Bolingbroke Deanery Team Parishes Faithful, Confident, Joyful 7th June 2020 TRINITY SUNDAY (Gold or White)

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This week: Weekday Prayer: Daily

TRINITY SUNDAY

9.00am Sunday Service at Home Join us for a farewell service for The Archbishop of York who will be joined by representatives of charities he founded, BBC News presenter Huw Edwards and Tariro Matsveru, a student at Cranmer Hall.https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media- centre/church-online https://youtu.be/UvNuebjkSM4

10.00am Prayer in our own homes See below

Bolingbroke Churches on line:

I have managed to publish a short video on YouTube and linked it to our website from our prayers it will win no prizes and makes me wince not a little but it is out there as an offering. I have created a YouTube Account Bolingbroke Team Churches

http://lincoln.ourchurchweb.org.uk/spilsby/index.php

I will try to make it a weekly offering and it will be on the above web site. So watch this space - if you can. PC

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Bolingbroke Team Ministry

Trinity Morning Worship

The word of the eternal Father created us. The love of the gracious Son redeemed us. The presence of the Holy Spirit unites and empowers us. We worship the glorious Trinity, our God of power, love and peace.

Hymn Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessèd Trinity.

Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide thee, though the eye made blind by sin thy glory may not see, only thou art holy, there is none beside thee, perfect in power, in love, and purity.

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty! All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessèd Trinity! Words: Reginald Heber Music: NICAEA

Invitation to Confession St Paul says 'Be imitators of God; love as Christ loved; do not grieve the Holy Spirit; put away all anger and bitterness, all slander and malice.' So let us confess our sins to God who forgives us in Christ. 5

Lord Jesus, you send us into the world, but we confess that our vision is narrow; you give us clear commandments, but we pretend not to understand them; you promise to be with us always, but we ignore your presence and follow our own way. Forgive us; give us fresh vision and restore us to your way, we pray. Amen

Assurance of pardon May the God of love and power forgive us and free us from our sins, heal and strengthen us by his Spirit, and raise us to new life in Christ our Lord. Amen.

Reading from 2 Corinthians 13.11-13 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.

Reading from the Gospel of Matthew 28:16 - 20 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.’

Homily from the Diocesan Website There are no “fun” anecdotes about the Blessed Trinity. Though there was genuinely one Anglican Priest who stood up in the pulpit on this

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Sunday and having started his sermon as usual with “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” then said – “The Holy Trinity – it’s a great mystery isn’t it? Probably best that we leave it at just that. Amen” And he sat straight down again.

That isn’t all you will get for today! It might be that that particular priest was taking the easy way out. He knew just how difficult it is to preach on the Trinity, how careful preachers have to be to ensure that they don’t inadvertently fall into heresy themselves or lead their people into it. The Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate Trinity Sunday at all – they say that if you have a Trinity Sunday you should also have a Unity Sunday as well – because both are of equal importance in the Christian Faith. It does mean that there’s an equal responsibility on a preacher to make sure that it is clear that while God is ‘Three’- he is always and at the same time- ‘One’.

In the Church of England’s Prayer Book, still the foundation document of Anglican Worship and doctrine, you can find, if you know where to look for it, something called The Creed of St Athanasius – supposed to be used at Morning Prayer thirteen times a year – one of those days being today- Trinity Sunday. It’s not really a Creed; it’s not really by St Athanasius; but it is very long and very precise. It starts “Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. . . . And the Catholick Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity.”

If you want something to do on a lockdown Sunday do try to find it and read it. It’s in a short section headed ‘At Morning Prayer.’ It’s nothing but comprehensive and very precise when it talks about the Holy Trinity. But even from the two verses you’ve just heard or read you can see that both Trinity and Unity are stressed. And also that right belief in God as Trinity is held to be “necessary” for our very salvation.

Doctrinal niceties to one side, Trinity Sunday is such a wonderful celebration each year because it brings us back to the wonder of God Himself. From Advent Sunday through Christmas to Candlemas, and then from Ash Wednesday through Holy Week and Easter to Ascension Day and finally Pentecost the Church has been celebrating great Festivals.

