Tewkesbury Abbey Third Sunday after Trinity 2 July 2017

8.00am

We would be happy to bring you communion in your seat - please tell a sidesman before the start of the service. Holy Communion (Lady Chapel) Collect and Readings for Third Sunday after Trinity Book of Common Prayer

There is a quiet play area set up in the North Aisle for pre-school children and their parents during the 9.15am and 11am services. LINK for children will not be meeting today.

9.15am 10.15am

11.00am 3.00pm

5.00pm

9.15 Together Eucharist with the commissioning of Young Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey Parish Breakfast will be served in the Visitor Centre

Festal Eucharist with the commissioning of Young Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey followed by a ‘Bring and Share’ Lunch in the Parish Hall Friends’ Talk ‘40 years of Musica Deo Sacra’ by David Ireson

Choral Evensong

For Your Prayers Those who were married this weekend Jodie Rebecca Nicks & Benjamin John Homans Stephanie Kay Higgs & Lewis Ronald David Gore The Baptism of Harrison Steven David Gore and Lewis Gore The Sick Patricia Burford, Vicky Clokey, Gordon Long, Judith Smith

The Departed Phyllis Adcock, Michael Carrigan, Andy Courtney, Karen Mavity, Stephen Moore, Babies Noah and Willow Hinde, Baby Alexander Year’s Mind Ralph Milway, Ray Lane, Mary Tolley, Lawrence Gameson, Joan Hawkes, May Hobby, Ellen Woolley, Keith McKewan

Volunteers needed for Medieval Festival Mission, 8 & 9 July During this year’s Medieval Festival we will once again be having a marquee at the festival itself as Tewkesbury Churches Together. We will be offering family craft activities, Bible story telling, hospitality with refreshments and a place to have a rest and a chat together with healing prayer. We would love you to come and help in whatever way you can – we need volunteers to help with construction/ break down before and after, family craft activities, tea & coffee making and story telling. You will find rotas at the back of the Abbey together with a form for your contact details. If you can help with this event please get in touch with Revd Wendy Ruffle or Revd Ed direct.

TEWKESBURY ABBEY LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITALS Tuesdays at 1pm 4 July Carleton Etherington (Tewkesbury Abbey) 11 July Jeremy Blasby (Assistant, Newport Cathedral) 18 July William Peart (Organ Scholar, St Mary’s, Warwick) 25 July Alexander Ffinch (Cheltenham College)

Admission free – retiring collection For a forthcoming documentary about the Abbey there will be some filming during today's High Mass and Choral Evensong.

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Tuesday 11 July 8pm Classical Mixtape Two 40 minutes sets performed by We would greatly appreciate jam jars for special Music Festival guests. the craft activities Jean Day, 294940, will collect or you can leave jars with the Get a drink from the bar, stand, sit or Vergers or in the Office. lie where you like, relax and enjoy as each piece of music come to you from Do you have a spare room? a different stage in sequenced, We need a couple more hosts for uninterrupted bliss. singers during Musica Deo Sacra A new way to listen, look and 31 July to 6 August. The singers need experience. bed and breakfast but are self sufficient Pay what you can from just £1 otherwise. Fr Paul. Tower Tour Guides Are you looking for a summer job? We are hoping to run tower tours through the summer and need guides who can lead the tours. This will be a paid role and details are available from Philippa Shaw in the Abbey Office.

Wednesday 12 July 7pm Jody Talbot in Conversation Lady Chapel Wednesday 12 July 8pm Tenebrae Jody Talbot’s Path of Miracles

