St Thomas à Becket
Pews News
Priest-in-Charge: The Reverend Lucy Sullivan
Tel: 01243 941 551 Email: mthrlucy.pagham@gmail.com (Rest day: Friday)
Churchwarden: Mr Alex Brockhurst
Tel: 07792 544259; Email: alex.brockhurst@hotmail.co.uk
Churchwarden: Mrs Sue O’Neill
Tel: 07867 904780; Email: suesdesignservices@gmail.com
Safeguarding Officer: Mrs Jan Brockhurst
Email: safeguarding@paghamchurch.org
Find us online: www.paghamchurch.org // StThomasPagham@gmail.com// @StThomasPagham
Registered charity number 1134842
SUNDAY 4th June 2023
Trinity Sunday
Sunday 4th 08:00 Holy Communion
TRINITY SUNDAY (St Richard’s & Pagham Church)
09:30 Parish Family Eucharist followed by coffee.
14:30 Friends ‘Cream Tea’ St Andrew’s Chapel
Monday 5th 09:00 Morning Prayer
Boniface
Tuesday 6th 18:00 Evening Prayer (Pagham church)
19:00 Tuesday@7
Wednesday 7th 09:30 Breakfast Club (Pagham Beach café)
12:30 Thanksgiving Service- Stanley Stephens
18:00 Evening Prayer (Pagham church)
Thursday 8th 09:00 Morning Prayer
CORPUS CHRISTI 10:00 Eucharist for Corpus Christi
Friday 9th No public services today
Columba
Saturday 10th Methodist Quiet Day (See below for details)
Sunday 11th 08:00 Holy Communion (St Richard’s Church only)
ST BARNABAS 09:30 Parish Eucharist followed by coffee.
14:00 Holy Baptism- Oliver Barton
Hymns
Introit: 286 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty
Gradual: 165 Father of heaven, whose love profound
Offertory: 684 Thou, whose almighty word
Final: 296 How shall I sing that majesty
The Collection plate– If you would like to make an offering, please use the contactless Payaz machine or the collection plate, both can be found by the door. Thank you for your generosity.
The Collect (Opening Prayer) for Trinity Sunday:
Holy God, faithful and unchanging: enlarge our minds with the knowledge of your truth, and draw us more deeply into the mystery of your love, that we may truly worship you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
New Testament reading: Isaiah 40: 12- 17, 27-end
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Who has directed the spirit of the Lord, or as his counsellor has instructed him?
Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice?
Who taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
Lebanon would not provide fuel enough, nor are its animals enough for a burnt-offering.
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God’?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Psalm 8 The response to the psalm is “How exalted is your name in all the earth.”
New Testament Reading: 2 Corinthians 13: 11- end
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 28: 16- end
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
Prayers of Intercession
The sick and those who care for them: Rosie Sims, Barbara Crew, Karen Cox, Jim Fowler, Sheila King, Dawn Spurway Pearson, Nicola Simpson, Betty Smith, Mike Hatzfeld, Andrew Naylor, Colin May, Tyler Rankin, Max Davey, Leslie Francis, Dickie Roots, Elizabeth, Pam Browning, Beatrice Tucker.
Anniversary of death Neil Dalton (5th); Lawrence Cozens (6th); Merle Holdsworth, Edna Dalrymple (7th); Susan Downey (8th).
Recently departed Daphne Sharrad, Simon Grout, Stanley Stephens, Carole Turner
We pray for peace and especially for and with the people of Ukraine. We pray for all those caught up in conflict, and for those seeking safety and refuge on these shores.
We pray for Nyewood Junior School as they seek to appoint a new Head Teacher.
We pray for those sitting exams and submitting final assessments at this time.
We pray for those preparing for ordination to the diaconate and priesthood at this time.
For urgent prayer, contact Gillian Purvis (267597) or Pat Rush (262561) to start the Prayer Chain.
Post Communion Prayer: Almighty and eternal God, you have revealed yourself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and live and reign in the perfect unity of love:
hold us firm in this faith, that we may know you in all your ways and evermore rejoice in your eternal glory, who are three Persons yet one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Next week’s readings: St Barnabas- First Sunday after Trinity
Job 29: 11- 16; Psalm 112; Acts 11: 19- end; John 15: 12- 17
Churchwardens email address
Please note that the churchwarden@paghamchurch.org email address is no longer being used. To contact the churchwardens please use those addresses on the front of the pew sheet. Thank you.
Church email address
A new church email address is now in use to send emails to our mailing list stthomaspagham@gmail.com Do keep an eye on your in-box emails from the new address, which will primarily be used for sending out Pews News. Please note this is only for receiving general enquiries from the public, if you are trying to contact Mthr Lucy, Churchwardens, Safeguarding or so on please use the details on the front of the pew sheet. Details of how to make contact with office holders in the church will be included on an auto-responder if emails come in.
Being With- Course Exploring Christian Faith and Life
Our new course for those exploring the Christian faith has now begun, but it’s not too late to join us if you are interested. We meet on Monday evenings at 19:30- 21:00 at the Pagham Church Centre on Nyetimber Lane (10 sessions in total 19:30- 21:00, no session on Monday 29th May). The course is an introduction to Christianity with a difference. At its heart is the idea that God’s greatest desire is to be with us in Jesus. If you would like to know more about this course please speak to Mthr Lucy.
Friends of Pagham Church- Cream Tea
Sunday 4th June in church. Everyone welcome. £5.00. For further details please contact Carole Druce 07732768890.
Quiet Day at St Thomas à Becket- Living in God’s Jigsaw
Saturday 10th June 10:00- 15:30 led by The Rev’d Dan Balsdon.
Refreshments provided throughout the day, please bring your own packed lunch, donations gratefully received. To book please contact Anita 01243 826 425 // anita.c.hayward@btinternet.com
Combined Parishes Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Mthr Lucy will be leading a pilgrimage to the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham for the parishes of Pagham and Aldwick on Friday 24th November – Sunday 26th November. More details of Pilgrimage to Walsingham can be found at www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk
The cost of accommodation which is full-board is £162 per adult/ £97.20 for 5-16yr olds. Travel arrangements to be made privately/ via car shares with sharing the cost of fuel evenly between passengers. To reserve a space on this pilgrimage please sign-up in church by Wednesday 7th June, a £30 deposit is required at this stage and can be given to Trudi in a named envelope.
SUPPORT FOR THE FOODBANK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.
Urgently needed this week: Durable plastics bags, 1ltr UHT Fruit Juice, 1ltr UHT Milk, Tinned Fruit, Pasta Sauce, Tinned Fish, Tinned Custard, Tinned Rice Pudding, Pasta, Tinned Meat, Cereal, Shampoo/ Conditioner, Nappies- size 4/5.