SUNDAY 5th February – 3rd BEFORE LENT
✝️8am Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
✝️9:15am Sung Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
✝️10:45am Sung Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
COLLECT FOR THE THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE LENT.
Almighty God, who alone can bring order to the unruly wills and passions of sinful humanity: give your people grace so to love what you command and to desire what you promise, that, among the many changes of this world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; 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. Amen.
FIRST READING: Isaiah 58:1-9a – Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practised righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgements, they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?’ Look, you serve your own interest on your fast-day, and oppress all your workers. Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself?
Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush, and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rearguard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
PSALM 112:4-9 – Response: The just man is a light in darkness to the upright
SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 – When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, ‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him’— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION – My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. Alleluia! Alleluia.
GOSPEL: Matthew 5:13-20 – Hear the Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord
‘You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
HYMNS
Rejoice, the Lord is King, Judge eternal, throned in splendour, Beauty for brokenness, Lead, kindly light, Sheet Laudate omnes gentes (Taize) & Love divine, all love’s excelling
Taize Chant: Laudate omnes gentes, laudate Dominum. Laudate omnes gentes, laudate Dominum.
Translation – Sing praises, all you peoples, Sing praises to the Lord.
INTERCESSIONS Pray for:
🙏🏼The Sick: Zena Ashcroft, Margaret Baxter, Val Huddart, Wayne Jackett, Maureen Karr, Winnie Turner, Mary Sephton & Lavinia Sephton.
🙏🏼The recently departed: Alun Williams (8th Feb, Tarleton), Gerry Rawsthorne (9th Feb, Rufford), Philip George Williams (10th Feb), Winifred Porter (23rd Feb, WL Crem.) & June Iddon.
🙏🏼Year’s Mind: Jessie Cassidy, Horace Joseph Townsend, Edna Chadwick, Ted Roocroft, Mary Ward, Harold Hornby Parker, Horace Albert Townsend, Andrew John Thompson, Elsie Alice Hey, Ian John Bramham, Luther Eminson, Herbert Baron, Doris Margaret Buck, John Heyward, Robert William Hughes, James Cookson Parkinson, Thomas Marsh, James Edward Taylforth, Richard Alban Burns & Frank Iddon.
Monday 6th February – Martyrs of Japan
Genesis 1:1-19; Ps. 104:1-2, 6-13, 26 & Mark 6:53-end
🙏🏼 Please pray for all who suffer for their faith.
Tuesday 7th February
7pm Choir Practice – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
Genesis 1:20-2:4a; Ps. 8 & Mark 7:1-13
🙏🏼Please pray for our church choir and musicians.
Wednesday 8th February
✝️10am Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton parish room
Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17 & Ps. 104:11-12, 29-32
🙏🏼Please pray for Europe in light of the atrocities in Ukraine.
Thursday 9th February
6:30pm Diamond Disciples – Holy Trinity, Tarleton community space
✝️7pm Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
Genesis 2:18-end; Ps. 128 & Mark 7:24-30
🙏🏼Please pray all evangelists, lay and ordained.
Friday 10th February – St. Scholastica, abbess, c.543
10am-12noon Coffee & Chat – Holy Trinity, Tarleton & Rufford Cricket Club
Genesis 3:1-8; Ps. 32:1-8 & Mark 7:31-end
🙏🏼Please pray for all religious communities, for all monks, nuns and hermits.
Saturday 11th February
Genesis 3:9-end; Ps. 90:1-12 & Mark 8:1-10
🙏🏼Please pray for Fr. Phil Green and Fr. Paul Benfield as they prepare to lead our worship tomorrow.
🙏🏼Please also pray for those going on pilgrimage to Rome from our parish next week.
Sunday 12th February
✝️8am Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
✝️9am Rome Pilgrimage Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
✝️9:15am Sung Eucharist – St. Mary the Virgin, Rufford
✝️10:45am Sung Eucharist – Holy Trinity, Tarleton
CONTACTS
Rector: The Rev’d Canon Mark Soady SSC Rest Day: Monday
Tel: (01772) 814431 07968 753978, E-Mail: rector@rsmtht.church
Curate: The Rev’d Fr. Tristan Meares Rest Day: Tuesday
Tel: (01772) 590803 07547 973527, Email: curate@rsmtht.church
Ordinand: Danny Abraham Rest Day: Saturday Study Days: Monday, Tuesday & Friday