FRIENDS' FESTIVAL Abbey Family News After the 11.00am Festal Eucharist It is with great sadness that I inform you there is a Bring and Share lunch of the death of Michael Carrigan. at which all are welcome. Michael was a former Head Server and The Friends' AGM will take place after teacher at the Abbey School. lunch followed at about 3.00pm by a His funeral was last week. talk from David Ireson entitled Fr Paul "The Journey of a Musical Lifetime An invitation! 40 years of Musica Deo Sacra". Revd Ed’s Ordination to Priest You do not need to be a Friend to come Saturday 15 July at 3pm, along to David's talk. Gloucester Cathedral Visit to Southwell Minster You are invited to come and celebrate the coach leaves the Crescent promptly Ed’s ordination to the priesthood with at 8.30am on Monday 3 July. us all at the Cathedral at 3pm on Graham Finch Saturday 15 July and then afterwards for a BBQ at the Celebrate house at Tewkesbury Churches Together 89 York Road, Priors Park GL20 5HE. A warm welcome is extended to members of all congregations’ part of We hope you are able to join us at the Cathedral and party and in praying for Tewkesbury Churches Together Ed, Kathryn and Noah for this next part for the Forum AGM & Meeting to be of their journey together in Christ. held at Tewkesbury Baptist Church 7.30pm on 3 July 2017. If you would like to give a donation towards a gift for Ed, please would you Sunday 9 July 6.15pm pass it to one of the Church Wardens See the Associazione or drop into the Abbey Office. Sbandieratori Di Arezzo, Flag Waving Troupe from Italy, perform on the Abbey Lawns. FREE ENTRY

Tewkesbury Abbey Theological Forum The next meeting of the Forum will be on Wednesday 19 July When Spen Instone will be leading a discussion on Mary Magdalene - The Betrayal of Women by the Early Church This should prove to be an interesting and thought provoking evening We meet as usual in the Abbot’s Parlour at 7.30pm. All are welcome. Entrance is free.

Very many thanks Wendy and Paul Abbey Clock Apologies that the clock is not chiming the hours but time is right!

Foodbank We now need fruit juice, tinned fruit and pasta sauce, please.

Abbey Office: 01684 850959 [email protected]

Is available to collect from the back of the Abbey or can be downloaded from the Diocesan website www.gloucester.anglican.org

SERVICES AND EVENTS THIS WEEK

Monday 3 - Thomas the Apostle 8.30am Morning Prayer (St John the Baptist & St Catherine) 11.00am Funeral of Andy Courtney 12.30pm Holy Communion (St Margaret) 5.30pm Evening Prayer (St Margaret) Tuesday 4 8.00am Morning Prayer (St Margaret) 8.30am Holy Communion (Lady Chapel) 1.00pm Organ Recital - Carleton Etherington 5.30pm Evening Prayer (St Margaret) Wednesday 5 8.30am Morning Prayer (St John the Baptist & St Catherine) 5.30pm Choral Evensong sung by Leominster Choral Society 7.00pm Holy Communion (St John the Baptist & St Catherine) Thursday 6 - Thomas More, scholar, and John Fisher, bishop, martyrs, 1535 8.30am Morning Prayer (St John the Baptist & St Catherine) 10.30am Holy Communion - Book of Common Prayer (Lady Chapel) 5.30pm Evening Prayer (St Margaret) 6.30pm Junior Choir Practice (Camera Cantorum) 7.30pm Bell Ringing Practice (Tower) 7.30pm GIFT Committee Meeting (Fitzhamon Room) Friday 7 7.30am Morning Prayer (St Margaret) 8.00am Holy Communion (St Margaret) 10.30am POPITs (Parish Hall) 3.00pm Thanksgiving Service for Karen Mavity 5.30pm Evening Prayer (St Margaret) 7.00pm Choir Practice (Camera Cantorum) Saturday 8 - Battle weekend 8.30am Morning Prayer (St John the Baptist & St Catherine) 9.00am Holy Communion (St John the Baptist & St Catherine) 9.30am Peal Attempt 10.00am Craft in Action (Visitor Centre) c.7.30pm Compline Sunday 9 - Fourth Sunday after Trinity 7.30am Morning Prayer (St John the Baptist & St Catherine) 8.00am Holy Communion Book of Common Prayer (Lady Chapel) 9.15am Parish Eucharist on the Battlefield 11.00am Sung Eucharist 2.30pm Holy Baptism of Amelia Jane Redding 5.00pm Choral Evensong 6.15pm Flag Troupe (Abbey Lawns)