Pew Sheet – 30/8/2020 – Rufford & Tarleton

SUNDAY 30th August – 12th Sunday after Trinity

Collect for today

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray and to give more than either we desire or deserve: pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask but through the merits and mediation 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.

Today’s readings

Jeremiah 15.15-21, Psalm 105.1-6,23-26,45b, Romans 12.9-end & Matthew 16.21-end.

Today’s Hymn

Happy are they, they that love God,
whose hearts have Christ confest,
who by his cross have found their life,
and ‘neath his yoke their rest.

Glad is the praise, sweet are the songs,
when they together sing;
and strong the prayers that bow the ear
of heaven’s eternal King.

Christ to their homes giveth his peace,
and makes their loves his own:
but ah, what tares the evil one
hath in his garden sown!

Sad were our lot, evil this earth,
did not its sorrows prove
the path whereby the sheep may find
the fold of Jesus’ love.

Then shall they know, they that love him,
how all their pain is good;
and death itself cannot unbind
their happy brotherhood.

Source: Ancient and Modern: hymns and songs for refreshing worship #653

Today’s prayers

🙏🏼 As we remember John Bunyan today, we give thanks for Christian writers and pray for constancy to follow the master; Pray for all who have a role in maintaining cleanliness and hygiene, especially for those cleaning our churches after each use.

🙏🏼 For those in self-isolation: God of compassion be close to those who are ill, afraid or in isolation. In their loneliness be their consolation, in their anxiety be their hope and in their darkness be their light. Through him who suffered alone on the cross, but reigns with you in glory, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

🙏🏼 We pray for ourselves: Keep us good Lord, under the shadow of your mercy. Sustain and support the anxious, be with those who care for the sick and lift up all who are brought low; that we may find comfort knowing that nothing can separate us from your love in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

🙏🏼 Please pray for the sick & those in need: Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Jack Dalton, Jimmy Johnstone, Paddy MacDonagh, Ruth Middlesborough & Donald Sephton;

🙏🏼 For those whose year’s mind falls this week: Margaret Kenyon, Philip Henry Hill, David Johnson, Lilian Whyte, Nannie Rimmer, Elsie Elizabeth Hooton, William Henry Sefton, John David George, Jack Greenwood, John Richmond, Charles Leonard Harries & Jean Alexandra Bennet.

🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer, we pray for those living in Parsonage Gardens and Plox Brow.

MONDAY 31st – Aiden, Bishop, Missionary, 651

Today’s readings

1 Corinthians 2.1-5, Ps. 33 & Luke 4.16-30.

🙏🏼 We pray for all those who work in the hospitality or leisure industries.

TUESDAY 1st September – Giles, hermit c710

Today’s readings

1 Corinthians 2.10b-end, Ps. 145.10-17 & Luke 4.31-37.

🙏🏼We give thanks for the example of Giles in caring for those crippled by disease, especially leprosy. We pray for the work of The Leprosy Mission England and Wales, as it supports those working with sufferers in the Indian sub-continent and Africa, who are also now affected by the Covid-19 virus.

WEDNESDAY 2nd – The martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1901 and 1942

Today’s readings

1 Corinthians 3.1-9, Ps.62 & Luke 4.38-end.

🙏🏼We pray for all who are suffering for their Christian faith in many parts of the Middle and Far East.

THURSDAY 3rd – Gregory the Great, Bishop, Teacher of the faith

Today’s readings

1 Corinthians 3.18-end, Ps. 24.1-6 & Luke 5.1-11.

🙏🏼We give thanks for all teachers of the faith and pray for our schools in the benefice and across the diocese, their head teachers, teaching staff and support staff, as they continue to teach the faith in difficult circumstances.

FRIDAY 4th – Birinius, Bishop, Apostle of Wessex, 650

Today’s readings

1 Corinthians 4.1-5, Ps. 3733-end & Matthew 25.1-13.

🙏🏼We pray and give thanks for all those key workers who help to keep day to day life running during these difficult times; from those who deliver post and food to those who enable the delivery of medicines and other vital supplies to our communities.

SATURDAY 5th

Today’s readings

1 Corinthians 4.6-15, Ps. 145.18-end & Luke 6.1-5.

🙏🏼 Today we pray for all those involved in many different styles of music and theatre, whether normally front stage or behind the scenes and who are not working today.

Broadcast worship scheduled Trinity 12

Sunday 30 August: Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

Radio 4 – 8.10am Sunday Worship: Wild at Home – Paul Kerensa leads prayers and preaching from this year’s online Greenbelt festival.

BBC1 – 1.15pm Songs of Praise: Aled Jones visits Blenheim Palace, including the private chapel with Willis organ.

Radio 3 – 3.00pm Choral Evensong from St Martin-in-the-Fields with St Martin’s Voices.

Online worship for Sunday

Worship with Fr Mark on the benefice Facebook page: 9.30am and there after.
Worship on Blackburn Diocesan YouTube via the website – Sunday 9am and available there after.

Pew Sheet – 30/8/2020