Weekly Notices, Mothering Sunday, 14 March 2010
Laying on of hands and anointing: for healing of mind, body and spirit is available after 10.30 worship every Sunday in the South Transept (to the right of the pulpit). You will not be invited to say specifically why you seek this ministry, though you are welcome to do so if you wish. You are also welcome to request prayer on behalf of someone else, in addition to or instead of yourself. Invitations to Holy Week and Easter:for families, friends, neighbours, colleagues. Take as many as you can use. It’s only a fortnight to Palm Sunday! Easter flowers:please make a donation for flowers in the dish so labelled. The Electoral Roll is the list of St Thomas members and entitles you to vote at the Annual Church meeting at on 25 April. Regular worshippers should apply so that the number on the Roll reflects the actual membership of the church. Those who are not members of St Thomas but are members of a church which believes in the Holy Trinity may apply to St Thomas’ Roll. Those who applied in 2008 or 2009 need not apply again until 2014. Application forms (at the back) should be completed and returned to the Electoral Roll officer, Sallie Milnes (620 7637) by 28 March – Palm Sunday. Alternatively, forms may be given to Andrew, May or Graham. “All you want to know about our organ” is a file prepared by our organist David Brocklehurst. It’s at the back. Self-denial and financial giving:one destination could be Oldham Unity’s legal fund. There are not enough Legal Aid asylum lawyers, and the majority of these are in London, while most asylum-seekers are in the North. So Oldham Unity wants to buy initial opinions from a private asylum lawyer at approx £250 each, to establish whether a client has any case. If so, a Legal Aid firm will save time in deciding whether to take cases. Alternatively, clients are given money to travel to a London lawyer. There will be a retiring collection during Lent. Drama in Healingled by actress Angela Weir with prayer for healing available. TodayatRoman Road Church, Failsworth. Faith Lunch at 12.30, session at 2pm. The Dachau Crucifix has come out of store and is on loan to St Anne’s,Royton. There will be a Service of Blessing, Reflection and Penitence, led by Bishop Mark, on Wednesday 24 March at 7pm. Easter experience:please would last year’s builders re-assemble their tableaux between 22 and 27 March? Also, would they host/introduce their tableaux to St Thomas School Year 5 children at 1.30pm on Tuesday 30 March, or arrange deputies? ‘The Narrow Road’:Riding Lights Christian Theatre Company’s Passion Play at the Cathedral on Sunday 14 March, 7pm. Details in February Crux inside parish magazine, p7. “In the Footsteps of St Paul”:cruise in the Aegean Sea with teaching and worship, March 2011, led by Richard Lindsey, Vicar of Mossley. Details in the porch. Vicarage phone:there is now only one number – 0161 678 8926.
THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER REQUESTS
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