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They are festivals that are all about the mystery of our Redemption and Sanctification, undertaken by the three Persons of the Trinity.

And then today we are brought to honour what is the chief mystery of our faith – the Godhead itself – Creative, Majestic, Ever-Loving, Compassionate, Merciful, Burning Fire and the very Breath of Life. Today we are to bow down all our powers to adore this incomprehensible mystery. And it’s good to do this even once a year- even though every Sunday because it is set aside for the worship of this Holy Adorable Trinity, our Lord and our God, in a sense, might be called Trinity Sunday. Every Sunday after all is the Lord’s Day.

Our own personal faith then should be one of proper reverence of and homage to this mystery of the Blessed Trinity. It is necessary to be saved after all. But, as in everything about being a Christian, what is in our mind is never all that matters. Thomas a Kempis, the author of the greatest devotional classic of all time “The Imitation of Christ” wrote as if in warning to all teachers about the Trinity, as well as those peaching sermons about the Trinity – “Of what use is it to discourse learnedly on the Trinity, if you lack humility and therefore displease the Trinity?” Humility of mind and heart is the best service that anyone can pay to this infinite majesty; this “God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity.”

In rejoicing in the Holy Trinity, in believing in the Holy Trinity, we are always to be serving the Holy Trinity. But may we always pray for the grace to have great humility before the Holy Trinity; because only if we have true humility before the Holy Trinity can we have a true and perfect love for God.

Questions for reflection 1. Have you read the Creed of St Athanasius from the BCP? If so, what is your reaction to it? 2. How much of our prayer life/devotional life is truly Trinitarian? Do we find we emphasise one Person of the Holy Trinity more than the other two? If so, how might we broaden it out? 3. Is there anything else from the passage not already considered that speaks to you? What is it?

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4. What will you do this week in your Monday-to-Saturday ministry in response to what you have heard today? #everydayfaith

Let us declare our faith in God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit: We believe in God the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. We believe in God the Son, who lives in our hearts through faith, and fills us with his love. We believe in God the Holy Spirit, who strengthens us with power from on high. We believe in one God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Prayers of Intercession Where there is conflict between nations and within nations; where people live in fear of the bullet and the bomb; when parents weep for children who have been killed: God of peace, may your peace be known.

In homes filled with anger, cruelty and neglect; where there are no safe places; where poverty and addiction bring suffering and pain: God of peace, may your peace be known.

To those whose minds are tormented by depression; to those whose hold on life is fragile; to those whose lives are filled with stress: God of peace, may your peace be known.

To those who are nearing the end of life; to those who love and care for them: God of peace, may your peace be known.

May your peace be known to us, and may we be bearers of your peace in our world. Amen.

Collect Holy God, faithful and unchanging: enlarge our minds with the knowledge of your truth,

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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, Amen.

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen.

Hymn Father, Lord of all creation, ground of Being, Life and Love; height and depth beyond description only life in you can prove: you are mortal life's dependence: thought, speech, sight are ours by grace; yours is every hour's existence, sovereign Lord of time and space.

Jesus Christ, the Man for Others, we, your people, make our prayer: help us love – as sisters, brothers – all whose burdens we can share. Where your name binds us together you, Lord Christ, will surely be; where no selfishness can sever there your love the world may see.

Holy Spirit, rushing, burning wind and flame of Pentecost, fire our hearts afresh with yearning to regain what we have lost. May your love unite our action,

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nevermore to speak alone: God, in us abolish faction, God, through us your love make known. Words: Stewart Cross Tune: ABBOT’S LEIGH

May the grace of the Father be with us; may the love of the Son enfold us; and may the peace of the Spirit comfort us, today and always. Amen.

New Patterns for Worship and Common Worship: Times and Seasons, material from which is included in this service, is copyright © The Archbishops’ Council 2002

TRINITY SUNDAY The Confession of a true faith 1st Sunday in the month

Monday Thomas Ken Composers and Music Makers

Tuesday Columba “What next” 10.00am` Team/Standing Committee meeting via Zoom

Wednesday Friends 12.30pm B/C Malcolm Maidens’ Funeral

Thursday Corpus Christi – Thanksgiving for the Eucharist

Friday Barnabas Empathy.

