St. Mary's On-line
The church is open at these times:
Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For individual private prayer
All are welcome - Please remember to wear a mask and make sure you sign in
Sunday: Holy Communion streamed from church, 10am, Facebook, Youtube and St Mary’s on the Phone.
After service coffee, 11am on Zoom. For details of how to join email rectorcottingham@icloud.com
or Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87699933573?pwd=d0tWNkRsbXNqUHNSQkphc3B5amM4dz09
Meeting ID: 876 9993 3573
Passcode: 058696
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Wednesday; Midweek Prayer and Coffee, 9. 30am on Zoom. For details of how to join, email rectorcottingham@icloud.com
Daily (except Thursday): Night Prayer from St Mary’s Cottingham on Facebook, @stmaryscottingham
St Mary’s on the Phone: Readings for the week, the Rector’s letter and reflection on the readings, plus Sunday’s service, tel: 01482 765068
The Church of England’s weekly online service can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ArchbishopsCouncil
Here you can find out about what is currently happening in the church together with recent events.
Here is a Palm Sunday reflection by our new Rector https://www.stmarysgreatshelford.org/church/meet-team/ .
The Church of England website https://www.churchofengland.org/ has links to some videos of services and worship resources.
There are more links on its Coronavirus page, at https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches. If you are on Facebook, you may find others there, including some videos of choral evensongs.
See also the St Mary's Facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/stmaryscottingham/
And Radio 3 has its regular choral evensong on a Sunday at 3.00 p.m. (Usually it is a repeat of that broadcast the previous Wednesday at 3.30 p.m.)
The Lent Appeal 2021
The PCC has agreed that there will be a Lent Appeal this year and
I hope there will be full details about it in next week’s e-News.
But, meanwhile, do you have any ideas about raising funds for
the Lent Appeal when we aren’t able to have our usual type of
fund-raising events? Please let me or the Rector or a
Churchwarden have your ideas. Here is one to get us started
(borrowed from something Christian Aid suggests) – have a jam
jar or pot of some kind to hand and put in donations in thanks for
all the good things you have enjoyed that day. For example:
• Each day, put in 20p (or 50p or whatever) for each time
you have filled the kettle from a tap, and pray for those
who have no access to clean running water.
• Each day, put in 20p (or 50p or whatever) for each of your
medicines, and pray for those who do not have access to
free health care and for our own carers and health
professionals.
• Each day, put in 20p (or 50p or whatever) for each meal
you enjoy and pray for those who go hungry.
• Put in 20p (or 50p or whatever) each time you have a
phone call or meeting with a friend, and pray for those
who are lonely or friendless.
• Put in 20p (or 50p or whatever) for each book you have
enjoyed reading, and pray for all the children who are
missing school and for parents trying to cope with home
schooling.
You might prefer to make up your own list of things that suit you
better – but the principle is the same.
Iris Pennie
Click here for the link to THE JOURNAL of The Diocese of York
