Knowlton Circle Benefice

The Quiver        Trinity Sunday                           June 15, 2025

The coming of the Holy Spirit completes Easter and introduces green time. Rooted in the past, its branches, flowers, and fruit grow into the future. We first know the Father. We meet the Son in the Gospels. The Spirit completes the picture of the triune (‘three-one’) God, always at work among us. Without the Spirit leading us into all truth, our faith would be a museum piece, a pitiful pontification from the past. But God is, as surely today as in time gone by, and in the future: three Persons, one Being. Faith may unfold in time, but it abides for all eternity.

SERVICES TODAY

9.30am Benefice Communion at Gussage All Saints 212 133 535 70

11.00am Elevenses at Woodlands

12.30pm Holy Baptism of Camilla Lyle at Cranborne

Give praise and thanks to God and pray for his help and healing:

For the Church: The Diocese of Salisbury and the Deanery of Wimborne

The Episcopal Church of Sudan (Diocese of Nzara & Deanery of Yabongo)

For the World: Nations and their leaders; justice, peace and development. Refugees and victims of war. the dispossessed, the hungry, the persecuted. The Middle East

The housebound: Gerry & Pat Cope Geoff Phillips

Those in need : Hayley Loader Katherine Woodland Zachary Jackson Sylvia Gray Frank Russell Gill Lee Michael Goold Hilary & Guy

Cherry Thick Jax Sharp Jim Bolton Clifford House Tereasa Harrison Sheila & Jerry Laker Gary Snelling Martin Instone Diana & Ian Mashford Donovan Docherty Fiona Armstrong Pearl Dickinson Jean & Alan Elliott Stuart Harding Rocco MacAndrew Declan Connolly Freddie Boughton Joyce Waker

For those who have died: Becky Gates Rubena Grigg

THIS WEEK

Monday            7.30pm Bell Ringing at Cranborne

                           Pray for farming & fishing

Tuesday           Pray for all who work in the medical and healing professions

Wednesday    10.00am Holy Communion at Woodlands followed by Bible Study Group

                           Pray for the social services

Thursday         The Day of Thanksgiving for Holy Communion (Corpus Christi)

                           7.00pm High Mass at Wimborne St Giles

                           Pray for Thanksgiving for Holy Communion

Friday               Pray for prisoners, refugees and homeless people

Saturday         11.30am Wedding at Cranborne

                           Noon - 3.00pm Gussage All Saints Fete

                           Pray our homes, families, friends and all whom we love

              

SERVICES FOR NEXT SUNDAY – TRINITY 1

9.00am Breakfast Church at Cranborne First School

9.30am Benefice Communion at Woodlands

11.00am Matins at Cranborne

11.00am Elevenses at Edmondsham

6.00pm United Service at Woodloands Methodist Church

Isaiah 65.1-9                        Galatians 3.23-end                           Luke 8.26-39

There is a basket available at the back of church for the Charity of the Month. During June, July & August this will be for the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance. It is possible to donate online; bit.ly/DQchofm. Choose the amount and add Gift Aid. Donations by 31/8, Thank you.  

 

Salisbury Cathedral Choir (Girls & Lay Vicars) will be giving a concert in Wimborne St Giles Church on Monday, June 30^th at 7.30pm. Retiring Collection.

 

Ordination of Jan Brown

Jan, our LLM, will be ordained Deacon in Salisbury Cathedral on Sunday, June 29 at 10.30am. We want as many people as possible to attend the service in the Cathedral (which we are making our main service of the day) and, to this end, it would be useful to know if you have room for passengers in your car. On the following Sunday - July 6 - there will be a BYO Picnic after the 11 o'clock High Mass at Wimborne St Giles (at which Jan will Deacon & Preach) to celebrate her ordination.

 

Edmondsham Church Coffee Morning, Saturday, July 5 10am-noon in Edmondsham Hut. Offers of help/cakes to Lesley Franklin 01725 517852.

  

COLLECT

Almighty and everlasting God,

you have given us your servants grace,

by the confession of a true faith,

to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity

and in the power of the divine majesty

to worship the Unity:

keep us steadfast in this faith,

that we may evermore be defended from all adversities;

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                                                          Proverbs 8.1-4, 22-31

Does not wisdom call,

and does not understanding raise her voice?

On the heights, beside the way,

at the crossroads she takes her stand;

beside the gates in front of the town,

at the entrance of the portals she cries out:

"To you, O people, I call,

and my cry is to all that live.

 

The LORD created me at the beginning of his work,

the first of his acts of long ago.

Ages ago I was set up,

at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

When there were no depths I was brought forth,

when there were no springs abounding with water.

Before the mountains had been shaped,

before the hills, I was brought forth--

when he had not yet made earth and fields,

or the world's first bits of soil.

When he established the heavens, I was there,

when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

when he made firm the skies above,

when he established the fountains of the deep,

when he assigned to the sea its limit,

so that the waters might not transgress his command,

when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

then I was beside him, like a master worker;

and I was daily his delight,

rejoicing before him always,

rejoicing in his inhabited world

and delighting in the human race.

SECOND READING                                                                  Romans 5.1-5

Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

 

GOSPEL                                                                                     John 16.12-15

Jesus said to his disciples, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

 

POST COMMUNION

Almighty and eternal God,

you have revealed yourself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

and live and reign in the perfect unity of love:

hold us firm in this faith,

that we may know you in all your ways

and evermore rejoice in your eternal glory,

who are three Persons yet one God, now and for ever.

 

Organ Postlude: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (We honour only God on high) – A N Vetter (1666-1734)