St Thomas à Becket
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Priest-in-Charge: The Reverend Lucy Sullivan
Tel: 01243 941 551 Email: mthrlucy.pagham@gmail.com (Rest day: Friday)
Licensed Lay Minister: Mrs Rosemary Towse
Email: rosemarytowse@talktalk.net
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
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SUNDAY 25th june 2023
thirD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Sunday 25th 08:00 Holy Communion
TRINITY 3 (St Richard’s Church only)
09:30 Parish Eucharist followed by coffee.
14:00 Holy Baptism: Scarlett Owen
Monday 26th 09:00 Morning Prayer
19:30 Being With
(Pagham Church Centre, Nyetimber Lane)
Tuesday 27th 18:00 Evening Prayer (Pagham church)
19:00 Tuesday@7
Wednesday 28th 18:00 Evening Prayer (Pagham Church)
St Irenaeus
Thursday 29th 09:00 Morning Prayer
STs PETER & PAUL 10:00 Holy Communion
11:00 Burial of Ashes: Andrew Dove
Friday 30th No public services today
Saturday 1st July 11:00 Burial of Ashes: May Steenerson
Sunday 2nd 08:00 Holy Communion
PATRONAL FESTIVAL (St Richard’s & Pagham church)
09:30 Parish Family Eucharist followed by coffee.
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.
Hymns
Introit: 394 Lift High the Cross (Vs 1,2,3,4,5,11)
Gradual: 222 God moves in a mysterious way
Offertory: 305 Lord of the dance (Omit v 4)
Final: 32 And can it be (Omit v 2)
The Collect (Opening Prayer) for the Third Sunday after Trinity:
Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts whereby we call you Father: give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that we and all creation may be brought to the glorious liberty of the children of God; 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.
Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 20: 7- 13
O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughing-stock all day long; everyone mocks me.
For whenever I speak, I must cry out, I must shout, ‘Violence and destruction!’
For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.
If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name’, then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
For I hear many whispering: ‘Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’
All my close friends are watching for me to stumble.
‘Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.’ But the Lord is with me like a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not prevail.
They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed.
Their eternal dishonour will never be forgotten. O Lord of hosts, you test the righteous, you see the heart and the mind; let me see your retribution upon them,
for to you I have committed my cause.
Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.
Psalm 69: 14- 20 The response to the psalm is as announced.
New Testament Reading: Romans 6: 1b- 11
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 10: 24- 39
‘A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!
‘So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground unperceived by your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all counted. So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
‘Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
‘Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
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, Leslie Francis, Dickie Roots, Elizabeth, Pam Browning, Beatrice Tucker.
Anniversary of death Lilian Goring, June Clement (26th); Joyce Eddy, Archer Hart, Phyllis Smith (27th); Dorothy Randall (28th); James Jones, John Plummer (30th); Coralie Watson (1st July).
Recently departed
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.
For urgent prayer, contact Gillian Purvis (267597) or Pat Rush (262561) to start the Prayer Chain.
Post Communion Prayer: O God, whose beauty is beyond our imagining and whose power we cannot comprehend: show us your glory as far as we can grasp it, and shield us from knowing more than we can bear until we may look upon you without fear; through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
Next week’s readings: Patronal Festival
Ephesians 2: 19- end; John 20: 24- 29
Being With- Course Exploring Christian Faith and Life
Being With continues to 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).
Lay Ministers of Communion
Following the introductory session for Lay Ministers of Communion (those able to give the chalice and take communion to those at home) during Lent. There will be a complete training course on the following dates: Saturdays 15th and 22nd July 10- 11:30am, in the Committee Room of the Mosse Hall (on offer to those from the Deanery)
Please speak to Mthr Lucy if you would like to be involved with this ministry, it would be wonderful to increase this pool of ministers. It is essential to attend both sessions before you can be nominated to the PCC/ Bishop for this ministry, if these dates don’t work for you but you are still interested, then please speak to Mthr Lucy.
Christian Meditation
Following the introductory course on Christian meditation last summer we are to introduce a regular course of meditation for the community. The sessions will run: First Monday of the month at 11am, the Third Wednesday of the month at 19:30. All sessions in St Andrew’s Chapel, Pagham Church. We will begin in July (3rd and 19th). The first six sessions (of both time slots) will repeat the introductory course shared last year, and then we will continue with regular practice of meditation. You can find out more about Christian meditation and the World Community for Christian Meditation here https://wccm.org/ For more information please speak to Mthr Lucy.
Admission to Holy Communion Course 2023
In September Mthr Lucy will be running a course for children in yr6 and above who wish to be admitted to Holy Communion. Sessions will run on Saturday mornings 10:00- 11:00 at Pagham church, on the 23rd & 30 th September, 7th, 14th, 15th and 21st October. The children will be admitted to Holy Communion in a special at 16:30 on All Saints’ Sunday – 5th November. Please have a chat with Mthr Lucy if you think this is something that your child is ready for, and do get the dates in your diary before the summer holidays! Sign-up sheets will be available next month.
Confirmation Courses
There will be teen and adult confirmation courses on offer in the autumn, preparing candidates for Confirmation with the Bishop before Christmas (we hope- details to be confirmed!). Teens from year 9 upwards can be prepared for Confirmation. If you are interested in exploring this, please contact Mthr Lucy, so plans can be made for the course to accommodate as many diaries as possible!