A SHORT PERIOD OF SILENCE BLESSING by Fr James HYMN 1 Silent, surrendered, calm and still, FINAL HYMN Open to the word of God. A Gaelic Blessing, adapted by Margaret Rizza, sung 3 times. Heart humbled to his will, Offered is the servant of God. May the Lord bless you, May the Lord protect you and guide you, 2 Silent, surrendered, calm and still, May his strength uphold you, his light shine upon you, Open to the word of God. His peace surround you, his love enfold you. Heart humbled to his will, Offered is the servant of God. Margaret Rizza,©1998, Kevin Mayhew Ltd St John’s, Pevensey, Road 3 Come, Holy Spirit, bring us light, Teach us, heal us, give us life. Come, Lord, O let our hearts Flow with love and all that is true. Pamela Hayes/Margaret Rizza, ©1998, Kevin Mayhew Ltd PRAYERS to be said over the chant “Exaudi Nos, Domine” (“hear us O lord, give us your peace”) Pews News & Service Sheet ©1998 Kevin Mayhew Ltd for Sunday 20th June 2021 The Third Sunday after Trinity Welcome to this Parish Mass - held each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. with a socially- distanced congregation; recorded and broadcast via our church website later in the day, technology permitting... Morning Prayer Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, at 9 a.m. Church open for private prayer, weekday mornings Midweek Mass Wednesday at 10 a.m. Online “Zoom” service: 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Send Rev Jill or Deacon Michael an email and they will send you the necessary “link”. HYMN OF THE WEEK: Lead us, Heavenly Father, Lead us …was written by James Edmeston, who was born in 1791 in Wapping, in the Docklands area of east London. He was brought up a “Nonconformist” but later joined the Church of England. He trained as an architect and surveyor, and in 1864 built Columbia Wharf, Rotherhithe, the first grain silo in a British port. He was a longstanding churchwarden of his local parish of Saint Barnabas, Homerton, east London. He wrote 2,000 hymns, one for every Sunday, but the only one to have attained lasting popularity is Lead us, Heavenly Father, Lead us. The hymn is titled “A Hymn to the Trinity” in one collection, and indeed we see the three verses referencing “Father”, “Saviour” and “Spirit”. In verse one God the Father is exhorted to lead us “o’er the world’s tempestuous sea”, perhaps reflecting the way God “guarded and guided” the Israelites to the Promised Land, across the Red Sea, “keeping them and feeding them” along their way. Edmeston’s familiarity with the docklands made him keenly aware of how rough seas could disrupt human plans, and applied that insight to our spiritual journey, being dependent upon God’s blessing and help. In verse two, “Saviour, breathe forgiveness o’er us”, recalls the appearance of the risen Jesus to his disciples in the upper room. The Risen Lord is not some superman but is someone who has been through our human experiences, who has been through life’s wilderness himself, feeling “lone[ly], dreary, faint and weary”, as we all do from time to time. The third verse concludes the hymn with a poetic prayer to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit brings many gifts, but foremost amongst them are heavenly joy, love and peace that cannot be destroyed. Mass for the Third Sunday after Trinity The Greeting The priest says the Absolution In the name of the Father, and of the Son, Almighty God, and of the Holy Spirit. who forgives all who truly repent, All Amen. have mercy upon you, The Lord be with you pardon and deliver you from all All and also with you. your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in life eternal; Prayer of Confession through Jesus Christ our Lord. All Amen. God so loved the world that he gave his only Son Jesus Christ to save us from our sins, to be our advocate in heaven, The Gloria in Excelsis is said: and to bring us to eternal life. All Glory to God in the highest, Let us confess our sins and peace to his people on earth. in penitence and faith, firmly resolved to keep God’s Lord God, heavenly King, commandments almighty God and Father, and to live in love and peace with all. we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, All Almighty God, our heavenly Father, only Son of the Father, we have sinned against you Lord God, Lamb of God, and against our neighbour you take away the sin of the world: in thought and word and deed, have mercy on us; through negligence, through weak- you are seated at the right hand ness, of the Father: through our own deliberate fault. receive our prayer. We are truly sorry and repent of all our sins. For you alone are the Holy One, For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, you alone are the Lord, who died for us, you alone are the Most High, forgive us all that is past Jesus Christ, and grant that we may serve you in with the Holy Spirit, newness of life in the glory of God the Father. to the glory of your name. Amen Amen. The Collect and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther, Let us pray: and here shall your proud waves be stopped”? God our saviour, look on this wounded world in pity and in power; For the Word of the Lord hold us fast to your promises of peace All Thanks be to God won for us by your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. All Amen. A reading from the Second Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 6:1-13 A reading from the Book of Job As we work together with Christ, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in Job 38: 1-11 vain. For he says, ‘At an acceptable time I have listened to The LORD answered Job out of the you, and on a day of salvation I have whirlwind: helped you.’ ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? See, now is the acceptable time; see, now Gird up your loins like a man, is the day of salvation! We are putting no I will question you, and you shall obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault declare to me. may be found with our ministry, but as ‘Where were you when I laid the servants of God we have commended foundation of the earth? ourselves in every way: through great Tell me, if you have understanding. endurance, in afflictions, hardships, Who determined its measurements – calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, surely you know! labours, sleepless nights, hunger; by Or who stretched the line upon it? purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, On what were its bases sunk, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful or who laid its cornerstone speech, and the power of God; with the when the morning stars sang together weapons of righteousness for the right and all the heavenly beings shouted hand and for the left; in honour and for joy? dishonour, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; ‘Or who shut in the sea with doors as dying, and see – we are alive; as when it burst out from the womb? – punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, when I made the clouds its garment, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making and thick darkness its swaddling many rich; as having nothing, and yet band, possessing everything. and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus you. There is no restriction in our Christ according to Mark affections, but only in yours. All Glory to you, O Lord. In return – I speak as to children – open wide your hearts also. Mark 4.35-41 For the Word of the Lord When evening had come, Jesus said to All Thanks be to God his disciples, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the Gradual Hymn boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us waves beat into the boat, so that the boat o’er the world’s tempestuous sea; was already being swamped. But he was guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and for we have no help but thee; they woke him up and said to him, yet possessing every blessing, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are if our God our Father be. perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be Saviour, breathe forgiveness o’er us: still!' Then the wind ceased, and there all our weakness thou dost know; was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why thou did’st tread this earth before us, are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ thou did’st feel its keenest woe; And they were filled with great awe and lone and dreary, faint and weary, said to one another, ‘Who then is this, through the desert thou did’st go. that even the wind and the sea obey him?’ Spirit of our God, descending, fill our hearts with heavenly joy, love with every passion blending, This is the Gospel of the Lord.