Pew Sheet - 6th Sunday of Easter - 13th May 2007
Collect
God our redeemer, you have delivered us from the power of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of your Son: grant, that as by his death he has recalled us to life, so by his continual presence in us he may raise us to eternal joy; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.First reading - Acts 16.9-15
During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis. From there we travelled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.
On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshipper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. When she and the members of her household were baptised, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
Please join in the Psalm refrain: Let the peoples praise you, O God, let all the peoples praise you
Second reading - Revelation 21:10,22-27;22:1-5
10) In the spirit the angel carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
22) I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
23) And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
24) The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
25) Its gates will never be shut by day – and there will be no night there.
26) People will bring into it the glory and the honour of the nations.
27) But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practises abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
1) Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
2) through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
3) Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him;
4) they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
5) And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever.
The Gospel
Gospel - John 14.23-29
Jesus said to his disciples:
23) ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
24) Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.
25) ‘I have said these things to you while I am still with you.
26) But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.
27) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
28) You heard me say to you, “I am going away, and I am coming to you.” If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
29) And now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.’
Post-communion
God our Father, whose Son Jesus Christ gives the water of eternal life: may we thirst for you, the spring of life and source of goodness, through him who is alive and reigns, now and for ever.
Next week’s readings Acts 16.16-34, Revelation 22.12-14, 16-17, 20-end, John 17.20-end.
Services this week
Sunday 10.00am Parish Mass
6.30pm Evensong
Monday 10.00am Children’s Service
Wednesday 10.00am Holy Communion BCP
Thursday 7.00pm Sung Mass for Ascension Day followed by wine in church to mark one year since Fr Martin was licensed as Priest-in-Charge
Morning and Evening Prayer, Monday to Thursday,
8.00am and 5.00pm respectively.
Items for the pew-sheet to Fr Martin by Thursday morning please. Fr Martin 0207 385 5023, fathermartin@hotmail.co.uk, parish website http://www.standrewsfulham.com/ Churchwardens wardens@standrewsfulham.com Treasurer Chris Williams chris@noddfa.net