10 March 2024
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
Today we have our break from Lenten solemnity with Mothering Sunday. Our regular Eucharist was the main part of the service, but at the end the Children joined us and the Junior Choir sang 'Grannies and Grandads' from Andrew Carters Children's Bless the Lord.
We were given posies of flowers and pieces of Simnel cake to take home!
A reading from the book of Numbers.
to go around the land of Edom;
but the people became impatient on the way.
The people spoke against God and against Moses,
‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt
to die in the wilderness?
For there is no food and no water,
and we detest this miserable food.’
and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.
The people came to Moses and said,
‘We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you;
pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.’
So Moses prayed for the people.
And the Lord said to Moses,
and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.’
So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole;
and whenever a serpent bit someone,
that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
Ephesians 2:1-10
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians.
You were dead through the trespasses and sins
in which you once lived,
following the course of this world,
following the ruler of the power of the air,
the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.
All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh,
following the desires of flesh and senses,
and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.
But God, who is rich in mercy,
out of the great love with which he loved us
even when we were dead through our trespasses,
by grace you have been saved—
and raised us up with him
and seated us with him
in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
so that in the ages to come
he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace
in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith,
and this is not your own doing;
it is the gift of God—
not the result of works,
so that no one may boast.
For we are what he has made us,
created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
John 3:14-21
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John,
Jesus said to Nicodemus:
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him may not perish
but may have eternal life.
‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world,
but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Those who believe in him are not condemned;
but those who do not believe are condemned already,
because they have not believed
in the name of the only Son of God.
And this is the judgement,
that the light has come into the world,
and people loved darkness rather than light
because their deeds were evil.
For all who do evil hate the light
and do not come to the light,
so that their deeds may not be exposed.
But those who do what is true come to the light,
so that it may be clearly seen
that their deeds have been done in God.’
