Sunday 15th March 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:

Ashes Interment

Sandra McEvoy, Friday 27th March 2026 @ 2.30pm, 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.

There will be a sign-up sheet at St Mary’s on Sunday, and more will be explained then!

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Community Talk & Community Market

Thanks to all who came to our Community Talk last Friday and Coffee Morning on Saturday. A fabulous sum of £321.10 was raised.

The next Community Talk and Coffee Morning will be held in May – stay tuned for details!

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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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Thanks again to Lawrence, who kindly took all the donations to PUMA this week.

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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.

Pray for the Souls of the Recently Departed

Those whose year’s mind occur around this time
Alysia Hallam-Dyer, Stan Finnemore, Joyce Gordine.

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, 15th March 2026

Lent 4, Mothering Sunday

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The Collect

God of compassion,
whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary,
shared the life of a home in Nazareth,
and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself:
strengthen us in our daily living
that in joy and in sorrow
we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal;
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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Exodus 2. 1-10

2 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. ²The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him for three months. ³When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. ⁴His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
⁵The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. ⁶When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. ‘This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,’ she said. ⁷Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?’ ⁸Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Yes.’ So the girl went and called the child’s mother. ⁹Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.’ So the woman took the child and nursed it. ¹⁰When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, ‘because’, she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’

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

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Colossians 3. 12-17

¹² As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. ¹³Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. ¹⁴Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. ¹⁵And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. ¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. ¹⁷And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through 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 19. 25b-27

²⁵And that is what the soldiers did.
Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

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

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Post Communion

Loving God,
as a mother feeds her children at the breast
you feed us in this sacrament with the food and drink of eternal life:
help us who have tasted your goodness
to grow in grace within the household of faith;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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