​​​​​​​Today’s Worship and Readings

10.00am             All Age Worship at St Peter’s
10.45am             Parish Communion at St Decuman’s

Next Sunday – 12th March – Lent 2
9:15am                 Parish Communion at St Peter’s
10.45am               Parish Communion at St Decuman’s​

​Dates for the week ahead:
Monday 6th March                     9.45am                    Benefice Morning Prayer at Holy Cross
                                       10.30am – 12.00 Noon       WARM SPACE at Holy Cross – tea, coffee, biscuits, hot soup                      

                                                      12.00-1.30pm         Lent Lunch at Salvation Army Hall, Watchet

Tuesday 7th March                     9.30am                   Little Saints at the Meeting Room, Williton

Wednesday 8th March              10.00am                  Little Saints at the Salvation Army Hall, Watchet

                                                       7.00pm                   The Bible Course continues in The Meeting Room, Williton
Thursday 2nd March                 10.00am                  CAMEO at St Peter’s

Saturday 4th March                   10.00am                  Flutes rehearse at Holy Cross

Future Dates for your diaries

Saturday 18th March                3.00pm                    Campfire Church at St Decuman's

Prayers

We are holding in our thoughts and prayers: Jane,

Janet, Sara, Peter, Fay, Alice, Naomi and Edna.

​​If you would like to be included on the Prayer List, please let Mark, Sarah or Sue know..​

Prayers for the People of Ukraine

As we mark the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, a prayer for Ukraine, written by our archbishops at the start of the war;

God of peace and justice, we pray for the people of Ukraine today.
We pray for peace and the laying down of weapons.
We pray for all those who fear for tomorrow,
that your Spirit of comfort would draw near to them.
We pray for those with power over war or peace,
for wisdom, discernment and compassion to guide their decisions.
Above all, we pray for all your precious children, at risk and in fear,
that you would hold and protect them.
We pray in the name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
Amen
Archbishop Justin Welby
Archbishop Stephen Cottrell

The Benefice of Watchet and Williton
Sunday 5th March 2023

THE SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
‘Return to the way of righteousness'

Readings

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Genesis 12: 1-4

John 3: 1-17

Prayers for the Benefice

Each week we join our Baptist friends in praying for a local road or street.

Brendon Road in Watchet

Dovetons Close in Williton

Pray for God’s blessing on those who live there.

Today’s Collect prays that we may ‘return to the way of righteousness’. During Lent we are encourage

to examine our lives in the light of God’s commandments, and of Christ’s example,

so that we realize the ‘errors’ that have led us astray. Then, assured of Christ’s forgiveness and fellowship,

we can return to the right way and ‘follow all such things as are agreeable’ to it.

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The Collect
Almighty God, you show to those who are in error the light of your truth,
that they may return to the way of righteousness: grant to all those who are admitted

into the fellowship of Christ’s religion, that they may reject those things that are contrary

to their profession, and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same; through our

Lord Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.