Next Week’s worship – 25th September 2011 TETBURY PARISH CHURCH
14th Sunday after Trinity(Harvest)
8.00am : Holy Communion Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 18th September 2011
9.30am: Parish Eucharist Welcome to all visitors and those new to the Church. Please make
Readings: Deuteronomy 8: 7-18; 2 Corinthians 9: 6-15; Luke 12: 16-30 yourselves known to us. Coffee will be served in the Church after the
6.00pm: Evening Prayer 9.30am service. Please join us if you can.
This week’s Diary commencing 19th September 2011 There is a loop system for the hard of hearing, and large print copies of
Monday: 1.00pm Chapter lunch for retiring Area Dean at the service and the hymn book are available from the sidesmen.
South Cerney
Tuesday: 2.00pm Funeral of Ross Sharp in Tetbury Church All are invited to come to the altar at the time of Communion. Members
2.30pm MU meet in The Dolphins Hall of other churches who would receive at their own church are welcome to
7.00pm Shipton Moyne PCC meet in Church do so here. If receiving communion is not appropriate, please come up
Wednesday: 9.30am Holy Communion in Tetbury Church to receive a blessing (it helps us if you bring a service book to indicate if
11.30am Rector & Curate on training Course at you would prefer to receive a blessing). If you would like Communion
Gloucester brought to you please tell one of the sidesmen.
7.00pm Primary School planning meeting
Thursday: 11.00am Rector at meeting of South West Chairs of Worship Today
Finance in Wells 8.00am: Holy Communion
Friday: 9.30am Primary School Harvest Service in School 9.30am: Parish Eucharist
Hymns 557, 581, 311, 453
Saturday: 9.30am Feoffees Beating of the Bounds
Anthem: Jesu dulcis memoria- Victoria
4.30pm Licensing of Readers in Gloucester
6.00pm Evening Prayer
Cathedral
Rector’s Day off: Friday; Curate’s Day off: Tuesday
Prayer List (Please pray daily for the sick and departed) Collect
Monday: Adam, Chico, Chris, Elsie, Lee Ann, Hyda, Alan Almighty God, who called your Church to bear witness that you were in
Tuesday: Heather, Valerie, Lynile, Sue, Laura, Louis Christ reconciling the world to yourself: help us to proclaim the good
Wednesday: Ava, Jasmine, Julie, Steve, Simon, Pierre- Louis news of your love, that all who hear it may be drawn to you; through him
Thursday: Ethan, Susie, Win, James, Pam, James, Kate who was lifted up on the cross, and reigns with you in the unity of the
Friday: Brian, John, Karen, Geoff, Valarie,Theo, Athena Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Rosemary, John, Alex, Athena, Hannah, Mark
Departed: Heide- Hanne Hughes, Ross Sharp Post Communion Prayer
Praying for the Town: Priory Way
God our creator, you feed your children with the true manna, the living
Parish Administrator, Lesley Lyons, All items for inclusion in the bread from heaven: let this holy food sustain us through our earthly
Sunday news-sheets should be sent by Thursday 9.00am at the latest. pilgrimage until we come to that place where hunger and thirst are no
Tel: 01666 500088; email:tetbury.church@virgin.net more; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Church web-site: www.tetburychurch.co.uk
Notices
The Chavenage Dinner Tickets for Saturday 15th October, will be £30.
There will be a drinks reception followed by a three course dinner.
BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY...NEXT WEEKEND Tickets will be available from Margo Smith after the service on Sunday
We are now on count down for Back to Church Sunday next weekend. 4th September. We will be having an Auction after the dinner, so if
A hearty combination of Harvest and Hospitality. So who are you going anyone has any items could they please let Margo know.
to invite? Have you asked them yet? Don't panic if you are still
wondering who it might be....but remember we also have a Harvest lunch Concert: Friday 30 September at 7.15 at St Michaels Church,
to tempt them and remember, inviting someone back to Church might be Tetbury featuring, amongst others, The Tetbury Community Choir, The
an answer to their prayers as much as it's an answer to yours. Avening Angels and The Bristol Catholic Choir together with some
audience participation. All proceeds will go to support next year's
The Harvest Lunch is on Sunday 25 September at 12 noon at St Mary’s Holiday at Home - a Tetbury Churches Together annual event. This
C of E VA School. If you would like a ticket to attend please see Liz concert is part of the St Michael's Fest Weekend. Please do come to
Wright or Carol Van Sloots (there is no charge). support this concert if you can. Tickets cost just £5 and are available
A list is at the back of Church if you are able to contribute to the meal. from either Alison Hesketh or Margo Smith.
