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Reading Acts 2.14a,22-32; 1 Peter 1.3-9; John 20.19-31
We remember in our prayers
Sunday 30 March 
The Church of England The Most Revd Rowan Douglas Williams Archbishop of Canterbury
Church of North India: Chota Nagpur - Bishop: James Terom
Monday 31 March
Busoga - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Michael Kyomya
Sandiacre. (Lee Martin, Derby, St Barnabas, to be licensed as part-time non-stipendiary Priest-in-Charge of Hatton at 7.30 pm)
Tuesday 1 April
Butare - (Rwanda) The Rt Revd Venuste Mutiganda
(Sandiacre) Clergy: Barry Cooney, Ken Johnson
Wednesday 2 April
Butere - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Michael Sande
Sawley
Thursday 3 April 
Buye - (Burundi) The Rt Revd Sixbert Macumi
Clergy: Alicia Petty, Ross Clayton
Friday 4 April 
Byumba - (Rwanda) The Rt Revd Onesphore Rwaje
Retired clergy (Erewash): David Anderson, Trevor Beedell, John Bishop, Norman Clayton, Michael Diamond, Bill Enoch, Geoffrey Halliday, John Jacklin, Colin Lee, Kendrick Richards, Frank Robinson, Frank Smith, Reg Stretton, David Tudor, John Henson, John Wooldridge, Sr. Elsie Taylor
Saturday 5 April Calabar - (Province of the Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Tunde Adeleye
Chaplaincy among Deaf People – Mark Smith, Chaplain

NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
Sunday 30 March - 2nd Sunday of Easter
10.30a.m. United Service - Boylestone Methodist Church
6.30p.m. United Holy Communion - Longford
Next Sunday 6 April - 3rd Sunday of Easter
8.00a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
9.30a.m. Mattins - Boylestone
10.00a.m. Family Service - Church Broughton
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
11.00a.m. Mattins - Trusley
11.15a.m. Holy Communion - Longford
3.00p.m. Evensong - Dalbury
7.00p.m. Evensong - Long Lane
Advance Notice
7th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Trusley
9th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Church Broughton
10th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Radbourne
14th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Boylestone
16th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Dalbury
21st April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Sutton (& Fete Meeting)
Sunday Groaner
With a new tax year beginning….
The teacher asked a precocious youngster what he was going to be when he grew up , and he said a taxpayer.
Inflation or no inflation, the cost of living seems to remain about the same - all that we earn.
Man wants but little here below but usually gets along on less.
A recession is a period in which you tighten up your belt. A depression is a time in which you have no belt to tighten. When you have no trousers to hold up, it's a panic.
A man said his credit card was stolen, but he decided not to report it because the thief was spending less than his wife did.
Quote - unquote
Money has never yet made anyone rich. Seneca
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. P T Barnum
There's no justice. If you make out your income tax correctly, you go to the poorhouse. If you don't, you go to prison.
    We have one of the highest standards of living in the world. Too bad we can't afford it.
The man who saves money nowadays isn't a miser; he's a wizard.
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/

