Trinity Sunday
8 a.m. Said Eucharist
President and Preacher: The Revd Canon Howard Gilbert
9 a.m. St Barnabas, Box: Eucharist with hymns
President and Preacher: The Revd Gerald South
10.00 a.m. Sung Eucharist
President and Preacher: The Revd Canon Howard Gilbert
5.30 p.m. Choral Evensong for the Feast of Title and eve of the Visitation of the BVM to Elizabeth
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
In our diocese's prayer intentions we are asked to pray for renewed engagement with baptism families; for all who nurture under-5s and their families, in our worshipping communities and across the wider community.
In our deanery cycle of prayer, for our ecumenical colleagues and partners
In our parish cycle of prayer, for all who live or work in Dr Crawfords Close and The Tynings
For those in need: Giles Boon, Jonathan Brough, Jason Kennedy, Ann Gaylor, Giles Gilbert Scott, Tony Evans
For those who have died recently
For those whose anniversary of death falls at this time: -->Kenneth Brown, Caroline Lee, Ann Davis, Mary Grant, Sheila Booth, Charles Fifield, Janet Tester, Neil Griffiths, Fred Barker, Eric Hawker, Albert Willett, Julian Rutherford, Ronald Dyer, Elizabeth Godwin
COLLECT
Holy God,
faithful and unchanging:
enlarge our minds with the knowledge of your truth,
and draw us more deeply into the mystery of your love,
that we may truly worship you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
FIRST READING: Isaiah 40: 12–17, 27–end
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure,
and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?
Who has directed the spirit of the Lord,
or as his counsellor has instructed him?
Whom did he consult for his enlightenment,
and who taught him the path of justice?
Who taught him knowledge,
and showed him the way of understanding?
Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and are accounted as dust on the scales;
see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
Lebanon would not provide fuel enough,
nor are its animals enough for a burnt-offering.
All the nations are as nothing before him;
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
‘My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God’?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.
PSALM 8
All O Lord our governor,
how glorious is your name in all the world!
Your majesty above the heavens is praised
out of the mouths of babes at the breast.
You have founded a stronghold against your foes,
that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
All O Lord our governor,
how glorious is your name in all the world!
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have ordained,
What is man, that you should be mindful of him;
the son of man, that you should seek him out?
All O Lord our governor,
how glorious is your name in all the world!
You have made him little lower than the angels
and crown him with glory and honour.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands
and put all things under his feet,
All O Lord our governor,
how glorious is your name in all the world!
SECOND READING: 2 Corinthians 13.11–end
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
GOSPEL READING: Matthew 28.16–end
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
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.