15 October 2023
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
This morning we had TWO services at 10am!! In Church we had our regular 3rd Sunday Matins service with Father Roger, meanwhile in the Church Hall Farther Chris held a 'Crafty Mass' with the Sunday school children and some of their families. This allowed Father Chris to spend some time with the children and young families, while the more traditional congregation enjoyed the sung Matins in church.
There was coffee after the services,
Notices were given out at both services.
Exodus 32:1-14
A reading from the book of Exodus.
When the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down from the mountain,
the people gathered around Aaron
and said to him,
‘Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us;
as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we do not know what has become of him.’
Aaron said to them,
‘Take off the gold rings
that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters,
and bring them to me.’
So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears,
and brought them to Aaron.
He took the gold from them,
formed it in a mould,
and cast an image of a calf;
and they said, ‘These are your gods,
O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’
When Aaron saw this,
he built an altar before it;
and Aaron made proclamation and said,
‘Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.’
They rose early the next day,
and offered burnt-offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being;
and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
The Lord said to Moses,
‘Go down at once!
Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt,
have acted perversely;
they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them;
they have cast for themselves an image of a calf,
and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said,
“These are your gods,
O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” ’
The Lord said to Moses,
‘I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.
Now let me alone,
so that my wrath may burn hot against them
and I may consume them;
and of you I will make a great nation.’
But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said,
‘O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people,
whom you brought out of the land of Egypt
with great power and with a mighty hand?
Why should the Egyptians say,
“It was with evil intent that he brought them out
to kill them in the mountains,
and to consume them from the face of the earth”?
Turn from your fierce wrath;
change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants,
how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them,
“I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven,
and all this land that I have promised
I will give to your descendants,
and they shall inherit it for ever.” ’
And the Lord changed his mind
about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.
Philippians 4:1-9 (8am only)
A reading from the letter of Paul tot he Philippians.
My brothers and sisters,
whom I love and long for,
my joy and crown,
stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.
Yes, and I ask you also,
my loyal companion, help these women,
for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel,
together with Clement and the rest of my co-workers,
whose names are in the book of life.
Rejoice in the Lord always;
again I will say, Rejoice.
Let your gentleness be known to everyone.
The Lord is near.
Do not worry about anything,
but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, beloved,
whatever is true, whatever is honourable,
whatever is just, whatever is pure,
whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable,
if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise,
think about these things.
Keep on doing the things that you have learned
and received and heard and seen in me,
and the God of peace will be with you.
Matthew 21:1-14
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Once more Jesus spoke to the chief priests and Pharisees in parables, saying:
‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king
who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
He sent his slaves to call those
who had been invited to the wedding banquet,
but they would not come.
Again he sent other slaves, saying,
“Tell those who have been invited:
Look, I have prepared my dinner,
my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered,
and everything is ready;
come to the wedding banquet.”
But they made light of it and went away,
one to his farm, another to his business,
while the rest seized his slaves,
maltreated them, and killed them.
The king was enraged.
He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers,
and burned their city.
Then he said to his slaves,
“The wedding is ready,
but those invited were not worthy.
Go therefore into the main streets,
and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.”
Those slaves went out into the streets
and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad;
so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
‘But when the king came in to see the guests,
he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe,
and he said to him,
“Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?”
And he was speechless.
Then the king said to the attendants,
“Bind him hand and foot,
and throw him into the outer darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
For many are called, but few are chosen.’
