The Parish of Great
Berkhamsted
St Peter’s Church
The Second Sunday after Trinity
21st
June 2009
Welcome
to St Peter’s Berkhamsted. If you are new
to the parish or this service please introduce yourself to a “welcomer” or to one
of the Clergy or sidesmen.
Communicant
members of all Churches are invited to receive Holy Communion. If you are not receiving Communion, please
come to the Altar rail for a blessing but carry a book so the minister knows.
The
Sunday School, Pathfinders and Crèche run in the Court House from 9:30am. Children are welcome to stay in the service.
There are children’s games at the back of the church.
Coffee and biscuits are served in the
Court House after the 9:30am service.
All are invited. Please do come
if you have time.
9:30am service
details: Hymns, Psalm, Collect, Readings,
Post Communion Prayer will be found on the Insert.
Choir Anthem: By the River Aaron Copland
Voluntary: Prelude Pierné
5:00pm
service details: Evening Prayer said
Psalm 49
Website: http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk
Notices
The Petertide Fair - £10,000 already
raised! Thank you everyone
and still TWO
MORE PETERTIDE EVENTS!!
The Cowper Society presents TODAY Sunday 21st
June at 6:30pm
JAZZ FOR A SUMMER’S EVENING
The Chris Garrick Quartet in a concert of music in
the style of the French jazz violinist Stephane Grapelli with Chris Garrick violin
and featuring John Etheridge
Tickets £15/£10 under 18s free, from Judith Limbert 873626 or at the
door.
NEXT Sunday 28th June PATRONAL FESTIVAL EUCHARIST at 9:30am
and PATRONAL
LUNCH 12:30 for 1:00pm St Peter’s Churchyard.
Tickets £6 adult/£3children includes one glass wine
or soft drink from Barbara Conway 865798
and CHORAL EVENSONG at 6:00pm
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TUESDAY CLUB adds many, many thanks to members of the congregation who donated cakes
for the Petertide Fair cake stall.
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THOMAS CORAM MIDDLE SCHOOL SUMMER FAIR 2-4pm
next Saturday 27th June. Let us know if you can help run a stall. Donations of plants and/or a cake also
welcome! Please contact Helen Garner: 865675 or garner.helen@talktalk.net).
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CONGRATULATIONS to Bouchra and Mark Coleman on the birth of their son
Zaid Coleman on 4th June 2009.
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The
Children's Society BERKHAMSTED WALK
Thanks
all who walked, helped or sponsored.
Around £8,500 has been pledged in sponsorship which is a fantastic
amount. PLEASE pay in your sponsorship money by 30th June (NEXT WEEK) if you want a chance of winning one of
the prizes from The Complete Outdoors. Kathie Lally 863526
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SOCIAL GROUP PARISH PICNIC Sunday 9th
August from 1:00pm in Thomas Coram
School grounds. Mark it in your diaries. Details to
follow. Philippa Seldon 871534.
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LITTLE FISHES – help needed Friday
mornings for
a couple of hours, once in 3 or 4 weeks.
You would be on the rota as one of a pair who provide the drinks for the
children and adults. Little Fishes would
love to hear from you! Sheena Winser 873049
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HOSPICE
OF ST FRANCIS invites you for a coffee next Friday
26 June 10:30-12noon at The Hospice, Spring Garden Lane (off Shootersway). Come
for a chat, or to find out more about us and our services. Tours & groups now need to be booked in
advance (869550)
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REVIEW
JULY COPYDATE is Friday 3 July but earlier receipt of copy would be appreciated. Copy to Christopher Green, 17 Cowper Rd, HP4
3DE (863241), email: greenc@waitrose.com
The Cowper Society presents:
Bridgewater Ensemble Recital Friday 3rd
July at 1:00pm
Edward Beckett flute, Adrian
Davis piano
and
Sunday 5th July at 3:30pm Violin Concert
Felicity Lipman pupil concert in aid of Hope and Homes for Children
Prayer
Diary
A daily reminder to pray for the Church,
Country, Parish & community in Berkhamsted.
