Bulletin for the week beginning 5 October 2014 The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity [Proper 22]
9.15 am Holy Communion [1662] – said [BCP page 236] Leeds Minster BCP Collect & Readings for the Sixteenth after Trinity [BCP page 182]
10.30 am Choral Eucharist [Men’s Voices] Leeds Minster Preacher: The Reverend Jenny Jones 10.30 am Holy Communion St Mary’s Preacher: Canon Ann Nicholl
12.00 noon Baptism Bookings Leeds Minster
6.30 pm Choral Evensong [Men’s Voices] Leeds Minster Preacher: Canon Ann Nicholl
Leeds Minster is a Registered Charity No 1135993
10.30 am Choral Eucharist [Men’s Voices] Organ Prelude: Franck /Geehl – Panis Angelicus Processional Hymn: 388 [first tune, Truro] – Jesus shall reign, where’er the sun Mass Setting: Maurice Duruflé – Messe Cum Jubilo – Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Collect of the Day O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; 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. Amen. First Reading Exodus 20: 1-4,7-9,12-20 Then God spoke all these words: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work. Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour. When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance, and said to Moses, ‘You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die.’ Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid; for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin.’ Psalm 19 1 The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handy-work. 2 One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. 3 There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them. 4 Their sound is gone out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun: which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course. 6 It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 7 The law of the Lord is an undefiled law, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, and giveth wisdom unto the simple. 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth for ever: the judgements of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey, and the honey-comb. 11 Moreover, by them is thy servant taught: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth: O cleanse thou me from my secret faults. 13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins, lest they get the dominion over me: so shall I be undefiled, and innocent from the great offence. 14/15 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart: be alway acceptable in thy sight, O Lord: my strength, and my redeemer.
Second Reading Philippians 3: 4b-14 If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. Gradual Hymn: 408 [second tune, Love Divine] – Love divine, all loves excelling
Gospel Matthew 21: 33-46 Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: ‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, “They will respect my son.” But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, “This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.” So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ They said to him, ‘He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes”? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.’ When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet. Sermon: The Reverend Jenny Jones
Offertory Anthem: William Henry Harris [1883-1973] Behold now, praise the Lord: all ye servants of the Lord. Ye that by night stand in the house of the Lord: in the courts of our God. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary: and praise the Lord. The Lord that made heaven and earth: give thee blessing out of Zion. Psalm 134 Offertory Hymn: 305 – Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast During Communion: Allegri – Adoremus in aeternum Sanctissimum Sacramentum Let us adore for ever the most Holy Sacrament. O praise the Lord, all ye heathen: praise him, all ye nations. For his merciful-kindness is ever more and more towards us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Let us adore [repeated] Text includes Psalm 117 Post Communion Prayer, said by all Almighty God, you have taught us through your Son that love is the fulfilling of the law: grant that we may love you with our whole heart and our neighbours as ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Post Communion Hymn: 473 [second tune] – When morning gilds the skies [1-3,6-8] Postlude: Duruflé – Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons 6.30 pm Choral Evensong
Organ Prelude: Flor Peeters – Aria
Responses: Tallis Canticles: Moore Fauxbourdons
Office Hymn: 54 [second tune, Illsley] – O Trinity of blessed Light
Psalm 136 Confitemini 1 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. 2 O give thanks unto the God of all gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. 3 O thank the Lord of all lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Who only doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. 5 Who by his excellent wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. 6 Who laid out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. 7 Who hath made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever; 8 The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever; 9 The moon and the stars to govern the night: for his mercy endureth for ever. 10 Who smote Egypt with their first-born: for his mercy endureth for ever; 11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever; 12 With a mighty hand, and stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. 13 Who divided the Red sea in two parts: for his mercy endureth for ever; 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever. 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew them in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. 16 Who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. 17 Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever; 18 Yea, and slew mighty kings: for his mercy endureth for ever; 19 Sehon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever; 20 And Og the king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever; 21 And gave away their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever; 22 Even for an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever. 23 Who remembered us when we were in trouble: for his mercy endureth for ever; 24 And hath delivered us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever. 25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. 26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever. 27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. Gloria
First Lesson Proverbs 2: 1-11 My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding; if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures – then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly, guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you. Second Lesson 1 John 2.1-17 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. Now by this we may be sure that we know him, if we obey his commandments. Whoever says, ‘I have come to know him’, but does not obey his commandments, is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist; but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we may be sure that we are in him: whoever says, ‘I abide in him’, ought to walk just as he walked. Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. Whoever says, ‘I am in the light’, while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness. Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness. I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have conquered the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world; for all that is in the world – the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches – comes not from the Father but from the world. And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live for ever. Anthem: Macpherson – Thou, O God, art praised in Zion, and unto thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. Thou that hearest the prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. Psalm 65, Verses 1, & 2 Sermon: The Rector of Leeds Hymn: 450 – Soldiers, who are Christ’s below
The Prayers
Offertory Hymn: 252 – The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended Organ Postlude: Flor Peeters – Prelude and Fugue in F [the Lydian] CANON TONY BUNDOCK: Next Sunday 12 October is Tony’s last Sunday with us. Holy Communion at 9.15 am, Choral Festal Matins at 10.30 and Friends of the Music Evensong at 3.00 pm. After Matins and Evensong there will be refreshments and a chance to express our gratitude to Tony and Pat for their time with us. We hope you will be able to join us at one or both of these services – and afterwards as well. Apart from verbal expressions of thanks, we intend to give Tony and Pat a memento of their time with us. Please use the ‘Blue’ envelopes for your gift and hand it to Parish Wardens Peter Hart or Rhoda Wallace, or Treasurer Trevor Parker.
