The reading for this week (Luke 14:7-14) is Jesus encouraging us not to always grab the best seats for ourselves . It is a plea to us not to put ourselves forward the whole time and to give other people a chance to shine; in other words can we be humble? Humility is derived from the Latin word ‘humus’ which means fertile ground. The fertile ground gets manure put on it and grows flowers as a result. In other words it brings out the best from the worst that is dumped on to it – try it out yourselves with other people.

Ray Jones, a striker at QPR, was killed along with three others in a car crash on Saturday morning. Everyone at the club is badly shaken please pray for their families, friends and for everyone at the club

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