St Nicholas Parish Church, Fleetwood. Week beginning 6th March 2022
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 6th March – 1st of Lent
8.30 am Holy Communion in Church
9.30 am Worship via Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sides persons – Elizabeth & Margaret: Reader – Joy
12.30 pm Baptism of Freddie Adamson Set up and Welcome – Susan Burrell
Tuesday 8th March
2.00 pm Holy Communion in Church
3.30 pm Hymn Practise in the Jubilee Room – all are welcome
Thursday 10th March
10.00 am Community Coffee Morning in the Jubilee Room
Friday 11th March
9.00 am St Nic’s Little Gang in the Broadway Rooms
11.45 am 2nd Lent Lunch at Fleetwood URC
Saturday 12th March
10.00 am Alpha Session 9 in the Broadway Rooms
Sunday 13th March – 2nd of Lent
8.30 am No Service
9.30 am No Zoom
10.45 am Holy Communion in Church Sides persons –: Susan & Christine: Reader – Sandra
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. PHILIPPIANS 4:6
On Tuesday last week, a dozen or so of us gathered in church to join with the world-wide Anglican Communion praying for peace in Ukraine. At times like this, when the unimaginable is happening in our world, when the ground seems to be shifting beneath us, we all want something solid to hold on to. A ‘rule of life’ can be viewed as a supportive scaffolding. In the next few weeks, the Diocese will introduce us to The Vine Community, which is a simple and flexible framework for living out a Christian life. Watch this space!
In the meantime, we can follow St Paul’s advice to the Church in Thessalonia, “to pray continually” and even in the darkest times to “give thanks in all circumstances.” Many of us struggle with prayer. It requires an act of faith. Faith is trusting that God is who he says he is: good, loving, wise, powerful, faithful, consistent, and totally for us. When Paul writes ‘pray continually’, he is not viewing prayer as just something we ‘do’, but as a way of living our lives in communion with God. Continuous prayer may seem impossible. It will certainly not happen overnight, or without practice. As writer Richard Foster writes in Prayer: ‘The question is not whether we fail again and again – this is a given; the question is whether, over a period of time, we are developing a practised habit of divine fellowship.’ If ever we needed to pray continually, it is surely now!
May the grace of God be sufficient. May you find a deep breath when the air around you is thin. May you grow in compassion in these days. May you love well, not in spite of these anxious times but because of them.
100+ Club - Winners last week were Christopher Jones, Sue Dell and Barbara Quirk
Please remember in your prayers – Fr Ron, Rev Jane Everitt, Heather, Jillian Muir, Eddie Gillon, Bishop Julian, Rev Martin Keighley, & Gillian King. And also, the families of, Madeline Hobson and Irene Hutson whose funerals are due to take place.