Parishes of Bickleigh and Shaugh Prior Parish Sunday 18th January 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt

Sunday 18th January 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt

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Sunday 18th January 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt

St Edwards, St Mary’s & St Anne’s welcomes you.<!–


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NOTICES:

Funerals

Janet Folley, Thursday 22nd January, 2026 @ 1pm, St Anne’s, followed by burial at St Mary’s.

Albert Jackson, Friday 23rd January, 2026 @ 2.30pm, Room 2, The Park Crematorium

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Life in our churches and communities

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This is a 10 week course to look at our faith, ask questions and help us think about what we believe.  It’s great for those new to thinking about faith – but also a great refresher for those of us who have been round the block a few times too!  We will start with a simple lunch then watch a video and split into groups for discussion. If you might help us with hospitality – making/serving lunch/ washing up, or would just like to come along then please sign up!
If you can bring a friend with you to find out more, think what a difference that could make for them!  Who might you bring along?  
 

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL MEETING, 19TH JANUARY 2026

There will be a Parochial Church Council Committee Meeting on 19th January 2026, so if anyone has anything they would like to raise, please contact one of the Committee members, who will be able to present this at the meeting.  Thank you.

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 Weekly Activities

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New Online Prayer Group

Each Wednesday Rev Jo and Frank will be holding a weekly prayer meeting via Google Meet (video call via your computer’s browser, a bit like Zoom), at 9:00 to 09:30am to pray for one another, our churches, ministers and volunteers.  If you are interested in joining the meeting, please get in touch for the link details. 

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The next collection/delivery is scheduled to take place on 27th January, so if you are planning on donating, please do so close to this date.  Thank you.
 


Ecclesiastical Insurance

If someone takes out a policy with Ecclesiastical Insurance, then the policy holder is able to recommend an Anglican church (or cathedral), including our own churches to receive £130.00.

In addition, they offer a 10% discount for volunteers of registered charities (minimum premiums apply). 

See below for details.

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Regular giving

Thank you to all of you who are donating to our churches! Have you considered setting up a regular donation to support the life and maintenance of our church communities?  Please consider a single or monthly donation.

 Donate now for Bickleigh Parish / Donate now for Shaugh Prior Parish.

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Prayer lists

Those in need of our prayers
Julie, Sophie, Karen, Richard, Judy, Mo, Valerie, Avril, Shirley, Eileen, Pam, Baby Reggie and his family, Steve, Jill, Cathy, Caroline, Sue, Dawn, Anne

Pray for the Souls of the Recently Departed
Albert Jackson, Janet Folley, Mike Pike, Ken Fryer

Those whose year’s mind occur around this time
Joyce Elliott, Ron Boyd

Those whom we love and see no longer and those who have no-one else to pray for them

+Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord
and let light perpetual shine upon them

May they rest in peace
and rise in glory

(please email admin@bspchurches.co.uk with updates to the prayer list)

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Sunday, 18th January 2026

2nd Sunday of Epiphany

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The Collect


Eternal Lord,
our beginning and our end:
bring us with the whole creation
to your glory, hidden through past ages
and made known
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
 

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Readings

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Isaiah 49. 1-7


1Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The Lord called me before I was born, while I was in my mother’s womb he named me. 2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away. 3 And he said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.’ 4 But I said, ‘I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord, and my reward with my God.’
5 And now the Lord says, who formed me in the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honoured in the sight of the Lord, and my God has become my strength – 6 he says, ‘It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.’
7 Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations, the slave of rulers, ‘Kings shall see and stand up, princes, and they shall prostrate themselves, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.’

 


               This is the word of the Lord.
               All:  Thanks be to God.
 

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1 Corinthians 1. 1-9
 


1Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, 5for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind – 6just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you – 7so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

 


               This is the word of the Lord.
               All:  Thanks be to God.

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Gospel Reading


               Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

               All:  Glory to you, O Lord.
 


John 1. 29-42
 


29 The next day he saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, ‘Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30This is he of whom I said, “After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.” 31I myself did not know him; but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be revealed to Israel.’ 32And John testified, ‘I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. 33I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, “He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.” 34And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.’
35 The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, 36and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, ‘Look, here is the Lamb of God!’ 37The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, ‘What are you looking for?’ They said to him, ‘Rabbi’ (which translated means Teacher), ‘where are you staying?’ 39He said to them, ‘Come and see.’ They came and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon. 40One of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41He first found his brother Simon and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (which is translated Anointed). 42He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, ‘You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Cephas’ (which is translated Peter).

 


               This is the Gospel of the Lord.
               All:  Praise to you, O Christ.

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Post Communion

God of glory,
you nourish us with your Word
who is the bread of life:
fill us with your Holy Spirit
that through us the light of your glory
may shine in all the world.
We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
 

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