Bowland Benefice
Pews News 3 March 2024
Third Sunday of Lent Collect
Eternal God, give us insight
to discern your will for us,
to give up what harms us,
and to seek the perfection we are promised
in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
This Week in the Benefice
Saturday
2 March

10.30am Coffee
Morning at
Pump Cottage,
Cowsden

Sunday
3 March

10.30am Family Service
in Upton
Snodsbury
11.00am Communion in
Peopleton
6.00pm Evensong in
White Ladies
Aston

Tuesday
5 March

7.00pm Lent Course at
The Rectory,
Peopleton

Saturday
9 March

10.30am Coffee
Morning in The
Parish Room,
White Ladies
Aston

Sunday
10 March
Mothering
Sunday

10.30am Mothering
Sunday Service
in Upton
Snodsbury
10.30am Mothering
Sunday Family
Service in
White Ladies
Aston
11.00am Holy
Communion in
Peopleton
4.00pm Mothering
Sunday Family
Service in
Broughton
Hackett
Everyone is very welcome to the coffee morning at
Betty and Helen’s home on Saturday morning. Come
along, meet up with friends and neighbours and raise
some money towards the floor in St Kenelms Church.
Tombola, Raffle and Bring and Buy stall.
Every one is very welcome to The Rectory on Tuesday
evening for the Lent Group discussing
The joy of the gospel.

A short meditation and prayer for the
third Sunday in Lent
Forty days alone,
a wilderness of thoughts,
tempting and inviting thoughts,
which could so easily have distracted you
from your task, your mission,
your vision.

Yet you emerged, stronger and more attuned
to all that had to be done,
despite a time constraint
that to our eyes would have seemed hopeless.
We too live in stressful times.
Demands are made of our time,
that leave so little
for the important things of life.
We are easily distracted
in the wilderness of our lives,
by every call to go this way or that,
to turn stone to bread
leap from mountains,

and do all that would keep us from the truth.
We listen to the voices of this world,
and ignore the one who endured all this
and so much more,
and emerged triumphant,
that we might not have to suffer so.
Forgive us, Father,
when we get distracted from our task.
Forgive us those times when we try
to be all things to all men,
and fail to be anything to anyone.
A prayer for the week ahead
Heavenly Father,

as I enter another week of my Lenten journey,
guide me to the path that leads to you.
Fill my heart with gratitude, patience,
strength and peace
as I strive to become
the-best-version-of-myself,
honestly admitting
my shortcomings and sins. Amen.
Church Services Diary dates

As we enter the month or March with Palm Sunday
and Easter Day now within sight, there will be special
services in our churches during Holy Week:
Tuesday 26 March at 6.00pm.
Evening Prayer in Peopleton
Wednesday 27 March at 9.30am.
Morning Prayer in Upton Snodsbury
Maundy Thursday 28 March at 7.30pm.
Holy Communion in White Ladies Aston
Good Friday 29 March at 9.30am.
Stations of the Cross in Peopleton
Good Friday 29 March at 7.00pm.
A Quiet Service for Good Friday in Upton Snodsbury