The Parish of Great
Berkhamsted
St Peter’s Church
A Registered Charity
Harvest Thanksgiving
4th October 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.
Anthem: The
Heavens are telling the glory of God
Joseph Haydn
Voluntary: Chorale Improvisation ‘Nun Danket alle Gott’
Op 65 Siegfried Karg-Elert
6:00pm service details Evening
Prayer said Psalm: 125
For all pastoral matters please contact
Fr Michael Bowie Rector tel. 01442 864194 email Rector@greatberkhamsted.org.uk
or
Fr John Pritchard Assistant Curate tel. 01442 870016 email
johnapritchard@hotmail.co.uk
Notices
THE REQUIEM MASS for John
Screen 12:45pm next Friday 9th
October, St Peter’s
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FR MICHAEL STRONGLY RECOMMENDS Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch’s new book, A
History of Christianity The First Three Thousand Years. There
are more copies of Archbishop Rowan Williams’ review at the back of church this
morning since there were not sufficient last week. The RRP is £35, but Amazon
can now supply it at £17.50. It is the basis of a BBC TV series this autumn.
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MOTHERS'
UNION OPEN MEETING to explore the Commercialisation of
Childhood Wednesday 14th October at 7:45pm in the Vision Hall,
Christ Church, Radlett WD7 7JJ. Please contact the MU Office 01727 858979 or e-mail
sec@mustalbans.fsnet.co.uk to reserve a place. Admission free. Leaflets with more information are available
in church.
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THE CHILDREN’S SOCIETY Annual Box Opening
during October Please bring your box to one of the 9:30am
services during October. If Kathie is
not in St Peter’s please hand it to one of the Churchwardens or call Kathie
Lally 863526
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FAIRTRADE
STALLS at All Saints’ today Sunday 4th October at All Saints & at St
Peter’s Sunday 11th October
Come and buy
fairly traded goods after morning services. Orders can be taken from the Traidcraft
catalogue and the New Autumn Catalogue is available to borrow at any time. All Fairtrade enquiries to Angela 866992
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STEWARDSHIP PACKAGE MESSAGE If you have
taken a stewardship package please note that the address on the small brown
return envelope should read 46 Fieldway.
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SATURDAY COFFEE BAR needs more bakers, and more helpers to join one of the teams – one
Saturday per month either baking a cake or helping to serve coffee for approx 3
hours per Saturday. Please contact
Kathie Lally 863526
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THE PARISH OFFICE would
greatly welcome one or two more volunteers to help with copying and collating (especially
on a Friday) or occasionally to help out by taking on a computer task.
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RAISE FUNDS FOR THE HOSPICE OF
ST FRANCIS a
few of many ideas – join a Sponsored ‘Go Ape’ 18th Oct. in Wendover
Woods, or take part in
this year's Firewalk Challenge, Thursday 12th Nov, 6pm at the Watermill Hotel, Bourne End
(full training given). More information
on www.stfrancis.org.uk
The
Cowper Society presents - coming soon!
The Cowper Society presents DIGBY FAIRWEATHER AND HIS HALF DOZEN
for the Rector’s ‘Semi-Centenary’ Concert
- Monday 19th October
at 7:30pm
Tickets £10 (under 18s free) from Cole Flatt, in St Peter’s or at the door
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ST
JOHN’S GOSPEL IN PERFORMANCE – Centenary Hall, Berkhamsted School,
Tuesday 3rd November at 7.45pm Berkhamsted Deanery’s annual presentation on one of the Gospels
continues with this performance by Meda Stamper, a professional performer with
a Theology PhD who has presented this work many times in the UK and the USA.
Tickets: £5 (students free) are available this Sunday 4th October from Elizabeth Jackson 864382.
Please put this event in your
diaries.
Prayer Diary
A daily reminder to pray for the Church,
Country, Parish & community in Berkhamsted.
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Sunday 4th
Harvest
Thanksgiving
Sick & Bereaved
RIP
Memorial
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+Rowan Williams, +Alan, Bishop of St Albans,
Swansea & Brecon - (Wales) The Rt Revd
John Davies
Chris Billington, Judith Hill, Marjorie
Bowden, Ron Peggs, Keith Dawson, Cecily Dunfoy, Valerie Ruddock, Dilys
Waymark
Peter Shields, John Screen, John Chalkley
Ann Woodward, Emily Harris
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Monday 5th
Luke 10:
25-37
Sick & Bereaved
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Swaziland - (South
Africa) The Rt Revd
Meshack Boy Mabuza
Berkhamsted Deanery Chapter
Those who have died or suffer as a result
of the Pacific and Indonesian Earthquake
Ron Peggs
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Tuesday 6th
Luke 10:
38-end
Sick & Bereaved
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Sydney - (New South Wales, Australia) The Most
Revd Dr Peter Frederick Jensen
Inclusive Church, Gay and Lesbian Christians
Victims of sexual abuse and rape, sex workers
Judith Hill
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Wednesday 7th
Luke 11: 1-4
Sick & Bereaved
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Tabora - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd
Sadock Makaya
Reverend Tricia Gibson & Peter, tThe
Gaddesdens & Nettleden
The United Nations
Chris Billington, Cecily Dunfoy
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Thursday 8th
Luke 11: 5-13
Sick & Bereaved
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Taita-Taveta - (Kenya) The Rt Revd
Samson Mwakitawa Mwaluda
Rotary Bulborne, Berkhamsted
OFSTED and SIAS, church schools, head
teachers and governors
Keith Dawson
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Friday 9th
Luke 11:15-26
Sick & Bereaved
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Taiwan - (Province VIII,
USA) The Rt Revd
David J H Lai
The Church of England Synod, The Supreme
Governor of the Church of England
News agencies and reporters, journalists
Peter Shields
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Saturday 10th
Luke 11:
27-28
Sick & Bereaved
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Tamale - (West
Africa) The Rt Revd
Emmanuel Anyindana Arongo
Canon Anthony Lathe & Carla
Premature baby units, paediatricians,
Royal College
of Paediatrics &
Child Health
Marjorie Bowden
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18 after Trinity
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Readings: Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 Hebrews 4:12-16 Mark 10:17-31
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ST PETER’S
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Today Sunday 4th
October
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Next week Sunday 11th
October
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WELCOME
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9:30am Francesca
Gurdon
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SIDESMEN
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8:00am Stephen Wade
9:30am Kathie & Stephen Lally
Barbara Conway, Liz
Bellamy
6:00pm EP
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8:00am Frank Allum
9:30am Michael & Barbara McKenna
Jane Bartholomew, Eric
Brown
6:00pm Choral Christopher Green
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INTERCESSOR
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9:30am Christopher Limbert
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9:30am Judith Limbert
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CHALICE
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9:30am Tony Byrne, Carole Dell, Liz J
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9:30am Beverley & Paul Jullien, Jane Morgan
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SERVERS
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8:00am Mike Hart
9:30am Sam Limbert (MC)¸ James
Ruffell (Cr)
Claire Below, Katya
Khazaneh
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8:00am Alan Conway
9:30am Rachel Hill (MC), Alex Evans (Cr)
Peter Matthews, Ron Fisher
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READINGS
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8:00am Elizabeth Prosser
9:30am Alex Marsh, Jessica Malcolm
Madeline Marsh gospel
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8:00am Patrick Lepper
9:30am Michael & Rachel Below
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CRÈCHE
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9:30am Kate Rennie, Rebekah Powell, Hayley G
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9:30am Julie Woodford, Jenny J., Rachel Dell
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CHURCH CLEANING 5-10 Oct Priscilla Watt, Simon Good, Rachel & Michael
Below, Penny Abbott
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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.
Website: http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk
This Week’s Diary
In
Church O= services where the PA
Loop system is in use
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SUNDAY 4th
October
Harvest
Thanksgiving
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8:00am EUCHARIST O(Fr Michael Bowie)
9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O Youth Service (Fr
Michael Bowie)
Speaker Judith Limbert Crèche available. Sunday School & Pathfinders in church
6:00pm EVENING PRAYER
- said (Fr Michael Bowie)
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Monday 5th
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9:00am Morning Prayer
9:30am Swing Gate Sch Yr
1 Visit (Becky Capstick)
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
6:00pm EUCHARIST
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Tuesday 6th
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7:30am Morning Prayer
9:30am EUCHARIST, All Saints’, Shrublands Rd.
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5:00pm Evening Prayer
5:15pm Choir Practice
(6:15pm)
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Wednesday 7th
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7:30am Morning Prayer
8:00am EUCHARIST
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5:00pm Evening Prayer
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Thursday 8th
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7:30am Morning Prayer
11:00am EUCHARIST
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
7:45pm Bellringing
(9:15pm) south door
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Friday 9th
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7:30am Morning Prayer
9:15am EUCHARIST
12:45pm Requiem Mass: John Screen
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
7:00pm Choir
Practice (8:30pm)
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Saturday 10th
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9:30am Morning Prayer
10:00am EUCHARIST
3:00pm Organ/piano: Jon
Lee (5:00pm)
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5:00pm Evening
Prayer
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SUNDAY 11th
October
The Eighteenth
after Trinity
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8:00am EUCHARIST O(Fr John Pritchard)
9:30am SUNG EUCHARIST O (Fr Michael Bowie) Pr Fr John Pritchard
Crèche, Sunday School & Pathfinders
4:30pm Choir Choral
Evensong practice (5:30pm)
6:00pm CHORAL EVENSONG & Sermon (John Malcolm)
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Other Church Activities Today Sunday Sunday@5 5:00pm
Sunnyside Church
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Sunday
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Harvest
Lunch: 12:30 for 1:00pm in the Court House
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Monday
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Prayers for our
Schools 9:00am –10:00am The Breukelman Room,
Sunnyside Church. Please let us
know of any prayer requests.
