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St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin

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The organ music before the service this Sunday features pieces based on Whitsuntide chorales, including JS Bach’s prelude on the Lutheran version of ‘Veni Creator Spiritus’. After the service there is a more floral offering, from Tchaikovsky.

Fletching Gardens Open

Fletching Gardens Open. Is this Sunday, June 8th and our morning service will begin at 9.30 a.m. to avoid the traffic build-up.

All about us at www.fletchingparishchurch.co.uk and all about our Organ Project at www.fletchingorgan.org

Friends of Fletching Church

The Friends raise money to be used to keep the church building in good order. Their next event is a Garden Party in the beautiful grounds of Town Place on Thursday, 19th June. Members get priority booking. It doesn’t cost anything to be a member, you just need to be on the mailing list.
If you’d like to join, please contact Alex Rothery on friendsoffletching@gmail.com

Helping out financially …
If you are new to Fletching Church and you have been wondering how to help financially, the best bet is to make a regular gift using the Parish Giving Scheme. More information here http://www.parishgiving.org.uk/ and our PGS number is 100620526. Or please speak to John, our Treasurer, on: johnekshaw@yahoo.co.uk or on 01825 761699. You can also use the GoodBox card readers at any time. Thank you!

Readings on Sunday ...

Acts Ch 2 v 1 - 21,
Psalm 104 v 25 – 35 & v 37
and St John Ch 14 v 8 - 27

Whit Sunday in English usage, or to give it its Greek name, Pentecost, is the birthday of the Church. When the post-Resurrection appearances ended, Jesus gave a final instruction to the disciples to wait in the city (Jerusalem) until they received a promised gift. That gift was the illuminating presence of God which we call the Holy Spirit.

We have an account of the arrival of that gift in today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles. This is the second volume of St Luke’s writings, and our principle account of the experiences of the earliest days of the religious reform movement which became the Christian Church. It was an extraordinary event and, with all its strangeness and power, also contained one of the most endearingly comic moments in the New Testament as St Peter defended the Apostles against charges of public drunkenness.

The Psalm, written many centuries before the Whitsun experience in Jerusalem, is filled with a similar sense of overwhelming joy in the presence of God.

Finally, in the Gospel reading, as with last Sunday, we hear again from the fourteenth chapter of St John with its message of reassurance in the presence of death. St John also speaks about the gift of the Holy Spirit as the abiding presence of God

Please remember in your prayers …

For Whit Sunday, the ‘birthday’ of the Church we give thanks for God’s continuing presence with us, inspiring people to make a difference in their own lives and in the lives of those around them.

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

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, and the civil wars in Sudan and Myanmar,

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

May they rest in peace, remembering ….

Sydney James Powis (whose funeral was on May 14th), Nigel Digges (whose funeral was in Church on May 16th), John Patrick Bevan (whose ashes came to the church on May 19th), Mary Lynch (whose funeral was in church on May 23rd), and Andy Johnson (reunited with Rose, and whose funeral was in Church on May 27th), and
Ian Knipe (whose funeral was in Church on May 28th) and
Nicholas Bowlby (whose funeral was in Church on May 30th).

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