Readings Acts 10.34-43; Colossians 3.1-4; John 20.1-18
Readings for Long Lane Evening Isaiah 43:1-13; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
This week we remember in our prayers
Sunday 23rd March World Council of Churches
Monday 24th March Bukavu - (Congo) Bishop Sylvestre Bali-Busane BahatiMMA 49b - Cotmanhay and Shipley
Tuesday 25th March Bukedi - (Uganda) Bishop Nicodemus Engwalas-OkilleClergy: Peter Davey. Active retired clergy: Geoffrey Halliday
Wednesda 26th March Bunbury - (Western Australia, Australia) Bishop William David Hair McCall
MMA 50 - Long Eaton St Laurence and Ilkeston Holy Trinity
Thursday 27th March Bungoma - (Kenya) Bishop Eliud WabukalaClergy: Simon Ellis, Christopher Kinch, David Tudor, Alan Cole
Friday 28th March Bunyoro-Kitara - (Uganda) Bishop Nathan KyamanywaMMA 51 - Long Eaton St John
Saturday 29th March Busan - (Korea) Bishop Solomon Jongmo YoonClergy: Philip Waller, Karen Hamblin
NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
Today - Easter Day - 23rd March
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Longford
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Radbourne
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
3.00p.m. Holy Communion - Dalbury
6.30p.m. Holy Communion - Boylestone
7.00p.m. Easter Praise - Long Lane
Next Sunday 2nd Sunday of Easter - 30th March
10.30a.m. United Service - Boylestone Methodist Church
6.30p.m. United Holy Communion - Longford
Advance Notice
7th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Trusley
9th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Church Broughton
10th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Radbourne
14th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Boylestone
16th April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Dalbury
21st April Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Sutton (& Fete Meeting)
Easter Groaner
The management would be grateful if the residents of the cemetery would stay dead.
The recent spate of resurrections has caused great inconvenience.
Complacencies have been disturbed and holy silence shattered by the shouts of reuniting joy.
This is not acceptable.
We will not have the traditions of long centuries challenged in this manner.
We will not have new life bursting and disturbing out of the well kept turf.
There will be no games, no party, no feasting and no joy.
The management would be grateful if the residents of the cemetery
would stay dead.
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Palm Gospel
Matthew 21.1-11
Readings
Isaiah 50.4-9a; Philippians 2.5-11; Matthew 26.14 - 27.66
NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
Palm Sunday
8.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
9.30a.m. Mattins - Boylestone
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
10.00a.m. Family Service - Longford
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Dalbury
11.00a.m. Mattins - Sutton
12noon Holy Communion - Trusley
7.00p.m. Evensong - Long Lane
Wednesday NO Holy Communion
Maundy Thursday
7.30p.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane
Good Friday
10.00a.m. Devotional Service - Boylestone
2.00p.m. Devotional Service - Sutton
7.30p.m. Devotional Service - Longford
Easter Day
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Longford
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Radbourne
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
3.00p.m. Holy Communion - Dalbury
6.30p.m. Holy Communion - Boylestone
7.00p.m. Easter Praise - Long Lane
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/

Readings Ezekiel 37.1-14; Romans 8.6-11; John 11.1-45

This week we remember in our prayers
Sunday 9th March 
Congo Archbishop Dirokpa Balufuga Fidèle Archbishop of Congo & Bishop of Kinshasa & Bukavu
Church of North India: Chandigarh - Joel V. Mal Monday 10th March    Bondo - (Kenya) Bishop Johannes Otieno Angela
MMA 48b - Ockbrook and Borrowash
Tuesday 11th March 
Bishop Nathaniel Garang Angieth
Assistant Bishop of Bor - (Sudan) The Rt Revd Ezekiel Diing Malaangdit
Clergy: Tim Sumpter
Wednesday 12th March 
Botswana - (Central Africa) Bishop Trevor Mwamba
Ilkeston St Mary
Thursday 13th March  
Bradford - (York, England) Bishop David Charles James
Clergy: Allan Brown, Associate Priest Jeffrey Fewkes
Friday 14th March   
Brandon - (Rupert's Land, Canada) Bishop James Njegovan
Ilkeston St John (vacant)
Saturday 15th March 
Archbishop Maurício José Araújo de Andrade Primate of Brazil & Bishop of Brasilia
All Saints, Kirk Hallam. Clergy: David Fergus
NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
Sunday 9th March - Lent 5
8.30a.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton followed by brief special meeting (see below)
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Radbourne
followed by brief special meeting (see below)
11.00a.m. Mattins - Sutton
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Trusley5.00p.m. Holy Communion - Boylestone
6.30p.m. Evensong - Longford
Tuesday 11th March
7.30p.m. Long Lane Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Wednesday 12th March
2.00p.m. Longford  Annual Parochial Church Meeting
7.30p.m. Lenten Meeting: Subject The Lord’s Prayer - The Vicarage. ALL WELCOME
Next Sunday - Palm Sunday 16th March
8.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
9.30a.m. Mattins - Boylestone
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
10.00a.m. Family Service - Longford
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Dalbury
11.00a.m. Mattins - Sutton
12noon Holy Communion - Trusley
7.00p.m. Evensong - Long Lane
Advance Notice
Maundy Thursday 20th March
7.30p.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane
Good Friday 21st March
10.00a.m. Devotional Service - Boylestone
2.00p.m. Devotional Service - Sutton
7.30p.m. Devotional Service - Longford
Easter Day 23rd March
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Longford
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Radbourne
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
3.00p.m. Holy Communion - Dalbury
6.30p.m. Holy Communion - Boylestone
7.00p.m. Easter Praise - Long Lane

