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Astbury & Smallwood

Parish News

September 2020

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From the Rector, Rev Anne-Marie Naylor

The Rectory, 23 Dalebrook Road, Somerford, Congleton, CW12 4YD.

Telephone 01260 228294

My dear friends,

I wonder if any of you keep a diary? I wish that I had been doing! 2020 is certain to go down as a memorable year in history, and I am already finding that I have forgotten much of what happened before – even some startling and unusual events. It was only when doing a crossword, in which one of the answers was ‘prorogation, that I remembered 2019’s controversial suspension of parliament. In truth, I confess that I wouldn’t even have known the word without the events which unfolded last year.

I suppose that suspension of parliament must happen from time to time, or there wouldn’t be a word for it in the dictionary. We don’t have an equivalent word for the suspension of worship in church, which suggests that it doesn’t happen! In each of our churches we have a service register in which we record all the acts of worship which take place, and it felt very significant to write ‘Services suspended due to Covid-19 pandemic’ across the pages. Those words will be an interesting find for future historians.

I don’t know whether public worship has ever had to pause at Astbury or Smallwood before. There have been some who said that the continuity of worship, and even worshipping in buildings, didn’t matter – but the decision that not even clergy could enter the buildings to pray on behalf of all was one I was uncomfortable with. I think that our connection through history to special places is important to us. It seems that you agree, because our survey last month showed that the majority of us are ready to return to church if it is safe to do so. You’ll find some analysis of the 51 replies in this issue.

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But it is not just returning to a special place which we want. The survey showed that we miss the community we share, as these comments show:

‘Although livestream is better than no service, there is no substitute to being together in church.’

‘Loneliness can only be slightly removed via a video link. There is definitely a need for a physical service.’

‘In my opinion life has to go on, aslong as we stay as safe as we possibly can be.’

I have decided that we will resume our morning services pattern, from the beginning of September.

But for some people, the videos we have made have been a lifeline, and we must try to maintain them. So, at Astbury we are investigating having an internet connection into church so that we can broadcast live, as well as showing weddings and funerals.

Our schools tell us that because of their own constraints they will find it helpful to use our church buildings more, and so we are very glad to be able to accommodate some of their collective worship and special events. St Mary’s is a big space which is hard to clean by hand; and so (with the help of historic buildings advisors) we have decided to invest in a misting machine to keep it clean between uses. We have also bought a contactless giving plate so that we can resume a collection. The details of all the safety provisions we have made for both Astbury and Smallwood can be found further later in this issue.

I do hope that our worship will not be prorogued again! With every blessing,

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Editor – Mr W. Ball

The Old Vicarage, Reades Lane, Congleton, CW12 3LL

Telephone 01260 279276 Mobile 07710 234943

Survey results: Over 50 responses were received, split evenly across all our congregations.

A majority are ready to return to church, provided that appropriate safety measures are in place. Live-streaming or recording is helpful to just over half those who replied.

There is a willingness to be flexible about what we do, and a lot of understanding that future services are hard to plan. We do need to plan something for families. There were a great number of positive comments (thank you!)

Whilst the survey results are not fully representative of our age profile, we need to be vigilant about our safety precautions because of the ages and particular vulnerabilities of many of our congregation who are ready to come back.

Whilst there is a clear wish to restart all of the services at Astbury, most people would be served by restarting the 8am and 11am services, with livestreaming of the 11am. If we were to restart the evening service this would need to be reimagined without singing, Since some people appear to be willing to attend a different service perhaps we would be wise to defer restarting evening services until we can sing.

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Giving: You won’t be surprised that regular and plate giving is somewhat reduced from last year, and that we have lost much of the giving we rely on from weddings and baptisms. At the same time, our expenditure has increased, especially with buying our new misting machine and contactless giving plate.

I know that many people’s income has been hit, and I don’t want to ask you to increase your giving if you cannot afford to do so. We will survive this. But if there is any possibility that you could switch your regular giving to standing order, this will make it easier to know what we have, as well as reducing trips to the bank.

You will soon see the ‘Goodbox’ contactless donation plate in St Mary’s, as we find a way to bring the offertory back into worship. Rather than passing the plate around, it will be available in a central location at the start of worship. Donations can be made by card as well as cash. The ‘Goodbox’ will be set to a standard amount, but you can change the amount you want to give up and down – as long as you use the hand sanitiser first!