Saturday Community Help Groups

Next Sunday – 1st Sunday after Trinity Setting God’s People Free 1st Sunday in the month 11

Sunday 7th Give thanks to God the creator, Christ the Saviour of the world, and Trinity Sunday the Spirit of truth and love, for creating us to live in community

Pray for La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico The Most Revd Francisco Moreno - Presiding Bishop of La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico & Bishop of Northern Mexico

Monday 8th The North Lafford Group - Cranwell, Leasingham, Ruskington, Thomas Ken, Bishop Anwick, Evedon – Vacant of Bath and Wells, Hymn Writer, 1711 New Jersey (USA) The Rt Revd William Stokes; Amazon (Brazil) The Rt Revd Marinez Rosa Dos Santos Bassotto; Jabalpur (North India) The Most Revd Dr Prem Chand Singh

Tuesday 9th The Carr Dyke Group – Revd Steve Holt Columba, Abbot of Please hold the Carrdyke benefice in your prayers as we continue to Iona, Missionary 597 reach out to the wider communities which have been particularly isolated in recent weeks. Assets Committee

New Westminster (Canada) The Most Revd Melissa Skelton; Amichi (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Ephraim Ikeakor; Jaffna (South India) The Rt Revd Daniel Selvaratnam Thiagarajah

Wednesday 10th Church schools in Lafford Deanery: Billinghay; Digby; Heckington; Horbling Brown's; Kirkby-la-Thorpe; Leasingham St Andrew; Martin Mrs Mary King; Quarrington St Botolph; Ruskington Chestnut Street; Pointon St Gilbert of Sempringham; Sleaford William Alvey. Bishop’s Staff Meeting

New York (USA) The Rt Revd Andrew Dietsche; Amritsar (North India) The Most Revd Dr Pradeep Samantaroy

Thursday 11th Quarrington with Old Sleaford – Revd Mark Thomson Corpus Christi Please pray for the clergy, wardens and Pastoral Support Team as they lead the church family and care for them during this difficult time.

Newala (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Oscar Mnung'a; Andaman & Car Nicobar Islands (North India) The Rt Revd Christopher Paul; Angola (Missionary Diocese) (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Andre Soares

Friday 12th Silk Willoughby – Vacant Barnabas the Apostle John of Dalderby, Newark (USA) The Rt Revd Carlye J Hughes; Ankole (Uganda) The Bishop of Lincoln, Rt Revd Sheldon Frederick Mwesigwa 1320 (Furthering Holiness, pg. 41) Saturday 13th St Denys, Sleaford – Revd Philip Johnson Pray that we will maintain effective links with the schools; outreach to those who are unable to access digital platforms; developing effective pastoral care for those on the fringe.

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Newcastle (Australia) The Rt Revd Dr Peter Stuart; Newcastle (England) The Rt Revd Christine Hardman

Sunday 14th From the Gospel reading: The harvest is plentiful, but the 1st after Trinity labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest. (Matt 9: 37) Pray for the Church of the Province of Myanmar (Burma) The Most Revd Stephen Than Myint Oo - Archbishop of Myanmar and Bishop of Yangon

Prayers to use during the coronavirus outbreak Booklet. These prayers will help Christians to pray in solidarity with one another even when it is not possible to gather together in church. It’s essential at all times – but particularly in times of anxiety and fear – that we continue to develop and strengthen our own habits of prayer. A simple form of prayer to say each morning and evening is included here. It can be shared with all who are at home and unable to worship together, especially those who are unable to access online resources. This booklet can be downloaded in various formats from the Church of England website, where you will also find many other resources and ideas for sustaining our worshipping lives:

CofE.io/ChurchOnline

Or hard copies can be obtained in the Box in the porch of Spilsby Vicarage. You will also find hard copies of May Grape Vine & this Weekly Notice Sheet.

For those who receive this WNS by email you will also receive the electronic copy of the Grape Vine – please let me know if there are email addresses to add to the list?

