The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
2nd September 2012
For services, please see Daily Prayer (Morning), Daily Prayer (Evening) and Holy Communion.
Principal Service
Collect One
O God,
whose Son has shown the way of the cross
to be the way of life:
transform and renew our minds
that we may not be conformed to this world
but may offer ourselves wholly to you
as a living sacrifice
through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Collect Two
Almighty God,
who called your Church to bear witness
that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself:
Help us to proclaim the good news of your love,
that all who hear it may be drawn to you;
through him who was lifted up on the cross,
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
The First Reading
The Psalm
The Second Reading
The Gospel Reading
View readingsPost Communion Prayer
God our creator,
you feed your children with the true manna,
the living bread from heaven.
Let this holy food sustain us through our earthly pilgrimage
until we come to that place
where hunger and thirst are no more;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Suggested Hymns
c) 1st Reading Song of Solomon 2: 8–13
262 [Come, ye faithful, raise the strain]
(c) Psalm Psalm 45: 1–2, 6–9
88* Fairest Lord Jesus
125* Hail to the Lord’s anointed
597* Take my life, and let it be
73* The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
(p) 1st Reading Deuteronomy 4: 1–2, 6–9
8* The Lord is King! Lift up your voice
(p) Psalm Psalm 15 [Ep4A/Pr11C*/5–14]
631* God, be in my head
2nd Reading James 1: 17–27
62* Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
63* All praise to thee, my God, this night
25* All things bright and beautiful
494* Beauty for brokenness
566* Fight the good fight with all thy might
350* For the beauty of the earth
512* From you all skill and science flow
80* Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father
382* Help us, O Lord, to learn
6* Immortal, invisible, God only wise
362* O God, beyond all praising
363* O Lord of heaven and earth and sea
601* Teach me my God and King
47* [We plough the fields and scatter]
374* When all thy mercies, O my God
499* When I needed a neighbour, were you there?
The Gospel Mark 7: 1–8, 14–15, 21–23
630* Blessed are the pure in heart
131 Lift up your heads, you mighty gates
75* Lord, dismiss us with your blessing