We can claim the tax back from your donation if it's given in the THE CHURCHES OF

Gift Aid envelope. Please complete with your address, date and box HEALEY, MASHAM, NORTH STAINLEY, WELL WITH SNAPE
ticked. Help us to receive this vital extra income. & WEST TANFIELD
Thank you.
Tenth Sunday 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
LOOP SYSTEMS have been installed at Masham, Healey, North Stainley, After Trinity 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
Well and West Tanfield for the benefit of those who are hard of hearing. 20th August 10.45 a.m. North Stainley Holy Communion
Please switch the button on your hearing aid to the 'T' position. 10.45 a.m. Well Holy Communion
6.30 p.m. West Tanfield Evensong

WEBSITE for the Masham Group of Parishes - Wednesday 23rd 10.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
www.mashamparishes.org 2.30 p.m. North Stainley Parochial Church Council
meeting at Holmtree House, North Stainley
WELCOME if you are a newcomer to this church or parish. If you would like more
information about the life of the church please complete this slip and give it to one of the Saturday 26th 3.00 p.m. Masham Wedding of James Honess &
sidesmen as you leave. Carla Bromhead

NAME Eleventh Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion

after Trinity 10.45 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
ADDRESS 27th August 10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion
3.00 p.m. Masham Cant Help Singing
TEL. NO. . Concert
6.30 p.m. Healey Evensong
rd
SAVE THE DATE Masham Harvest Supper. Saturday 23 September. 7.00 p.m. in the 6.30 p.m. Snape Evensong
Town Hall. Harvest Thanksgiving will be on the Sunday of Sheep Fair weekend (Oct. 1st).
Twelfth Sunday 8.00 a.m. Masham Holy Communion
NEEDED - ANOTHER SACRISTAN FOR MASHAM This is someone to join the team after Trinity 9.15 a.m. Healey Holy Communion
of people who prepare the altar for Holy Communion on a Sunday. If you would be willing 3rd September 10.45 a.m. Masham Family Service and Baptism
to help please speak to the Vicar or one of the churchwardens. 10.45 a.m. North Stainley Holy Communion
10.45 a.m. Well Holy Communion
10.45 a.m. West Tanfield Holy Communion

THE ALTAR FLOWERS at Masham have been given this week in memory of David Eyles

YEARS MIND We remember the anniversary of the death of Graham Lawson.

REFLECTION Human beings seem always to be putting limits of some kind on our sense
of Gods love for creation. Paul reminds us that in the light of Christ we can hold on to a
conviction of the role of Christ for everyone. This is a lord and master who serves us all,
and who seeks to rescue us from our brokenness. The Canaanite woman serves as a test
case for Jesus ministry of rescue to us all. She perseveres and her need is met. Do we
need to persevere more doggedly in our faith in God and not be discouraged?
 CANT HELP SINGING A SOPRANOS TAKE ON LOVE IN THE MUSICALS Pilgrim is a course designed to help you discover this Christian way of life. It unpacks the
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BIBLE READING NOTES One way of helping us to see God as a weekday friend and not One of the greatest treasures of the Christian faith is the prayer we know as the Lords
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New Daylight provides four months of daily Bible readings and comment, with a regular
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ROMANS 12: 1-8
pret and apply biblical text with confidence in today's world, while helping to equip church
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies
leaders as they meet the challenges of mission and disciple-building. Instead of the usual
as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be
dated daily readings, Guidelines provides weekly units, broken into six sections, plus an in-
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you
troduction giving context for the passage, and a final section of points for thought and pray-
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For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more
Bible alongside Guidelines. Published three times a year at 4.40 per copy.
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Bible Reflections for older people Written by older people for older people, these
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not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,
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and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the
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require the notes.
MATTHEW 16: 13-20
PILGRIM
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, Who
Life is a journey. It begins when youre born. It ends when you die. You dont need to be
do people say that the Son of Man is? And they said, Some say John the Baptist, but
a Christian to know this. But as we get older we do know there is probably more road
others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He said to them, But who
behind us than ahead of us.
do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living
So what difference does being a Christian make? Well, the journey of life that ends in
God. And Jesus answered him, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood
death becomes a holy pilgrimage that ends in life. Christians believe that in Jesus, God has
has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on
walked this earth before us, and that with Jesus as our companion and guide we can travel
this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will
through life differently.
give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound
We can live and travel as pilgrims. We set our sights on Gods kingdom of justice and
in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Then he sternly
peace; and as we journey home to God, the pathway of our life becomes more meaningful
ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
and joyful, and the world a better place.