Newsletter for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity

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Our Church is OPEN for public worship and private prayer.

Whilst places no longer need to be booked for Sunday worship, please do not attend if you feel unwell or have any Covid-like symptoms.  Masks may be worn if you prefer.

Our broadcast service of 10 am Sunday Eucharist will continue to be live-streamed and available to watch at any time:-

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Newsletter for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity

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https://starvanschurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Newsletter_14jul2024.pdf

Our Church is OPEN for public worship and private prayer.

Whilst places no longer need to be booked for Sunday worship, please do not attend if you feel unwell or have any Covid-like symptoms.  Masks may be worn if you prefer.

We hope to be able to LiveStream our Service again tomorrow and hope to be able to welcome Fr. Michael back with us in person following his bereavement and leg fracture.

Our broadcast services of 10 am Sunday Eucharist and 8pm Night Prayer on Wednesday.  These will continue to be live-streamed and available to watch at any time:-

St. Arvan’s Parish group | Chepstow | Facebook

Newsletter for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity

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We regret we will be unable to live stream our Service again, this week.

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The Funeral Service for the late Kate Price Gollop will take place at St. Mary’s Priory Church, Chepstow at 3.30pm on Friday 12th July 2024.

The Burial will take place at 1pm on Saturday 13th July at Llanddewi, Aberarth, Aberaeron, Ceredigion SA46 OLT

By request, No flowers please, but donations, in lieu in Memory of Kate may be sent to the Royal Society of Musicians via Philip Blatchly, 4 Station Road, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16 5PB

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There is a Memorial Book in St. Arvans Church for those wishing to remember Kate.

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We are pleased to announce that Fr Michael is making good progress following a fracture to his leg, some 2 weeks ago. Please continue to remember him in your Prayers at this most difficult time.

Newsletter for the 30th June – Kept as the Feast of St Peter and St. Paul

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https://starvanschurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NEWSLETTER_30jun2024.pdf

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KATE PRICE GOLLOP

It is with the deepest regret, shock and sadness that we have to advise the death this week of our dear Kate.

Fr. Michael posted the following on Facebook on Thursday evening:-

” Our beloved Kate, phenomenal ‘cellist and musician, and phenomenal human being, died today (Thursday) at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.   Despite the valiant efforts of her medical team over the last three weeks, it was impossible to save her life.   She was unique and irreplaceable.  Please pray for her, and for those of us who are left behind who will struggle to live up to her example.   

Michael xxx ” 

Newsletter for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity

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Fr Michael’s wife, Kate Price, remains in Intensive Care in Bristol but has made some promising progress during the latter part of this week.

Fr Michael has, sadly, had an accident during the week and has suffered a fractured leg so is currently on crutches.

We continue to remember Kate and Fr Michael, in our prayers.

The 10.00am Eucharist will take place at St. Arvans this Sunday, as usual. It is unlikely that we will be able to live-stream it, this week.

This evening’s talk on The Camino – POSTPONED

Please note that due to last week’s severe respiratory illness of Fr Michael and his wife, the proposed talk on Fr Michael’s Pilgrimage Walks has had to be postponed to a later date.

Friday’s talk in Church about the extraordinary Revd. Dr Arthur Purchas, born in St. Arvans in 1821 and an early missionary to New Zealand, will take place, as advertised. Please see link to poster, below:-

https://starvanschurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/St-Arvans_Poster-for-Purchas-Talk.pdf

Newsletter for the Second Sunday after Trinity

It is not possible to publish our usual Newsletter this week since both Fr Michael and Kate have been ill all week and Kate is currently very poorly and in hospital. Please remember them in your Prayers.

Please find the Readings, below:-

Sunday 9th June 2024       2nd Sunday after Trinity

Collect

Lord, you have taught us that all our doings without love are nothing worth:  send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before you.  Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

A reading from  the 1st Book of Samuel (8.4-11, [12-15,] 16-20 [; 11.14, 15])

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, ‘You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.’

            But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, ‘Give us a king to govern us.’ Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you. Now then, listen to their voice; only – you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.’

            So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, ‘These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;

            ‘He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.’

            But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, ‘No! but we are determined to have a king over us.’

            Samuel said to the people, ‘Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.’ So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.

This is the word of the Lord.

            Thanks be to God.

Psalm 138

            Your loving-kindness, O Lord, endures for ever.

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart;  before the gods will I sing praise to you.  I will bow down towards your holy temple and praise your name, because of your love and faithfulness;  for you have glorified your name and your word above all things.

            Your loving-kindness, O Lord, endures for ever.

In the day that I called to you, you answered me;  you put new strength in my soul.  All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O Lord, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

            Your loving-kindness, O Lord, endures for ever.

They shall sing of the ways of the Lord, that great is the glory of the Lord.  Though the Lord be high, he watches over the lowly;  as for the proud, he regards them from afar.

            Your loving-kindness, O Lord, endures for ever.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will preserve me;  you will stretch forth your hand against the fury of my enemies;  your right hand will save me.  The Lord shall make good his purpose for me;  your loving-kindness, O Lord, endures for ever;  forsake not the work of your hands.

            Your loving-kindness, O Lord, endures for ever.

A reading from the 2nd letter to the  Corinthians   (4.13 – 5.1)

But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture – ‘I believed, and so I spoke’ – we also believe, and so we speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence. Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

            So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

            For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

This is the word of the Lord.

            Thanks be to God.

Listen to the Gospel of Christ according to St Mark   (3.20 – 35)

            Glory to you, O Lord.

And the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his mind.’ And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, ‘He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.’

            And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.

            ‘Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin’ – for they had said, ‘He has an unclean spirit.’

            Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you.’

            And he replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’

This is the Gospel of the Lord.

            Praise to you, O Christ.

Parish Newsletter for Corpus Christi

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https://starvanschurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PARISH-NEWSLETTER_02jun2024.pdf

Our Church is OPEN for public worship and private prayer.

Whilst places no longer need to be booked for Sunday worship, please do not attend if you feel unwell or have any Covid-like symptoms.  Masks may be worn if you prefer.

Our broadcast services of 10 am Sunday Eucharist and 8pm Night Prayer on Wednesday.  These will continue to be live-streamed and available to watch at any time:-

St. Arvan’s Parish group | Chepstow | Facebook

We apologise it was not possible to upload the Newsletter for last Sunday, TRINITY SUNDAY, for completeness, it is attached on the Link, below:

https://starvanschurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PARISH-NEWSLETTER_26may2024.pdf

Parish Newsletter for Pentecost

Please click on the Link, below for the Parish Newsletter and Services:

https://starvanschurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PARISH-NEWSLETTER_19may2024.pdf

Our Church is OPEN for public worship and private prayer.

Whilst places no longer need to be booked for Sunday worship, please do not attend if you feel unwell or have any Covid-like symptoms.  Masks may be worn if you prefer.

Our broadcast services of 10 am Sunday Eucharist and 8pm Night Prayer on Wednesday.  These will continue to be live-streamed and available to watch at any time:-

St. Arvan’s Parish group | Chepstow | Facebook