Sunday 10th May 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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Upcoming Services:

Baptism:

Oscar Carson, Sunday 17th May, 2026 @ St Mary The Virgin, Bickleigh

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Life in our churches and communities

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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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There will be no Artful Crafters this week (7th April), as St Anne’s will be used as a Polling Station at this week’s elections.

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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.

Pray for the Souls of the Recently Departed

Those whose year’s mind occur around this time
Laurence Pascoe, Joan Kirkup, Kathleen Pitcher, Norah Gunn.

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, 10th May 2026

6th Sunday of Easter

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The Collect

God our redeemer,
you have delivered us from the power of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of your Son:
grant, that as by his death he has recalled us to life,
so by his continual presence in us he may raise us to eternal joy;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

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Readings

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Acts 17.22 – 31 †

²²Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, ‘Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. ²³For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown god.” What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, ²⁵nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. ²⁶From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, ²⁷so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸For
“In him we live and move and have our being”;
as even some of your own poets have said,
“For we too are his offspring.”
²⁹Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. ³⁰While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, ³¹because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.’

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

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1 Peter 3.13 – end

¹³Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? ¹⁴But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, ¹⁵but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an account of the hope that is in you; ¹⁶yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. ¹⁷For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. ¹⁸For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, ¹⁹in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, ²⁰who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. ²¹And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

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 14.15 – 21

¹⁵‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. ¹⁷This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
¹⁸‘I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. ¹⁹In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. ²⁰On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’

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

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Post Communion

God our Father,
whose Son Jesus Christ gives the water of eternal life:
may we thirst for you,
the spring of life and source of goodness,
through him who is alive and reigns, now and for ever.

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Sunday 10th May 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt – All are welcome

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