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You are aware that we are not printing the usual number of Grape Vines as we are not wanting people to break the lockdown by making journeys to deliver them but if you are in Spilsby you know they are in the box – if you want greater numbers leave a message on 752526.

As you will all know all Public Worship has been suspended and our Churches have been closed as part of our attempts to slow the progress of the Coronavirus (Corvid 19). There will be no services in our or in our sister Churches (with the exception of grave side or crematorium Funerals with only very close family in attendance) Weddings and Baptisms (with the exception of emergence Baptisms) are not allowed.

However, I am sure that worship and prayer to our loving God is at the heart of what we need to do at all time and especially now. That is why we are asking you to be part of the Churches offering of Worship this Sunday and every day too. Although we can’t be together to worship physically we can in spirit. We are offering in this booklet a service we can pray at Some point on Sunday and through the week. We can join together through the mass media. Please be aware there is also a national service on Sunday at 9am on the Church of England website and Facebook page which you might want to point people to.

Bishop David has allowed the clergy to pray or stream worship from our Church buildings again but only the one name person.

Opening Churches: We have no information when we can use our Church Buildings again. It is likely that it will be a staged process; Firstly, for Private Prayer, then for small scale Funerals/Weddings/Baptisms and only then for Public worship. However, as you would expect great care will be needed to be taken to minimise possible risks and none of our Churches will be opened until we have best safety practices in place. You can find present advice on the Church of England web site https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media- centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches

This Sunday your Ministers will celebrate the Holy Communion/Eucharist in their own homes (we have been asked to not use our church buildings as we are all advised to stay at home. Please join in at home. As you eat and drink spiritually know that you are receiving our Lord. Each day we will be saying the daily prayers. Join in

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where you are https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service- daily-prayer

The sick at home or in hospital, Leo Seebacher-Hobson, Nigel Worth, Kathleen, Ann, Molly, Veronica, Dorothy, Maggie J. Betty Brawn, Tristan, Joan Abbey, Michael P, Joan T. Mark, Jossie Lee, June, Hilary, Michael, Harriet, Rose L., Kate B. Abby, Sheila Janes, Fleur, Beryl B. Mary, Jeff Mason, Rosie, Jean C. Wendy, Bob, (Baby) Chloe Lear, Lawrence, Kathryn B, Margaret White (Spilsby), Ann Howman.

The Departed: Stephen Dawson, Ruth Machin, Jackie Hall, Margaret Rhodes, Alan Jarvis.

Anniversary: Rose Matheson, Esme Heane, Colin Meads, Charlie Ward, Michelle Coldwell, Sandra Jury, June Hine, Rupert Fletcher, Edith Calvert, Norman Ward, Wendy Toynton, Pauline Lawie, Raymond Ward, Graham Moles, Kath, Alfred Wild, Kath. Dean, Gladys Nix, Michael Robinson, Brenda Edge, Doris Richmond, Phylis Bauer, Gordon Parker, Terry Hill, Andrew Rigarlsford, David Ely, John Mawer, Peter Adams, Br Martin SSF, Joan Symonds, John Pimperton, Dennis, Jean Handbury. Charles Lawie, Edna Reeson, Marjory Bland, Alix Hoff, Brian Cooley, Peter Howard, Roger Kemplay, Jeffery Coupland, Bessie Eastgate, Jo Dolan, Amy Dodds, Bill Thacker, Mark Bell, Vic Ranyard, Bill Short, Eddie Sharman, Denise Paling, Sidney Clifford, Evelyn Frost.

An act of Spiritual Communion

You may wish to find a space for prayer in front of a cross, a candle, or a special place. You might choose to make your Spiritual Communion at a particular time of day, or after viewing a live streamed service.

Reflect on the day and on your relationships. - What good things have come from God today? - Where have I fallen short? - What might I do tomorrow?

You may wish to say or pray Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

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Read the following words from Scripture. If you have access to today’s readings for Holy Communion, you may wish to read and reflect on them.

Jesus said, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.’ John 6.35

Pray for the needs of the world, for your local community, and for those close to you. End with the Lord’s Prayer.

