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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
A full text of the sermon is posted on the church web site at www.ststephensw12.org
Please note some of the details for next week:
- The meal on Thursday will either be in the vicarage or Glebe House. I need your names so that I know how many to cater for.
- We need to gather outside the church at 11.15 on Good Friday to walk down to the green for a short service.
- Anyone is invited to come to the Evening Friday Service. It is at St Simons – come and support the young people!
- My Mum is coming to stay for the weekend.
- Come in an Easter Bonnet on Sunday
Otherwise
- Confirmation Service for anyone interested is on May 17th
- Who is going to help Marjorie as Church Warden?
Veneration of the Palms
Priest: Hosanna to the Son of David, The King of Israel. Behold your king comes to you, O Zion, meek and lowly, sitting upon an ass.
All Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
We are invited to process in faith; the palms are blessed. Please follow the procession going out through St Stephen’s door, via Coverdale Road, and into the North porch door. Please come up the North aisle to the chancel step to receive your palm cross.
Processional Hymn 128 All Glory, Laud and Honour
Collect of the Day
Almighty and everlasting God, who in your tender love towards the human race sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross: grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; 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 Isaiah 50.4-9a (p.)
The servant of the LORD said: 4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens – wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. 5The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious,I did not turn backwards. 6I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. 7The Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; 8he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me. 9It is the Lord GOD who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
Gradual Hymn 129 Ride on, Ride on in Majesty
GOSPEL Luke 22: 54 – 62 (p.)
28 After telling this story, Jesus went on toward Jerusalem, walking ahead of his disciples. 29 As he came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead. 30 “Go into that village over there,” he told them. “As you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying that colt?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’” 32 So they went and found the colt, just as Jesus had said. 33 And sure enough, as they were untying it, the owners asked them, “Why are you untying that colt?” 34 And the disciples simply replied, “The Lord needs it.” 35 So they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it for him to ride on. 36 As he rode along, the crowds spread out their garments on the road ahead of him. 37 When he reached the place where the road started down the Mount of Olives, all of his followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen. 38 “Blessings on the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in highest heaven!” 39 But some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, “Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying things like that!” 40 He replied, “If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!” 41 But as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead , he began to weep. 42 “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes.
INTERCESSIONS
Please pray for
The sick and suffering: especially Felix Okike, Lucilda Bernard, Joan Andrew, Elizabeth Dorsett, Clive Heywood, Ron & Ivy Smith, Susie Leach, Norbert Edwards, Brother Paul Anthony, Sylvia Steed, John Asbridge, Caroline Nevill, Esmay Young, Tracey Davies.
Offertory Hymn 112 My song is love unknown
Communion Hymn 432 From Heaven you came
Post Communion Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant, and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation: give us the mind to follow you and to proclaim you as Lord and King, to the glory of God the Father.
Recessional Hymn 376 And can it be that I should gain
The Events of Holy Week - Holy Week is the last week of Lent, when we follow Jesus from Palm Sunday, the Sunday of the Passion, to his death on Good Friday in preparation for his rising from the dead on Easter Sunday.
Palm Sunday: Accompanied by his disciples, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a colt, while crowds of people covered the streets ahead of him with their cloaks and with palm branches.
Monday: Jesus chased the money-changers out of the Temple.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Jesus preached and taught in Jerusalem.
Thursday: After washing the feet of the disciples, Jesus celebrated Passover, instituting the Sacrament of Holy Communion. He went to Gethsemane to pray, where he was arrested by the Temple guard and taken to an illegal night session of the Jewish court, the Sanhedrin.
Good Friday: Jesus was taken into Roman courts, before Pontius Pilate and Herod Antipas, who sent him back to the Jewish court. Roman soldiers took him to Golgotha, the place of the skull, where he was crucified.
Saturday: Jesus rested in the tomb while his disciples observed the Sabbath.
Easter Sunday: An angel met Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary" (perhaps Mary, the mother of James and John) at the tomb to tell them that Jesus was risen from the dead.
Post Communion (Palm Sunday) © 1984 General Synod of the Church of Ireland. Invitation to Confession (5th Sun Lent until Weds of Holy Week) © 1988 Continuum (Mowbray) (Adapted). 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 2000. Collect (Palm Sunday) © The Crown/Cambridge University Press: The Book of Common Prayer (1662)
NEXT SUNDAY: 8 April 2006 EASTER SUNDAY
5.30 am EASTER VIGIL
10 am SUNG EUCHARIST
Easter Bonnets welcome
Celebrant and Preacher – The Reverend Dr Bob Mayo
Acts 10.34-43 (p), John 20.1-18 (p )
THIS WEEK
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April 5th |
7.30 pm |
Maundy Thursday meal and night prayer |
Good Friday
April 6th |
11.15
12 noon – 1 pm
1.30 – 3.00
6.30–8.30 pm |
Walk of witness
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
Devotion for the Three Hours Stations of the Cross
Good Friday Worship: Passion Readings and Meditations
“The Friday Shout” – a youth music and arts expression on the themes of Jesus’ shouts on the cross. Presented by St Stephen’s and St Simon’s Youth and Bushcity Academy at St Simon’s Church, Rockley Road, W14 |
At the Annual Church Meeting the following officers were elected for the coming year
Church warden – Marjorie Bedassee
PCC Members – Barry Clarke, Nathan Charlton,Tim Turnbull, Tobi Adebiyi, Fiona Minors, Juliet Byford,
St Stephen’s Council Members – Elwyn Taylor, Caroline Allen, Paula Aitcheson Walker, Michael Melichar, Cosmo/Edie Lush
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The
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