27/3/22
News from the Benwell & Scotswood Team
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John Everett Millais, Study for ‘Christ in the House of His Parents’, 1849
Ink and watercolour on paper, Tate, London
Dates for your diary
Sat 2nd April - Howay day
10am - 1pm at St John's
Wed 30 Mar & 6 Apr - Living in Love & Faith, evening Lent course
7pm at St James
Fri 1, 8 Apr - Living in Love & Faith, morning Lent course
11am at St Margaret
Sun 27 Mar - Mothering Sunday celebration service
11am at Venerable Bede
Holy week 10 - 16 April
Palm Sunday, 10 Apr - 11am at Venerable Bede
Maundy Thursday, 14 Apr - 7.30pm at St John's
Good Friday, 15 Apr - 2pm at St Margaret's
The Easter vigil, Sat 16 Apr - 8.30pm at St James'
Sun 1 May - Hub service moves to St James
11am at St James'
News
Don't forget - clocks change tonight!
The clocks will go forward by one hour tonight. So don't forget to change your clocks or you'll miss church!
Howay day! Planning for the future - Sat 2nd April, St John's
Next Saturday 10am to 1pm we will be getting together at St John's to have some lunch, discuss mission opportunities, and (importantly) plan for future service patterns in the parish.
Rather than an 'away' day, we thought we'd have a 'Howay' day to gear us up for the future.
Now covid restrictions have been lifted it's time for us to consider what our new normal will be, and we think it's really important we all have a say in what our worship looks like and when it happens. So please come along!
Flowers for Holy Week
We are welcoming donations towards the flowers for Holy Week and Easter to get our churches looking great.
Please just speak to Elspeth Kirkwood or Liz and Olwyn if you would like to make a donation or if you would like to help with creating the displays.
Show your heart campaign
Our artist in residence, Artep Avordno has been creating a giant orange heart with local people, now on display outside St James.
The heart is based on the colours of the refugee flag and other orange hearts will be displayed at landmarks all over the country.
This is part of the campaign organised by 'Together with refugees' to show support for refugees and call on the government to amend the 'Nationality and borders bill' which seeks to criminalise refugees and prevent them entering our country.
Ukraine appeal
USPG and the Church of England Diocese in Europe need your help to support humanitarian work both in Ukraine and with refugees fleeing into neighbouring countries. Churches and agencies are already responding to the crisis. This appeal will provide critical funds towards the urgent and immediate needs of people still in Ukraine and those who have left as well as supporting the long-term work of recovery.
Living in Love and Faith - Lent course 2022
How do questions about identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage fit within the bigger picture of the good news of Jesus Christ? What does it mean to live in love and faith together as a Church?
For 5 weeks during Lent we will follow the Church of England's Living in Love and Faith course.
Group 1:
Wednesdays, 7pm at St James
(16, 23, 30 Mar & 6 Apr)
Group 2:
Fridays, 11am at St Margaret's
(18, 25 Mar & 1, 8 Apr)
Worship Texts
The Collect
God of love,
passionate and strong,
tender and careful:
watch over us and hold us
all the days of our life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Gospel
John 19.25–27 Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
Intercessions
To add names to the prayer list please email church@benwellscotswood.com
Prayers for others:
Irene Foskett and family
George Irving
Alistair
John Nicholson
Alan Robson
Peter Wilson
Michelle Wilson
Liz Holliman
Joan Finley
James, Christina, Anastasia, and Xavier
Ali Zareie and family
The Riches Family
Jill Sorley
George Snowden
Claire Mozaffari
Herbert Agbeko
Rest in peace
Joyce Phillips
Leslie Foskett
Ray Beswick
Other intentions
Ukraine, Yemen, Ethiopia and all places at war.
Post Communion prayer
Loving God,
as a mother feeds her children at the breast
you feed us in this sacrament with the food and drink of eternal life:
help us who have tasted your goodness
to grow in grace within the household of faith;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.