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Sunday October 6

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Notices
Opening Hymn: All Creatures Of Our God And King
Sentence of the Day
Collect of the Day
Lesson: Job 1:1 & 2:1-10
Epistle: Hebrews 1:1-4 & 2:5-12
Gradual Hymn: Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Gospel: Mark 10:2-16
Sermon
Prayers & Intercessions
Anthem: Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
Closing Hymn: And Can It Be That I Should Gain

Notices

Fisherfolk Newsletter & Pew Sheet for Sunday October 6 

Opening Hymn: All Creatures of Our God and King

Sentence of the Day

Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.
Mark 10:15

Collect of the Day

God, the mother and father of us all,
you have created families and love of every kind.
Give us courage to listen to each other and to learn,
and grant us the gentle blessing
which a home can give.
Praise to you our God; you answer prayer.
Amen.

Lesson

Job 1:1 & 2:1-10

1 ¹ In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

2 ¹ On another day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. ² And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

³ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”

⁴ “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. ⁵ But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

⁶ The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”

⁷ So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. ⁸ Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.

⁹ His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰ He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Epistle

Hebrews 1:1-4 & 2:5-12

1 ¹ In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. ³ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. ⁴ So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.

⁵ It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. ⁶ But there is a place where someone has testified:

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
 a son of man that you care for him?
⁷You made them a little lower than the angels;
 you crowned them with glory and honor
 ⁸ and put everything under their feet.”

In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them. ⁹ But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

¹⁰ In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. ¹¹ Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. ¹² He says,

“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
 in the assembly I will sing your praises.”

Gradual Hymn: Great is thy Faithfulness

Gospel

Mark 10:2-16

²Some Pharisees came and tested Jesus by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

³“What did Moses command you?” he replied.

⁴They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

⁵“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. ⁶“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ⁷‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, ⁸and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

¹⁰When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. ¹¹He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. ¹²And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

¹³People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁵Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” ¹⁶And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

Sermon by Vicar Stuart Goodin

Alex sat on a couch in his office, his head in his hands.1 His last client Ms Tristan had left him rattled. While he felt he’d dealt with her professionally, as a counsellor, it did not feel like it was enough. More importantly, it had raised again deep questions for him ... faith questions. Why does God allow such suffering? he thought.

His smart-watch pinged with an appointment alert. He glanced at it: Mike. Mike? Not Michael the archangel again? His stomach lurched, a little disquieted – he didn’t feel he’d yet really responded to Mike’s challenge of last week to be a witness to God in life and work. But before he had a chance to reflect too deeply on this, there was Mike sitting in the room with him, in that same straight chair as last week... Read more...

Prayers & Intercessions

Prayers of the People for Sunday October 6

Anthem: Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace

Closing Hymn: And Can It Be That I Should Gain