Churches open for private prayer
Monday: Tarleton, 10am-3pm
Tuesday: Rufford, 10am-3pm
Wednesday: Tarleton, 10.30am-3pm
Thursday: Rufford, 10am-3pm
Friday: Tarleton, 10am-3pm
Saturday: Rufford, 10am-3pm
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Sunday 13th June – The Second Sunday after Trinity
8am Eucharist – St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
10.30am Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Today’s readings – Ezekiel 17.22-end, Psalm 92.1-8, 2 Corinthians 5.6-19 (11-13) 14-17 & Mark 4.26-34
The Collect
Lord, you have taught us that all our doings without love are nothing worth: send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before you. Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
First Reading – Ezekiel 17.22-24
22 Thus says the Lord God:
I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
23 On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it, in order that it may produce boughs and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar. Under it every kind of bird will live; in the shade of its branches will nest winged creatures of every kind.
24 All the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord. I bring low the high tree, I make high the low tree; I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish.
I the Lord have spoken; I will accomplish it.
From Psalm 91 – Refrain: It is good to give you thanks, O Lord
It is good to give thanks to the Lord to make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning and your truth in the watches of the night. Refrain.
The just will flourish like the palm tree and grow like a Lebanon cedar. Planted in the house of the Lord they will flourish in the courts of our God. Refrain.
Still bearing fruit when they are old, still full of sap, still green, they will proclaim that the Lord is just. In him, my rock, there is no wrong. Refrain.
New Testament – 2 Corinthians 5.6-10, 14-17
Brothers and sisters, 6 we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord — 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10 For all of us must appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done in the body, whether good or evil.
14 The love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them.
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
Gospel – Mark 4.26-34
Such a large crowd gathered around Jesus that he got into a boat and began to teach them using many parables.
26 Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.’
30 He also said, ‘With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.’
33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
🙏🏼 We pray for our bishops (Julian, Philip and Jill), dean (Peter), archdeacons (Mark and David)
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Bill Duggan, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Gemma Jones, Brenda Lloyd, Paddy MacDonagh, Lillian Magrath, Ruth Middlesborough, Donald and Mary Sephton & Amanda Soady.
🙏🏼 Faithful Departed: Jimmy Johnstone & Pauline Tilsley
🙏🏼Year’s mind: Charles Ashcroft, Bernard Bowden, Elizabeth Burt, John Coulton, Herbert Davies, George Henry Dobson, Richard Holmes, Herbert Hornby, Mary Alice Johnson, Henry James Melling, Lillian Monaghan, Eric Parker (Priest), Eva Parkinson, Elizabeth Ellen Porter, Jane Rigby, David Sephton, Daniel Southworth, Edward Topping & Mary Yates
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer we pray for those living in Homer Avenue and Howard Drive.
Monday 14th June – Richard Baxter, puritan divine, 1691
Today’s readings – 2 Corinthians 6.1-10, Psalm 98 & Matthew 5.38-42
🙏🏼 We pray for all involved in the production and internationally fair distribution of vaccines
Tuesday 15th June – Evelyn Underhill, spiritual writer, 1941
Today’s readings – 2 Corinthians 8.1-9, Psalm 146 & Matthew 5.43-end
🙏🏼 We pray for all businesses affected by Covid restrictions.
Wednesday 16th June – Richard, Bishop, 1253
10am Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Today’s readings – 2 Corinthians 9.6-11, Psalm 112 & Matthew 6.1-6,16-18
🙏🏼 We pray for those in and working in prison.
Thursday 17th June – Samuel and Henrietta Barnett, social reformers, 1913,1936
7pm Eucharist – St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Today’s readings – 2 Corinthians 11.1-11, Psalm 111 & Matthew 6.7-15
🙏🏼 We pray for those who depend on tourism.
Friday 18th June – Bernard Mizeki, martyr, 1896
Today’s readings – 2 Corinthians 11.18,21b-30, Psalm 34.1-6 & Matthew 6.19-23
🙏🏼 We pray for those feeling overwhelmed by the pandemic.
Saturday 19th June – Sundar Singh, sadhu (holy man), evangelist, teacher of the faith, 1929
Today’s readings – 2 Corinthians 12.1-10, Psalm 89.20-33 & Matthew 6.24-end
🙏🏼 We pray for care homes
Next Sunday 20th June – 3rd Sunday after Trinity
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton (also streamed on Facebook)
Today’s readings – Job 38.1-11, Psalm 107.23-32, 2 Corinthians 6.1-13 & Mark 4.35-41
🙏🏼 We pray for our cathedral, the dean and canons, the vaccination centre.
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer we pray for those living in Hunter Avenue and the James Mayor boatyard.
