News For December 2021
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Dear Friends
Please find below the Benefice Services for the next 2 Sundays.
SUNDAY 5th December -
WEM
08:00 -
09:45 -
WESTON
09:30 -
LEE
11:15 -
SUNDAY 12th DECEMBER 3rd SUNDAY OF ADVENT
WEM
08:00 -
09:45 -
WESTON
09:30 -
LEE
11:15 -
Extended Communion with the Reserved Sacrament is intended as a means of facilitating regular reception of Holy Communion. In this service the Reserved Sacrament (previously consecrated by a Priest) is distributed by suitably trained lay people with the approval of the Area and Diocesan Bishops. Extended Communion indicates that the lay person “extends” the Communion, celebrated within the Benefice by our Priests, across the whole Benefice.
The liturgy for Communion by Extension can be found here.
If you wish for further information, please find attached ‘Guidelines on Communion from the Reserved Sacrament’ and ‘Ad Clerum on Communion from the Reserved Sacrament’
Please find attached the Readings, Homily and 'Live the Word' for this Sun (courtesy of Redemptorist Publications), also find attached our Local Prayer Diary with thanks to Sue McLeod for preparing this.
For on-
ON THE BBC THIS SUNDAY
BBC Radio 4:
08:10 -
BBC1:
12:30 -
BBC Radio 3:
15:00 -
On Monday each week at 16:15 we hold a Zoom Prayer Meeting. You are welcome to join this group. Please contact Sue McLeod via eMail at: susandmcleod@btinternet.com for an invitation.
In Advent, please read about the diocesan focus on Generous Hope at the Heart of Christmas.
SATURDAY 11th DECEMBER
11:30 -
Homemade jams, chutneys and marmalade will be on sale.
SATURDAY 18th DECEMBER
15:00 -
Guy Booth will play his keyboard to lead carol singing on the lawn by the Christmas Tree. We will be serving mulled wine or hot blackcurrant juice and mince pies as people arrive. Please join us to sing in the open air.
Sybil Farmer
PCC Lay Chair
SS Peter & Paul’s Church, Wem
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Dear Friends
Please find below the Benefice Services for the next 2 Sundays.
SUNDAY 12th DECEMBER -
WEM
08:00 -
09:45 -
WESTON
09:30 -
LEE
11:15 -
SUNDAY 19th December -
WEM
08:00 -
09:45 -
WESTON
09:30 -
LEE
15:00 -
Extended Communion with the Reserved Sacrament is intended as a means of facilitating regular reception of Holy Communion. In this service the Reserved Sacrament (previously consecrated by a Priest) is distributed by suitably trained lay people with the approval of the Area and Diocesan Bishops. Extended Communion indicates that the lay person “extends” the Communion, celebrated within the Benefice by our Priests, across the whole Benefice.
The liturgy for Communion by Extension can be found here. If you wish for further information, please find attached ‘Guidelines on Communion from the Reserved Sacrament’ and ‘Ad Clerum on Communion from the Reserved Sacrament’
Please find attached the Readings, Homily and 'Live the Word' for this Sun (courtesy of Redemptorist Publications), also find attached our Local Prayer Diary with thanks to Sue McLeod for preparing this.
For on-
ON THE BBC THIS SUNDAY
BBC Radio 4:
08:10 -
BBC1:
13:15 -
BBC Radio 3:
15:00 Choral Evensong – from Buckfast Abbey
On Monday each week at 4:15pm there is a Zoom Prayer Meeting. You are welcome to join this group. Please contact Sue McLeod via eMail at: susandmcleod@btinternet.com for an invitation.
In Advent, please read about the diocesan focus on Generous Hope at the Heart of Christmas.
SATURDAY 18th DECEMBER
15:00 -
Guy Booth will play his keyboard to lead carol singing on the lawn by the Christmas Tree. We will be serving mulled wine or hot blackcurrant juice and mince pies as people arrive. Please join us to sing in the open air.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES at SS Peter & Paul
We will be following the latest Church of England Guidelines to keep safe, wearing masks and using hand sanitisers on entry to church and before receiving communion.