With my deep and sincere thanks for your many acts of generosity. Anne-Marie

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Protocols in brief, as they stand: Both Astbury and Smallwood standing committees have carried out risk assessments for the resumption of public worship, in accordance with Church of England and government guidance. These run to several pages! Summary points are:

• Masks are to be worn by all apart from those leading worship. Celebrant to wear a mask for the distribution of communion. • Communion bread to be kept in a covered vessel (ciborium)

until the distribution. The distribution will be made using clean silver tongs which will not touch the hands of any communicant.

• Communicants can remove masks at the distribution, and are advised to sanitise their hands prior to receiving the bread. • Hand sanitisation points at entry, and at the altar.

• Churches to provide visors for the additional safety of sidespeople.

• Individual worship booklets to be provided – no paper to be shared.

• Wardens on duty to note attendees for later contact tracing. Records to be destroyed after 21 days.

• Funerals and weddings to be limited to 30 attendees.

• Social distancing to be adopted through use of alternate pews or pew spacing: services to be held in the chancel at St Mary’s. • Touch points (eg pew ends) and handles to be wiped down

appropriately between services.

• Clergy vestments to be isolated or laundered between services. • Where churches cannot be left for a full 72 hours between uses,

cleaning to be undertaken.

If you have any questions, please ask the wardens.

Situations vacant: Our August position for a volunteer wedding administrator has been filled, with many thanks to Jean Nadin!

Both our churches need people willing to help with occasional cleaning after services – at Astbury that involves our wonderful new misting

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machine! If you could see yourself helping with that please speak to John Hulse.

We also need someone good with social media (Instagram and Facebook), as well as people who like to take photographs. It would be great to populate the internet with more of your wonderful photos of daily life around the parishes.

We thank Mr Robert Bibbey and Mr David Porter for their continuing work in the old churchyard strimming and tidying, and Mr Simon Hopkin for his continuing care for the A34 churchyard.

Church finances: Thank you to all those who have changed their giving to be by Direct Debit or Standing Order from the freewill offerings envelopes. Others have transferred to online contributions, others making their FWO offerings in advance up to the end of the month, and several of one-off donations.

We remind readers who are shopping via the internet that their spending benefits the church if they first visit the church website and use the link to Amazon (on the right-hand side of our home page, under ‘Support us’).We thank you all.

Annual Parochial Church Meeting: We hope that this will take place in Church on Monday 5th October immediately following the parish Easter Vestry at 7.30 pm. Those persons entitled to attend and vote at the meeting are those whose names are on the church electoral roll of the parish and also those resident in the ecclesiastical parish and on the register of local government electors.

The Electoral Roll is being revised this year. You need to fill in a form ONLY if your details have changed OR if you are not currently on the Roll. Forms are available from the Wardens; completed forms should be left in the envelope under the current Roll no later than Sunday 20th September.

In order to join the Roll, you must be a baptized member of the Church of England or of a Church in communion with it; 16 years of age or over; and either resident in the ecclesiastical parish of St Mary, Astbury

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or have habitually attended public worship here for at least the past six months.

Nomination Forms for the posts of Churchwarden are available from the Rector and should be returned to her prior to the meeting. If you are thinking of standing for election as Churchwarden, please have a word with the Rector beforehand. The Wardens become ex officio members of the PCC, as will the three people to be elected to Deanery Synod. At least five members of the Parochial Church Council will also be elected to serve for the coming twelve months. The Parish Treasurer will also give the customary report.

All parishioners are welcome at this meeting. Do try to come: ask your questions, air your views. And if you would like to join the PCC, nomination forms are available from the Wardens. Candidates for election to the PCC must have had their names entered on the current Electoral Roll.

Astbury and Smallwood Parish News: Thank you to all those who have now paid their subscriptions for 2020, and especially to those who are now having the magazine posted and have sent some extra to cover the extra postage costs (65p per copy!)

I shall continue (up to and including December) to post or email copies to those who have requested this, as I have since April. Now that the church is open for both private prayer and public worship, there will also be copies for sale in the usual place, at the back of church. Please put the money in one of the collection boxes.

