Pam Laslett, Wendy Everett, Kath Jones, James Round, Ted Turner
Buck Chinn, Phil Evans, Julia Swankie
Gavin Carter (18th), Daisy Lloyd (19th), Mary Joubert, Elizabeth Southall and Charles Wall (22nd)
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.
During June could anyone collect and take back a member of the congregation who attends the 10:00 a.m. service at St Mary’s and who lives close to Cocks. Moors Woods? If you are able to help please see Jan Miller.
A bed for a two year old child. If you can help, please contact Elisabeth Leicester on 449 8995.
Charities supported during the year have been the multiple sclerosis centre and the British Kidney Patient Association. The next charity will be Oxfam. Thank you for your contributions and please keep placing them in the stamp box which is kept at the back of St Anne’s Church
| Service | First Reading | Second Reading |
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| Morning | Acts 16:16-34 | John 17:20-end |
| Evening | Isaiah 44:1-8 | Ephesians 4:7-16 |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Jeremy Dussek |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Teaching Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Rosemary Donovan Anthem: On Eagle’s Wings |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Teaching Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: Revd Rosemary Donovan |
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| 12noon – 1:30 p.m. | Bring and Share Lunch | |
| 6:00 p.m. | 16+Group at 15, Park Hill Marley and Me! www.marleyandmemovie.com |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Evensong Officiant: Revd Frank Berry Psalm: 68:1-13 Hymns: 81,122,480 Anthem: King of All Ages (Isom) |
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| Day | Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Mon-17-May | 9:00 a.m. | No Morning Prayer | |
| Tue-18-May | 9:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| Wed-19-May | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Thu-20-May | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| 3:45 p.m. | M*A*S*S at Moseley School | ||
| Fri-21-May | 9:00 a.m. | Morning Prayer | |
| Sat-22-May | 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Living the Cross with Janet Hodgson | |
| Time | St Mary’s | St Anne’s |
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| Next Sunday 23 May, Pentecost | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Holy Communion | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sung Eucharist | |
| 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. | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Evensong | |
| Date | Time | Details |
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| Tue-18-May | Prayer Circle At St Mary’s Church. Lead by Revd Richard Tetlow. Please bring one question on prayer. | |
| 7:45 p.m. | Churches Together in Moseley in the Benefice Office | |
| Wed-19-May | 7:30 p.m. | Youth Group at St Mary’s |
| Thu-20-May | 7:30 p.m. | Deanery Synod St Mary and St Ambrose |
| Sat-22-May | 9:30 - 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. |
| Sat-29-May | 10:00 – 12 noon | Peacing it Together At St Anne’s. All hands to the deck to tidy up peace garden from winter debris and plant new pots for summer. Bring Tools! Refreshments provided. If anyone would like to make a contribution for new plants please see Rosemary. |
| Sun-30-May | After the 10:00 a.m. service | St Mary’s Pastoral Team |
| Mon-31-May | 10:30 a.m. | Plant Sale and Lunch at 17, Hayfield Road, Moseley. Bedding plants, fuchsias and shrubs. Stay for a delicious lunch between 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Please ring Pat on 449 3762 to book your lunch). Cost £5. All proceeds for St Anne’s Church |
This must be one of the most dramatic and immediate stories in the Bible. The slave who followed Paul and Silas, calling out to everyone around that they were servants of God and had come to tell the Philippians how they could be saved, would seem to be providing some valuable free publicity. To deprive her of the ability to predict the future not only put an end to the publicity but also rendered useless to her master. Although she was only a slave this was probably better than being thrown out to a worse fate when she ceased to be of use to him. Paul and Silas were conscious of the fact that her powers were considered to be demonic and their association with her would have been seen to attach these demonic powers to their own mission. They also no doubt remembered Jesus casting out evil spirits in similar circumstances. While they would have been sympathetic to the girl’s situation, their anxiety to dissociate themselves from her demonic powers would have taken precedence over any possible disadvantages to her.
Later on when Paul and Silas, together with all the other prisoners in the jail, were released from their bonds during the storm, the jailer, hampered by the darkness and stormy conditions, assumed that all the prisoners had escaped. Had that been the case he would have been held responsible. In Roman times the penalty for this was death but the code of honour at the time required him to kill himself instead. But for the intervention of Paul he would have done so. Inspired by the calmness of Paul and Silas in the aftermath of the terrible beatings they had endured and the drama of the situation, the jailer went to them and asked what he could do to be saved.
Perhaps the fact that we don’t have to endure such hardships to prompt our search for salvation renders our will to do so less immediate. However it might be worth taking this opportunity to consider what we do need to do to be saved.
O God the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: we beseech you, leave us not comfortless, but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.