C H U R C H N E W S

St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin

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Stephanie’s funeral service Is on 1st August at 11:30 at the Haywards Heath Baptist Church in Sussex Road.
Peter and Jamie have been very touched by the cards and messages they have received and are grateful for all our thoughts and prayers. There will be refreshments afterwards, before the family leaves for a private burial later that day.
Everyone is very welcome, but please consider car sharing as the public car park behind the church is not very large.
Finally, to let you know that Stephanie did not want people to feel they needed to wear black.

Choir is taking a break in August
Today is a good opportunity to thank our choir for leading our worship every Sunday. They take a break in August and we’ll look forward to seeing them again in September.

Church Odd Jobs Team Meets the last Friday of every month in the afternoon. We aim to take care of our church and churchyard by providing that attention to detail which makes all the difference. All welcome.

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The Organ Project and New Church Sound System

Both projects are now well underway and will be completed by Christmas. Church will need to be locked on occasion and many apologies for this. If locked, the key is at The Vicarage.

The Fletching Music and Arts Festival …

….. is being launched this year, with concerts on October 16th, 17th and 18th. Would you like to be part of this exciting new initiative?
Please get in touch on info@fletchingmusicartsfest.com

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For our prayers …

We pray for the King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and all the Royal Family. We pray for all in authority.

On the 6th Sunday after Trinity
We continue the theme begun by Martha and Mary last Sunday, and pray for the stillness of Mary as well as Martha’s discipline in working.
We give thanks for the Lord’s Prayer, the pattern of all Christian prayer.
We give thanks for God’s promise of greater stillness of heart for those who make a priority of prayer.

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We pray for all those who suffer through war. We pray for those having, somehow, to carry on living through the appalling violence of the wars between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Iran and the civil wars in Sudan and Myanmar.

We pray for those who are sick. Especially Sue Collins, Sue Campbell, Maureen O’Loughlin, Richard Bradley, Bertie Going, Scilla Palmer and any others known to us.

May they rest in peace, remembering Stephanie Bassett, and praying too for Peter and Jamie.

God of our pilgrimage, you have led us to the living water:
refresh and sustain us as we go forward on our journey.
In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen

Michel Quoist ‘Time’ – a prayer

And so all men run after time, Lord.
They pass through life running –
hurried, jostled, overburdened, frantic, and they never get there.
They haven’t the time.
In spite of all their efforts they’re still short of time,
of a great deal of time.
Lord, you must have made a mistake in your calculations.
There is a big mistake somewhere.
The hours are too short, The days are too short,
Our lives are too short.

You who are beyond time, Lord, you smile to see us fighting it.
And you know what you are doing.
You make no mistakes in your distribution of time to men.
You give each one time to do what you want him to do.
But we must not lose time, waste time, kill time,
For time is a gift that you give us, But a perishable gift,
A gift that does not keep.

Lord, I have time, I have plenty of time,
All the time that you give me,
The years of my life, The days of my years,
The hours of my days,
They are all mine.
Mine to fill, quietly, calmly,
But to fill completely, up to the brim,
To offer them to you, that of their insipid water
You may make a rich wine
such as you made once in Cana of Galilee.
I am not asking you, Lord,
for time to do this and then that,
But your grace to do conscientiously,
in the time that you give me, what you want me to do.

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