Here you will find the details of all our services in Leesfield Parish during this most holy week in the Christian calendar.
We invite everyone to join us on every stage of our journey from Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper with the Disciples, the Crucifixion, and to His glorious Resurrection.
If you are unable to be with us in person, we will be sharing resources from our own parish, Manchester Diocese and the Church of England here on this page, so that you can worship from wherever you are.
Palm Sunday
There will be a Parish Eucharist at 10 am on Sunday the 2nd April at St Thomas' Church, and there will be no service at St Agnes' Church on that day.
We are pleased to welcome Bishop Mark to preach and preside at this service, where we celebrate Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, greeted by crowds waving palms.
We gather in the schoolyard with our palm crosses, and process into church for the Palm Sunday service.
Monday of Holy Week
In the morning, clergy from all around our diocese gather in Manchester Cathedral to renew the vows which they took at their ordination, supported by lay representatives from their parishes.
After the service they collect the Chrism oils, which are used at Baptisms and Confirmations, to take back to their parishes.
Please join us in prayer for those who are called to serve God in our communities.
At 7.30 pm at St Thomas' Church, we have Compline prayer with our Churchwardens Paul and Neil. Please see Wednesday for more information.
Tuesday of Holy Week
Worship for All Generations is at 6.30 pm at St Agnes' Church on Tuesday. This is a family service led by our Authorised Lay Minister Neil Crook, and everyone of "all generations" is most welcome. The focus of this week's gathering is Palm Sunday, for anyone who was unable to attend the Sunday service.
Compline prayers will again be said at St Thomas' Church at 7.30 pm on Wednesday.
Wednesday of Holy Week
The second Worship for all Generations of the week is at 6.30 pm at St Agnes' Church.
As the church is so tiny, we are currently having two services each week to accommodate the number of people attending.
The services are also recorded, and posted on the parish facebook page on Thursday.
Compline Prayer is a short, gentle way to end the day, and will be said at 7.30 pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week at St Thomas' Church, led by your Churchwardens Paul and Neil.
It would be lovely if you could be with us in person, but if that's difficult for you, some of the prayers that we use are shown here so that you can pray with us at home.
Maundy Thursday
Our tradional Maundy Thursday service is at St Thomas' Church at 7.30 pm, with Revd John Faraday.
During this service we re-create the events of Jesus' Last Supper with the disciples. The Communion bread and wine are blessed and placed on the altar, and we are invited to remain and watch for a while with our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Good Friday
On Friday morning at 10.30 am we have our Good Friday Eucharist at St Thomas' Church, with Revd Graham Lindley. We commemorate the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and share the sacrament of Holy Communion.
Representatives from our parish carry a cross to the centre of Lees, and meet with our fellow Christians for the Churches Together Act of Witness at 1 pm. This is a very moving service held in the open air, led by ministers and lay people from all the churches, and we invite everyone from the local community to join us.
Holy Saturday
Our Easter Eve service is at 7.30 pm at St Agnes' Church, with our Area Dean, Revd Daniel Ramble.
We end the emptiness of Holy Saturday by lighting the Paschal Candle from a fire outside, and bringing it in to the church, leading us into the light and joy of the resurrection. We then renew our baptismal vows together around the font, before our first Holy Communion of Easter.
Easter Sunday
There are two services in Leesfield Parish on Easter Sunday - 9.15 am at St Agnes' Church and 11 am at St Thomas' Church, led by Revd Christine Steel.
All are warmly invited to join us on this most holy day for our Eucharistic services.
Families are most welcome, and there will be an Easter Egg hunt for the children. Refreshments are served in the community room after the service, and the Sunday School children will be selling home made buns.
Welcome to our Sunday Worship on the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Our Church Services are at the usual times of 9.15 am at St Agnes' and 11 am at St Thomas'. If you're unable to be with us in person, you can find the Gospel Reading for today, a reflection and prayers below.
