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The Collect for Mothering Sunday

God of compassion,

whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary,

shared the life of a home in Nazareth,

and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself:

strengthen us in our daily living

that in joy and in sorrow

we may know the power of your presence

to bind together and to heal;

through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,

who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

The Collect for Fourth Sunday of Lent

Merciful Lord,

absolve your people from their offences,

that through your bountiful goodness

we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins

which by our frailty we have committed;

grant this, heavenly Father,

for Jesus Christ’s sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour,

who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

PRAYER LIST - 14th March 2021
 
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR MISSION PARTNERS:
 
SUSIE HART working with CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY to promote training disabled people, around the world and in the UK through the work of “Artizan International” (also Andy, Grace and Rosie) and ALF & HILARY COOPER based in SANTIAGO, CHILE, working with CMS-LATIN AMERICA
 
PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED:
 
Mothers everywhere on this Mothering Sunday.
 

Christine Blackham (Sister of Tony Duck)	Christine Kelly	Jackie Hawkins
Sarah Dunn	Michael Baker	Della O’Sullivan
Ann Batchelor	Sheila Jarvis	Helen O’Sullivan
Maria Martin	Nigel Vasoff	Maggie Upward

 
PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS:
 

Georgina Bowen	Ade Okubule	Edna Passmore	Maureen Hawkins
Martin Robinson	Tricia Dyer	Lorraine Mistry	Colin Souter
Charlie	Megan Ray	Melody Salom	Sylvia Smith
Julie Knight	Sheila Vickers	Vicky Folkes	Theresa Hammond
Susan	Audrey Noy	Edna Bassett	Barbara Perkins
Elliott	Sherry Snowden	Derek Rumsey	Dave Long
Ray Wood	Nick Perfect	Trudi Robinson	Mark & Lydia Fuller
Dawn Brooks	John	Bernard Clewes	Gladys Goodwright
Margaret Cheal

 
PRAYING FOR THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED: 
 

Megan Tobitt (15/3)
Betty Hilless (17/3)
Audrey Dorothy Avery (19/3)	Reece Bigwood (19/3)
John Wallington (22/3)
Victoria Garwood (26/3)
David Hall (29/3)

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED
 
Lillian Donnelley
 

Did you know we have two Flying Pigs in our church? 

Gazing around one day and looking about the church  I saw a stone ‘flying pig’ carved  at the top of one of the rear columns by a window on the north west side of the church.  Wondering what else we had carved into the stone work I saw that my pig had a relative on the south west side of the church.

Why have we got them?  What was the reasoning by the architect in putting them there or was the stone mason bored with time on his hands?  Looking further around our church I saw that we had some ‘flying birds’ carved on the columns on the north and south side of the church.
 
Our church was designed by a chap called William Knight who came from Nottingham in the 1800’s.  With nothing else to do I ‘googled’ the architect’s name and found that he had designed  other churches in and around Nottingham at roughly the same time as he designed our’s.
 
If you look at the websites of St John the Divine in a town called Bulwell, Nottingham and St Michaels Church in  Hoveringham, Nottingham  the photos of their churches both inside and out  look identical to Christ Church.  Wondering  if they had ‘flying pigs’ in their churches  I emailed  photos of our ‘pigs’  to their vicars asking if they had anything similar.  Regrettably they hadn’t. So why was our church singled out by William Knight for this honour?
 
Lincoln Cathedral has its ‘Imp’ with a story as to why he is there and we have or pigs and birds so what’s our story?
Answers on a very small postcard
Well gazing around the church while the sermon is being preached beats using your ipad!
  
Together with (4?) birds.