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1 10 th March 2019 Lent 1 WELCOME WORSHIP To everyone. Our heavenly Father. PRAYER OF PREPARATION Dear Lord, as we begin this season of Lent we come before you with humble hearts. May we remember that your love will bring us healing and that through the suffering of your Son we can be made whole. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. WITH GOD MAKING FRIENDSHIPS THE WAY YOUTH Tonight at 6.30 pm in the Revd Dennis house. FELLOWSHIP HEALER PRAYER GROUP BIBLE FELLOWSHIP MID WEEK ALPHA COURSE GOOD BOOK CLUB MESSY CHURCH Tuesday 7.15 pm in the Clergy Vestry. Tuesday at 8.00 pm in the Choir Vestry. Everyone welcome. Holy Communion on Wednesday at am in St Patrick s with refreshments afterwards. Alpha Course in St Columba s Church on Wednesday at 8.00 pm. Friday, 22 nd March at 7.00 pm in the Choir Vestry. Subject: Why So Much Suffering? Everyone welcome. Next Sunday at am in St Patrick s Church Hall. Stories, food, crafts and fun for all. There will be no New Life service next Sunday. PRAYER SUPPORT Team Leader: Millicent McClelland Tel No

2 MINISTRY OF PRAYER VISITING THE SICK After morning and evening services in St Patrick s in the Prayer Space. Please inform the Clergy if you know of anyone who is sick and requires a pastoral visit either in hospital or at their home. WITH EACH OTHER DIOCESE OF CONNOR SELECT VESTRY MOTHERS UNION MEN S FELLOWSHIP ST PATRICK S NIGHT CONCERT JUMBLE SALE You will have received a copy of Bishop Alan s letter, as you will see his treatment has gone well so far. Please keep praying for our Bishop. Tuesday at 7.30 pm in the Minor Hall. Meeting on Wednesday, in the Minor Hall at 8.00 pm. The speaker is Christine Williams of Grandma s Spoons. Please feel free to join us. Meeting on Thursday in St Patrick s Minor Hall at 7.30 pm. All welcome. Friday at 7.30 pm in St Patrick s Church Hall. Enjoy good food and entertainment. Cost 12pp. Tickets available from Churchwardens and the Parish Office, or you can pay at the door. Thank you to everyone who donated items or helped in any way with the CL&CGB Jumble Sale. The total raised so far is 1,300. WITH THE WORLD CMSI OUTSIDE IN - This year s CMSI project focuses on Nepal and the role CHANGING LIVES of the church in caring for those on the margins of society. All money will be used to support both HDCS and Sundar Dhoka Church, helping them to reach out and care for those on the margins of society. CMSI boxes are available at the back of Church as well as Sheep Keyrings costing 2. SUNBEAMS IN THE MIST A collection of Poetry and stories by Elizabeth Hamill celebrating God and His creation. You can obtain a copy from the Church Office. Cost 10. READINGS IN ST PATRICK S AT AM Ephesians 5:17-33 (Page 192) and St Luke 13:31-35 (Page 73)

3 Lent 1 Ballyclug 10 th March 2019 A reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Ephesians chapter 4 beginning at verse 17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practise every kind of impurity. That is not the way you learned Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. This is the word of the Lord THANKS BE TO GOD

4 A reading from the gospel according to St Luke chapter 4 beginning at verse 1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread. Jesus answered him, It is written, One does not live by bread alone. Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours. Jesus answered him, It is written, Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him. Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you, and On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone. Jesus answered him, It is said, Do not put the Lord your God to the test. When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time. This is the word of the Lord THANKS BE TO GOD

5 Lent 1 - St Columba s 10 th March 2019 A reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Ephesians chapter 4 beginning at verse 17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practise every kind of impurity. That is not the way you learned Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. This is the word of the Lord THANKS BE TO GOD

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