Update on Sunday Worship

Sunday 1st March
   
The Second Sunday of Lent

Sunday 1st March
 9:15 am  Family Worship at St Lawrence, Towcester
10:15 am  Benefice Sunday Worship via Zoom 
11:15 am Holy Communion at St Bartholomew's, Greens Norton
 2:30 pm  Baptism at St Lawrence, Towcester
 

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Dear all,

Tomorrow, Saturday, we have our second Made for More day, 10 am to 12 noon, in the Chantry House. The day will build on the focus we have had over the last year on prayer and discipleship with short presentations and opportunities to reflect and talk together.  We are pleased to be welcoming the Revd Becky Dyball, Bishop’s Missioner and founder of Coffee Ark. This portable coffee shop will help to introduce the theme of being a Blessing to others. All are most welcome.

A couple of weeks ago I saw Shadowlands at the Aldwych Theatre. I can firmly recommend it as a very good production and profound evening. There’s Hugh Bonneville, of Downton Abbey and Paddington fame, who plays C S Lewis with Maggie Siff as the American poet Joy Davidman. The play, written by William Nicholson, explores the topic that is so often directed at Christianity to explain – the nature of suffering. The evening if deep but not at all heavy going. At the start we find C S Lewis lecturing confidently about the purpose of suffering. This comes across as confident, and theoretical but without lived experience.
Then Joy Davidson arrives as an admirer of Lewis’s work, and their relationship begins firstly as friendship and intellectual companionship. Over time love develops and their marriage blossoms but then Joy is diagnosed with cancer. Lewis now begins to experience emotional suffering, and his experience becomes real rather than intellectual. The play suggests that suffering is inseparable from love.
Suffering may well cause different responses with regards to faith. Faith can be lost, questioned and strengthened. One of the key lines in the play is perhaps “The pain then is part of the happiness now. That’s the deal.”
If you are thinking of seeing this play – and get the chance – then I suggest you do !

For a few months now the Clergy and Ministry Team have been thinking of the time that Morning Prayer starts – 9 am. But 9 am is also the time that things such as tots, some assemblies, and the Easter Experience start and therefore not all those who would like to be at Morning Prayer can be present. All are welcome at Morning Prayer – details are always in the Newsletter – but for clergy it is an expectation, and good for us to be together, praying, at the start of the day. The thought was to move the start time earlier.

The Rev’d Paula has let us know that from Monday 2^nd March Morning Prayer will be starting at 8.15 am in St Lawrence’s. It will still be possible to join by Zoom.  8.15 am will also be the start time of the first Tuesday of the month Holy Communion service.  However! Saturday Morning Prayer will remain at 9 am.

With every Blessing
Greg

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