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NOTICES
· Welcome. Today is The Fifth Sunday of Lent..
· No Hub Drop In or Prayer Group for the foreseeable future. See Services and Events this week. Our programme for Lent has had to be curtailed. The Lent Groups will no longer take place on Tuesday evenings. No Mass on Thursday or Stations of the Cross on Sunday evenings.
· Saving Boxes for our Lent charities. Also, a bit thankyou to those remembering your tithe. Without you the church will go bankrupt!
· First Communion classes have been postponed. There will be no Baptisms, Weddings of Funerals in church until the crisis is over.
· Please look out for each other. Keep in touch by email or telephone. And pray.
· Live streaming of church services. It is good to worship, even at home and I am sure most of you know good (God) channels which encourage you in this. Fr Valmor is live streaming a daily Mass our behalf. We are very grateful to him. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/qZ-I1HCQF8c.
AHEAD:
Revision of the Electoral Roll and Annual Meetings. These have been postponed until later on in the year.
Clocks should have changed today.
Fr Nigel Orchard is to retire from Christ the Redeemer on the Saturday 16th May. He is now receiving palliative care and has only months to live.
PCC Meeting 7pm Wednesday is cancelled. If you would like Fr Michael to keep you in touch by email please make sure he has your address. His address is below.
YOU MAY WISH TO PRAY FOR:
Sarah, our Bishop, Pete our Area Bishop, Fr Michael and Fr Valmor and all with ministerial responsibilities in our Church especially our confidential prayer line.
All those on our church membership roll, especially Roesenalia Carlos dos Santos, Janet and Owen Duggan, Corrine Dunbar, Corrise Dunbar Bonnie, Natasha Dunbar, Sharon Dunbar.
Our Church School: John Keble Primary School; staff and children, and St Michael’s Nursery.
Local Hospitals: Central Middlesex and Willesden Centre for Health and Care; and Rosemary House.
Those in need: especially the lonely, the isolated and those anxious for their own health and the health of loved ones.
We give thanks: that looking to the cross, our Jesus gives us strength to struggle on.or all mothers.
The sick: those on our Prayer Tree and specially Ron Forbes, Theresa Carew, Michael Romeo, Merle Parris, Fr Nigel Orchard, Eddie Brave, Chris Wilson, Eustace Ifill, Owen Duggan, Sylvia Roye, Sandra Mundle, Beverley Smart, Carlton Cuff, and Leane St Louis Wilson.
In memory: Miriam DavisAmos Jeboda, Betty Knight, Annah Mdumela and all whose anniversaries fall this week.
FOR ENQUIRIES: concerning the Sacraments (baptism, marriage, communion, confirmation and confession) or pastoral matters talk to Fr Michael. We are not taking hall bookings at this time.
HEALING MINISTRY: We offer a confidential prayer line or contact Fr Michael by phone or email.
YOUNG PEOPLE: Our children’s activities have been suspended for now.
TODAY'S READINGS
FIRST READING Ezekiel 37:1-14
Ezekiel speaks this amazing vision of hope to the Jews in exile and bondage in Babylon. The opening of their graves means this living death will be transformed by the Spirit of God and their nation will be restored.
The psalm is one of those that would have been sung by pilgrims ascending Mt Sion and approaching the Temple. With deep emotion they cry for forgiveness, deliverance and redemption.
A reading from the book of the prophet Ezekiel
The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, ‘Mortal, can these bones live?’ I answered, ‘O Lord GOD, you know.’ Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.’ So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’ I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.
Then he said to me, ‘Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.” Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act, says the LORD.’
This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
RESPONSORIAL PSALM from Psalm 130
R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
1. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
Lord, hear my voice! O let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleading. (R.)
2. If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive?
But with you is found forgiveness: for this we revere you.(R.)
3. My soul is waiting for the Lord, I count on his word.
My soul is longing for the Lord ore than watchman for daybreak. (R.)
4. Because with the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption, Israel indeed he will redeem
from all its iniquity.(R.)
SECOND READING Romans 8.6–11
The theme of this passage is the importance of the Holy Spirit in the transformation of our lives from death to life. The word Paul uses to describe the world is “the flesh.” This world, if it is without the power of the indwelling of the Spirit of God, is dead.
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans.
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For 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, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But 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. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If 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. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL John 11:1-45
This is the story of the greatest of the miracles of Jesus, a miracle that leads directly to his arrest and death. During this passage Jesus reveals both his human and his divine nature. He is deeply emotional but nevertheless sublimely confident of his power to raise his friend to life.
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. Glory to you, O Lord.
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 thy 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.ut 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 sad, ‘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 upwards 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.
