Posts by Lorna Thorne (Page 7)

For your daily constitutional over the Easter weekend, make sure you visit the ceremonial life-sized Cross which John Cottenham and John Osborne have erected at Fleed Cross (just off the main road going west out of Wivey after you’ve negotiated the Devil’s Elbow hairpin bends.) From it you can get a panoramic view over Wivey and pray a blessing of hope on the land and the community.

As we experience a Holy Week unlike any other, one of isolation and distancing, it is more important than ever that we journey with Jesus through this week towards the cross and the resurrection. We may not be able to gather together at this time, but God has given us the gift of time to think, reflect and ponder anew the events of Holy Week. These reflections will help us to do that. It might be helpful for you to…

you will need to equip yourself with the following: i   –  A leafy branch ii  – A cross or Palm Cross iii – a candle and a lighting device   iv –  any donkey or palm leaf you have made and put in your window. PALM CROSSES FOR PALM SUNDAY These will be placed in all church porches or outside the church front door by 1 p.m. on Saturday. Please collect one or more for your home, according to your normal…

Collect for Palm Sunday 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,…

Dear Friends across the Deanery, A few of us have had an idea I’d like to share with you so that you can pass it on to your congregations. Next Sunday 5th April is Palm Sunday so between now and then, it would be wonderful if as many people as possible made or printed a picture/painting/3D model/image of a donkey and/or palm leaves and place them in your window so that as people do their ‘one exercise a day’ they…

Collect 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.  Amen And some special prayers for this week Lord Jesus Christ, you have…

Pulsford Lodge would love Rainbows to help brighten their day and boost the morale of residents and their wonderful hard working carers at this difficult time.  Alison Bailey, Pulsford’s  new manager is asking for your drawings, pictures, paintings, poems, stories, –  anything related to Rainbows – to cover their walls with your art and messages so to flood Pulsford with light and positivity and to keep up communication with the wider community . Please start creating and  having fun with your…

Friday prayers – 27th March, 2020 Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. 2     Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive     to the voice of my supplications! 3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,     Lord, who could stand? 4 But there is forgiveness with you,     so that you may be revered. 5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,     and in his word I hope; 6 my soul waits for the Lord     more than those who…

In compliance with the government’s latest change of policy, places of worship in the Benefice are now closed for all religious services except funerals. The purpose of this policy is to minimise all possibilities of infection, particularly of the vulnerable. However, church congregations remain active in watching out for their neighbours’ needs and holding them and each other before God in regular and faithful prayer. To this end, materials to enable people to pray, along with other printed materials to…

Tune in to 105.3 fm or via the Internet link here at 10 Radio at 10am This Mothering Sunday’s 23rd March, Service is being led by the St Andrew’s Team, Rev Martin Walker and Judith Swan.