This Week at a Glance Monday, 6 William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Reformation Martyr, 1536 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 12.05 am Celtic Eucharist Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Festival Choral Concert Leeds Town Hall 7.30 pm Licensing of Kay Brown Manston St James Tuesday, 7 8.50 am Prayers St Peter’s School 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity Wednesday, 8 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 10.00 am Coffee Morning at Lincoln Green Centre Lincoln Green 5.30 pm Choral Evensong Leeds Minster 6.00 pm Vestry Hour [Weddings] Leeds Minster Thursday, 9 Denys, Bishop of Paris, and his Companions, Martyrs, c.250 Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Holy Communion [BCP] Leeds Minster 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Men’s Voices] Leeds Minster 7.00 pm Musical Evening for the Rector of Leeds Leeds Minster Friday, 10 Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 Thomas Traherne, Poet, Spiritual Writer, 1674 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Minster 12.00 noon Midday Prayers Leeds Minster 12.30 pm Organ Recital Leeds Minster 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity 7.00 pm Choral Evensong Leeds Minster Saturday, 11 Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 James the Deacon, Companion of Paulinus, 7th century 11.30 am Choral Matins [Girls’ Voices] Leeds Minster 1.00 pm Holy Matrimony Christian Hills and Katie Conoby Leeds Minster
Next Sunday, 12 October – The Seventeenth after Trinity [Proper 23] Friends of the Music Festival Sunday – Canon Tony Bundock’s last Sunday as Rector 9.15 am Holy Communion [1662] – said [BCP page 236] Leeds Minster BCP Collect & Readings for the Seventeenth after Trinity [BCP page 184] 10.30 am Choral Festal Eucharist Leeds Minster Address by Dr Simon Lindley 12.00 noon Baptism Bookings Leeds Minster 3.00 pm Choral Festal Evensong Leeds Minster: Preacher: The Rector of Leeds
ALL SOULS DAY REQUIEM: This year’s Service is on Sunday 2 November at 6.30 pm when the Reverend Roger Quick will be the Celebrant. Victoria’s Requiem of 1605 will be sung by St Peter’s Singers; Alan Horsey will be the organist. Please enter people whom you wish to be named within the liturgy to the list in the Minster during the course of the next few weeks. The last date to guarantee inclusion of names will be Sunday 26 October. Names may also be emailed to [email protected]. PRESS AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: We are delighted to announce that the Parochial Church Council has appointed David Hawkin to be our parish Press and Communications Officer. We are very grateful to David for taking on, in a formal way, this role of liaising with the press and media, improving our communications arrangements and working with the communications officer for the Bishop of Leeds and Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales. CATHERINE: Jeff Ladd and the family have written in very warm terms to express their great appreciation to all involved in the special service for Catherine on the afternoon of Michaelmas Day last Monday. It was a service she herself had planned very carefully and all at the Minster were be privileged to be a small part of it. Jeff and her three sons contributed musically and, particularly, by exquisite changes on handbells. SAFEGUARDING OFFICER: The Parochial Church Council is very pleased to announce Kay Brown as our parish Safeguarding Officer. We are very grateful to Rhoda Wallace who has stood down after some seven years in this key role in child protection and safeguarding, the processing of Disclosure Barring Service applications, and ensuring Leeds Minster and our wider parish as a place of welcome and safety for children, young people, and vulnerable adults. The PCC has also agreed that Kay will be supported in this role by one of the parish wardens as well as by the clergy where appropriate. LICENSING: Bishop Nick licences new Readers, including Kay Brown for our Parish at 7.30 pm on Monday 6 October at St James the Great Church, Church Lane, Manston, Cross Gates, LS15 8JB. All members of the congregation are cordially invited to attend. Light refreshments will be available afterwards so it would be helpful for catering purposes if you could let Kay, Canon Nicholl or the Rector know if you are intending to attend, particularly if you have any special dietary requirements.
