Newsletter 25th October 2015

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 

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.

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.