Parishes of Bickleigh and Shaugh Prior Parish Sunday 28th June 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt – All are welcome

Sunday 28th June 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt – All are welcome

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Sunday 28th June 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt – All are welcome

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


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NOTICES:

Funeral Service for Maureen Lucy Lillicrap to be held at St Edward King and Martyr, Shaugh Prior on Friday 26th June at 1pm.

Baptisms of Ovie Jeffery and Maisie-Mae Davies to be held at St Mary The Virgin, Bickleigh on Sunday 28th June at 11.15am (no service).

 

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Life in our churches and communities

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Weather Alerts

With weather alerts being issued, the extreme temperatures pose a real risk to health for many.  Our older residents, young children, and those with underlaying health conditions are particularly vulnerable.  

Please let us look out for each other and if we are worried about any in our community, do check on them, and if you are in need of help, please reach out.  We are all one family. 

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Domestic Abuse Safeguarding Training

Good news – there is an in-person local training session coming up!  If you are in a position of Leadership in the Church it is an important one to attend!  Delegates can book here.

It is running in Methodist Central Hall Plymouth 22nd July 10am -1pm

Strongly recommended training for all in leadership!  Having asked for local ones – there are still places available so good to support and encourage the team to hold more in person training our way!

Recommended for licensed clergy and curates, Licensed Lay Ministers and Readers, Ordinands, Parish Safeguarding Representatives, Roles that work with children and or vulnerable adults, and other specified parish roles.

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Shaugh Prior Village Hall needs your help!

They would love to create a hall history book, and would love to go back as far as possible.

There are so many people still in our lovely parish who have such wonderful knowledge and we are reaching out to you in the hope we can gather as much info as possible.

Things like the date the hall was built, who was involved, a list of previous chairs, any big events the hall was part of, photos would also be amazing!

We would really appreciate it if you shared this post so we can reach as many people as possible who may be able to help fill in years of gaps!!

Any info or photos you can share with us can either be emailed on shaughpriorvillagehall@gmail.com or passed to any of the committee at our monthly coffee mornings!

Thank you 😊

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St Mary’s Church Christian Library
 

We successfully applied for a grant from Speaking Volumes Book Grant Scheme last year and received a generous grant of £250.

This is available to community organisations to buy Christian books that can inspire, uplift, and transform lives, and to enhance their community spaces.

Rev. Jo, Jo Carpenter and Grace chose 22 books from the Eden online christian bookshop and now they have been stamped and installed in a donated bookcase in St Mary’s, next to the Choir stall.

The books vary in topics from grief, suffering, prayer to faith, for new or lifelong Christians, for toddlers, teen and adults. Please take a look and book out your chosen book on the form for up to one month.

If you have christian books you would like to donate to the library, please contact Grace.

 

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 Weekly Activities

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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 9:30 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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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, Mel, Don, Doreen.

Pray for the Souls of the Recently Departed
Wynneth Happer

Those whose year’s mind occur around this time
Philip Lamb, John Kiver, Brian Needham, Massey Lopes, Beatrice Pyle.

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, 28th June 2026

4th Sunday after Trinity

The Great Commandment — Generosity Towards Others

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The Collect


God of love,
you have taught us that the greatest commandments
are to love you and to love our neighbour:
fill us with your Holy Spirit,
that our lives may overflow with
compassion, mercy, and grace;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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Readings

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Deuteronomy 6. 4-9


 
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
 


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Leviticus 19. 9-18
 


9 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.
11 “‘Do not steal.
“‘Do not lie.
“‘Do not deceive one another.
12 “‘Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
13 “‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor.
“‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.
14 “‘Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the Lord.
15 “‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
16 “‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people.
“‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.
17 “‘Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.
18 “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

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

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1 John 4. 7-21
 


7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

 

 


               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 Mark.

               All:  Glory to you, O Lord.
 


Mark 12. 28-34
 


28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[b] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[c] There is no commandment greater than these.”
32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. 33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
34 When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.


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

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Post Communion


Loving Father,
you have nourished us at your table
with the life of your Son:
send us now into the world to love and serve others in his name,
showing your generosity in word and
deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

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