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Sunday
21st
2nd after Trinity
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Sick & Bereaved
Memorial
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+Rowan
Williams, +Alan, Bishop of St Albans
Oturkpo
- (Province of Jos, Nigeria) The Rt Revd
David Bello
Matilda
Alexandra Armstrong, Jacob David Thomson, Alfred David Thomson, Luc Ata Ozcan
being baptised at St Peter’s today, their parents and godparents.
Chris Billington, Judith Hill,
Debra Young, Marjorie Bowden, Joan Pheby, Ron Peggs
Jack Bandle
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Monday
22nd
Matthew
7:1-5
Sick & Bereaved
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Owerri
- (Province of Owerri, Nigeria) The Rt Revd
Dr Cyril Okorocha
Residents
of our Almshouses, the trustees
USPG,
Anglicans in World Mission
Ron
Peggs
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Tuesday
23rd
Matthew
7: 6, 12-14
Sick & Bereaved
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Owo
- (Province of Ondo, Nigeria) The Rt Revd
James Oladunjoye
Those
who live in Dunsland House and Ashlyns Nursing Home
Lay
Readers and Permanent Deacons
Judith
Hill
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Wednesday
24th
Birth of John the Baptist
Luke
1:5-16
Sick & Bereaved
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Oxford - (Canterbury, England)
The Rt Revd
John Pritchard
Those
people looking at vocations in the Team Ministry
Those
preparing to be ordained at Petertide
Chris
Billington
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Thursday
25th
Matthew
7:21-end
Sick & Bereaved
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Oyo
- (Province of Ibadan, Nigeria) The Rt Revd
Jacob Fasipe
Novitiate
and oblate Franciscans in Berkhamsted
The
Church Army
Joan
Pheby
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Friday
26th
Matthew
8: 1-4
Sick & Bereaved
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Panama - (Central
America) The Rt Revd
Julio Murray
Christian
youth workers in Berkhamsted
Our
preparations for St Peter’s Patronal Festival
Debra
Young
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Saturday
27th
Matthew
8: 5-17
Sick & Bereaved
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Paraguay - (South
America) The Rt Revd
John Alexander Ellison
Victoria First School
Canterbury Cathedral, The Dean
and Chapter
Marjorie
Bowden
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Sunday 28th St Peter
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Readings: Acts 12:1-11 1 Peter 2:19-25 Matthew
16:13-19
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For
all pastoral matters please contact Fr Michael Bowie 01442 864194 or Fr John
Pritchard 01442 870016.
Fr
Michael takes Thursday off and Fr John takes Tuesday off.
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ST PETER’S
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Today Sunday 21st
June
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Next week Sunday 28th
June
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SIDESMEN
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8:00am Geoff
Dell
9:30am Paul & Beverley Jullien
John Cook, Judith Limbert
6:00pm John Cook
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8:00am Liz
Prosser
9:30am Kathie & Stephen Lally
Jane Bartholomew, Eric
Brown
6:00pm Choral Barbara Conway
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INTERCESSOR
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9:30am N/A Baptism
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9:30am Chris
Hunt
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CHALICE
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9:30am Barbara
Conway, Carole D, June H
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9:30am Nicky Evans, Ron Fisher, Mike Eller
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SERVERS
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8:00am Mike
Hart
9:30am Peter Matthews (MC)
Alex Evans (Cr)
Francesca Gurdon, Katya
Khazaneh
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8:00am Alan
Conway
9:30am David Northcott (MC)
Alex Evans (Cr)
Will Morgan, Sam Limbert
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READINGS
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8:00am Elizabeth
Jackson
9:30am Tim or Kate Hennessey (1
reading)
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8:00am Liz
Prosser
9:30am Elizabeth Bellamy, Philippa S.
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CRÈCHE
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9:30am Nicola
B, Jenny Jenkins, Louisa Size
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9:30am Rebekah Powell, Hayley G, Julia W
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CHURCH CLEANING 22-27 June Catherine Imber, Helen Pope, Rosemary & Tony
Byrne, Paul Jullien
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ADDRESS CHANGES:
postal - email - telephone to the parish office please ASAP
PEW LEAFLET notices, in writing: The Parish Office, The Court House,
Berkhamsted HP4 2AX
email ChurchOffice@greatberkhamsted.org.uk tel.878227 & rota
swaps by 2pm Wednesday please
PARISH OFFICE hours this week: 9:30am-5:00pm
Tue & Wed; 9:30am-12noon Thu &
Fri.
