TENBURY TEAM NEWS.THIS WEEK:
Week Unlike other festivals in the church’s liturgical calendar, Trinity Sunday centres on a doctrine of the church, rather than an event. On this day we celebrate the unfathomable mystery of God’s being, which we speak of as Trinity.
May this be a day of adoration and praise of the God who is from eternity to eternity, beyond our sight and comprehension, and who yet some to us, and reveals himself to us.
This is Refugee Week, connecting with World Refugee Day which is Friday. The week celebrates the contributions of people seeking sanctuary, and challenges negative stereotypes, so as to create a space where refugees can be seen and heard beyond their experience of displacement.
It affirms that all have a contribution to make, and rejects the idea that people seeking safety should have to ‘prove their worth’ more than others in society.
The work of Samuel and Henrietta Barnett, remembered on Tuesday, is a reminder that much we take for granted in terms of social care was the result of many years of campaigning work by those who, like Henrietta Barnett, refused to let the status quo go unchallenged. Pray that in our day we may value and defend the fruits of their labours.
Thursday is Corpus Christi. Give thanks for the institution of Holy Communion, in which our Lord promises to be present among us as we meet in his name, and break the bread he blesses.
Friday is the Visitation, and it is as Mary visits her kinswoman Elizabeth that she speaks the words we call the Magnificat. May we praise the God who raises up the meek and lowly, and casts down from their thrones those that are mighty, who by his Son challenges the order of the world.
The Summer Solstice falls on Saturday: give thanks for the rhythm of the seasons, and the way in which the natural world can speak to us of the wonder and majesty of its Creator.
World MND Day is marked on Saturday. Pray for all who live with Motor Neurone Disease and for their support, and for continued research.
Tenbury Team News.
Annual Summer Fayre
St Marys Church Tenbury Wells 21st June at 2.00pm
Donations required of cakes, bottles, chocolates, nice gifts and raffle prizes etc. Please place inside Church near the gallery stairs.
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