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Holy Week
 
During Holy Week we take quite a journey from suffering and death to triumph and victory.  Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday where we celebrate the triumphant entry of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, into Jerusalem, riding a donkey. On that day, the people laid palms before Him, a gesture reserved for triumphant leaders. We celebrate this by distributing palms to keep them for a time for use as devotional objects.  The next major event in Holy Week is Holy Thursday. On this day, Jesus celebrated the Passover feast with the disciples. We know this feast as the Last Supper. This is the night He was betrayed by Judas and arrested.  The next day is Good Friday, and on this day, we commemorate the trial, punishment, and crucifixion of Our Lord.  On that morning, Jesus was brought before Annas, a powerful Jewish cleric and was presented to Pilate for trial. Although Pilate found no guilt in Jesus, he agreed to have him crucified to appease the crowd of people and prevent a riot.  Christ was stripped, flogged, and crowned with thorns. He was then forced to carry His Cross to the place of His execution. There, He was nailed to the Cross between two thieves who were likewise crucified. Late that afternoon, seeking to ensure Christ's death, a Roman guard stabbed him in his side with a spear. When Jesus died, an earthquake is said to have occurred as well as a great darkness which covered the land. Suddenly, many people knew Jesus was the Son of God.  Jesus was taken and laid in a borrowed tomb, in accord with Jewish law, which required the dead be buried by sundown before the Sabbath.  However this was not to be the end of things.  On Easter Sunday, the day on which it was discovered the Tomb was empty, our Lord was resurrected, triumphing over death once and for all time. 
 
Do join us at any of services – both online and in church – as we journey together with our Lord through Holy Week.

Blessings
Trevor Wyatt
 
Holy Week Services
 
Palm Sunday

(there will be Palm crosses available at all services in church)

9.15am - Holy Communion in Church
9.30am - Facebook service
11am - Holy Communion in Church
6pm - Evensong in Church

 
Monday

9am - Morning Prayer on Facebook
8pm - Night Prayer (Compline) on Facebook

 
Tuesday

9am - Morning Prayer on Facebook
8pm - Night Prayer (Compline) on Facebook

 
Wednesday
9am - Morning Prayer on Facebook
10.30am - Holy Communion in church
8pm - Night Prayer (Compline) on Facebook

 
Maundy Thursday

9am - Morning Prayer on Facebook
8pm - Holy Communion in Church
Good Friday

9am - Morning Prayer on Facebook
11am - Family Service in Church
12noon - Stations of the Cross on Zoom
2pm - Last Hour at the Cross in Church
Easter Sunday
 
9.15am - Holy Communion (BCP) in Church
9.30am - Facebook Service
11am - Holy Communion in Church
6pm - Holy Communion in Church

Click here for The Collects in Lent

The Collect for Palm Sunday

 

Almighty and everlasting God,

who in your tender love towards the human race

sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ

to take upon him our flesh

and to suffer death upon the cross:

grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility,

and also be made partakers of his resurrection;

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.

Sunday 28th March – Palm Sunday
 
9.15 Holy Communion (BCP)
Rev Trevor Wyatt / Vicky
Darton-Bigg


Psalm: 118:19-end
Gospel : Mark 11: 1-11


11am Holy Communion
Rev Trevor Wyatt / Vicky
Darton-Bigg


Psalm: 118:19-end
Gospel : Mark 11: 1-11


6pm BCP Evensong
Neil Bunker

Psalm: 69: 1-20
Old Testament: Isa 5: 1-7

New Testament: Mark 12: 1-12

Wednesday 31th March at 10.30am
Holy Communion
Rev Trevor Wyatt

Psalm: 70
Old Testament: Heb 12: 1-3

New Testament: John 13: 21-32

For those of you not able to attend church there is also:-
 
9.30am Online Facebook Service
(Richard Percival)
Psalm: 118:19-end
Gospel : Mark 11: 1-11


11.30 am Phone Only Service (Andy Golds)
PRAYER LIST - 28th March 2021
 
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR MISSION PARTNERS:
The Bible Society, Christian Aid and the Town Centre Chaplaincy
 
PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED:
 
Christine Blackham
(Sister of Tony Duck)      
Christine Kelly      Jackie Hawkins  
Sarah Dunn Michael Baker   Malcolm Gregory    
Ann Batchelor Sheila Jarvis Bishop Given
  Nigel Vasoff Dudley Graham
 
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 Maria Martin    
 
PRAYING FOR THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED:
 
David Hall (29/3)  
Marjorie Yarrow (6/4)  
Gordon Jeffrey (8/4)  
Ronald Powell (8/4)  
Margaret Thomas (20/4)  
Kathleen Claxton (28/4)  
Gladys Davis (11/5)  

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED
 
Den Howell
Leslie Mitchell
Viktor Hila
Alan Bowyer
Edna Clewes
Daphne Bone
Terry Adams

 
Favourite hymns: I come with joy, a child of God
by Rachel Miles

It has been a joy to be back in church over the past few Sundays: to be able to meet with our fellow Christians and to receive communion together (albeit with the provisos of limited numbers, social distancing and communion of one kind only). The words of this beautiful hymn by the modern hymn writer Brian Wren really capture the essence of the communality of the service of Holy Communion, particularly in terms of the bond that is formed between us when we meet round the Lord's Table. I have always been struck by one particular verse:

As Christ breaks bread and bids us share, | Each proud division ends.
The love that made us makes us one, | And strangers now are friends.


The first time I came across this verse I thought "what lovely words – but if only that were true!": we all know that, unfortunately, divisions don't miraculously end at the communion rail, and we don't all automatically become lifelong buddies. But what the hymn is reminding us is that we become bound as one by the act of communion: as the priest says in the service: 'Though we are many we are one body, because we all share in one bread.' This bond is not merely a friendship but a relationship akin to a family tie – something that can’t be undone.
We all have our special friends at church – those we like and naturally gravitate towards after the service – but we sometimes forget that we have this inextricable bond with every member of our congregation, including those we don't know and (dare I say it?) those we don't like very much! So perhaps, when life finally gets back to normal and we are again able to meet in larger numbers and kneel together round the Lord’s Table, we could think on the words of this hymn and try to get to know more of our church family members

I come with joy, a child of God, | Forgiven, loved, and free,
The life of Jesus to recall, | In love laid down for me.
I come with Christians far and near | To find, as all are fed,
The new community of love | In Christ's communion bread.

As Christ breaks bread and bids us share, | Each proud division ends.
The love that made us makes us one, | And strangers now are friends.

The spirit of the risen Christ, | Unseen, but ever near,
Is in such friendship better known: | Alive and among us here.

Together met, together bound, | By all that God has done,
We'll go with joy, to give the world | The love that makes us one.
PARISH PERAMBULATIONS! 
By Marilyn Ormes 
Photographs by Roy Humphrey 

Continuing my walk from south to north of the Parish, on leaving the Steeple Gardens I arrived in the Broadway and walked along Church Road.   A little way along I turned into the Cemetery and had a peaceful walk around it.  I gave thanks for the lives of all those buried there and all the things they achieved and the people whose lives they touched.

Returning to the road, I passed The Volunteer pub on the left hand side.  Apparently this pub used to be called The Rising Sun.  My interest in it stems from a family connection.  John’s grandmother came from a family of bakers, mostly based in the Rochester area.  This grandmother had a cousin, Lenna, who married Charles Henry Burch.  After the wedding Lenna and Charles moved to Bexleyheath where they had a baker’s shop at 138 Broadway.   Their children were baptised in Christ Church.  At some point after 1911 they took over as licensees of The Volunteer.   Their son John married in Christ Church in 1930 and his address on the marriage certificate is 46 Church Road – the address of The Volunteer.  Charles died on 9 March 1933 at the Guy, Earl of Warwick in Welling where the licensee was Frank Guy Burch – presumably a relative.    Lenna took over the licence of the Volunteer but lived with her son Charles at 71 Church Road until her death in 1960.  John and his wife managed The Volunteer on her behalf and brought their family up there.
A little further along I passed Upland School (established in 1894) and prayed for the staff and the children as they resume their education.  And although I mourned the loss of the old building, I gave thanks that there is still investment in our schools. 

Nearly at the end of my walk, I came to Station Road and turned left into it to walk along the northern boundary of our parish.  I passed the Royal Mail sorting office and prayed for the staff employed there; further along I came to the almost deserted railway station and prayed for railway staff facing an uncertain future after the huge loss of income caused by the pandemic
My walk ended outside the William Camden pub, built in 1956 and named after the 17th century historian who lived in Chislehurst and owned the land on which the pub now stands.  He wrote ‘Britannia’, a survey of the whole of Great Britain and Ireland.  So although I was standing in Bexleyheath, I felt connected to the world!
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