Dear friends,
Please find below details of what’s coming up tomorrow, and over the next few days across Middle ESK Moor, plus our prayers and readings for tomorrow. We’ll be thinking about Jesus calming the storm in our services.
Looking forwards to catching up with you.
With love and blessings,
Reverend Anthony
Sunday 23rd June
9:00 ‘Traditional Communion’ in Lealholm at St James.’
10:45 ‘Traditional Communion’ in Grosmont at St Matthew’s.
7:00 pm ‘Taizé’ at St Thomas,’ Glaisdale.
Join us in the beautiful St Thomas’ Church at 7 pm for a special time of prayer using meditations and chants from the Taizé tradition. This will be a new monthly event on the Fourth Sunday of each month at 7 pm, led by our new worship planning team.
No need to be able to sing, and no prior experience needed. All welcome!
10:00-12:00 Village Community Cafe in Goathland at the Village Hall.
8:30 ‘Contemplative Communion’ in Goathland at The Bield.
10:00-2:00 pm Vi’s Community Café in Grosmont at St Matthew’s.
1:30-2:30 pm ‘Play Space’ also at St Matthew’s.
Our next Community Forum meeting will be taking place alongside a joint meeting of our four parochial church councils (PCCs) on
Saturday 20th July, 2:30-5:30 pm at St Hilda’s and The Vicarage in Egton
Further details to follow, but all are welcome to attend - you don’t need to be on one of our PCCs.
The Collect
Gracious Father, by the obedience of Jesus you brought salvation to our wayward world: draw us into harmony with your will, that we may find all things restored in him, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. ‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements-surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together, and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped”?
Those who go down to the sea in ships
and ply their trade in great waters,
These have seen the works of the Lord
and his wonders in the deep.
For at his word the stormy wind arose
and lifted up the waves of the sea.
They were carried up to the heavens
and down again to the deep;
their soul melted away in their peril.
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard
and were at their wits’ end.
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he brought them out of their distress.
He made the storm be still
and the waves of the sea were calmed.
Then were they glad because they were at rest,
and he brought them to the haven they desired.
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his goodness
and the wonders he does for his children.
Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people
and praise him in the council of the elders.
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, ‘At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.
’See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4 but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labours, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honour and dishonour, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see-we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you. There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours. In return-I speak as to children-open wide your hearts also.
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
Post Communion Prayer
Eternal God, comfort of the afflicted and healer of the broken, you have fed us at the table of life and hope: teach us the ways of gentleness and peace, that all the world may acknowledge the kingdom of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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The Reverend Anthony Bennett
Interim Minister – the Benefice of Middle ESK Moor
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