S GILES-IN-READING
Rector & Vicar: Fr David Harris (0118) 9572831
Churchwardens: Sylvia Gooding & Peter Bloomfield
sgilesreading.org.uk
Sunday 6th July 2014
Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
Hymns: The English Hymnal
Mass Setting: Lourdes Mass - Lécot
Entrance Hymn: 258
Motet: Ave Verum - Elgar
Offertory Hymn: 499
Communion Hymns: 71 & 318
Recessional: 437
Voluntary: Marche in F – Lefebure-Wely
An easy yoke.
This Sunday we hear some famous words of Christ: "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." The prophets had used the image of a yoke to express submission to God. They spoke of the yoke of the law, the yoke of the commandments, the yoke of the kingdom, the yoke of God. Jesus is bringing all these to mind when he says his yoke is "easy". The Greek word for "easy" can also mean "well-fitting".
Yokes were tailor-made to fit the oxen well. We are commanded to put on the "yoke of Jesus". Jesus offers us a new kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy. In his kingdom sins are not only forgiven but removed, and eternal life is poured out for all its citizens. As we've seen throughout the Sundays of eastertide: ours is not a political kingdom, but a spiritual one.
OUR INTENTIONS TODAY.
Those in need:Tony Allen, Sarah Alderson, Jean Chapman, Peter George, Herbert Hinton, Maurice Houghton, Grace John, Kate Morl, Eunice Nelson, Diana Sanni, Elizabeth Sayer, Sheena Sixsmith, Margaret Summers, Sister Theresa at Walsingham, Fr Christopher Walker, Ann Westgarth and Nesta Williams.
The departed: Kathy Boxall, Rosetta Flett, George Gibbs, Harriet Holloway and Edith Sherwood.
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON
Your merciful love, O God, we have received in the midst of your temple.
Your praise, O God, like your name, reaches the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with saving justice.
COLLECT
O God, who in the abasement of your Son have raised up a fallen world, fill your faithful with holy joy, for on those you have rescued from slavery to sin you bestow eternal gladness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
FIRST READING(Zechariah 9: 9-10)
A reading from the prophet Zechariah.
The Lord says this: "Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion! Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem! See now, your king comes to you; he is victorious, he is triumphant, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. He will banish chariots from Ephraim and horses from Jerusalem; the bow of war will be banished. He will proclaim peace for the nations. His empire shall stretch from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth."
The word of the Lord.
PSALMPsalm 144
RESPONSE: I will bless your name for ever, O God my King.
or
Alleluia!
I will give you glory, O God my King, I will bless your name for ever.
I will bless you day after day and praise your name for ever.
The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love.
How good is the Lord to all, compassionate to all his creatures.
All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord, and your friends shall repeat their blessing.
They shall speak of the glory of your reign and declare your might, O God.
The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds.
The Lord supports all who fall and raises all who are bowed down.
SECOND READING(Romans 8: 9; 11-13)
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans.
Your interests are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him, and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you. So then, my brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to
the misdeeds of the body you will live.
The word of the Lord.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL(Matthew 11: 25-30)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus exclaimed, "I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. "Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light."
The Gospel of the Lord.
PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
May this oblation dedicated to your name purify us, O Lord, and day by day bring our conduct closer to the-life of heaven. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON
Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed the man who seeks refuge in him.
or
Come to me, all who labour and are burdened, and I will refresh you, says the Lord.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Grant, we pray, O Lord, that, having been replenished by such great gifts, we may gain the prize of salvation and never cease to praise you. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Psalter Week 2
Sunday Readings: Year A. Weekday Readings: Year 2.
TODAY ATS GILES / Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
10.30 Parish Mass & Sunday School.
18.00 Low Mass
Monday
07 July / Monday of Week 14 of the Year
No Mass
Tuesday
08 July / Tuesday of Week 14 of the Year
18.00 Low Mass
Wednesday
09 July / Wednesday of Week 14 of the Year
10.30 Low Mass
Thursday
10 July / Thursday of Week 14 of the Year
18.00 Vespers & Benediction
Friday
11 July / S Benedict, Abbot, Co-Patron of Europe
11.30 Bible Study
12.30 Low Mass
Saturday
12 July / Saturday of Week 14 of the Year
10.00 Church Fayre
12.00 Low Mass
Sunday
13 July / Fifteenth Sunday of the Year
10.30 Parish Mass & Sunday School.
18.00 Low Mass
NOTICES & EVENTS
We welcome any visitors here this morning and hope that you will stay for refreshments after the service.
A Curate is coming! Mr Sam Cross will be joining us at S Giles today to be our curate. Do keep Sam in your prayers this week as he was ordained a deacon on yesterday.
Church Fayre: This Saturday July 12th:We will be setting up from 09.00. If you have agreed to help and to run a stall, then do please come and help set up. If you have agreed to supply cakes for the cake stall could you please bring them to the vicarage between 09.00 & 10.00. If that is not convenient please bring them to the vicarage on Friday. Any queries please see Anne Canterbury or Claire Davies. Any last minute donations can be placed in the box at the back of church. Do please come and support this event. Thank you.
Thank you: A big thank you to all those that have already made a donation for the church fayre.
Wednesday July 16th: At 1.15 p.m. Ian May will give the first in the Summer series of organ concerts. Admission free - light refreshments - retiring collection. All welcome.
If you have any notices that require adding to the sheet, please contact Anne or Geoff Canterbury at or 0118 961 0525 by Wednesday of the previous week.