Sunday 30th January: Epiphany 3: Leprosy Mission
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
God our creator, who in the beginning commanded the light to shine out of darkness: we pray that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ may dispel the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, shine into the hearts of all your people, and reveal the knowledge of your glory in the face of 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: Ezekiel 43.27-44.4
43 The Lord said to Ezekiel: 27 ‘ When these days are over, then from the eighth day onwards the priests shall offer upon the altar your burnt-offerings and your offerings of well-being; and I will accept you, says the Lord God.’ 1 Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east; and it was shut. 2 The Lord said to me: This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it shall remain shut. 3 Only the prince, because he is a prince, may sit in it to eat food before the Lord; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way. 4 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; and I looked, and lo! the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord; and I fell upon my face.
Psalm: 70
Refrain: My lips will tell of your help, will tell of your help.
NT Reading: 1 Corinthians 13
13 1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Gospel: Luke 2.22-40
2.22 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, ‘Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord’), 24 and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons.’
25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit rested on him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah. 27 Guided by the Spirit, Simeon came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law, 28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying, 29 ‘Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.’
33 And the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him. 34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, ‘This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed 35 so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your own soul too.’
36 There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, 37 then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day. 38 At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.
39 When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favour of God was upon him.
Prayer intentions: UP↑ and ←OUT→
🙏🏼 For the sick and those in need: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Henry Forshaw, Andy Glanville, Bp. Julian (Henderson), Val Huddart, Wayne Jackett, Mark Kinley, Alison Marshall, Susan Mahoney, Donald and Mary Sephton, Lavinia Sephton & Amanda Soady
🙏🏼 Years mind: Ellen Bentham, Ann Jane Hague, Philip Livesey & Mabel Elizabeth Parker
🙏🏼 Pray for the Research work at Anandaban in Nepal and for those living in Blackgate Lane.
Monday 31st January: John Bosco, priest, founder of the Salesians, 1888
2 Samuel 15.13-14,30,16.5-13, Psalm 3 & Mark 5.1-20
🙏🏼 Pray for Leyland Deanery
Tuesday 1st February – Brigid, Abbess, c525
7pm: Choir Practice, Holy Trinity,Tarleton
2 Samuel 18.9-10,14,24-25,30-19.3, Psalm 86.1-6 & Mark 5.21-end
🙏🏼 Pray for Christians in Ireland
Wednesday 2nd February: Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas)
10am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton;
7pm Joint Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Malachi 3.1-5, Psalm 24.1-end, Hebrews 2.14-end & Luke 2.22-40
🙏🏼 Give thanks for Christ’s presence among us as a human being
Thursday 3rd February: Anskar, Archbishop, Missionary, 865
7pm: Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
1 Kings 2.1-4,10-12, Psalm 145.1-5 & Mark 6.7-13
🙏🏼 Pray for Christians in Scandinavia
Friday 4th February: Gilbert, founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189
10am-12noon: Coffee & Chat: Parish Room, Tarleton, all welcome.
Ecclesiasticus 47.2-11, Psalm 145.1-5 & Mark 6.7-13
🙏🏼 Pray for monastic institutions in England
Saturday 5th February: 1 Kings 3.4-13, Psalm 119.9-16 & Mark 6.30-34
🙏🏼 Pray for those leading worship tomorrow
Next Sunday 6th February: Fourth before Lent (Septuagesima)
8am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
9.15am Sung Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford
10.45am Sung Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton, then refreshments
Jeremiah 17.5-10, Psalm 1, 1 Cor.15.12-20 & Luke 6.17-26
🙏🏼 Pray for Her Majesty the Queen & for those worshipping with us who live outside the benefice
