St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, open for private prayer every day
Sunday 29th August – The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
No 8am Eucharist
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton (feed to Facebook)
The Collect
Almighty God, who called your Church to bear witness that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself: help us to proclaim the good news of your love, that all who hear it may be drawn to you; through him who was lifted up on the cross, and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
First Reading: Deuteronomy 4.1-2, 6-9
4 Moses spoke to the people; he said:
1 So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2 You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you.
6 You must observe them diligently, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!’ 7 For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him? 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?
9 But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children.
From Psalm 14
Refrain: The just will live in the presence of the Lord.
Lord, who shall dwell on your holy mountain? Those who walk without fault; Those who act with justice and speak the truth from their hearts. Refrain. Those who do no wrong to their kindred, who cast no slur on their neighbours, who hold the godless in disdain, but honour those who fear the Lord. Refrain.
Those who keep their pledge, come what may; who take no interest on a loan and accept no bribes against the innocent. Such people will stand firm for ever. Refrain.
Epistle: James 1.17-27
Gospel: Mark 7.1-8, 14, 15, 21-23
7 1 When the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’
6 Jesus said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
“This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.”
8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.’
14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.’
21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.’
Prayer intentions:
🙏🏼 We pray for the diocesan teams giving support to parishes
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer, we pray for those living outside the benefice who worship in the parishes.
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Andy Glanville, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Bill Lloyd, Paddy McDonagh, Donald & Mary Sephton and Alan Southworth
🙏🏼 Faithful Departed: Mary Elizabeth Carey
🙏🏼 Year’s mind: Jean Alexandra Bennett, Ernest Highton Buck, Norman Dandy, Muriel Dodd, Jack Greenwood, Charles Leonard Harris, Molly Holden, Robert Parkinson, John Richmond & Thomas Rigby
Monday: John Bunyan, spiritual writer, 1688
1 Thessalonians 4.13-end, Ps. 96 & Luke 4.16-30
🙏🏼 We pray for spiritual writers of our times, that they inspire us
Tuesday: Aiden, bishop, missionary, 651
1 Thessalonians 5.1-6, 9-11, Ps.27.1-8 & Luke 4.31-37
🙏🏼 We pray for the diocesan community in Clayton House
Wednesday 1st September – Giles, hermit, c710
10am Eucharist: Mary the Virgin, Rufford
1 Colossians 1.9-14, Ps.34.11-18 & Luke 4.38-end
🙏🏼We pray for The Leprosy Mission, as, like Giles, it works for spiritual and physical cleansing
Thursday 2nd September – Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1901, 1942
7pm Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
🙏🏼 We pray for Christians facing oppression today
Friday 3rd September – Gregory the Great, bishop, teacher of the faith, 604
Colossians 1.15-20, Ps. 9789.19b-28 & Luke 5.33-end
🙏🏼 We pray for all Christians in England
Saturday 4th September – Birinus, bishop, 650
1 Colossians 1.21-23, Ps. 117 & Luke 6.1-5
🙏🏼We pray for those who live and spread the faith where they find themselves
Next Sunday: Sunday 5th September: Trinity+14: Climate Sunday
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton (feed to Facebook).
Colossians 1.9-14; Ps.98.1-5; Luke 5.1-11, Revelations 21.22-22.5, Psalm 69.10-13, Colossians 1.15-20 & Mark 7.24-37
🙏🏼 We pray for the upcoming climate conference (31 Oct-12 Nov) and for those living in Parsonage Gardens and Plox Brow.
