CELTIC MORNING PRAYER - WEDNESDAY, 9AM
This is live online via Zoom with Revd Trish Cope.
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Psalm and reading for Celtic Morning Prayer this week:
Psalm 35
1 Contend, O Lord, with those that contend with me; ♦
fight against those that fight against me.
2 Take up shield and buckler ♦
and rise up to help me.
3 Draw the spear and bar the way against those who pursue me; ♦
say to my soul, ‘I am your salvation.’
4 Let those who seek after my life be shamed and disgraced; ♦
let those who plot my ruin fall back and be put to confusion.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, ♦
with the angel of the Lord thrusting them down.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery, ♦
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
7 For they have secretly spread a net for me without a cause; ♦
without any cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 Let ruin come upon them unawares; ♦
let them be caught in the net they laid; let them fall in it to their destruction.
9 Then will my soul be joyful in the Lord ♦
and glory in his salvation.
10 My very bones will say, ‘Lord, who is like you? ♦
You deliver the poor from those that are too strong for them, the poor and
needy from those who would despoil them.’
11 False witnesses rose up against me; ♦
they charged me with things I knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good, ♦
to the desolation of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick I put on sackcloth ♦
and humbled myself with fasting;
14 When my prayer returned empty to my bosom, ♦
it was as though I grieved for my friend or brother;
15 I behaved as one who mourns for his mother, ♦
bowed down and brought very low.
16 But when I stumbled, they gathered in delight; they gathered together against me; ♦
as if they were strangers I did not know they tore at me without ceasing.
17 When I fell they mocked me; ♦
they gnashed at me with their teeth.
18 O Lord, how long will you look on? ♦
Rescue my soul from their ravages, and my poor life from the young lions.
19 I will give you thanks in the great congregation; ♦
I will praise you in the mighty throng.
20 Do not let my treacherous foes rejoice over me, ♦
or those who hate me without a cause mock me with their glances.
21 For they do not speak of peace, ♦
but invent deceitful schemes against those that are quiet in the land.
22 They opened wide their mouths and derided me, saying ♦
‘We have seen it with our very eyes.’
23 This you have seen, O Lord; do not keep silent; ♦
go not far from me, O Lord.
24 Awake, arise, to my cause, ♦
to my defence, my God and my Lord!
25 Give me justice, O Lord my God, according to your righteousness; ♦
let them not triumph over me.
26 Let them not say to themselves, ‘Our heart’s desire!’ ♦
Let them not say, ‘We have swallowed him up.’
27 Let all who rejoice at my trouble be put to shame and confusion; ♦
let those who boast against me be clothed with shame and dishonour.
28 Let those who favour my cause rejoice and be glad; ♦
Let them say always, ‘Great is the Lord, who delights in his servant’s well-being.’
29 So shall my tongue be talking of your righteousness ♦
and of your praise all the day long.
Reading: John 6: 60-end
60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, ‘This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?’
61 But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, ‘Does this offend you?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
64 But among you there are some who do not believe.’ For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him.
65 And he said, ‘For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.’
66 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.
67 So Jesus asked the twelve, ‘Do you also wish to go away?’
68 Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.’
70 Jesus answered them, ‘Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.’
71 He was speaking of Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though one of the twelve, was going to betray him.
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If you require the ID and Password for this meeting please contact Revd Trish: Tel: 07703 470101; Email: trishcope2012@btinternet.com
This service uses a separate order of service. If anyone would like a hard copy of this service booklet please email Trish and she will get one to you as soon as possible.
Psalm and reading for Celtic Morning Prayer this week:
Psalm 35
1 Contend, O Lord, with those that contend with me; ♦
fight against those that fight against me.
2 Take up shield and buckler ♦
and rise up to help me.
3 Draw the spear and bar the way against those who pursue me; ♦
say to my soul, ‘I am your salvation.’
4 Let those who seek after my life be shamed and disgraced; ♦
let those who plot my ruin fall back and be put to confusion.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, ♦
with the angel of the Lord thrusting them down.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery, ♦
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
7 For they have secretly spread a net for me without a cause; ♦
without any cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
8 Let ruin come upon them unawares; ♦
let them be caught in the net they laid; let them fall in it to their destruction.
9 Then will my soul be joyful in the Lord ♦
and glory in his salvation.
10 My very bones will say, ‘Lord, who is like you? ♦
You deliver the poor from those that are too strong for them, the poor and
needy from those who would despoil them.’
11 False witnesses rose up against me; ♦
they charged me with things I knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good, ♦
to the desolation of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick I put on sackcloth ♦
and humbled myself with fasting;
14 When my prayer returned empty to my bosom, ♦
it was as though I grieved for my friend or brother;
15 I behaved as one who mourns for his mother, ♦
bowed down and brought very low.
16 But when I stumbled, they gathered in delight; they gathered together against me; ♦
as if they were strangers I did not know they tore at me without ceasing.
17 When I fell they mocked me; ♦
they gnashed at me with their teeth.
18 O Lord, how long will you look on? ♦
Rescue my soul from their ravages, and my poor life from the young lions.
19 I will give you thanks in the great congregation; ♦
I will praise you in the mighty throng.
20 Do not let my treacherous foes rejoice over me, ♦
or those who hate me without a cause mock me with their glances.
21 For they do not speak of peace, ♦
but invent deceitful schemes against those that are quiet in the land.
22 They opened wide their mouths and derided me, saying ♦
‘We have seen it with our very eyes.’
23 This you have seen, O Lord; do not keep silent; ♦
go not far from me, O Lord.
24 Awake, arise, to my cause, ♦
to my defence, my God and my Lord!
25 Give me justice, O Lord my God, according to your righteousness; ♦
let them not triumph over me.
26 Let them not say to themselves, ‘Our heart’s desire!’ ♦
Let them not say, ‘We have swallowed him up.’
27 Let all who rejoice at my trouble be put to shame and confusion; ♦
let those who boast against me be clothed with shame and dishonour.
28 Let those who favour my cause rejoice and be glad; ♦
Let them say always, ‘Great is the Lord, who delights in his servant’s well-being.’
29 So shall my tongue be talking of your righteousness ♦
and of your praise all the day long.
Reading: John 6: 60-end
60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, ‘This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?’
61 But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, ‘Does this offend you?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
64 But among you there are some who do not believe.’ For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him.
65 And he said, ‘For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.’
66 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.
67 So Jesus asked the twelve, ‘Do you also wish to go away?’
68 Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.’
70 Jesus answered them, ‘Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.’
71 He was speaking of Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though one of the twelve, was going to betray him.
