15th March 2026

Mothering Sunday - The Fourth Sunday of Lent
 

9.30am Worship

6pm Sacred Space at The Fitzwilliams Centre/St Mary’s

To watch the livestreamed 10am service from St Mary’s, please click here

Prayer for Sunday
God of love,
passionate and strong,
tender and careful:
watch over us and hold us
all the days of our life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen

Readings during Sunday’s Service:

Ezekiel 37:1-14
John 11:1-45

The Meeting of Parishioners, followed by the Annual (District) Church Meeting will take place on Sunday 19 April at 11am here in St Thomas's.

The Meeting of Parishioners is to elect churchwardens, and the Annual (District) Church Meeting is your chance to hear from our treasurer regarding the finances and accounts, to elect trustees for the Parochial Church Council and Deanery Synod, and to elect the District Church Council members for the year ahead, too.

To vote in the Meeting of Parishioners, you must either be resident in the ecclesiastical parish of Beaconsfield, or be on the church's own electoral role. To vote in the Annual (District) Church Meeting, you must me on the church's electoral roll. If you would like to join the electoral role, you must be over 16, and a regular worshipper here who has attended for at least six months.

If you are interested in serving in a trustee or council member role, then you must be legally eligible and on the church's electoral role. Lloyd would be really happy to talk to anyone who senses a calling to serve the church in this, and to speak to them about the agenda, hopes and vision of the church, as they discern whether they are able to support the next chapter!

Please see the notice on the church table by the bookshop regarding the revision of the church's electoral roll.
Many thanks Peter Honiball, Electoral Roll Officer

From Thurs 19 March Lorraine is starting a prayer group  c. 3pm on Thursdays, like our Tuesday group but focussed more on words of prophesy for our church and other spiritual gifts.

Lloyd’s day off next week is Wednesday 18 March.

Please note that Lloyd is working but away Fri 20-Sun 22 March, as he is leading some of the Bible teaching sessions at the youth away weekend for St Laurence Church, Reading. Please pray for Lloyd and the youth leaders from that church, and for the young people: that their faith may grow and become enriched during their retreat.

Mothering Sunday Posies
St Mary’s and St Thomas’ will be making our Mothering Sunday posies this year again in the Dove Café on Saturday morning 14th March from 9.30. Everyone is very welcome – no skill needed, please come and enjoy coffee, fellowship and possibly treat yourself to cake!   Please bring scissors. We provide ribbons and any other accessories.

Tuesday Prayers  will be in the Sanctuary.

Join me on Thurs 19, 26 March and 2 April at 2pm, when I will be hosting “Coffee and Colossians” – a chapter a week informal Bible study, chat and prayer time at The Dove Café. Please read the chapter before coming (this week chapter 3) … A couple of journaling copies of Colossians that you can write in are available in the bookshop. I always like to start a Bible study with these questions: which verse did you like, which verse don’t you like, and what verse confuses you.   - Lloyd

Lent Lunches in aid of Christian Aid:

12.30-1.30pm on the following dates (no Lent Lunch this week):
Thursday 19th March at St Michael's
Wednesday 25th March at St Teresa's

For poster click here.

Film Show with Tea & Cake

The next Film Show is this Saturday 21st March at 2.30pm. We will be serving tea/coffee and homemade cakes during the interval.  We hope you are able to come along, make cakes or help.

Vicar:

Lloyd Davis
07832 282387

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Office:

Christine Adali

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Assist. Church Wardens:

Ulrike Heyworth
Jenny Niven
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Hall Bookings:

Christine Adali
07517 151581
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The Dove Café:

Ellie Jones

07483 315535
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