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The Joint Benefice of St Giles and St Philip & St James with St Margaret

Welcome to St Giles’. Do take this news sheet home with you.

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Sunday 24th SEPTEMBER 2017 THE fifteenth sunday after trinity/
harvest thanksgiving

08:00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Celebrant: Revd Tom Albinson

10:30 am Holy Communion Celebrant: Revd Bernard Silverman

The order of service follows that set out in the green booklet.

The music and words for sung parts of the service are at No 542 in the hymn books.

Hymn 261 – To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise

Collect for Trinity 15

GOD, who of thy generous mercy didst send the Holy Spirit upon thy Church in the burning fire of thy love: grant that thy people may be fervent in the fellowship of the gospel that, ever abiding in thee, they may be found steadfast in faith and active in service; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Collect for Harvest

Eternal God, who crownest the year with thy goodness and dost give us the fruits of the earth in their season: give us grace that we may use them to thy glory, for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

First Reading Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Psalm 65

Second Reading 2 Corinthians 9:6-end (Read by Susie Smith-Gibbins)

Anthem Thou visitest the earth – Maurice Greene (c 1695-1755)

Thou visitest the earth and blessest it: and crownest the year with thy goodness. (Psalm 65 vv 9 and 12)

The Gospel Luke 12:16-30

ESUS told the people a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’ He said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

Sermon Revd Bernard Silverman

Intercessions

Offertory Hymn 259 – Come, ye thankful people, come

Communion Anthem Thou visitest the earth – Maurice Greene (c 1695-1755)

Thou visitest the earth and blessest it: and crownest the year with thy goodness.

Post Communion

EEP, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because our human frailty without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Hymn 262 – We plough the fields and scatter

Organ Voluntary (Guest Organist)

Coffee and Harvest Thanksgiving refreshments will be served in church
after the Voluntary.

6:30 pm Evensong Officiant: Revd Tom Albinson

Magnificat – Gibbons Short Service; Responses - Smith

Hymn 260 – Fair waved the golden corn

Psalm 119:121-128

Reading Ezekiel 33:23, 30-34:10

Reading Acts 26:1, 9-25

Anthem O Sing Joyfully – Adrian Batten (1591-1637)

Sermon Revd Tom Albinson

Hymn 381 – Jerusalem the golden

Hymn 285 – For the beauty of the earth

Voluntary Fantasia in G Minor (BWV 542) – J S Bach (1685-1750)

NOTICES

♦ St Michael and All Angels: Eucharist with hymns on Friday 29th September at 8:00 pm at St Margaret’s.

♦ Celebrating Hoagy Concert: 7:30 pm on Saturday 30th September at St Giles’. Tickets: £15/£12/£5. See leaflets for full details of all the Concerts.

♦ Next Sunday, 1st October (Trinity 16): 8:00 am – BCP Holy Communion; 10:30 am –Holy Communion; 3:00 pm – Animal Service; 6:30 pm – Evensong.

♦ Priest and Pints: Tom Albinson will be at The Anchor from 7 pm on 1st Oct.

♦ Choral Matins at St Giles’ on Sunday 8th October at 10:30 am.

♦ Confirmation Service at St Margaret’s on Sunday 8th October at 10:30 am.

♦ Thursday Lunch-time Talks in St Giles’ at 12:30pm. The theme for this term is Building Community, beginning on Thursday 12th October with The Dynamics and Psychology of Building Community – Speaker: Anne Holmes. During the series we will be looking at how communities are formed, maintained or destroyed in a variety of different circumstances. This promises to be a fascinating set of talks, giving us insights from present (Grenfell Tower) and past (Indian Partition) and local situations. See poster for full details of all the talks.

♦ David Gordon Trio Speaks Latin Concert: 7:30 pm on Saturday 14th October at St Giles’. See above for ticket prices, etc.

WHAT’S ON AT ST GILES’ this Week

Monday 25th Sept (Lancelot Andrewes) 5:30 pm Evening Prayer

Tuesday 26th Sept (Wilson Carlile, 1942) 5:30 pm Evening Prayer

Wednesday 27th September 12:30 pm Eucharist

(St Vincent de Paul, 1660) 5:30 pm Evening Prayer

Thursday 28th September 5:30 pm Evening Prayer

Friday 29th September 1:15 pm Taizé Service

(St Michael and All Angels) 5:30 pm Evening Prayer

Saturday 30th September 5:30 pm Evening Prayer
7:30 pm Celebrating Hoagy Concert

Sunday 1st October (Trinity 16) 8:00 am BCP Holy Communion

10:30 am Holy Communion

3:00 pm Animal Service

6:30 pm Evensong

Prayer Requests (Cycle of Prayer: Week 4)

Sick: Andrew McLean, Heather Poole, George Pulford

RIP:

Year’s Mind: 25th – Ken Matthews (2000); 25th – Charlie Boscott (2010)

Vicar: Revd Canon Andrew Bunch The Vicarage, Church Walk

Email: Oxford OX2 6LY (01865 510460)

Associate Priest: Revd Tom Albinson (01865 515409)

Email: (07426 948251)

Lay Minister: Mr David Longrigg, 9 Hawkswell Gardens, Oxford OX2 7EX (01865 576638)

Benefice Manager: Mrs Henrietta Mountain-Ritter 10 Woodstock Road

Email: Oxford OX2 6HT (01865 512319)

Churchwarden 1: Mrs Maureen Chu

Email: (01865 726011)

Churchwarden 2: Mrs Joanne Russell

Email: (01865 760788)

Acting Treasurer: Mr Rod Nixon email:

Organist: Mr Andrew Patterson email:

Choir Director: Dr Nicholas Prozzillo email:

Church Flowers: Mrs Mary Whitlock email:

Church Office and Parish News email: (01865 311198)