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Diary for

September

Morning Prayer is said daily at 9.00 am exept on Monday & Thursday when it is at 8.00 am

Evening Prayer is said daily at 5 pm

 

5

SUNDAY

8.00 am

10.15 am

6.30 pm

Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

Said Eucharist (BCP)

Choral Eucharist & Address

Evening Worship

Leaders of the nations

6

Monday

 

7.30 am

8.00 am

7.30 pm

Allen Gardiner, Founder of the South American Mission Society, 1851

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

Bell ringing Practice (Tower)

Schools and new beginnings

7

Tuesday

10.30 am

1.10 pm

2.30 pm

7.00 pm

8.00 pm

 

Staff Meeting (Vestry)

Lunchtime Concert  Min-Min Teh—Soprano

Mothers’ Union (Vestry)

Eucharist

PCC Fabric Meeting (Vestry)

Hospitals and surgeries

8

Wednesday

10.00am

12.00

Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Eucharist at Lillibet Lodge

Eucharist

The calling of God

9

Thursday

7.30 am

8.00 am

Charles Fuge Lowder, Priest, 1880

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

Local government and community

10

Friday

9.30 am

7.30 pm

 

Eucharist, MU Corporate

Choir Practice (Vestry)

Peace and justice

11

Saturday

 

9.30 am

10.00-4.30

11 am &

3 pm

Bedford Heritage Day, Beds & Herts Historic Churches Bike and Hike Day

Eucharist

Refreshments served throughout the day – Narthex

Tours of the Bell Tower;  meet at the font.

Town and Church past, present and future

12

SUNDAY

8.00 am

10.15 am

6.30 pm

Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

Said Eucharist (BCP)

Parish Eucharist & Address

Choral Evensong & Address

Bishops, synod and all Church leaders

13

Monday

7.30 am

8.00 am

7.30 pm

Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

Bell ringing Practice (Tower)

Those who preach and teach for the Lord

14

Tuesday

1.10 pm

7.00 pm

HOLY CROSS DAY

Lunchtime Concert  Christina McMaster - Piano

Eucharist

God with us and before us

15

Wednesday

10.30 am

12.00

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr 258

Eucharist at Dial House

Eucharist

Church unity and integrity

16

Thursday

7.30 am

8.00 am

7.30 pm

7.45 pm

Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts, c432

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

Bedford Deanery Quiet Evening at St Martin’s

Full PCC (Vestry)

The PCC - for wisom and discernment

17

Friday

9.30 am

7.30 pm

Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179

Eucharist

Choir Practice (Vestry)

Heart and vision in leadership

18

Saturday

9.30 am

10.00 - 4.00

10.00 - 4.30

 

Eucharist

Michaelmas Market

Refreshments served throughout the day (Narthex)

For community and Church Fair

19

SUNDAY

8.00 am

10.15 am

6.30 pm

Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

Said Eucharist (BCP)

Parish Eucharist with Holy Baptism & Address

Evening Worship on theme of John Henry Newman

For all in any kind of need

20

Monday

 

7.30 am

8.00 am

11.15 am

7.30 pm

John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

High Sheriff’s Service   Preacher The Bishop of St Alban’s

Bell ringing Practice (Tower)

Missionaries at home and abroad

21

Tuesday

1.10 pm

7.00 pm

MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST

Lunchtime Concert  Arturo Serna - Cello

Eucharist (Walsingham Cell)

Seeing Christ's face in one another

22

Wednesday

10.00am

11.00 am

12.00

2.00 pm

 

Eucharist at Oasis

Eucharist at Christie House

Eucharist

Central Bedford Churches (Bunyan Meeting)

 

Those in the midst of famine or war

23

Thursday

7.30 am

8.00 am

 

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

Those who are bereaved

24

Friday

9.30 am

7.30 pm

 

Eucharist

Choir Practice (Vestry)

Faith, hope and love

25

Saturday

 

 

9.30 am

10.00-4.30

7.30 pm

Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626

Sergei of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher 1392

Eucharist

Refreshments served throughout the day (Narthex)

Gala Concert - Lara Melda, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2010

The wonder of music, art and creativity

26

SUNDAY

 

8.00 am

10.15 am

 

12.30 pm

2.30 pm

6.30 pm

HARVEST THANKSGIVING & BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY

(Trinity 17)

Said Eucharist (BCP)

Festival Eucharist with Procession of Gifts & Address

Preacher; Canon Precentor of Ripon Cathedral

Parish Lunch

Full Peal attempt

Harvest Festival Evensong & Address, with special music

The natrual world and its resources

27

Monday

 

7.30 am

8.00 am

7.30 pm

Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) 1660

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

Bell ringing Practice (Tower)

The homeless and disenfranchised

28

Tuesday

1.10 pm

7.00 pm

 

Lunchtime Concert  Eric Tebbutt - Tenor

Eucharist & Laying on of Hands for Healing

For healing of body, mind and spirit

29

Wednesday

11.00 am

12.00

8.00 pm

MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS (Michaelmas Day)

Eucharist at Christie House

Eucharist

Standing Committee (Vicarage)

For the hope of heaven

30

Thursday

7.30 am

8.00 am

Jerome, Translator of the Scriptures, Teacher 420

Eucharist

Morning Prayer

 

For strength in this life