Service sheet for 21st October

The Christian Community of St Giles-on-the-Hill

welcomes you to worship with them on

Sunday 21st October 2018

Twenty-first after Trinity

When James and John approached Jesus to request the best places in heaven, Jesus told them they did not know what they were asking. As we approach our God today, let us ask God to make clear to us the implications of all our requests.

10.30am Sung Eucharist The service is set out in the white service booklet. The collect and readings are to be found overleaf. Hymns from the Celebration Hymnal.

Introit Hymn 19 All hail the power of Jesus’ name

Psalm 91

Gospel acclamation Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Cantors We do not live by bread alone
But by every word that comes from the mouth of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Priest Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark

All Glory to you, O Lord

Gospel Mark 10:35-45

Priest This is the gospel of the Lord

All Praise to you, O Christ

Offertory Hymn 380 Lord, for tomorrow and its needs

Communion Hymn 187 The Servant King

Recessional Hymn 568 Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder

Organ Voluntary Elgar – Imperial March

Assistants at the Eucharist
Sidespersons Dorothy and Rodney Head Churchwarden Bob Emsell 1st Reading Carole Hill 2nd Reading Nigel Simpson Intercessions Vikkie Shread Chalice Carole Hill Servers Ben Shread and Susan Morris-Prosser Organist Ian Graydon

Readings next Sunday: Isaiah 55:1-11; Psalm 19:7-14; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; John 5:36-47

Deanery Prayer Calendar: St Giles, Norwich – Clergy: Darren Thornton; Synod Reps: Robert Emsell, Patricia Emsell, Karen Kiddell. Please pray that fruitful relationships will grow with St Giles and the West Pottergate estate.

Rector and Rural Dean of Norwich East Canon Darren Thornton, part-time, also UEA Chaplain 01603 623724 d.thornton@uea.ac.uk – day off Monday
Parish Ordinands Annie Blyth; Tracy Williams – on placement at Thorpe Hamlet
Churchwardens Rowena Atkinson (01603 455729) Bob Emsell (01603 439632)
Newsletter Kate Baldry (01362 695503) kate.baldry@btopenworld.com

DIARY FOR THE WEEK
Tuesday 23 October 12 noon Said Mass
Thursday 25 October 7.30pm Interesting Talk (see below)
Friday 26 October 10.00am Said Mass Alfred the Great, 899
Sunday 28 October Bible Sunday 10.30am Sung Parish Mass
British Summertime ends: the clocks go back this Sunday

NOTICES
We welcome any newcomers to our church today. Do make yourself known to the priest or the churchwardens. Do look at the lovely photos at https://stgileschurch.wordpress.com

Newsletter via email – to receive the newsletter as soon as it is produced go to the church website. Click on the FOLLOW box at the bottom of the page and give your email details.

Our Interesting Talk this Thursday by the Rev’d Patrick Jordan is entitled ‘Five Smooth Stones: the Church of England and initiatives toward encouragement of mental health and wellbeing’.

Archbishop Justin’s visit to Norfolk will start on Wednesday 7th November with an ecumenical act of worship at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich. This will be a short (15 minute) service beginning at 12 noon. Everyone from across all the Christian churches is very warmly invited to be part of this.

Christmas Stalls will be on Saturday 24 November from 11am to 1pm. If you can help in any way please speak to Elsie or Rodney. Please encourage all your friends to come along!

Norwich North Deanery Pilgrimage to the Oberammergau Passion Play 2020 If you are interested in going, do contact Stella Noons on 860025 or at midday1940@talktalk.net

Traidcraft will cease trading on 31 December in its present form. Last week Kate gave out an information sheet, and there are spares at the back of church. Please pray for all at Traidcraft.

Publicising events at St Giles on social media If you would like to put your event on Facebook please contact Kevin Michelson (Reader at St George Tombland) and he will advertise it for you – kevinwmitchelson@aol.com Please also ‘follow’ the Deanery/City Facebook page if you don’t already @Norwicheastdeanery. We also have a Twitter account which is @stgilesnorwich

Our October Charity is MIND. You can help to increase our giving to this charity by making a donation (gift-aided if possible) in the collecting box on the table.

Salvation Army Pottergate ARC – please do keep bringing in donations of tins and packets and place them in the box in the Tower Vestry. Many thanks to Elsie and David for organising the delivery of your gifts to the Salvation Army.

Any donations of wine for consumption at church events would be most gratefully received by the Churchwardens. Thank you very much!

