ST MARY-LE-TOWER CHURCH PAPER SUNDAY 3 rd June 2018 Vicar: The Revd Canon Charles Jenkin, BSc 18 Kingsfield Avenue, Ipswich. IP1 3TA T: 07789 633315 E: CharlesJenkin60@gmail.com Director of Music: Mr Christopher Borrett St Mary-le-Tower, 17 Tower Street. IP1 3BE T: 07917 355946 E: music.stmaryletower@gmail.com Parish Office: Tower House, 17 Tower Street. IP1 3BE T: 01473 225610 E: stmaryletower@hotmail.com See back page for further contact details. www.stmaryletower.org.uk 1
Sunday 3 rd June 1 st Sunday after Trinity If you require a gluten-free wafer at Communion, or need the Bread and Wine to be brought to you where you are sitting, please let a steward know. 8.00AM Holy Communion (BCP) President: Canon Roger Pallant 9.30AM Choral Matins (BCP) Choir: Sopranos & ATB Officiant: Mrs Hilary Norman Readings: Deuteronomy 5.12-15; 2 Corinthians 4.5-12 Psalm: 81 vv. 1-11 (page 450) Responses: Smith Setting: Sumsion: Benedicite in B flat Anthem: Vivaldi: Cum sancto spiritu (page 5) Hymn: A&M: 7 10.30AM Choral Eucharist (CW) Choir: Sopranos & ATB President Canon Roger Pallant Preacher: Revd Jeanette Gosney Readings: 2 Corinthians 4.5-12; Mark 2.23-3.6 Setting: Palestrina: Missa Aeterna Christi munera Anthem: Esquivel: Ego sum panis vivus (page 5) Hymns: A&M: 743, 467, 667, 424, 652 6.30PM Choral Evensong with Communion Choir: ATB Officiant: Canon Roger Pallant Readings: Jeremiah 5.1-19; Romans 7.7-end Psalm: 35 vv. 1-10 (page 386) Responses: Tallis Office Setting: Moore: First Service Communion Setting: Plainsong: Missa de Angelis (VIII) Hymns: NEH: 150(t.2), 310 Sunday 10 th June 2 nd Sunday after Trinity Principal Readings: Genesis 3.8-15; 2 Corinthians 4.13-5.1; Mark 3.20-end 8.00AM Holy Communion (BCP) Canon Roger Pallant 9.30AM Choral Matins (BCP) Mr Richard Hanley 10.30AM Choral Eucharist with All-age address Canon Charles Jenkin 6.30PM Choral Evensong Canon Charles Jenkin Forthcoming Special Services Sun 1 st July 6.30PM Festival Evensong. (Part of the Festival of Liturgy & Music) 2
INTERCESSIONS God our Father, you sent your Son to us; grant that filled with your Spirit we may be renewed in faith, and inspired in hope and love, to spread the gospel of your kingdom to all people. We pray for the mission & unity of the Church across the World, remembering today the Anglican Church of Melanesia. In our diocese we pray for Bishops Martin and Mike. We give thanks for the support offered by the Hon Bishops: and the Bishops Admin Team and Lay Chaplain. We pray for the situation in Syria: for peace throughout the Middle East. We pray for all who are persecuted for their faith. In our life at the Tower we pray for all who visit the Church and Churchyard, that they may find God s presence and peace here. We pray for the expansion of the work being done in Tower House. That we can forge closer links with the people and businesses around us. For Sarah Jenkins as she completes her final weeks at College and prepares to be Ordained Deacon at the end of June. We pray for peace in the World, that Leaders of Nations seek to work together to achieve justice and freedom from oppression and poverty for all. We pray for our own Government, as pressure increases to complete Brexit negotiations. We pray for all who continue to suffer as a result of continuing terrorist activity. We pray for the people of Haiti, that all people will remain safe. For all who suffer as a result of extreme weather and natural disasters. For all international aid agencies. We pray for those we know who are sick or otherwise distressed including: Karen Lindsay, Joan and Bill Holiday, Baby Harry Hausermann and family and Simon Gilbert. We continue to pray for Adrian Parry, George Pipe, Bob Tostevin, Tony Brook-Carr and Grace Chandler. We pray for those unable to be regularly with us in Church, including this week: Eileen Mayers and Pam Blatchly.. Be with them and those who care for them. We pray rest in peace and rise in glory for those who have recently died including David Hall, Ian Lindsay, Derrick Wood, Anne Style and Patricia Jones, and we pray for all who mourn. We give thanks for those whose remembrance falls at this time of year, among them Ben Fisk. Names and Topics for the prayer lists should be given to the Parish office. PRAYER FOR THE DAY (The Collect) O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in you, mercifully accept our prayers and, because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without you, grant us the help of your grace, that in the keeping of your commandments we may please you both in will and deed; 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. Amen. 3
