Service Sheet for Sunday 7th June – Corpus Christi
Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury
Sung Mass for Corpus Christi
Processional: 52 (Was Lebet) O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
Resp. Psalm: Ps. 147
Gradual: 307 (Divine Mysteries) Sweet Sacrament divine
Offertory: 302 (Song I) O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray Communion: 305 (Anima Christi) Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast Please refer to the additional sheet for the hymn for the procession with the Blessed Sacrament
Recessional: 296 (St. Helen) Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour
All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.
The Mass setting is Sir James Macmillan’s ‘St. Anne’s Mass’
A reading from the Book of Deuteronomy (8: 2-3, 14-16)
Moses said to the people: ‘Remember how the Lord your God led
you for forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart – whether you would keep his commandments or not. He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed
you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had known, to make you understand that man does not live on bread alone but
that man lives on everything that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
‘Do not become proud of heart. Do not forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery: who guided you through this vast and dreadful wilderness, a land of fiery serpents, scorpions, thirst; who in this waterless place brought you water from the hardest rock; who in this wilderness fed you with manna that your fathers had not known.’
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.
Resp. Psalm: Ps. 147: Praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Zion, praise your God!
He has strengthened the bars of your gates
he has blessed the children within you. (Response)
He established peace on your borders, he feeds you with finest wheat.
He sends out his word to the earth
and swiftly runs his command. (Response)
He makes his word known to Jacob, to Israel his laws and decrees.
He has not dealt thus with other nations;
he has not taught them his decrees. (Response
A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (10: 16-17)
The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ. The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! I am the living bread which has come down from heaven,
says the Lord. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever. Alleluia!
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (6: 51-58)
Glory to you, O Lord.
Jesus said to the crowd:
‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’
Then the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied:
‘I tell you most solemnly,
if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life,
and I shall raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me
and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me will draw life from me. This is the bread come down from heaven; not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’ The Gospel of the Lord: praise to you, O Christ
O God, the strength of all them that put their trust in thee, mercifully accept our prayers; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping of thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP Collect: First Sunday after Trinity)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 10th June: 10 a.m.; Low Mass Sunday 14th June: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass
Community Connect Coffee Morning: June, 11th (Thursday) in the churchyard, 10:30 a.m..
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 10th June: 10 a.m.; Low Mass Sunday 14th June: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass
Community Connect Coffee Morning: June, 11th (Thursday) in the churchyard, 10:30 a.m..
Study group & walking group: details from Father Benjamin.
Short prayer booklets (Prime and Compline) are available, please speak to Oliver Knight
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Senior Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury SSC
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