Hazelwell Weekly Contact May 14th 2023 Easter 6
11 May 2023 • Weekly Notices
Hazelwell Weekly Contact May 14th 2023 Easter 6
Hazelwell Holy Communion 10.00am
Led by Revd. Eliakin Ikechukwu
Please pray for
Those in need throughout the world who are dependent on support from Christian Aid
Those who work directly for Christian Aid and their many partners world-wide
Please also Remember in your prayers Patricia, Stuart and John.
Parish Update
If you are unable to be in church but would like to join us on Zoom for the service this week please follow
Topic: 10.00am Sunday Worship
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This Sunday - 14th May : APCM (following the service)
Saturday 24th June : Summer Fair.
Now might be the time to consider the plant stall – if you are potting on seedlings or dividing perenials.
Food Bank The Spearhead Trust has been grateful for contributions to their foodbank, collected at Hazelwell. Please bring your donations and leave on the table at the back of church.
Alternatively, consider donating to a local foodbank in the course of your weekly shop via local supermarket collection.
Reflection on John 14:15-21 from 
‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
‘I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’
John 14:15-21
Jesus is aware that the imminent loss of his physical presence will be a big blow for his disciples. He reassures them “‘I will not leave you orphaned”. The loss of his physical presence will be made up to them by the sending of the Holy Spirit, who will be with them permanently.
In our changing and increasingly secularised society, one can easily feel a sense of loss and abandonment, but the Holy Spirit continues to guide and inspire us into new and creative forms of communicating the Good News in ways that are relevant to today’s world.
I do not need to rely on my own resources but turn to God who promises to help me, ready to send the Holy Spirit. To be open to the spirit, I must quieten first my body, then my heart. In this time of quiet God teaches me to see my world differently; I don’t act in it alone but am accompanied by God’s ever-present Spirit.