Month: February 2019

Sunday March 3rd is the Sunday next before Lent.

Parish Eucharist at Kirton at 11:00am followed by Coffee.

FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT 25 February – 10 March 2019. For two weeks each year, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to celebrate the people who grow our food, people who live in some of the poorest countries in the world and who are often exploited and badly paid. Have you tried our Fair Trade Chocolate on sale in Kirton Church after Mass?

ASH WEDNESDAY IS MARCH 6TH. Mass with Imposition of Ashes at All Saints Fosdyke at Noon. Sung Mass with Imposition of Ashes in Kirton Church 7:00pm.

The Way of the Cross on March 9th at Kirton and every Saturday of Lent at 10:00am. Our first session will be an ecumenical Way of the Cross led by Rev’d David Curran.

On Fridays from 4-30pm until Evening Prayer at 5pm we shall have Rosary and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in Lent, beginning form March 15th. Please give some extra time to your extra Lenten disciplines.

Parish APM 2019 April 7th APM at Kirton Church after Eucharist 12-15pm and the

Renewal of Electoral Roll –electoral roll forms available Sunday 17th Feb-17th March.

BAND CONCERT March 16th at 7:30pm in Kirton Church. The Kirton Brass Band along with the Boston Salvation Army Band present an amazing concert in Church. Tickets on sale now at £8.

LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER. Have you signed up yet for “God at the Movies” Lent course on Wednesday evenings? Maybe the Book study group is more you? Time still to be arranged depending on how many sign up.

We meet at The Vicarage starting at 6:30pm from March 13th we embark on a cinematic journey to discover where we see God in everyday life events. Topics covered will be suffering, vocation, love, faith, difference and diversity, sexuality and belief. We will watch the movie, then discuss in a group the themes and theological questions raised for us this Lent.

Space is limited! Please sign attendance sheet.

March 13th The movie “Simon Birch”

March 20th The movie “ Shadowlands”

March 27th The movie “Priest”

April 3rd The movie “The one hundred-foot journey”

April 10th The movie “Unfinished Song”

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Sunday 24 th of February is the 2nd Sunday before Lent.

Sung Eucharist at All Saints in Fosdyke at 9-30am

Parish Eucharist at Kirton at 11:00am.

Messy Church at 1:30pm in Algarkirk Village Hall. Pancakes, Fat Tuesday and getting ready for Lent.

FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT 25 February – 10 March 2019. For two weeks each year, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to celebrate the people who grow our food, people who live in some of the poorest countries in the world and who are often exploited and badly paid. This year we are focusing on the people – in particular the women – who grow the cocoa in the chocolate we love so much. Have you tried our Fair Trade Chocolate on sale in Kirton Church after Mass?

Our nest Baptism Preparation Session takes place at The Vicarage on March 2nd at 11:00am.

ASH WEDNESDAY IS MARCH 6TH. Mass with Imposition of Ashes at All Saints Fosdyke at Noon. Sung Mass with Imposition of Ashes in Kirton Church 7:00pm.

Please can you bring back to Church your Palm Crosses from last year to be burnt to make the Ashes for this year.

The Way of the Cross on March 9th at Kirton and every Saturday of Lent at 10:00am. Our first session will be an ecumenical Way of the Cross led by Rev’d David Curran.

Parish APM 2019 April 7th APM at Kirton Church after Eucharist 12-15pm and the

Renewal of Electoral Roll –electoral roll forms available Sunday 17th Feb-17th March.

BAND CONCERT March 16th at 7:30pm in Kirton Church. The Kirton Brass Band along with the Boston Salvation Army Band present an amazing concert in Church. Tickets on sale now at £8.

LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER. Full information available on our web site and in the Churches of Lent and Holy Week services. Please sign the lists if you wish to be involved in the “God at the Movies” course on Wednesday evenings in Lent and if you are interested in the Book study group, time to be arranged.

PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES WITH FR PAUL BLANCH – DEPARTURE DATE: 07 Oct 2019. RETURN DATE: 11 Oct 2019. No: DAYS: 5 Lourdes by air from Stansted – COST PER PERSON: £570.00

COST INCLUDES: Return flights Stansted – Lourdes.

