09 October 2022
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
This morning we met for our 10am Eucharist on a glorious sunny still autumn morning. In this service Father Chris spoke to us about thanksgiving, how we are bought up to say Thank You, and by doing so we enrich both the person we thank and ourselves! That saying thank you to God is part of our worship and our private prayers and we cannot thank God too often. The Children were also thinking about what they would like to thank God for and at the end of the service they showed us some of the things they were thankful for, Home, family, pets, food, school quite a long list.
We are all thankful that we have Joanna and the choir to lead our music, today the Ladies sang 'Litany to the Holy Spirit' by Peter Hurford as the anthem and we al sang hymns together. If you would like to know more about this piece and the music we sing, visit the music blog, on the music page under the About Us tab.
Up coming events you might like to join us for
On Saturday the 29th of October, at 6pm we will have a Requiem service to mark All Souls day, this will be a special service to remember all who have died recently. The Music for this service will be the Faure Requiem. We would like to welcome all singers in any part to join us for a rehearsal at 3:30 Tea will be provided at 5pm and then the service will follow at 6pm. Everyone is welcome to come to the service and be in the congregation. This will be the first of these Services since the Pandemic, and we hope to welcome may of you.
On Saturday the 3rd of December from 11 am to 3 pm we are holding our Christmas Market. This will take place in the Parish rooms and the Church and surrounds. It will again have a German theme, with Sausage, Saukraut, Raclette Cheese and Potato Pancakes all available and a glass of mulled wine to wash it down perhaps. Lots of stalls with potential Christmas presents too. So put it in the Diary!
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| Our Harvest theme continues in the flowers |
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| The JUbilee Bench back in position and beautiful sunshine in the church yard |
2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c
A reading from the second book of Kings
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram,
was a great man and in high favour with his master,
because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram.
The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy.
Now the Arameans on one of their raids
had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel,
and she served Naaman’s wife.
She said to her mistress,
‘If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria!
He would cure him of his leprosy.’
When the king of Israel read the letter,
he tore his clothes and said,
‘Am I God, to give death or life,
that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy?
Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.’
But when Elisha the man of God
heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes,
he sent a message to the king,
‘Why have you torn your clothes?
Let him come to me,
that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.’
So Naaman came with his horses and chariots,
and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house.
Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying,
‘Go, wash in the Jordan seven times,
and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.’
But Naaman became angry and went away, saying,
‘I thought that for me he would surely come out,
and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God,
and would wave his hand over the spot,
and cure the leprosy!
Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus,
better than all the waters of Israel?
Could I not wash in them, and be clean?’
He turned and went away in a rage.
But his servants approached and said to him,
‘Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult,
would you not have done it?
How much more, when all he said to you was,
“Wash, and be clean”?’
So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan,
according to the word of the man of God;
his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy,
and he was clean.
Then he returned to the man of God,
he and all his company;
Naaman came and stood before him and said,
‘Now I know that there is no God in all the earth
except in Israel;
2 Timothy 2:8-15
A reading from the second letter of Paul to Timothy.
Remember Jesus Christ,
raised from the dead, a descendant of David—
that is my gospel,
for which I suffer hardship,
even to the point of being chained like a criminal.
But the word of God is not chained.
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect,
so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus,
with eternal glory.
The saying is sure:
If we have died with him,
we will also live with him;
if we endure,
we will also reign with him;
if we deny him,
he will also deny us;
if we are faithless,
he remains faithful—
for he cannot deny himself.
Remind them of this,
and warn them before God
that they are to avoid wrangling over words,
which does no good
but only ruins those who are listening.
Do your best to present yourself to God
as one approved by him,
a worker who has no need to be ashamed,
rightly explaining the word of truth.
Luke 17:11-19
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.
On the way to Jerusalem
Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee.
As he entered a village,
ten lepers approached him.
Keeping their distance,
they called out, saying,
‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!’
When he saw them, he said to them,
‘Go and show yourselves to the priests.’
And as they went, they were made clean.
Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed,
turned back, praising God with a loud voice.
He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him.
And he was a Samaritan.
Then Jesus asked,
‘Were not ten made clean?
But the other nine, where are they?
Was none of them found to return
and give praise to God except this foreigner?’
Then he said to the Samaritan,
‘Get up and go on your way;
your faith has made you well.’
