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Worship at St. Andrew's Church Taunton UK
Sunday 10 June
First Sunday after Trinity
Wednesday 13 June
Sunday 17 June
First Sunday after Trinity
8.00am: Holy Communion
(said)
A quiet and reflective start to Sunday.
10.00am: Service for all ages
Worship, a Bible reading, a talk and of course some hymns
and songs. A warm welcome awaits you and we hope that you will stay for
a chat and refreshments afterwards.
6pm: Holy
Communion at Kilkenny Court.
10.00am: Holy Communion (said)
8.00am: Holy Communion
(said)
A quiet and reflective start to Sunday.
10.00am:
Parish Communion
An opportunity to offer the
events of the past week to God, and to be renewed and nurtured in
preparation for the week to come. A warm welcome awaits you at this sung
Eucharist, which is at the heart of our weekly pattern of worship at St.
Andrew's.
3.00pm: Choral Evensong with the choir of
Wells Cathedral
(see above)
Gospel Reading for
Sunday 17
June 2007
Luke 7: 36 -
8:3
One of the Pharisees asked Jesus
to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s
house and took his place at the table.
And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having
learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house,
brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began
to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them
with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet
and anointing them with the ointment.
Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he
said to himself, ‘If this man were a prophet, he
would have known who and what kind of woman this is
who is touching him—that she is a sinner.’
Jesus spoke up and said to him, ‘Simon, I have something to
say to you.’ ‘Teacher,’ he replied, ‘speak.’
‘A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five
hundred denarii,
and the other fifty. When they
could not pay, he cancelled the debts for both of
them. Now which of them will love him more?’
Simon answered, ‘I suppose the one for whom he
cancelled the greater debt.’ And Jesus
said to him, ‘You have judged rightly.’
Then turning towards the woman, he said to Simon,
‘Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you
gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my
feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.
You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she
has not stopped kissing my feet.
You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has
anointed my feet with ointment.
Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many,
have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love.
But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves
little.’ Then he said to her,
‘Your sins are forgiven.’ But
those who were at the table with him began to say
among themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives
sins?’
And he said to the woman, ‘Your faith has saved you; go in
peace.’
Soon afterwards he went on through cities and
villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of
the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,
as well as some women who had been cured of evil
spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene,
from whom seven demons had gone out,
and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and
Susanna, and many others, who provided for them
out of their resources.
Quote of the Week
“Be sure that you love the life
you’re living now... your studies, your prayers, your
friendships... Then you can trust that God will reveal to you
the direction to go when the time comes. But don’t try to know
now what you only have to know a few years from now.”
From “Sabbatical Journey”
by Henri J M Nouwen, available in the Parish Library
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