Readings Jeremiah 31.31-34; Hebrews 5.5-10; John 12.20-33
Notices for the week
Sunday 29 March - Lent 5 - Passion Sunday
10.30a.m. United Holy Communion - Dalbury
Please note this will be the only service in the benefice on this day
Tuesday
8.00p.m. Annual Parochial Church Meeting - Trusley
Wednesday
United Lenten StudyEvery Wednesday in Lent in the Vicarage at 7.30p.m. commencing 4th March.“Faith, Hope and Love” - a York Course
Thursday
9.20a.m. “Good Friday” Procession from Church Broughton School to Church
7.00p.m. Concert by the United Benefice Choir & Long Lane School - Long Lane
Friday
9.05a.m. School Service - Longford
Next Sunday - Palm Sunday
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
Annual Parochial Church Meetings
Wednesday 22 April 7.30p.m. Radbourne
Tuesday 28 April - 7.30p.m. Church Broughton
Meeting at Dalbury to be fixed
The Gardeners' Hymn
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
But what we never mention, though gardeners know it's true,
Is when He made the goodies, He made the baddies too.
All things spray and swattable,
Disasters great and small,
All things paraquatable,
The Lord God made them all.
The green fly on the roses, the maggots in the peas,
Manure that fills our noses, He also gave us these.
All things spray and swattable, etc.
The fungus on the goose-gogs,the club root on the greens,
The slugs that eat the lettuce and chew the aubergines.
All things spray and swattable, etc.
The drought that kills the fuchsiasthe frost that nips the buds,
The rain that drowns the seedlings,the blight that hits the spuds.
All things spray and swattable, etc.
The midges and mosquitoes, the nettles and the weeds,
The pigeons in the green stuff, the sparrows on the seeds.
All things spray and swattable, etc.
The fly that gets the carrots, the wasp that eats the plums,
How black the gardener's outlook, though green may be his thumbs.
All things spray and swattable, etc.
But still we gardeners labour midst vegetables and flowers,
And pray what hits our neighbours' will somehow bypass ours.
All things spray and swattable, etc.
© Barbara Robinson
.
Prayer
If a prayer can move a mountain
If a prayer can stop a war,
If a prayer can foster love and peace
............Where hatred ruled before,
If a prayer can conquer hunger
If a prayer has power to heal,
If a prayer can mend division
............Why are we so slow to kneel?
Offering prayers up to our maker,
Throughout each brand new day
To change things for the better,
............In every kind of way.
Colin Hammacott
The Parish Pump & the Benefice entry in the South Derbyshire Churchman can be found on the internet at:-
http://churchbroughtonchurch.blog.co.uk