The Parish Church of All Saints
25June 2017 –2nd Sunday after Trinity
You are very welcome to All Saints this morning for this sung Eucharist (Holy Communion). Children are very welcome here and, if they want to, they can take part in the children’s activities that happen in the choir vestry.
Children leave after the first hymn and return for the Communion.
At certain times in the service the choir sings on behalf of the congregation; this allows us to think more deeply about our relationship with God in our lives, through meditating on the words and music chosen for the day. The words that they sing can be found either in the service book or later in this sheet.Today the mass setting isMissa Brevis (Ives).
The service starts on page 1 of the green booklet.
The opening hymn is434.
We say together the collect – the special prayer for this Sunday:
Lord, you have taught us
that all our doings without love are
nothing worth:
send your Holy Spirit
and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtues,
without which whoever lives is counted dead before you.
Grant this for your only Son Jesus
Christ’s sake,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen
The reading from the Old Testament today is Jeremiah 20:7-13; which is then followed by the reading from the New Testament, Romans 6:1b-11.
The Gradual Hymn is318 after which we remain standing and turn to face the centre of the church from where the Gospel is read.
Today’s Gospel is Matthew 10:24-39- the text is on the back of this pewsheet.
The preacher today is the Rev’d Sandy Cragg.
After the sermon we stand to say together the Creed, which begins on page 4 of the green booklet.
After the Peace we sing the Offertory Hymn148during which a collection is taken for the work of the church, and the bread and wine for the Eucharist are brought to the altar.
The service continues with the Preparation of the Table on page 7 of the green booklet.
This morning we will use Eucharistic Prayer A.
While the congregation comes forward to receive Holy Communion the choir will sing the motet O God be Merciful (Tye).
O God, be merciful unto us and bless us, and shew the light of his countenance upon us.
After Communion the Priest will say:
Loving Father,
we thank you for feeding us at the supper of
your Son:
sustain us with your Spirit,
that we may serve you here on earth
until our joy is complete in heaven,
and we share in the eternal banquet
with Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
The Final Hymn is472 (second tune).
After the service, refreshments are served in the East end of the Church. Please feel very welcome to stay and enjoy, and if you have not been to the church before, please do introduce yourself to one of the clergy or churchwardens – we’d love to meet you.
This sheet is for you to take home.
Please keep your belongings with you at all times.
NOTICES AND NEWS
26 June1.15pm Lunchtime Concert - Richard Pilliner (organ)
1 July7.30pm Teddington Choral Society
2 July7.30pm Refugee Tales
3 July12noon Dementia Awareness Talk
6 July7.30pm Heritage Lecture – Now it’s serious - The East Surrey Regiment in 1917; speaker: Nicholas Howgill
9 JulyA joint service at St John the Evangelist NOTE: no 9.30 service at All Saints
The Union Street bollard
Has been changed and now is a slightly different system. The key is in the Vestry Office but if you think that you will need to use it please contact the office during office hours to have it explained.
Weekend Vergers
Can you spare an hour or two every now and then at the weekend to help be our welcoming presence in the church for visitors. Please let Rosemary Gout know if you can.
Work to the Tower
On Monday, some long awaited work to the church Tower staircase will start, lasting about a month. A bit of scaffolding will be evident, though not much else, but it will mean that the bells can’t be rung during this time. The Bellringers will be off touring other towers for the time being and we’ll look forward to welcoming them back at the end of July.
A talk by Dementia Friends
On Monday 3rd July at 12 noon there will be an information talk in the church by Dementia Friends. All are welcome.
IYAF Launch
We have two complimentary tickets to the launch event of the International Youth Arts Festival in the Rose on 7th July at 7.30. Whoever asks Jonathan first - or promises the most…- gets them!
ASK Heritage Lectures
Join us this summer for our new series of FREE lectures on the history and heritage of All Saints and Kingston. Come and listen to fascinating talks in beautiful surroundings! Everyone is welcome and there is no need to pre-book. See the website and programmes in the church for more information about individual lectures.
7pm – Bar; 7.30pm – Lecture
Confirmation this year
Our joint service with the United Reformed Church for Confirmation will take place on Sunday 17th September at 6pm. Preparation classes will take place over the second part of the summer. If you would like to be confirmed, or learn more about it, please speak to Jonathan.
First Aiders
This training will now take place on Monday July 31st at 2pm. If you’d like to join those training please let Jonathan know.
Sunday Coffee Morning Rota
We need one or two more volunteers. Please see Jonathan or Jennifer Pearce if you can help.
Kids Church Summer Activity days in the summer
2nd-4thAugust
Exploring the Lord’s Prayer through crafts, drama, games and reflection time for children aged 5 to 11 (without their parents) from 10-3at St John’s Church, Grove Lane. 20 spaces available to be booked in advance. There will be a small charge and children will need to bring a packed lunch. For more information, a registration form or if you would like to help please contact Vicky 02085469882. All helpers will need church DBS checks which will need to be sorted soon.
