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Sunday November 26

Christ The King
Sunday Before Advent
Stir Up Sunday

Notices
Opening Hymn: Rejoice The Lord Is King
Sentence of the Day
Collect of the Day
Lesson: Ezekiel 34:11-16 & 20-24
Epistle: Ephesians 1:15-23
Gradual Hymn: The King Of Love My Shepherd Is
Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46
Sermons
Prayers & Intercessions
Anthem: A Clare Benediction
Closing Hymn: Crown Him With Many Crowns

Notices

Fisherfolk Newsletter & Pew Sheet for Sunday November 26

Opening Hymn: Rejoice The Lord Is King

Sentence of the Day

O shout to the Lord in triumph all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness and come before his face with songs of joy.
Psalm 100:1

Collect of the Day

Stir up O Lord,
the wills of your faithful people,
that richly bearing the fruit of good works
they may by you be richly rewarded;
through Jesus Christ our Lord
Amen.

Lesson

Ezekiel 34:11-16 & 20-24

¹¹ “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. ¹² As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. ¹³ I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land. ¹⁴ I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁵ I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord. ¹⁶ I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.

²⁰ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹ Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns until you have driven them away, ²² I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another. ²³ I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd. ²⁴ I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.

Epistle

Ephesians 1:15-23

¹⁵ For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, ¹⁶ I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. ¹⁷ I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. ¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, ¹⁹ and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength ²⁰ he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, ²¹ far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. ²² And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

Gradual Hymn: The King Of Love My Shepherd Is

Gospel

Matthew 25:31-46

³¹ “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. ³² All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³ He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

³⁴ “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶ I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

³⁷ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

⁴⁰ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

⁴¹ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

⁴⁴ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

⁴⁵ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

⁴⁶ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Sermons

Sermon by the Rev. Richard Girdwood (8:00am)

The feast of Christ the King, which we keep today on this last Sunday in the liturgical year, was, as I am sure you know, instituted at a time when the world seemed to be sliding towards the violence of war. The first World War, called the war to end all wars had drawn to a close in 1918, but there were ominous signs that all was not right with the world. Into that situation Pope Pius XI warned, in 1925, that “as long as individuals and states refused to submit to the rule of our Saviour there would be no really hopeful prospect of a lasting peace among nations.” These ominous words can be found in Quas Primas, the encyclical in which the Pope instituted the Feast of Christ the King. Read more...

Sermon by Vicar Stuart Goodin (10:00am)

We began the month with the feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Preparation for these celebrations had me looking once again at Bishop Tom Wright’s excellent little book on the subject, For All the Saints?. In the last chapter of the book Wright takes a swipe at the feast of Christ the King, a relatively recent addition to the calendar. He complains that its placement on this, the last Sunday of the Christian year, the last Sunday before Advent, pulls the Church’s year out of shape, devaluing other feasts and occasions. Read more...

Prayers & Intercessions

Prayers of the People for Sunday November 26

Anthem: A Clare Benediction

Closing Hymn: Crown Him With Many Crowns