We had a busy Harvest Weekend, with the church being decorated on Saturday morning, Janet Harland receiving the St Richard's Medal from Bishop Will in the afternoon and in the evening an opportunity to see the flowers, enjoy some canapes and wine and hear our guest singer .

On Sunday we had our parish eucharist at 10 am and the children were in church with us. There was a baptism during the service. The choir, Adult and Junior together, sang 'Look at the World' by John Rutter as the anthem.

In the Afternoon we had Choral Evensong, and at this service the choir sang 'thou visitest the earth' by \Maurice Green as the anthem and the setting was Stanford in B flat.

A reading from the book of the prophet Joel

A reading from the first letter of Paul to Timothy

There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; 

for we brought nothing into the world, 

so that we can take nothing out of it; 

but if we have food and clothing, 

we will be content with these. 

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation 

and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires 

that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, 

and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith 

and pierced themselves with many pains.

Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to his disciples:

Do not worry about your life, 

what you will eat or what you will drink, 

or about your body, what you will wear. 

Is not life more than food, 

and the body more than clothing? 

Look at the birds of the air; 

they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, 

and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 

Are you not of more value than they? 

And can any of you by worrying 

add a single hour to your span of life? 

And why do you worry about clothing? 

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; 

they neither toil nor spin, 

yet I tell you, 

even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, 

which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, 

will he not much more clothe you—

you of little faith? 

Therefore do not worry, 

saying, “What will we eat?” 

or “What will we drink?” 

or “What will we wear?” 

For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things;

 and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 

But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 

and all these things will be given to you as well.