St Nicholas Parish Church Fleetwood. Week beginning 2nd July 2023
We seek to be a church that lives by faith, is known by love and
is a voice of hope to the community we serve.
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Sunday 2nd July Sea Sunday
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Sea Sunday Service with invited dignitaries (no Holy Communion) Sidespersons Judith & Dorothy W
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
Monday 3rd July
2.45 pm Funeral of Valerie Kettle at Lytham
Tuesday 4th July2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
Thursday 6th July
10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room
Friday 7th July
9.00 am St Nic’s Little Gang in Broadway Rooms
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship on Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sidespersons: Susan & Christine Reader: Sandra
12.30 pm Baptisms of Albie Peake & Joshua Harrison Welcome and set up Judith
4.00 pm Family & Co in the Broadway Rooms
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Summer Afternoon Tea – This promises to be a lovely afternoon and an opportunity to spend some quality time together. Saturday 22nd July at 2 pm in the Church Hall. Tickets are available from Joanne or Claire and cost £5.
Petertide Ordinations – On the 29th of June, (Thursday just gone), we marked the feast day of St Peter and St Paul. Peter has often been called the 'Prince of the Apostles' because of the words of Jesus re-naming him from Simon to Cephas. This was the Aramaic form of the Greek word Peter, which means 'rock'. Jesus said that on this rock he would build his Church. But both Peter and Paul came to be seen as having different roles to play within the leadership of the Church: Peter in witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and Paul in developing an understanding of its meaning for Christ's followers. Peter and Paul have been remembered jointly on this day since the very early days of the Church, it being regarded as the anniversary of their martyrdom in Rome in about the year 64.
It is fitting, therefore, that it is traditionally at Petertide new priests and deacons are ordained in the Church of England. Yesterday (Saturday 1/7) at the Cathedral and on Sunday and Monday at different locations, a cohort of 24 deacons and priests will be ordained and released into service in the Diocese of Blackburn. Please pray for them, as they begin this new chapter and pray too for their families and for the parishes in which they will serve.
God our Father, Lord of all the world, through your Son you have called us into the
fellowship of your universal Church: hear our prayer for your faithful people
that in their vocation and ministry each may be an instrument of your love, and give to
your servants ordained at this time the needful gifts of grace;
through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Please also remember in your prayers: Peter Dell, Rev Jane Everitt, Rev Martin Keighley, Elizabeth King, Chris Kelsall, Michaela Jones, Mark Price, Callum Boyle, Tony Hardman and John Hawley. And the families of Valerie Kettle, Baby Maeva, Barry Kenyon and Norman Pendlebury whose funerals are due to take place.
June 100 Club Winners: Congratulations to Gillian King, John Richardson, Bernie McCarthy, Cath Chambers, Paula Meekins, Carol Newton, Alison Horabin, Muriel Freestone, Ruth Aspinall, Alma Wright, Tracey Meekins, Robert Meekins, Laura Martin and Suzanne King.