Pews News  29th March 2026

Bowland Benefice
Pews News 29 March 2026

Palm Sunday – Collect
True and humble king,
hailed by the crowd as Messiah:
grant us the faith to know you and love you,
that we may be found beside you
on the way of the cross,
which is the path of glory. Amen.
This week in the Benefice
Palm Sunday
29 March 10.30am

Benefice Holy
Communion in
Broughton
Hackett

Tuesday
31 March

7.00pm

Walking with
Christ to the
Cross. St Anne’s,
Wyre Piddle

Wednesday
1 April

2.30pm

Final Lent Group
meeting in The
Parish Room,
White Ladies
Aston

Maundy Thursday
2 April

7.30pm Holy Communion
in Peopleton

Good Friday
3 April

9.30am

Stations of the
Cross in Upton
Snodsbury

6.00pm

Service of
Meditation in
White Ladies
Aston

Easter Day
5 April

6.30am
Holy Communion
with breakfast in
Upton Snodsbury
9.30am
Holy Communion
in White Ladies
Aston

10.30am

Family Service in
Broughton
Hackett
11.00am Holy Communion
in Peopleton
If you or someone you know, will find it difficult to get
to church on Easter Day but would like to receive Holy
Communion, please do contact Revd Claire and she
will arrange a Home Communion Service for you.
Please ring her on: 07921 101320 or email:
revdclaireb@btinternet.com

Some thoughts for Holy Week
For the triumph of Palm Sunday
Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!
For Monday in Holy Week
Come, let us follow where our captain trod,
Our King victorious, Christ the Son of God.
Eternal Giver of Love and Life, your Son Jesus Christ
has sent us into all the world to preach
the gospel of his kingdom.
Confirm us in this mission and help us to live
the Good News we proclaim,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For Tuesday in Holy Week

I look for the Lord; my soul waits for him: in his word

is my trust.

God of love, my prayer is simple: Your son, Jesus,
suffered and died for me. I know only that I cannot
have real strength unless I rely on you. Amen.
For Wednesday in Holy Week
He humbled himself and was obedient to death,
even the death of the cross.

Father, this week we recall the last events in the life of
Your Son, leading up to his crucifixion and death.
Grant us the strength to follow his teachings, and
imitate his actions, so that we might serve him fully,
and share eternal life with all the saints. Amen.

For Maundy Thursday

Jesus said ‘A new Commandment I give you, that you
love one another, as I have loved you.’
‘Could you not watch with me one brief hour?’
O Jesus teach us how to love Thee. Help us to pray
and watch and mourn with Thee.
For Good Friday

From the throne of his cross, the King of grief cries

out to a world of unbelief.

My song is love unknown, my Saviour’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be.
O who am I that for my sake my Lord should take

frail flesh and die?
For Easter Eve

Out of the depths I have cried to thee O Lord:

hear my voice.

Father of all, we give you thanks and praise, that
when we were still far off you met us in your Son and
brought us home. Dying and living, he declared your
love, gave us grace and opened the gate of glory. May
we who share Christ’s body live his risen life; we who
drink his cup bring life to others; we whom the Spirit
lights give light to the world. Keep us firm in the hope
you have set before us, so we and all your children
shall be free, and the whole earth live to praise your
name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.