SELF-SERVICE for SUNDAY, 18th OCTOBER 2020
The Feast of St Luke the Evangelist
ORDER OF SERVICE
WELCOME by David
COLLECT for the 19th Sunday after Trinity:
O God, forasmuch as without you
we are not able to please you;
mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit
may in all things direct and rule our hearts;
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.
FIRST READING
Paul gives instructions to Timothy.
Francis reads 2 Timothy 4: 5 - 17
HYMN Join James and members of the choir and congregation to sing O thou who camest from above
GOSPEL READING
Jesus sends out the Seventy-two.
Pam Howley reads Luke 10: 1 - 9
SERMON Preached by David
PRAYERS Led by Liz
BLESSING given by Martha
ORGAN VOLUNTARY
James plays Arioso by Joseph H. Fiocco (1703-1741), arranged by Ian Tracey
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Background illustration: a detail from
St Luke drawing a portrait of the Madonna
by Rogier van der Weyden, c1400 - 1464
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
© Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons