KINGTON PARISHES
SUNDAY 17th MAY 2020
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER / ROGATION SUNDAY
Sorry that we can’t welcome you in person but a warm welcome if you’re joining us for the live-stream Service.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his great mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 Peter 1:3
Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God; yet ought we most chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me:
CONFESSION:
Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults. Restore thou them that are penitent; according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of thy Holy Name. Amen
ABSOLUTION:
Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; and hath given power and commandment to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins: he pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy gospel. Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his Holy Spirit, that those things may please him which we do at this present; and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy; so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
LORD’S PRAYER:
Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done,
In earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power and the glory,
For ever and ever. Amen.
OPENING VERSICLES AND RESPONSES:
O Lord, open thou our lips.
All: And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
O God, make speed to save us.
All: O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son; and to the Holy Ghost;
All: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be; world without end. Amen.
Praise ye the Lord.
All: The Lord’s Name be praised.
EASTER ANTHEMS:
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us :
therefore let us keep the feast;
Not with the old leaven,
nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness :
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5.7b, 8
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more :
death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that he died, he died unto sin once :
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin :
but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6.9-11
Christ is risen from the dead :
and become the first fruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death :
by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die :
even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15.20-22
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be :
world without end. Amen.
PSALM 66. 7-END:
7 Bless our God, O you peoples; make the voice of his praise to be heard,
8 Who holds our souls in life and suffers not our feet to slip.
9 For you, O God, have proved us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
10 You brought us into the snare; you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.
11 You let enemies ride over our heads; we went through fire and water; but you brought us out into a place of liberty.
12 I will come into your house with burnt offerings and will pay you my vows, which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
13 I will offer you fat burnt sacrifices with the smoke of rams; I will sacrifice oxen and goats.
14 Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what he has done for my soul.
15 I called out to him with my mouth and his praise was on my tongue.
16 If I had nursed evil in my heart, the Lord would not have heard me,
17 But in truth God has heard me; he has heeded the voice of my prayer.
18 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer, nor withheld his loving mercy from me.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost
All: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.
OLD TESTAMENT READING: Acts 17. 22-31
Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, ‘Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown god.” What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor* he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God* and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said,
“For we too are his offspring.” Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.’
TE DEUM LAUDAMUS:
WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting.
To thee all Angels cry aloud, the heavens, and all the powers therein.
To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry,
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth;
Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory.
The glorious company of the apostles praise thee.
The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee.
The noble army of martyrs praise thee.
The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee:
The Father of an infinite majesty;
Thine honourable, true and only Son;
Also the Holy Ghost the Comforter.
Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ.
Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.
When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb.
When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Thou sittest at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father.
We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge.
We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Make them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting.
O Lord, save thy people and bless thine heritage.
Govern them and lift them up for ever.
Day by day we magnify thee;
And we worship thy name : ever world without end.
Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us.
O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, as our trust is in thee.
O Lord, in thee have I trusted; let me never be confounded.
NEW TESTAMENT READING: John 14. 15-21
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
‘I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’
BENEDICTUS:
Blessed be God for he has redeemed us,
Given us a saviour, David’s great Son,
Tell out his praises, sing in thanksgiving,
From all our foes our freedom is won.
Prophets foretold that he’d come with mercy,
Keeping his promise made through the years,
Bringing deliverance from all who’d harm us;
Joyfully serve him, free from all fears.
John came as prophet, going before him,
Clearing the way for Jesus the King,
Telling his people of God’s salvation
And of forgiveness, for all their sin.
To those in darkness God’s sun has risen,
His tender mercy bringing us light,
Taking away the dread of death’s shadow,
Guiding us onward out of the night.
Praise to the Father, praise to the Spirit,
Praise to the Son, Christ Jesus our Lord,
From the beginning, now and forever
May you be worshipped, praised and adored.
APOSTLES’ CREED:
I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. He descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Lord be with you.
All: And with thy spirit.
Let us pray. Lord, have mercy upon us.
All: Christ have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.
LESSER VERSICLES & RESPONSES:
O Lord, shew thy mercy upon us.
All: And grant us thy salvation.
O Lord, save the Queen.
All: And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee.
Endue thy ministers with righteousness.
All: And make thy chosen people joyful.
O Lord, save thy people.
All: And bless thine inheritance.
Give peace in our time, O Lord.
All: Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.
O God, make clean our hearts within us.
All: And take not thy Holy Spirit from us.
THE COLLECT FOR THE DAY:
God our redeemer, you have delivered us from the power of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of your Son: grant, that as by his death he has recalled us to life, so by his continual presence in us he may raise us to eternal joy; 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.
THE COLLECT FOR PEACE:
O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries; through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
THE COLLECT FOR GRACE:
O Lord, our heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day; defend us in the same with thy mighty power; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger, but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For your prayers: Please pray for our Diocese of Hereford, our Bishops Richard and Alistair, Derek our Archdeacon and Guy Wilkinson, Rural Dean. Please pray for the Anglican Church of Korea, Nakuru (Kenya), Abakaliki (Nigeria), Ilaje (Nigeria), Nambale (Kenya), Aberdeen & Orkney (Scotland), Ile - Oluji (Nigeria), Namibia (Southern Africa), Abuja (Nigeria), Namirembe (Uganda), Abyei (South Sudan), Accra (West Africa), Nandyal (South India) , Adelaide (Australia), Nasik (North India), Afikpo (Nigeria), Ilesa (Nigeria), Ilesa South West (Nigeria). Porvoo: England: Guildford; Denmark: Viborg. Please pray for all who are ill at this time and especially all in our communities who have been commended to our prayers. Please pray for Edith Williams, Matthew Sharp, Stephen Burden, Margaret Evans and Paul Victor Stadie, all who have recently died & all whose anniversaries occur at this time.
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Thursday 21st May - Ascension Day
7.00pm Short Evening Communion Livestream
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8.30am: Holy Eucharist: Kinnerton
10.00am: Morning Praise: Kington
10.00am: Holy Eucharist: Titley
5.00pm: Choral Evensong: Kington
6.00pm: Junior Praise: Old Radnor