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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: churchwarden@paghamchurch.org
Churchwarden: Mr Mike Wake
Tel: 07899 705632; Email: churchwarden@paghamchurch.org
Safeguarding Officer: Mrs Jan Brockhurst
Email: safeguarding@paghamchurch.org
Find us online: www.paghamchurch.org // @StThomasPagham
Registered charity number 1134842
SUNDAY 9th april 2023
easter day
Sunday 9th 05:30 Dawn Service on the Beach (Details below)
EASTER DAY 08:00 Holy Communion (St Richard’s)
09:30 Parish Family Eucharist for Easter Day
18:00 Maria Consolata (St Richard’s)
Monday 10th No public worship today
Tuesday 11th No public worship today
Wednesday 12th 14:30- 16:00 Tea & Chat
(Pagham Church Centre, Nyetimber Lane)
Thursday 13th 09:00 Morning Prayer
10:00 Holy Communion
10:45 Burial of Ashes
Friday 14th No public worship today
Saturday 15th 14:00 Marriage of Patrick and Jade
Sunday 16th 08:00 Holy Communion (Pagham church)
EASTER 2 09:30 Parish Eucharist
He is risen!
Hymns
Introit: 348 Jesus Christ is Risen today
Gradual: 637 The day of Resurrection
Offertory: 754 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Final: 672 Thine be the glory
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 Easter Day:
Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son
overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him:
grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and in all eternity. Amen.
New Testament reading: Acts 10: 34- 43
Peter began to speak to them: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’
Gospel Reading: John 20: 1- 18
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” ’ Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
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, Margaret Easton, Beatrice Tucker, Julie Green.
Recently departed: Geoff Ide.
Anniversary of death: Derek Bech (9th); Maurice Plumb (10th); Norman Fagg, Sarah Sheppard (11th)
Frederick Hughes, Frederick Kitchen, Doris Moore, Beryl Maynard (12th); Gladys Humphrey (13th); Walter Groves (14th); Frank Weston (15th).
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.
For urgent prayer, contact Gillian Purvis (267597) or Pat Rush (262561) to start the Prayer Chain.
Post Communion Prayer God of Life, who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection have delivered us from the power of our enemy: grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his risen life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Next week’s readings: Second Sunday of Easter
Acts 2: 14a, 22- 32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1: 3- 9; John 20: 19- end
With prayers and every blessing for a holy Eastertide!
Thank you to all those who have helped and contributed to our celebrations and feasting. To those who have cleaned and dressed the church; those who have prepared refreshments and welcomed visitors and friends; those who have read, sung, and prayed. Those who have journeyed faithfully: processed with palms; built gardens of witness; shared stories with our young people and those young in faith; those who have watched faithfully; those who have stood at the foot of the cross.
Our Lenten Pilgrimage for 2023 has come to an end. And now is the time to Feast. Alleluia! Christ is risen. He is risen indeed, Alleluia!
Easter Day Dawn Service
We meet at 05:30am at the carpark by the Beach Café in Pagham, and will make our way on to the beach by the Yacht Club. Here we will celebrate the first Eucharist of Easter. Do wrap up warm, bring seats or blankets if you would like to sit down, and maybe a flask of something hot to keep you warm during the service. We will follow this with breakfast at the church- bacon/ egg rolls, tea and coffee. Either walking down together or moving cars down to the church. All are very, very welcome- and if we have moved on from the carpark by the time you arrive, do come and find us on the beach- we won’t have gone far.
Being With- Course Exploring Christian Faith and Life
We will be running a course for those exploring the Christian faith after Easter, starting on Monday 15th May and running for the next 11 weeks (10 sessions in total 19:30- 21:00, no session on Monday 29th May). Devised and created by Samuel Wells and Sally Hitchiner of St Martin-in-the-Fields. 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.
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.