All who are baptised and communicant members of one of the Christian churches are welcome to receive communion with us. Those who are prevented from doing so by their conscience, or the discipline of their Church, are most welcome to come to the altar for a blessing at the time of communion.
In Your Prayers please remember those on our sick-list: Sarah, Amédée Randrianarisolo, Lise Stenhoy, Thomas Jones, Jay Baran, Irene Hicks, Gregor Dallas, Ruth Taylor, Prudence Kupka. Kenneth Nyakana, Grace Valéry & Caroline Cullinan.
Welcome to the Eucharist today.
We are delighted to meet visitors and newcomers after the service, when drinks will be served in the Parish Hall. Wine or coffee is available for 1.5 euro: the coffee money goes towards choir funds.
Bienvenue à Saint-Georges. Nous vous invitons à prendre un verre de vin ou une tasse de café (1.5 euro) après la messe dans la salle paroissiale, et si vous êtes de passage dans notre église nous serons heureux de faire votre connaissance.
· Sunday Lunch Rota and Flower Rota: the new rotas are up and have lots of space: if you would like more information please speak to the clergy or for Sunday Lunch, Ginette Barbé, and for flowers to Angela Harrisson.
· There will be a play reading tomorrow, Monday 2nd October, at 19h in the library. The play to be read is “A Woman of No Importance” by Oscar Wilde.
· Visiting Celebrant and Preacher next Sunday - October 8th: Bishop Jonathan Goodall, Bishop of Ebbsfleet.
· There will be a Rentrée Service for young people on Saturday, 14th October at 17h followed by a supper in the hall.
· Harvest Festival is kept on Sunday October 15th at 10.30 – in two weeks. The children of the Sunday School will be in church and helping to lead our worship. Please bring gifts of non-perishable food for the food bank at St Pierre de Chaillot.
· There will be a Choral Evensong organised by the RSCM at the American Cathedral on Saturday 21st October at 16h30. All are welcome. Further details on the noticeboard.
Next Sunday: October 8th – Trinity XVII – 27th in Ordinary Time
08.30 Eucharist
10.30 Solemn Eucharist
ST GEORGE’S, PARIS
Welcome
on Sunday, October 1st
TRINITY XVI
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
08.30 Said Eucharist
10.30 Solemn Eucharist
Rubbra (1901-1986) – Missa Sancti Dominici
Byrd (1538-1623) – Ave verum
16.00 Messe Malgache
This week:
Tuesday 3rd
18.00 Evening Prayer
18.30 Eucharist
Wednesday 4th S. Francis of Assisi
12 noon Eucharist
18.00 Evening Prayer
Thursday 5th
18.00 Evening Prayer
18.30 Eucharist
Saturday 7th No services today
St George’s Anglican Church
7, rue Auguste-Vacquerie, 75116 Paris.
tel: 01 47 20 22 51 e-mail:
www.stgeorgesparis.com
Chaplain: Fr. Matthew Harrison, Assistant Chaplain: Fr. Andrew Bigg
Assistant Curate: Fr. Nicolas Razafindratsima
The ORDER OF SERVICE is in the cream booklet.
The HYMNS are 408, 429, 352 & 306 in the green hymn book.
GLORIA & CREED – Merbecke.
THE COLLECT
O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
FIRST READING Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32
The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. For every living soul belongs to me, the father as well as the son – both alike belong to me. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin, he will die for it; because of the sin he has committed he will die. But if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life. Because he considers all the offences he has committed and turns away from them, he will surely live; he will not die. Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are my ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
“Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offences; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offences you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!”
PSALM 25:1-8
Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul; my God, I have put my trust in thee : O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me.
For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed : but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion.
Shew me thy ways, O Lord : and teach me thy paths.
Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me : for thou art the God of my salvation; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.
Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy tender mercies : and thy loving-kindnesses, which have ever been of old.
O remember not the sins and offences of my youth : but according to thy mercy think thou upon me, O Lord, for thy goodness.
Gracious and righteous is the Lord : therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Them that are meek shall he guide in judgement : and such as are gentle, them shall he learn his way.
SECOND READING Philippians 2:1-13
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
THE HOLY GOSPEL Matthew 21:23-32
Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?”
Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. John’s baptism – where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?”
They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven’, he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men’ – we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.” So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.”
POST COMMUNION PRAYER
Almighty God, you have taught us through your Son that love is the fulfilling of the law: grant that we may love you with our whole heart and our neighbours as ourselves; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.