05 May 2024
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
Today would have been our Rogation walk, but the weather was against us, so we had a Family Eucharist at 10 am and were also treated to Choral Evensong at 3:30. BOth of these services were followed by a party yo thank Janet, our Church Warden who has stepped down form the role after 15 years! Two big Thank yous but we will still have Jnaet in the congregation and choir for years to come!
Acts 10:44-48
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
While Peter was still speaking,
the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word.
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded
that the gift of the Holy Spirit
had been poured out even on the Gentiles,
for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God.
Then Peter said,
‘Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people
who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?’
So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Then they invited him to stay for several days.
1 John 5:1-6
A reading from the first letter of John.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ
has been born of God,
and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.
By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and obey his commandments.
For the love of God is this,
that we obey his commandments.
And his commandments are not burdensome,
for whatever is born of God conquers the world.
And this is the victory that conquers the world,
our faith.
Who is it that conquers the world
but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ,
not with the water only but with the water and the blood.
And the Spirit is the one that testifies,
for the Spirit is the truth.
John 15:9-17
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
Jesus said to his disciples:
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you;
abide in my love.
If you keep my commandments,
you will abide in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and abide in his love.
I have said these things to you
so that my joy may be in you,
and that your joy may be complete.
‘This is my commandment,
that you love one another as I have loved you.
No one has greater love than this,
to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I do not call you servants any longer,
because the servant does not know what the master is doing;
but I have called you friends,
because I have made known to you everything
that I have heard from my Father.
You did not choose me but I chose you.
And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last,
so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.
I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
