Living Brook Benefice (Piddington, Hardingstone and Quinton)

  Living Brook Benefice and the parish of St Mary’s Far Cotton are delighted to announce the appointment of the Rev Julie Scott as our new Priest. The majority of her time will be focused in Hardingstone and Far Cotton but she will retain an oversight of the whole of Living Brook Benefice and St Mary’s and work with the House for Duty Priest that is still to be appointed for Piddington with Horton Parish and Quinton with Preston Deanery Parish. We look forward to welcoming Julie to Living Brook Benefice and St Mary’s in the not too distant future.  Letter of appointment

 A prayer for Prince Philip God of our lives We give thanks for the life of Prince Philip, For his love of our country  And his devotion to duty. We entrust him now to your love and mercy  Through our Redeemer Jesus Christ. Amen  Our churches are holding different ways in which to express our grief - please see the notices page. In addition Guy Ward and Ivor Wilde tolled our church bell at midday Saturday 10th April 99 times in recognition of his age and passing

  Our final session of our Lent course on  Wednesday 31st March and we will be looking at the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. There is a video or audio of a talk by Bishop Donald which will be followed up with a discussion led by Steve on zoom. If you want to take part please contact Steve on 01604 870168. Links to the video and audio will be posted here  Study guide Video and audio Discussion on zoom at 7:45 pm Lent Course (Steve Watson Hosting) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83520331208?pwd=U3pNL0lCYjZDYTZieFV1cTVrZ04rZz09 Meeting ID: 872 2971 2269 Password: 573710

  Our  Thought for the week  this week is about Passover.

  Canon Beverley has kindly left us some collective worship films for primary school aged children. This week’s  Thought for the week  is about generosity.

  As we cautiously begin to open up church services again, we are pleased to announce that there will be a 2 Mothering Sunday services in the Benefice, the first at St Edmunds at 10 am for parishioners only and also  at St John the Baptist, Quinton at 10 am on the 14th March.  Booking is required for the Quinton service. You can book your part of 3 or less a pew - there are only 5 pews available. Please use the link below. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holy-communion-quinton-registration-124815056193?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-source=strongmail&utm-term=listing    

  Our thought for the week  for week beginning 22/2/21 is about Lent and exploring the wilderness  Our thought for the week  for the week beginning 1st of March is about having a grateful attitude