Sunday 5th December: ADVENT 2
✝️ 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
The Collect
O Lord, raise up, we pray, your power and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness we are grievously hindered in running the race that is set before us,
your bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
First Reading: Malachi 3.1-4
3 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; 3 he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness. 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.
From Psalm 125: Refrain: What marvels the Lord worked for us! Indeed we were glad.
When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage, it seemed like a dream. The was our mouth filled with laughter, an don our lips there were songs. Refrain. The heathens themselves said: ‘What marvels the Lord worked for them!’ What marvels the Lord worked for us! Indeed we were glad. Refrain. Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage as streams in a dry land. Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap. Refrain. They go out, they go out, full of tears carrying seed for the sowing: they come back, they come back full of song, carrying their sheaves. Refrain.
NT Reading: Philippians 1.3-11
1. 3 I thank my God every time I remember you, 4 constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, 5 because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. 6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. 7 It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel. 8 For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. 9 And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight 10 to help you to determine what is best, so that on the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, 11 having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
Gospel: Luke 3.1-6
3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,
‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth;
6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”’
Prayer intentions: UP↑ and ←OUT→
For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Sheila Bryan, Colin Brown, Andy Glanville, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Alison Marshall, Susan Mahoney, Donald & Mary Sephton and Lavinia Sephton.
🙏🏼RIP: Ron Turner (funeral, Tarleton, 1pm Dec. 15th), Nevill Bradshaw, (W.Lancs Crematorium December 10th, 12noon), Paul Edwards & Paddy McDonagh
🙏🏼Years mind: Robert Bridge, Paul Dutton, Elsie Furmiston, Harriet Moss & Susan Thomasson
🙏🏼We pray for those living in Trinity Walks.
Monday 6th December: Nicolas, Bishop, c236
Mothers’ Union Prayer Meeting, 2pm in the Parish Room, Holy Trinity, Tarleton.
Isaiah 35, Psalm 85.7-end & Luke 5.17-26
🙏🏼 We pray for all who work with children.
Tuesday 7th December: Ambrose, bishop, teacher of the faith, 397
Isaiah 40.1-11, Psalm 69.1,10-end, Romans 10.12-18 & Matthew 18.12-14
🙏🏼 We pray for preachers and hymn-writers.
Wednesday 8th December: Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Ember Day
✝️ 10am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton & 7pm Cell of our Lady of Walsingham
2.00pm: Mothers’ Union: Speaker: Fr Mark: Parish Room, Holy Trinity Tarleton.
Isaiah 40.25-end, Psalm 103.8-13 & Matthew 11.28-end
🙏🏼 We pray for the ministry of all Christian people.
Thursday 9th December
7.00pm Choir Practice, Holy Trinity, Tarleton.
✝️ 7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Isaiah 41.13-20, Psalm 145.1,8-13 & Matthew 11.11-15
🙏🏼 We pray for all affected by Covid-19.
Friday 10th December: Ember Day
10am-12noon: Coffee & Chat: Parish Room, Tarleton: all welcome.
Isaiah 48.17-19, Psalm 27.1 & Matthew 11.16-19
🙏🏼 We pray for vocations.
Saturday 11th December: Ember Day
2 Kings 2.9-12, Psalm 80.1-4,18-19 & Mathew 17.10-13
🙏🏼 We pray for those being ordained.
Next Sunday 12th December: ADVENT 3
Zephaniah 3.14-end, Psalm 146.4-end, Philippians 4.4-7 & Luke 3.7-18
🙏🏼 We pray for those living in Wilson Close and Windgate Fold
✝️ 8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford,
✝️ 9.15am Sung Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then refreshments
✝️ 10.45am Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, then refreshments;
✝️ 6.00pm: Village Carol Service, Holy Trinity, Tarleton;
Both churches open for private prayer every day
Christmas Services: (if no Covid changes)
Tarleton Carol Service: Sun 12, 6pm
Rufford Carol Service: Sun 19, 6pm
Christmas Eve
✝️ 9.30pm Tarleton First Mass of Christmas
✝️ 11.30pm Rufford First Mass of Christmas
Christmas Day
✝️ 9.15am Rufford Sung Eucharist
✝️ 10.45am Tarleton Sung Eucharist
