The week in Bible reading and prayer
St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, open for private prayer every day
Sunday 17th October – 20th after Trinity
✝️ 9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments.
✝️ 10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, (feed to Facebook).
The Collect
God, the giver of life, whose Holy Spirit wells up within your Church: by the Spirit’s gifts equip us to live the gospel of Christ and make us eager to do your will, that we may share with the whole creation the joys of eternal life; 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. Amen.
First Reading: Isaiah 53.4-end
53. 4 Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8 By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people. 9 They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper. 11 Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
From Psalm 33: Refrain: Let your loving kindness be upon us, O Lord.
For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are sure. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the loving-kindness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all their host by the breath of his mouth. Refrain. He gathers up the waters of the sea as in a waterskin and lays up the deep in his treasury. Let all the earth fear the Lord; stand in awe of him, all who dwell in the world. For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. Refrain
Epistle Hebrews 5.1-10
Gospel: Mark 10.35-45
10 35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, ‘Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.’ 36 And he said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ 37 And they said to him, ‘Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.’ 38 But Jesus said to them, ‘You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?’ 39 They replied, ‘We are able.’ Then Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; 40 but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.’
41 When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. 42 So Jesus called them and said to them, ‘You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. 43 But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. 45 For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.’
Anthem: Panis Angelicus: Text: Thomas Aquinas; setting: Claudio Casciolini
Panis Angelicus fit panis hominum (The angel’s bread becomes the bread of men).
Dat panis coelicus figuris terminum (The heavenly bread ends all symbols). O res mirabilis! Manducat Dominum (Oh, miraculous thing! The body of the Lord will nourish). Pauper, pauper, servus et humilis (*2) (The poor, poor, and humble servant)
NB: Communion hymn 277 vv 1-3,5
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, Susan Mahoney and Donald & Mary Sephton
🙏🏼 Faithful departed: Isobel Fairbrother, Patricia Ann Lewis & Peter Rimmer
🙏🏼 Year’s mind: John William Ashton, Arthur Barron, Ellen Barron, Margaret Benjamin, Gladys Victoria Hodson, Helen Margaret Holden, Frances Mat Parker, Emily Penn, Alice Vera Perrin, Mary Sephton & Margaret Stazicker
🙏🏼 We pray for those leading worship and preaching today.
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer we pray for those living in Spencers Drive and St Helen’s Well.
Monday 18th October – LUKE the Evangelist
Acts 16.6-12a, Psalm 147.1-7, 2 Timothy 4.5-17 & Luke 10.1-9
7pm Eucharist at Holy Trinity
🙏🏼 We pray for vocations.
Tuesday 19th October – Henry Martyn, translator, missionary, 1812
7.00pm: Choir Practice, St Mary the Virgin, Rufford.
Romans 5.12,15, 17-end, Psalm 40.7-12 & Luke 12.35-38
🙏🏼 We pray for Christians in the Indian sub-continent and in Arabia
Wednesday 20th October
10am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
7.30pm Holy Trinity Parochial Church Council
Romans 6.12-18, Psalm 124 & Luke 12.39-48
🙏🏼We pray for choirs and musicians
Thursday 21st October
7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford followed by 7.30pm St. Mary’s Parochial Church Council
Romans 6.19-end, Psalm 130 & Luke 11.47-end
🙏🏼We pray for the Climate Conference
Friday 22nd October – Teresa of Avila, teacher of the faith, 1582
Romans 4.1-8, Psalm 1 & Luke 12.49-53
🙏🏼 We pray for the Climate Conference
Saturday 23rd October
1.30 for 2pm: Rose Queen Crowning, Tarleton
Romans 8.1-11, Psalm 119.33-44 & Luke 11.54-end
🙏🏼 We pray for our Rose Queen
Next Sunday 24th October – Last Sunday after Trinity
8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin,
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments.
10.45am All Age Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, with Rose Queens (feed to Facebook).
Jeremiah 31.7-9, Psalm 126, Hebrews 7.23-end & Mark 10.46-end
🙏🏼 We pray for those leading worship and preaching today, and those living in Sutton Avenue and Sutton Lane