Publication will continue to be on the last Sunday of the preceding month, or maybe a day or two before. The actual dates for 2020/21 are shown on page 15.To guarantee inclusion of your article, please ensure that it reaches Bill no later than the copy date (also shown on the same page). Contributions may be handwritten or typed, posted to the address above, faxed to 298649 or emailed to wbbtov@gmail.com

Ladies’ Fellowship Summer Report – August 2020: Summer moves on, and we have the first sight of blackberries. We are no longer in compulsory lockdown, although some people continue to observe it. Others have enjoyed shopping and eating out, but wearing masks

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where appropriate and still distancing. The numbers attending Astbury church services continue to grow. We put on our masks, use the hand sanitiser on the way in and find plenty of room to be well spaced-out. Latterly Anne-Marie has been celebrating Holy Communion on Sundays and Wednesdays, but on Sunday 30th August we shall have a service of Holy Communion (BCP) at 8.00 am, then, because it is the fifth Sunday, there will be a joint family service with picnic (and pets very welcome if wished) at Somerford. If it is wet we shall be in Astbury Church, still with pets but without picnic. Evening services are on hold for the moment, because to avoid spreading the virus we are not allowed to sing. On Sunday 6th September there will be a service of Morning Prayer (BCP) at Astbury at 8.00 am, and Holy Communion (CW) at 11.00, with private prayer thereafter until 4.00 pm.

The Ladies’ Fellowship meeting for Wednesday 16th September has been postponed. In trying to arrange a meeting in the Village Hall at the moment, there are difficulties due to virus obligations. Rev Anne-Marie has suggested we meet in church, which is large and airy, and where all the obligations have been met. She is looking forward to meeting us and will give us a talk on beautiful embroidery she has been given. It would be good to meet up again after nearly six months, so we do hope you are able to come to the Fellowship Meeting in Astbury Church at 2.00 pm on Tuesday, 29th September, and we look forward to seeing you then. (We shall need to wear masks.) Stay safe and well.

With best wishes, Carole. Astbury WI Update: Hello, to all our members and friends. It seems such a long time since we have met, although we were one of the very lucky WIs who managed to hold their March Meeting before the lockdown.

We would like to update all our members on the current situation as we see it. We have received lots of information from The National Federation suggesting that we may consider resuming our monthly meetings. To this end our Officers have met and discussed the situation, taking into account that Astbury Village Hall is now open with strict safety procedures and a detailed risk assessment in place.

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The Village Hall requires all groups to produce their own Risk Assessment taking their procedures into account and stating the additional precautions we would take to make our Meetings as safe as possible. We have now completed our Risk Assessment, also taking into account WI guidelines.

We have no Meeting booked in August. In normal circumstances we would have enjoyed a trip to Llanfair PG where the organisation in these islands began. Sadly this has not been possible after all Yvonne’s hard work.

Sadly also our planned Coffee Morning in Congleton Library has had to be cancelled this year, another casualty of the COVID restrictions. We have also cancelled the planned Meeting on Wednesday 2nd September.

Instead of holding a full WI Meeting in September we propose using our Village Hall booking for a socially distanced Committee Meeting, where we discuss all the current trends and implications. We shall make a decision as a Committee about the best and safest way forward for our members. We hope you will all bear with us and although we are anxious to see all our friends again, we can only do that if we are absolutely confident that we are making our particular meetings as safe for our members and friends as we possibly can.

We will let you all know as soon as we possibly can what we see as the best way forward for our members at Astbury.

Keep well and stay safe everyone until we can meet up again.

If you have any thoughts or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact Margaret or Liz - our contact details are on your Programme Card. We shall be happy to hear from you.

-Sartor’s Quiz (Answers on page 20)

1. For which wedding anniversary is Ruby the traditional

gift? a. 20th; b. 30th; c. 40th; d. 50th.

2. Who wrote Confessions? a. Augustine of Hippo; b. C. S. Lewis; c. John Milton; d. Thomas Aquinas.

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3. In English and Scots ecclesiastical law, what was the

name given to the land devoted to the maintenance of the incumbent of the parish? a. Advowson; b. Benefice; c. Glebe; d. Smallholding.

4. What was the name of the father-in-law of Moses? a.

Jacob; b. Jesse; c. Jethro; d. Judah.

