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CHURCH SERVICES MAY 2018
Date Leighton Trelystan
Sunday 6th May 9.30am 4.30pm
Easter 6 Holy Communion Family Service
Rogation Sunday
Thursday 10th May 7.00pm
Ascension Day Holy Communion
Sunday 13th May
Easter 7
Sunday 20th May 11.00am 3.00pm
Pentecost Family Worship Holy Communion
Sunday 27th May 11.00am
Trinity Sunday Holy Communion
Feast of Title
Leighton Church Rotas – May 2018
Sidesmen Altar Flowers & Brass
Elisabeth & David Griffiths Pauline Evans & Margaret Landgrebe
The great fifty days of Easter continue into our misuse of it, too), and to pray for farmers,
gardeners and growers. “We plough the fields and
May, representing as they do the forty days between scatter” was in fact originally written for this season
Easter Day and Ascension Day, and then the ten days rather than harvest. We shall have a Rogation Day
the disciples waited in Jerusalem before receiving the service at Trelystan Church, surrounded by fields and
gift of the Holy Spirit on the first Christian Day of woods, on Sunday 6th May at 4.30 pm - mostly
Pentecost. outside the church, if the weather plays ball!
Within that time there are a few special services. The Ascension Day itself is Thursday 10th May, and there
run-up to Ascension Day is called Rogationtide will be a service of Holy Communion in Leighton
(Rogation is really a sort of posh word for prayer), and Church at 7.00 pm, with a quiet and reflective theme.
has a pre-Christian origin really, as the ancient
Romans used to walk through the crops at this season Pentecost (or Whitsun), 20th May, is the birthday of
praying to be kept free from nasty crop diseases like the Church, so birthdays will be the theme of the
rust on the wheat. Today the Church often uses this Family Service at Leighton at 11.00 am, which will be
time as a chance to reflect on our use of the land (and the first time we’ll be using a new Family Service
CHURCH SERVICES MAY 2018
Date Leighton Trelystan
Sunday 6th May 9.30am 4.30pm
Easter 6 Holy Communion Family Service
Rogation Sunday
Thursday 10th May 7.00pm
Ascension Day Holy Communion
Sunday 13th May
Easter 7
Sunday 20th May 11.00am 3.00pm
Pentecost Family Worship Holy Communion
Sunday 27th May 11.00am
Trinity Sunday Holy Communion
Feast of Title
Leighton Church Rotas – May 2018
Sidesmen Altar Flowers & Brass
Elisabeth & David Griffiths Pauline Evans & Margaret Landgrebe
The great fifty days of Easter continue into our misuse of it, too), and to pray for farmers,
gardeners and growers. “We plough the fields and
May, representing as they do the forty days between scatter” was in fact originally written for this season
Easter Day and Ascension Day, and then the ten days rather than harvest. We shall have a Rogation Day
the disciples waited in Jerusalem before receiving the service at Trelystan Church, surrounded by fields and
gift of the Holy Spirit on the first Christian Day of woods, on Sunday 6th May at 4.30 pm - mostly
Pentecost. outside the church, if the weather plays ball!
Within that time there are a few special services. The Ascension Day itself is Thursday 10th May, and there
run-up to Ascension Day is called Rogationtide will be a service of Holy Communion in Leighton
(Rogation is really a sort of posh word for prayer), and Church at 7.00 pm, with a quiet and reflective theme.
has a pre-Christian origin really, as the ancient
Romans used to walk through the crops at this season Pentecost (or Whitsun), 20th May, is the birthday of
praying to be kept free from nasty crop diseases like the Church, so birthdays will be the theme of the
rust on the wheat. Today the Church often uses this Family Service at Leighton at 11.00 am, which will be
time as a chance to reflect on our use of the land (and the first time we’ll be using a new Family Service