A lunch time thanks
After many years of devoted service to the 'Bring and Share' lunches Ann Cornick will be holding her last one at All Saints on Thursday6th July. To mark this we will be holding a cold buffet lunch in the Heritage Gallery at All Saints on that date( 6th July) from 12.30 pm to 2.00pm. Everyone is most welcome to join us to make this last lunch go with a 'bang' and also to give us all the opportunity of thanking Annin person.
Joint Service at St John theEvangelist - 9th July at 10am
On the 9th July there will be NO 9.30am service at All Saints.Instead, we are encouraged to attend St John the Evangelist in Grove Lane at 10am for their Patronal Festival service at which Sisters from St Michael’s Convent will also be welcomed following their donation of an altar and organ to St John’s. After the service a short organ recital will be given by Stephen Westrop on the organ followed by a buffet lunch. Please do come if you can.
WeStandTogether
Following the terrible events at Finsbury Park Mosque last week there will be a WeStandTogether event outside Bentalls on Wednesday at 3pm
Readings for 2 July 2017
9.30amJeremiah 28:5-9; Romans 6:12-end Matthew 10:40-end
6pm1 Samuel 28:3-19; Luke 17:20-end
Church office: Tel 020 8546 5964
Development office:
Tel 07444 548 423
Rector: Rev Jonathan Wilkes Tel: 020 3132 8717
Email:
St JOHN THE EVANGELIST NOTICES AND NEWS
LITTLE GROOVERS our parents/carers and
toddlers/babies group will be meeting on Tuesday in the church from 9.45-11.15am. £1.50 per family.
THE BOOK FAIR AND CHURCH CAFÉ will be in St John’s church, Grove Lane on Saturday 1st July from 10.00-2.30pm. The Café will be supporting HELP FOR HEROES. There are hundreds of good books for adults and children to choose from and delicious refreshments to enjoy. Come and chat with a friend or make a new one.
DEDICATION FESTIVAL: 9th July at 10am.
We are hosting our Team Service this year on our Dedication Festival when we celebrate 146 years since the Dedication stone of the church was laid. So the congregations of All Saints and St John’s the Baptist will be joining us for the service.
We have also invited the Sisters, formally of Ham Convent, who generously gifted us their chapel furniture and organ, to the service. This will be a wonderful opportunity to express our thanks and appreciation to them. Afterwards we will be offering a simple cold, buffet lunch to which we hope everyone will stay and enjoy.
KIDS CHURCH ACTIVITY DAYS IN THE SUMMER: Wed 2nd/Thurs 3rd/Fri 4th August.
We are running 3 activity days in the summer for children aged 5 to 11 exploring the Lord’s Prayer through crafts, drama, games and reflection time. The days will run from 10am until 3pm and there will be 20 spaces available. Registration forms are available from Vicky. This is for children without their parents and there will be a small charge. If you would like more information or would like to help please speak to Vicky.
KEEP FIT AND HAVE FUN PLAYING BADMINTON
on a Monday evening in St John’s hall, Grove Lane, from 8.00-10.30pm. New players welcome so if you are interested in having a game please contact Phil Harvey for more information at <>
SERVICES AT ST JOHN’S
1st Sunday of the month: 10am Family Communion
2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays of the month: 10am Parish Communion with children’s church
3rd Sunday of the month: 9am Holy Communion
10am Sacred Space with children’s church
CONTACTS FOR ST JOHN'S
Vicar:Revd Vicky Maunder
or 020 8546 9882.
Vicky works part time and is available on WednesdaysThursdays, Fridays and Sunday mornings.
Administrator:Frances Hazelgrove
Tel: 07952085661
St. John the Baptist Church
Kingston & Putney Vale
Monday Afternoon Club 1.30 – 3.30 pm at St John the Baptist Church Hall
For more information contact Ruth Ruocco Brown
Mob: 07790 899987 Email:
Church Hall for hire, you can hire our Church Hall for your family celebrations and children’s parties, hire fees include use of kitchen and car park. Also available to book for children’s parties is the jubilee garden which includes the use of the hall if the weather is not suitable.
Contact Parish office: 020 8546 2590 or email: .
THE READINGS
Jeremiah 20:7-13
Jeremiah cried out:
O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughing-stock all day long; everyone mocks me.For whenever I speak, I must cryout, I must shout, ‘Violence and destruction!’
For the word of theLord has become for me a reproach and derision all daylong.If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name’,
then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. For I hear many whispering: ‘Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’ All my close friends are watching for me to stumble. ‘Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.’But theLordis with me like a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not prevail.
They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonour will never be forgotten.OLordof hosts, you test the righteous, you see the heart and the mind; let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause. Sing to theLord; praise theLord!
For he has delivered the life of theneedy from the hands of evildoers.
Romans 6:1b-11
Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 10:24-39
Jesus summoned the twelve and sent them out with the following instruction:
‘A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master;it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!
‘So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground unperceived by your Father.And even the hairs of your head are all counted.So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
‘Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
‘Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.