Service Sheet for Trinity Sunday - 31st May 2026 - St. Paul’s Anglican Church

27/05/2026

Service Sheet for Trinity Sunday – 31st May 2026

Sung Mass for Trinity Sunday

Processional: 146 (Nicaea) Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God almighty

Resp. Psalm: [Canticle] Daniel 3: 52-56

Gradual: 358 (Rievaulx) Father of heaven, whose love profound

Offertory: 159 (St. Patrick’s Breastplate) I bind unto myself to this day

Communion: 147 (St. Flavian) Most ancient of all mysteries

Recessional: 373 (Coe Fen) How shall I sing that majesty

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 Exodus (34: 4-6, 8-9)

With the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up the

mountain of Sinai in the early morning as the Lord had commanded him. And the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with him there.

He called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ‘Lord, Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness.’ And Moses bowed down to the ground at once and worshipped. ‘If I have indeed won your favour, Lord,’ he said, ‘let my Lord come with us, I beg. True,

they are a headstrong people, but forgive us our faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

Resp. Psalm: [Canticle] Daniel 3: 52-56

To you glory and praise for evermore.

You are blest, Lord God of our fathers. To you glory and praise for evermore.

Blest your glorious holy name. To you glory and praise for evermore.

You are blest in the temple of your glory. To you glory and praise for evermore.

You are blest on the throne of your kingdom. To you glory and praise for evermore.

You are blest who gaze into the depths. To you glory and praise for evermore.

You are blest in the firmament of heaven. To you glory and praise for evermore.

A reading from the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (13: 11-13) Brothers, we wish you happiness; try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the saints send you greetings.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; the God who is, who was, and who is to come. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (3: 16-18)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus said to Nicodemus:

‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost

but may have eternal life.

For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world,

but so that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be condemned;

but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,

because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.’

The Gospel of the Lord: praise to you, O Christ

Verses to be sung between verses five and six of the offertory hymn:

1.Christ be with me, Christ within me,

Christ behind me, Christ before me,

Christ beside me, Christ to win me,

Christ to comfort and restore me.

2.Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,

Christ in hearts of all who love me,

Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

Almighty and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of

the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity: We beseech thee, that thou wouldest keep us stedfast in this faith, and evermore defend us from all adversities, who livest and reig-nest, one God, world without end. Amen. (BCP Collect: Trinity Sunday)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 3rd June: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Thursday 4th June: to be confirmed (Corpus Christi) Sunday 7th 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.

Spring Bazaar: to be held at the church on 6th June. Further details may be had from churchwarden Lynn Stavrou. All donations are very gratefully received, but please bring them the week before the bazaar only (from Monday, 1st June), as they cannot be stored conveniently at the church.

Volunteers, and, especially, donations for the cake stall, are needed.

Short prayer booklets (Prime and Compline) are available, please speak to Oliver Knight

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