BBC News – Bath Abbey archaeologists discover cathedral remains

BBC News – Bath Abbey archaeologists discover cathedral remains.

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Ely Diocesan Prayers January 31

Papworth Team Ministry – Bourn St Helena & St Mary

Team Vicar: Susan Johnson

Curate: Paul Gildersleve

ALM: Ian Hildrew

We give thanks for all our musicians and for our outreach to children through the local school and the successful summer holiday club. We pray for God’s guidance and blessing for our continuing outreach and our kitchen project. We pray for our churchwarden, Alison Newson and Deputy Warden, Hilary Dunnighan

Bourn Church of England Primary School

Lweru (Tanzania) – The Rt Revd Jackton Yeremiah Lugumira

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Ely Diocesan Prayers January 30

January 30 – February 5 Deanery of Bourn

Rural Dean: Revd Michael Matthews Epiphany 4

Lay Chairman: Dr John Crang Hamar, Church of Norway

30 The Readers (LLM) Board with their meeting on Thursday as they endeavour to select, equip and support the Lay Ministry of the Diocese. Meetings this week of the Readers (LLM) Board and Investments Committee.

The Most Revd Thabo Cecil Makgoba Archbishop of Capetown ; Suffragan Bishop of Cape Town (South Africa) – The Rt Revd Garth Quinton Counsell

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Ely Diocesan Prayers January 29

Southery St Mary

Rector: David Evans

Associate Vicar: Canon Stuart Morris

We give thanks for Fr Stuart’s appointment and pray God’s blessing on his ministry.

The toilet is installed after much hard work. We pray for our ordinand, Trudie Morris, as she continues her studies at Westcott House.

Luwero (Uganda) – The Rt Revd Evans Mukasa Kisekka

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Round the Bible in 40 Days: 40 days to go

Lent starts in 40 days time on March 9th. It’s time to start gearing up for what you’re going to do (and not do!).

I’m joining in the Christian Aid Count Your Blessings Twitter campaign so keep an eye open at #cyblessings.

My other big thing is that I have challenged myself to read Round the Bible in 40 Days – the whole book, start to finish. Forty friends from across our diocese have kindly agreed to provide an introduction each to one of the forty sections to get me going. Why not join in?

Click on the link to take you a special blog where you can read/download the reading plan, a starter guide to the Bible, and see the intros and comments day by day.

There is an RSS feed here which you can link to and get the day’s comment direct to your Reader or Inbox, and you’ll find links as well on my Facebook page and Twitter stream @bpdt. RTB has its own Facebook page and group as well, and if you can help set up any other networking links please do! My hope is that we may be able to build quite a community to share the adventure together.

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Ely Diocesan Prayers January 28

Hilgay All Saints with Ten Mile Bank St Mark

Rector: David Evans

Hon Curate: Canon John Rowsell.

Hilgay: We pray for our Church School as we seek a new head teacher and for the person God is calling to that vital post

Ten Mile Bank: We give thanks for strengthening links with our village school.

Hilgay Church of England Primary School

Lusaka (Central Africa) – The Rt Revd David Njovu

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A Surge of the Heart

A Surge of the Heart for Women’s World Day of Prayer 2011 at St Andrew’s Church, Caxton.

A group of 16 women from across the parishes of the Papworth Team and Gamlingay & Hatley with Everton have met to discuss the issues that face women globally and locally, with a view to holding those issues in a space of prayer, contemplation and acceptance on March 4^th between 12pm-6pm.

We are very keen to emphasise, hold and act upon the fact that the ethos for this act of worship is rooted in a desire for flourishing for humanity. We are not seeking to separate genders, but to look towards unity, whilst holding and acknowledging the situations that face women world-wide and recognising them on this particular day. With this in mind, the work of this project has been supported in prayer by many men and women across the parishes and more widely within the Diocese.

The act of worship will be a contemplative place of prayer that uses the arts to engage and we welcome contributions from local artists including Mick Abbott (Paradise and Other Places, Michaelhouse, Cambridge) and reflections from Angela Tilby and Vanessa Herrick amongst others. The idea is that people can drop in and stay for as long or little time as they wish and we are very hopeful that this will appeal to those for whom church doesn’t always feel accessible as well as those who are more rooted in a church environment. We are excited at the possibilities of using the arts in worship and hope you will support us as we address this in more rural parishes. We will provide a crèche area with art, books and activities for children so parents can engage with the various stations of worship in their own time.

The main image on the poster is called ‘Maria and Jesus’. Mick met them on the street in New York, he was struck by them and asked to photograph them. They really were called Maria & Jesus and he painted it as a second annunciation.

For more details, please see the poster by following this link.

http://www.papworthteamchurches.org/activities.htm

Thanks to the Revd Emma Rothwell for this contribution.

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Ely Diocesan Prayers January 27

Nordelph Holy Trinity

P.I.C.: Karen Burnett-Hall

Rtd Priest: Alan Bennett

LLM: Peter Starling

Link: Twinned with Hampton Parish, Peterborough

We welcome our House for Duty Priest who was licensed on Saturday 22 January and look forward to the future. We also thank everyone who helped us in any way during the long vacancy

Lui (Sudan) – The Rt Revd Bullen A Dolli

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Ely Diocesan Prayers January 26

Stow Bardolph Holy Trinity and Stow Bridge St Peter

P.I.C.: Karen Burnett-Hall

Rtd Priest: Alan Bennett

LLM: Peter Starling

Link: Twinned with Hampton Parish, Peterborough

We welcome our House for Duty Priest who was licensed on Saturday 22 January and look forward to the future. We also thank everyone who helped us in any way during the long vacancy.

Lucknow (North India) – The Rt Revd Anil R Stephen

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The Moral Side of Murder

Goodness me, a Harvard lecture presented straight on the Beeb. Excellent content as Professor Michael Sandel presents the first in a series of lectures from his Harvard undergraduate course in Political Philosophy. Watch (or download at BBC iPlayer).

But why does the Beeb have to credit the good Professor as the “key talent” when it gives the programme details of his Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century which also looks to be a very good offering?

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