The week in Bible reading and prayer:
Sunday: 16th after Trinity: Wisdom 1.16-2.1,12-22; Psalm 54; James 3.13-4.3,7-8a; Mark 9.30-37; pray for those leading worship today and those living in River View;
Monday: John Coleridge Patterson, bishop and companions, martyrs, 1871; Ezra 1.1-6; Ps. 126; Luke 7.16-18; pray for Christians in Melanesia;
Tuesday: MATTHEW, Apostle and Evangelist; Proverbs 3.13-18; Psalm 119.65-72; 2 Corinthians 4.1-6; Matthew 9.9-13; give thanks for Matthew’s witness and evangelism;
Wednesday: Ember Day; Ezra 9.5-9; Ps.103.1-6; Luke 9.1-6; pray for the ministry of all Christian people;
Thursday: Haggai 1.1-8; Ps. 149.1-5; Luke 9.7-9; pray for the Climate Conference;
Friday: Ember Day; Haggai 1.15b-2.9; Ps. 43; Luke 9.18-22; pray for vocations to ordained ministry;
Saturday: Ember Day; Zechariah 2.1-5,10-11; Ps. 125; Luke 9.43b-45; pray for those being ordained today;
Next Sunday: 17th after Trinity: Numbers 11.4-6,10-16,24-29; Psalm 19.7-end; James 5.13-end; Mark 9.38-end; pray for those leading worship and preaching today, and those living in Rivington Close and Ruskin Close;

Prayer intentions: UP↑ and ←OUT→
For the sick and those in need:
Zena Ashcroft; Margaret Baxter;
Colin Brown, Andy Glanville; Wayne Jackett;
Mark Kinley; Paddy McDonagh;
Alison Marshall; Donald and Mary Sephton; Alan Southworth;
Year’s mind:
Thomas Caunce; Diana Grounds;
Mary Holmes; Roy Johnson;
Albert Edward Livesey; Kenneth Richardson;
Barrie Robins; John Anthony Taylor;

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Week of
Sunday 19 September
The 16th Sunday after Trinity

Sunday 19 September: Trinity+15:
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments.
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, (feed to Facebook).
Tuesday 21 September 7.00pm, Eucharist for St Matthew’s Day, St Mary the Virgin, Rufford then Choir practice,
Wednesday 22 September: 10am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
Thursday 23 September: 7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
Sunday 26 September: Trinity+17:
8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
Visiting preacher, Fr Darren Smith, ACS, at 9.15am and 10.45am
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.

The Collect for St Matthew
O almighty God, whose blessed Son called Matthew the tax-collector to be an apostle and evangelist: give us grace to forsake the selfish pursuit of gain and the possessive love of riches that we may follow in the way of your Son Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
The first hymn (233) is set to Diadem, so the second line of each verse is repeated, and the last line sung as:
‘and crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him, and crown him Lord of all.’

The Collect.
O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know
what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; 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: Wisdom 1.16-2.1,12-22
116 But the ungodly by their words and deeds summoned death; considering him a friend, they pined away and made a covenant with him, because they are fit to belong to his company. 2 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, ‘Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end, and no one has been known to return from Hades.
12 ‘Let us lie in wait for the righteous man,
because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. 13 He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
15 the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange.
16 We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.
17 Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; 18 for if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. 19 Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.’
21 Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, 22 and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hoped for the wages of holiness, nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;

From Psalm: 53: Refrain: The Lord upholds my life, upholds my life.
O God, save me by your name; by your power, uphold my cause. Refrain. For the proud have risen against me, ruthless foes seek my life. They have no regard for God. Refrain. But I have God for my help. The Lord upholds my life. I will sacrifice to you with willing heart and praise your name for it is good. Refrain.

Epistle: James 3.13-4.3,7-8a

Gospel: Mark 9.30-37
9 After leaving the mountain 30 Jesus and his disciples went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.’ 32 But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.
33 Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, ‘What were you arguing about on the way?’ 34 But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
35 He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, ‘Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.’ 36 Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37 ‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.’

Anthem: Community of Christ: text: Shirley Erena Murray; setting: Bernadette Farrell.

V2: Community of Christ, look past the Church’s door and see the refugee, the hungry and the poor. Take hands with the oppressed, the jobless in your street, take towel and water, that you wash your neighbour’s feet