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The Parish Church of All Saints St Ives

31 March 2019 The Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday)

SERVICES TODAY 10.15 Sung Parish Eucharist 12.30 Baptism Samuel and Oliver Boswell 17.00 Lent group meets in Church

Services and events for this Week

Monday to Friday: Morning Prayer will be said at 09.00

01 Mon 09.30 Holy Communion 20:00 Lent Course at 4 Adams Drive 02 Tues 09.30 Healing Eucharist 10.00 Lent Course at The Vicarage 14.00 Lent Course at The Vicarage 19:30 PCC meeting in Church 03 Wed 10.00 Requiem Mass 04 Thurs 09.30 Eucharist for Christian Unity 05 Fri 09.30 Reconciliation Eucharist 12.00 Rosary Hour 19.30 Stations of the Cross at Sacred Heart

NEXT SUNDAY 7 April is the Fifth Sunday in Lent, the start of PASSIONTIDE

10.15 Parish Eucharist 17.00 Lent group meets in Church

Please take this booklet with you when you leave

Welcome to All Saints today

iI you are new or just visiting, please do stay in Church after the service

for coffee and fellowship. Throughout this booklet where indications for posture are given please treat these as being for guidance only and should it suit you better to

adopt an alternative posture please feel free to do so.

Large print copies and gluten-free wafers are available.

Please speak to a steward if you need either of these.

Please use the time BEFORE the SERVICE

to TALK TO GOD and

AFTER the SERVICE to TALK TO EACH OTHER

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS

THE SICK: Mick Bacon, Cheryl Cook, Chris Stephens, Ethel Cooper, Gary James, Cyril Whitfield, Peter Dillon, Jo Rogers, Rita Fearing, Phil Spaven, Bea Maggott, Audrey, Philip, Carol, David, Christopher, Phillip. Sophie, Daniel, Robin, Charlotte and Fr Jeff Vaughan

YEAR’S MIND: Grace Cornthwaite (5th)

¶ Please stand when the bell is rung for the Processional Hymn

Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising, Give me joy in my heart, I pray; Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising, Keep me praising till the break of day.

EASTER SERVICE DETAILS TO GO HERE

CONTACT DETAILS If you would like to know more of what is happening in your parish,

please visit the calendar on the parish website www.stivesparishchurch.org.uk or contact one of the following:

Vicar (Revd Fr Mark Amey) vicar@stivesparishchurch.org.uk telephone 01480 384334 or 07905 122090

Assistant Curate (Revd Fr Alex Shannon) please telephone 01480 464667 or curate@stivesparishchurch.org.uk

Churchwarden Martin Collier: churchwardens@stivesparishchurch.org.uk

Treasurer (Mrs Elaine Midgley) c/o Parish Office 01480 716828

treasurer@stivesparishchurch.org.uk For Online donations please use the following: St Ives PCC, Sort Code: 20-43-63 Account:

60775193

Parish Safeguarding Officer:

eligible for inclusion. This year, no names can be carried forward to the new roll: EVERYONE NEEDS TO FILL OUT A NEW FORM! If you are unsure about this, please speak to Gary Evans (our Electoral Roll Officer), The Vicar or either of the churchwardens.

Lent Courses These continue this evening at 17.00 in Church. We are using the Pilgrim Lent Course.

Confession Lent is the traditional time for Christians to make confession and receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation. If you would like to make your confession please speak to Fr Mark and if you would like to know more about what this is you can speak to either Fr Mark or Fr Alex.

Stations of the Cross Again we are holding Stations of the Cross on Fridays at 19.30 throughout Lent with our brothers and sisters at the Church of the Sacred Heart. The dates and venues for the remaining Fridays of Lent are as follows:

29 March at All Saints; 5 April at Sacred Heart; 12 April at All Saints.

Easter Lilies As is our custom at All Saints we will decorate the church with lilies at Easter. Donations towards their cost are invited, especially from those who may wish to remember a departed loved one in this way. There is a yellow collecting tub by the door for the money and a list for the names of those to be remembered, which will be printed up and left on display throughout the season. If you wish to pay by card then please use the terminal by the refreshments where you will find an Easter Lilies Donation Button.

Sing hosanna, sing hosanna, Sing hosanna to the King of kings! Sing hosanna, sing hosanna, Sing hosanna to the King!

Give me love in my heart, keep me serving, Give me love in my heart, I pray; Give me love in my heart, keep me serving, Keep me serving till the break of day:

Give me peace in my heart, keep me loving, Give me peace in my heart, I pray; Give me peace in my heart, keep me loving, Keep me loving till the break of day:

Words and tune: Anon.

¶ Remain standing for the Invocation and Greeting

† In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you and also with you.

¶ Remain standing for the Gathering Prayer

Heavenly Father, we rejoice with thanks for all those who have parented us in our lives. In a world that is broken and in need of your fatherly love, please use us to aid others

as you do us in providing comfort, nurture, protection and support. We ask that you grow us as carers to those who need us, so that we might celebrate your goodness together even through our own brokenness. Amen.