Gift Aid envelopes If you donate frequently to the offertory at St Giles you can have a set of buff envelopes on which you are identified by a confidential personal number – no more filling in of envelopes! Our Treasurer, John Baldry, can provide you with a set.

Our Parish Share next year will be £32,249 (up by 2.9% from 2018). Please can you consider prayerfully how you can increase your giving next year so that between us we can manage to cover this increase? Thank you! John Baldry

November is the month for remembering. This year it begins with the All Souls’ Day Mass on Friday 2 November at 10.00am. There is a list at the back of church to record the names of the departed you would like remembered. If you are putting names on the list it would be good if you could make every effort to attend the Mass to pray for them. All Saints will be on Sunday 4th November when the Mass will include a procession, healing ministry and a celebratory glass of wine after the service. The theme of remembering continues on Sunday 11 November as we keep Remembrance Sunday, which will include the reading of the Parish Roll of Honour.

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Service sheet for 14th October

The Christian Community of St Giles-on-the-Hill

welcomes you to worship with them on

Sunday 14th October 2018

Twentieth after Trinity

Jesus warned that those who put their faith in financial wealth will never find God’s kingdom. Let us join in worship today of our God who brings us riches worth more than all the money in the world.

10.30am Sung Eucharist The service is set out in the white service booklet. The collect and readings are to be found overleaf. Hymns from the New English Hymnal.

Introit Hymn 363 Glory in the highest

Psalm 90

Gospel acclamation Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Cantors The word of the Lord endures for ever
The word of the Lord is the good news announced to you

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Priest Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark

All Glory to you, O Lord

Gospel Mark 10:17-31

Priest This is the gospel of the Lord

All Praise to you, O Christ

Offertory Hymn 302 O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray

Communion Hymn 305 Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast

Recessional Hymn 381 Jerusalem the golden

Organ Voluntary Boellman – Sortie

Assistants at the Eucharist
Churchwarden Rowena Atkinson Sidespersons Dorothy and Rodney Head 1st Reading Jillian Buckingham 2nd Reading Sue Prutton Intercessions John Baldry Chalice Kathryn Ives Servers Karen Kiddell and Tim Ives Organist Ian Graydon

Readings next Sunday: Isaiah 53:4-12; Psalm 91:9-16; Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45

Deanery Prayer Calendar: St Andrew, Norwich – Clergy: Martin Young; Outreach worker: Jonathan Piesse. Norwich University of Arts – Chaplain: Martin Young. Besom Charity: Sophie Kozmian-Ledward. Transforming Norwich. Edward Carter, to be instituted and inducted at St Peter Mancroft this evening.

Rector and Rural Dean of Norwich East Canon Darren Thornton, part-time, also UEA Chaplain 01603 623724 d.thornton@uea.ac.uk – day off Monday
Parish Ordinands Annie Blyth; Tracy Williams – on placement at Thorpe Hamlet
Churchwardens Rowena Atkinson (01603 455729) Bob Emsell (01603 439632)
Newsletter Kate Baldry (01362 695503) kate.baldry@btopenworld.com

https://stgileschurch.wordpress.com
Twitter @stgilesnorwich
Facebook @Norwicheastdeanery

DIARY FOR THE WEEK
Today 6.30pm Institution of the Revd Edward Carter as the new Vicar of St Peter Mancroft
Monday 15 October 5.30pm Deanery Prisons Week service at the Cathedral
7.30pm Bible Study at 40 Havelock Rd
Tuesday 16 October 12 noon Said Mass Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, 1555
Wednesday 17 October 5.30pm Evensong at the Cathedral (see notes)
Friday 19 October 10.00am Said Mass Henry Martyn, 1812
Sunday 21 October 21st after Trinity 10.30am Sung Parish Mass

