Sunday 31st July – Trinity 7
❗️NO 8am today
9:15am Sung Eucharist – St. Mary’ the Virgin, Rufford
10:45am Sung Eucharist Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Entrance Antiphon
Turn to me in mercy, as you always do to those who love your name.
Collect for the sixth Sunday after Trinity
Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things:
graft in our hearts the love of your name, increase in us true religion,
nourish us with all goodness, and of your great mercy keep us in the same; 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: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18- 23
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me; and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Responsorial Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-14, 17
The Response to the Psalm is: O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next.
Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-11
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scyth′ ian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia. Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Alleluia.
Gospel: Luke 12:13-21
Hear the Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. Glory to you, O Lord.
One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?” And he said to them, “Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
Communion Antiphon
I am the vine, you are the branches, says the Lord. abide in me, as I abide in you.
Post-Communion Prayer
Lord God, whose Son is the true vine and the source of life, ever giving himself that the world may live: may we so receive within ourselves the power of his death and passion that, in his saving cup, we may share his glory and be made perfect in his love; for he is alive and reigns, now and for ever. Amen.
Intersessions
🙏🏼Pray for Fr. Tom and Fr. Phil covering today’s services.
🙏🏼Pray for the Sick: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Val Huddart, Wayne Jackett, Maureen Karr, Susan Mahoney, Winnie Turner, Mary Sephton, Lavinia Sephton, Amanda Soady, Bill Duggan & Alison Comish.
🙏🏼The recently departed: Brian Kitchen (11th)
🙏🏼Year’s Mind: Beatrice Martland, David Cox, Albert Gordon Gottard, Lena Howard, Thomas Wilson, Harold Melling & Elizabeth Ann Crompton.
🙏🏼PRAYER FOR THE NEW BISHOP OF BLACKBURN
Heavenly Father, we pray for a bishop full of your Holy Spirit; a disciple to make disciples, a bold witness to Jesus, and a Christ-like leader, able to inspire children and young people with the transforming message of your Gospel. We ask this in the name of Your Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
READINGS AND THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 1st August
Jeremiah 28, Psalm 119:89-96 & Matthew 14:13-21
🙏🏼Pray for all involved in youth work and ministry.
Tuesday 2nd August
7pm Choir Practice – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22, Psalm 102 & Matthew 14:22 -end
🙏🏼Pray for the students of our church schools.
Wednesday 3rd August
10am Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Jeremiah 31:1-7, Psalm 121 & Matthew 15:21-28
🙏🏼Pray for the staff of our church schools.
Thursday 4th August – St. Jean-Baptiste Vianney, cure d’Ars, 1859. Patron Saint of Priests.
7pm Said Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 51:11-18 & Matthew 16:13-23
🙏🏼Pray for all priests.
Friday 5th August – Oswald, king, martyr, 642
Nahum 2:1, 3, 3:1-3, 6-7
🙏🏼Pray for all staff in the Diocesan offices.
Saturday 6th August – The Transfiguration of the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:1-11, Psalm 84:1-6 & Matthew 13:24-30
🙏🏼Pray for spiritual renewal within the Diocese and the wider Church of England.
Sunday 7th August
8am Said Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9:15am Sung Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
10:45am Sung Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
CONTACTS
Rector: The Rev’d Canon Mark Soady SSC Tel: (01772) 814431 07968 753978
E-Mail: rector@rsmtht.church
Curate: The Rev’d Fr. Tristan Meares Tel: (01772) 590803
Email: curate@rsmtht.church
