PARISH NOTICES
‘What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God' |
| For details about the Occasional Offices of the Church please contact the vicar, Rev Canon David Pain, The Vicarage, Cot Lane , Chidham. Tel. 573147 or one of the Churchwardens: Cdr Harry Bates. Crondall Lodge, Scant Road, Hambrook. Tel 576331 Roy Kennedy. 8, Cheshire Way , Emsworth, Hants , Tel 375680 |
| SERVICES | |
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8.00 am, The Eucharist St Mary's |
We welcome all visitors joining us to worship God today and remind all communicant members of Christ’s divided church that they are warmly invited to receive the Sacraments. All services are at St Mary’s unless indicated. |
| Compline (Evening Service or Night Prayer) is at St Wilfrids on 6.30pm. (Except on Oct 10th - 6pm) The Service will last not more than 30 minutes. There will be services on October 10th , 24th, 31st , November 7th , 28th , December 5th , 12th . Bible study in November will start on 12th November and continue through, for four weeks to the last evening of 3 December. Venue Vicarage and start at 8pm. This Study will be about the Apostles Creed and will last for an hour only. each week. |
| 5th Oct 2008 | Harvest Festival |
| The Collect | |
Grant, we beseech you, merciful Lord, to your faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins and serve you with a quiet mind; 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 |
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| The Gospel | Matthew 22.1 - 14 |
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.' But they paid no attention and went off— one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, ill-treated them and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless. Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are invited, but few are chosen |
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