5. Which king of Israel was noted for his furious

chariot-driving? a. Ahab; b. Jehu; c. Jehoram; d. Joash.

6. In Palestine which was the principal crop and staple diet? a. Wheat; b. Barley; c. Olives; d. Grapes.

7. After the destruction of the Temple in AD 70 the

activities of which group laid the foundations for the survival and development of Judaism in the early centuries AD? a. Scribes; b. Pharisees; c. Sadducees; d. Samaritans.

8. What is the meaning of the expression ‘At the Greek

Calends’? a. Always; b. Often; c. Sometime; d. Never.

9. The oldest pub in Congleton, the King’s Head, dates

back to which century? a. 15th; b. 16th; c. 17th; d. 18th.

10. Who was the engineer responsible for the Menai Suspension Bridge? a. Isambard Kingdon Brunel; b. John Loudon McAdam; c. Thomas Telford; d. George Stephenson.

-WORDS OF WIT & WISDOM

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Abigail van Buren There’s no such thing as strangers, only friends we haven’t yet met.

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To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Farmers’ Almanac for 1978: ‘Capsules of Wisdom’ Wild horses couldn’t drag a secret out of most women. Unfortunately, they seldom have lunch with wild horses. Ivern Boyet A woman asked for a drinking bowl for her dog. The assistant asked if she wanted it with the inscription ‘FOR THE DOG’. ‘It doesn’t really matter,’ she replied. ‘My husband never drinks water and the dog can’t

read.’ Bryan Palmer

There is really only one thing wrong with the younger generation – a lot of us don’t belong to it any more. S. Miller Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions*; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also. John 14, 1 – 3 * Places to remain, stay, abide. Latin manere = to remain.

FASCINATING FACTS

Since John the Baptist’s father, Zechariah, was a priest, John must have abandoned the priestly order and taken up an ascetic life in the Judean wilderness, where he lived on locusts and wild honey. He was dressed in camel-hair homespun with a leather belt around his waist, the authentic dress of a prophet. He zealously preached a new message and introduced a new rite. He announced that descent from Abraham would not guarantee salvation, but only an act of repentance and the

renunciation of previous presumptions. God, who had brought Israel out of Egypt, and led it across River Jordan, was now creating a new people by passing them in baptism through the waters of the same

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river. The twelve stones that had been set up to mark Israel’s crossing of the parted Jordan would themselves be raised up into twelve new tribes if the people of Israel would not repent. In the act of immersion the sin of presumptions and one’s old life were washed away, and those who rose out of the waters were as newborn infants.

Reinhold Messner is recognised as the world’s greatest mountaineer, having undertaken more than a hundred expeditions to the world’s greatest mountains and deserts. His achievements include many first ascents, being the first to climb all fourteen of the world’s 8,000 metre peaks, including Nanga Parbat, K2 and Everest in 1978 without the aid of oxygen, and crossing Greenland and Antarctica on foot.

At 4,500 metres, the southern Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat is the highest mountain face in the world. By comparison, the ten tallest buildings in the world – all taller than the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower – are tiny. The tallest of these, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is only 828 metres high.

A story of Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport’s period of service at the Whips’ Office in the House of Commons has passed into legend. Sir Walter, a former amateur heavyweight boxer, spotted the retreating figure of a colleague whom he had admonished. His victim took no notice and continued to make his escape. Sir Walter, enraged, gave pursuit, and kicked him up the backside which, as it happened, belonged to the Belgian ambassador. The sequel was not without consequence: the battling colonel was retired and replaced by the young Edward Heath, who in the fullness of political time took his country into Europe.

