Sunday 20th February: Second before Lent
✝️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
Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth and made us in your own image: teach us to discern your hand in all your works and your likeness in all your children; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit reigns supreme over all things, now and for ever.
First Reading: Genesis 2.4b-9,15-25
2 4b In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; 6 but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground — 7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.’
18 Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.’ 19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, ‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.’
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Psalm: 102
Response: The Lord is compassion and love.
NT Reading: Revelation 4
4 After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.’ 2 At once I was in the spirit and there in heaven stood a throne, with one seated on the throne! 3 And the one seated there looks like jasper and cornelian, and around the throne is a rainbow that looks like an emerald. 4 Around the throne are twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones are twenty-four elders, dressed in white robes, with golden crowns on their heads. 5 Coming from the throne are flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne burn seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God; 6 and in front of the throne there is something like a sea of glass, like crystal.
Around the throne, and on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with a face like a human face, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and inside. Day and night without ceasing they sing, ‘Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God the Almighty, who was and is and is to come.’ 9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honour and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives for ever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing, 11 ‘You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.’
Gospel: Luke 8.22-25
8.22 One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side of the lake.’ So they put out, 23 and while they were sailing he fell asleep. A gale swept down on the lake, and the boat was filling with water, and they were in danger. 24 They went to him and woke him up, shouting, ‘Master, Master, we are perishing!’ And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm. 25 He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’ They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey 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
🙏🏼RIP: Helen Taylor & Raymond Rutter (Raymond’s funeral, 11am Tuesday March 22nd, Tarleton Holy Trinity)
🙏🏼 Years mind: Gladys Mary Barron, Mary Barron, Mary Ellen May Baybutt, Beryl Dora Bradshaw, Elizabeth Duckworth, Elizabeth Chadwick, Thomas Chadwick, Benjamin Harris, Percey Heyes, Eileen Hinchcliffe, Marie Horner, Mary Johnson, Stanley William Magill, Jack Marsh Parker, Hugh Sutton, John Rigby, Harold Edwin Roby, John Trafford, Jeffrey Wignall & Betty Wilson
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer, we pray for those who live in Carr Lane
🙏🏼 We pray for our prayerful thoughts about keeping Lent
Monday 21st February
James 3.13-end, Psalm 19.7-end & Mark 9.14-29
🙏🏼 We pray for government leaders and their advisors
Tuesday 22nd February
6.30pm: Choir Practice at Holy Trinity, Tarleton
7.30pm: Parochial Church Council, Holy Trinity, Tarleton
James 4.1-10, Psalm 55.7-9,24 & Mark 9.30-37
🙏🏼 Pray for Tarleton PCC as they consider the forward vision of the parish
Wednesday 23rd February: Polycarp, bishop, martyr, c155
✝️ 10am Eucharist: Holy Trinity, Tarleton
James 4.13-end, Psalm 49.1-2,5-10 & Mark 9.38-40
🙏🏼 Pray for Christians in the Middle East, many of whom are under attack as in Polycarp’s day
Thursday 24th February
✝️ 7pm Eucharist: St Mary the Virgin, Rufford, then Parochial Church Council
James 5.1-6, Psalm 49.13-20 & Mark 9.41-end
🙏🏼 Pray for Rufford PCC as they consider the forward vision of the parish
Friday 25th February
10am-12noon: Coffee & Chat: Parish Room, Holy Trinity, Tarleton: all welcome.
James 5.9-12, Psalm 103.1-4,8-13 & Mark 10.13-16
🙏🏼 Pray for all using foodbanks, their organisers and donors
Saturday 26th February
James 5.13-end, Psalm 141.1-4 & Mark 10.13-16
🙏🏼 Pray for peace and all who lead the nations
Next Sunday 27th February: Sunday next before Lent: (Qunquagesima)
✝️ 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
Exodus 34.29-end, Psalm 99, 2 Corinthians 3.12-4.2 & Luke 9.28-36
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer, we Pray for those who live in Carrington Way and Chandlers Croft
🙏🏼 We pray for our prayerful thoughts about keeping Lent
