NEWS & VIEWS

PATRONAL FESTIVAL At 10am next Sunday we will celebrate the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary (transferred from Thursday 8th) with a Festival Mass followed by a buffet lunch. This is an important occasion in the life of our church each year and we look forward to seeing all the church family together. Please see the list at the back of church which indicates the food donations we need for the buffet. We also need some volunteers, please, to help with hosting, serving and clearing up afterwards. Please sign the list at the back of church if you can help.

PASTORAL LETTER Fr Gareth has written a pastoral letter to coincide with our Patronal Festival. It will be sent by post to everyone whose details we have permission to hold and can also be downloaded and read here:

FINANCIAL GIVING The Parish Giving Scheme is our new online and phone-based system for financial giving to the church. If you use it, it will save us hours of work (for example, by automatically handling donations and Gift Aid) - a really big help to us. You will have full control of your giving - and there’s no need to deal with your bank. There are flyers at the back of church giving simple instructions - or go online to tinyurl.com/parish-giving for further information.

EDWARD ARTHUR FELLOWES PRYNNE on Saturday 1 October in St Peter’s Church Ealing, an art expert (and Director of the DeMorgan Foundation) is to give a talk on this late-Pre-Raphaelite artist. Commissioned in 1916 by his brother-in-law the Revd Hubert Valentine Eardley-Wilmot, then our Vicar, he painted our beautiful Stations of the Cross, and St Peter’s has a similar painting - Christ Before Pilate. 
Go to tinyurl.com/EAFPArt or email admin@stpeterealing.org.uk for more information.

INTERCESSION

OF YOUR CHARITY, PLEASE PRAY FOR

the sick, distressed and bereaved

John & Joan Cassidy, Richard Holland, Lucy Ball, Amberly Crediton, Charlotte Carney, Christine Taylor, Nik, Kathy Valentine, Margaret Harding, Bernard Street, Mel Taylor, Julia & Steve, David Hardwick, Alison Clarke, Muriel Masters, Samuel Messih, Fr Oliver Coss, Keith Holland; Linda Decker, Joyce Hinds

the recently departed

those whose anniversaries of death fall this week

Monday
Eric Bennett

Wednesday

Virginija Grigoraitiene

Friday

William Cull

Saturday

Cyril Beckford, Harbhajan Singh Multani

please pray especially for

the peoples of Pakistan

ORDER OF SERVICE