Thursday 2nd April to Sunday 5th April 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt – All are welcome

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

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Life in our churches and communities

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NOTICES:

Baptism

Henry Turner, 19th April 2026, St Mary The Virgin, Bickleigh.

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Volunteers Wanted

Rev Jo is looking for volunteers to assist with the Easter event on Saturday 4th April. She needs help on the various stations, so anyone with a DBS check would be amazing, but she also needs help with baking and serving refreshments.

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QUIET SPACES

Quiet Spaces was fabulous last Friday at Roborough Methodist Church! Led by Pastor Janet and Linda O we reflected on The Mystery of the Spirit. Then afterwards we had our Easter gathering with food and chat! Unfortunately neither Judy nor myself could make it in person – but for the first time we joined by Zoom! It worked so well and Janet is happy to offer this at every meeting for those who cannot make it in person, but would like to come. Thanks to everyone who made yesterday so very special!

Reflection – Some of Pastor Janet’s words are below.
The mystery of the Spirit is not a puzzle to solve – more like an ocean to step into. Jesus describes the Spirit like the wind – you can’t see it, but you can feel it, you can see its effects in the trees, and flowers, and waves, and flags flying, and washing on the line… But there are deeper effects – changed hearts, courage where there was fear, peace that doesn’t make logical sense.
Instead of humans striving upwards to reach God, God moves inward to transform humans from the inside. The Spirit doesn’t override personality or will, yet somehow, mysteriously, empowers and reshapes them. The spirit sets us free. The Spirit is mysterious because it blurs boundaries – it responds to openness, surrender, listening; it can be unsettling but beautiful at the same time……..
Read more at www.Quiet-Spaces.co.uk
Wishing everyone a Blessed Easter

NEWS
If you cannot make a session in person, then we can now (thanks to Pastor Janet) offer an ONLINE ZOOM option. Please let us know if you would like to join that way and we can let you know the Zoom link.

Our next meeting will be 10.30am Friday 24 April 2026 at St Anne’s Church, Glenholt. Our theme will be Spiritual Renewal

Karen G

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Weekly Activities

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New Online Prayer Group – Change of Time

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 9:30 to 10:00am 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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BIBLE STUDY

The Wednesday Bible Study group will be taking a break for two weeks, returning on 22nd April 2026.

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Please note there will be no Craft Club or Games Club this week (2nd/3rd April), as it is Holy Week, but will return next week (9th/10th April).

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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, Eileen, Steve, Jill, Dawn, Anne, Rita, Ray, Diana, Maureen, Mike, Roy, Mel.

Pray for the Souls of the Recently Departed

Those whose year’s mind occur around this time
Shirley Hill, Alf Herod, Mitch Mitchell, Norah Lee, Colin Moore

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, 5th April 2026

Easter

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The Collect

Lord of all life and power,
who through the mighty resurrection of your Son
overcame the old order of sin and death
to make all things new in him:
grant that we, being dead to sin
and alive to you in Jesus Christ,
may reign with him in glory;
to whom with you and the Holy Spirit
be praise and honour, glory and might,
now and in all eternity.

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Readings

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Colossians 3. 1-4

3 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. ²Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, ³for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

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 20. 1-18

20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. ²So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ ³Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. ⁴The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. ⁵He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. ⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, ⁷and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. ⁸Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; ⁹for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. ¹⁰Then the disciples returned to their homes.
¹¹But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; ¹²and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. ¹³They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ ¹⁴When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. ¹⁵Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ ¹⁶Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). ¹⁷Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”’ ¹⁸Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her.

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

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Post Communion

God of Life,
who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son
to the death of the cross,
and by his glorious resurrection
have delivered us from the power of our enemy:
grant us so to die daily to sin,
that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his risen life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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