Sunday 14th June 2026 – Services at Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, and Glenholt – All are welcome

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.

Sunday, 14th June 2026

2nd Sunday after Trinity

The Collect

⁷ But after a while the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁹ ‘Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.’ ¹⁰ So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and said, ‘Bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.’ ¹¹ As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, ‘Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.’ ¹² But she said, ‘As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.’ ¹³ Elijah said to her, ‘Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your son. ¹⁴ For thus says the Lord the God of Israel: The jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ ¹⁵ She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days. ¹⁶ The jar of meal was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.

8 We want you to know, brothers and sisters,^[a] about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia; ² for during a severe ordeal of affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. ³ For, as I can testify, they voluntarily gave according to their means, and even beyond their means, ⁴ begging us earnestly for the privilege^[b] of sharing in this ministry to the saints— ⁵ and this, not merely as we expected; they gave themselves first to the Lord and, by the will of God, to us,

³⁸ As he taught, he said, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the market-places, ³⁹ and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honour at banquets! ⁴⁰ They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.’
 
⁴¹ He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. ⁴² A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. ⁴³ Then he called his disciples and said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. ⁴⁴ For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.’
 

Post Communion

Gracious God,
through this holy meal
you remind us of the riches of your kingdom:
deliver us from pride and selfishness,
and shape in us the humble generosity
that reflects the life of Christ;
who is alive and reigns for ever.
Amen.