        Airport duty & passenger taxes.    1 suitcase per person for the air-craft hold, 20kgs

        4 nights full board 4* Hotel Padoue, Lourdes.   Half day excursion to Bartres.  Northern Star Travel courier.

WHAT IS EXTRA: Single room supplement £115.00 Return Coach from Kirton to Stansted.

        We offer travel insurance at £45 per person with no age limited or the need for medical screening subject to certain criteria being met.  A deposit of £200.00 per person would be required to make the booking, people can pay by instalments on a month to month basis should they wish.   You are invited to a special evening at The Vicarage on February 21st at 7pm to hear more about this proposed trip.

Coming to a Church near you!

If you have watched the Hotel Inspector on TV, then you will know how the hotel inspector Alex Polizzi is on a mission to salvage some of Britain’s worst-run hotels and B&Bs. Well, we have invited Fr Trevor Thurston-Smith to be our Church Inspector to come and take a closer look at our three churches in the Kirton Group, to assess our ministry of welcome, the quality of our Sunday worship, our PCC management style and to ask how could we improve our kerb appeal to people looking for a Church. What is our occupancy rate? How is our signage? Do we give attention to detail? How is our menu?

Fr Trevor will be making appearances at all three of our churches in 2019 just like the Hotel Inspector,I wonder what he will find?

A native of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Trevor worked as a Civil Servant for a number of years before training for ordination at Chichester Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1986, and priested in 1987, both at Sheffield Cathedral, and he served curacies at St Mary and St Nicolas, Rawmarsh, Rotherham and later at St John the Divine, Horninglow, Burton-on-Trent, in the Diocese of Lichfield.

Trevor left full-time parochial ministry for a number of years and worked for Social Services in Derby and then as a project worker in a rehabilitation hostel for people with mental health problems. He was then seconded to a charity affiliated to ‘Shelter’ offering support to homeless people and working with local housing providers in developing specialist supported housing for people recovering from mental ill-health. He later worked for the Methodist charity MHA Care Group as a Regional Community Projects Manager, overseeing a number of schemes providing low-level support and befriending to isolated older people and developing specialist community- based services for older people living with dementia.

Whilst in Derby, Trevor also ministered on a voluntary basis to people living with HIV, and in 2005 he moved to Leicester to take up the post of Bishop’s Chaplain for people affected by HIV and Director of the Charity ‘Faith in People with HIV’. Always needing a strong parish base to use as a ‘springboard’ for his ministry, it was at this time that Trevor began to worship at St Thomas’ South Wigston and became ‘Honorary Curate’ there for a number of years before returning to full-time parish work as Priest-in-Charge of Broughton Astley and Croft with Stoney Stanton. He became Rector of the newly-created Benefice of Wigston in June 2014.

Originally evangelically converted, but a definite Anglo-Catholic at heart, Trevor now describes himself as a ‘Charismatic Catholic’ and values and respects all traditions within the Church of England. He has an interest in contemplative spirituality and is a member of the Sodality of Mary Mother of Priests (a dispersed community of priests living under a common rule) and a Priest Associate of the Holy House of Walsingham. He is an enthusiastic believer in the ministry of healing in its broadest sense and is a member of the diocesan deliverance ministry team which deals with concerns about the paranormal.

The Parish Church of SS Peter & Paul, Kirton in Holland.
Sunday: The Parish Eucharist at 11:00AM followed by Coffee.
Thursday: Holy Eucharist at 9:30AM
Daily Morning & Evening Prayer at 9am and 5pm except Sunday morning and Monday.
Saints Days and Holy Days as announced.

Please note the Vicarage telephone number is 01205 624128.

Sunday 17th of February is the 3rd Sunday before Lent.
Parish Eucharist at Kirton at 11:00am.

Kirton PCC meet with Kirton Methodist Church Council at The Methodist Church on February 19th at 7:00pm.

Feb 24th Messy Church in Algarkirk Village Hall for a Pre-Lent Pancake Fun afternoon. Session begins at 1-30pm.

