Welcome to the Parish of
All Saints with St Philips Maidstone
and St Stephen's Tovil

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We invite you to join our Sunday Services for reflection and community

Our Churches are closed during the week in the winter months. All Saints is open on a Saturday morning for the community café and the churches are open on a Sunday morning if a service is taking place.  If you would like to visit the church during the week please contact the church office.
Please feel free to contact the office for any additional information you may need.
We look forward to seeing you!

Collect

O God the King of glory,

you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ

with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven:

we beseech you, leave us not comfortless,

but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us

and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

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Reading

Acts 1:6-14

Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

 

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

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​​Post Communion​

Eternal God, giver of love and power,

your Son Jesus Christ has sent us into all the world to preach the gospel of his kingdom:

confirm us in this mission and help us to live the good news we proclaim; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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