Prayer for the Week

Dear Lord, lead me deeper into you. Bring me to the point where all I need is your presence, all I need is your peace and all I can see is your face.

This moment, this breath, this day, this week – Lord help to be truly here, in the present. As a gift I now receive your love, as you ascend to your father. And I open it carefully, choosing to dwell prayerfully in your presence and being truly present to You. Come Holy Spirit to every aspect of my life. Amen

Prayers for the sick and for those recovering:  Wendy, Auril, Ian, Zelma, Mike, Jacqui, Frank, River, Theo, Maggie, David, Priscilla, Paul, Rod, Kiera, Yolanda, Sarah, Levi, Joy, Viola Martin, Joan , Katarina, Liz, Sharon, Vlad, Rachel, Esa, Sr Mary-Lawrence, Tyson, David, Sally and Jenny, Jean, Val.

Pray for those who have departed from this world we know 

From Our Book of Remembrance: 

Miriam Clifford - May their souls rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

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 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

Anglican Parish             1^st June 2025 

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One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, ‘These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.’ She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, ‘I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.’ And it came out that very hour.

But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market-place before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, ‘These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.’ The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. 

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted in a loud voice, ‘Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.’ The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them outside and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ They answered, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.’ They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.

Revelation 22.12-14, 16-17,20-21

‘See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.’ Blessed are those who

Contact Person 

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

7^th Sunday in Easter

Holy Communion Service 9.30am– Rev Neil

Tuesday

Children’s ministry 6-8pm

Bible Study via zoom 6pm

CSCT meeting – 7.30pm

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

Thursday: 

Holy Communion Service 10.45am Rev Neil

Family Time 16.30-18.30pm

Friday:

Poppets from 9.15-11.15am

Choir practice - 6.30pm

Saturday

Coffee shop 10am-12pm

Pentecost

Holy Communion Service 9.30am– Rev Neil

Readings for Next Week

Acts 2: 1-21, Romans 8: 14-17, John 14: 8-17 (25-27)

Dates for your Diary 2025

CSCT meeting – 3^rd June 7.30pm

Cippenham Carnival – 5^th July from 10am  (Please we need donations for raffle and tombola)

PCC Meeting – 16^th July – 7pm

PCC Meeting – 17^th September – 7pm

PCC meeting – 12^th November – 7pm

                  Collect

Risen, ascended Lord, as we rejoice at your triumph, fill your Church on earth with power and compassion, that all who are estranged by sin may find forgiveness and know your peace, to the glory of God the Father. Amen

Acts 16.16-34

wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. ‘It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.’ The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift. The one who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

John 17.20-26

‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. ‘Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.’

             Post Communion Prayer

Eternal God, giver of love and power,

your Son Jesus Christ has sent us into all the world to preach the gospel of his kingdom:

confirm us in this mission, and help us to live the good news we proclaim; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen