Trinity 7 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 for The Transfiguration 10.30am; next Sunday Sung Mass 10.30am. All services followed by Tea, Coffee and Cake. Do join us !!

This week the Church keeps the Feast of the Transfiguration on 6th August; we shall keep the Feast at our morning Mass on Thursday.

PAUL JONES. It is with great sadness that I pass on news of the death of Paul Jones, a much-loved member of our congregation. He died peacefully at home on Friday morning after two years with brain cancer. Please pray for him, and for Pius and all Paul’s close family and friends at this sad time. May Paul rest in peace and rise in glory, and may the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Michael and all the Saints pray for him.

NEXT SATURDAY is our ORGAN RECITAL followed by AFTERNOON TEA AND CAKES: Saturday 9th August starting at 2.30pm. 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).

FOR OUR PRAYERS: We pray for moves towards peace in Gaza, the wider Middle East, Ukraine, Sudan and other places of conflict. We pray for the mission and ministry of the Church, Bishop Luke and all parishes and clergy under his care, and especially for the Society churches in Folkestone, Deal and Ramsgate that faithful Priests would be found to serve these respective parishes. We pray for our Ministry of Welcome at St Michael’s, for all those who welcome at the church door, those who provide coffee and refreshments, those who keep the church clean, tidy and welcoming, and for all of us – that we may be a truly welcoming congregation.

We pray for those in need, and especially 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, especially Paul Jones. 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: Kenneth Jordan, Anthony Bloom (Bp), Mollie Mason.

FROM THE BELLTOWER: Sunday, 27 July, 1280 Spliced Surprise Major (4m) 480 Rutland; 320 Cambridge, Lincolnshire; 160 Yorkshire; 35 com. 1 Shona Clark 2 Janice Byrne 3 Jacqueline Barlow 4 Jane L Kostelnyk 5 Philip Jarvis 6 Mark Elvers 7 Mike Birkbeck 8 Neil Jones (C)

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