This Week at St Mary’s

Maundy Thursday 28 March 
10.30am Midweek Service
7.30pm Communion

Good Friday 29 March 
11am Churches Together Act of Witness at The Grange
2pm Churches Together Hour before the Cross at Salem URC
7pm Churches Together Stations of the Cross Reflections at SS Fisher More

Saturday 30 March
8pm Easter Vigil at St Mary’s

Sunday 31 March – Easter Day
8am BCP Communion
10am Family Communion

Monday 1 April
9am Morning Prayer on Zoom

Thursday 4 April 
10.30am Midweek Service
7.30pm Ladies Group at the Parish Centre

Sunday 7 April – Second Sunday of Easter
8am BCP Communion
10am Connect Together

Link to This week’s readings

St Mary’s is usually open 9.30am until 5pm each day for private prayer and reflection. There are various acts of prayer and worship being led via our Facebook Page

Please pray this week for: 
Sick: Pavlo Mucha, Pam Atkinson, Jennifer Cottam, Mike Robinson, Ronnie Woffindin, Graham, and Gail Boole.

Notices

Please note: Coffee and Cake in April will be on Monday 8 April, not the 1st as that is a bank holiday. 10am-12noon in the Parish Centre. 

April Magazine Distribution: The magazine will be ready for pick up from Tuesday 26 March until Thursday 28 March from the Parish Centre, 9:30am-12noon and 2pm–4pm. Please note the Centre will be closed on Good Friday 29 March.

As the Lent groups draw to a close we are keen to explore how we can continue to grow in discipleship through small groups.  Considerable interest in this was identified during our parish survey.  There will therefore be a meeting at 7.30pm on Wednesday 27 March in the Parish Centre for anyone who is interested in supporting how we take this forward, in any capacity.  If you can’t make it but would like to be part of this, please have a word with Phil or with Lis Merrick.

Lent Lunches: Thank you to everyone who made soup, offered help, bread and milk, and to all who supported the Lent Lunches. They went very well.  A wonderful total of £350 has been sent to Christian Aid to support the work they do among those less affluent than ourselves. Janet, Christine and the CA committee.

‘A Most Unlikely Friendship’ is the name of Mirella Moxon’s book about our link with Tereli. It is a wonderfully written and colourful book exploring over 20 years of friendship with the people of Tereli in Mali. Every penny of the £10 cost goes to support the link with the Dogon people living on the edge of the Sahara. Available from Janet Squire (862582) or Mary Wood (864404).

The Tenth anniversary of the Diocese of Leeds will be in a few weeks. The Archbishop of York, the Mosr Reverend Stephen Cottrell, will be visiting the diocese for the weekend, and on Saturday 20 April he will lwad a service at Bradford Cathedral. If anyone would like to go to represent St Mary’s, please speak to Phil.

Ladies Group: Our next meeting will be on Thursday 4 April at the Parish Centre. We are having a ‘Show and Tell’ evening.so please bring along something with a story to it – for example a souvenir of a special holiday, a special present you once received, or a family heirloom  – and talk about it for a few minutes. Visitors are very welcome.