Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity
8 a.m. Said Eucharist
President and Preacher: The Revd John Ansell
9 a.m. in Box – Eucharist with hymns
President and Preacher: The Revd Gerald South
10 a.m. Sung Eucharist
President and Preacher: The Revd John Ansell
5.30 p.m. at Amberley – Benefice Harvest Service
with bring-and-share tea
Click here for the Church of England's daily prayer: Morning Prayer, Prayer during the Day, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer
As well as the Sunday collect and readings (see below), you may want to use the following in your prayers during the week:
In the Anglican cycle of prayer, for the Anglican Church of Rwanda and Archbishop Laurent Mbanda
For our four overseas partner dioceses, especially the Diocese of Western Tanganyika and Bishop Emmanuel
In our deanery cycle of prayer, for the work of Simon Howell and Pioneer Ministry and of Sportily;
for Ed Sauven, Pioneer Minister, and Will Mansell of The Grace Network
In our parish cycle of prayer, for those who live or work in Old Common, Summersfield Road and Close
For those in need: Giles Boon, Jonathan Brough, Daphne Webb, Ruth Allen, Hillary Roberts
For those who have died recently: Shirley Sandy, Ben Codling
For those whose anniversary of death falls at this time: Irene Wright, Audrey Barnard, Suzanne Leighton, David Payne, Roger Benson, Andrew Marciniak
COLLECT
Almighty God,
in whose service lies perfect freedom:
teach us to obey you
with loving hearts and steadfast wills;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
FIRST READING: Isaiah 53. 4 – end
Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain.
When you make his life an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
Out of his anguish he shall see light;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
PSALM 91.9 – end
All Keep me as the apple of your eye.
Because you have made the Lord your refuge
and the Most High your stronghold,
There shall no evil happen to you,
neither shall any plague come near your tent.
All Keep me as the apple of your eye.
For he shall give his angels charge over you,
to keep you in all your ways.
They shall bear you in their hands,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.
All Keep me as the apple of your eye.
You shall tread upon the lion and adder;
the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
Because they have set their love upon me, therefore will I deliver them;
I will lift them up, because they know my name.
All Keep me as the apple of your eye.
They will call upon me and I will answer them;
I am with them in trouble, I will deliver them and bring them to honour.
With long life will I satisfy them
and show them my salvation.
All Keep me as the apple of your eye.
SECOND READING: Hebrews 5.1–10
Every high priest chosen from among mortals is put in charge of things pertaining to God on their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness; and because of this he must offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. And one does not presume to take this honour, but takes it only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him,
‘You are my Son,
today I have begotten you’;
as he says also in another place,
‘You are a priest for ever,
according to the order of Melchizedek.’
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. This is the Word of the Lord.
GOSPEL READING: Mark 10.35–45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, ‘Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.’ And he said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ And they said to him, ‘Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.’ But Jesus said to them, ‘You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?’ They replied, ‘We are able.’ Then Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.’
When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. So Jesus called them and said to them, ‘You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.’
POST COMMUNION
Father of light,
in whom is no change or shadow of turning,
you give us every good and perfect gift
and have brought us to birth by your word of truth:
may we be a living sign of that kingdom
where your whole creation will be made perfect
in Jesus Christ our Lord.