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
moment.
· Welcome. Today is The Fifth Sunday of Lent..
· No Hub Drop In or Prayer Group for the foreseeable future. See Services and Events this week. Our programme for Lent has had to be curtailed. The Lent Groups will no longer take place on Tuesday evenings. No Mass on Thursday or Stations of the Cross on Sunday evenings.
· Saving Boxes for our Lent charities. Also, a bit thankyou to those remembering your tithe. Without you the church will go bankrupt!
· First Communion classes have been postponed. There will be no Baptisms, Weddings of Funerals in church until the crisis is over.
· Please look out for each other. Keep in touch by email or telephone. And pray.
· Live streaming of church services. It is good to worship, even at home and I am sure most of you know good (God) channels which encourage you in this. Fr Valmor is live streaming a daily Mass our behalf. We are very grateful to him. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/qZ-I1HCQF8c.
AHEAD:
Revision of the Electoral Roll and Annual Meetings. These have been postponed until later on in the year.
Clocks should have changed today.
Fr Nigel Orchard is to retire from Christ the Redeemer on the Saturday 16th May. He is now receiving palliative care and has only months to live.
PCC Meeting 7pm Wednesday is cancelled. If you would like Fr Michael to keep you in touch by email please make sure he has your address. His address is below.
YOU MAY WISH TO PRAY FOR:
Sarah, our Bishop, Pete our Area Bishop, Fr Michael and Fr Valmor and all with ministerial responsibilities in our Church especially our confidential prayer line.
All those on our church membership roll, especially Roesenalia Carlos dos Santos, Janet and Owen Duggan, Corrine Dunbar, Corrise Dunbar Bonnie, Natasha Dunbar, Sharon Dunbar.
Our Church School: John Keble Primary School; staff and children, and St Michael’s Nursery.
Local Hospitals: Central Middlesex and Willesden Centre for Health and Care; and Rosemary House.
Those in need: especially the lonely, the isolated and those anxious for their own health and the health of loved ones.
We give thanks: that looking to the cross, our Jesus gives us strength to struggle on.or all mothers.
The sick: those on our Prayer Tree and specially Ron Forbes, Theresa Carew, Michael Romeo, Merle Parris, Fr Nigel Orchard, Eddie Brave, Chris Wilson, Eustace Ifill, Owen Duggan, Sylvia Roye, Sandra Mundle, Beverley Smart, Carlton Cuff, and Leane St Louis Wilson.
In memory: Miriam DavisAmos Jeboda, Betty Knight, Annah Mdumela and all whose anniversaries fall this week.
FOR ENQUIRIES: concerning the Sacraments (baptism, marriage, communion, confirmation and confession) or pastoral matters talk to Fr Michael. We are not taking hall bookings at this time.
HEALING MINISTRY: We offer a confidential prayer line or contact Fr Michael by phone or email.
YOUNG PEOPLE: Our children’s activities have been suspended for now.
TODAY'S READINGS
FIRST READING Ezekiel 37:1-14
Ezekiel speaks this amazing vision of hope to the Jews in exile and bondage in Babylon. The opening of their graves means this living death will be transformed by the Spirit of God and their nation will be restored.
The psalm is one of those that would have been sung by pilgrims ascending Mt Sion and approaching the Temple. With deep emotion they cry for forgiveness, deliverance and redemption.
A reading from the book of the prophet Ezekiel
The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, ‘Mortal, can these bones live?’ I answered, ‘O Lord GOD, you know.’ Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.’ So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’ I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.
Then he said to me, ‘Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.” Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act, says the LORD.’
This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
RESPONSORIAL PSALM from Psalm 130
R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
1. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
Lord, hear my voice! O let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleading. (R.)
2. If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive?
But with you is found forgiveness: for this we revere you.(R.)
3. My soul is waiting for the Lord, I count on his word.
My soul is longing for the Lord ore than watchman for daybreak. (R.)
4. Because with the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption, Israel indeed he will redeem
from all its iniquity.(R.)
SECOND READING Romans 8.6–11
The theme of this passage is the importance of the Holy Spirit in the transformation of our lives from death to life. The word Paul uses to describe the world is “the flesh.” This world, if it is without the power of the indwelling of the Spirit of God, is dead.
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans.
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For 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, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But 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. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If 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. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL John 11:1-45
This is the story of the greatest of the miracles of Jesus, a miracle that leads directly to his arrest and death. During this passage Jesus reveals both his human and his divine nature. He is deeply emotional but nevertheless sublimely confident of his power to raise his friend to life.
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. Glory to you, O Lord.
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 thy 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.ut 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 sad, ‘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 upwards 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.
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
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