Sunday 12th September – The 15th Sunday after Trinity
8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
9.15am All-Age Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments.
10.45am Eucharist, Holy Trinity, Tarleton, (feed to Facebook)
The Collect
God, who in generous mercy sent the Holy Spirit upon your Church in the burning fire of your love: grant that your people may be fervent in the fellowship of the gospel that, always abiding in you, they may be found steadfast in faith and active in service; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
First Reading: Isaiah 50.4-9a
50 The servant of the Lord said:
4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens — wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. 5 The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backwards. 6 I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting.
7 The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; 8 he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me.
9 It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
From Psalm 114: Refrain: I will walk in the presence of the Lord
I love the Lord for he has heard the cry of my appeal: for he turned his ear to me in the day when I called him. Refrain. They surround me, the snares of death, with the anguish of the tomb; they caught me, sorrow and distress. O Lord my God, deliver me! Refrain. How gracious is the Lord, and just; our God has compassion. The Lord protects the simple hearts; I was helpless, so he saved me. Refrain. He has kept my sopul from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling. I will walk in the presence of the Lord in the land of the living. Refrain.
Epistle: James 3.1-12
Gospel: Mark 8.27-end
8 27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ 28 And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’ 29 He asked them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Peter answered him, ‘You are the Messiah.’ 30 And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’
34 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? 38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’
Anthem: text: Francis Ridley Havergal, setting, trad. Maori
Take my life, and let it be, consecrated, Lord to thee. Take my moments and my days. Let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands, and let them move, at the impulse of thy love: Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.
Take my voice, and let me sing, always, only for my King. Take my lips, and let them be, filled with messages from thee. Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold. Take my intellect, and use every power as thou shalt choose.
Take my will, and make it thine. It shall be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is thine own, it shall be thy royal throne. Take my love: my Lord I pour at thy feet its treasure store. Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee.
Prayer intentions
🙏🏼 We pray for those living in Priory Close and Rectory Gardens
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Andy Glanville, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Paddy McDonagh, Donald & Mary Sephton and Alan Southworth
🙏🏼 Faithful Departed: John Burton
🙏🏼 Year’s mind: Henry Ashcroft, Bettie Mildred Mitchell, Stephen Murray, Terry Prayle, Marjorie Eileen Rohrer, Doreen Sherdan & Richard Yates
Monday 13th September – John Chrysostom, bishop, teacher of the faith, 407
1 Timothy 2.1-8, Psalm 28 & Luke 7.1-10 🙏🏼 We pray for all Orthodox Christians
Tuesday 14th September – HOLY CROSS DAY
Numbers 21.4-9, Psalm 22.23-28, Philippians 2.6-11 & John 3.13-17 🙏🏼We give thanks for Jesus’s sacrifice of himself for our salvation
The Collect
Almighty God, who in the passion of your blessed Son made an instrument of painful death to be for us the means of life and peace: grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ that we may gladly suffer for his sake; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
7.pm Choir practice, St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Wednesday 15th September – Cyprian, bishop, martyr, 258
1 Timothy 3.14-end, Psalm 111.15 & Luke 7.41-53, 🙏🏼we pray for Christians in North Africa
10am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Thursday 16th September – Ninian, bishop, apostle of the Picts, c432
1 Timothy 4.12-end, Psalm 111.6-end & Luke 7.36-end 🙏🏼 We pray for Christians in Scotland
7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Friday 17th September- Hildegarde, abbess, visionary, 1179
1 Timothy 6.2b-12, Psalm 49.1-9 & Luke 8.1-3. 🙏🏼 We give thanks for the life and influence of Hildegarde
Saturday 18th September
1 Timothy 6.13-16; Psalm 100 & Luke 8.4-15. 🙏🏼 We pray for the Climate Conference
Next Sunday 19th September – 16th after Trinity
Wisdom 1.16-2.1,12-22, Psalm 54, James 3.13-4.3,7-8a & Mark 9.30-37
🙏🏼 We pray for those leading worship today and those living in River View
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments.
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, (feed to Facebook).
St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, open for private prayer every day.
NOTICES
* No refreshments at Tarleton for the immediate future.
* The MU now has enough shoe boxes for the Harvest distribution.
* Ceilidh at Rufford, Friday October 8th. Tickets £12/£3 from Jim Whittingham on 01704 822878 or 07711 047082. Raffle prizes needed: please leave them in the box at the west door of Rufford church.
* Brief notices for inclusion in the pewsheet for next Sunday should be given to Ian Wells by Thursday (wells.is@mybroadbandmail.com; 01772 813267)
