Readings for Today: Amos 8.4-71 Timothy 2.1-7 Luke 16.1-13
At Harvest Festival Services in Long Lane the readings are:
11am
7pm
This week we remember in our prayers
Sunday 23 September Southwest Florida - (USA) Bishop John Bailey Lipscomb
Wirksworth Deanery: Rural Dean: Robert Quarton, Lay Chair: Judith Hayward
Monday 24 September Southwestern Virginia - (USA) Bishop Frank Neff Powell
MMA 28 Wirksworth Team: Bonsall, Bradbourne, Brassington, Carsington, Idridgehay, Kirk Ireton, Middleton by Wirksworth, Wirksworth, Alderwasley, Elton
Tuesday 25 September Spokane - (USA) Bishop James Edward Waggoner
Wirksworth Team Clergy: David Truby, Gillian Manley, Stanley Monkhouse, Keith Orford
Wednesday 26 September Springfield - (USA) Bishop Peter Hess Beckwith
Wirksworth Team Readers: Elizabeth Thomas, Brian Smith, Bernice Smith, Rod Prince
Thursday 27 September St Albans - Bishop Christopher Herbert
St Albans - Bedford - Bishop Richard Neil Inwood
St Albans - Hertford - Bishop Christopher Richard James Foster
Wirksworth Team Churchwardens
Friday 28 September St Andrew's Dunkeld & Dunblane - (Scotland) Bishop David Robert Chillingworth
MMA 29a - Cromford, Matlock Bath
Saturday 29 September St Asaph - (Wales) Bishop John Stewart Davies
Clergy: Nick Grayshon (from 8th October), Julie Stanton
NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
MAGAZINE MATERIAL TODAY please

Sunday 23 September - Trinity 17 - Long Lane Harvest Thanksgiving
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Boylestone
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Longford
11.00a.m. Harvest Holy Communion - Long Lane
11.00a.m. Family Service - Sutton
6.45p.m. Evensong - Trusley
7.00p.m. Harvest Evensong - Long Lane
Next Sunday 30 September - Trinity 18 -- Harvest Thanksgiving - Sutton & Trusley
10.30a.m. Note time United Harvest Holy Communion - Sutton
6.45p.m. Harvest Evensong - Trusley
Sunday Groaner
When push comes to shove….
The Vicar and his wife were awakened at 3am by a loud pounding on the door. Startled, the man got up and went to the door to find a stranger, standing in the pouring rain. "Please will you help me," he said. "I need a push."
"Not a chance," said the vicar. "It is three o'clock in the morning." He slammed the door and returned to bed.
"Who was that?" asked his wife.
"Just some chap asking for a push," he answered.
"And did you help him?" she asks.
"No. I did not. It's three o'clock in the morning and it is pouring rain outside!"
His wife said, "I'm ashamed of you! Last Sunday you preached on the Good Samaritan. Now you've got someone in need knocking on your door, and you refuse to help… oh, how can you be so hard-hearted?"
The vicar knew he was beaten. So he got up, got dressed and went out into the pouring rain. He called out into the dark, "Hello! Are you still there?"
"Yes," came back the answer.
"Do you still need a push?" called the vicar
"Yes! Please! I can't move without one!" came the eager reply.
"But - where are you?" cried the minister, peering into the rain.
"Over here on the swing!!"

29 St Michael and All Angels
Michael is an archangel, whose name means ‘who is like unto God?’ He makes various appearances throughout the Bible, from the book of Daniel to the Book of Revelation. In Daniel, he is ‘one of the princes’ of the heavenly host, and the special guardian of Israel. In Revelation, he is the principal fighter of the heavenly battle against the devil.
From early times, Michael’s cult was strong in the British Isles. Churches at Malmesbury (Wiltshire) , Clive (Gloucestershire) and Stanmer (East Sussex) were dedicated to him. Bede mentions him. St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall was believed to commemorate a vision there in the 8th century. By the end of the Middle Ages, Michael had 686 English churches dedicated to him.
In art Michael is often depicted as slaying the dragon, as in the 14th century East Anglican Psalters, or in Epstein’s famous sculpture at Coventry cathedral. Or he is found (in medieval art) as weighing souls, as at Chaldon (Surrey), Swalcliffe (Oxon.), Eaton Bishop (Hereford and Worcester), and Martham in Suffolk.
Michael’s most famous shrine in western Europe is Mont-Saint-Michel, where a Benedictine abbey was founded in the 10th century.
All Saints, Dalbury can boast a panel of stained glass depicting St Michael. This, the oldest panel of stained glass in Britain, was made between 1100 and 1130.
Forthcoming Harvest Services
30 September - Sutton & Trusley
5 October - Boylestone
7 October - Boylestone, Church Broughton, Longford
14 October - Radbourne
21 October - Dalbury
The Parish Pump and the Benefice entry to the South Derbyshire Churchman can now be found on the internet at: http://churchbroughtonchurch.blog.co.uk/