Our nest Baptism Preparation Session takes place at The Vicarage on March 2nd at 11:00am.
ASH WEDNESDAY IS MARCH 6TH. Mass with Imposition of Ashes at All Saints Fosdyke at Noon. Sung Mass with Imposition of Ashes in Kirton Church 7:00pm.

Please can you bring back to Church your Palm Crosses from last year to be burnt to make the Ashes for this year.

Also, the Way of the Cross begins on March 9th at Kirton Church and every Saturday of Lent at 10:00am.

Parish APM 2019 April 7th APM at Kirton Church after Eucharist 12-15pm and the
Renewal of Electoral Roll – please see forms at the back of Church for you to enrol on the new Electoral Roll for the parish of Kirton. New electoral roll forms available for completion from Sunday 17th February – Sunday 17th March

BAND CONCERT March 16th at 7:30pm in Kirton Church. The Kirton Brass Band along with the Boston Salvation Army Band present an amazing concert in Church. Tickets on sale now at £8.

LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER. Full information is now available on our web site and in the Churches of our Lent programme and Holy Week services. Please check this out and book the dates in your diary. Please sign the lists if you wish to be involved in the “God at the Movies” course on Wednesday evenings in Lent and if you are interested in the Book study group, time to be arranged.

PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES WITH FR PAUL BLANCH – DEPARTURE DATE: 07 Oct 2019. RETURN DATE: 11 Oct 2019. No: DAYS: 5 Lourdes by air from Stansted – COST PER PERSON: £570.00
COST INCLUDES: Return flights Stansted – Lourdes.
Airport duty & passenger taxes. 1 suitcase per person for the air-craft hold, 20kgs
4 nights full board 4* Hotel Padoue, Lourdes. Half day excursion to Bartres. Northern Star Travel courier.
WHAT IS EXTRA: Single room supplement £115.00 Return Coach from Kirton to Stansted.

We offer travel insurance at £45 per person with no age limited or the need for medical screening subject to certain criteria being met. A deposit of £200.00 per person would be required to make the booking, people can pay by instalments on a month to month basis should they wish. You are invited to a special evening at The Vicarage on February 21st at 7pm to hear more about this proposed trip.

Sunday 10th of February is the 4th Sunday before Lent.

Sung Eucharist at All Saints in Fosdyke at 9:30am.

Parish Eucharist at Kirton at 11:00am

Holland Deanery Synod at Holy Trinity Church in Boston on February 13th at 7:30pm.

Kirton PCC meet with Kirton Methodist Church Council at The Methodist Church on February 19th at 7:00pm.

Messy Church in Algarkirk Village Hall for a Pre-Lent Pancake Fun afternoon. Session begins at 1-30pm.

Our nest Baptism Preparation Session takes place at The Vicarage on March 2nd at 11:00am.

ASH WEDNESDAY IS MARCH 6TH. Mass with Imposition of Ashes at All Saints Fosdyke at Noon. Sung Mass with Imposition of Ashes in Kirton Church 7:00pm.

Please can you bring back to Church your Palm Crosses from last year to be burnt to make the Ashes for this year.

The Way of the Cross begins on March 9th at Kirton Church and every Saturday of Lent at 10:00am.

Group Parish APM’s 2019

March 28th APM at Fosdyke Church 7:00pm

April 7th APM at Kirton Church after Eucharist 12-15pm

April 9th Algarkirk APM ain the Village Hall at 2:00pm

Renewal of Electoral Roll – please see forms at the back of Church for you to enrol on the new Electoral Roll for the parish of Kirton. New electoral roll forms available for completion from Sunday 17th February – Sunday 17th March

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BAND CONCERT March 16th at 7:30pm in Kirton Church. The Kirton Brass Band along with the Boston Salvation Army Band present an amazing concert in Church. Tickets on sale now at £8.

LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER. Full information is now available on our web site and in the Churches of our Lent programme and Holy Week services. Please check this out and book the dates in your diary. Please sign the lists if you wish to be involved in the “God at the Movies” course on Wednesday evenings in Lent and if you are interested in the Book study group, time to be arranged.