Sunday 8^th June

  8.00am

9.30am

Third Sunday after Trinity 

We also list Bushey & Oxhey Methodists’ weekly  services (B&OM)

Holy Communion

Sung Eucharist with anointing followed by Q & A slot with discussion over coffee after the service

Prayers for healing in the Lady Chapel after the service

11.00am

Monday 9^th June

Tuesday 10^th June         4.30pm

7.30pm

Wednesday 11^th June  

12.30pm

Thursday 12^th June        10.00am

Saturday  14^th June       3.00pm

B&OM: Morning Worship

9.30 – 11.30am Parent and Toddler Group in the Hall

Reception of Cecil's body into church

Worship Committee in the vicarage

St Barnabas 

Funeral for Cecil de Braux RIP (Family flowers only but donations in Cecil's memory can give be given to Christian Aid. The congregation are invited to the refreshments in the hall after the service)

7.00 – 8.00pm Baptism and Wedding Arrangements in the Vicarage.

                          (please telephone Fr David for an appointment)

7.30 – 9.00pm Choir Practice

Holy Eucharist 

Marriage Blessing for Ralph & Ann Bush

Next Week:     

Sunday 15^th June          8.00am

9.30am

11.00am

Fourth Sunday after Trinity

Holy Communion

All Age Eucharist

B&OM: Morning Worship

For Your Prayers

The people on our list greatly appreciate your prayers.  Please take time to pray for the following people during the week, according to their needs.   To put a name on the list for the Prayer Group please phone Phyllis.

In our community

For all those who live in Chalk Hill and Colne Avenue.

Those in particular need through sickness and suffering

Martin Carter, Mark Major, Paul and Margot Preusse and Ernie Rosson.

Those who value your ongoing prayer support

John Powell, Eva Griffiths,  Judith Carter, May Skinner and Katie Foster

Years mind

Gwen Palmer

The departed

Cecil DeBraux

Cecil DeBraux  RIP 

Cecil passed away peacefully in hospital in the early hours of Thursday morning, 29th May, with his family around him.  His many friends at St. Matthew's will miss him and we send his family our love.  Funeral details to follow.

Memories of a chorister 

‘One good thing school taught me was to play cricket. This stood me in good stead to join the local church choir in 1926, which had a fine cricket team. Whether you could sing or not was a secondary consideration!

When I left school, one of the men in the choir offered me a job as a driver’s mate in his corn merchant’s business at 10/- a week. The driver was his son, about two years older than I was, and himself an organist and choirmaster, so we gelled straight away. We would stop at any church we passed on our rounds of local farms, to check out the organ. He could play anything from Bach to the latest popular tune of the day and I would pump the organ.

I passed my driving test the day after my 17^th birthday and the following day became the proud driver of a lorry with pay of 27/- a week. I spent a happy three years at the firm before joining my father in his business, which was making optical elements. Since articles such as these were essential in the war, we had to leave the coast in 1940 because of the danger of invasion. We then came to Watford, where I have been ever since.’
(from ‘Growing up in the country’ by Cecil DeBraux,  ‘Connect’, Autumn 2001).

Coffee rota 

Thanks to all who have made coffee recently after the 9.30 service on a Sunday. We now need you to sign up again, please! We would also welcome more people (including the gentlemen) to help out - even an occasional offer is gratefully received. The rota lives by the kitchen hatch in the hall, so please don't be shy!

Midsummer's Day Feast of St John Baptist

We are holding a lunch on 24th June in the hall. Please sign the list at the back of church if you are coming.

Cost £4.

Items for the weekly notice sheet to Angela Nicholas, Email to newsletter@stmatthewsoxhey.org.uk.
Usually the deadline is Wednesday evening