Bowland Benefice
Pews News
21 May 2023
7 th Sunday of Easter
Collect
O God the King of glory,
you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ
with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven:
we beseech you, leave us not comfortless,
but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us
and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ

is gone before,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
This week in the Benefice
Sunday
21 May

10.30am Benefice Holy
Communion in
White Ladies Aston

Monday
22 May

12 noon Lunch in The Parish
Room, White Ladies
Aston

Saturday
27 May

12 noon Wedding of Susan
Bate and Wayne
Wing in Broughton
Hackett
7.00pm Live Jazz in
Cowsden

Sunday
28 May
Day of
Pentecost

9.00am Holy Communion in
White Ladies Aston
10.30am Hymns and a Prayer
in Upton Snodsbury
11.00am Holy Communion in
Peopleton
Enjoy lunch for £4 with friends and neighbours in The
Parish Room on Monday 22 nd . Please book by
contacting [email protected]
Congratulations and all best wishes to Sue and
Wayne, getting married in St Leonard’s on Saturday
27 th . May they have a wonderful day and married life

together.

Martin Veasey and Friends will play jazz in the
Conservatory of Cowsden Hall on Saturday 27 th from
7.00pm. Tickets and further information from Helen
01905 381490 or Janet 01905 381379.
This Sunday is the Benefice Service of Holy
Communion in St John the Baptist, White Ladies

Aston.

Please do support services held beyond your own
Parish when there isn’t one in your own church. It is a
good way to make new friends, meet up with old ones
and experience perhaps a different form of worship

available in our Benefice.

There is still time to support
Christian Aid Week 2023 (14 to 20 May)
It is a week where Christians all over the UK work as
one to support people in all parts of our troubled
planet without reference to nationality, gender or

creed.

The theme this year is: No mother should have to
choose which child to send to school
There is a red Christian Aid bucket in The Pantry shop
and another at The Crown pub in Peopleton for your

Christian Aid envelopes.

Donations can also be made directly through the

Christian Aid website.
Food Banks

We must not forget too, that even though the
weather is improving there are many people in this
country and in our locality struggling with their
household bills and feeding their families – there are
collection boxes around the Benefice and in

supermarkets too.
Every little really does help!
A poem for these beautiful May days –
Part of a Meditation by Joy Cowley
You big, bright beautiful God,
This is my day for flying!
I reach out to the bigness of you.
I touch the brightness of you
and I feel the beauty of you
in the centre of my living.
And if tomorrow I am grounded
by a weight of anxieties,

if my feet are heavy and there are clouds between

me and the sun,

then let me keep hold of the warm place

in my heart
reminding me that today I flew
and was kissed by God.
Prayers for when things get difficult
Lord, increase my faith that I may embrace everything

that is your will.

Lord, increase my faith that the mountain of difficulty

may be removed.

Lord, increase my faith that I may never be impatient

or frustrated.

Lord, increase my faith that I may run to you in every

situation.

Lord, increase my faith that I may trust you in seeming

failure or defeat.

Lord, fill me with faith, hope and love, this day and

always. Amen.

Heavenly Father, surround us with your love,
protect us from evil and fill us with your Holy Spirit
that we may walk in the way of Christ and grow in the

knowledge of your love.
(taken from St Ann’s Church Manchester)