Ramsbottom & Edenfield Team Churches Services on Sunday 28th May ‘Pentecost Sunday’ St Philip’s Holy Communion 9.15am Edenfield Morning Worship 9.30am St Andrew’s Morning Worship 11.00am St Paul’s Holy Communion 11.00am ****** Ramsbottom & Tottington Mission Community Churches ‘Pentecost Service’ St Paul’s Church at 6.30pm ‘All welcome’ ‘And all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit’ Acts 2:4
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Posts from May 2023
The Diocese of Manchester As the country prepares for the Coronation ceremony, so too are Graham Lord, Captain of the Bells and his team of bell ringers at St Paul’s, Ramsbottom. This morning they will Ring for the King from 10am to 10.30am.You can listen to Graham talking to BBC Radio Manchester at around 9.40am on Saturday as he prepares to mark the…
The Church of England Join us in prayer on the Coronation Day of King Charles III. We pray that we all, together with The King, may receive grace to carry out what we are called to do.
Self-control God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-control. 2 Timothy 1.7 Jesus offers us a wonderful example of self-control. Despite his own human fears – shown most clearly in the Garden of Gethsemane – he offered himself so that we might have eternal life. In all circumstances of life we are…
Gentleness Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.’ Matthew 11.28,29 There must be very few people who can appreciate the heavy burden that being…
Listen out for our wonderful bell ringers who will be “Ringing for the King” on Saturday 6th May 2023. The bells will ring from 9.45am as part of the Ring For The King series of events which will be taking place across the country. We are extremely proud of out Team of bell ringers led by Captain of bells Graham Lord, who…
Faithfulness The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3.22,23 Our efforts to walk before God in faithfulness and uprightness of living are rooted in our response to God who, in spite of our waywardness, is faithful towards us. ‘Great is thy faithfulness,’ the old hymn puts it, drawing…
Generosity God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9.7,8 Generosity is a joyful activity. Often generosity is a response of gratitude, when we offer ourselves and our resources to something we care about or believe in.…
At the heart of the coronation is a ritual in which the Archbishop of Canterbury anoints The King with oil. This custom, with roots in the Old Testament, can be traced back to the coronation of King Edgar by St Dunstan in 973. At this coronation, the oil will come from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem where The King’s grandmother, Princess…
Kindness What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6.8 One of the phrases that is attributed to St David of Wales is his encouragement to his community to ‘be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that you have seen and heard with me’. They remind us that every…