31/10/21
News from the Benwell & Scotswood Team
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Giusto de' menabuoi, Detail of Paradise, c.1375
Padua Baptistry, Italy
Dates for your diary
Tuesday 2nd Nov
10am - 4pm
All Souls' - day of prayer at St James
Prayer service for the departed at 4pm.
Sunday 14th Nov
Remembrance Sunday
Services in all 4 churches, Times TBC
Sunday 21st Nov
10.30am, Confirmation service
Venerable Bede, NE4 8AP
Sunday 14th Nov
Advent Sunday
News
Don't forget!
Clocks go back 1 hour tonight.
Which means you get an extra hour in bed before church!
All Saints' this Sunday - 10.30am
Venerable Bede
This Sunday 31st Oct we celebrate All Saints day and the stories of all those who have gone before us.
We will make this service especially welcoming to anyone of any age or background and there will be songs, and activities.
All Souls' Day - remembering those we have lost
St James, Tues 2nd Nov
Open 10am - 4pm
Commemoration service for the departed, 4pm
To add names to the list of the departed please email church@benwellscotswood.com
Or contact the clergy here >
Or you can add names to the list after the service this Sunday or throughout the day a St James'
At 4pm we will have a short service of prayer when we will read out the names of the departed.
All Souls' day is when we remember and pray for those who have died. This year St James' will be open during the day for you to come and pray for those people and light a candle for them.
You will be able to add names to the remembrance list, at the end of the day we will hold a service to read their names aloud and especially pray for all those who we have lost during the pandemic. The clergy will also be available if you want to talk to someone.
Confirmations
Sunday 21st Nov, 10.30am, Venerable Bede
Confirmation is the next big step in faith, it's the chance to say ‘Yes’ to the promises we made at baptism, and declare our faith in Christ publicly.
To find out more about confirmation have a look here >
Bishop Mark Bryant, former Bishop of Jarrow, will be joining us for the service of baptism and confirmation.
If you would like to be confirmed (or baptised!) then come join our group over the coming weeks for confirmation preparation, either on Sunday after the service, or Tuesday at St James at 4.30pm.
Thank you letter from Cornerstone
Amy Proud, the centre co-ordinator at Cornerstone sent us a wonderful thank you letter for our harvest donations. Here is an excerpt:
"We were blown away by your generosity. We received a huge amount of food which will go so far in the community.
"Our Project, Benwell Bridge, is used as a bridge to help people who have become reliant on food banks move to a more sustainable, fairer food system, where everyone can afford and access good food with dignity.
"From all the team at Cornerstone Benwell I would like to thank you again. We are hopeful for safer times ahead and look forward to welcoming you to our cafe in the not so distant future."
Worship Texts
Collect prayer
God of holiness,
your glory is proclaimed in every age:
as we rejoice in the faith of your saints,
inspire us to follow their example
with boldness and joy;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Gospel
John 11.32–44 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They said to him, ‘Lord, come and see.’ Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’ But some of them said, ‘Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?’ Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, ‘Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?’ So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, ‘Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.’ When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’
Intercessions
Prayers for others:
John Nicholson
Alan Robson
Jimmy McIntyre
Mehri Karami
Edith Hutchinson
Regine Hemminger
Grace Thomson
Peter Wilson
Liz Holliman
Joan Finley
James, Christina, Anastasia, and Xavier
Ali Zareie and his family
The Riches Family
Jill Sorley
Joyce Phillips
George Snowden
Claire Mozaffari
Herbert Agbeko
Edward Fraser
All those who are struggling at home or in hospital with Covid-19
Rest In Peace:
Moira Taylor
John MacIntyre
All who died recently
Other intentions:
Those who have shared the gospel message with us
COP26 and the protection and restoration of our planet
Post Communion prayer
God, the source of all holiness and giver of all good things:
may we who have shared at this table
as strangers and pilgrims here on earth
be welcomed with all your saints
to the heavenly feast on the day of your kingdom;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.