BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Morning Praise - 09:30 Sunday 5th February - 3rd before Lent DTSTART:20230205T093000Z DTEND:20230205T103000Z DTSTAMP:20260921T140746Z UID:9035942023-02-05 09:30:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:A Service of Morning Praise with Hymns from Complete Anglican Hymns Old & New\n\n314 Immortal\, invisible\, God only wise\n343 Jesu\, lo ver of my soul\n144 Dear Lord and Father of Mankind\n419 Lord the light of your love\n\nThe Collect\n Almighty God\, who alone can bring order\n to the unruly wills and passions of sinful humanity:\n give your people grace so to love what you command\n and to desire what you promise\,\n that\, a mong the many changes of this world\,\n our hearts may surely there be fix ed\n where true joys are to be found\;\n through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord\,\n who is alive and reigns with you\,\n in the unity of the Holy Sp irit\, one God now and for ever. Amen\n \nReadings: Isaiah 58.1- 9a\; 1 Corinthians 2.1-12\; Matthew 5.13-20\n\nIsaiah 58.1-9\n\nShout ou t\, do not hold back!\n Lift up your voice like a trumpet!\nAnnounce to my people their rebellion\,\n to the house of Jacob their sins.\n2 Yet day after day they seek me\n and delight to know my ways\,\nas if they were a nation that practised righteousness\n and did not forsake the o rdinance of their God\;\nthey ask of me righteous judgements\,\n they d elight to draw near to God.\n3 ‘Why do we fast\, but you do not see?\n Why humble ourselves\, but you do not notice?’\nLook\, you serve your own interest on your fast-day\,\n and oppress all your workers.\n4 Look \, you fast only to quarrel and to fight\n and to strike with a wicked fist.\nSuch fasting as you do today\n will not make your voice heard on high.\n5 Is such the fast that I choose\,\n a day to humble oneself?\n Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush\,\n and to lie in sackcloth a nd ashes?\nWill you call this a fast\,\n a day acceptable to the LORD?\ n6 Is not this the fast that I choose:\n to loose the bonds of injustic e\,\n to undo the thongs of the yoke\,\nto let the oppressed go free\,\ n and to break every yoke?\n7 Is it not to share your bread with the hu ngry\,\n and bring the homeless poor into your house\;\nwhen you see th e naked\, to cover them\,\n and not to hide yourself from your own kin? \n8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn\,\n and your healin g shall spring up quickly\;\nyour vindicator shall go before you\,\n th e glory of the LORD shall be your rearguard.\n9 Then you shall call\, and the LORD will answer\;\n you shall cry for help\, and he will say\, Her e I am.\n\n\n\n1 Corinthians 2.1-12\n2 When I came to you\, brothers and s isters\, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty wor ds or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Chris t\, and him crucified. 3 And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible wo rds of wisdom\, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power\, 5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.\n 6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom\, though it is not a wisdom of t his age or of the rulers of this age\, who are doomed to perish. 7 But we speak God’s wisdom\, secret and hidden\, which God decreed before the ag es for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this\; for i f they had\, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But\, as i t is written\,\n‘What no eye has seen\, nor ear heard\,\n nor the hum an heart conceived\,\nwhat God has prepared for those who love him’—\n 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit\; for the Spirit searches everything\, even the depths of God. 11 For what human being kno ws what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world\, but the Spirit that is from Go d\, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.\n\nMatthew 5.13-20\n13 ‘You are the salt of the earth\; but if salt has lost its ta ste\, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything \, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.\n14 ‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one after light ing a lamp puts it under the bushel basket\, but on the lampstand\, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way\, let your light shin e before others\, so that they may see your good works and give glory to y our Father in heaven.\n17 ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets\; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. 18 For tru ly I tell you\, until heaven and earth pass away\, not one letter\, not on e stroke of a letter\, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 1 9 Therefore\, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments\, and teaches others to do the same\, will be called least in the kingdom of hea ven\; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the k ingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you\, unless your righteousness exceeds th at of the scribes and Pharisees\, you will never enter the kingdom of heav en.\n\n\nThis week we pray for all who live and work in Park Road\, Parkla nds Avenue\, Westwood Close\, Queens Road and the parish of Holy Trinity.\ n\nSee attached Sunday Notes\n\nAll are welcome to our family friendly ser vices that last approximately 1 hour and are live streamed on YouTube. Wel l behaved dogs are welcome.\nRefreshments are served afterwards. GEO:-1.302353;50.765906 LOCATION:Holy Trinity URL:https://www.youtube.com/@holytrinitycowes903/streams END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR