Newsletter - Palm Sunday
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- Apr 1, 2023
- 5 min read
2/4/23
Your weekly update from the Benwell & Scotswood Team
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Dates for your diary
Mon 10 Apr
9.30am - 3.30pm - jumble sale at St James.
Sat 6 May
Coronation celebration afternoon tea.
Sun 28 May
Pentecost Team service followed by the Annual Meeting (APCM).
Services this week
Sun 2 April
Palm Sunday Team service, 11am at Ven Bede.
Mon 3 - Wed 5
Compline, 9pm at Ven Bede.
Thurs 6 April
Maundy Thursday service, 7.30pm at St James.
Fri 7 April
Good Friday, 1pm at St John's.
Sat 8 April
Easter vigil, 8pm at St Margaret's.
Sun 9 April
Easter morning Holy Communion:
9.30am at St John's.
9.45 at St Margaret's.
11am at Ven Bede.
News
Holy Week 2023
2nd - 9th April
More details here >
As we journey through Holy Week we recall the story of Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection. You are invited to participate in the most special time of the church's year. Details of the main services are below. We will also have the joy of celebrating baptisms of several members at the Easter Vigil on Saturday.
Mon-Wed we will also have a service of Compline at 9pm at Ven Bede. This is a beautiful contemplative service at the end of the day.
Main Holy Week services:
Palm Sunday 2nd April, 11am at Ven bede
Maundy Thursday, 6th April, 7.30pm at St James (watch continues to midnight).
Good Friday, 7th April, 1pm at St John's.
Easter vigil, Saturday evening, 8th April, 8pm at St Margaret's.
Easter egg tombola - next Sunday
After the service at Venerable Bede on Easter morning there will be a chocolate Easter egg tombola!
We will also have a special visit from Chester the rabbit!
Holy Week flowers
Donations towards flowers for Holy Week and Easter would be gratefully received!
Help us make our church look beautiful for the big day.
Please give donations to Elspeth, Liz or Olwyn.
Jumble sale - Easter Monday at St James
10 Apr, 9.30am - 3.30pm
There will be a jumble sale happening at St James on Easter Monday while the cafe is open. Come grab yourself a bargain!
Speak to Chris Foskett for details.
(Please note that any items left over will be recycled or donated to another charity)
Items for the notices
If you would like to announce something in the newsletter or the church service, please send the item in advance to Kath McIntyre at the church email address church@benwellscotswood.com
Please include details and no more than 2-3 short sentences about the item. If you have a preferred image please also include it in the email.
Please note, we don't want notices to become overly long and repetitive (or people will stop taking notice!) if it's not necessary we might not read out every notice or include it in the e-newsletter. Clergy and Churchwardens will sometimes use discretion about how and when to publish an item.
Worship texts
Words & songs for the procession
We will have printed booklets for the procession, but you can also download the words to your phone here:
Once inside the church we will follow the words on the screen:
The Collect
Almighty and everlasting God,
who in your tender love towards the human race
sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ
to take upon him our flesh
and to suffer death upon the cross:
grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility,
and also be made partakers of his resurrection;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
Reading
Romans 8.6–11 6To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.
Palm Gospel
Matthew 21.1–11 21When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, just say this, “The Lord needs them.” And he will send them immediately.’ 4This took place to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet, saying, 5 ‘Tell the daughter of Zion, Look, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ 6The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; 7they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. 8A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!’ 10When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, ‘Who is this?’ 11The crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’
The Passion reading
Click here for the full text:
All join in the words for the crowd:
PILATE: "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?"
CROWD: "Barabbas."
PILATE: "Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?"
CROWD: "Let him be crucified!"
PILATE: "Why, what evil has he done?"
EVANGELIST: But they shouted all the more,
CROWD: "Let him be crucified!"
EVANGELIST: So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying,
PILATE: "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves."
EVANGELIST: Then the people as a whole answered,
CROWD: "His blood be on us and on our children!"
All stand when we hear the words:
"they led him away to crucify him"
Intercessions
If you would like to add someone to the prayer list please email church@benwellscotswood.com
The name will stay on the list for 1 month unless requested to be long-term.
Prayers for others:
Michelle Madison
Lorraine Atkinson
Lyndsey Richardson
Christine, David, Philip, Neil and Steven
Elizabeth Taylor
Honar
Moe and Mary
Alison Campbell
John Taylor
Irene Foskett
John Nicholson
Alan Robson
Michelle Wilson
Joan Finley
George Snowden
Claire Mozaffari
Herbert Agbeko
Other
Those preparing for baptism at Easter
Post Communion prayer
Lord Jesus Christ,
you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant,
and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation:
give us the mind to follow you
and to proclaim you as Lord and King,
to the glory of God the Father. Amen.