St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, open for private prayer every day
Sunday 26th September – The 17th Sunday after Trinity
8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Visiting preacher, Fr Darren Smith, ACS, at 9.15am and 10.45am
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments.
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, (feed to Facebook).
Today’s anthem: God be in my head: words at hymn 642.
The Collect Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; 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: Numbers 11.4-6,10-16,24-29
11. 4 The rabble among the people had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, ‘If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.’ 10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, all at the entrances of their tents. Then the Lord became very angry, and Moses was displeased. 11 So Moses said to the Lord, ‘Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, “Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors”? 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, “Give us meat to eat!” 14 I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. 15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favour in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.’
16 So the Lord said to Moses, ‘Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you. 24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again. 26 Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 27 And a young man ran and told Moses, ‘Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.’ 28 And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, ‘My lord Moses, stop them!’ 29 But Moses said to him, ‘Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!’
From Psalm: 18: Refrain: The precepts of the Lord gladden the heart.
The law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul. The rule of the Lord is to be trusted, it gives wisdom to the simple. Refrain.
The fear of the Lord is holy, abiding for ever. The decrees of the Lord are truth and all of them just. Refrain.
So in them your servant finds instruction; great reward is in their keeping. But who can detect all their errors? From hidden faults acquit me Refrain.
From presumption restrain your servant and let it not rule me. Then shall I be blameless, clean from grave sin. Refrain.
Epistle: James 5.13-20
Gospel: Mark 9.38-50
9 After Jesus had finished teaching the disciples, 38 John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ 39 But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. 40 Whoever is not against us is for us. 41 For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward. 42 ‘If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. 43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. 45 And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell. 47 And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, 48 where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched. 49 ‘For everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.’
Prayer intentions: UP↑ and ←OUT→
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Andy Glanville, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Paddy McDonagh, Alison Marshall, Susan Mahoney, Donald & Mary Sephton and Alan Southworth.
🙏🏼Faithful departed: Isobel Fairbrother
🙏🏼 Year’s mind: Mary Alice Baybutt, Robert Edmondson, Hilda Howarth, John Mathews, John Moss, Henry Parker, Victor Stanley Rimmer, Thomas Wareing & Malcolm Dorrance Whyte
🙏🏼 We pray for those leading worship and preaching today, and those living in Rivington Close and Ruskin Close
Monday 27th September: St Vincent de Paul, founder of the Lazarists, 1660
Zechariah 8.1-8, Psalm 102.12-22 & Luke 9.46-50
🙏🏼 We pray for those who care for the poor and sick, and minister to prisoners
Tuesday 28th September
7.00pm, Choir practice, St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Zechariah 8. 20-end, Psalm 87 & Luke 9.51-56
🙏🏼 We pray for university students
Wednesday 29th September: MICHAEL and ALL ANGELS
10am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Genesis 28.1-17, Psalm 103.19-22, Revelation 12.7-12 & John 1.47-51
Thursday 30th September: Jerome, translator, teacher of the faith, 420
7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Nehemiah 8.1-12; Psalm 19.7-11 & Luke 10.1-12
🙏🏼We pray for translators of the Bible
Friday 1st October: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer, 1885
Deuteronomy 31.7-13, Psalm 79.1-9 & Luke 10.13-16
🙏🏼 We give thanks for social reformers
Saturday 2nd October
Joshua 22.1-6, Psalm 69.33-37 & Luke 10.17-34
🙏🏼 We pray for the Climate Conference
Next Sunday: 18th after Trinity
Sunday 3rd October: Trinity+18
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9.15am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments.
10.45am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, (feed to Facebook).
Genesis 2.18-24, Psalm 8, Hebrews 1.1-4; 2.5-12 & Mark 10.2-16
🙏🏼 We pray for those leading worship and preaching today, and those living in Rivington Close and Ruskin Close