SPECIAL NOTICE
New regulations come into force this year with regard to the election of Churchwardens. The rule is now that the maximum  continuous term of service for a churchwarden is six years unless a special meeting of parishioners has agreed to resolve that this rule should not apply in their parish. As a number of our churchwardens have served for at least 6 successive terms of office, special meetings of parishioners will be held to consider such motions after Sunday service on dates indicated on notices in each church. The meetings will be brief ones and any parishioner is eligible to attend and vote and is encouraged to do so. The annual vestry meetings and Annual Parochial Church Meetings will be held separately as indicated in notices to be posted in church.

Make time for The Passion!
This coming Holy Week, do tune in to watch a major forthcoming BBC television series – The Passion.
Praised by numerous church leaders, it is expected to make a huge national impact over the Easter season – drawing more than ten million viewers.
The series, which starts on Palm Sunday 16th March, will be scheduled in peak time on BBC1. It tells the story of the last week of Jesus’ life, his trial and crucifixion. The last episode, to be broadcast on Easter
Sunday 23rd March, dramatises his post-resurrection appearances.
The Passion has been made by award-winning drama producer Nigel Stafford-Clark, who was responsible for Bleak House and Warriors. The cast includes Cold Feet star James Nesbitt as Pilate and EastEnders actor Paul Nicholls as Judas Iscariot. The part of Jesus is played by the relatively unknown Joseph Mawle, who at
33 is the same age as Jesus during the events of the Passion.
The Churches’ Media Council has launched a website to provide resources and information about the series.
Visit www.churchesmediacouncil.org.uk/passion. The group encourages Christians to seize this “golden opportunity to contribute to a contemporary public discussion about Jesus.” Guidelines on the site encourage the Christian community to welcome the retelling of the stories for a new generation, but to treat it as drama first rather than theology.
Andrew Graystone, Director of the Churches’ Media Council, was profoundly moved by early versions of the series. “This is an extremely vivid piece of drama. You feel you are right there, in amongst the Passover crowds, alongside the disciples as Jesus comes out with these simple but earth-shattering messages. And then of course, he’s taken away and makes the ultimate sacrifice, and like the disciples, you’re left to decide what you are going to do about it.”

Christian Basics: Why the Cross?
The cross is the badge of the Christian. Yet it was the cruellest form of execution known in the ancient world
until it was eventually banned in the 5th century AD. Paradoxically as a horrifying instrument of torture and death, it is also a symbol of love and peace.
The cross is a picture of violence, yet the key to peace; a picture of suffering, yet the key to healing; a picture of death, yet the key to life; a picture of utter weakness, yet the key to power; a picture of capital punishment, yet the key to mercy and forgiveness; a picture of vicious hatred, yet the key to love; a picture of supreme shame, yet the Christian’s supreme boast.
The cross really is the key to everything!
Like a cut diamond the cross has many facets. On the cross the powers of death and evil were defeated; Jesus identified with our sufferings and set us an example of self-sacrificial love. However, above all Jesus died to deal with the problem of our sin.
Peter writes, ‘He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed … Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God’ (1Peter 2:24, 3:18). Jesus has made the way into God’s presence open to all, symbolised when the curtain in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom at the crucifixion. This veil representing the barrier between people and God was torn down by the death of Christ.
How did Jesus achieve this? He died in our place, bore our sins and took our guilt, so paying the full penalty for our sin. Again his final cry on the cross, tetelesthai, was a cry of triumph, ‘It is finished’. It was the word
stamped across bills to indicate that they had been paid.
What was the purpose of the cross? Peter answers this question in five short words: ‘to bring us to God’.
Jesus is like the bridge that provides access between us and God. ‘If Jesus Christ is to be our Saviour then he must be able to place a hand upon a pardoning God and another hand on a penitent sinner and draw them together in an act of reconciliation’ Bishop Handley Moule