FRIDAY 24th DECEMBER -
17:00 -
23:30 -
SATURDAY 25th DECEMBER -
09:45 -
SUNDAY 26th DECEMBER -
08:00 -
09:45 -
Personal reflection report on Rooted in Jesus mission trip to South Sudan
Thanks for your prayers, this is a small write up …
The temperature in the high thirties, Bible in hand I stood preaching. The enormous tree branches gave 135 of us welcome shade. Here the Church first began. A remote area outside a small town; now the Cathedral was too small for Sunday’s, with its tin roof top hot for people to sit all day. Canon Tito the Church founder was with us. People told us “we are the first generation of Christians in this region”. It was an exciting time and place. Amongst us were young men from the grass and mud huts of the Bible college, Pastors, Evangelists and Mother’s Union members, with younger women sitting behind, all eager to know more. Some people had walked two days to get there.
We run two Rooted in Jesus conference in Aweil and Wanyjok in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. 100 and 150 people were expected we had only slightly fewer. Those who came where clearly glad to have been invited. Our vision of learning discipleship in small groups was shared and seemed easily accepted. Practise small groups went well, all the teaching well received. Team members John and Barry taught about the Holy Spirit; after which were extended times of utter silence as we bathed in the Spirit’s presence.
So many, too many highlights to tell: Testimonies of healing and spiritual renewal. Many unplanned conversations outside of the conference: talking to a large group of young men after their evening football training, praying in the street with a group of unemployed young men; taking to 80 children in Sunday school; Cathie, John’s wife, speaking with the Mothers Union and seeing their faces light up; teaching an impromptu lesson in school on The Trinity. Meeting bishops and archbishops over two days, of what we had assumed, would be a boring waiting for our flight, instead God appointed sharing about Rooted in Jesus. -
Back home now, I’m left feeling -
Mike Cotterell
Click here for more information about Rooted in Jesus,
Next week’s update will cover Christmas and New Year so the next update after that will be posted on 7th January
Sybil Farmer
PCC Lay Chair
SS Peter & Paul’s Church, Wem
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Dear Friends
Please find below the Benefice Services for this Sunday
SUNDAY 19th December -
WEM
08:00 -
09:45 -
WESTON
09:30 -
LEE
15:00 -
Please find attached the Readings, Homily, Sunday Link and 'Live the Word' for Sunday 19th Dec (courtesy of Redemptorist Publications), also find attached our Local Prayer Diary with thanks to Sue McLeod for preparing this.
For on-
ON THE BBC THIS SUNDAY
BBC Radio 4:
08:10 -
BBC1:
13:15 -
BBC Radio 3:
15:00 Choral Evensong – from Sacred Trinity Church, Salford
In Advent, please read about the diocesan focus on Generous Hope at the Heart of Christmas
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
We will be following the latest Church of England Guidelines to keep safe, wearing masks and using hand sanitisers on entry to church and before receiving communion.
CHRISTMAS EVE
WEM
17:00 -
23:30 -
WESTON
17:00 -
LEE
No services
CHRISTMAS DAY
WESTON
09:30 -
WEM
09:45 -
LEE
10:30 -
Please find attached the Readings for Christmas Day
SUNDAY 26th -
WEM
08:00 -
09:45 -
No services at LEE or WESTON
Please find attached the Homily, Sunday Link and 'Live the Word' for 26th Dec (courtesy of Redemptorist Publications)
SUNDAY 2nd JANUARY -
WEM
08:00 -
09:45 -
No services at LEE or WESTON
Extended Communion with the Reserved Sacrament is intended as a means of facilitating regular reception of Holy Communion. In this service the Reserved Sacrament (previously consecrated by a Priest) is distributed by suitably trained lay people with the approval of the Area and Diocesan Bishops. Extended Communion indicates that the lay person “extends” the Communion, celebrated within the Benefice by our Priests, across the whole Benefice.
The liturgy for Communion by Extension can be found here. If you wish for further information, please find attached ‘Guidelines on Communion from the Reserved Sacrament’ and ‘Ad Clerum on Communion from the Reserved Sacrament’
Please find attached the Readings, Homily, Sunday Link and 'Live the Word' for 2nd January (courtesy of Redemptorist Publications)
The next update will be posted on 7th January 2022, so I wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Safe and Healthy New Year
Sybil Farmer
PCC Lay Chair
SS Peter & Paul’s Church, Wem