The Quiver Trinity 16 September 15, 2024
No one knows what to make of Jesus. Peter blurts out the truth, ‘You are the Messiah,’ but when he hears Jesus’ ideas about being the Messiah – in the first place, suffering and death – he tells Jesus off, and receives a stinging rebuke: Peter the Rock is now a mouthpiece for Satan. From this unpromising start, the baton is passed to us. We too misunderstand. Like Peter, we find it hard to know when strength is meant for endurance rather than for dramatic solutions. Yet Jesus is used to disciples like that. Like us.
SERVICES TODAY
9.30am Benefice Communion at Gussage St Michael 175 465 426 464
11.00am Elevenses at Woodlands
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 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 Pray for Fairtrade producers
Tuesday Pray for visionaries
Wednesday 10.00am Holy Communion at Woodlands
Pray for the Church in South Sudan
Thursday 7.30pm Choir Practice at Cranborne
Pray for Archbishop Justin Welby
Friday Pray for those who work for reconciliation
Saturday Matthew. Apostle & Evangelist [Matthew 9.9-13]
2.00pm Wedding at Wimborne St Giles
Pray for HMRC
SERVICES FOR NEXT SUNDAY – TRINITY 17
9.00am Breakfast Church at Cranborne First School
9.30am Benefice Communion at Edmondsham
11.00am Matins at Cranborne
Jeremiah 11.18-20 James 3.12-4.3, 7-8a Mark 9.30-37
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.
Sunday, September 29th – Fifth Sunday – United Benefice Communion at Gussage St Michael at 11am.
This will be a joint Patronal / Harvest Festival. The celebrant & preacher will be the Rev Dr John Rennie, Associate Vicar in the Mid Test Benefice in Hampshire. This will be followed by a Harvest Lunch in Gussage St Michael Village Hall.
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
O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers
of your people who call upon you;
and grant that they may both perceive and know
what things they ought to do,
and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them;
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 50.4-9a
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens - wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward. I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. The Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries?
Let them confront me. It is the Lord GOD who helps me; who will declare me guilty?
SECOND READING James 3.1-12
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits.
How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue - a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
GOSPEL Mark 8.27-end
Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" And they answered him, "John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets." He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah." And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
POST COMMUNION
Almighty God,
you have taught us through your Son
that love is the fulfilling of the law:
grant that we may love you with our whole heart
and our neighbours as ourselves;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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