Sixth Sunday of Easter

St Pauls Parish Church Drighlington
Sunday 25 May 2014

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Hymns: CP175; CP391; CP 258; Anthem: If ye love me
(Tallis); CP193; Lord of the church

Lord of the church, we pray for our renewing:
Christ over all, our undivided aim.
Fire of the Spirit, burn for our enduing,
wind of the Spirit, fan the living flame!
We turn to Christ amid our fear and failing,
the will that lacks the courage to be free,
the weary labours, all but unavailing,
to bring us nearer what a church should be.

Lord of the church, we seek a Fathers blessing,
a true repentance and a faith restored,
a swift obedience and a new possessing,
filled with the Holy Spirit of the Lord!
We turn to Christ from all our restless striving,
unnumbered voices with a single prayer:
the living water for our souls reviving,
in Christ to live, and love and serve and care.

Lord of the church, we long for our uniting,
true to one calling, by one vision stirred;
one cross proclaiming and one creed reciting,
one in the truth of Jesus and his word.
So lead us on; till toil and trouble ended,
one church triumphant one new song shall sing,
to praise his glory, risen and ascended,
Christ over all, the everlasting King!

Collect
Risen Christ,
by the lakeside you renewed your call to your disciples:
help your Church to obey your command
and draw the nations to the fire of your love,
to the glory of God the Father.

First Reading. Acts 17.22-31
22
Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, Athenians, I see how
extremely religious you are in every way.
23
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.
24
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,
25
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.
26
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,
27
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.
28
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.
9
Since we are Gods 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.
30
While God has
overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people
everywhere to repent,
31
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.

New Testament 1 Peter 3.13-22
13
Who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good?
14
But even if
you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what
they fear, and do not be intimidated,
15
but in your hearts sanctify Christ
as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands
from you an account of the hope that is in you;
16
yet do it with
gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you
are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may
be put to shame.
17
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering
should be Gods will, than to suffer for doing evil.
18
For Christ also
suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order
to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in
the spirit,
19
in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits
in prison,
20
who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently
in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is,
eight persons, were saved through water.
21
And baptism, which this
prefigured, now saves you not as a removal of dirt from the body, but
as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ,
22
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God,
with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

Gospel Reading John 14.15-21
Jesus said to his disciples:
15
If you love me, you will keep my
commandments.
16
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Advocate, to be with you for ever.
17
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.
18
I will not
leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.
19
In a little while the world will
no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.
20
On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I
in you.
21
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.

Post Communion Prayer
God our Father, whose Son Jesus Christ gives the water of eternal life:
may we thirst for you, the spring of life and source of goodness,
through him who is alive and reigns, now and for ever.

NOTICES

Thank you to everyone who helped clean the church during week and
yesterday. Same time next Saturday9.30for anyone who can help.

There is a Baptism this morning at 12.15: Layla King

Thursday 29 May Ascension Day
9.00am Holy Communion
7.30pm Holy Communion at St Peters Morley

Sunday 8 June: 10.00am Pentecost Service followed by BBQ. There is a
list on the notice board at the back of church for donations of Salads,
Desserts, etc for the BBQ.

Saturday 14 June: DAYOUT! in Harrogate is a free day for Christians
across the new diocese to enjoy. See on-line programme at
www.visionformission.info. Leaflets in foyer

Saturday 14 June: Open Day at Caring for Life. See notice board for
details.

Looking ahead! Saturday 28 June at 2.30pm, Dave and Brian will be
ordained Priests by The Bishop at Pontefract at St Peters. Everyone
welcome to the service followed by shared tea. Please sign the list on the
notice board if you can offer or would like a lift to Gildersome for the
service. Brians First Eucharist will be on Sunday 29 June at St Peters
(their Patronal Festival) and Daves First Eucharist will be here at 10.00 on
Sunday 6 July followed by a BBQ.
Val Keating is being ordained Deacon at Wakefield Cathedral on Saturday
5 July. If anyone requires a lift to the Cathedral, please add your name to
the list on the notice board and we will try to provide this with people
who are taking their cars.
Please pray for Dave, Brian and Val at this scary and exciting time.

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