Sunday 8th August: Trinity+10
8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton (also streamed live on the benefice Facebook page).
The Collect
Let your merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of your humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions make them to ask such things as shall please you; 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.
First Reading: 1 Kings 19.4-8
19 4 Elijah himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ 5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up and eat.’ 6 He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. 7 The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’ 8 He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
From Psalm 33.
Refrain: Taste, O taste and see that the Lord is good that the Lord is good.
I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise always on my lips; in the Lord my soul shall make its boast. The humble shall hear and be glad. Refrain. Glorify the Lord with me. Together let us praise his name: I sought the Lord and he answered me; from all my terrors he set me free. Refrain. Look towards him and be radiant; let your faces not be abashed. When the poor cry out the Lord hears them and rescues them from all their distress. Refrain. The angel of the Lord is encamped around those who revere him, to rescue them. Taste and see that the Lord is good. They are happy who take refuge in him. Refrain.
Epistle: Ephesians 4.25-5.2
4 25 Putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not make room for the devil. 28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32 and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. 5 1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Gospel: John 6.35,41-51
6 35 Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ 42 They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”?’
43 Jesus answered them, ‘Do not complain among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught by God.” Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’
Prayer intentions:
🙏🏼 We pray for men, women and children across Lancashire to hear the gospel in their own language
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Andy Glanville, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Bill Lloyd, Paddy McDonagh, Donald & Mary Sephton and Alan Southworth
🙏🏼 For the faithful departed: Brenda Lloyd.
🙏🏼 Year’s mind: Alice Forest, Tom Grounds, Sydney Charles Hughes, Joseph Hector Martland, James Henry Marsden, Stephen Moss & Ronald Clifford Tongue.
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer, we pray for those living in Merecrest Drive and Middle Meanygate.
Monday 9th August – Mary Sumner, MU founder, 1921
Deuteronomy 10.12-end, Ps. 147.13-end & Matthew 17.22-end
🙏🏼 We pray for Mothers’ Union branches throughout the world.
Tuesday 10th August – Lawrence, deacon, martyr, 258
Deuteronomy 31.1-8, Ps. 107.1-3,42-end & Matthew 18.1-5,10,12-14
🙏🏼 We pray for all needing help financially and physically.
Wednesday 11th August – Claire of Assisi, 1253
10am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Deuteronomy 34, Ps. 66.14-end & Matthew 18.15-20
🙏🏼 We give thanks for the Poor Clares and their successors
Thursday 12th August
7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Joshua 3.7-11,13-17, Ps. 114 & Matthew 18.21-19.1
🙏🏼We pray for our church communities to enable people to encounter Jesus in words and action
Friday 13th August – Florence Nightingale, nurse, social reformer, 1910, Octavia Hill, social reformer, 1912
Joshua 24.1-13, Ps. 136.1-3,16-22 & Matthew 19.3-12
🙏🏼 We pray for Christian social reformers to campaign now
Saturday 14th August
Joshua 24.14-29, Ps. 16.1,5-end & Matthew 19.13-15
🙏🏼 We pray that we may live out our lives in faith;
Next Sunday: Sunday 15th August: The Blessed was Virgin Mary
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton;
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford; Patronal Festival Guest Preacher: Very Revd Geoffrey Marshall
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton; also streamed live on the benefice Facebook page.
Churches open for private prayer every day
1 Isaiah 61.10-end, Psalm 45.10-end, Galatians 4.4-7 & Luke 1.46-51
🙏🏼 We pray for our clergy and lay leaders. In our cycle of prayer, we pray for those living in Moss Lane
