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Church at Home the Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity Before the Service Church at Home The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Before the Service A very warm welcome to Church at Home this seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. Today, we mark a significant moment in the life of our Diocese, as the Bishop of Dorchester, the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, retires this weekend. Bishop Colin has exercised episcopal oversight in the Dorchester Area covering much of Oxfordshire since 2000, and is the longest-serving Suffragan Bishop in the Church of England. He has also served with distinction as Acting Bishop of Oxford during two long vacancies. As Bishop Steven Croft has acknowledged: “Bishop Colin has helped to shape the Diocese of Oxford as much as anyone across the last 20 years.” We are honoured and delighted that our President today is Bishop Colin, with the address by the Ven. Judy French, Archdeacon of Dorchester. The theme of our service is the Lord’s Vineyard – a rich metaphor appearing numerous times in the scriptures, including in the book of the prophet Isaiah and the Gospels. Our readings today challenge us to consider our labour and our ways of living in the Lord’s Vineyard, and to ask whether these produce good fruit – the fruits of God’s Kingdom. On this, the last Sunday in Creationtide – the period in the annual church calendar dedicated to God as Creator and Sustainer of all life – we reflect further on our responsibility to tend and care for the Vineyard of all Creation that the Lord has gifted us. As we prepare to gather – physically-distanced and yet drawn together around the Word and Table of the Lord – we continue to remember in prayer all those whose lives are currently being turned upside down by the disruption and threat of both the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic – across the world, within our nation, in our local communities, and our churches. With the Psalmist who lamented the loss and brokenness seen in the Lord’s Vineyard in their own time, we make the refrain of Psalm 80 our prayer: Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. We are deeply grateful to all who made this service possible, including clergy and people from across the Dorchester Area of our Dioceses, and members of St Clement’s, St Matthew’s, and St Aldates churches in Oxford. The Gathering As we prepare for the service, we mark the retirement of the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester. The Greeting President Welcome in the name of Christ. God’s grace, mercy and peace be with you All and also with you. Bishop Colin welcomes the congregation from around the Diocese, and introduces the service. Opening Hymn – Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Led by singers from the Benefice of Steeple Aston, North Aston and Tackley. The organist is Peter Read. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation; O my soul praise him, for he is thy health and salvation: all ye who hear, now to his temple draw near, joining in glad adoration. Praise to the Lord who doth prosper thy work and defend thee; surely his goodness and mercy shall daily attend thee: ponder anew what the Almighty can do, if to the end he befriend thee. Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him! All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before him! Let the Amen sound from his people again: gladly for aye we adore him! Confession & Absolution President We confess our sin, and the sins of our society, in the misuse of God’s creation. President God our Father, we are sorry for the times when we have used your gifts carelessly, and acted ungratefully. Hear our prayer, and in your mercy: All forgive us and help us. President We enjoy the fruits of the harvest, but sometimes forget that you have given them to us. Father, in your mercy: All forgive us and help us. President We belong to a people who are full and satisfied, but ignore the cry of the hungry. Father, in your mercy: All forgive us and help us. President We are thoughtless, and do not care enough for the world you have made. Father, in your mercy: All forgive us and help us. President We store up goods for ourselves alone, as if there were no God and no heaven. Father, in your mercy: All forgive us and help us. President The Lord enrich you with his grace, and nourish you with his blessing; the Lord defend you in trouble and keep you from all evil; the Lord accept your prayers, and absolve you from your offences, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Saviour. All Amen. The Collect President Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; 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. All Amen. The Liturgy of the Word Reading Isaiah 5:1-7 Read by Deborah Ajulu from St Clement’s Church, Oxford. Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watch-tower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry! Reader This is the word of the Lord All Thanks be to God. Gradual Hymn – God be in my head Sung by the Choir of Keble College, Oxford. God be in my head and in my understanding. God be in mine eyes, and in my looking. God be in my mouth, and in my speaking. God be in my heart, and in my thinking. God be at mine end, and at my departing. The Gospel Reading Matthew 21: 33-end Read by James Elward from Witney Benefice. Reader Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. All Glory to you, O Lord. ‘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. Reader This is the Gospel of the Lord All Praise to you, O Christ. The Address The Ven. Judy French, Archdeacon of Dorchester Affirmation of Faith President We say together in faith All Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty, who was, and is, and is to come. President We believe in God the Father, who created all things: All for by his will they were created and have their being. President We believe in God the Son, who was slain: All for with his blood, he purchased us for God, from every tribe and language, from every people and nation.
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