Because of JesUs
Before U were thought of or time had begun,
God even stuck U in the name of his Son.
And each time U pray, you'll see that it's true -
You can't spell out JesUs and not include U.
You're a pretty big part of his wonderful name,
For U, He was born; that's why He came.
And his great love for U is the reason He died.
It even takes U to spell crUcified.
Isn't it thrilling and splendidly grand?
He rose from the dead, with U in his plan.
The stones split away, the gold trUmpet blew,
and this word resUrrection is spelled with a U.
When JesUs left earth at his upward ascension,
He felt there was one thing He just had to mention.
"Go into the world and tell them it's true
That I love them all - just like I love U."

Song
(from The Husband of Poverty)
There was a Knight of Bethlehem,
Whose wealth was tears and sorrows;
His men-at-arms were little lambs,
His trumpeters were sparrows;
His castle was a wooden cross,
Whereon He hung so high;
His helmet was a crown of thorns
Whose crest did touch the sky.
Henry Neville Maughan

Sunday Groaner
A man opened a newspaper and was amazed to read his own obituary. Much amused, he telephoned his best friend – who asked him rather hesitantly where he was ringing from?

Did you hear about the dyslexsic, agnostic, insomniac who stayed up all
night trying to decide if there really is a Dog?

Says it all
A man was driving to work when a lorry ran a stop sign, hit his car broadside, and knocked him out cold.
Passers-by pulled him from the wreck and revived him. He began a terrific struggle and had to be tranquillised by the medics. Later, when he was calm, they asked him why he struggled so.
He said, "I remember the impact, then nothing. I woke up on a concrete slab in front of a huge, flashing ‘Shell' sign. And somebody was standing in front of the ‘S.'"

EASTER CONCERT
Uttoxeter Choral Society and English Pro Musica will be giving a concert on Saturday 15th March at 7.30 pm  in St Mary’s Church Uttoxeter. The programme will comprise  “Beatus Vir” (Montiverdi), “Gloria”(Vivaldi) and “Stabart Mater” (Pergolesi) with soloists Stacy White – soprano – and Catherine Holder – mezzo soprano.   Tickets £10 (concessions £8) from Mike Lenderyou on 01335 330446 or any member of the choir.

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/

Forthcoming events

Concert by the Derventio Choir on Friday, 9^th May at St.Michael's, Church Broughton

Friday 23^rd May Sutton Fete on the Cricket Field at 6.00p.m.

A Duck Race will be held in Boylestone on Monday 26^th May

Teddy Bear Parachuting will be on Saturday, 14^th June at St.Michael's, Church Broughton

Christingle Fair in Church Broughton on Saturday, 29^th November

BOYLESTONE, CHURCH BROUGHTON, DALBURY, LONGFORD, LONG LANE, RADBOURNE, SUTTON-ON-THE-HILL & TRUSLEY

Rector: Rev. Michael Bishop, The Vicarage, Chapel Lane, Church Broughton, Derby, DE65 5BB.
Tel. 01283-585296. Email:- rector@longford8.org Fax: :- 0871-7143560; Mobile 07918175860
Blog Site: http://churchbroughtonchurch.blog.co.uk/

This year Easter Day falls on the earliest date that it will fall in the lifetime of most of us. The earliest possible date is just one day earlier (22^nd March) and that last occurred long before any of us was born (1818!). The last time Easter Day was on 23^rd March was 1913 – and it will not be as early again this century.

