08 September 2024
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
Revelation 11:19- 12:6
A reading from the book of Revelation.
God’s temple in heaven was opened,
and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple;
and there were flashes of lightning, rumblings,
peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
A great portent appeared in heaven:
a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet,
and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs,
in the agony of giving birth.
Then another portent appeared in heaven:
a great red dragon, with seven heads
and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.
His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven
and threw them to the earth.
Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child,
so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.
And she gave birth to a son, a male child,
who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron.
But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne;
and the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she has a place prepared by God,
so that there she can be nourished for
one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Galatians 4:4-7
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Galatians.
When the fullness of time had come,
God sent his Son,
born of a woman, born under the law,
in order to redeem those who were under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as children.
And because you are children,
God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts,
crying, ‘Abba! Father!’
So you are no longer a slave but a child,
and if a child then also an heir, through God.
Luke 1:46-55
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.
Mary said,
‘My soul magnifies the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour,
for he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his servant.
Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
for the Mighty One has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
His mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
according to the promise he made to our ancestors,
to Abraham and to his descendants for ever.’
01 September 2024
We have had a busy weekend! On Saturday there was a wedding, beautiful flowers for a lovely occasion!
Father Chris was the celebrant and in his sermon he talked to us and especially to the younger people, about our Lord's words regarding washing our hands! we had to answer quite a few questions!
After the service there was Coffee.
In the afternoon, on the Primary School playing field, we had our Football tournament, with a visiting team from St George's Church in Chichester. There was some very good football, and in general the goals went St Georges- a lot, St Mary's -not so many. So a re match is necessary.
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Finally later in the afternoon we had sung evensong. The choir sany the Canticles in the setting byC V Stanford in C and the anthem 'Teach me O Lord' (Psalm 119) setting by Attwood.
This lovely evening service was followed by Tea and Cake in the rooms.
A full and very satisfactory day.
A reading from the book of Solomon.
The voice of my beloved!
Look, he comes,leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Look, there he stands behind our wall,
gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.
My beloved speaks and says to me:
‘Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away;
for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of singing has come,
and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.'
James 1:17-27
A reading from the letter of James.
Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift,
is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,
with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
In fulfilment of his own purpose
he gave us birth by the word of truth,
so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
You must understand this, my beloved:
let everyone be quick to listen,
slow to speak, slow to anger;
for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness.
Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness
and rank growth of wickedness,
and welcome with meekness the implanted word
that has the power to save your souls.
But be doers of the word,
and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.
For if any are hearers of the word and not doers,
they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror;
for they look at themselves and,
on going away, immediately forget what they were like.
But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty,
and persevere,
being not hearers who forget
but doers who act—
they will be blessed in their doing.
If any think they are religious,
and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts,
their religion is worthless.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this:
to care for orphans and widows in their distress,
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark.
When the Pharisees and some of the scribes
who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,
they noticed that some of his disciples
were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews,
do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands,
thus observing the tradition of the elders;
and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it;
and there are also many other traditions that they observe,
the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.)
So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him,
‘Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders,
but eat with defiled hands?’
He said to them,
‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites,
as it is written,
“This people honours me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.”
You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.’
Then he called the crowd again and said to them,
‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile,
but the things that come out are what defile.’
For it is from within, from the human heart,
that evil intentions come:
fornication, theft, murder,
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
All these evil things come from within,
and they defile a person.’
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