Sunday 3^rd July - TRINITY 3

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This week we thank God for all our local schools and pray for pupils, parents, teachers and governors in these last few weeks of the summer term.

The Collect

The prayer for the week

Almighty God,
you have broken the tyranny of sin
and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts
whereby we call you Father:
give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service,
that we and all creation may be brought
to the glorious liberty of the children of God;
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.

Readings for this Sunday: Gal. 6: 7-16, Psalm 66, 1-8 and Luke 10: 1-11, 16-20. 

This weekend:

8:00am             BCP Holy Communion in the Canterbury Room
9:30am             Family service in the Vicarage Garden (weather permitting)
                           with Goring Primary School choir
11:15am           Holy Communion at St Mary’s
11:15am           Family service at St Andrew’s
4:00pm             Evensong at St Mary’s

Temporary closure of St Thomas’

A reminder that as part of the organ restoration St Thomas’ is now closed until Saturday 9th July.
We will need helpers to set up for the service in the Vicarage Garden so please contact Ben with offers of help.

Also the Wednesday 6th July 10:30am service will be held in the Canterbury Roo

Prayer activities at Goring School

In previous years before the pandemic we have run Prayer Spaces at Goring School with the help of the charity BeSpace. The activities introduce the children to various different creative ways of praying encouraging them to both talk and listen to God. Building work at the school has meant that a room was not available to run a Prayer Space again this year, so instead we recently did a couple of prayer activities with each class in their classroom. The younger children coloured zebras in multi-coloured stripes to remind us that we are all unique and loved by God, and made paper chains with their thank you prayers. The older children used cardboard stones to offer their worries to God and made thank you butterflies. We very much hope to run a Prayer Space again in the new academic year – the children that remembered the previous ones were full of enthusiasm for them!

Piano Recital on Sunday 17th July at 3pm in St Thomas’

We are delighted that Janet Pound will be giving a recital where she will be playing works by Schumann, Debussy, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Poulenc, McDowell and Gershwin.

The recital will be followed by refreshments.

There will be no charge for the recital, but donations are welcomed to go towards St Thomas’ Organ Rebuild and Outreach Fund.

Diary for the week

Wednesday 6th July
10:30am      BCP Holy Communion in the Canterbury Room 
                      followed by coffee
The readings will be Hos. 10. 1-3, 7-8, 12, Ps. 115. 3-10 and Matt. 10. 1-7.

Sunday 10th July
8:00am        BCP Holy Communion at St Mary’s
9:30am        Holy Communion at St Thomas’
11:15am      Family service at St Mary’s
11:15am      BCP Holy Communion at St Andrew’s

Morning Prayer: This week Tuesday and Thursday in St Mary’s at 8.30am

Daily readings for the coming week