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Newsletter 25th October 2015

10/26/2015

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NOTICES
​Next Sunday
1st November - All Saints.  Mass 9.30am
Tote 
Last week’s lucky winner of £30.75 was share no 64. Our next draw will take place on Tuesday at 11.30. 
Remembrance Sunday
8th November. Mass on that day will be at St Peter’s at 9.30am, followed by the Act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph. 
Memorial for the Departed.Sunday
8th November at 4pm. This is for families who have been bereaved over the past year and is in addition to All Souls, which will be kept on Monday 2nd November at 9.30am. 
Meeting about the House of Bishops Declaration
Monday 9th November at 7pm at St Andrew’s. This will be chaired by Fr Stokoe (Dean of Hickleton Chapter and Chairman of the Society of St Wilfrid and St Hilda in the Diocese of Sheffield.) Both congregations in our Benefice are invited to take part. This is an opportunity to hear about the new arrangements for parishes which have previously taken Resolutions A, B or C under the Act of Synod, which will be phased out at the end of 2016. The PCC can then decide at a later date whether or not it wishes to make use of the new arrangements, which are designed to give sacramental assurance to parishes in the Catholic tradition.
Patronal Festival (St Andrew)
This will be celebrated at 4pm on Sunday 29th November.
 

Brass Band Concert 
Thursday 17th December at 7pm here at St Andrew’s, featuring Barnsley Brass -
more details to follow 
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READINGS FROM THE SUNDAY SERVICE
​On his journey from Jericho the man Jesus meets is blind and needy. He also experienced rejection by the crowd. Yet Jesus remains focused on the man who seeks his help and who comes for healing. What is restored to him is more than just physical sight. In a sense the man is representative of everyone who has ever experienced the darkness of sin and confusion. Jesus lights the way for him to see a way forward and to discover a new life.
Collect:
Almighty ever-living God,

increase our faith, hope and charity,
and make us love what you command,
so that we may merit what you promise.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
​​First Reading: Jeremiah 31:7-9
 A reading from the prophet Jeremiah.
The Lord says this: Shout with joy for Jacob! Hail the chief of nations! Proclaim! Praise! Shout: “The Lord has saved his people, the remnant of Israel!” See, I will bring them back from the land of the North and gather them from the far ends of earth; all of them: the blind and the lame, women with child, women in labour: a great company returning here. They had left in tears, I will comfort them as I lead them back; I will guide them to streams of water, by a smooth path where they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born son. 
The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Second Reading: Hebrews 5:1-6 
A reading from the letter to the Hebrews. 
Every high priest has been taken out of mankind and is appointed to act for men in their relations with God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins; and so he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or uncertain because he too lives in the limitations of weakness. That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. No one takes this honour on himself, but each one is called by God, as Aaron was. Nor did Christ give himself the glory of becoming high priest, but he had it from the one who said to him: You are my son, today I have become your father, and in another text: You are a priest of the order of Melchizedek, and for ever. 
The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
​Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 125 
When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage,
it seemed like a dream
Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
on our lips there were songs.
Response: What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad.

The heathens themselves said:
“What marvels the Lord worked for them!”
What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad.
Response: What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad.

Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage
as streams in dry land.
Those who are sowing in tears
will sing when they reap.
Response: What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad.

 They go out, they go out, full of tears,
carrying seed for the sowing:
they come back, they come back, full of song,
carrying their sheaves.
Response: What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad
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Gospel: Mark 10:46-52
 A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark.
 As Jesus left Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (that is, the son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was sitting at the side of the road. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout and say, “Son of David, Jesus, have pity on me.” And many of them scolded him and told him to keep quiet, but he only shouted all the louder, “Son of David, have pity on me.” Jesus stopped and said, “Call him here.” So they called the blind man. “Courage,” they said, “get up; he is calling you.” So throwing off his cloak, he jumped up and went to Jesus. Then Jesus spoke, “What do you want me to do for you?” “Rabbuni,” the blind man said to him, “Master, let me see again.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has saved you.” And immediately his sight returned and he followed him along the road.
 The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
  
                       Post-Communion:
​                       May your Sacraments, O Lord, we pray,
                       perfect in us what lies within them,
                       that what we now celebrate in signs
                       we may one day possess in truth.
                       Through Christ our Lord. Amen.