Whenever it comes, Easter can never be too soon or too late. It is the day which makes the rest of life meaningful. If you feel that life is hard for you and you begin to wonder what hope there can be, then Easter comes as the antidote. We remember in Passiontide, Holy Week and especially on Good Friday just how hopeless things seemed to be for our Lord. He suffered the worst that anyone can suffer – rejection, abandonment by his friends, persecution, hatred, derision and a very painful and public execution. All seemed surely as black as it could be. So our Lord understands when times are hard. The wonderful news of Easter, however, is that even death is not the end. Jesus rose again on Easter Day, and now nothing can overcome the joy and salvation that He brings.

We are all called by Him to go out and proclaim the wonders of God's love and the salvation that Jesus brings. Now we can know for certain that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God – not even death!

ALLELUIA! CHRIST IS RISEN – HE IS RISEN INDEED!

Let us share that wonderful news with all his creation. Come and join in the celebrations.

Michael Bishop
(Rector)

Holy Communion will be celebrated on Wednesdays 5^th & 19^th March at 10.30a.m. & 20^th March (Maundy Thursday) at 7.30p.m. at Long Lane

Morning Prayer at 7.30a.m. is normally said daily in church as follows:
Monday Sutton;Tuesday Church Broughton; Wednesday Longford; Thursday Trusley;
Friday Boylestone; Saturday Long Lane.

Evening Prayer at 6.30p.m. is normally said daily in church as follows:

Monday Radbourne; Tuesday Boylestone; Wednesday Long Lane; Thursday Sutton; Friday Dalbury; Saturday Longford

Lent Course
As in previous years we are holding a United Lent Course on Wednesday evenings at 7.30p.m. In the Vicarage at 7.30p.m.. All will be welcome. It is planned to follow a York Course once again .This time it is based on the Lord's Prayer and speakers will include Bishop Kenneth Stevenson (of Portsmouth); Margaret Sentamu; David Wilkinson (Methodist Minister & Principal of St John's College, Durham); and Elaine Storkey (author and broadcaster). All welcome.
The same course will be followed at the Friday afternoon Fellowship in Long Lane. (Contact the Rector or Jane Almond for details)

SERVICES FOR HOLY WEEK & EASTER

Palm Sunday & Easter Day – see below

Maundy Thursday: (20^th March)
7.30p.m. Holy Communion

Good Friday (21^st March)
7.30a.m. Mattins (Boylestone)
10.00a.m. Devotional Service (Boylestone)
2.00p.m. Devotional Service (Sutton)
6.30p.m. Evensong (Dalbury)
7.30p.m. Devotional Srvice (Longford)

MAIN READINGS FOR MARCH 2008
02/03/08 Fourth Sunday of Lent

1 Samuel 16.1-13; Ephesians 5.8-14; John 9.1-41

OR Mothering Sunday

Exodus 2.1-10; 2 Corinthians 1.3-7; Luke 2.33-35

09/03/08 Fifth Sunday of Lent

Ezekiel 37.1-14; Romans 8.6-11; John 11.1-45

16/03/08 Palm Sunday

Isaiah 50.4-9a; Philippians 2.5-11; Matthew 26.14 - 27.66

20/03/08 Maundy Thursday

Exodus 12.1-4(5-10)11-14; 1 Corinthians 11.23-26; John 13.1-17,31b-35

21/03/08 Good Friday

Isaiah 52.13 – 53.12; Hebrews 10.16-25; John 18.1 - 19.42

23/03/08 Easter Day
Acts 10.34-43; Colossians 3.1-4; John 20.1-18

30/03/08 Second Sunday of Easter

Acts 2.14a,22-32; 1 Peter 1.3-9; John 20.19-31

BOYLESTONE St. John the Baptist
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Monday, 14^th April at 7.15p.m. in the Village Hall
The Duck Race will be held on Monday 26^th May
Ladies' Group will meet on Tuesday 4^th March at 7.30p.m.. Subject “The Pudding Room”. There will also be a celebration of the Ladies' Group 40^th birthday.
Bingo on Friday, 14^th March at 7.30p.m. in the Village Hall
Big Breakfast onSaturday 15^th March. Proceeds in aid of Cancer UK
Flowers & Cleaning See the rota
Sidesmen March 2^nd: Mrs M Wilson; 9^th Mr J Oakley; 16^th Mrs D Bayley; 23^rd Mrs H Cockeram