NOTICES
We welcome any newcomers to our church today. Do make yourself known to the priest or the churchwardens. Do look at the lovely photos at https://stgileschurch.wordpress.com
The young people on the Diocesan Ministry Experience Scheme (based in Norwich East Deanery) are very grateful to all at St Giles for the food hamper that they received when they moved into their new home on King Street. The four young people are in the Deanery for a year for ‘Discovery and Discernment’ as they think about their future. They are on placement at various churches across the Deanery.
Prisons Week, Monday 15 October – a Norwich East Deanery service will be held at the Cathedral at 5.30pm. All are welcome. We pray for Norwich Prison, which is within our Deanery, its staff and inmates. “Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them….” See Hebrews 13:1-3.
Our Bible Study on Monday 15 October at 40 Havelock Road will be continuing St Mark’s Gospel from chapter 14 onwards. All are very welcome!
St Giles will be prayed for at the Cathedral Evensong this Wednesday at 5.30pm. The Dean writes “Each day at the Cathedral we pray for the work of this diocese, and, following the Diocesan Calendar of Prayer, pray in turn for each parish in the diocese”. The Cathedral clergy are always glad when people from the parishes come to worship at the cathedral on the day when their parish is being remembered. All are welcome.
Our next Interesting Talk will be on Thursday 25 October at 7.30pm when the Rev’d Patrick Jordan will give a talk entitled ‘Five Smooth Stones: The Church of England and initiatives toward encouragement of mental health and wellbeing’.
Our October Charity is MIND. You can help to increase our giving to this charity by making a donation (gift-aided if possible) in the collecting box on the table.
Today is your last opportunity to recommend a charity that you would like the St Giles PCC to consider supporting next year. Please write your recommendation on the list at the back of church with your name by your request so that PCC members can ask you for more information.
The Good News for Norwich and Norfolk newspaper (Autumn) and The Magazine (Sept/Oct) are available to collect, free, from the back of church.
Gift Aid envelopes If you donate frequently to the offertory at St Giles you can have a set of buff envelopes on which you are identified by a personal number. This maintains confidentiality and means that you don’t have to fill in an envelope whenever you gift aid. Our Treasurer, John Baldry, can provide you with a set of personal envelopes on request.
Our Parish Share next year will be £32,249 (up by 2.9% from 2018). Please can you consider prayerfully how you can increase your giving next year so that between us we can manage to cover this increase? Thank you! John Baldry
Norwich North Deanery Pilgrimage to the Oberammergau Passion Play 2020 If you are interested in going, do contact Stella Noons on 860025 or at midday1940

Service sheet for 7th October

The Christian Community of St Giles-on-the-Hill

welcomes you to worship with them on

Sunday 7th October 2018

Nineteenth after Trinity

Our Lord Jesus Christ is crowned with glory and honour and he calls us his brothers and sisters. He is with us now as we meet to praise God who created all things and who loves us beyond our understanding.

Today’s Mass includes the Ministry of Healing, with the anointing of oil. If you wish to receive healing for yourself or a loved one then please go and sit in the Lady Chapel during the organ voluntary at the end of the Mass.

10.30am Sung Eucharist The service is set out in the white service booklet. The collect and readings are to be found overleaf. Hymns from the New English Hymnal.

Introit Hymn 397 Let us with a gladsome mind

Psalm 8

Gospel acclamation Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Cantors Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening;
You have the words of eternal life.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Priest Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark

All Glory to you, O Lord

Gospel Mark 10:2-16

Priest This is the gospel of the Lord

All Praise to you, O Christ

Offertory Hymn 333 All my hope on God is founded

Communion Hymn 341 Blest are the pure in heart

Recessional Hymn 263 All creatures of our God and King

Organ Voluntary Debussy – Clair de Lune

Assistants at the Eucharist Churchwarden Rowena Atkinson Sidespersons Dot and Rod Head 1st Reading Chris Stokes 2nd Reading Julia de Salis Intercessions Jen Gerrard Chalice John Baldry Servers Kathryn Ives and Jen Gerrard Organist Ian Graydon

Readings next Sunday: Amos 5:6-7. 10-15; Psalm 90:13-17; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31

Deanery Prayer Calendar: All lay people who volunteer across our Deanery, including Churchwardens and PCC members. All those who work with our schools, with assemblies, Open the Book, and other exciting initiatives in our Deanery. Norwich School – Chaplain: Corin Child; City College Norwich – Chaplain: David Lloyd. Thursday’s meeting of the Deanery Synod.

