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CHURCH NEWS
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church Parish Priest: Father Pius Amoako
e: parish.eastnorthants@northamptondiocese.org t: 07881 467624
Thrapston Baptist Church
Minister: Reverend Mat Hussain
e: thrapston.baptist@gmail.com t: 07501 718797
New email address for all parish business communication
As part of the Diocesan policy to be increasingly GDPR compliant, it has issued all parishes
with new emails. Please ensure that the new parish email addresses are used for all business communications.
New email: parish.eastnorthants@ northamptondiocese.org www.eastnorthantscatholic.org
Preparing for the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome – an invitation!
At St Paul’s we held a course of three one hour meetings in December with a dozen representative members of the parish prayerfully thinking about the rôle of the Church in the world, what it’s like being a Catholic today, and to sharing those thoughts with fellow parishioners, with our priests and bishops.
Those who were unable to attend then may still like to share their thoughts and dreams for the future of the worldwide Church.
This certainly is a challenge, one that Pope Francis offers us all when he says: “In these days, Jesus calls us to empty ourselves, to free ourselves from all that is worldly, including our inward-looking and outworn pastoral models and to ask ourselves what is the direction in which God wants to lead us.”
There is no formal agenda and every parish may approach this in whichever way they
find best. The essence of the task is to listen graciously to one another in quietness and allow the Holy Spirit to guide our discernment. Our thoughts will be gathered at Parish and Diocesan level and delivered to all the Bishops meeting at the 2023 Synod.
To express your interest please contact Vincent Davy on 07786 983217 or email: vincedavy@hotmail.com
Dear Friends,
We wish you every blessing and continue
to entrust everything this coming year to the Lord who sustains and provides for us in every circumstance.
The services planned for February will have the following themes and preachers. During the first part of the year we will be preaching through The Lord’s Prayer:
Sunday 6th, 10.30am
Morning Service – The Father’s Kingdom (Thy Kingdom Come) – Mat Hussain
Sunday 13th, 10.30am
Communion Service – The Father’s Will (Thy will be done’) – Mat Hussain
Sunday 20th, 10.30am
Morning Service – The Father’s Provision (Give us this day, our daily bread) – Andrew Thompstone
Sunday 27th, 10.30am
All-Age Family Service (with Communion)
For any more information please email us on thrapston.baptist@gmail.com
Don’t forget the series of Video Reflections by our minister Mat Hussain is still available on our website.
Also, please don’t forget, if you would like to speak to anyone or would like us to pray for you or your family, then please do get in touch using our prayer request contact form on the website: (www.thrapstonbaptist.co.uk/prayer-requests).
Please see our website for the COVID safeguards we will continue to practice for the time being (www.thrapstonbaptist.co.uk/covid- safeguards).
Recordings of our services are still being made available via our website (www. thrapstonbaptist.co.uk/podcasts)
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