Sung Parish Eucharist
- Occurring
- Every Sunday at for 1 hour, 15 mins
- Venue
- St Oswald's, Durham
- Address Church Street Durham, DH1 3DQ, United Kingdom
The worshipping heart of parish life; a Common Worship service including Holy Communion, with refreshments afterwards in the Institute across the road.
All are very welcome.
Sunday, 25th October 2026 - Ordinary Time: The Last Sunday after Trinity; Bible Sunday
Sung Parish Eucharist followed by Refreshments in the Institute
Guest Officiant and Preacher:
The Venerable Antony MacRow-Wood - Former Archdeacon of Dorset (Diocese of Salisbury)
Hymns:
Please see boards in church
Psalms:
1
Readings:
Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18
1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Matthew 22:34-end
The Collect of the Day:
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: help us so to hear them, to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace and for ever hold fast the hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
The Gospel Reading:
The Greatest Commandment
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’
The Question about David’s Son
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: ‘What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?’ They said to him, ‘The son of David.’ He said to them, ‘How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying,
“The Lord said to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet’”?
If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?’ No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
(Matthew 22:34-end, New Revised Standard Version - Anglicized Edition)
Durham Diocesan Prayer Cycle Intentions for the Day:
Prison Chaplains: Stockton-on-Tees - The Reverend Canon Kate Brooke and The Reverend Andrei Petrine (HMP Holme House); Durham - The Reverend Paula Barber (HMP Durham), The Reverend Rachael Farnham (HMP Frankland (High Security)) and The Reverend Rebecca Feeney (HMP & YOI Low Newton (Women))
Anglican Communion Prayer Cycle Intentions for the Day:
The Church of the Province of Central Africa: The Most Reverend Albert Chama - Archbishop of Central Africa and Bishop of Lusaka
Durham Diocesan Prayer Cycle Deanery Intention for the Month:
October 2026: Darlington Deanery
The Post Communion:
God of all grace, your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry with the bread of his life and the word of his kingdom: renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your true and living bread; who is alive and reigns, now and for ever.
Amen.
***Unless otherwise stated, all hymns are from Common Praise: A new edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern (2000); *SP = Sing Praise: Hymns and Songs for Refreshing Worship (2010).***