Sunday 12th July 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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Life in our churches and communities

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Bickleigh Down School

As we come to the end of another school year, Bickleigh Down School asked if we would like to contribute to the cost of their Year 6 Leavers Gift (of a cross, presented to each student). At a recent Parochial Church Council meeting, we thought this was a good idea and agreed to making a donation to the school. If you would like to assist and contribute to this collection, please let either Rev Jo, or Heather, the Treasurer know.

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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, Steve, Jill, Dawn, Ray, Diana, Maureen, Mike, Mel, Don, Doreen, Anne-Marie, Dawn.

Pray for the Souls of the Recently Departed

Those whose year’s mind occur around this time
Brenda Small, Clarence Ellis, Ray Twiss, Kathleen Curtis,

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, 12th July 2026

6th Sunday after Trinity

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Readings

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Collect

Merciful God,
you have prepared for those who love you
such good things as pass our understanding:
pour into our hearts such love toward you
that we, loving you in all things and above all things,
may obtain your promises,
which exceed all that we can desire;
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.
Amen.

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Isaiah 55. 10-13

¹⁰For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
¹¹so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
¹²For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
¹³Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

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

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Romans 8. 1-11

⁸There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. ³For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ⁶To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, ⁸and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
⁹But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. ¹⁰But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

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 Matthew.

All: Glory to you, O Lord.

Matthew 13. 1-9, 18-23

¹³That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. ²Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. ³And he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. ⁴And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. ⁵Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. ⁶But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. ⁷Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹Let anyone with ears listen!’

¹⁸ ‘Hear then the parable of the sower. ¹⁹When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. ²⁰As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; ²¹yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away. ²²As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. ²³But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.’

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

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Post Communion

God of our pilgrimage,
you have led us to the living water:
refresh and sustain us
as we go forward on our journey,
in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Sunday 12th July 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt – All are welcome

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