CHURCH BROUGHTON, St. Michael & All Angels
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Wednesday 9^th April at 7.30p.m. in the Vicarage
Concert by the Derventio Choir on Friday, 9^th May
Teddy Bear Parachuting will be on Saturday, 14^th June

DALBURY All Saints
Services: 2^nd March 3.00p.m. Evensong; 16^th March 11.00a.m. Holy Communion;
23^rd March (Easter Day) 3.00p.m. Holy Communion
Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Wednesday 16^th April at 7.30p.m. at Summerfields, Dalbury Lees

LONG LANE, Christ Church
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Tuesday 11th March at 7.30p.m. in church
From the Parish Registers

LONGFORD, St Chad

Easter Day Holy Communion at 9.30a.m. will be a service with music rather than the usual said 4^th Sunday service
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Wednesday 12^th March at 2.00p.m. in the Pump Room
From the Parish Registers
Baptised on 17^th February
James Alexander Buckler

RADBOURNE, St. Andrew
Services:- Holy Communion at 11a.m. on 9^th March and on Easter Day (23^rd March)

Annual Parochial Church Meeting date to be announced shortly

SUTTON-ON-THE-HILL, St. Michael

Thank you to all who helped to raise £200 for the Children's Society from the Carol

Church Flowers:
No flowers during Lent; March 23^rd Churchwardens; 30^th Mrs B Hall
From the Parish Registers
Funeral on 31^st January at Bretby Crematorium
Betty Ellis aged 77 years
on 4^th February at Markeaton Crematorium
Nora May Lovatt aged 92 years
on 21^st February at Markeaton Cremtorium
Dennis William Bond aged 81 years
Buried on 21^st February
Kenneth David Gamble aged 80years

TRUSLEY, All Saints
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Monday 7^th April at 8.00p.m.