Rector and Rural Dean of Norwich East Canon Darren Thornton, part-time, also UEA Chaplain 01603 623724 d.thornton@uea.ac.uk – day off Monday
Parish Ordinands Annie Blyth; Tracy Williams – on placement at Thorpe Hamlet
Churchwardens Rowena Atkinson (01603 455729) Bob Emsell (01603 439632)
Newsletter Kate Baldry (01362 695503) kate.baldry@btopenworld.com

DIARY FOR THE WEEK
Monday 8 October 10.30am Funeral of Brenda Woods (a former member of St Giles) at St Mary’s Church, Hellesdon, taken by Fr Darren
Tuesday 9 October 12 noon Said Mass
6.30pm Unknown Donors Meeting at the Rectory
Thursday 11 October 7.15pm Deanery Synod Meeting \at St John’s Lakenham – our reps are Bob and Pat Emsell and Karen Kiddell
Friday 12 October 10.00am Said Mass Wilfrid of Ripon, 709
7.30pm Film Club – please see railings outside St Giles for details
Saturday 13 October 11am-3pm West Pottergate Table Top Sale at The Chapel, Douro Place
Sunday 14 October 20th after Trinity 10.30am Sung Parish Mass Traidcraft Stall after Mass
6.30pm Institution of the Revd Edward Carter as the new Vicar of St Peter Mancroft

NOTICES
We welcome any newcomers to our church today. Do make yourself known to the priest or the churchwardens. Do look at the lovely photos at https://stgileschurch.wordpress.com
Many thanks to those who kept the church open for the Heritage Open Days and the Norfolk Churches Trust Annual Cycle Ride and Walk. We had 420 visitors (411 in 2017) and £173.95 was raised for our church funds (£104.38 in 2017). We had lots of lovely comments about the beauty and sacredness of our church.
Table Top Sale – Saturday 13 October The Chapel, Douro Place, 11am – 3pm run by the West Pottergate Island Residents Group. Please pop in and support them! The aim is to mix and mingle with neighbours and friends. Tea, Tombola, Books, and a Bric-a-Brac stall run by Ian Mayers, David and Elsie, representing St Giles. Please feel free to park at the Rectory!
Are you a Strictly Come Dancing fan? On the shows on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October look out for Fr Darren in the audience! He explains, “One of my mates heads up the Sound Department and he kindly got me a ticket. There’s no guarantee that you will see me, but I shall try to sit near the judges and smile throughout!”
Prisons Week, Monday 15 October – a Norwich East Deanery service will be held at the Cathedral at 5.30pm. All are welcome. We pray for Norwich Prison, which is within our Deanery, its staff and inmates. “Remember those who are in prison ….” See Hebrews 13:1-3.
Our next Bible Study will be on Monday 15 October at 7.30pm at 40 Havelock Road. We shall be continuing St Mark’s Gospel from chapter 14 onwards. All are very welcome!
Our next Interesting Talk will be on Thursday 25 October at 7.30pm when the Rev’d Patrick Jordan will talk about C of E initiatives regarding mental health and wellbeing.
Our October Charity is MIND. You can help to increase our giving to this charity by making a donation (gift-aided if possible) in the collecting box on the table at the Charities notice board.
Do you have a recommendation for a charity that you would like the St Giles PCC to consider supporting next year? If so, please write it on the list at the back of church with your name by your request so that PCC members can ask you for more information.
The Good News for Norwich and Norfolk newspaper (Autumn) and The Magazine (Sept/Oct) are available to collect, free, from the back of church.
Gift Aid envelopes If you donate frequently to the offertory at St Giles you can have a set of buff envelopes on which you are identified by a confidential personal number – no more filling in of envelopes! Our Treasurer, John Baldry, can provide you with a set on request.
Our Parish Share next year will be £32,249 (up by 2.9% from 2018). Please can you consider prayerfully how you can increase your giving next year so that between us we can manage to cover this increase? Thank you! John Baldry

Service sheet for 30th September

The Christian Community of St Giles-on-the-Hill

welcomes you to worship with them on

Sunday 30th September 2018

Eighteenth after Trinity

Today we hear Jesus telling his disciples that nothing must distract them or hinder them on their journey into the eternal kingdom of God. Let us offer our praise and thanksgiving to God, praying that the words we say and sing and the thoughts of our hearts and minds will be acceptable to the Lord, who is our strength and our redeemer.

10.30am Sung Eucharist The service is set out in the white service booklet. The collect and readings are to be found overleaf. Hymns from the New English Hymnal.

Introit Hymn 338 At the name of Jesus

Psalm 19

Gospel acclamation Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Cantors We do not live by bread alone,
But by every word that comes from the mouth of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Priest Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark

All Glory to you, O Lord

Gospel Mark 9:38-50

Priest This is the gospel of the Lord

All Praise to you, O Christ

Offertory Hymn 310 We hail thy presence glorious

Communion Hymn 313 Wherefore, O Father, we thy humble servants

Recessional Hymn 425 O love, how deep, how broad, how high!

