29th September at 4.00 pm.
On Thursday 23rd May at Little Malvern Priory there will be a Spring Concert with the Jenny Lind Singers at 7.30p.m., in aid of ‘Save the Children.’ The concert will feature works by local composers Alec Roth and Liz Dilnot Johnson, together with Holst, Elgar, Carol Jones, Roxanna Panufnik, Hildegard of Bingen and others. Wine and Canapes will be served. Tickets £12 from Lynne Lindner or Frank Jones.
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