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20210314 Mothering Sunday St John’s, Pevensey Road , Pews News & Service Sheet for Sunday 14th March 2021 Mothering Sunday St John’s, Pevensey Road Sunday 14 march: Mothering Sunday Welcome to our Parish Mass service today - also viewable later via the Broadcast Page of our church website www.stjohnspevenseyroad.org.uk/broadcast Covid-19 situation review: St John’s is still closed for private prayer for the time being. And the Midweek Mass will not be restarting until further notice. However, Sunday Parish Mass is now re-started with a socially-distanced congregation present, but will still be recorded and broadcast via our church website, by about Sunday lunchtime, all being well. Online “Zoom” service: 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Send Rev Jill or Deacon Michael an email and they will send you the necessary “link”. People for whom our prayers are asked: Jean & Geoff, Geraldine, Brenda R, Jane G, Jo, Amber, Shirley, Andrew N, Libby V, Kath Q, Linda, Jude, and Ralph T. Please pray also for... ...the repose of the souls of the departed, ... especially those whose Years Minds fall around this time: Margaret Masters, Edith Murrills, Derek Alexander, and Pat Keene, ...and all who mourn. This year’s Lent Course, or Pilgrimage, is being presented by Fr David via Zoom on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. If you would like to take part, please send him an email in order to receive the online signing-up details. The materials can also be accessed via this link: ctbi.org.uk/lent-study-2021 HYMN OF THE WEEK: Tell out my Soul … was written by Timothy Dudley-Smith, retired Bishop, and writer of some 400 hymns. It is popularly sung to the hymn tune Woodlands, composed by Walter Greatorex in 1916. Dudley-Smith was inspired to write the text in 1962, after reading a modern paraphrase of the Magnificat in Luke 1:46–55 in the then recently-published New Testament of The New English Bible. This new Bible’s translation of the Magnificat began with the phrase, "Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord". Dudley-Smith starts each verse of the hymn with a slight variation of this line - Mary’s exuberant praise of God - then picks up the various sentiments expressed by her in her joy, having been told she was to be the Mother of Jesus. Her cousin Elizabeth, soon to be the mother of John the Baptist, filled with the Holy Spirit, had just greeted her with the words we know as the Hail Mary. Mass for Mothering Sunday The Greeting The Collect In the name of the Father, and of the Son, Let us pray: and of the Holy Spirit. All Amen. God of love, passionate and strong, The Lord be with you tender and careful: All and also with you. watch over us and hold us all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Prayer of Confession All Amen. The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart God will not despise. Let us come to the Lord, A reading from Exodus who is full of compassion, Exodus 2.1-10 and acknowledge our transgressions in penitence and faith. A man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she All Lord God, saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him we have sinned against you; for three months. When she could hide we have done evil in your sight. him no longer she got a papyrus basket We are sorry and repent. for him, and plastered it with bitumen and Have mercy on us according to pitch; she put the child in it and placed it your love. among the reeds on the bank of the river. Wash away our wrongdoing and His sister stood at a distance, to see what cleanse us from our sin. would happen to him. The daughter of Renew a right spirit within us Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and restore us to the joy of your while her attendants walked beside the salvation, river. She saw the basket among the through Jesus Christ our Lord. reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When Amen. she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, ‘This The priest says the Absolution must be one of the Hebrews’ children,’ she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s Almighty God, daughter, ‘Shall I go and get you a nurse who forgives all who truly repent, from the Hebrew women to nurse the child have mercy upon you, for you?’ pardon and deliver you from all your sins, Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Yes.’ confirm and strengthen you in all So the girl went and called the child’s goodness, mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, and keep you in life eternal; ‘Take this child and nurse it for me, and I through Jesus Christ our Lord. will give you your wages.’ So the woman All Amen. took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she Gradual Hymn took him as her son. She named him Moses, ‘because,’ she said, ‘I drew Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord! him out of the water.’ Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice; Tender to me the promise of his word; For the Word of the Lord In God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice. All Thanks be to God Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his Name! Make known his might, the deeds his arm has done; His mercy sure, from age to age to same; His holy Name--the Lord, the Mighty One. A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Colossians Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his might! Powers and dominions lay their glory by; Proud hearts and stubborn wills are put to flight Colossians 3.12-17 The hungry fed, the humble lifted high. As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with Tell out, my soul, the glories of his word! compassion, kindness, humility, Firm is his promise, and his mercy sure. meekness, and patience. Bear with Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord one another and, if anyone has a To children's children and for evermore! complaint against another, forgive Timothy Dudley-Smith (b.1926) each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves Gospel Reading with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your Praise to you, O Christ, hearts, to which indeed you were King of eternal glory. called in the one body. And be The Lord is a great God, thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell O that today you would listen to in you richly; teach and admonish his voice. one another in all wisdom; and with Harden not your hearts. gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. All Praise to you, O Christ, And whatever you do, in word or King of eternal glory. deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. The Lord be with you All And also with you For the Word of the Lord All Thanks be to God Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All Glory to you, O Lord. John 19.25-27 For our sake he was crucified under Standing near the cross of Jesus were Pontius Pilate; his mother, and his mother’s sister, he suffered death and was buried. Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary On the third day he rose again Magdalene. When Jesus saw his in accordance with the Scriptures; mother and the disciple whom he he ascended into heaven loved standing beside her, he said to and is seated at the right hand of the Father. his mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ He will come again in glory to judge the Then he said to the disciple, ‘Here is living and the dead, your mother.’ And from that hour the and his kingdom will have no end. disciple took her into his own home. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, This is the Gospel of the Lord. who with the Father and the Son is All Praise to you, O Christ. worshipped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. Sermon We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. The Creed Let us declare our faith in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Prayers of Intercession All We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, Let us pray to God, who loves all people as a maker of heaven and earth, mother loves her children. of all that is, seen and unseen. We give thanks for the example of Mary, We believe in one Lord, Jesus mother of Jesus… We pray that our spiritual Christ, mother the Church may follow her in humility, the only Son of God, trust and love. eternally begotten of the Father, Lord, in your mercy God from God, Light from Light, All Hear our prayer true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; Soften with a mother’s gentleness all the through him all things were made.
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