29 September 2024
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
This was the fifth sunday in September, so we had a Parish Eucharist, celebrated by Father Chris. he children are already preparing for Autumn as they made Prayer pumpkins in Sunday school and bought them into church to show us!
The choir sand Jesu Joy of Mans Desitring as the anthem.
There was coffee after the service.
next week is Harvest, with A Celebratory Eucharist, and Choral Evensong on Sunday.
COme and see the Church decorated for harvest and enjoy food, wine and live music on Saturday Evening!
We are also pleased to announce we have been given the Bronze award as an Eco CHurch by A Rocha UK as acknowledgement for our care of God's Earth
A reading from the book of numbers.
The rabble among them had a strong craving;
and the Israelites also wept again, and said,
‘If only we had meat to eat!
We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing,
the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;
but now our strength is dried up,
and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.’
Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families,
all at the entrances of their tents.
Then the Lord became very angry,
and Moses was displeased.
So Moses said to the Lord,
‘Why have you treated your servant so badly?
Why have I not found favour in your sight,
that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Did I conceive all this people?
Did I give birth to them,
that you should say to me,
“Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child”,
to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors?
Where am I to get meat to give to all this people?
For they come weeping to me and say,
“Give us meat to eat!”
I am not able to carry all this people alone,
for they are too heavy for me.
If this is the way you are going to treat me,
put me to death at once—
if I have found favour in your sight—
and do not let me see my misery.’
So the Lord said to Moses,
‘Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel,
whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them;
bring them to the tent of meeting,
and have them take their place there with you.
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord;
and he gathered seventy elders of the people,
and placed them all around the tent.
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him,
and took some of the spirit that was on him
and put it on the seventy elders;
and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied.
But they did not do so again.
Two men remained in the camp,
one named Eldad, and the other named Medad,
and the spirit rested on them;
they were among those registered,
but they had not gone out to the tent,
and so they prophesied in the camp.
And a young man ran and told Moses,
‘Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.’
And Joshua son of Nun,
the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said,
‘My lord Moses, stop them!’
But Moses said to him, ‘Are you jealous for my sake?
Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets,
and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!’
James 5:13-20
A reading from the letter of James.
Are any among you suffering?
They should pray.
Are any cheerful?
They should sing songs of praise.
Are any among you sick?
They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them,
anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.
The prayer of faith will save the sick,
and the Lord will raise them up;
and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
Therefore confess your sins to one another,
and pray for one another,
so that you may be healed.
The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.
Elijah was a human being like us,
and he prayed fervently that it might not rain,
and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
Then he prayed again,
and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest.
My brothers and sisters,
if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another,
you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering
will save the sinner’s soul from death
and will cover a multitude of sins.
Mark 9:38-50
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark.
After Jesus had finished teaching his disciples,
John said to him,
‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name,
and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’
But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him;
for no one who does a deed of power in my name
will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me.
Whoever is not against us is for us.
For truly I tell you,
whoever gives you a cup of water to drink
because you bear the name of Christ
will by no means lose the reward.
‘If any of you put a stumbling-block
before one of these little ones who believe in me,
it would be better for you
if a great millstone were hung around your neck
and you were thrown into the sea.
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off;
it is better for you to enter life maimed
than to have two hands and to go to hell,
to the unquenchable fire.
And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off;
it is better for you to enter life lame
than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.,
And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out;
it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye
than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,
where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.
‘For everyone will be salted with fire.
Salt is good;
but if salt has lost its saltiness,
how can you season it?
Have salt in yourselves,
and be at peace with one another.’
