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Rita Butler has taken over the collection of Children's Society boxes.
This society helps make lives better for thousands of children who are
neglected, living in poverty or in fear of violence. If anyone would like
a box in which to put their small change please speak to Rita after the
service or phone her on 01572 720631. Thank you.
March 9th
, 16th
, 23rd
, and 30th
, Lent Lunches 12 noon – 1.15pm:
The lunches will be held in the Church Hall, all the proceeds will go to
Christian Aid.
Easter Lilies: If you would like to make a donation towards the cost of
an Easter lily in memory of a loved one (approx £2.00 per lily). Please
place your money in the boxes in Church during Sunday Services.
March 15th
and 29th
: Market Overton Lent Lunches
Come along and experience the ever popular Market Overton Lent
Lunches. This includes soup, bread, cheese and fruit. These will be
held at Market Overton Bowls Club from 12.30 – 2pm. Advanced
booking preferred to Lin Rider or just turn up on the day.
Market Overton Easter Lilies:
Remember your loved ones though a lily in the Easter alters flower
display. £2.50 per lily, names to The Market Store by the end of March
Whissendine Easter Lilies:
If you would like to make a donation for Easter lilies in memory of
loved ones, this can be given to either Alec Peel or Kate Franklin
Reverend Sarah Walsh: has just started work as a Sessional Chaplain
at Stocken Prison. She lives in Sheffield Diocese and needs a base to
stay each week. If you have a spare room that you can rent out for one
or two nights a week then please can you contact her on
Tel: 0114 268 2824 / 07809 430 967 or
Email [email protected]
Tuesday 20th
March, 7.30pm: Good News Van, this will be located at
St John’s and St Anne, South Street. New members always welcome.
MU Choc Chicks: These are available this Sunday the 11th
March.
Thank you for your support for MU fund raising.
Thursday 22nd
March, 10.30am: Oakham Church walks group.
The walk will be approx 5.5 miles starting from the Lodge Trust,
Market Overton. Parking available around the Lodge, followed by
lunch there afterwards. New walkers always welcome. Group contact
Dennis Corton 722272
Saturday 24
th March, 7.30pm: Rutland Choral Society, present
“A Welcome to Spring” a selection of music including Mozart, Bach
and Faure. This will be held at the Methodist Church Oakham. Tickets
£7.50 from Society Members or available on the door.
Phone 01664 474611
Saturday 31
st March, 7.15pm: Handel’s Messiah, The Cantus Choir
and Orchestra. This event will be held at All Saints Church Oakham.
Tickets are £9 each which can be purchased on line at
www.oakhamconcerts.info/messiah from Kevin or on the door.
Saturday 14th
April, 7.30pm: Classic Concert by Melton Classic
Orchestra at St Andrews Church Whissendine. Tickets £6.50 which
includes a glass of wine can be purchased from Hilda on 01664 474392
or email [email protected]. Please come and support us.
Lent/U.S.P.G
As usual I have Lent offerings boxes available for the use during this
season. Please return them to me after Easter. All money received will
be sent to support the hospital of St James Lesotho. Boxes can be found
on the table by the south door.
Alf Harding
Fairtrade Easter Eggs: I am now taking orders for The Real Easter Egg - made by the same
company that supplied the meaningful chocolates at Christmas. If you
would like to order one please speak to me in church on a Sunday or
ring me on 722729. Thank you for your continuing support of
Fairtrade. Denise
Sunday, 11
th March
3rd
Sunday of Lent
W E L C O M E
If you are new to this church or
visiting, please make yourself known to the
clergy or churchwardens.
If you wish to receive Holy Communion in the pew where
you are sitting, please inform a sidesperson before the start
of the service.
At All Saints’ Church, Oakham, large print versions of the
hymns and service booklet are available. Please ask one of
the sidespersons.
Oakham Team Clergy
Rev Canon Lee Francis-Dehqani (Team Rector, Oakham)
01572 722108 [email protected]
Rev Audrey Atkinson (Team Vicar)
01572 723154 [email protected]
Rev Hildred Crowther (Assistant Priest)
01572 767779 [email protected]
Oakham Team Office
The Team Office is staffed each weekday morning from
9.15am. Notices for inclusion in the pew sheet should
arrive by Wednesday at 11am.
01572 724007 [email protected]
www.oakhamteam.org.uk
Services for Sunday, 18th
March, Mothering Sunday
(4th Sunday of Lent)
Ashwell 09.00 Holy Communion
Brooke 18:00 Evensong
Braunston 10:30 Family Service
Egleton 09:00 Holy Communion
Langham 10.30 Family Service
Market Overton 10:30 Morning Service
Oakham 08:00 Holy Communion
10:30 Family Communion
18:00 Choral Evensong
Teigh 18:00 Evensong
Whissendine 11:00 Holy Communion
Midweek Communion Services
Tuesday All Saints’ Oakham 10.00 a.m.
Wednesday St. J. and A. Chapel 9.30 a.m.
Thursday All Saints’ Oakham 8.30 a.m.
Friday (BCP) All Saints’ Oakham 10.00 a.m. Every Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. Christian Meditation Group at
St. John and St. Anne.
11 March 2012, The Third Sunday of Lent
The Collect
Almighty God,
whose most dear Son went not up to joy
but first suffered pain,
and entered not into glory before he was crucifief:
mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the
cross,
may find it none other than the way of life and
peace;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen
Exodus 20.1-17
Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord
your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have
no other gods before me. You shall not make for
yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You
shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I
the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing
children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and
the fourth generation of those who reject me, but
showing steadfast love to the thousandth
generation of those who love me and keep my
commandments. You shall not make wrongful use
of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord
will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For
six days you shall labour and do all your work. But
the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God;
you shall not do any work—you, your son or your
daughter, your male or female slave, your
livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the
sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh
day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day
and consecrated it. Honour your father and your
mother, so that your days may be long in the land
that the Lord your God is giving you. You shall
not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You
shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbour. You shall not covet your
neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your
neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox,
or donkey, or anything that belongs to your
neighbour.
1 Corinthians 1.18-25
For the message about the cross is foolishness to
those who are perishing, but to us who are being
saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will
thwart.’
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe?
Where is the debater of this age? Has not God
made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since,
in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God
through wisdom, God decided, through the
foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who
believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire
wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a
stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to
Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews
and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the
wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser
than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is
stronger than human strength.
John 2.13-22
The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went
up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people
selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-
changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of
cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both
the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the
coins of the money-changers and overturned their
tables. He told those who were selling the doves,
‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my
Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples
remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your
house will consume me.’ The Jews then said to
him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’
Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said,
‘This temple has been under construction for forty-
six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’
But he was speaking of the temple of his body.
After he was raised from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said this; and they
believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had
spoken.
Post Communion
Merciful Lord,
grant your people grace to withstand the
temptations
of the world, the flesh and the devil,
and with pure hearts and mind to follow you,
the only God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
© The Archbishops’ Council 2000
