Sunday School meets in the Vestry
Sunday Youth meets in the Glebe Maisonette
Small Children are welcome to play in St Thomas's Chapel, near the porch
Baptised Communicants of other Churches are encouraged to receive communion
Children and other non-communicants are invited to come to the altar for a blessing
The Ministry of Healing is offered in the Chapel, after Communion is given

On Good Friday (April 14th) the intention is that St Stephen will join with St Lukes, St Michaels and St Simon for a short 15 minute gathering on Shepherds Bush Green. Each congregation will then return to their different churches for the Good Friday services of remembrance. The timetable would be as follows:

10.50 - 11.00 Gather at St Stephens
11.00 - 11.15 Walk with St Michaels & St Lukes along the Uxbridge Rd
11.15 - 11.20 - Arrival and meeting with St Simons
11.20 - 11.25 - Hymn There is a Green Hill
11.25 - 11.30 - Short address
11.30 - 11.35 - Short sketch, prayer and depart for our churches

We have received the necessary permission from the police and from the council to do this walk and I am hoping that it will be an important witness as well as a significant and meaningful part of our Easter acts of worship.

Processional Hymn

Collect of the Day
Most merciful God, who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ delivered and saved the world: grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross we may triumph in the power of his victory; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

First Reading Jeremiah 31.31-34 (p.522)
31The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt - a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. 33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, 'Know the LORD', for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

Second Reading Hebrews 5.5-10 (p.524)
5Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, 'You are my Son, today I have begotten you'; 6as he says also in another place, 'You are a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchizedek.' 7In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; 9and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, 10having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Gradual Hymn

GOSPEL John 12.20-33 (p.525)
20Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus.' 22Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23Jesus answered them, 'The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honour. 27'Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say - "Father, save me from this hour"? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. 28Father, glorify your name.' Then a voice came from heaven, 'I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.' 29The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, 'An angel has spoken to him.' 30Jesus answered, 'This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. 31Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.' 33He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.

INTERCESSIONS

Please pray for

- The sick and suffering: especially Felix Okike, Lucilda Bernard, Felicity Balwant, Joan Andrew, Elizabeth Dorsett, Sean Lim, Clive Heywood Ron & Ivy Smith, Susie Leach, Norbert Edwards, Brother Paul Anthony, Sylvia Steed, John Asbridge, Caroline Nevill, Ruth and Tracey Davies.

Offertory Hymn

Communion Hymn

Post Communion Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us that what we do for the least of our brothers and sisters we do also for you: give us the will to be the servant of others as you were the servant of all, and gave up your life and died for us, but are alive and reign, now and for ever.

Recessional Hymn

Coffee in Church after the service

Some material included in this service is copyright: © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA.Some material included in this service is copyright: © The Archbishops' Council 2000Collect (5th of Lent) © 1980 CBFCE; Archbishops' Council 1999 / Church of the Province of Southern Africa
Invitation to Confession (5th Sun Lent until Weds of Holy Week) © 1988 Continuum (Mowbray) (Adapted)

THIS WEEK:
Tues 4th 6.00-7.30 pm Youth Club - 11-13 year olds
7.30 - 9.00 pm Youth Club - 14 years +
Wed 5th 8-9.30 pm Alpha Course at St Stephen's Vicarage
Thurs 6th 6.30 pm Christian Meditation Group, St Stephen's
Fri 7th 7-9 pm Youth - Connecting with God, Glebe House
Sun 9th 11.45-13.15 Confirmation Classes, St Stephen's Vicarage

NEXT SUNDAY: 9 April 2006 Palm Sunday

10 am SUNG EUCHARIST
Celebrant and Preacher - The Reverend Dr Bob Mayo
Isaiah 50.4-9a (p 529) Philippians 2.5-11 (p 530) Mark 15.1-39 (p 536)

Bob will be running in the London Marathon on 23 April to raise funds for a new noticeboard for the church. Please pick up a sponsorship form and give generously

Home Communion - Available to any unable to come on a Sunday. Talk to Father Bob (8743 3166) if you or anyone else might be interested.

Any enquiries about pastoral concerns, baptisms, weddings or funerals please get in touch with either Bob Mayo, the vicar, or Sarah Archer, the Associate-Vicar at St Michaels. The only time that Bob will be unavailable is between Friday pm and Sunday am.

Bookings for the Parish Hall dealt with by the Parish Secretary, Jill Wigney. To make a booking please telephone Jill on 020 8740 9879 or email ststephensw12@london.anglican.org