Sunday 29th May 2022 – 7th of EASTER (Sunday after Ascension)
9.15am Sung Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments
10.45am Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, then refreshments.
Collect
O God the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: we beseech you, leave us not comfortless, but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Old Testament: Ezekiel 36.24-28
36 24 The word of the Lord came to me: ‘I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. 28 Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Psalm 96: Response: The Lord is King, most high above all the earth.
Acts 16.16-34
16 16 One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. 17 While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, ‘These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.’ 18 She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, ‘I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.’ And it came out that very hour. 19 But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market-place before the authorities. 20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, ‘These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews 21 and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.’ 22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 23 After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. 24 Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. 27 When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul shouted in a loud voice, ‘Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.’ 29 The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them outside and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ 31 They answered, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.’ 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. 34 He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.
Gospel: John 17.20-26
17 20 Jesus looked up to heaven and prayed: ‘Holy Father, I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 ‘Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.’
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Val Huddart, Wayne Jackett, Maureen Kar, Elsie Latham, Susan Mahoney, Winnie Turner, Donald and Mary Sephton, Lavinia Sephton, Amanda Soady & Brian
🙏🏼 RIP: Keith Halton (Rufford 2pm, 31st May), William Peter Bamber (Rufford 3pm, 1st June) & John Whittle (Rufford 12 noon, 9th June)
🙏🏼 Years mind: Douglas Charles Baldwin, Elizabeth Tiffin Baybutt, Mary Ellen Dandy, Jack Greenwood, Cyril Gordon Mills, Emily Mills, Elizabeth Paget-Riley, Alice Ann Parkinson, Harold Pilkington, Eric Radcliffe, Simon Roberts, Jeff Rowland, Tom Spencer, John Sumner & Richard Henry Sumner
🙏🏼 CALLED TO BE: We pray for Tristan preparing for Ordination at the cathedral on Saturday 2nd July
🙏🏼 We pray for our Confirmation candidates during their period of preparation
🙏🏼 We pray today for peace in the Ukraine and for the Archbishop of York’s visit finishing today
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer we pray for those who worship with us, but live outside the parish
🙏🏼 Please pray for peace in the Ukraine each day this week and in the spirit of Thy Kingdom Come, for five people to come to know Jesus
The week’s activities, Bible readings and prayer thoughts. Our Churches are open daily for prayer
Monday 30th May – Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906
Acts 19.1–8, Psalm 68.1-6 & John 16.29–end
🙏🏼 We pray for those who challenge un-Christian state attitudes
Tuesday 31st May – Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
7.30pm Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton with the Walsingham Cell
Zephaniah 3.14-18, Psalm 113, Romans 12.9-16 & Luke 1.39-56
🙏🏼 We give thanks for those who recognise God’s calling for them
Wednesday 1st June – Justin, Martyr, c165
10am Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
7.00pm – Bible Study on Ruth, Rufford Parish Hall
Acts 20.28-end, Psalm 68.27-28,32-end & John 17.11-19
🙏🏼 We give thanks for those who teach Christianity
Thursday 2nd June
7.00pm Eucharist – St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Acts 22.30, 23.6-11, Psalm 16.1,5-end & John 17.20-end
🙏🏼 We pray for all suffering from rising fuel prices
Friday 3rd June – Martyrs of Uganda, 1885-7, 1977
HMs Platinum Jubilee events – see details here
Acts 25.13-21, Psalm 103.1-2,11-12,19-20 & John 21.15-19
🙏🏼 We pray for Christians in Uganda
Saturday 4th June – Petroc, Abbot, 6th century
Acts 28.16–20, 30-end, Psalm 11.14–end & John 21.20-end
🙏🏼 We pray for those leading worship tomorrow and for the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in our lives and across the diocese
Sunday 5th June – PENTECOST
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
