Sunday Eucharist – 11th after Trinity

Eleventh Sunday after Trinity
Prayers, Readings & Texts for the Sunday Eucharist
10.00am Parish Eucharist (President & Preacher: Fr Andrew)
Today’s Organist: Justin Miller
SETTING: Congregational Mass of St Thomas David Thorne
HYMNS: NEH 364 (t.185); 271; 339; 272

COLLECT
O God, you declare your almighty power most chiefly in showing mercy and pity:
mercifully grant to us such a measure of your grace, that we, running the way of
your commandments, may receive your gracious promises, and be made partakers
of your heavenly treasure; 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 1 Kings 19:4-8 read by Rosemary Mayers
Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a
solitary room tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away
my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom
tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up and
eat.’ He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of
water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second
time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too
much for you.’ He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that
food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM 34:1-8 led by Abigail Quaye
R: Turn from evil and do good.
I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall ever be in my mouth. My soul shall
glory in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. R
O magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord and
he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. R
Look upon him and be radiant and your faces shall not be ashamed. This poor soul
cried, and the Lord heard me and saved me from all my troubles. R

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them. O
taste and see that the Lord is gracious; blessed is the one who trusts in him. R

SECOND READING Ephesians 4:25-5:2 read by Charlie Watkins
Putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are
members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on
your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing;
rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have
something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but
only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give
grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you
were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness
and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be
kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has
forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as
Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

HOLY GOSPEL John 6: 35,41-51
Jesus said to the crowd, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be
hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.’ Then the Jews began to
complain about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’
They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we
know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”?’ Jesus answered
them, ‘Do not complain among yourselves. No one can come to me unless drawn by
the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written
in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught by God.” Everyone who has heard and
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learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except
the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Very truly, I tell you, whoever
believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the
wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that
one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life
of the world is my flesh.’

POST COMMUNION PRAYER:
Lord of all mercy, we your faithful people have celebrated that one true sacrifice
which takes away our sins and brings pardon and peace: by our communion keep us
firm on the foundation of the gospel and preserve us from all sin; through Jesus