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Astbury & Smallwood Parish News

Publication & Copy Dates 2020 – 2021

Publication is on the last Sunday of the preceding month –

The October issue will be published on 27th September Last Date for material 18th September

The November issue will be published on 25th October Last Date for material 16th October

The December issue will be published on 29th November Last Date for material 20th November

The January 2021 issue will be published on 27th December

Last Date for material 18th December

The February issue will be published on 31st January Last Date for material 22nd January

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Last Date for material 21st May The July issue will be published on 27th June

Last Date for material 18th June

The August issue will be published on 25th July Last Date for material 16th July

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St JOHN’S CHURCH, SMALLWOOD PATRON – Sir Richard Baker Wilbraham Bt, DL, Rode Home Farmhouse VICAR Rev Anne-Marie Naylor

The Rectory, 23 Dalebrook Road, Somerford,

Congleton, CW12 4YD. Telephone 01260 228294 CHURCHWARDENS Mr M. Bracegirdle 07771 802121 01477 500364 Mr R. Stockell 07876 463963 01477 500596 TREASURER Mrs T. Allcock, Sycamore House, 23a The Mount 01260 277665 SECRETARY Mrs H. Salter, Jesmarie, Spen Green

SERVICES 9.30 am 1st & 3rd Sundays Holy Communion CW 9.30 am 2nd & 4th Sundays Family Service CW 5th Sunday Joint Service with Astbury VILLAGE HALL Mrs A. Bracegirdle. 01477 500342

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St MARY’S CHURCH, ASTBURY

Registered Charity No. 1178664

PATRON – Sir Richard Baker Wilbraham, Bt, DL, Rode Home Farmhouse RECTOR Rev Anne-Marie Naylor

The Rectory, 23 Dalebrook Road, Somerford,

Congleton, CW12 4YD. Telephone 01260 228294 CHURCHWARDENS Mrs B. Cook, St Mary’s Cottage, School Lane 01260 290194

Mr J. Hulse, 2 Chaffinch Close 01260 289084 SERVICES 8.00 am 1st & 3rd Sundays Morning Prayer BCP

8.00 am 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays Holy Communion BCP 11.00 am 1st & 3rd Sundays Holy Communion CW 11.00 am 2nd & 4th Sundays Family Service CW

5th Sunday Joint Service with Smallwood Funerals and Services of Holy Baptism & Holy Matrimony by arrangement with the Wardens PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

Hon. Vice Chairman Dr S. Drage 01260 270217 Hon. Secretary Mr A. Bailey 01260 640616 Hon. Asst Secretary Mr W. Ball 01260 279276 Hon. Treasurer Mrs D. Barnett . 01260 274089 DEANERY SYNOD Mr W. Ball, Mrs C. Goodwin, Mr A. Bailey

ELECTED PCC MEMBERS Mrs D. Barnett, Dr S. Drage, Mrs D. Graham, Mrs C. Holford, Dr J. Moore, Mrs J. Nadin, Mrs M. Pennington, Mr P. Powell, Mrs P. Price, Mr P. Stanway, Mrs J. Taylor.

CO-OPTED PCC MEMBER Miss P. Blythe.

SIDESEMEN see ASTBURY ROTAS, next page BELL RINGERS TOWER CAPTAIN Mr P. Stanway

CHILDREN’S SOCIETY Mrs B. Cook CHURCH RECORDS Mr W. Ball

ELECTORAL ROLL OFFICER Mr P. Powell, 15 Belgrave Road, Crewe 01270 560919 FLOWERS Mrs B. Cook.

JUNIOR CHURCH Mrs C. Holford, Mrs L. Shipton, Dr J. Moore PARISH NEWS EDITOR Mr W. Ball

ORGANIST Dr S. Drage SAFEGUARDING CO-ORDINATOR Mrs B. Cook

VILLAGE HALL BOOKING Mrs S. Brightwell 07857 234686 ASTBURY ST MARY’S CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, School Lane, CW12 4RG. Head Teacher Miss P. Blythe 01260 272528 Chairman of Governors Mrs K. Moore 01260 290135 WEBSITES www.astburychurch.org.uk

www.achurchnearyou.com/astbury-st-mary

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Astbury Church choir meets to practise every Friday evening between 7.30 and 8.30 pm.

Astbury Church bellringers meet to practise on the last Wednesday of each month between 8.00 and 9.30 pm.