Marjorie Davies 01494 783034
Fourth
Berkhamsted Brownies 6:00-7:15pm Court House.
Carolina Bowie 864194
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Tuesday
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Chuckles
Toddlers 10-11:30am All Saints’ with 10:15am Service Joseph and his Rainbow Coat Jenny Wells 870981
Tuesday
Club
7:45pm Court House Eve
Davis Period Costumes. Barbara
McKenna 871159
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Wednesday
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Pathfinder
Games Club (yrs 5-8) 7–8:30pm Court House. The Revd Penny Nash 865217
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Thursday
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Home Group 8:00pm.
Janet & Michael Eller 875466
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Friday
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Little
Fishes Toddlers 9:30-11:30am Court House. A Promise
for Abraham. Tracy R. 863559
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Future Dates at
St Peter’s unless otherwise stated
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T.13 Oct 8:00pm
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Parochial Church Council, Court House
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St 24 Oct 7:00pm
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Bellringing – District Bellringers (9:00pm)
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M. 2 Nov 8:00pm
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All Souls’ Solemn Requiem (using Duruflé
Requiem)
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T. 3 Nov 7:45pm
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St John’s Gospel in performance,
Centenary Hall. Tickets £5, students
free
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W. 4 Nov 8:00pm
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Showing of Songs of Praise televised at
St Peter’s in May 1978 and broadcast in Feb ’79
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F. 13 Nov 1:00pm
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Cowper Society presents: Recital Anna
Markland piano, Catherine Van der
Geest violin
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St 14 Nov 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents: Bridgewater
Sinfonia
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St 21 Nov 8:00pm
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The Cowper Society presents: Berkhamsted
Music Society Steven Osborne piano
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Sn 22 Nov 6:00pm
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St Cecilia Choral Evensong
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Sn 29 Nov 6:00pm
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Advent Carol Service
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M. 30 Nov 8:00pm
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Consecration of the New Lady Chapel Altar
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Sn 6 Dec 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents: Berkhamsted
Choral Society
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T.8 Dec 8:00pm
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Parochial Church Council, Court House
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W. 23 Dec 7:30pm
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The Cowper Society presents: Chiltern
Chamber Choir
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2010
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W. 6 Jan 8:00pm
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Solemn Eucharist for the Epiphany
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SUNDAY
Harvest Thanksgiving 4th
October 2009
Hymns NEH
Introit 263
Gradual Psalm 126
see below
Offertory 259
Recessional
262
Collect
Eternal God, you crown the year with your goodness and you give us
the fruits of the earth in their season: grant that we may use them to your glory, for
the relief of those in need and for our own well-being; 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 Joel 2:21–27
A reading from the book of the prophet Joel.
Do not
fear, O soil; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things! Do not
fear, you animals of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green;
the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and vine give their full yield.
O
children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God; for he has given
the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the later rain, as before. The threshing-floors shall be full of
grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. I will repay you for the
years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the
cutter, my great army, which I sent against
you.
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and
praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my
people shall never again be put to shame. You shall know that I am in the midst
of Israel, and that I, the LORD, am your God and there is no other. And my people
shall never again be put to shame.
This is the word of the Lord
(Reply Thanks be to
God)
Psalm 126
¯
R The Lord has done
great things for us and we rejoiced.
When the Lord
restored the fortunes of Zion, then were we like those who dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter and
our tongue with songs of joy. R
Then said they among the nations,
‘The Lord has done great things for them.’
The Lord has indeed done great
things for us, and therefore we rejoiced.
Restore again our fortunes, O
Lord,as the river beds of the desert. R
Those who sow in
tears shall reap with songs of joy.
Those who go out
weeping, bearing the seed, will come back with shouts of joy, bearing their
sheaves with them. R
Psalm 126 ¯
The Lord
hath done great
things for us
a n d we
re - joiced
Second Reading 1 Timothy 6:6–10
A reading from the first letter of Paul to Timothy.
There is great gain in godliness combined with
contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing
out of it; but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. But
those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many
senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For
the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be
rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many
pains.
This is the word of the Lord
(Reply Thanks be to God)
Gospel Matthew 6:25–33
The Lord be with you
(Reply And also with you)
Hear the Gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
(Reply Glory to you, O Lord)
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not worry about
your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what
you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why
do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;
they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was
not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field,
which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much
more clothe you – you of little faith?
Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or
“What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things;
and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But
strive first for the kingdom
of God and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well
This is the Gospel of the Lord
(Reply Praise to you, O
Christ)
Post Communion Prayer
Lord of the harvest, with joy we have offered thanksgiving for your
love in creation and have shared in the bread and the wine of the kingdom: by
your grace plant within us a reverence for all that you give us and make us
generous and wise stewards of the good things we enjoy; through Jesus Christ
our Lord AMEN