Organ Voluntary C.S. Lang – Tuba Tune in D major

Assistants at the Eucharist
Sidespersons Dorothy and Rodney Head Servers Jen Gerrard and Kathryn Ives 1st Reading Vikkie Shread 2nd Reading Sheila Spreadbury Intercessions Lesley Warne Chalice Ian Mayers Organist Ian Graydon Churchwarden Bob Emsell

Readings next Sunday: Genesis 2:18-24; Psalm 8; Hebrews 1:1-4. 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16

Deanery Prayer Calendar: St John Old Lakenham & St Paul Tuckswood – Clergy: Paul Rider, Kate Belcher, Rosemary Rayner; Synod Reps: Elaine Taylor, Keith Tovey. All those preparing for Harvest celebrations. The valuable ministry of the Retired Clergy; Bishop’s Officer for Retired Clergy, Widowers, and Widows: Andrew Sangster.

Rector and Rural Dean of Norwich East Canon Darren Thornton, part-time, also UEA Chaplain 01603 623724 d.thornton@uea.ac.uk – day off Monday
Parish Ordinands Annie Blyth; Tracy Williams – on placement at Thorpe Hamlet
Churchwardens Rowena Atkinson (01603 455729) Bob Emsell (01603 439632)
Newsletter Kate Baldry (01362 695503) kate.baldry

https://stgileschurch.wordpress.com
Twitter @stgilesnorwich
Facebook @Norwicheastdeanery

DIARY FOR THE WEEK
Tuesday 2 October 8.15am Home Communion – Barbara Harper
10.30 am College of Canons Meeting
12 noon Said Mass President Revd Maggie Diffey
Friday 5 October 10.00am Said Mass
Sunday 7 October 19th after Trinity 10.30am Sung Parish Mass followed by Ministry of Healing
(Fr Darren is rushing off after Mass for Rural Dean duties at St David’s, Thorpe End)

NOTICES
We welcome any newcomers to our church today. Do make yourself known to the priest or the churchwardens. Do look at the lovely photos at https://stgileschurch.wordpress.com
Fr Darren asks for your prayers on Wednesday. He has been invited to meet with the Prime Minister’s Appointments Secretary (along with many others during the day) to share thoughts about the attributes required in the new Diocesan Bishop. If you have any thoughts on this then please do let Fr Darren know!
The next Traidcraft Stall will be after Mass on Sunday 14 October. The new Autumn catalogue is out – do borrow a copy to browse the new range or take a look online. Kate will be very happy to order items for you, thus saving on delivery charges.
Our next Bible Study will be on Monday 15 October at 7.30pm at 40 Havelock Road. We shall be continuing our study of St Mark’s Gospel from chapter 14 onwards. All are very welcome to come – do speak to Karen Kiddell for more information.
Our next Interesting Talk will be on Thursday 25 October at 7.30pm when the Rev’d Patrick Jordan will give a talk entitled ‘Five Smooth Stones: the Church of England and initiatives toward encouragement of mental health and wellbeing’.
Our September Charity is the Church Army. You can help to increase our giving to this charity by making a donation (gift-aided if possible) in the collecting box on the table. Today is your last opportunity for this.
Your free copy of The Magazine for September/October (including the Diocesan Prayer Calendar that we are encouraged to use in our prayers) is available at the back of church.
Our Parish Share next year will be £32249 – an increase of 2.9% over our 2018 payments. Please can you consider prayerfully how you can increase your giving next year so that between us we can manage to cover this increase? Thank you! John Baldry
Gift Aid envelopes If you donate frequently to the offertory at St Giles you can have a set of buff envelopes on which you are identified by a personal number. This maintains confidentiality and means that you don’t have to fill in an envelope whenever you gift aid. Our Treasurer, John Baldry, can provide you with a set of personal envelopes on request.
Norwich North Deanery Pilgrimage to the Oberammergau Passion Play 2020 If you are interested in going, do contact Stella Noons on 860025 or at midday1940
You can get this weekly newsletter via email as soon as it is published by going to https://stgileschurch.wordpress.com/ and clicking on ‘FOLLOW’ which is at the bottom of the page. Any problems – please speak to Raymond Scott.
Do you have a recommendation for a charity that you would like the St Giles PCC to consider supporting next year? If so, please write it on the list at the back of church with your name by your request so that PCC members can ask you for more information.

For spiritual reflection…..Before we can serve God in the world we need to spend time with God and be resourced by him.