This Week’s Diary
In
Church O= services where the PA
Loop system is in use
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SUNDAY 21st
June
The Second
after Trinity
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8:00am EUCHARIST O(Fr Michael Bowie)
9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST & HOLY BAPTISMO (Fr John Pritchard)
Pr Fr Michael Bowie Crèche,
Sunday School & Pathfinders
3:00pm Setting up /
rehearsal for concert (4:45pm)
5:00pm Evening Prayer
– said /(Fr John Pritchard)
5:45pm Access and Front
of House (Cowper Society)
6:30pm Concert
Jazz
for a Summer’s Evening
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Monday 22nd
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7:30am Morning Prayer
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
6:00pm EUCHARIST
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Tuesday 23rd
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7:30am Morning Prayer
9:30am EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Rd.
2:15pm Victoria School
visits the bell-tower (David Burbidge)
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5:00pm Evening Prayer
5:15pm Choir Practice
(6:15pm)
7:30pm Instrumental group practice: Adrian Davis (9:30pm)
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Wednesday 24th
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BIRTH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
7:30am Morning Prayer
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8:00am EUCHARIST
5:00pm Evening Prayer
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Thursday 25th
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7:30am Morning Prayer
11:00am EUCHARIST
5:00pm Evening
Prayer
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7:45pm Bellringing
(9:15pm) south door
8:00pm Chiltern Chamber Choir practice:
Adrian Davis (10:00pm)
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Friday 26th
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7:30am Morning Prayer
9:15am EUCHARIST
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
7:00pm Choir
Practice (8:30pm)
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Saturday 27th
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9:30am Morning Prayer
10:00am EUCHARIST
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3:00pm Organ/piano:
Jon Lee (5:00pm)
5:00pm Evening
Prayer
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SUNDAY 28th
June
ST PETER
THE APOSTLE
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8:00am EUCHARIST O(Fr John Pritchard)
9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST for the Patronal FestivalO (Fr Michael Bowie)
Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders
12:30pm Patronal Festival
Luncheon in the Churchyard
4:30pm Choir Choral
Evensong rehearsal (5:30pm)
6:00pm CHORAL EVENSONG & Sermon
(Fr Michael Bowie)
Pr Richard Hackworth
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Other Church Activities Today Sunday Sunday@5 5:00pm
Sunnyside Church
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Sunday 21st
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Donutz
after the 9:30 service in the Court
House
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Monday
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The
Fourth Berkhamsted Brownies 5:30-7:30pm The Court
House. Carolina Bowie 864194
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Tuesday
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Chuckles
Toddlers 10-11:30am All Saints’ with 10:15am Songs
Jenny Wells 870981
Mothers’
Union Prayers
2:30pm at Audrey Faunce’s, 108 Valley Road,
Northchurch. Prayer requests to Margaret
Burbidge 862139.
Parochial
Church Council 8:00pm in The Court House
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Wednesday
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Julian Meeting 11:30am 1 Montague Rd. Half hour of quiet prayer. Ruth
T-B 863268
Pathfinder
Games Club (yrs 5-8) 7–8:30pm The Court House. Jimmy Young 384929
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Thursday
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Home Group 8:00pm.