Readings 1 Samuel 16.1-13; OR Exodus 2.1-10; Ephesians 5.8-14 OR 2 Corinthians 1.3-7OR Colossians 3:12-17; John 9.1-41 OR Luke 2.33-35
This week we remember in our prayers
Sunday 2nd March
Central America  The Most Revd Martin de Jesus Barahona Primate of IARCA & Bishop of El Salvador
Erewash Deanery: Rural Dean: Ian Gooding,
Monday 3rd March
Bida - (Province of Abuja, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Jonah KoloMMA 48a - Wilne, Draycott, Breaston Tuesday 4th March Birmingham - The Rt Revd David Andrew UrquhartClergy: Chris Smedley, Rachel Thompson
Wednesday 5th March
Blackburn - (York, England) The Rt Revd Nicholas Stewart Reade
Blackburn - Burnley - (York, England) The Rt Revd John William Goddard
Blackburn - Lancaster - (York, England) The Rt Revd Geoffrey Seafrave PearsonStanton-by-Dale, Dale Abbey, Risley
Thursday 6th March
Bo - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Samuel Sao Gbonda Clergy: Ian Gooding, Gary Dundas
Friday 7th March
Boga - (Congo) The Rt Revd Henry Kahwa IsingomaMapperley, West Hallam, Stanley and Stanley Common
Saturday 8th March
Bolivia - (South America) The Rt Revd Frank LyonsClergy: Simon White, Jane Facey, Peter Owen-Jones
NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
Today - Lent 4 - Mothering Sunday 2nd March
8.00a.m. Holy Communioin- Church Broughton
9.30a.m. Mattins - Boylestone10.00a.m. Family Service - Church Broughton
11.00a.m. Family Service - Long Lane
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Sutton
11.00a.m. Mattins - Trusley
11.15a.m. Holy Communion - Longfordfollowed by brief special meeting (see below)3.00p.m. Evensong - Dalbury
NO Long Lane Evensong Evensong
Wednesday 5th March
7.30p.m. Lenten Meeting: Subject The Lord's rayer - The Vicarage. ALL WELCOME
Next Sunday - Lent 5 - 9th March
8.30a.m. Holy Communion - Long Lane
9.30a.m. Holy Communion - Church Broughton
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Radbourne
followed by brief special meeting (see below)
11.00a.m. Mattins - Sutton
11.00a.m. Holy Communion - Trusley5.00p.m. Holy Communion - Boylestone
6.30p.m. Evensong - Longford
SPECIAL NOTICE
New regulations come into force this year with regard to the election of Churchwardens. The rule is now that the maximum  continuous term of service for a churchwarden is six years unless a special meeting of parishioners has agreed to resolve that this rule should not apply in their parish. As a number of our churchwardens have served for at least 6 successive terms of office, special meetings of parishioners will be held to consider such motions after Sunday service on dates indicated on notices in each church. The meetings will be brief ones and any parishioner is eligible to attend and vote and is encouraged to do so. The annual vestry meetings and Annual Parochial Church Meetings will be held separately as indicated in notices to be posted in church.
Advance Notice
Tuesday 11th March
7.30p.m. Long Lane Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Wednesday 12th March
2.00p.m. Longford  Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Mothering Sunday
There is an old Jewish saying:
..........God could not be everywhere,
..........and therefore He made mothers.
Mother Church, Mother Earth, Mother of the Gods - our human mothers - all of them have been part of the celebration of 'Mothering Sunday' - as the fourth Sunday in Lent is affectionately known.
In Roman times, great festivals were held every Spring to honour Cybele, Mother of all the Gods. Other pagan festivals in honour of Mother Earth were also celebrated. With the arrival of Christianity, the festival became one honouring Mother Church.
During the Middle Ages, young people apprenticed to craftsmen or working as 'live-in' servants were allowed only one holiday a year on which to visit their families - which is how 'Mothering Sunday' got its name. This special day became a day of family rejoicing, and the Lenten fast was broken. In some places the day was called Simnel Day, because of the sweet cakes called simnel cakes traditionally eaten on that day.
Chad (d 672)
Chad should be the patron saint of any modern bishop whose consecration is questioned by another bishop. Chad was consecrated a bishop, then deposed - and then re-consecrated!
It all began when Oswiu, king of Northumbria, made him bishop of the Northumbrian see. But due to a scarcity of appropriate bishops, two dubious bishops did the job of consecrating him. This led to Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, deciding to depose him about three years later.
Chad took his dismissal with good heart, and peacefully retired. But then Theodore had second thoughts: Chad was of excellent character: humble, devout, and zealous. So Theodore re-consecrated him - to be the first bishop of the Mercians. Second time around, Chad was a great success - again.
When Chad died he was quickly venerated as a saint. People took a great fancy to his bones, believing that they would bring healing. Even today, four large bones, dating from the 7th century, and believed to be Chad's, are in the R.C. cathedral in Birmingham.
Bishops today may still argue about consecration, but they are unlikely to have their bones disturbed.
SUNDAY GROANER
Observations on modern life
> A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station.
> A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem.
> A gross ignoramus: 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
> Did you hear about the dyslexsic, agnostic, insomniac who stayed up all night trying to decide if there really is a Dog?
Mothering Sunday Thoughts
A very dirty little boy came in from playing in the garden and asked his mother: 'Who am I?'
Ready to play the game, she said, 'I don't know. Who are you?'
'WOW!'cried the child. 'Mrs Smith next door was right. She said I was so dirty that my own mother wouldn't recognise me.

Somewhere on this earth a woman is giving birth to a child every ten seconds. We must find this woman and stop her at once. (Sam Levenson)
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