¶ Please sit or kneel for the Introit (the Lent Prose) Repeat the Response after the Cantor:

Cantor: Sins oft committed now we lay before you, with true contrition, now no more we veil them: Grant us, Redeemer, loving absolution. All: Hear us, O Lord (as above, once only)

¶ Remain standing for the Penitential Rite

Your love gives us life from the moment of conception. We fail to live as your children.

You call us to do good. We seek our own good.

You hear us when we cry for help. We ignore the cries of others.

All power is given in Jesus' name, In earth and heaven in Jesus' name, And in Jesus' name I come to you To share his power as he told me to.

He said: 'Freely, freely you have received; Freely, freely give. Go in my name and because you believe, Others will know that I live.'

Words and Tune: Carol Owens (b.1931)

Organ Voluntary

Française (from Suite Française)

Jean Langlais (1907—1991)

NOTICES

The Angelus By tradition this is recited at 09.00, 12.00 and 18.00. Consequently we will ring the bell and recite this at 12.00, so please pause in your conversations when the bell is rung. A card with the words is included in this booklet, for your convenience. Please take the card with you if wish to use it at home, or if not please leave it by the door.

Electoral Roll Renewal The Electoral Roll is now being renewed preceding our Annual Parochial Church Meeting. Please fill out an application from if you are

For she alone, of all on earth, Received the privilege to bear

And bring God's Son, our Lord, to birth.

We pray that God's own mother-love

Will always hold in gentleness

All children who have never known

A mother's love or tenderness.

For mothers, who with broken hearts

Are daily faced with grief and loss, We pray the Son of God will give

His deepest comfort from the cross.

We trust the mother-love of God, Who bears for us in Mary's boy, Our pain and sorrow, to secure

Our everlasting praise and joy.

Words: adapted from a text by Alan Gaunt (b.1935) Tune Fulda: from William Gardiner’s Sacred Melodies (1815)

¶ Remain standing for the Dismissal

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Thanks be to God.

¶ Remain standing for the Final Hymn

God forgave my sin in Jesus' name, I've been born again in Jesus' name, And in Jesus' name I come to you To share his love as he told me to.

He said: 'Freely, freely you have received; Freely, freely give. Go in my name and because you believe, Others will know that I live.'

May the Father of all mercies cleanse us from our sins, and restore us in his image to the praise and glory of his name, through Jesus Christ our Lord . Amen.

¶ Remain standing for the Collect

The Priest introduces a period of silent prayer with the words Let us pray.

Merciful Lord, absolve your people from their offences, that through your bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our frailty we have committed; grant this, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

¶ The Word of God

¶ Please sit for the Old Testament Reading (Joshua 5: 9–32)

At the end the reader says: This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

¶ Remain seated for the Responsorial Psalm (Ps. 32)

and join in singing the Response

Response and Chant: MHE

Happy the man whose offence is forgiven, whose sin is remitted. O happy the man to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no guile. (Response)

But now I have acknowledged my sins, my guilt I did not hide. I said: 'I will confess my offence to the Lord.' And you, Lord, have forgiven the guilt of my sin. (Response)

So let every good man pray to you in the time of need. The floods of water may reach high but him they shall not reach. You are my hiding place, O Lord, you save me from distress. You surround me with cries of deliverance. (Response)

¶ Please sit for the New Testament Reading (2 Corinthians 5: 16–21)

At the end the reader says: This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

¶ Please stand for the Gospel Acclamation and turn towards the Gospel reader

Please repeat the Response after the Cantor:

¶ Please stand for the Prayer after Communion

The Priest introduces a period of silence with the words Let us pray.

Lord God, you have renewed us with the living bread from heaven; by it you nourish our faith, increase our hope and strengthen our love: teach us always to hunger for him who is the true and living bread, and enable us to live by every word that proceeds from out of your mouth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

¶ The Dismissal

¶ Remain standing for the Blessing

The Lord be with you and also with you.

God, who from the death of sin raised you to new life in Christ, keep you from falling and set you in the presence of his glory; and the blessingAnd the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.

¶ Please sit for the Notices

Distribution of Flowers

¶ Please join in singing the following hymn:

We gladly celebrate and praise

The gift of God so great and good, Through which his kindness is made known: The greatest gift of motherhood.

We sing of Mary's mother-love,

John Redford (c.1500—1547).

Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say, rejoice. Let your softness be known unto all men: the Lord is e’en at hand. Be careful for nothing, but in all prayer and supplication let youjr petitions be manifest unto God with giving of thanks. And the peace of God (which passeth all understanding) keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesu. Amen.

¶ Please join in singing the Communion Hymn

I come with joy, a child of God, Forgiven, loved, and free,

The life of Jesus to recall, In love laid down for me.

I come with Christians far and near To find, as all are fed,

The new community of love In Christ's communion bread.

As Christ breaks bread and bids us share, Each proud division ends.

The love that made us makes us one, And strangers now are friends.