Our Father...

Give thanks for the saving death and resurrection of Jesus and ask him to be with you now.

Thanks be to you, Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits you have given me, for all the pains and insults you have borne for me. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, I ask you to come spiritually into my heart. O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother, may I know you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly, day by day. Amen. after the Prayer of St Richard of Chichester

Conclude with the following: The Lord bless us, and preserve us from all evil, and keep us in eternal life. Amen. A prayer for all those affected by coronavirus

Keep us, good Lord, under the shadow of your mercy. Sustain and support the anxious, be with those who care for the sick, and lift up all who are brought low; that we may find comfort knowing that nothing can separate us from your love in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.

Daily at Noon God of love, turn our hearts to Your ways and give us peace. Amen

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From our Bishops In the past few days we have been encouraged to see ways in which congregations are already putting into action new ways to stay in touch with communities. We now have a new Facebook page as a way to stay in touch, which is Lincoln – Bishops’ Office (please click on https://www.facebook.com/lincolnbishopsoffice/? to access the page).

Clergy Team The Rev’d. Canon Peter Coates The Vicarage, Church Street, Spilsby, PE23 5EF email: [email protected] Tel: 01790 752526

The Rev’d. Ms. Fran Jeffries The Rectory, Horbling Lane, Stickney PE22 8DQ email: [email protected]

The Rev’d. Mrs Joan Thornett email: [email protected] Tel: 01790 754151 The Rev’d Mrs Jean Coates Contact via Spilsby Vicarage – As above email: [email protected]

Rev’d. Mrs Teresa McLaughlin & Mr Paul McLaughlin – Community Chaplain The Rectory, Scremby Road Partney PE23 4PG [email protected] 01790 752344

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Reflection for Trinity Sunday

Our world seems to truly be in disarray at the moment. Countries all over the world are trying to win the battle with Coronavirus, none more so than our own country with its high infection rate. Lockdown is still in place, but more and more things seem to be eased, all of course with social distancing. Now there is civil unrest, not only in the States but right in the heart of this country, too, with demonstrations taking place.

When I watched some of the peaceful demonstrations in Washington, USA, one of the things I was struck with apart from the violence, which was often unprovoked, was one man. Right in the middle of people shouting and waving banners, was a Roman Catholic Bishop dressed in Roman Cassock and a pectoral crucifix, quietly standing firm for his belief in justice and fairness, showing the importance of being willing to be counted as one who was against racial inequality. There was also a situation, which was not televised, of a whole parish who knelt before the protesters and prayed; they asked to be forgiven for all that white people had inflicted on black people in their country, for many generations.

Jesus gave us the great commission to go to all nations, to all people, no matter what race. To speak and act with authority in the name of The Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit. We are called to obey everything that he commanded to do, to love one another. There were no “good Samaritans” helping an elderly man that had been pushed to the ground by the police whilst he lay on the pavement, unconscious, with his head bleeding; protesters and police passed him by. Showing love in situations like this speaks volumes, but also when we do small things in love to help others, that can change our world through love.

Jesus came to draw us nearer to our heavenly Father, and the Holy Spirit helps us through his power, to enable us to do this at any time, to lead us to the Father who longs for us to worship him. The task of the Trinity has the desire to make us be one family, God’s family.

At the end of today’s Gospel, there are those wonderful words, “And remember I am with you to the end of the age” Matthew 28:20b

No matter how bleak or unfair or how lonely life may feel right now, there is one who will never leave us, never abandon us. May we be drawn into God’s family, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Teresa