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Newsletter 18th October 2015

10/19/2015

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NOTICES:
Thank you for all the contributions for Harvest.
These will now be taken to the Barnsley Women’s Refuge. 
Also thank you for the cleaning and decoration of the church for Harves
t.
Last Weeks Tote winner was no.47
The Service next Sunday, 30th in ordinary Time, is at the usual time of 9.30am
The mid-week service is on thursday again at 9.30am.
Advance notice that the service for Remembrance Sunday will be held at St Peters followed by a procession to the cenotaph.
Final Reminder: The next PCC meeting is to be held on Monday 19th October at 7.00pm.
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READINGS FROM THE SUNDAY SERVICE:
​ Jesus finds himself up against human tendencies to compete and to grasp at power. In response to this he brings forward a radically different model of ordering society. Instead of one which is based on people setting themselves up against others, he shows himself to be the servant. Anyone who is to follow Jesus on the path of new life and eventually to join him in heavenly glory cannot avoid the call to be of service to others. In God’s kingdom the fir
st shall be last and the last first.
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Collect: Almighty ever-living God,
grant that we may always conform our will to yours
and serve your majesty in sincerity of heart.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ev
er and ever. Amen


First Reading: Isaiah 53:10-11
 A reading from the prophet Isaiah.
 The Lord has been pleased to crush his servant with suffering. If he offers his life in atonement, he shall see his heirs, he shall have a long life and through him what the Lord wishes will be done. His soul’s anguish over he shall see the light and be content. By his sufferings shall my servant justify many, taking their faults on himself.
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Second Reading: Hebrews 4:14-16
 A reading from the letter to the Hebrews.
 Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we have the supreme high priest who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must never let go of the faith that we have professed. For it is not as if we had a high priest who was incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us; but we have one who has been tempted in every way that we are, though he is without sin. Let us be confident, then, in approaching the throne of grace, that we shall have mercy from him and find grace when we are in need of help.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 32
 The word of the Lord is faithful
 and all his works to be trusted.
 The Lord loves justice and right

  and fills the earth with his love.
Response: May your love be upon us, O Lord
 as we place all our hope in you.

 
The Lord looks on those who revere him,
on those who hope in his love,
to rescue their souls from death,
to keep them alive in famine.

Response: May your love be upon us, O Lord,
as we place all our hope in you.

 
Our soul is waiting for the Lord.
The Lord is our help and our shield.
May your love be upon us, O Lord,
as we place all our hope in you.

Response: May your love be upon us, O Lord,
as we place all our hope in you.
Gospel: Mark 10:35-45
 
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark.
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus. “Master,” they said to him, “we want you to do us a favour.” He said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” They said to him, “Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.” “You do not know what you are asking” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup that I must drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I must be baptised?” They replied, “We can.” Jesus said to them, “The cup that I must drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I must be baptised you shall be baptised, but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these are not mine to grant: they belong to those to whom they have been allotted.” When the other ten heard this they began to feel indignant with James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that among the pagans their so-called rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all. For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
                             Post-Communion: Grant, O Lord, we pray, that,
                             benefiting from participation in heavenly things,
                             we may be helped
                             by what you give in this present age
                             and prepared for the gifts that are eternal.

                             Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Newsletter 11th October 1015

10/13/2015

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SERVICES:
Sunday (Harvest Thanksgiving): First Reading was Wisdom 7:7-11. Responsorial Psalm was Number 89 "Fill us with your love that we may rejoice." Second Reading was Hewbrews 4:12-13, and the reading from the Holy Gospel was Mark 10:17-30. The Service next Sunday (29th in Ordinary Time) is at 9.30am. The mid-week service (St Teresa of Avila) is on Thursday at 9.30am. 
DROP-IN SESSION:
A drop-in session is held at the back of church between 10.00am and 11.45am every Tuesday for anyone wanting information about the church, its activities, or simply for a natter and a cup of coffee. The church itself will be open at the same time for anyone wishing to view or simply sit for a few moments in quiet reflection.  The tote will be drawn at 11.30am, last weeks winner was number 236.   
PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL:

The next meeting will take place on Monday 19th October at 7.00pm

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