Trinity Sunday
8 a.m. Said Eucharist
President and Preacher: The Revd John Ansell
9 a.m. St Barnabas, Box: Eucharist with hymns
President and Preacher: The Revd Canon Howard Gilbert
10 a.m. Sung Eucharist
President and Preacher: The Revd John Ansell
5.00 p.m. Holy Trinity, Amberley: Benefice Trinity Sunday Celebration
Click here for the Church of England's daily prayer: Morning Prayer, Prayer during the Day, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer
As well as the Sunday collect and readings (see below), you may want to use the following in your prayers during the week:
In the Anglican cycle of prayer, for the Anglican Church of Mexico and Bishop Enrique Treviño Cruz
For our four overseas partner dioceses, especially the diocese of Western Tanganyika and Bishop Emmanuel
In our deanery cycle of prayer, for Saint Mary, Woodchester; Holy Trinity, Brimscombe;
Saint Mary Magdalene, Rodborough.
Clergy: Peter Francis, David Stoddart, Rob Burles; Readers: Victoria Robson, Richard Spencer, Peter Gee
In our parish cycle of prayer, for all who live or work in Minchinhampton Lane and West End
For those in need: Giles Boon, Jonathan Brough, Daphne Webb, Sue Kirkwood, Jason Kennedy, Ann Gaylor, Sylvia Gerard, Kaye Francis, James Reddaway
For those who have died recently: Neil Griffiths, Fred Barker
For those whose anniversary of death falls at this time: Brenda Gardner, Patricia Manns, Michael Smith, Rosemary Workman, Pat Lewis, Daphne Liddell
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.
PSALM 8
1 O Lord our governor, ♦
how glorious is your name in all the world!
2 Your majesty above the heavens is praised ♦
out of the mouths of babes at the breast.
3 You have founded a stronghold against your foes, ♦
that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, ♦
the moon and the stars that you have ordained,
5 What is man, that you should be mindful of him; ♦
the son of man, that you should seek him out?
6 You have made him little lower than the angels ♦
and crown him with glory and honour.
7 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands ♦
and put all things under his feet,
8 All sheep and oxen, ♦
even the wild beasts of the field,
9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea ♦
and whatsoever moves in the paths of the sea.
10 O Lord our governor, ♦
how glorious is your name in all the world!
SECOND READING: Romans 5.1–5
Therefore, 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 READING: John 16.12–15
‘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.