ST THOMAS’  MELLOR

SUNDAY SERVICES

Today we welcome to our services:

8.30 and 9.30am  David Hughes.

Holy Communion at 8.3am

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Parish Communion at 9.30 a.m.    

Coffee will be served in the Parish Centre after the service.  All are welcome.

Children are invited to join us for fun and thought provoking activities in the

Vestry during the service. Younger children leave the service during the first hymn,

older children after the collect.   All children will come back for communion.

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Evening Prayer at 6.30p.m  

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Please place your collection on the plate near the door, either before the service or as you leave.  If you are a UK taxpayer the value of your contribution will be increased by 25% * if you enclose it in a Gift Aid envelope and fill in your name and address.

*The reduction from 28% is the result of changes in tax regulation from 6 April

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NOTICES

16 Wed         9.30 a.m.  Holy Communion.

            7.30 pm Friends of Mellor Parish Centre Event (Parish Centre), see below.

Friends of Mellor Parish Centre

Lyme—A Garden of Change. A talk given by Gary Rainford, Head Gardener of Lyme Park on

Wed. May 23rd at 7.30 in the Parish Centre. Gary will answer your gardening questions after his talk. Tickets £7.50 to include light refreshments available from Val Wallace on 427 4900, Jen Compton on 478 8193 or the Parish Centre. Priority booking opens on April 16th, general booking on April 23rd.

Pentecost – 27th May.  Churches Together service at St Mary’s, Marple Bridge at 3.00pm.

Diamond Jubilee Fete Shower - Wednesday 30th May 7.30pm at the Johnson's home, 19 Fernwood. Raffle. Red,White and Blue Bring and Buy, Quizzes and much more! Admission £3.50 incl.strawberries and cream and glass of wine. Do come - All are welcome!

Sunday 17th June – Mellor Open Gardens.

Programmes available from Marple Bookshop, Cancer Research Shop, Marple Bridge Post Office, Mellor Parish Centre, Lorell’s Photo Centre (New Mills), Gainsborough Interiors (Romiley).  In advance £6, on the day £7.50.

DO YOU TAKE THE PARISH MAGAZINE?

‘Outlook’ our parish magazine, in addition to times of church services and events, contains interesting articles and has information about much of what else is going on in Mellor. Also many readers find the advertisements by local trades people very useful. If you would like to have the magazine delivered to your home please ‘phone Brian Perks 427 1712.

The cost of a years subscription is £5.

Mellor Rose Queen presents Chris Addison “The Time is now, Again”

Romily Forum, Saturday 26th May, 7.30pm.  Tickets £15 available from Box Office 08448 773377 or www.nktheatrearts.org.uk.  Special Charity Performance Shuktara – providing a home for disabled street kids in Calcutta www.shuktara.net.  

Marple Christian Care – needs more volunteers to act as drivers or to man the help desk at 449 0829, or Ann Lyon on 01663 763751, if you would like to help.

THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

20 May 2012

COLLECT

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.

NEW TESTAMENT READING   Acts 1.15-17, 21-26

Peter stood up before the assembled brotherhood, about one hundred and twenty in all, and said:  ‘My friends, the prophecy in scripture, which the Holy Spirit uttered concerning Judas through the mouth of David, was bound to come true;  Judas acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus - he was one of our number and had his place in this ministry.’  Therefore one of those who bore us company all the while the Lord Jesus was going about among us, from his baptism by John until that day when he was taken up from us - one of those must now join us as a witness to  his resurrection.’  Two names were put forward:   Joseph, who was known as Barsabbas and bore the added name of Justus, and Matthias.  Then they prayed and said, ‘You know the hearts of everyone, Lord; declare which of these two you have chosen to receive this office of ministry and apostleship which Judas abandoned to go where he belonged.’ They drew lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was elected to be an apostle with the other eleven.

GOSPEL READING  John 17.6-19

Jesus said, ‘Father, I have made your name known to the men whom you gave me out of the world.  They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your command.  Now they know that all you gave me has come from you; for I have taught them what I learned from you, and they have received it:  they know with certainty that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, because they belong to you.  All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine; and through them is my glory revealed.  I am no longer in the world; they are still in the world, but I am coming to you.  Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you have given me, that they may be one, as we are one.  While I was with them, I protected them by the power of your name which you gave me, and kept them safe.  Not one of them is lost except the man doomed to be lost, for scripture has to be fulfilled.  Now I am coming to you; but while I am still in the world I speak these words, so that they may have my joy within them in full measure.  I have delivered your word to them, and the world hates them because they are strangers in the world, as I am.  I do not pray  you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.  They are strangers in the world, as I am.    Consecrate them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate myself, that they too may be consecrated by the truth.’

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