06 August 2023
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
The first Sunday in August and we welcomed Jack and Zara and their family to be Baptised. This is the Feast of the Transfiguration, one of two celebrations in the Church year. This event, where the disciples saw Jesus transformed, talking to Moses and Elijah, shows us how our faith changes us and that Jesus words are true. So a lovely day on which to welcome two new christians to our family!
The Choir is in abeyance during August so our service was said, but we did sing Hymns accompanied by Sylvia on the piano.
There was Coffee after the service.
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
A reading from the book of Daniel.
As I watched,
thrones were set in place,
and an Ancient One took his throne;
his clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames,
and its wheels were burning fire.
A stream of fire issued
and flowed out from his presence.
A thousand thousand served him,
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him.
The court sat in judgement, and the books were opened.
As I watched in the night visions,
I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven.
And he came to the Ancient One
and was presented before him.
To him was given dominion and glory and kingship,
that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
that shall not pass away,
and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.
2 Peter 1:16-19
A reading from the second letter of Peter
We did not follow cleverly devised myths
when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For he received honour and glory from God the Father
when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory, saying,
‘This is my Son, my Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’
We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven,
while we were with him on the holy mountain.
So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed.
You will do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place,
until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Matthew 17:1-9
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
Six days later,
Jesus took with him Peter and James
and his brother John and led them up a high mountain,
by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them,
and his face shone like the sun,
and his clothes became dazzling white.
Suddenly there appeared to them
Moses and Elijah, talking with him.
Then Peter said to Jesus,
‘Lord, it is good for us to be here;
if you wish, I will make three dwellings here,
one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.’
While he was still speaking,
suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them,
and from the cloud a voice said,
‘This is my Son, the Beloved;
with him I am well pleased; listen to him!’
When the disciples heard this,
they fell to the ground and were overcome by fear.
But Jesus came and touched them, saying,
‘Get up and do not be afraid.’
And when they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus himself alone.
As they were coming down the mountain,
Jesus ordered them,
‘Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.’