ST PETER’S SINGERS INVITE YOU: The Singers are arranging a Céilidh on Friday 17 October at Fulneck Golf Club – entrance from either Bankhouser or Roker Lane. Details/tickets from Linda Wellings 07812 422136. Phil Wilcox’s band will be leading the evening – and well worth hearing, since Phil is a great exponent of this kind of traditional folk music. A great night, with very reasonable bar prices, is absolutely guaranteed!
SPECIAL THANKS, MUSIC LOVERS AND HELPERS: go to all who are sustaining hospitality to the audience members of Minster Lunchtime Organ Recitals in recent weeks during the temporary closure of the Refectory. Many of our friends travel extensive distances to support the weekly musical endeavour and appreciate especially the hard work of those involved. The response to the collections at the Romantic Organ Masterworks concerts on August Sunday evenings has again been very generous and a sum of just £400 inclusive of the Gift Aid reclaim was made during August towards organ maintenance and tuning – a great total!
PLEASE PRAY FOR: MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH COMMUNITY in residential care: Christine Caines, Dorothy Hayes, Ted Marks, Veronica Rutkowska, Sylvia Wilkinson, Susan Williams THOSE WHO ASK OUR PRAYERS: Albert Andrews, Jean Bannister, David Bywater, Sonia Bywater, Eileen Christmas, Jan Clark, Pam Eden, Ivy Frampton, Ted Garrett, Rita Horliss, Marjorie Milner, Joan Pease, Gordon Rees, The Reverend Canon Jim Richardson (former Vicar of Leeds), Jack Robins, Cathryn Robinson, Althea Shevill, Mavis Simpson, Peter Simpson, Derick Sheldrake, Jack Transport, Patricia Wagstaff, Doris Webb, Mavis Whitehead, John Young YEAR’S MIND: Anthony John Cooke [6 October 2012], Paul Alan Hunter [9 October 2006], Hugh Burton Simpson [10 October 1993], Rochelle Aimée Cauvet [10 October 2000] RIP: Cecil Pereira [24 September 2014], Margaret Kingston – for over 50 years a member of the Friends of the Music] [2 October], The Venerable Norman McDermid [Archdeacon of Richmond, 1983-1993]
FOCUS ON……………… GLAD IN HIM WITH PSALMS The regular recitation, whether sung or spoken, of the Psalms is one of the greatest glories of English liturgy. Just recently, we have encountered a complete hearing of Psalm 22, recalling the ceremony of Stripping the Altars on Maundy Thursday – at which this great Psalm is an integral part of the evening Eucharist of the Lord’s Supper. This morning we have the great Psalm 19 and this week another extensive Psalm, that Old Testament song of praise, Psalm 136, whose expression is so similar to the Canticle Benedicite. Many psalm texts are, of course, greatly loved as aids to personal and private devotion.
The musical settings deployed to accompany the traditional psalm texts come in several shapes and sizes. Of these, the most chiefly heard are those of inflected unison Plainchant of the Gregorian tradition and that remarkable musical miniature – the ‘Anglican Chant’. Additionally, there are more contemporary treatments making use of a refrain or antiphon.
In more leisured days, choral foundations – the quires and places where they sing of the Prayer Book rubric – sang Matins each day as well as Evensong. As recently as the 1970s you could still attend daily Choral Matins in term time at Ouseley’s St Michael’s College, Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire and you can still even today at St Patrick’s, Dublin’s National Cathedral. In the early 21st century, the Psalms are perhaps used most regularly at Choral Evensong and between the Old Testament and Epistle Readings at Choral Eucharist as well as at special services such as Weddings and Funerals.
The huge diversity of ambience in the words never ceases to amaze. There are songs to the Lord expressing praise, adoration, hope, or beseeching prayer; some stanzas deal with historical events such as battles and conflicts, still others extol the virtues of keeping commandments, statutes and testimonies – Psalm 119, the longest of all at 176 verses, is the chief example of that. One Psalm [94] begs the God of Vengeance to reward the proud with their deserving. Yes, a whole world of Worship and Heritage is to be found within the covers of the Book of Psalms! Simon Lindley