Pam Laslett, Wendy Everett, Kath Jones
Doris Goodwin, Marjorie Smith, Buck Chinn
Morgan Hirsch (2nd), Claire Charman (3rd), Victoria White and Adam Wheeler (4th), Thomas Stubbins, Hansa Shah, Jack O’Mahony and Fergus Field (5th), Marie Cooper (6th), Nan Baines and Helen Johnson (7th), Jenny Jupe and Imogen Brown (8th)
If you are here for the first time, please do introduce yourself to a sidesperson or minister and take a welcome card.
Baptised members of any Church are welcome to receive Communion. If you do not wish to take communion but would like a blessing please come forward, holding your service leaflet.
A collection for the work of the church is usually taken during each service. Please use the Gift Aid envelope if you are a UK taxpayer.
We have loop systems for the hard of hearing. At St Mary’s it is available in the main nave. At St Anne’s it can be used in any part of the church.
Children’s groups and crèche will now meet on the first, second, fourth and fifth Sundays during term time. The third Sunday will be our new Teaching Eucharist lasting 40 minutes with children taking part in the worship. Where possible a quiet supervised area will also be available in the Crèche room for parents and children during this service. During school holidays the Crèche area (unsupervised) will be available for parents to be with their children during the service if needed.
Children meet on the first, second, fourth and fifth Sundays during the 11:00 a.m. service. They leave with their leaders after the first hymn. All children are welcome.
Meets on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in Rose Cottage at St Mary’s. All young people are welcome to participate in an interesting and varied programme. For more details see the YG notice board in both churches.
M*A*S*S meets on Thursday at 3:45 p.m.
Free, half hour music session on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. for children aged 0+ years old. We aim to sing nursery rhymes, Christian songs, play simple musical instruments, hear stories from the Bible, learn basic musical concepts and move to music. Parents or care-givers help their child through each activity or song. No previous musical experience is required. Squash and bikkies after each session.
For more information please Contact Mick Perrier on: 07967 595 881, or via mick@mperrier.freeserve.co.uk.
The flowers at St Mary’s today are in memory of Shirley Smith whose funeral took place on Maundy Thursday. Shirley was a member of the flower guild for many years.
To all who helped make the Swishing Evening a success. £150 was raised for Anawim.
New edition of Chimes available today.
| Service | First Reading | Second Reading |
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| Morning | Acts 11:1-18 | John 13:31-35 |
| Evening | Daniel 6:6-23 | Mark 15:46-16:8 |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Rosemary Donovan |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Jeremy Dussek Hymns: 76,277,4,58 Anthem: And I Saw a New Heaven |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Election Hustings | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist Celebrant: Revd Rosemary Donovan Hymns: 56,185,414,486,500 |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Evensong Officiant & Preacher: Jonathan Hodgson Hymns: 43,128,432 Anthem: Blessed Be The God and Father(Wesley) |
| Day | Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Tue-4-May | 9:00 a.m. | No service of Holy Communion | |
| Wed-5-May | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 2:45 p.m. | School Service | ||
| Thu-6-May | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 3:45 p.m. | No M*A*S*S due to General Election | ||
| Fri-7-May | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Next Sunday 9 May, 6th Sunday of Easter Stewardship at St Mary’s |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist With members of the Stewardship Team and Confirmation Group |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Matins | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Blessed Rising Workshop. Download workshop and service details (PDF – 1100 KB). See also www.blessed.org.uk. | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Blessed Rising Service | |
| Thursday 13 May, Ascension Day. | ||
| 8:00 p.m. | Holy Communion | |
| Sunday 23 May, Pentecost | ||
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Birmingham Churches Together and Council of Black Led Churches invite Christians of all traditions, denominations and cultural backgrounds to come together in Victoria square to join with millions world wide on this global day of prayer to worship, pray and praise God together as one family. This will be the alternate worship service for this month. | |
| Date | Time | Details |
