Receiving and Sharing the Love of God Everyday
We would like to decorate the church with Easter lilies this year. If you would like to contribute to the cost of this please put your donation in an envelope marked “Easter Lilies” together with your name and place in collection or hand to clergy/treasurer. Alternatively, you could donate for this direct to the church bank account with the reference Lilies and your name.
Thank you
Edna Green
Treasurer
St John the Baptist Church, Hey
The services have been updated on A Church Near You, you can find the page here
Grace May was Baptised today
Isabell and Amy assisted with the Offertory
Chester-James was Baptised today
Congratulations to the lucky winners of the raffle which was drawn this morning.
1st prize – £100 0649 Katie Boswell
2nd prize – Face and Body Basket 0557 Rev’d Christine
3rd prize – £25 0117 Eddie Baines
Thank you to all those who bought tickets, after costs the total raised was £723.
This Sunday we celebrate Candlemas, the traditional end of Christmas.
This panel of our stained glass is of the “Presentation of Christ at the temple”; the purification of Mary forty days after the birth. We can see Mary in her traditional blue robe and Joseph with their sacrificial offering of doves. Holding Jesus is the elderly prophet Simeon who recognises Jesus as the long awaited Messiah. He then says what we now call the Nunc Dimitis.
“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.”
The woman is Anna a prophetess and widow aged 84 who had lived in the temple for many years.
“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 Israel.”
Oliver Joseph was Baptised today
The offertory had an able assistant
St John the Baptist Hey 