Our first hymn this morning is "I Cannot Tell, Why He Whom Angels Worship"
Today's Gospel
John 11: 1-45 Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them.” After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.” Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”
When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
Reflection
Well, what a story we have here. It would no doubt make a good script for a mini drama on TV. We have life and death, loss, grief and suffering. There is tragedy, despair, hopelessness, and people being let down by their friends. But also hope, love and faith.
The whole event starts with a situation we could only describe as a matter of life and death with Lazarus critically ill. In desperation, the sisters Mary and Martha send word to Jesus, the only one who can save Lazarus. It’s like that moment when the clock is ticking in the corner of the screen as the hero is rushing to get there in time, battling against all the odds before a disaster occurs. Everyone is biting their nails as the clock ticks down to see if the devastating event will be avoided.
Except that’s not how this story pans out at all. In this case, the hero doesn’t drop everything and rush to save Lazarus. Yes Jesus is risking his life by going back to Bethany, a place where he has recently been violently driven out from, however, Jesus takes his time and by the time that he arrives it seems to everyone that it is too late. It was 4 days after Lazarus dies that Jesus arrives. [This is significant, because the Jews believed that 3 days their someone dies their soul leaves the body].
How disappointed would the family have been? After all, this was the man who had said, “Ask and you shall receive” You could be forgiven for thinking that they should have felt let down or even betrayed by Jesus.
But despite all that has happened, we see that Martha and Mary both had faith and trust in Jesus. Martha’s faith was indomitable even though she may have had some doubt because Lazarus had been dead so long.
Then we get the happy ending, we learn that it was all part if Jesus’s plan all along, in order that He could give God the Glory and that those whose witnessed would believe that Jesus was truly the Son of God. So time to put the kettle on as the final film credits roll?
Well, as you have a drink, think about a few things that Jesus might want us to take away from this:
Maybe there are times when like Martha, you’ve asked Jesus to help you, and you don’t see or feel Him respond. We need to remember that Jesus won’t always answer when or how we expect, but that doesn’t mean our requests are unheard. Jesus will find a way to use even the most painful and desperate of situations to bring glory to God. He has a plan, even if it’s not obvious!
Or perhaps like Martha you sometimes find it hard to understand something Jesus said, or struggle at times to grasp the of meaning of the Word of God. That is not surprising because, as I’ve said before, for us as humans it is almost impossible to grasp the magnitude of the divinity of God. But through belief in Jesus and with the gift of the Holy Spirit, if we keep faith and continue to walk with Jesus, He will take us to a place where all becomes clear.
Finally, there may be times when you are so full of despair and hopelessness that life is not worth living. That the things you are wrapped up in just won’t let you move on. It is at these times that Jesus is there for you and waiting to offer you new life and loosen those things which bind you. Then, just as the Jews were convinced by the raising of Lazarus, others may also see the change that Jesus makes in you, they too, may come to believe and follow Him.
So, it turns out that this wasn’t a story of life and death after all, it is a story and life and life! As Jesus said to Martha; “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” Paul
Our Prayers
Heavenly Father, thank You for the story of Martha’s unwavering trust and faith in You.
We pray that we too may have the same faith, that though You nothing is impossible.
That through our trust in You, we are able to remain strong in our faith,
even when faced with the worst adversity, pain or suffering.
For You are truly the Resurrection and the life for all who trust in You.
Amen
Our final hymn today is "To God Be The Glory"
Notices
Details of our services for Holy Week and Easter are shown in the poster below. Please note that the Parish Eucharist for Palm Sunday is at 10 am at St Thomas', and there will be no service at St Agnes' on that day.
Welcome to our Sunday Worship in Leesfield Parish on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, also Mothering Sunday. Our Church Services today are at the usual times of 9.15 am at St Agnes' and 11 am at St Thomas'. If you're unable to be with us in person, you'll find today's Gospel reading, a reflection, prayers and a couple of hymns below, so that you can worship at home.
Our first hymn this morning is "Amazing Grace"
Today's Gospel
John 9:1-41 Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. The neighbours and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see.” Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were divided. So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.”
The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” His parents answered, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” He answered, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” Then they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” The man answered, “Here is an astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will. Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to teach us?” And they drove him out.
Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him.” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he.” He said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped him. Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”
Reflection
A long bible passage today, but when I read this, one line stood out; One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” It immediately reminded me of the last line (verse 1), from the 18th century hymn Amazing Grace.
Although the reading is long, much of it revolves around the total unwillingness of the religious leaders to see Jesus for who he really is – The Son of God. Time and time again they questioned the man who was healed and also sought out his parents testimony. They were still unwilling to believe. Not only did they not understand who Jesus was, they were also reluctant to accept that a miracle had even taken place. They tried to establish that the man must never have been blind or that he was a look alike of the blind man. They even went to the extreme of expelling him from the synagogue as a punishment.
Some of you may wonder why Jesus chose to heal the man with dust when he could simply have restored his sight with a word or a touch. It is believed that this was a deliberate act by Jesus to heal in a manner that should have resonated with pharisees. It was symbolic of God creating Adam in the Genesis 2 where he made him from the dust of the earth. Jesus is pointing to His divinity, a sign that the pharisees should have recognised. But they still refused to see Jesus for who He was.
Part of the reason for their refusal to accept the truth was the Jewish conviction that all people who were afflicted with illness or disability were sinners. But Jesus told His disciples; , “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. In other words, God allowed him to be ill so that God could perform something greater through him. And for many, including the blind man, they ‘saw the light’ and believed and worshipped Jesus, the Son of Man.
The pharisees failed to understand the difference between physical blindness and spiritual blindness. There is a significant difference between the one who is blind and knows it, and the one who simply shuts his eyes. If you shut your eyes to the light or deliberately reject it, how can you be enlightened? As Jesus said, “their sin remains.” Paul
Our Prayers
Father God, creator of heaven and earth,
Thank You for Christ’s example in using people to carry out your works.
Lord God we pray that our eyes will be open
to believe in You and feel your presence with us.
Fill us with the gift of your Holy Spirit to share your gospel of reconciliation and love.
Amen
Today's final hymn is "The Spirit Lives to Set us Free (Walk in the Light)"
Notices
Details of our Holy Week and Easter Services can be found in the poster below -
Welcome to our Sunday Worship in Leesfield Parish on the third Sunday of Lent. Our Church services are at the usual times of 9.15 am at St Agnes' and 11 am at St Thomas'. If you're not able to be with us in person, you will find some resources below so that you can worship at home.
Our first hymn this morning is "The Lord's my Shepherd"
Today's Bible Reading
Exodus 17: 1-7Water from the Rock
From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
The people quarrelled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?” But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried out to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people?
They are almost ready to stone me.” The LORD said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarrelled and tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Reflection
“Is the LORD among us or not?” This could be paraphrased as, “Where on earth is God when you need Him”? Maybe you’ve heard people ask the same question in times of loss or need. It might be when something personal has happened, for example when someone very young dies unexpectedly from a sudden illness or an accident. On the other hand it could be a major catastrophe like the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the ongoing drought in Africa.
At times like these we often forget the many blessings that God has provided. That was certainly the case for the Israelites as they wandered through the wilderness where God was guiding them. They seem to have forgotten that God had freed them from their slavery in Egypt. That He had miraculously parted the Red Sea for them to escape. God had also provided food in the form of quail and manna for them when they were previously starving in the wilderness of sins.
What’s even more incredible in this case, is that God was present with them, manifest in the form of a cloud. So it seems remarkable, given all this, that they would begin to question God’s presence with them. Yet here they are desperately thirsty in the soaring heat of the desert, quarrelling with Moses in God’s presence and even testing God Himself.
Despite this, God yet again choses to demonstrate that he is a loving and compassionate God, and by His grace provided them with water in abundance. Whilst we may not see God’s presence with our eyes (in the form of a mysterious cloud), I believe we see God’s presence in the evidence of miracles and the heroes He provides. The miraculous survivors buried beneath building for over a week, people who put their own lives at risk by standing up against corruption and oppression, or those that run into burning buildings without any protection or training. Also those who help locally in foodbanks and visiting the lonely and so many other things. It is in times of adversity that we can see and feel the Lord’s presence. Adversity is therefore not an argument for God’s absence but for His presence. Paul
Our Prayers
Creator God, forgive us when we are afraid and blame you for things in difficult times.