Janet & Michael Eller 875466
Age Concern Teas 1:45-3pm Lagley House, Douglas Gardens. Jo Chan 259049
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Friday
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Little
Fishes Toddlers 9:30-11:30am Court House. The
Lost Son. Sheena Winser 873049
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Sunday 28th
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Patronal
Festival Lunch 12:30 for 1:00pm St Peter’s
Churchyard
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Future Dates at
St Peter’s unless otherwise stated
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Sn 28 Jun 9:30am
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St Peter’s Day Sung
Eucharist 6:00pm Patronal Festival Choral Evensong
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F. 3 Jul 1:00pm
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Cowper
Society presents:
Bridgewater
Ensemble
– Edward
Beckett flute, Adrian Davis piano
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Sn 5 Jul 3:30pm
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Violin
Concert
Felicity Lipman pupil concert in aid of Hope
and Homes for Children
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M 6 Jul 6:30pm
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First Berkhamsted Scout
Group Centenary Service
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F. 17 Jul 10:15am
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Victoria School Leavers’ Service 12noon Thomas Coram School End of Term
Service
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St 18 Jul 3:00pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Music Workshop Group Save the Children charity
concert
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St 8 Aug 3:00pm
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Bellringers District meeting
(until 8:00pm) with Evensong at 4:30pm
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Sn 9 Aug 1:00pm
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Parish Picnic in Thomas
Coram School grounds
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Sn 6 Sep 3:00pm
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Installation of The Revd
Penny Nash, new Team Vicar, Holy Trinity Potten End
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St 12 Sep 10:30am
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Bellringing – District
Bellringers (12noon)
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St 19 Sep 7:30pm
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Cowper Society
presents: Berkhamsted Choral Society
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St 26 Sep 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society
presents: Bridgewater Sinfonia
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F. 2 Oct 1:00pm
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The Cowper Society presents:
Lunchtime Recital Trout Quintet
(John Reader)
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T.13 Oct 8:00pm
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Parochial Church Council,
Court House
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SUNDAY The Second
Sunday after Trinity 21st June 2009
Hymns NEH
Introit 436
Gradual Psalm 107.23-32 see below
Offertory 271
Recessional 476
Collect
Lord, you have taught us that all our doings without love are
nothing worth: send your Holy Spirit and
pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace
and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before
you. Grant this for your only Son Jesus
Christ’s sake, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever. AMEN
First Reading Job 38:1–11
A
reading from the book of Job.
The
LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by
words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you,
and you shall declare to me.
Where
were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have
understanding. Who determined its measurements – surely you know! Or who
stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its
cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings
shouted for joy?
Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? –
when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and
prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, “Thus far shall you
come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped”?’
This is the word of the Lord
(Reply
Thanks be to God)
Psalm 107.23-32
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R Give thanks to
the Lord, give thanks for the Lord, for he is gracious.
Those who go down
to the sea in ships and ply their trade in great waters,
These have seen
the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.
For at his word
the stormy wind arose and lifted up the waves of the sea. R
They were carried up to the heavens
and down again to the deep; their soul melted away in their peril.
They reeled and staggered like a
drunkard and were at their wits’ end.
Then they cried to the Lord in their
trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.
He made the storm be still and the
waves of the sea were calmed. R
Then were they
glad because they were at rest, and he brought them to the haven they desired.
Let
them give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and the wonders
he does for his children.
Let them exalt
him in the congregation of the people and praise him in the council of the
elders. R
Psalm 107.23-32 ¯
Second Reading 2 Corinthians 6:1–13
A reading from the second letter of Paul to the
Corinthians.
As we
work together with Christ, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in
vain.
For he says,
‘At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation
I have helped you.’ See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of
salvation!
We are
putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our
ministry, but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way:
through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings,
imprisonments, riots, labours, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge,
patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the
power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the
left; in honour and dishonour, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as
impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and
see – we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always
rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing
everything.
We have spoken
frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you. There is no
restriction in our affections, but only in yours. In return – I speak as to
children – open wide your hearts also.
This is the word of the Lord
(Reply Thanks be to God)
Gospel Mark 4:35–41
The
Lord be with you
(Reply And also with you)
Hear the Gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ according to Mark
(Reply Glory to you, O Lord)
When evening had come, Jesus said to his
disciples, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind,
they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him.
A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already
being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke
him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He
woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the
wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid?
Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great awe and said to one
another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
This is the Gospel of the Lord
(Reply Praise to you, O
Christ)
Post Communion Prayer
Loving Father, we thank you for feeding us at the supper of your
Son: sustain us with your Spirit, that
we may serve you here on earth until our joy is complete in heaven, and we
share in the eternal banquet with Jesus Christ our Lord.
AMEN