Service Sheet for Sunday 19th July – Seventh Sunday after Trinity

 

Choral Mattins

Preacher – Deacon Christine Saccali

Choral Mattins for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity

Entrance: 259 (St. George’s Windsor) Come, ye thankful, people come

Invitatory: 334 (Old Hundredth) All people that on earth do dwell

Office: 149 (Coelites Plaudant) Father, we praise thee, now the night is over

Psalmody: Ps. 24, 25, 26 (page 166-169 in the Prayer Book)

Hymn: 297 (Living Lord) Lord, Jesus Christ

Final: 486 (Fulda) We have a gospel to proclaim

The order for Morning Prayer begins at page 5 in the Shorter Prayer Book.

 

Here begins the twenty-sixth verse of the eighth chapter of the letter of St. Paul to the Romans

The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself express­es our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the mind of God.

Here ends the first lesson.

 

Here begins the twenty-fourth verse of the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew.

Jesus put another parable before the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heav­en may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

While everybody was asleep his enemy came, sowed darnel all

among the wheat, and made off. When the new wheat sprouted and ripened, the darnel appeared as well. The owner’s servants went

to him and said, “Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come from?” “Some enemy has done this” he answered. And the servants said, “Do you want us to go and weed it out?” But he said, “No, because when you weed out

the darnel you might pull up the wheat with it. Let them both grow till the harvest; and at harvest time I shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt, then gather the wheat into my barn.”’

He put another parable before them: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is

the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches.’

He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like

the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.’

In all this Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables; indeed, he

would never speak to them except in parables. This was to fulfil the prophecy:

I will speak to you in parables

and expound things hidden since the foundation of the world.

Then, leaving the crowds, he went to the house; and his disciples came to him and said, ‘Explain the parable about the darnel in the field to us.’ He said in reply, ‘The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world; the good seed is the subjects of the kingdom; the darnel, the subjects of the evil one; the enemy who sowed them, the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; the reap-ers are the angels. Well then, just as the darnel is gathered up and burnt in the fire, so it will be at the end of time. The Son of Man will send his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that provoke offences and all who do evil, and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. Then the virtuous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Listen, anyone who has ears!’

Here ends the second lesson.

Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.(BCP Collect: Seventh Sunday after Trinity)

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments Weds. 22nd July: 10 a.m.; Morning Prayer (BCP) (St. Mary Magdalene)

Sunday 26th July: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (17th Sun. in Ordinary Time)

The Friends of St. Paul’s: please speak to Dimitris Ramantanoglou, or Father Benjamin, about becoming a Friend of the church.

Study Group: led by Mr. Isaac Watkins of the University of North Carolina, on the St. Thomas Christians of India, and the life of the church in Kerala, to be held on Monday the twenty-seventh of July, at 7:30 p.m. All interested persons should communicate with Fr. Benjamin.

A cell of the Society of the Holy House of Walsingham is to be formed. All interested persons should communicate with Father Benjamin or Mr. Oliver Knight.

Pilgrimage walking group: details from Father Benjamin.

Short prayer booklets (Prime and Compline) are available at no charge, please speak to Mr. Oliver Knight

 

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Senior Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury SSC

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Assistant Chaplain: Deacon Christine Saccali: 697 737 7655 Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling: 694 6072428

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