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Sunday 2nd November 2025 - All Saints Day
(4th Before Advent)
Prayer for Spiritual Communion
Come Lord Jesus, dwell in me and send your Holy Spirit that I may be filled with your presence.
Jesus, as the hem of your garment, touched in faith, healed the woman who could not touch your body, so may the soul of your servant be healed, for though
I cannot receive you in the sacrament I can, through this offering of my prayer, receive you in my heart; grant this for Christ's sake. Amen
You are welcome this and every Sunday…
Our services are led by Clergy, Licensed Lay Ministers and Lay Worship Leaders, and we offer a variety of different styles of worship. We also live stream most of the services from Earls Colne Church through Facebook (The Three Colnes). Please see our Services page for our full schedule for this month and our Events page for details of social events.
Order of Service for Holy Communion Order of Service for Morning Worship
Services This Week and Next
| Day and Date | Time | Church | Service |
| Wednesday 29 October | 9.45am | Earls Colne | Holy Communion |
| Sunday 2 November | 10am | Earls Colne | Morning Worship |
| 10am | Colne Engaine | Morning Worship | |
| 10am | White Colne | Holy Communion and Baptism | |
| 7.30pm | Earls Colne | All Souls Service | |
| Wednesday 5 November | 9.45am | Earls Colne | Holy Communion |
| 3.30pm | Colne Engaine | 3.30 Express |
Sunday Zoom Coffee:
You are also invited to Zoom Coffee at 11.30am-12.30pm on Sundays: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87477110637?pwd=UFpoazhiNTdCSUN6cG14US9CVnJRUT09
Password: coffee
Private Prayer
Our Earls Colne and Colne Engaine churches are also open most days for private prayer and White Colne is open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the day. We are happy to open specially if you would like to spend some time there or light candles.
Churchwardens emails:
Earls Colne: ecchurchwardens@gmail.com
Colne Engaine: george.courtauld@btinternet.com
White Colne: wccw@hotmail.co.uk
A Prayer For The Holy Land
Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world:
In your mercy, provide for all those in Gaza and beyond who suffer from hunger and starvation, that they may be given both physical bread to nourish their bodies and heavenly bread to sustain their souls.
By the power of your Spirit, bring a speedy end to this cruel war, the release of all captives, care for the sick and wounded, comfort for those who have lost loved-ones, and the opening of a pathway for a just and lasting peace here in the very homeland where your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, ministered during his earthly life; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Amen.
The Most Reverend Dr Hosam E. Naoum
Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem
Readings for 4th Sunday Before Advent (All Souls Day) - Sunday 2 November 2025
Reading for Morning Services
From the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 11 Verses 1-11
Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.
6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour.
9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
All readings shared from the Lectionary app. Material subject to copyright.
Readings for Evening Service (All Souls)
From Isaiah Chapter 65 Verses 17 to end
The Glorious New Creation
17 For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress.
20 No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime; for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.
21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord - and their descendants as well.
24 Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent - its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
Epistle to the Hebrews Chapter 11 Verse 32 to Chapter 12 Verse 2
Chapter 11
32 And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -
33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,
34 quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection.
36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented -
38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
39 Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised,
40 since God had provided something better so that they would not, without us, be made perfect.
Chapter 12 The Example of Jesus
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
2 looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.