The Ninth Sunday after Trinity
21st August 1408
For services, please see Daily Prayer (Morning), Daily Prayer (Evening) and Holy Communion.
Principal Service
Collect One
O God,
fount of all wisdom,
in the humble witness of the apostle Peter
you have shown the foundation of our faith:
give us the light of your Spirit,
that, recognising in Jesus of Nazareth
the Son of the living God,
we may be living stones
for the building up of your holy Church;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Collect Two
Almighty God,
who sent your Holy Spirit
to be the life and light of your Church:
Open our hearts to the riches of his grace,
that we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit
in love and joy and peace;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The First Reading
The Psalm
The Second Reading
The Gospel Reading
View readingsPost Communion Prayer
Holy Father,
who gathered us here around the table of your Son
to share this meal with the whole household of God:
In that new world where you reveal the fulness of your peace,
gather people of every race and language
to share in the eternal banquet
of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Suggested Hymns
(c) 1st Reading Exodus 1: 8– 2: 10
13* God moves in a mysterious way
679 When Israel was in Egypt’s land
(c) Psalm Psalm 124 [Pr21B/12–28]
642* Amazing grace (how sweet the sound!)
553* Jesu, lover of my soul
537* O God, our help in ages past
(p) Isaiah 51: 1–6
512* From you all skill and science flow
481* God is working his purpose out, as year succeeds to year
102* Name of all majesty
136* [On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry]
545* Sing of Eve and sing of Adam
(p) Psalm Psalm 138 [5LC/Pr5B/Pr12C*]
250* All hail the power of Jesu’s name
358* King of glory, King of peace
21* The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want
2nd Reading Romans 12: 1–8
517* Brother, sister, let me serve you
408* Come, risen Lord, and deign to be our guest
567* Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go
520 God is love, and where true love is, God himself is there
523* Help us to help each other, Lord
358* King of glory, King of peace
301 Let every Christian pray
438* O thou who at thy eucharist didst pray
639* O thou who camest from above
597* Take my life and let it be
313* The Spirit came, as promised
247* [When I survey the wondrous cross]
531 Where love and loving–kindness dwell
The Gospel Matthew 16: 13–20 [6–29]
460 For all your saints in glory, for all your saints at rest (vv. 1, 2j, 3)
668* God is our fortress and our rock
659* Onward, Christian soldiers
528* The Church’s one foundation