We praise and thank you for grace and presence in our lives and all that we do.
Lord we thank you that you sent your son Jesus to be our rock of salvation and hope.
We pray that our trust and faith in You will not falter when we are in need or suffering
Amen
Today's final hymn is "And Can It Be That I Should Gain"
Welcome to our Sunday Worship in Leesfield Parish on the second Sunday of Lent. Our Church services are at the usual times of 9.15 am at St Agnes' and 11 am at St Thomas'. If you're not able to be with us in person, you can find resources below to enable you to worship at home.
Our first hymn this morning is "The God of Abraham Praise"
Today's Gospel
John 3: 1-17Jesus teaches Nicodemus
There was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?
“Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
Reflection
Today’s passage contains one of the most quoted texts from the Bible; “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." [John 3:16]. But it also contains elements that many people struggle with.
That’s not surprising for as we see, Nicodemus also struggled with what Jesus was saying. Nicodemus was a member of the Sanhedrin court, a group of senior Pharisees respected in the community, well-known, and of the upper echelons of society. He was deeply intellectual, and an expert in the scriptures and religious law. Someone who lived by them, prayed by them, and even believed that they gave life. But as we see, for all of his understanding of the prophesies of the Old Testament, he repeatedly failed to grasp what Jesus was explaining and indeed that Jesus was the son of God.
Jesus was challenging the way Nicodemus living his life; and how he let his vast theological knowledge get in the way of seeing the living and true God.
Nicodemus was really struggling, because like many of us we try to relate everything to our human understanding of the world and how we experience life. So talking about being born again he is confused with being physically reborn from the womb.
In an attempt to enlighten him Jesus makes reference to Ezekiel [36:25-27], when He says “I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit". In other words, He is trying to explain that to be born from above meant that “one must be born of water and the Spirit.” It is a spiritual re-birth and not a physical one. Being a scholar in the Old Testament, Jesus would have expected Nicodemus to grasp the connection.
But still the penny hasn’t dropped for this religious scholar, so Jesus tries to help him understand the offering of the gift of eternal life. Again, he reaches into the scriptures hoping that Nicodemus will grasp it. He talks of the time when the Israelites were moaning to Moses about being in the wilderness and how fed up they were, [Numbers 21-19] and how God had punished them by sending a plague of poisonous snakes upon them, killing them.
The scripture then tells of how, when they repented, God told Moses to make a bronze serpent and placed it on a pole so that all who had been bitten and looked on the serpent would be healed and receive life. Jesus clearly tells Nicodemus that in the same way when the son of man has been lifted on the cross for everyone to see, then all who believe in Him will have eternal life.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”
Perhaps it is a little easier for us to understand, because we have the benefit of hindsight and the Gospels, whereas for Nicodemus the events of Easter had yet to happen. Jesus was prophesying what was still to come. But even for us, having faith still requires us to have the capacity accept concepts that are beyond our reality and ability to explain logically.
To accept Christ as our Saviour we have to believe in the divinity of Christ as well as His human incarnation. We can do that if we are willing to ask to be filled with the gift of the Holy Spirit - to be able to understand heavenly things and come into to the light. When we do that we will be born again of God’s Holy Spirit.
For God so loved the whole world. For God so loved Nicodemus. For God so loves me. For so God loves you…that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in, trusts, and follows Him, should not perish, but may have eternal life. Paul
Our Prayers
Loving Father,
We thank you for sending your only son to be our saviour.
Open our minds, hearts and souls to receive the gift of Your Holy Spirit.
That we may be born again of water and the spirit;
and believe in You
That through Your promise we may receive the gift of eternal life.
In Jesus’ name we pray.
AMEN
Today's final hymn is "Christ Triumphant, Ever Reigning"
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There are two services in Leesfield Parish on Easter Sunday - 9.15 am at St Agnes' Church and 11 am at St Thomas' Church, led by Revd Christine Steel.
