Dear Sisters and Brothers, Welcome to our weekly pew sheet and updates blog. Remember to try and keep this sheet digital but do print copies for those who may need them.
Sunday Morning:
The link for our readings:
Please note the complete readings are in full at the end of the blog.
Collect Prayer:
Almighty and everlasting God,
we beseech you to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies
in the ways of your laws and the works of your commandments;
that through your most mighty protection both here and ever,
we may be preserved in body and soul;
through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Post Communion Prayer:
Strengthen for service, Lord,
the hands that have taken holy things;
may the ears which have heard your word be deaf to clamour and dispute;
may the tongues which have sung your praise be free from deceit;
may the eyes which have seen the tokens of your love shine with the light of hope;
and may the bodies which have been fed with your body be refreshed with the fullness of your life;
glory to you for ever.
Upcoming Dates This Week:
Sunday 21st July – Trinity 8
Giving in Grace 4
Holy Communion will be live streamed at 9.30am from St Peter’s
9.30am: St. Peter’s Holy Communion
11.15am: All Saints’ Holy Communion with refreshments
6.00pm: St Peter’s Seek First Prayer Walk
This week:
Monday - Saturday
10.00 -12.00 midday
Food Collection at St Peter’s
Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday
9.30-12.30 Daily Bread Café
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
9.00am Live streamed Morning Prayer
Wednesday
9.00am Café Morning Prayer
9.30am Holy Communion at All Saints
2.00pm Prayer and Meditation
Saturday
9.00am Men’s Breakfast
10.00am-12.00 noon All Saints Church Yard Tidy Up
Next Sunday:
28th July –Trinity 9
9.30am: St. Peter’s Holy Communion
11.15am: All Saints’ Holy Communion
Notices
Quiet Prayer and Meditation
“Be still and know that I am God”. Psalm 46 v 10. Quiet Prayer and Meditation on the 4th Wednesday afternoon of each month. 2.00pm-4.00pm. The next meeting will be held this week on Wednesday 24th July.
All Saints Church Yard Tidy Up
All Saints’ will be having a tidy up of the church yard on Saturday 27th July and would welcome any volunteers to help. Gloves are recommended. The RAFAC (Royal Air Force Air Cadets) will send some of their cadets to assist. Please come along any time between 10:00am and 12:00 noon. There will be refreshments served at 11:00 am. Any questions, please contact June Sykes: 01277 210495.
Bible Study
The next session is Monday 5th August at 2pm. Please note that during the month of August (school holidays) there will be no Bible Study on Wednesdays. From September on, Bible Study will continue to meet regularly on the 1st Monday and on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month.
Join the AV Team!
Can you join the AV Desk team, helping with the smooth running of our Sunday service? Contact: Neil Dyson neildysonphotography@gmail.com
Training will be provided.
Requests for the Newsletter: Any requests for additions to the parish newsletter should be sent via e-mail to the parish office: office@huttonparish.com / *Please note that cut-off for additions to the newsletter and blog is by Thursday 10am.
With every blessing, Andy
1 Kings 17:8-16
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9 ‘Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.’ 10 So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and said, ‘Bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.’ 11 As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, ‘Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.’ 12 But she said, ‘As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.’ 13 Elijah said to her, ‘Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord the God of Israel: The jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ 15 She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days. 16 The jar of meal was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.
2 Corinthians 9:6-15
6 The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. 9 As it is written,
‘He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.’
10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us; 12 for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. 13 Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your sharing with them and with all others, 14 while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
Mark 4:1-20
1 Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land. 2 He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8 Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.’ 9 And he said, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’ 10 When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, ‘To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables; 12 in order that “they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.”’
13 And he said to them, ‘Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy. 17 But they have no root, and endure only for a while; then, when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are those sown among the thorns: these are the ones who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world, and the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing. 20 And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.’
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