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Dear friends,

Here is your link for Sunday’s service which we will follow together at 10am or when you are able:

The order for you to follow with the hymns is here:

Year A Proper 8 All Age Welcoming all

You will see that we are following an all age format this week, and there is an opportunity for you to pause the video in the middle and think about something creatively. If you would like to share any poems or art work that you create in response to this, that would be lovely – just send it to me or share directly with the group.

We continue to live in strange times, and as some restrictions are lifted this does not cease to be the case. We are, perhaps, in more diverse places than we have yet found ourselves in this crisis, with some trying to responsibly enjoy more freedoms, whilst others know that they need to stay at home for some time longer. in this service you are encouraged to think about how we can continue to support and respect every single person in our Church community and share Christ’s love as we commit to continuing to worshipping God in many different ways.

I am aware that I mention in this service that some of us may be returning to Church in the next few weeks, and I should let you know that our Churchwardens and I are working together to consider how we can safely and carefully make some of our Church buildings available again, whilst ensuring at the same time that those of you who will continue to be worshipping from home for the foreseeable future will continue to be supported and be enabled to join in worship with us from your own homes. We are hoping to be able to move forward with these developments from the middle of next month and we will of course keep you informed. Please do keep us in your prayers as we carefully navigate these next steps.

Addendum:

John has just noticed that the text of the intercessions is not in the text for the service as it should be (they are in the video though)

If you would like the text for the prayers, they are available here:

Confession and Intercessions

With apologies, and thanks to John for putting them together,

Karen

Dear friends,

This Sunday’s service was originally planned to be part of the programme of the Northern Aldborough Festival 2020. Sadly, of course, the festival had to be cancelled this year. Nevertheless, it felt important to mark the importance that music plays in our corporate lives, and so we are delighted to be able to share this act of worship with you today which includes music by Elgar, Dyson, Rutter, Williams, Lindley and Thorne, and which is kindly recorded for us for this weekend by some wonderful musicians from this County and from Norwich Cathedral. We are also delighted that Canon Barry from Ripon Cathedral is our preacher. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the benefits of music to our souls, and as we pray for, and support all musicians at this time.

The link is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkf-mqC1iHI&feature=youtu.be

The order of service is included here, as is the text of Canon Barry’s sermon:

Aldborough Festival service order 2020

Alborough Festival sermon 2020 Canon Barry

Individuals have not been named in our prayers this Sunday, but please be assured you are continuing to be prayed for, and those who ask will be included in our zoom morning prayers on Monday at 9am, to which all are welcome.

Warmest wishes to all,

Karen

Dear St Raphael friends,

I hope you are enjoying the weekend – especially now the sun has returned!

The link for your service for Trinity 2 is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cj3Sg1vIWg

I have attached an order of service which you might like to use for the words of the hymns – Trinity 2 Faith-filled lives and, for those without access to YouTube, a summary of the interview with Margaret Crawford – Year A Trinity 2 Interview with MC (2)

I was delighted to be able to chat to Margaret this week about her work as the Branch leader of the Mother’s Union, and I am sure you will all enjoy listening to her.

I am also grateful to Logan and Austen from Aldborough, who provide the accompaniment to one of our hymns on the bagpipes.

With love to you all,

Karen

Happy Birthday! This weekend is Pentecost – the birthday of the Church.

To celebrate, you will find in this week’s all age service lots and lots of faces you know and love – including a couple of surprise guests! You will also encounter party bags, a giant cat (who was to difficult to edit out) and something to reflect on at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXYjWpLiTdY

I do hope you will be able to join us to celebrate this important feast at 10am on Sunday, or at another time that suits you.

As the words to the hymns are on the screen, you will not need to print out an order of service this week, but one is included here in case you prefer to follow this way: order of service Pentecost 2020

With love and prayers,

Karen

Order of Service for 24May

YearA_Easter7_Reflection

Here are the orders of service for Ascension Day

version 1 – which links to videos so that the service can be followed online:  Ascension Day Service v1

version 2 – to use if you are printing a copy for people without internet access: Ascension Day Service v2

With love,

John.

Dear friends,

As you know you have a choice of two main services this week.

Your Sunday morning service can be found here, and you can watch it anytime you like.  Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrj2nJjRcOA. It is a shorter service, with more reflection and you don’t need printed responses for this one, so just sit back and let it wash over you. You might enjoy seeing some inside views of our Churches this week, and hearing them being prayed in.

The Zoom Pet service is at 4pm on Sunday and you already have the details to join that – again, you don’t need anything printed for this. Please be prompt as this service, of course, is live so we will see one another in real time. I am sure this will be an exciting event for all – you are welcome to join whether or not you have pets!

With love and prayers,

Karen

Dear friends,

Here is the service for this week,

• Service Sheet: Order of service for Easter 4 2020
• Reflection for Easter 4: Year A Easter 4 The preparation of a place 2020
• Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLpzN2Ei9bY

Warmest wishes,

Karen

Dear Friends,

I hope you are able to enjoy the VE Day celebrations – the weather looks as though it is going to be great!

We have been encouraging people to go out into their gardens and sing! Here is the song sheet again https://boroughbridgechurches.uk/wp-content/uploads/VE_Day_songsheet.pdf

If you are feeling particularly adventurous, you might want to take tea and cakes outside and wear red white and blue. “Stray Ferret”, the Harrogate online newspaper is going to be exploring Boroughbridge and our local villages, so keep an eye out for their reporter and give them a wave!

We are suggesting people might like to follow the short VE anniversary service at about 10.50am, leading into the two minutes silence. Here is the service sheet:  VE Day 75th Anniversary

The link to the video with prayers is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbHZGOfE0

Apologies that it is not livestreamed as originally promised, but it does feature some of your decorated houses!

If you would like to follow a printed copy, it is attached, but this service will work just as well without.

Do let us know how you have marked the day, and feel free to send photos or videos!

With love,

Karen