The spirit of the risen Christ, Unseen, but ever near,

Is in such friendship better known: Alive among us here.

Together met, together bound, By all that God has done,

We'll go with joy, to give the world, The love that makes us one.

Words: Brian Arthur Wren (b.1936) Tune St Botolph: Gordon Slater (1896—1979)

Cantor: I will leave this place and go to my father and say: ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.’ All: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.

¶ Remain standing for the Gospel Reading (Luke 15: 1–3,11b–32)

The Lord be with you and also with you.

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. Glory to you, O Lord.

At the end of the Gospel the reader says: This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.

¶ Please sit for the Sermon

The Revd Fr Alex Shannon (Assistant Curate)

¶ Please stand for the Affirmation of Faith

Let us declare our faith in God.

We believe in God the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.

We believe in God the Son, who lives in our hearts through faith, and fills us with his love.

We believe in God the Holy Spirit, who strengthens us with power from on high.

We believe in one God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

¶ Please sit or kneel for the Prayers of Intercession

The Priest introduces the prayers.

To the bidding God of Love please respond by saying hear our prayer.

At the end of the prayers the priest introduces a period for silent reflection and says a concluding prayer, to which the people respond: Amen.

¶ The Liturgy of the Sacrament

¶ Please stand for the Peace

Through the prophet Isaiah, God says, 'As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you.' The peace of the Lord be always with you and also with you.

Let us offer one another a sign of peace.

¶ Remain standing for the Offertory Hymn

During the following hymn, a collection is taken for the Church.

Praise to you, O Christ our Saviour, Word of the Father, calling us to life; Son of God who leads us to freedom: Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

You are the word who calls us out of darkness, You are the word who leads us into life, You are the word who brings us through the desert: Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

` You are the one whom prophets hoped and longed for, You are the one who speaks to us today, You are the one who leads us to our future: Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Distribution of the Sacrament

Anyone who has been baptised in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and wishes to receive the love of the Lord Jesus in their life,

is welcome to receive communion at this service. Alternatively you may wish to come for a blessing: please keep your hands down and

your head bowed to indicate that this is your preference.

Communion Motet

The choir sings the motet Rejoice in the Lord alway. The text, Philippians 4: 4–7, is from the Great Bible of 1539.

The anonymous music was formerly attributed to

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

¶ Remain standing for the Breaking of the Bread

We break this bread to share in the body of Christ. Though we are many, we are one body, because we all share in one bread.

¶ Remain standing for the Invitation to Communion

Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sin of the world. Blessed are those who are called to his supper. Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word, and I shall be healed.

¶ Please sit or kneel for the Lamb of God

While the Altar Party receives the Sacrament, the choir leads the singing of the ‘Agnus Dei’ (Lamb of God). Please join in singing:

You are the Word who calls us to be servants; You are the Word whose only law is love; You are the Word made flesh, who lives among us: Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

You are the word who binds us and unites us, You are the word who calls us to be one, You are the word who teaches us forgiveness: Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Words and Music: Bernadette Farrell (b.1957)

¶ Remain standing for the Prayer Over the Gifts

We place before you with joy these offerings, which bring eternal remedy, O Lord, praying that we may both faithfully revere them and present them to you, as is fitting, for the salvation of all the world. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

¶ Remain standing throughout the Eucharistic Prayer (G)

The Lord is here. His spirit is with us.

Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give thanks and praise.

It is indeed right, it is our duty and our joy, at all times and in all places to give you hanks and praise, holy Father, heavenly King, almighty and eternal God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And now we give you thanks because you give us the spirit of discipline, that we may triumph over evil and grow in grace, as we prepare to celebrate the paschal mystery with mind and heart renewed.

Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we proclaim your great and glorious name, for ever praising you and singing:

All glory be to you, our heavenly Father who, in your tender mercy, gave your only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption; who made there by his one oblation of himself once offered a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world; he instituted, and in his holy gospel commanded us to continue, a perpetual memory of his precious death until he comes again. Hear us, merciful Father, we humbly pray, and grant that, by the power of your Holy Spirit, we receiving these gifts of your creation, this bread and this wine, according to your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood;

who, in the same night that he was betrayed, took bread and gave you thanks; he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me. In the same way, after supper he took the cup and gave you thanks; he gave it to them, saying: Drink this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

Great is the mystery of faith

Therefore, Lord and heavenly Father, in remembrance of the precious death and passion, the mighty resurrection and glorious ascension of your dear Son Jesus Christ, we offer you through him this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving.

Grant that by his merits and death, and through faith in his blood, we and all your Church may receive forgiveness of our sins and all other benefits of his passion.

Although we are unworthy, through our manifold sins, to offer you any sacrifice, yet we pray that you will accept this the duty and service that we owe. Do not weigh our merits, but pardon our offences, and fill us all who share in this holy communion with your grace and heavenly blessing; through Jesus Christ our Lord,

by whom, and with whom, and in whom, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honour and glory be yours, almighty Father, for ever and ever.

Amen.

¶ Remain standing for the Lord’s Prayer

Believing the promises of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.