SUNDAY 6th – 13th Sunday after Trinity
Today’s readings
Ezekiel 33.7-11, Psalm 119.33-40, Romans 13.8-end & Matthew 18.15-20.
Today’s Collect
Almighty God, who called your Church to bear witness that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself, help us to proclaim the good news of your love, that all who hear it, may be drawn to you. Through him who was lifted up on the cross and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Today’s Hymn
Angel voices, ever singing,
Round thy throne of light,
Angel harps, for ever ringing,
Rest not day or night;
Thousands only live to bless Thee,
And confess Thee
Lord of might.
Thou who art beyond the farthest
Mortal eye can scan,
Can it be that thou regardest
Songs of sinful man?
Can we know that thou art near us
And wilt hear us?
Yea, we can.
Yea, we know that thou rejoicest
O’er each work of thine;
Thou didst ears and hands and voices
For thy praise design;
Craftsman’s art and music’s measure
For thy pleasure
All combine.
In thy house, great God, we offer
Of thine own to thee;
And for thine acceptance proffer,
All unworthily,
Hearts and minds and hands and voices,
In our choicest Psalmody.
Honor, glory, might and merit,
Thine shall ever be,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
Blessed Trinity!
Of the best that thou hast given
Earth and heaven
Render thee.
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Prayers
🙏🏼 We pray for all called by God in licensed ministries; ordained and lay. For all leading worship today, for those arranging and cleaning our church buildings, for those who are venturing out to worship for the first time after lock-down and for all who will follow broadcast & online worship.
🙏🏼 Please pray for the sick & those in need: Bishop John, Zena Aschcroft, Margaret Baxter, Colin Brown, Jack Dalton, Jimmy Johnstone, Paddy MacDonagh, Ruth Middlesborough & Donald Sephton.
🙏🏼 We pray for those whose year’s mind falls this week: Elsie Elizabeth Hooton, Mary Frances Parkinson & Ellen Frances Thompson.
🙏🏼 In our cycle of prayer we pray for those living in Parsonage Gardens and Plox Brow.
Online worship
✝️ Worship with Fr Mark on the benefice Facebook page, 9.30am and there after.
✝️ Worship on Blackburn Diocesan You Tube via their website – Sunday 9am and there after.
MONDAY 7th
Today’s readings
1 Corinthians 5.1-8, Ps. 5.5-9a & Luke 6.6-11.
🙏🏼 Pray for all who live and work in care homes or sheltered housing.
TUESDAY 8th – Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today’s readings
Micah 5.2-4, Psalm 113, Romans 8.28-30 & Matthew 1.18-23.
Today’s Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, who stooped to raise fallen humanity through the child-bearing of blessed Mary, grant that we, who have seen your glory revealed in our human nature and your love made perfect in our weakness, may daily be renewed in your image and conformed to the pattern of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
🙏🏼 As we remember the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for all who are unable to physically visit those they care about during the pandemic and those who feel disconnected from all that gives them a sense of who they are. We also pray for Tarleton PCC as they meet physically for the first time since lock-down.
WEDNESDAY 9th – Charles Fuge Lowther, priest, 1880
Today’s readings
1 Corinthians 7.25-31, Ps.45.11-end & Luke 6.20-26.
🙏🏼 We give thanks and pray for priests and lay ministers in inner-city areas, for all research and laboratory staff working on testing and development.
THURSDAY 10th
Today’s readings
1 Corinthians 8.1-7,11-end, Ps. 139.1-9 & Luke 6.27-38.
🙏🏼 We pray for all ensuring communications networks function and those who work in administration to keep essential services running.
FRIDAY 11th
Today’s readings
1 Corinthians 9.16-19,22-end, Ps. 84.1-6 & Luke 39-42.
🙏🏼 We pray for public health officials and that all who make decisions seek the common good.
SATURDAY 12th
Today’s readings
1 Corinthians 10.14-22, Ps. 116.10-end & Luke 6.43-end.
🙏🏼 We pray for all involved in food production, food processing and distribution, giving thanks for those running food banks and those donating to them.
Broadcast worship scheduled Trinity 13
Sunday 6 September – 13th Sunday after Trinity
Radio 4, 8.10am – Sunday Worship. “Heaven is a noisy place”, Neil MacGregor finds spiritual inspiration in the religious art of the National Gallery.
BBC1, 1.15pm – Songs of Praise. Claire McCollum visits Cornwall’s Eden Project to hear stories of faith and worship.
Radio 3, 3.00pm – Choral Evensong, from the 2015 Charles Wood Summer School in St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh. Settings by Charles Wood with hymns and anthem by John Rutter.
Wednesday 9 September
Radio 3, 3.30pm – Choral Evening Prayer. Neresheim Abbey, Germany with the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir (from 9 September 2009).
