INFORMATION
OPEN HOUSE
The Church will be open every Thursday evening from 6.00-7.30 p.m. Please call in and enjoy the peace and quiet after a hectic day. Church members will be available for you to talk to or you may wish to use the Lady Chapel which has been set aside for private prayer.
Inclusive Church
St. Martin's is an inclusive church and makes all welcome irrespective of gender, race or sexual orientation. The good news of the Gospel is open to all.
WEB-WISE
As you can see we now have a web site and it is vital that we keep it alive and well. If you have any items of information to publish, or any ideas concerning the website's further use, please email them to enquiries@stmartins-lowmarple.co.uk
Members of St. Martin's pewnote rota please include our web address on pewnotes, and email copy to Simon each week to go onto site Please also include web address on any posters, fliers, tickets etc.
If you need to know anything or would like someone to contact you please send an
email to enquiries@stmartins-lowmarple.co.uk
Fair Trade Church
St. Martin's is a Fair Trade Church. We have an opportunity to a petition for Trade Justice and Debt Cancellation to be presented to the UK Government and the E.U. Parliament. Petition forms are available at the back of Church. The Petition calls on the Government and the European Union to meet the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty by 2015 through:
1) Securing Fair and Just Trade rules in the DOHA development round;
2) Cancelling the debts of the world's poorest nations;
Further details from Helen Rogers.
Our Fair Trade Stall is open for business on the 3rd Sunday of each month after Parish Mass in the hall during coffee time. Please see Jackie Spreckley.
Bridge at St. Martin's
Friendly bridge is played every Friday afternoon from 2pm - 4pm at the Brabyn's Bridge Club, meeting at St. Martins Church Hall, behind the Church on Brabyn's Brow, Marple. Come with or without a partner. £1.50 including tea and biscuits.
Prayers for the Sick
Please let Fr. McKenna know of any who are sick so their names can be included in the intercessions during Mass.
Please continue to pray for Eddie Howells all during his recovery
We now have a third microphone for our excellent sound system. This means we can bring back the BIG BRASS DUCK into use - so readers at the Parish Mass; please use the old lectern. Don't forget to switch off after use. We might also be able to use this additional microphone at the font for baptisms ~ we shall be able to hear the babies better.
"Some prayers for Church of England People"
Please feel free to use these little prayer books before and after mass ~ or at any time. The idea is to leave them in the pews so that they are available to whatever needs.
Cleaning the Church Hall; - can you help? Please see Gill Gregory
Pew Notes. Please note there is a new rota in the vestry. Any person able help preparing the pew notes would be most welcome- please see Lionel Powell
Mellor Art Society was started in October 2000. It was formed to provide somewhere for anyone interested in art to meet, share ideas and to develop new skills and learn new techniques. Beginners are welcomed and the group have members from beginners to retired professionals that enjoy working together in an informal and relaxed atmoshphere. Demonstrations and workshops are held regularly. If you believe you would be interested in finding out more then pop along and join us one Wednesday evening when we meet between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. Visitors are always welcome. We meet at St Martins Church Hall, Brabyns Brow, Station Road, Marple.
Lord, we thank you.............................
for the gift of years.
I am convinced it is a great art to know how to grow old gracefully, and I am determined to practise it...........I always thought I should love to grow old, and I find it is even more delightful than I thought. It is so delicious to be DONE with things, and to feel no need any longer to concern myself much about earthly affairs...............I am tremendously content to let one activity after another go, and to wait quietly and happily the opening of the door at the end of the passage way, that will let me in to my real abiding place.
Hannah Whitall Smith 1903