Pew Sheet 25.10 2020

United Benefice of St Bartholomew

Lower Cam with Coaley

October 25^th

Last Sunday after Trinity

9.15am Parish Communion (Co)

11.00am Parish Communion (LC)

October 28^th    

10.00am Zoom Coffee Morning

November 1^st   

All Saints’ Day

9.15am Parish Communion (Co)

11.00am Parish Communion (LC)

Collect

Merciful God, teach us to be faithful in change and uncertainty, that trusting in your word and obeying your will we may enter the unfailing joy of Jesus Christ our Lord.   Amen.

Intercessions

You are the Lord:

there is no other.

In your prayers this week could you pray for our five overseas partner Dioceses especially today the Diocese of Western Tanganyika and for Churches Together, St Dominic’s, Dursley.

Post Communion

God of all grace, your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry with the bread of his life and the word of his kingdom: renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your true and living bread; who is alive and reigns, now and for ever.   Amen.

First Reading – Psalm 1

¹Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers;
²but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night.
³They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither.   In all that they do, they prosper.

⁴The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

⁶for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

O worship the Lord

O worship the Lord

in the beauty of holiness;

bow down before him,

his glory proclaim;

with gold of obedience

and incense of lowliness,

kneel and adore him:

the Lord is his name.

Low at his feet lay

thy burden of carefulness:

high on his heart

he will bear it for thee,

comfort thy sorrows,

and answer thy prayerfulness,

guiding thy steps

as may best for thee be.

Fear not to enter

his courts in the slenderness

of the poor wealth

thou wouldst reckon as thine:

truth in its beauty,

and love in its tenderness,

these are the off’rings

to lay on his shrine.

These, though we bring them

in trembling and fearfulness,

he will accept

for the name that is dear;

mornings of joy give

for evenings of tearfulness,

trust for our trembling

and hope for our fear.

Gospel Reading – Matthew 22 v34-40

The Greatest Commandment

³⁴Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.   ³⁵One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ³⁶“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”   ³⁷Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’   ³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment.   ³⁹And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’   ⁴⁰All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Jesus shall reign

Jesus shall reign where’er the sun

does his successive journeys run;

his kingdom stretch from shore to shore,

till moons shall wax and wane no more.

People and realms of ev’ry tongue

dwell on his love with sweetest song,

and infant voices shall proclaim

their early blessings on his name.

Blessings abound where’er he reigns:

the pris’ners leap to lose their chains;

the weary find eternal rest,

and all the humble poor are blest.

To him shall endless prayer be made,

and praises throng to crown his head;

his name like incense shall arise

with ev’ry morning sacrifice.

Let ev’ry creature rise and bring

peculiar honours to our King;

angels descend with songs again,

and earth repeat the loud amen.

November 10^{th –} Magazines notes to Barbara or Gill please

Revd. Sue can be contacted on 01453 542547

or susankgreatorex@gmail.com

Revd. Peter Fewings 07795206590 ptfewings@gmail .com

Please send all notices for the Pew Sheet to Sarah by midday Wednesday.  Thank you.  sarah.st.barts.cam.coaley@gmail.com 

0787 296 8097

St. Bartholomews’s Church, Coaley – Website www.stbartholomewcoaley.org.uk and Coaley Church now has a Facebook Page

We have a gospel to proclaim

We have a gospel to proclaim,

good news for all throughout the earth;

the gospel of a Saviour’s name:

we sing his glory, tell his worth.

Tell of his birth at Bethleham,

not in a royal house or hall,

but in a stable dark and dim,

the Word made flesh, a light for all.

Tell of his death at Calvary,

hated by those he came to save;

in lonely suff’ring on the cross:

for all he loved, his life he gave.

Tell of that glorious Easter morn.

empty the tomb, for he was free;

he broke the pow’r of death and hell

that we might share his victory.

Tell of his reign at God’s right hand,

by all creation glorified.

He sends his Spirit on his Church

to live for him, the Lamb who died.

Now we rejoice to name him King;

Jesus is Lord of all the earth.

This gospel-message we proclaim:

we sing his glory, tell his worth.