The Quiver Trinity 15 September 8, 2024
The wonder of the gospel is that it is for all. Jesus may be called primarily to the Jewish people, the focus of his early ministry being the region around Galilee, which is where the deaf and mute man who is brought to him is healed, yet it seems that it is impossible for the good news he offers to be contained there. It is off the beaten track, in Tyre and Sidon, where he encounters the surprising and unexpectedly deep faith of the Gentile woman of Syrophoenician origin. Her daughter is healed as Jesus responds with love, grace and mercy.
SERVICES TODAY
9.30am Benefice Communion at Cranborne 436 415 383 294 391
11.00am Morning Worship at Gussage All Saints
11.00am Elevenses at Wimborne St Giles
Give praise and thanks to God and pray for his help and healing:
The housebound: Gerry & Pat Cope Geoff Phillips Marion Challenor
Those in need : Hayley Loader Katherine Woodland Zachary Jackson Sylvia Gray Frank Russell Gill Lee Andrew Sawyer Michael Goold Hilary & Guy Cherry Thick Jax Sharp Jim Bolton Sue Day Clifford House Tereasa Harrison Sheila Laker Gary Snelling Becky Gates Martin Instone Diana & Ian Mashford Ken Wise Tim Bastable Alice Dolan
For those who have died
THIS WEEK
Monday 7.30pm Bell Ringing at Wimborne St Giles
Pray for the appointment of a new Rector
Tuesday Deadline for October’s Circle Magazine
12 noon Circle Lunch Club at Cranborne Garden Centre
Pray for the lonely
Wednesday 10.00am Holy Communion by Extension at Woodlands
Pray for the work of aid agencies throughout the world
Thursday 7.30pm Choir Practice at Cranborne
Pray for emergency and rescue organisations
Friday Pray for The King, MPs and our Armed Forces
Saturday 10.00am-6pm Dorset Historic Churches Ride & Stride
11.00am Wedding at Gussage St Michael
2.00pm Wedding Blessing at Wimborne St Giles
3.00pm Wedding at Cranborne
Pray for Dorset Historic Churches Trust
SERVICES FOR NEXT SUNDAY – TRINITY 16
9.30am Benefice Communion at Gussage St Michael
11.00am Elevenses at Woodlands
Isaiah 50.4-9a James 3.1-12 Mark 8.27-end
There is a basket available at the back of church for the Charity of the Month. During September & October this will be for Helpful Hounds This Bournemouth-based charity was started to help with the growing demand of, mainly, young people who, with their families, would greatly benefit from having an Assistance Dog www.helpfulhounds.co.uk. It is now possible to donate online; www.bit.ly/DQchofm. Choose the amount and add Gift Aid. Donations by 31.10.24, Thank you.
A Prayer for the Vacancy
Loving God, as we journey together through this period of vacancy, we thank you for your everlasting faithfulness to us. At this time of uncertainty and change we ask that you send us your Holy Spirit, to fill us with your vision, energy, and faithfulness in prayer. We ask that you will help us share responsibility, grow in faith, love one another, care for those in need, and have courage to face our future and embrace the unknown, with praise in our hearts, in loving obedience to you.
Joyce Waker would be grateful of donations of jars with lids for her marmalade and jam production. Please bring them to church with you. Thank you.
Bingo Evening at Woodlands Village Hall in aid of the Church of the Ascension. Friday, September 27th 7.30pm. aliotoole62@gmail.com
COLLECT
God, who in generous mercy sent the Holy Spirit upon your Church in the burning fire of your love: grant that your people may be fervent in the fellowship of the gospel that, always abiding in you, they may be found steadfast in faith and active in service; 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.
FIRST READING Isaiah 35.4-7a
Say to those who are of a fearful heart,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Here is your God.
He will come with vengeance,
with terrible recompense.
He will come and save you."
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
then the lame shall leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy.
For waters shall break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
SECOND READING James 2.1-17
My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, "Have a seat here, please," while to the one who is poor you say, "Stand there," or, "Sit at my feet," have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonoured the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court? Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you?
You do well if you really fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself." But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
GOSPEL Mark 7.24-end
Jesus set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." Then he said to her, "For saying that, you may go-the demon has left your daughter." So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, "He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."
POST COMMUNION
Keep, O Lord, your Church, with your perpetual mercy;
and, because without you our human frailty cannot but fall,
keep us ever by your help from all things hurtful,
and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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