Sunday 12th December: Advent 3
8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford,
9.15am Sung Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments
10.45am Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, then refreshments
6.00pm: Village Carol Service, Holy Trinity, Tarleton -also streamed on Facebook
The Collect
O Lord Jesus Christ, who at your first coming sent your messenger to prepare your way before you: grant that the ministers and stewards of your mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready your way by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at your second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in your sight; for you are alive and reign with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
First Reading: Zephaniah 3.14-20
3. 14 Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!
15 The Lord has taken away the judgements against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more.
16 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak. 17 The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing 18 as on a day of festival. I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it. 19 I will deal with all your oppressors at that time.
And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
20 At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord.
Canticle: From Isaiah 12.2-6
Refrain: Sing and shout for joy for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
NT Reading: Philippians 4.4-7
Gospel: Luke 3.7-18
3 7 John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, ‘You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our ancestor”; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 9 Even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.’
10 And the crowds asked him, ‘What then should we do?’ 11 In reply he said to them, ‘Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise.’ 12 Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, ‘Teacher, what should we do?’ 13 He said to them, ‘Collect no more than the amount prescribed for you.’ 14 Soldiers also asked him, ‘And we, what should we do?’ He said to them, ‘Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.’
15 As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, 16 John answered all of them by saying, ‘I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing-fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing-floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.’
18 So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people.
Prayer intentions: UP↑ and ←OUT→
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Sheila Bryan, Colin Brown, Andy Glanville, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Alison Marshall, Susan Mahoney, Donald & Mary Sephton and Lavinia Sephton.
🙏🏼 RIP: Ron Turner (Holy Trinity, 1pm December 15th) & Agnes Travis (Holy Trinity, 12noon December 16th followed by Burial at Rufford)
🙏🏼 Years mind: Kathlene Mary Aldcroft, Stanley Barron, Norah Corlett, Florence Mabel Emminson, Thomas Forrest, James Forshaw, Margaret Golifer, Jean Elizabeth Greaves, Alice Hull, Thomas Jackson & Joseph Kivi, Ida Livesey, Gwenda Mary Marsden, Joan Orr, Richard Parker, Ellen Parkinson, Canon William Riley, Catherine Smith, Gwyneth Townsley, June Tunstall, Alice Southworth, Margaret Vickers and Joseph Harold Webster
🙏🏼 We pray for those living in Waverley Hey and Willow Hey
Monday 13th December: Lucy, martyr, 304
Numbers 24.2-7,15-17, Psalm 25.3-8 & Matthew 21.23-27
🙏🏼 We pray for all who work with and support those in need
Tuesday 14th December: John of the Cross, poet, teacher of the faith, 1591
7pm Choir Practice, Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Zephaniah 3.1-2 & 9-13, Psalm 34.1-6,21-22 & Matthew 21.28-32
🙏🏼 We give thanks for Christian poets
Wednesday 15th December
10am Eucharist: Parish Room, Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Isaiah 45.6b-8,18,21b-end, Psalm 85.7-end & Luke 7.18b-23
🙏🏼 We pray for all working in medicine and public health
Thursday 16th December
7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Isaiah 54.1-10, Psalm 30.1-5,11-end & Luke 7.24-30
🙏🏼 We pray for all affected by Covid-19
Friday 17th December – O Wisdom
10am-12noon: Coffee & Chat: Parish Room, Tarleton, all welcome.
Genesis 49.2,8-10, Psalm 72.1-5,18-19 & Matthew 1.1-17
Saturday 18th December – O Adonia
Jeremiah 23.5-8, Psalm 72.1-2,12-13,18-end & Mathew 1.18-24
Next Sunday 19th December: Advent 4
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9.15am Sung Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments
10.45am Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, then refreshments
6.00pm: Village Carol Service, St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments
Micah 5.2-5a, Canticle: Magnificat, Hebrews 10.5-10 & Luke 1.39-45
🙏🏼 We pray for those living in Wilson Close and Windgate Fold
Christmas Services: (if no Covid changes)
Christmas Eve
9.30pm Tarleton First Mass of Christmas
11.30pm Rufford First Mass of Christmas
Christmas Day
9.15am Rufford Sung Eucharist
10.45am Tarleton Sung Eucharist
