Prayers of the People

For the week beginning:

November 16th 2008

Today is The 33rd Sunday of the Year

Year A

Today’s Theme: Christ, the Head of his Household

Christ’s Family, the Church, today holds festival in honour of its Head, and brings to him the talents of a good wife, devoted sons, and faithful servants.

Father of all that is good,

keep us faithful in serving you,

for to serve you is our lasting joy.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

First Reading Proverbs 31: 10 - 13, 19 - 20, 30 - 31
Psalm 127
Second Reading 1 Thessalonians 5: 1 - 6
Gospel
 Matthew 25: 14 - 30


Sunday November 16th
Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
 Sung Mass at S Barnabas' 8.30 a.m.
S Alban’s November Birthdays
 Sung Mass at S Alban's 9.30 a.m.
Sung Mass at S Agatha's
 11.15 a.m.
Monday November 17th Feria No Mass
Tuesday November 18th Feria Low Mass at S Agatha's 12.00 p.m.
Wednesday November 19th Feria School Eucharist at S Alban's 9.00 a.m.
Thursday 20th Feria (Requiem) Low Mass at S Alban's 12.30 p.m.
Friday November 21st Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary No Mass
Saturday November 22nd S Cecelia V M Requiem Mass at S Alban's 9.00 a.m.
Sunday November 23rd Solemnity of Christ the King Sung Mass at S Barnabas' 8.30 a.m.
The Fountain Singers (S Alban's Gift Day)
 Sung Mass at S Alban's
 9.30 a.m.
Sung Mass at S Agatha's
 11.15 a.m.
Evensong and Benediction
The Fountain Singers
 at S Alban's 3.00 p.m.
Birthday Party in S Patrick's room at S Alban's ~ 4.00 p.m.

Morning Prayer (8.15 a.m., Saturdays 8.30 a.m.) and Evening Prayer (5.15 p.m.)
are said daily in S Alban's for the Mission Partnership, Pastoral circumstances permitting.

Beverages and Sherry are available after Sunday Mass (S Agatha's and S Alban's).

Junior Church during 11.15 a.m. Mass at S Agatha's

Confessions: by appointment.
Ecclesiastica

The Rt Revd David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham.

For Pope Benedict XVI and the Roman Catholic Church.

For the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Eastern Churches.

Archbishop Rowan Williams

Archbishop John Sentamu 


Diocese 

PRAY for The Lusitanian Church (E-P to the Archbishop of Canterbury), Lusitanian Church - (Portugal).
The Rt Revd Fernando Soares
The Rt Revd Tony Dumper Honorary Assistant Bishop
The Rt Revd Peter Hall Honorary Assistant Bishop
The Rt Revd Iraj Mottahed Honorary Assistant Bishop
The Rt Revd Mark Santer Honorary Assistant Bishop
The Rt Revd Maurice Sinclair Honorary Assistant Bishop
The Rt Revd Michael Whinney Honorary Assistant Bishop
The Ven Hayward Osborne  Archdeacon of Birmingham
The Ven Dr Brian Russell Archdeacon of Aston

The Bishop of Ebbsfleet, Provincial Episcopal Visitor The Rt Revd Andrew Burham
Deanery of Moseley Peter Babington - Area Dean
St Agatha's and St Barnabas' Churches
Revd John Hervé
St Anne's Roman Catholic Church The Oblate Community
Highgate Baptist Church The Revd Paul Walker
St Columba United Reformed Church The Revd Lenora Vissert-Hooft-Jagessar 
Shilonite Gospel Church Minister-in-Charge John Adegoke
Birmingham Central Mosque Dr Mohammed Naseem
Forward in Faith Ministries International Birmingham East Assembly (ZAOGA) Pastor Richard Sabvute

Pray Daily For:
Each individual member of the congregations of all three churches,
that they may be faithful to their vocations as they go about their daily lives,
and worthy ambassadors of their Catholic Faith.

The Mission Partnership and Our Parishes:
Strengthen and increase the faithful, visit and relieve the sick,
turn and soften the wicked, arouse the careless, recover the fallen,
restore the penitent, remove all hindrances to the advancement of thy truth,
and bring us all to be of one heart and mind in the knowledge of thy Holy Church.

