A Collect for The Eighth Sunday After Trinity
O GOD, whose never-failing
providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth; We humbly beseech thee to
put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which be profitable
for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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 The Diary
❖ James Ussher on shewing God of our troubles
❖ John Bird Sumner on being won by wisdom from above
❖ Jeremy Taylor on the duty of parents toward their children
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 Morning Prayer
Organ: Allegro ben moderato in D (Frank Bridge)
Hymn: At The Cross Her Station Keeping
Psalms: Day 30
First Reading: Proverbs 23:10-34
Second Reading: Acts 28:17-30
Anthem: Os Justi Meditabitur (Holy Scripture, Anton Bruckner)
Hymn: Father of Everlasting Grace
Organ: Herr Gott, dich loben wir (Johann Pachelbel)
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Evening Prayer
Organ: Prelude In C (Blow) (John Blow)
Hymn: Where Shall My Wondering Soul Begin
Psalms: Day 30
First Reading: Proverbs 24:21-33
Second Reading: Matthew 15:21-38
Anthem: Thou Wilt Keep Him In Perfect Peace (Holy Scripture, Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
Hymn: Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing (Fawcett)
Organ: Präludium und Fuge G-Dur Op. 6:4 (Albrechtsberger) (Johann Georg Albrechtsberger)
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The Comfortable Words
COME unto me all that
travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. St. Matth. xi. 28.
So God loved the world, that he gave his
only-begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. St. John iii. 16
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OUR Father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. |
Holy Communion
The Eighth Sunday After Trinity
| Voluntary: Come God, Creator, Holy Ghost (Op. 28:46) (Marcel Dupré) |
| Hymn: Be Known To Us In Breaking Bread |
| Epistle: Romans 8:12-17 |
| Hymn: Lord, Thy Word Abideth |
| Gospel: Matthew 7:15-21 |
| Anthem: O Salutaris Hostia (I) (Thomas Aquinas, Edward Elgar, Thomas Tallis) |
| Hymn: To God be the Glory |
| Voluntary: Paean, Op. 15 No. 3 (Harwood) (Basil Harwood) |
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Sermon: The Advantages Of Praying During the Communion "GOD NEVER REFUSES to hear a holy prayer;" and our prayers can never be so holy, as when they are offered up in the union of Christ's sacrifice: for Christ, by that sacrifice, reconciled God and the world; and because our needs continue, therefore we are commanded to continue the memory, and to represent to God that which was done to satisfy all out needs… Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
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The Litany
BY thine Agony and Bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial; by thy glorious Resurrection
and Ascension, and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost,
Good Lord, deliver us.
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For The Armed Forces
FROM thy holy sanctuary open
thine eyes and behold, stretch forth thy hand and help, defend and save
our Armies and Navies, O thou God of power, from all evil of man,
and all evil of chance.
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 The Way Of The Cross
PRAYERS, Scripture readings and hymns centred on the
final journey of Jesus Christ, from the House of Pontius Pilate to the Hill of Calvary. A
popular devotion during Lent and Passiontide.
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 The Sublime Purpose Of Christian Worship
PUBLIC worship is not a mere attendance at an appointed place to hear of God; it is the means vouchsafed
to the elect of God of offering to the King of kings, in communion with all holy creatures, cherubim,
and seraphim and all the hosts of heaven, the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise.
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)
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 The Triumph Of Hope
THE past is beyond recall.
Put it behind you. The future is full of magnificent opportunities.
Endeavour to realise them. Be energetic, be courageous, be hopeful.
In the agony of your contrition, from the depths of your despair,
listen to the Divine Voice which summons you: "Let the dead bury
their dead; dead opportunities, dead regrets, dead failures; yes
even, dead sins, and follow thou Me".
Bishop Joseph Lightfoot, 1828-1889
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 Christ In The Manger And The Sacrament
CHRIST in the Sacrament is not altogether unlike Christ in the cratch. To the cratch we
may well like the husk or outward symbols of it. Outwardly it seems little worth but it is
rich of contents, as was the crib this day with Christ in it.
Bishop Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626
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