Welcome to our Online Sunday service for the second Sunday after Trinity. Please click on the items below to follow the service at your own pace.
You may like to have a candle ready to light with Paul.  There is audio or video accompaniment to hymns, readings and prayers.
 The first and last hymns were recorded remotely by the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields in their homes, and edited together.
Our opening hymn is 'Great is Thy faithfulness'
1  Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father,
    there is no shadow of turning with thee;
    thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not,
    as thou hast been thou for ever wilt be

   Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
   Morning by morning new mercies I see;
   all I have needed thy hand hath provided,
   great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me!

2  Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest,
    sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
    join with all nature in manifold witness
    to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
Chorus

3   Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
    thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
    strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
    blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
Chorus

Thomas O Chisholm (1866-1960)Copyright © 1923, renewal 1951 Hope Publishing Company.
Reflect on the last week and on your relationships.
  • -  What good things have come from God last week?
  • -  Where have I fallen short?
  • -  What might I do next week?
You may wish to say or pray:
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
The special prayer for today, 2nd Sunday after Trinity

Lord, you have taught us
that all our doings without love are nothing worth:
send your Holy Spirit
and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtues,
without which whoever lives is counted dead before you.
Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake, Amen
Our next hymn is 'Father, hear the prayer we offer'.
The Gospel reading for today is Matthew 10.24-39
24 ‘The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
26 ‘So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. 27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. 28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
32 ‘Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
34 ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn
‘“a man against his father, a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law –
36     a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.”
37 ‘Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.'
John will now share some thoughts on the Gospel reading.
 We now have our next hymn, 'Father, I place into your hands'.  after which Janice will lead us in our intercessions.
Janice will now lead us in our intercessions.
Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
We say together the prayer of General Thanksgiving
Almighty God, Father of all mercies,
we your unworthy servants give you most humble and hearty thanks
for all your goodness and loving kindness.
We bless you for our creation, preservation,
and all the blessings of this life;
but above all for your immeasurable love
in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ,
for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
And give us, we pray, such a sense of all your mercies
that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful,
and that we show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives,
by giving up ourselves to your service,
and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit,
be all honour and glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Before John closes our service, we sing 'O for a heart to praise my God' .
1  O for a heart to praise my God,
   a heart from sin set free,
   a heart that's sprinkled with the blood
   so freely shed for me;

2  A heart resigned, submissive,
   meek my great Redeemer's throne,
   where only Christ is heard to speak,
   where Jesus reigns alone;
 
3  A humble, lowly, contrite heart,
   believing, true, and clean;
   which neither life nor death can part
   from him that dwells within;

4  A heart in every thought renewed,
   and full of love divine;
   perfect, and right, and pure, and good,
   A copy, Lord, of thine!

5  Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart;
   come quickly from above,
   write thy new name upon my heart,
   thy new, best name of love.
  
   Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 John Wilbraham and the English Chamber Orchestra.