Once again our Harvest gifts of non-perishable goods (tins and Advance Notice: Saturday 22nd October 7.30-9pm- Margo Smith will
packets) are to go to the “Loaves and Fishes Project in Bristol. be signing copies of her new cookery book at the Backyard Gallery,
Long Street. Wine and nibbles (recipes from the book) will be served. If
Mothers’ Union The next meeting will be Tuesday 20th September at you would like to come along please let Margo know.
2:30pm in The Dolphins Hall. Vanessa Rinaldi is coming to talk on the
work of the ‘Cotswold Care Hospice’. Anyone who would like to come Abbeyfield House at 1 London Road Tetbury, has once again done
along to join us that afternoon will be most welcome. fabulously in the Tetbury in Bloom competition. They won silver gilt this
year, which they are proud to add to their gold one for last year.
The Feoffees of Tetbury invite you to the Beating of the Bounds on Abbeyfield House is at the heart of life in Tetbury town centre and as a
Saturday 24th September at 9.30am starting under Bath Bridge and to the charity they offer a happy home with great home cooked food for older
Court Leet in the Market Hall later in the morning. All welcome. people living in the community. They currently have some vacancies at
the house, so if anyone is interested in finding out more please contact
There is to be another Men’s Breakfast at the Blue Zucchini on them on 01666 504247 (Elaine King, House Manager)
Saturday 1st October. We will meet from 8.30am out by about 10.30.
Cost £8.00. The speaker is the Chaplain for Gloucester Rugby Club, Rector: Revd Canon John Wright, The Vicarage, 6 The Green,
Revd Steve Austin Sparks. Please let Revd John know if you want to go. Tetbury, GL8 8DN. Tel: (01666) 502333; Fax: (01666) 500893
e-mail: john@tetburychurch.co.uk
Thank you to all who donated, helped and came to the Fete. The total
raised after expenses was £754. 75. Particular thanks to all those who Curate: Revd Lesley Hewish, The Bungalow, Lower House Lane,
came on Friday evening to erect the three marquees and to those who on North Nibley, Dursley, GL11 6DN Tel :0787 677 5290;
Saturday to take them down before it rained! We were extremely grateful e-mail: lesley.hewish1@virgin.net
to the Guide Guides and Tetbury Lions for the loan of their Marquees,
and to the children from St Mary’s School for coming to sing.
The Social Committee
Sunday 18th September 2011 Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that,
(13th Sunday after Trinity) whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will
know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with
First Reading Jonah 3.10-4.11 one mind for the faith of the gospel, and are in no way intimidated by
When God saw what the people of Nineveh did, how they turned from your opponents. For them this is evidence of their destruction, but of
their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had your salvation. And this is God‟s doing. For he has graciously granted
said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. But this was very you the privilege not only of believing in Christ, but of suffering for him
displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. He prayed to the LORD and as well – since you are having the same struggle that you saw I had and
said, „O LORD! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own now hear that I still have.
country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning; for I knew that
you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in
steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing. And now, O LORD, Gospel Matthew 20.1-16
please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.‟ Jesus said to his disciples: „The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner
And the LORD said, „Is it right for you to be angry?‟ Then Jonah went who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.
out of the city and sat down east of the city, and made a booth for
himself there. He sat under it in the shade, waiting to see what would After agreeing with the labourers for the usual daily wage, he sent them
become of the city. The LORD God appointed a bush, and made it into his vineyard. When he went out about nine o'clock, he saw others
come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his standing idle in the market-place; and he said to them, “You also go into
discomfort; so Jonah was very happy about the bush. But when dawn the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” So they went. When
came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, he went out again about noon and about three o'clock, he did the same.
so that it withered. When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east
wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint And about five o'clock he went out and found others standing around;
and asked that he might die. He said, „It is better for me to die than to and he said to them, “Why are you standing here idle all day?” They said
live.‟ But God said to Jonah, „Is it right for you to be angry about the to him, “Because no one has hired us.” He said to them, “You also go
bush?‟ And he said, „Yes, angry enough to die.‟ Then the LORD said, into the vineyard.” When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said
„You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labour and to his manager, “Call the labourers and give them their pay, beginning
which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a
night. And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in with the last and then going to the first.” When those hired about five
which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who o'clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage. Now when
do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?‟ the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them
also received the usual daily wage. And when they received it, they
Second Reading Philippians 1.21-30 grumbled against the landowner, saying, “These last worked only one
hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden
For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. If I am to live in the flesh,
that means fruitful labour for me; and I do not know which I prefer. I am of the day and the scorching heat.” But he replied to one of them,
hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with “Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the
Christ, for that is far better; but to remain in the flesh is more usual daily wage? Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to
necessary for you. Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain this last the same as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose
and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in faith, so that I
with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?”
may share abundantly in your boasting in Christ Jesus when I come to
you again. So the last will be first, and the first will be last.‟