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| Sun-2-May | 11:00 a.m. | General Election Hustings What is truth? Share the truth, Hear the truth! in St Mary’s Church. Completing our series, here is your opportunity to hear the truth about what our prospective parliamentary candidates are standing for. This event is open to all. If you would like to ask a question, please send it in advance in a sealed envelope or email (marked General Election Hustings) to the Benefice Office by Thursday 30 April. Please encourage all to come to worship at 10:00 a.m. which will be followed by the Hustings at 11:00 a.m. |
| 12 noon – 4:00 p.m. | Family May Day in Canon Hill Park. An interesting programme. | |
| Mon-3-May | 12:15 p.m. | Lunch Club at St Anne’s |
| Wed-5-May | 7:30 p.m. | Youth Group at St Mary’s |
| Sat-8-May | 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. | Catalyst! Free Youth Event at Birmingham Cathedral. Rosemary is going. Any youngsters wishing to go meet at St Mary’s at 7:30 p.m. to get the bus into town |
| Sun-9-May | 10:00 a.m. | Confirmation Group 2010 Preparation during the service in St Mary’s and every 2nd Sunday, there will be confirmation sessions using Emmaus material and all are welcome to join this. We’ll also be holding a children’s course later in the year. If you’re interested in joining either group, please let Jeremy or Rosemary know. |
| 4:00 p.m. | Blessed Rising! Workshop at St Mary’s and Service at 6:30 p.m. We will be welcoming Fr Simon Rundell, Fresh Expressions Associate Minister to help us look at how we can develop our ‘Alternative. Worship’. This seminar and workshop will explore the possibilities and mission opportunities offered by creative worship. This is a hands on approach with advice about how to create liturgies, obtaining images and video clips. Everyone welcome. The afternoon finishes with a service called Blessed Rising (for Ascension) at 6:30 p.m. Please note that the Blessed Rising Service replaces Evensong that day. Download workshop and service details (PDF – 1100 KB). See also www.blessed.org.uk. | |
| Sat-8-May, Sun-9-May & Sat-15-May |
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Christian Aid Week 2010 Plant Sale, Open garden and Teas, at 4 Paradise Lane, Hall Green, B28 ODS. By kind invitation of Katherine and Chris Aldridge. Border and patio plants, cottage garden favourites. All proceeds for Christian Aid. |
| Sun-9-May, Thanksgiving Sunday |
The St Mary’s Stewardship Group will be giving a presentation on our progress to an improved financial position. | |
| Sun-16-May | 12 noon | St Anne’s Bring and Share Lunch Parish hall – all welcome. |
| Sat-22-May | 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Living the Cross with Janet Hodgson. Advanced notice for this half day workshop. Further details to follow shortly. Please put this date into your diary. During the half day workshop she will be helping us discover stories of people who have lived the cross and ways of using it as an aid to prayer and meditation. The workshop will be taking place at St Mary’s Church. To reserve a place contact The Benefice Office: e-mail info@stmarysmoseley.co.uk or telephone 0121 449 2243. Cost £5. |
| 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Family Games Evening Holders Lane Gardens Allotments Social Club. Organised by FSMCM. Tickets available from Mandy Doyle, Giles Osborne or Kevin Edwards. Cost £3. | |
| Sun-23-May | 10:00 a.m. | Presentation to John Dowell and Caroline Phillips If you would like to contribute to a presentation for John Dowell, retiring Churchwarden at St Mary’s and Caroline Phillips Ordinand, leaving after three years in the benefice, then please give your donation to Jan Miller at St Mary’s, Graham Hindley or John Gray at St Anne’s or via the Benefice Office. |
In this time of election frenzy we hear many voices trumpeting the differences between themselves and ‘the others’. Sadly we also see this institutionalised in the creeds of some parties: ‘British jobs for British workers’ and other such xenophobic utterances.
Today’s readings are a salutary reminder, if indeed we needed one, that for Christ ‘all shall be one’. The early Christians were Jews, who saw Christ’s teachings as specifically speaking to the Jews. His message was for them and not for ‘the others’, the Gentiles. Peter’s vision ushered in a radical departure from this view: Christ’s message was for all mankind, and all are indeed welcome to receive this message and the blessings that flow from it.
This evening the Choir will sing Wesley’s splendid Easter anthem Blessed Be The God And Father. The central section is a moving setting for Treble duet of the words from John’s Gospel that we hear this morning: ‘Love one another with a pure heart fervently…’ We cannot do this if we espouse a gospel of separateness from ‘the others’, seeing ourselves as a race apart.
As we host our election candidate’s hustings today, let us ask them how far they will go in accepting everyone into a ‘rainbow coalition’ of united endeavour, and let us ask the same question of ourselves.
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ have overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires, so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect; through Jesus Christ our risen Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.