SUNDAY 12th February – 2nd BEFORE LENT
✝️8am Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
✝️9am Rome Pilgrimage Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
✝️9:15am Sung Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
✝️10:45am Sung Eucharist- Holy Trinity, Tarleton
COLLECT FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE LENT. Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth and made us in your own image: teach us to discern your hand in all your works and your likeness in all your children; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit reigns supreme over all things, now and for ever. Amen.
FIRST READING: Genesis 1:1-2:3 – In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God said, ‘Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.’ So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
And God said, ‘Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.’ And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, ‘Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.’ And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.’ And it was so. God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night— and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.’ So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.’ And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’
So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ God
said, ‘See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.’ And it was so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.
PSALM Ps. 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34
Response: Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord.
SECOND READING: Romans 8:18-25
I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labour pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Your Father in heaven will give good things to those who ask him.
GOSPEL: Matthew 6:25-end
Hear the Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord
‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
‘So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today. This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
HYMNS
Immortal, invisible, Lord enthroned in heavenly, In heavenly love abiding, O Thou, who at Thy Eucharist, Take my life, and let it be& Praise to the holiest in the height
INTERCESSIONS Pray for:
🙏🏼The Sick: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Val Huddart, Wayne Jackett, Maureen Karr, Winnie Turner, Mary Sephton & Lavinia Sephton.
🙏🏼The recently departed: Winifred Porter (23rd Feb, WL Crem.).
🙏🏼Year’s Mind: Eileen Mabel Turner, Edward Caunce, Ian Michael Wilkinson, Mary Yates, David Philip Crocker, Judy Ann Culshaw, Ann Lace, Nancy Beamish, Roberta Heywood, Sydney Corless, Frank iddon, Clare Slater, Margaret Slater, Mark Slater, Gladys May Barron & Joan Hodgkins
Monday 13th February
Genesis 4:1-15, 25; Ps. 50:1-8, 16-end & Mark 8:11-13
🙏🏼Please pray for all who suffer for their faith.
Tuesday 14th February – Ss. Cyril & Methodius, 869 & 885
Genesis 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 10; Ps. 29 & Mark 8:14-21
🙏🏼Please pray for all missionaries.
Wednesday 15th February – St. Sigfrid, bishop, 1045
✝️10am Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton parish room
Genesis 8:6-13, 20-end; Ps. 116:10-end & Mark 8:22-26
🙏🏼Please pray for Europe in light of the atrocities in Ukraine.
Thursday 16th February
6:30pm Diamond Disciples – Holy Trinity, Tarleton community space
✝️7pm Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Genesis 9:1-13; Ps. 102:16-23 & Mark 8:27-33
🙏🏼Please pray all evangelists, lay and ordained.
Friday 17th February – Janani Luwum, archbishop, 1977
10am-12noon Coffee & Chat – Holy Trinity, Tarleton & Rufford Cricket Club
Genesis 11:1-9; Ps. 33:10-15 & Mark 8:34-9:1
🙏🏼Please pray for our bishop, Philip, as he prepared to become Bishop of Blackburn.
Saturday 18th February
Hebrews 11:1-7; Ps. 145:1-10 & Mark 9:2-13
🙏🏼Please pray for those returning from the Rome Pilgrimage.
Sunday 19th February
✝️8am 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 Rest Day: Monday
Tel: (01772) 814431 07968 753978, E-Mail: rector@rsmtht.church
Curate: The Rev’d Fr. Tristan Meares Rest Day: Tuesday
Tel: (01772) 590803 07547 973527, Email: curate@rsmtht.church
Ordinand: Danny Abraham Rest Day: Saturday Study Days: Monday, Tuesday & Friday
