Second Sunday of Epiphany – 16th January 2022
✝️ 8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
✝️ 9.15am Sung Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
✝️ 10.45am Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, then refreshments
The Collect
Almighty God, in Christ you make all things new: transform the poverty of our nature by the riches of your grace, and in the renewal of our lives make known your heavenly glory; 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: Isaiah 62.1-5
62 1 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning torch. 2 The nations shall see your vindication, and all the kings your glory;
and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give.
3 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your builder marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
Psalm: 95: Refrain: Proclaim the wonders of the Lord among all the peoples.
NT Reading: 1 Corinthians 12.1-11
12.1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says ‘Let Jesus be cursed!’ and no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
Gospel: John 2.1-11
2.1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ 4 And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’
5 His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ 6 Now standing there were six stone water-jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. 8 He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it.
9 When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.’ 11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Prayer intentions: UP↑ and ←OUT→
🙏🏼 We pray for those living in Barronwood Court and Beech Close.
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Sheila Bryan, Colin Brown, Henry Forshaw, Andy Glanville, Rt Rev Julian Henderson, Val Huddart, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Alison Marshall, Susan Mahoney, Donald and Mary Sephton, Lavinia Sephton & Amanda Soady
🙏🏼 Years mind: Mark Pennington Ball, Jim Chambers, Thomas Dickinson, Hugh Cross, Basil Hunt, Florence Mary Hutchinson, Georgina Rosemary Lee, Simon Edward Lewis, Helen Lowe, Margaretha Helen Mayor, Sylvester Midgley, James Moss, George Robert Railson, James Sephton, Maude Elizabeth Townsend, Marjorie Vickers, Derek Watkinson, Joan Wareing & Albert White.
Monday 17th January: Anthony of Egypt, hermit, abbot, 356
1 Samuel 15.16-23, Ps. 50.8-10, 16-17,24 & Mark 2.18-22
🙏🏼 Pray for the Coptic church in Egypt
Tuesday 18th January: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
7pm: Choir Practice, Holy Trinity, Tarleton
1 Samuel 16.1-13, Psalm 89.19-27 & Mark 2.23-end
🙏🏼 Pray for practical Unity and joint Christian action
Wednesday 19th January: Wulfstan, bishop, 1095
✝️ 10am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
1 Samuel 17.32-33,37,40-51; Psalm 144.1-2,9-10 & Mark 3.1-6
🙏🏼 Pray for all Christians in our Southern Province
Thursday 20th January – Richard Roller, spiritual writer, 1349
✝️ 7pm Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
1 Samuel 18.6-9,19.1-7, Psalm 56.1-2,8-end & Mark 3.7-12
🙏🏼 Give thanks for spiritual writers, then and now
Friday 21st January: Agnes, child-martyr, 304
10am-12noon: Coffee & Chat: Parish Room, Tarleton: all welcome.
1 Samuel 24.3-22a, Psalm 57.1-2,8-end & Mark 3.13-19
🙏🏼 Give thanks for those who have died to keep the faith
Saturday 22nd January: Vincent of Saratoga, deacon, martyr , 304
1 Samuel 9.1-4,17-19,19.1a, Psalm 21.1-6 & Mark 2.13-17
🙏🏼 We Pray for Christians in Spain
Next Sunday 23th January: Epiphany 3: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
✝️ 8am Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
✝️ 9.15am Sung Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford;
✝️ 10.45am Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, then refreshments; Preacher Revd Steven Foster, Methodist Minister
✝️ 3pm: Combined service for the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity: Holy Trinity, Tarleton:
Nehemiah 8.1-3,5-6,8-10, Psalm 19, 1 Cor. 12.12-31a & Luke 4.14-21
🙏🏼 Give thanks for our fellow Christians & pray for those living in Barronwood Court and Beech Close
