Prayer for the Week

Lord, how deep, how wonderful this mystery of your love for me. It begins as a stirring of love deep within your heart, this movement of your spirit going forth everywhere to fill the whole of your creation. Your love is the greatest grace beyond all that you have made, so how is it that of any space where your love seeks to rest, a love that nothing can confine, it seeks to find a place deep within a heart like mine? How terrible then when I do not welcome your love, or worse ignore it or worse still reject it. Lord make me an accepting vessel of your love and care. Loving Spirit, dwell within my heart. Amen

Prayers for the sick and for those recovering:  Wendy, Auril, Ian, Zelma, Mike, Jacqui, Frank, River, Theo, Maggie, David, Priscilla, Paul, Kiera, Yolanda, Sarah, Levi, Joy, Viola, Martin, Joan , Liz, Sharon, Eileen, Rachel, Esa, Tyson, David, Sally and Jenny, Val, Frank and Joan, Ruby.

Pray for those who have departed from this world: remembering Annie Ryan who passed away recently and her funeral will be at The Lady of Peace on the 19^th February at 11am

From our Book of Remembrance: 

John Mwamuka, Dorothy Piney, Richard Clifford, Emily May Denbigh, John Greenwood & Thea Douglas - May the souls of the departed rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

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 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. Then I will draw near to you for judgement; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Hebrews 12: 14-29

Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and through it many become defiled. See to it that no one becomes like Esau, an immoral and godless person, who sold his birth right for a single meal. You know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, even though he sought the blessing with tears. You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not endure the order that was given, ‘If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.’ Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, ‘I tremble with fear.’) But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking; for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven! At that time his voice shook the earth; but now he has promised, ‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.’ This phrase ‘Yet once more’ indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

Anglican Parish             1^st February 2026 

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Contact Person  

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Candlemas

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am – Rev Neil

Monday

Rev Neil’s Day off

Tuesday

Children’s ministry 6-8pm

Bible Study on Zoom 6.30pm

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

Thursday: 

Holy Eucharist Service 10.45 – Rev Neil

Family Time 16.30-18.30pm

Friday:

Poppets 9-11am

Choir practice 6.30pm

Saturday

Coffee shop 10-12pm

2^nd Sunday before Lent

Holy Eucharist Service 9.30am – Rev Neil

Readings for Next Week

Genesis 1: 1-2:3, Romans 8: 18-25, 

Matthew 6: 25-34  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Dates for your Diary 2026

CSCT meetings: AGM 24^th February at 7pm All parishioners are invited to attend.

PCC meetings: 11^th March, APCM 26^th April

Shrove Tuesday- 17^th February Pancake Party

Ash Wednesday – 18^th February

Special quarterly collection – 8^th March

Mothering Sunday – 15^th March

Palm Sunday – 29^th March

Good Friday- 3^rd April

Easter Sunday – 5^th April

Collect

Lord Jesus Christ, light of the nations and glory of Israel: make your home among us, and present us pure and holy to your heavenly Father, your God, and our God. Amen

Malachi 3: 1-5

Luke 2: 22-40

When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, ‘Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord’), and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons.’ Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah. Guided by the Spirit, Simeon came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law, Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying, ‘Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.’ And the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him. Then Simeon 

blessed them and said to his mother Mary, ‘This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your own soul too.’ There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day. At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favour of God was upon him.

Post Communion Prayer

Lord, you fulfilled the hope of Simeon and Anna,

who lived to welcome the Messiah: may we, who have received these gifts beyond words, prepare to meet Christ Jesus when he comes to bring us to eternal life; for he is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Amen