Lent Lunches: These will commence on Friday 22 February until 15 March, and will take place in the church hall from 12.00 noon – 1.30 pm £3.50 per person. Please note that there will be a Tradecraft stall there for you to purchase items.

Thank you to all those who helped and supported the Lent Lunch on 1 March. We raised £212.60 for Christian Aid.

Monday 11 March at 7.30 pm, All Saints Oakham: PCC Meeting in the Mayhew Room.

Wednesday 13 March - 1.30 pm: Music at Lunchtime. Thomas Conant, violin, playing a selection from Bach, Kodály and Brahms. All welcome.

Thursday 14 March at 2.15 pm in Church: Mothers' Union monthly meeting. Revd Janet Tebby will conduct a Holy Communion service, and she will follow this with a talk about her decision to become ordained.

Saturday 16 March: The Rutland Concert Band presents ‘Then & Now’, a musical cocktail for a March Evening. 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm at St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Langham. Tickets cost £10 and are available from: Debbie on 01572 723533 or Hilary on 01572 757435, or Music & More in Oakham. Bar opens at 7 pm and during the interval.

Sunday 17 March 2013: Friends of All Saints’ Church, Oakham - The Annual General Meeting will be held in Church following the 10.30 am service. Please note that the date is incorrect on the AGM Notice.

Tuesday 19 March: Good News Van at 25 Willow Crescent, Oakham at 7.30 pm.

Thursday 21 March: Celtic Midday Prayer at St Edmund, Egleton. Please note date change from that previously advertised (not 14 March). Contact Vyv Wainwright on 01572 759157.

Friends of All Saints' Oakham: Envelopes for members are available on the table by the South Door.

Weekly Offertory Envelopes: New annual boxed sets start 6 April. Current givers: please check list by South Door. Possible new givers – either sign list or chat with Gordon – tel no: 755371. It’s a good method of ‘giving anonymously’.

Oakham Easter Lilies: If you would care to make a donation in memory of a loved one, boxes will be in Church after services on Sundays during Lent. Approximate cost £2.50 per lily. Any queries please contact Jackie on Oakham 756613.

Fairtrade: Sales for February amounted to £387.85. Thanks to as ever to everyone. Next stalls will be after 10.30 am service 17 March and 7 April. Denise (722729).

Oakham All Saints: If you are on the 10.30 am rota as a Reader, Intercessor or Communion Assistant and need to change your duty, it would be greatly appreciated if you could ensure that any necessary alterations are made to the rota that is pinned up in the kitchen, or inform the churchwardens. Thank you.

Sunday 10 March 2013

W E L C O M E If you are new to this church or

visiting, please make yourself known to the clergy or churchwardens.

If you wish to receive Holy Communion in the pew where you are sitting, please inform a sidesperson before the start

of the service.

At All Saints’ Church, Oakham, large print versions of the hymns and service booklet are available. Please ask one of

the sidespersons.

Oakham Team Clergy Rev Canon Lee Francis-Dehqani (Team Rector, Oakham) 01572 722108 lee@oakhamteam.org.uk Rev Audrey Atkinson (Team Vicar) 01572 723154 audrey@oakhamteam.org.uk Rev Janet Tebby (Team Vicar) 01664 474096 janet@oakhamteam.org.uk Rev Hildred Crowther (Assistant Priest) 01572 767779 hildred@oakhamteam.org.uk Rev Dr Dominic Coad (Curate) 01572 770024 dominic@oakhamteam.org.uk Oakham Team Office The Team Office is staffed each Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning from 9 am – 12 noon. Notices for inclusion in the pew sheet should arrive by Wednesday at 11 am. 01572 724007 office@oakhamteam.org.uk

www.oakhamteam.org.uk Services for Sunday 17 March 2013 (Lent 5 Passion Sunday) Ashwell 09:00 Holy Communion Braunston 11:00 Holy Communion Brooke 18:00 Evensong Egleton 09:15 Holy Communion Langham 16:00 Church at 4 – ‘Tempted?’ Market Overton 16:00 Church at 4 Oakham 08:00 Holy Communion 10:30 Holy Communion 12.15 Baptism 18:00 Choral Evensong Teigh 18:00 Evensong Whissendine 11:00 Holy Communion Midweek Communion Services Tuesday All Saints’ Oakham 10.00 am Wednesday St John and St Anne Chapel 10.00 am Thursday All Saints’ Oakham 8.30 am Friday (BCP) All Saints’ Oakham 10.00 am Every Wednesday at 5.30 pm Christian Meditation Group at St John and St Anne.

10 March 2013, Mothering Sunday

The Collect

God of compassion, Whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to Himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of Your presence to bind together and to heal; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, Who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of The Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Exodus 2.1 -10 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him for three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. ‘This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,’ she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?’ Pharaoh’s

daughter said to her, ‘Yes.’ So the girl went and called the child’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.’ So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, ‘because’, she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’

Luke 2.33-35 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.’

Post Communion Collect

Loving God, as a mother feeds her children at the breast You feed us in this sacrament with the food and drink of eternal life: help us who have tasted Your goodness to grow in grace within the household of faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.