FIRST READING 2 Corinthians 4.5-12 We do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus sake. For it is the God who said, Let light shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you. GOSPEL READING Mark 2.23-3.6 One sabbath Jesus was going through the cornfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath? And he said to them, Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions. Then he said to them, The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath. Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand, Come forward. Then he said to them, Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill? But they were silent. He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him. ANTHEMS SUNG BY THE CHOIR TODAY 9.30AM Vivaldi: Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris. Amen. With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the father. Amen. 4
6.30PM Esquivel: Ego sum panis vitae. Patres vestri manducaverunt manna in deserto, et mortui sunt. Hic est panis de coelo descendens: si quis ex ipso manducaverit, non morietur. Ego sum panis vivus, qui de cælo descendi. Si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in æternum: et panis quem ego dabo, caro mea est pro mundi vita. Alleluia. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Alleluia. Tuesday 5 th June 1.10pm - 1.55pm In Voice and Verse Admission free Retiring Collection Light refreshments available from 12.20pm Weekday Choral Evening Services at SMLT with the Choristers of the choir 6.30pm Mondays & Tuesdays (during term-time) with the Soprano Choral Scholars, Ladies and ATB 8.30pm Fridays Beautiful evening services for spiritual refreshment towards the end of the day. 5
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IPSW ICH M O SQUE CO M M UNIT Y EV ENT Sunday 3 rd June (TODAY) 8.00 10.00pm Ipswich Mosque, 32-36 Bond St, Ipswich Ipswich Mosque would like to invite you to the Community Iftar Event (breaking fast together). This is a community engagement event aimed to increase understanding among the communities and bring positive change. There will be an opportunity for everyone to have a look around inside the mosque, meet the personnel and ask questions. All welcome, please encourage your friends and family to come to the Iftar PINS & NEEDLES: Knit, Stitch and Craft at St. Mary-Le-Tower, Tower Street, Ipswich ****** IN CHURCH EVERY 1 ST AND 3 RD FRIDAY ****** 12.00 to 2.30PM OUR NEXT SESSION IS ON FRIDAY 15 th JUNE Prayers for Peace and Wholeness A quiet formal service of prayer with laying on of hands Come for yourself, for others, and for the world. MONDAYS at 12N In the Lady Chapel 7
WHAT S ON AT THE TOWER 4 th 12 th June The church is normally open to visitors 9.30AM 2.30PM (Sat. from 12 noon) Mon 4 th Tue 5 th Wed 6 th Fri 7 th Sun 10 th Mon 11 th Tue 12 th 12N Prayers for Light and Peace 6.30PM Choral Evensong 1.10PM Lunchtime Concert: In Voice and Verse 6.30PM Choral Evensong 10.30AM Holy Communion (BCP) 8.30PM Choral Compline Usual Sunday Services except 10.30AM Choral Eucharist with all-age address 12N Prayers for Light and Peace 6.30PM Choral Evensong 1.10PM Lunchtime Concert: Ashley Grote organ 6.30PM Choral Evensong WEEKDAY CHURCH OPENING TIMES In the hope that the cycle of bad behaviour in the church might now have been broken we will be returning to normal weekday opening times this week. The church will be open 9.30AM 2.30PM. If we continue to face antisocial/destructive behaviour, restricting access to the church may need to be considered once again. We thank you for you cooperation in this matter. TOWER CONTACTS: Administrator (Church & Tower House): Donna Joyce. See Parish Office contact details on the front page. Outgoing Letters: Remember to check the letter rack at the back of church. 8