General Notices WW1 Commemorations Please use the candle on the Lady Altar with accompanying prayer for peace in Gaza and Israel and for Christians in Iraq. Sunday 9 November Remembrance Sunday. 10am Parish Mass with Act of Remembrance at 11am followed by a ploughman’s lunch in the school hall. Tickets £5. rd All Souls Mass 8pm Monday 3 November. Link to Hope Shoeboxes need to be filled and ready by next Sunday please. The boxes provide basic Christmas presents for families or the elderly in Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine. Michael Hewens will take the boxes to the collection point on 2 November. Trailblazers (for those aged 7 – 12 years old) meet at the WI Hall, Ghyll Road on th th Friday 14 Nov and 5 Dec 6pm - 7.15pm. Simon Virgo, Angela Bains and Jo Hobden. Beautiful Christmas cards are now on sale in aid of the new church hall. Fr David is proposing a holiday to Segovia and Salamanca with excursions throughout the region including places associated with th C16 mystics. Possible dates for departure are 3 & 17 Oct. More info from Fr David on houghton308@btinternet.com Crowborough Special Breakfast (for both men and women) 8am for 8.15am, Saturday 6th December at All Saints Church (Undercroft). Lorraine Jones speaking on Forgiveness and Healing. Her 20 year old son was murdered as he tried to be a good Samaritan. Tickets £7 available from Ann Cracknell 01892 669773 for either a continental or a cooked breakfast (please state any dietary requirements). Sunday Club will be on the following dates: th rd th 16 , 23 & 30 November. The Christmas th Workshop is on 13 December. The last st session of the year will be 21 December th and it recommences 18 January 2015. Sunday 26th October (Trinity XIX) th Remembrance Please help distribute the flyers - there are a few marked roads or take some for near where you live. Poppy Memorial Arch. Remember a loved one (not necessarily from WW1). Write their name on a poppy then put it in the basket at the back of the church. Please put a donation in the British Legion box. Photos. If you have any WW1 photos you would be willing to loan for a display, please put them in an envelope in the box at the back of the church, clearly writing your name on the envelope so they can be scanned/copied and returned. Crowborough Choral Society Concert. Elgar: The Spirit of England, Elegy, Serenade for Strings & In Flanders Fields. Sat 8 Nov 7.30 pm in All Saints Church Centre. Tickets £12 from Cro’s the Jewellers or on the door. Crowborough & Rotherfield Churches Together Festival of Remembrance. The Jubilee Choir and soloists. United Church, Crowborough, Sunday 9 Nov at 6.30pm Proceeds to Royal British Legion. WW1 Centenary Commemoration Concert th Friday 14 Nov at 7.30pm in church in aid of the new church hall. The Noel Bannister PopZing Choir - a chance to sing along. Tickets £10 (children free) to include wine or soft drink and nibbles available after Parish Mass - or from Gill Noakes 654705 or Di Bigwood 662496. 8am BCP Mass Reading: Isaiah 59. 9 – 20 Gospel: Luke 14. 11 - 24 St John’s remembers the Great War 100 years ago this week 10am Parish Mass (Sunday Club & JAM meet in school) Fred Ovenden, aged 25, was killed in action, st 31 October 1914, at Ypres Introit Hymn: 420 O Jesus, I have promised First Reading: Leviticus 19. 1 – 2, 15 – 18 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. You shall not render an unjust judgement; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbour. You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not profit by the blood of your neighbour: I am the Lord. You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbour, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord. Gradual Psalm 145 (NEH 540) R: I will bless your name for ever, my God and King, Great is the Lord, and worthy of all praise, His glory is past searching out; Men shall recount the might of your deeds, And proclaim your majesty. R The Lord loves all that he has made, His mercy is over all his works: All your works speak your praise, And your people give you thanks. R Your right hand raises those that fall, And those bowed down are lifted up: All creatures wait on you for food, And from your hand their wants are filled. R The Lord is near to those who call, He hears their cry and brings them help: My mouth shall tell the praise of God, And let all flesh his name adore. R We extend a warm welcome to all, especially if you’re visiting us for the first time. Please make yourself known to Fr Robert or the Church Wardens/Sides-people, or complete a contact card at the back of the church. Second Reading: 1 Thessalonians 2. 1 – 8 You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you was not in vain, but though we had already suffered and been shamefully maltreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition. For our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts. As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed; nor did we seek praise from mortals, whether from you or from others, though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children. So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us. Gospel acclamation: ‘Open our heart, O Lord, to accept the words of your Son’ Gospel: Matthew 22. 34 - end When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’ Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: ‘What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?’ They said to him, ‘The son of David.’ He said to them, ‘How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet’ ”? If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?’ No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions. Prayers:  Our bishops: +Martin, +Richard and +Mark.  The sick: Helen Bance, Cliff Stevens, Anne Colley, John Massey, Sally Nicholas, Kathleen Welstead, Gladys Cooper, Peter Cockroft and those on our intercessions board. Contact Vicar and Parish Priest: Fr Robert Norbury (668188 or 07715 595828) Churchwardens: Ross Sinclair (663911) and Duncan Smith (660159) PCC Secretary: Michael Hewens (07703 794145) Wednesday 29 October Pray for Rotherfield Deanery Choirmaster: Kirsten Smith (660159) th Thursday 30 October (no mass today) Pray for missionaries Organist: Jon Rawles (07515 951408) Jon.rawles@outlook.com Year’s mind: George Oakley, Abraham Zheimer and John Martin. JAM: Eerika Franklin (660050) Friday 31 October Pray for local shops and businesses Pewsheet: Items to Rita Burton by Wednesday evening (tylersrmb@gmail.com) For Baptisms, Marriages and Funerals please contact Fr Robert. Please note Fr Robert's rest day is normally Friday. Feria st Saturday 1 November Eve of All Saints Pray for the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham nd Website: www.stjohnscrowborough.org.uk Ron Rose (610495) Feria St Paulinus st  Recessional Hymn: 272 All for Jesus! all for Jesus! Ss Simon & Jude th Social/Events: Yvonne Lockett (660146) Children’s Sunday Club: Annemarie Sadler (07500 111945) Choir: O taste and see (Vaughan Williams) th Feria Sacristan: Ron Rose (610495) Recently Departed: Joyce Jager. Communion Hymns: 282 Faithful shepherd, feed me 287 Glory, love, praise and honour th Monday 27 October Pray for St John’s School Tuesday 28 October 10am Mass Pray for the sick  Offertory hymn: 485 Thy hand, O God, has guided Services Next Week & Prayer Intentions Sunday 2 November 8am BCP Mass  Isaiah ch 35  Luke 9. 18 - 27 All Saints 10am Parish Mass  Revelation 7. 9 – 17  1 John 3. 1 – 3  Matthew 5. 1 - 12 11.30 Family Service Morning Prayer is usually said at 8.30am (Tuesdays 9.30am) and Evening Prayer at 5pm. Please check the porch noticeboard.