Trinity 6 News

Priest-in-Charge Fr John Ainslie (revjohnainslie@gmail.com; 01628 629827)

A very warm welcome to any new readers, and to visitors and newcomers to St Michael’s. Services this week: Thursday, Said Mass 10.30am; next Saturday, Mass of Our Lady of Walsingham 10.30am; next Sunday Sung Mass 10.30am. All services followed by Tea, Coffee and Cake. Do join us !!

This afternoon: BBQ, Choral Evensong and Benediction at St Michael and All Angels Harbledown – All Welcome !! If you would like a lift, ask after Mass this morning.

ORGAN RECITAL IN CHURCH: Saturday 9th August at 2.30pm followed by Afternoon Tea and Cakes. The Recital will be given by Levente Vas, Organ Scholar at St Hughs College Oxford. Levente is a ‘local boy’ and in 2024 he was a winner at the Kent County Organist’s Association competition, and he studies organ with Francois Cloete and Jacob Collins. Collection for our organ fund. Do please spread the word around any of your friends and neighbours who might support this, and aim to come yourself too. I hope this will be the first of many such events (we also have a recital planned as part of Heritage Weekend).

This Thursday: The PCC meets in the Vestry Hall at 7.30pm.

FOR OUR PRAYERS: We pray for our PCC Meeting on Thursday, and for all who contribute to the mission and ministry of our Church. We pray for peace in Gaza, for the leaders of peoples and nations that they would truly seek the things that make for peace. For all those who remain in Gaza to provide relief and medical care in awful and dangerous conditions. For those who risk their lives to make known the situation in Gaza in the absence of the media.

We pray for those in need, and especially Paul Jones, Glynis Reynolds, Yvonne Young, Jessica O’Sullivan, Lindsay Wheeler, Martyn Nash, Fran, Ellie Tomlinson, David Green and Norman Farrington.

We pray for the recently departed. We remember those who have faithfully served God in this Church in previous generations, and we pray for those whose year’s mind occurs this week: Alan Cox, Dick van Seenus, Jason Adam Orwin.

FROM THE BELLTOWER: 20 July 2025 Braunstone Surprise Major 1 Emma Jarvis 2 Mike Birkbeck 3 Jacqueline Barlow 4 Mark Elvers 5 Philip Jarvis 6 Paul Barton 7 Nigel Pointer 8 Neil Jones (C) Remembering Jeanette Ardley, 18/7/16, RIP, and Donald Niblett, 14/7/25, R.I.P.

SUPPORT ST MICHAELS: to make a donation towards the work and worship of St Michael’s Church go to: www.parishgiving.org.uk/donors/find-your-parish/maidstone-st-michael-and-aa-maidstone/