For our neighbouring Faith Communities within the Parish

S Anne's Roman Catholic Church
Highgate Baptist Church
The Shilonite Gospel Church
Ladypool Road Congregational Church
Stratford Road Baptist Church
Birmingham Central Mosque

Malawi 

We remember our dear friends in Malawi, our twinned Diocese and pray that we all might be of very  real assistance to them.


S Alban's CE Specialist Engineering College

We pray for the Staff and Students, and for the Governors and the Trustees, as the College moves towards becoming an Academy next year.


Called to a New Kingdom 

May God re-shape His Church and set us free by the power of the Spirit to witness and to serve others.

Community
 
Men and Women of other Faiths and for goodwill amongst people of all faiths and none;
especially our neighbours and all who live in
the Parishes of Highgate, Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath, and throughout greater Birmingham.

Relief 

Please protect those who are held in captivity; or missing.  We ask that you continue to pray for their release and for a peaceful resolution of the issues which precipitated these events.


For good will among people of all faiths and none, for all the Armed Forces overseas and their families especially those still serving in Macedonia; for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, 
 the United Nations; and for the trouble spots around the world. 
Pray also for peace throughout the world, remembering especially Iraq, Turkey and the Holy Lands, all other areas of the Middle East, especially Lebanon and Gaza. 
Please also pray for  Russia, Georgia, the Balkans and Chechnya, 
as well as the Philippines, Indonesia, the Western Pacific, 
North Korea, Burma, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Far East,
We do well to also remember all those in Africa, in particular, the Congo, 
those facing famine throughout the Continent and especially in Sudan, 
 and our beloved Sister Diocese of  Malawi. We pray especially for all those affected by the military action in Georgia.


Well-being

We pray earnestly for all those who are hungry, sick, injured, wounded or homeless throughout the world, and nearer to home here in Birmingham, and commend the good work of the Fireside Centre to all.  Help us to continue to support them practically through an on-going collection of clothing, sleeping bags, gloves, toiletries, nappies etc. and especially tinned goods.

Any and all who are anxious, ill, in pain or distress and who need God's Holy Healing touch, especially those known to us by name,

Lee Alderson Joan Lee
Rose Augustus Donald Lewin
Helen Ball Melanie Margiotta
Fr Peter Berry Thomas Neathway
Hilda Blagg Kathleen Payne
Deborah Cantwell Pauline Penny
Jean Caswell Doreen Phipps
Jane Davis Marjorie Preston
Revd Lesley Edmonds Morris Rogers
Olive Fellows Ann Royer
June Fenton Harry Skinner
Brian Daniels Ann Smart
Pauline Daniels Joy Stapleton
Debbie Jones

We pray for all those who receive Communion at home

Marjorie McGrath
 
 Margery Rogers

Requiem

Those who mourn and those who have entered the larger life:


The recently departed,

and any who have died alone, 
on the roads, on the railways, on the seas or in the skies.

May their souls rest in peace and rise in glory

and their loved ones find comfort and solace from these prayers.

Those whose year's mind occurs this week

Emily Robinson Herbert Brooks John Crowder
George Cowdrey Alice Spaull Barbara Slyfield
Ada Fitzmorris George Price Samuel Harper
Frank Burgess Ben Curtis Esmond Nicholl; priest
Elizabeth Rosenthal Albert Bull Frances Weaver
Winifred Hadley Nellie Masters

If you would like someone added to our prayer list and remembered at our Daily Masses, or to the Year's Mind Memorials,  please either E-Mail us or sign our Guest Book giving us the details or asking us to contact you.  It is also possible to sponsor an eight day Sanctuary Lamp on the High Altar in honour of someone dear to you or to celebrate a special occasion in your life.


We attempt to update this Web Page every Sunday, but all immediate and urgent prayer requests should be submitted directly to the Vicar's Warden, Mr. E. J. Fellows 0121 777 1120 or Edward.Fellows@blueyonder.co.uk.


Parish Petition - Restoration Intercession  

May God enthuse and equip us all, Community and Congregation, to re-build, renew and repair His Holy House here in Highgate.


Details of our Mission Partners, S Agatha's, Sparkbrook
and S Barnabas', Balsall Heath
may be found at
www.saintagathas.org.uk