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the heart of our community since 1881
St
Andrew's Church, Taunton
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Worship at St. Andrew's Church Taunton UK
Sunday 13 January
The Baptism of
Christ
8.00am: Holy Communion
(said)
A quiet and reflective start to
Sunday.
10.00am: Service for
all ages
Worship, a Bible reading, a talk and of course
some hymns and songs. A warm welcome awaits you and we hope that
you will stay for a chat and refreshments afterwards.
6.00pm: Holy Communion at Kilkenny Court
Tuesday 15 January
6.30pm: Local
Ministry Group Prayers
(at St. Peter's).
Everyone is welcome
at this short service of prayer with friends from All Saints,
St. Peter's and Holy Trinity churches.
An opportunity to
offer the events of the past week to God, and to be renewed and
nurtured in preparation for the week to come. A warm welcome
awaits you at this sung Eucharist, which is at the heart of our
weekly pattern of worship at St. Andrew's.
This service includes a special activity for children.
The next day
he saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, ‘Here is the
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he
of whom I said, “After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me
because he was before me.” I myself did not know him; but I
came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be
revealed to Israel.’ And John testified, ‘I saw the Spirit
descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to
baptize with water said to me, “He on whom you see the
Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the
Holy Spirit.” And I myself have seen and have testified that
this is the Son of God.’
The First
Disciples of Jesus
The next day
John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he
watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, ‘Look, here is the Lamb
of God!’ The two disciples heard him say this, and they
followed Jesus. When Jesus turned and saw them following, he
said to them, ‘What are you looking for?’ They said to him,
‘Rabbi’ (which translated means Teacher), ‘where are you
staying?’ He said to them, ‘Come and see.’ They came and saw
where he was staying, and they remained with him that day.
It was about four o’clock in the afternoon. One of the two
who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon
Peter’s brother. He first found his brother Simon and said
to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (which is translated
Anointed). He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and
said, ‘You are Simon son of John. You are to be called
Cephas’ (which is translated Peter).
Quote of the Week
“Love is the threshold where divine
and human presence ebb and flow into each other.”
From ‘Anam Cara - Spiritual Wisdom
from the Celtic World’ by John O’Donohue, available in the
Parish Library.
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Features for
the week of
13 January 2008
NEW!
Church events:
Details of 2008 Lent
Bible studies and
discussions now online
NEW!
Local Ministry
Group events diary
now online
NEW!
Colour Supplement
Don't put your Christmas
away in a box
By Bishop Peter Maurice
Bishop of Taunton
NEW!
Colour Supplement
Precious gifts
by Jeremy Harvey
Reader at St. Andrew's
NEW!
Colour Supplement
A special gift
by Tricia Anderson
Reader at St. Andrew's
Colour Supplement
A website for the environment
just launched by St. Andrew's
Webmaster Adrian Smith, and
the Bath & Wells Diocese
Environmental Working Party
Colour Supplement
Jerusalem 2007
by Janet Fulljames
of St. Andrew's Church
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