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Author: Peta Dunstan Millicent Mary SPB Millicent Taylor was born in India in 1869, as her father was a general in the Indian Army. After his retirement in 1877, the family returned to Devon, where both her parents came from. At 22, Millicent announced that she wanted to be a nun, but their horrified opposition initially thwarted her vocation. After her parents had died, she offered herself as a parish social worker, and in 1900 she began to help in the poor parish of St Jude’s in Birmingham. In 1903, she dedicated herself to a rule of life, and two years later she was professed as the first sister of the Society of the Precious Blood. It was 1908 before two other women joined her. Their life was a tough one, with little money and long hours of work, but from the beginning Millicent insisted that every sister spent one day a week in retreat. She believed that their prayer life must not be swamped by the demands of work. As the years went by, the emphasis on prayer and retreat led to her feeling called to a more contemplative life. In 1914, she moved away from Birmingham to Hendon to live a more hidden life. Two sisters accompanied her, whilst a third transferred to another established community. From Hendon the tiny community moved to Burnham in Buckinghamshire in the middle of the First World War. Burnham Abbey had been the home of Augustinian canonesses before the Re- formation, when the community was dissolved. Some buildings had sur-vived over the following centuries, and they became SPB’s new home. The community lived hand to mouth for some years, and it seemed that it could not possibly survive financially. Some sisters left. But Millicent had many practical skills as well as spiritual ones, and a small group held on. In the 1920s, the community began to grow both in numbers and in the expression of its contemplative vocation. Through the troubles of those years, the community forged its own spiritual path based on the precept that they must ‘spend and be spent’. Millicent continued to guide her community through the following decades until, in the winter of 1940-41, she suffered health problems. Not recovering as much as she might have hoped, she decided to retire from office in 1942. She lived on to see the Golden Jubilee of SPB in 1955, before dying in January 1956 aged 86.

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Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion (Corpus Christi) - White - Thursday after Trinity

Invitation to Confession You then, who truly and earnestly repent of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbours, and intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walking from this day forward in his holy ways: draw near with faith, and take this holy sacrament to your comfort; and make your humble confession to almighty God.

Kyrie Confession Like as the hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for you, O God: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

O send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me: Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.

May we come to your altar, O God, the God of our salvation: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

Collect Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you that in this wonderful sacrament you have given us the memorial of your passion: grant us so to reverence the sacred mysteries of your body and blood 20

that we may know within ourselves and show forth in our lives the fruits of your redemption; for you are alive and reign with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, alleluia. I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever. John 6.51 All Alleluia.

Intercession We pray to the Lord.

Lord, listen to the prayers of your people, gathered at your table. In faith we pray: we pray to you our God.

Here, where we celebrate how Christ gave us his body to be our spiritual food, listen as we pray for his body the Church, spread throughout the world … In faith we pray: we pray to you our God.

Here, where we recognize the presence of Christ, who takes away the sin of the world, listen as we pray for that world and for its peoples for whom his blood was shed … In faith we pray: we pray to you our God.

Here, where we come together as Christ gathered with his friends to give us this meal of holy fellowship, 21

listen as we pray for all whom you have given us, our friends and all whose lives are joined with ours … In faith we pray: we pray to you our God.

Here, where we remember the night of Christ’s agony and trial, listen as we pray for all who share his sufferings through fear or pain or distress of many kinds … In faith we pray: we pray to you our God.

Here, where we join our praises with the whole company of heaven, listen as we pray for all who have trusted Christ’s promise to raise up on the last day those who eat his flesh and drink his blood … In faith we pray: we pray to you our God.

Lord, satisfy our hunger with the food that lasts, the bread of God which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world, Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.

Introduction to the Peace We are the Body of Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Let us then pursue all that makes for peace and builds up our common life.

Prayer at the Preparation of the Table God our sustainer, receive the gifts we bring before you, and feed us continually with that bread which satisfies all hunger, your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Preface And now we give you thanks because, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end; and on the night before he suffered, sitting at table with his disciples, he instituted these holy mysteries, that we, redeemed by his death and restored to life by his resurrection, might be partakers of his divine nature.

Blessing Christ, who has nourished us with himself the living bread, make you one in praise and love, and raise you up at the last day; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.

Acclamation I am the bread of life, anyone who comes to me shall not hunger, anyone who believes in me shall never thirst. Alleluia. Lord, give us this bread always.

The bread of God comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world. Alleluia. Lord, give us this bread always.

Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise them up on the last day. Alleluia. Lord, give us this bread always.

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The words I speak, they are spirit and they are life. Alleluia. Lord, give us this bread always.

Short Passage of Scripture Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. He had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Luke 24.31a,35

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