Trinity Sunday 3rd June 2007
Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity: keep us steadfast in this faith, that we may evermore be defended from all adversities; 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 - Proverbs 8.1-4,22-31
1) Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
2) for I give you good precepts:
do not forsake my teaching.
3) When I was a son with my father,
tender, and my mother’s favourite,
4) he taught me, and said to me,
‘Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
22) The LORD created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
23) Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
24) When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
25) Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth –
26) when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world’s first bits of soil.
27) When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28) when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
29) when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
3) then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
31) rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.
Please join in the Psalm refrain:
I will bless your name for ever,
my God and King
Second reading - Romans 5.1-5
1) Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2) through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
3) And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4) and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5) and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
The Gospel
Gospel - John 16.12-15
Jesus said to his disciples:
12) ‘I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
13) When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
14) He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
15) All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.’
Post-communion
Almighty and eternal God, you have revealed yourself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and live and reign in the perfect unity of love: hold us firm in this faith, that we may know you in all your ways and evermore rejoice in your eternal glory, who are three Persons yet one God, now and for ever.
Next week’s readings 1 Kings 17.17-end, Galatians 1.11-end, Luke 7.11-17
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 Mass(Corpus Christi)
Morning and Evening Prayer, Monday to Thursday and Sunday am,
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