HYMNS NOTICES 6 Lord as the day begins This Sunday please welcome Bishop 258 O thou who camest from above Matthias Der (Celebrant) and 744i O God of Bethel by whose hand Adam Mok (Preacher). St. Stephen’s Chapel 698i King of glory King of peace Next Sunday we’ll welcome the Revd Catherine Graham. Stanley, Hong Kong PRAYERS Sunday School will continue through August. - For the Church; in the Anglican Church of Hong A daughter church of St. John’s Cathedral Kong (Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui), for St. Paul’s As we are entering a new school year, new in the Anglican / Episcopal Diocese of Hong Kong Island Church Macau, for the Revd Odette Poon & Woo Parking Tickets need to be issued by the school. Kak Pui. www.ststephen.org.hk Please check your Name and Registration Plate -For Hong Kong and the world… for the people of on the list at the back of the Chapel and tick or St Stephen’s Chapel Stanley Hong Kong Myanmar and especially our friends in the Diocese amend as necessary. If you would like to have a of Toungoo. Parking Ticket, please fill in your details in the -For the sick, especially Peter Lee, David Wong, space provided. Please speak to Derek if you 13th Sunday after Naomi Burnett, Helen, and Ronnie. have any questions. -For the departed… Trinity th If you would like to include anyone by name in our Will and Dot are on annual leave and will return 29 August 2021 prayers, please let Will, Alison or Derek know. in mid September. If you need to speak to a priest please contact the cathedral on 2523 4157. 10am Holy Eucharist VOLUNTEERS TODAY NEXT SUNDAY As the HK government is gradually relaxing Welcomers Mookerji/ Bastiou Covid restrictions we are now allowed to have Bishop Matthias Der Altar Server Boris 50% capacity in the church. There is also an & Readers Noah Naomi option to have 100% capacity if 2/3 of the Julian Chris Hall congregation has received at least the first dose Adam Mok Intercessions Ronald Phoebe Poon of the vaccine. May I encourage you to consider Offertory & Noah & Gladys Yung & Collection Noel Henry Yung our responsibility to be safe and keep others safe Flowers Sundays 5pm at St John’s Cathedral Refreshments No Refreshments at present Today –Celtic Evening Prayer & Labyrinth September 5th – Choral Evensong Junior Church Philippine Rebecca As we don’t pass the basket round for donations Thank you to all volunteers! during the service due to Covid restrictions, ***** please remember to place your offering in the basket before you leave. The Revd Will Newman [email protected] The colour for this season is Green 6254 7514 There is nothing outside a person that by going for Growing in faith. Wardens: Derek Lin and Alison Harada in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile. 1st Reading from Deuteronomy 2nd Reading from James THE GOSPEL So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and Every generous act of giving, with every perfect Priest: Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so gift, is from above, coming down from the Father according to Mark. that you may live to enter and occupy the land of lights, with whom there is no variation or All: Glory to you, O Lord. that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving shadow due to change. In fulfilment of his own you. You must neither add anything to what I purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes command you nor take away anything from it, that we would become a kind of first fruits of his who had come from Jerusalem gathered around but keep the commandments of the Lord your creatures. You must understand this, my beloved: him, they noticed that some of his disciples were God with which I am charging you. let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, eating with defiled hands, that is, without You must observe them diligently, for this will slow to anger; for your anger does not produce washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the show your wisdom and discernment to the God’s righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, their hands, thus observing the tradition of the will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and and welcome with meekness the implanted word elders; and they do not eat anything from the discerning people!’ For what other great nation that has the power to save your souls. But be market unless they wash it; and there are also has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is doers of the word, and not merely hearers who many other traditions that they observe, the whenever we call to him? And what other great deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this word and not doers, they are like those who look Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do entire law that I am setting before you today? But at themselves in a mirror; for they look at your disciples not live according to the tradition take care and watch yourselves closely, so as themselves and, on going away, immediately of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ He said neither to forget the things that your eyes have forget what they were like. But those who look to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and hypocrites, as it is written,“This people honours days of your life; make them known to your persevere, being not hearers who forget but me with their lips, but their hearts are far from children and your children’s children. doers who act—they will be blessed in their me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human doing. If any think they are religious, and do not precepts as doctrines.” You abandon the bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, commandment of God and hold to human Deuteronomy 4.1-2, 6-9 their religion is worthless. Religion that is pure tradition.’ and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to Then he called the crowd again and said to them, Reader: This is the word of the Lord. care for orphans and widows in their distress, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is All: Thanks be to God. and to keep oneself unstained by the world. nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what James 1.17-27 defile.’ For it is from within, from the human heart, that Reader: This is the word of the Lord. evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, All: Thanks be to God. adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.’ Mark 7.1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Priest: This is the Gospel of the Lord. All: Praise to you, O Christ. .