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From the Vicar
Hello All, This website has the Cross and Crown for the coming week, hoping that everyone has survived this week's cold and wet. We are supposed to be celebrating Rogationtide this weekend. The services at St Mary's this morning, and the Evensong at St Mary's at 4:30 pm on Sunday, will definitely go ahead. But the churchyard maintenance, and the walk up to St Mary's on Sunday afternoon, are much more weather-dependent. If it rains, they will be cancelled! Look outside your window and decide! At our 10 am this Sunday I am hoping that Mike Finney will preach, and the service will be celebrated by Fr Paul Nicholson. This week is a busy one. There will be said Eucharists at 9:30 am on Wednesday, 10 am on Thursday, and 8:30 pm on Friday. On Thursday, we are celebrating Ascension Day, so there will also be a sung Eucharist at 7:30 pm. Next Sunday, the 12th, there will be services at 8 and 10 am and 6 pm as usual: it will also be the 16th anniversary of my licensing as Vicar of Linslade! Who would've thought you would have to put up with me for so long! On the subject of appointments, I forgot to announce last week that a new Vicar has been appointed to All Saints: Prebendary David MacGeoch. He is currently the Vicar of Glastonbury in Somerset, and is married with three adult children. His licensing will be on Saturday the 7th of September. This is excellent news, and we welcome him to the Team. We pray for him and his family, and also for those to be confirmed on the 19th of May in St Barnabas by Bishop Alan: Alena, Steven, William, Rosie, William and Olivia. The Cross and Crown has a bit more detail about David, as well as information about Emma Morris's sponsored hikes, the 'Thy Kingdom Come' week of prayer, and a whole load of events and concerts around the Team on the 18th of May. That is also the end of Christian Aid week: please take a donation envelope or two from the back of church and give them out to friends or neighbours. Coming up soon are our Summer Fair and Patronal Festival on the 8th and 9th of June. Please in particular note the date of the Fair on the 8th: as usual, we will need lots of help on the day, and on the afternoon beforehand. This week, on Friday, the Bible Book Club meets at 7 pm to discuss the Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes. The period of Easter is slowly beginning to draw to a close. As it does so, we reflect more closely on God's Spirit, active in the world, and in each of us. We ask for the Spirit's blessing and guidance on our homes and families, and on those to be confirmed, and on ourselves. May God guide us all in His love, and confirm each one of us in trusting faith in Him. God bless Fr Bernard The Rev'd Dr B Minton Team Vicar of Linslade Ouzel Valley Team |