ASTBURY ROTAS for SIDESPEOPLE, CLEANING & BRASS –

All currently suspended

-Answers to Sartor’s Quiz this month (page 10)

1 – c; 2 – a; 3 – c; 4 – c; 5 – b; 6 – a; 7 – b; 8 – d; 9 – a; 10 – c. - - -

FROM THE REGISTERS

Holy Matrimony

August 14th Shaun Carl Wedge & Toni Jayne Holland

Burial of the Dead

August 8th Norah Farrington 88 ashes August 11th Darcy Collins-Beech 12 days

-JOINT PARISHES CALENDAR FOR THE COMING WEEKS

AUGUST

Sun 30th TRINITY XII

September Parish News published 8.00 am Astbury Holy Communion – BCP

11.00 am Somerford if dry Family Service & Picnic Astbury if wet Family Service, no Picnic 12.00 noon Astbury Church open for private prayer

The Collect

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to

pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire, or deserve; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.

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Joint Parishes Calendar, continued

SEPTEMBER

Wed 2nd 12.15 pm Astbury Holy Communion (CW) Thu 3rd 12.00 noon Astbury Church open for private prayer Fri 4th 2.30 pm Astbury School Starters’ Service

Sun 6th TRINITY XIII

8.00 am Astbury Morning Prayer (BCP) 9.30 am Smallwood Holy Communion (CW) 11.00 am Astbury Holy Communion (CW)

The Collect

ALMIGHTY and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh that thy faithful people

do unto thee true and laudable service; Grant, we beseech thee. that we may so faithfully serve thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy heavenly promises; through the merits of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

BCP Morning Prayer – Psalm 119, 17 – 32; 2 Kings 22; Luke, 4, 31 – 5, 11 CW Principal Service – Romans 13, 8 – end; Matthew 18, 15 – 20

Wed 9th 12.15 pm Astbury Holy Communion (CW) 2.30 pm Astbury School Collective Worship

Sun 13th TRINITY XIV

8.00 am Astbury Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 am Smallwood Family Service (CW) 11.00 am Astbury Family Service (CW)

The Collect

GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as

be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BCP Holy Communion – Galatians 5, 16 – 24; Luke 17, 11 – 19 CW Principal Service – Romans 10, 5 – 15 or Matthew 14, 22 – 33

Wed 16th 12.15 pm Astbury Holy Communion (CW) 2.30 pm Astbury School Collective Worship Fri 18th October Parish News deadline

Sun 20th TRINITY XV

8.00 am Astbury Morning Prayer (BCP) 9.30 am Smallwood Holy Communion (CW) 11.00 am Astbury Holy Communion (CW)

The Collect

LET thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants; and

that they may obtain their petitions make them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BCP Morning Prayer – Psalm 52; 1 Kings 21; Luke 1, 29 – 56 or Philippians 4 CW Principal Service – Philippians 1, 21 – end; Matthew 20, 1 – 16

Wed 23rd 12.15 pm Astbury Holy Communion (CW) 2.30 pm Astbury School Collective Worship

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Joint Parishes Calendar, continued

SEPTEMBER

Sun 27th TRINITY XVI

October Parish News published 8.00 am Astbury Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30 am Smallwood Morning Prayer (CW) 11.00 am Astbury Morning Prayer (CW)

The Collect

O GOD who declarest thy almighty power most chiefly in shewing mercy and pity;

Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promises, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BCP Holy Communion – Ephesians 3, 13 – end; Luke 7, 11 – 17 CW Principal Service – Philippians 2, 1 – 13 or Matthew 21, 23 – 32

Tue 29th 2.30 pm Astbury Ladies’ Fellowship Wed 30th 12.15 pm Astbury Holy Communion (CW)

2.30 pm Astbury School Collective Worship

OCTOBER

Sun 4th TRINITY XVII

8.00 am Astbury Morning Prayer (BCP) 9.30 am Smallwood Holy Communion (CW) 11.00 am Astbury Holy Communion (CW)

The Collect

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to

pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire, or deserve; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.

BCP Morning Prayer – Psalm 107, 1 – 32; 2 Kings 18, 13 – end; Luke 4, 1 – 15 CW Principal Service – Romans, 12, 9 – end or Matthew 16, 21 – end

Mon 5th 7.30 pm Astbury Annual Parochial Church Meeting Wed 7th 12.15 pm Astbury Holy Communion (CW)

2.30 pm Astbury School Collective Worship

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-ASTBURY & SMALLWOOD PARISH NEWS

is also available in large-print format. Please let Mr Ball know if you require such a copy.

Editor – Mr W. Ball

Telephone 01260 279276 Fax 01260 298649 email wbbtov@gmail.com

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