558 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Offertory Hymn:

558 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Your offerings will be received during the next hymn.

The basket is to support the work of this chaplaincy.

The blue bagis for charitable giving.

Communion Hymns:

384Be still my soul: the Lord is on your side

260Morning has broken, like the first morning

Closing Hymn:

406 Come, thou fount of every blessing

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Upcoming Events and Notices:

Today’s Charity –World Leprosy Day

The Leprosy Mission is an international Christian organization against leprosy, with attention and love for the individual patient providing lepers with medical, social and spiritual assistance.

NEXT WEEK

TUESDAY:

8:00 pm Betuwe Bible Study Group – For more information:Hans & Isabel Baars,

Waalbandijk 48, 4175 AC Haaften0418 592525

THURSDAY:

8:45 am Philokalia Discussion Group after Morning Prayer in the Parsonage livingroom.

8:00 pm Choir Practice in the Parsonage

FRIDAY:

10:00 am-11:30 am Playgroup in the Parsonage hall. Every Friday for parents with children aged 0-5. For more information: Ineke orvisit our website.

COMING UP:

Houten Bible Study Group has moved from the Wednesday to the 2nd4thTuesday of the month, starting Tuesday February 13th. The adress and time are unchanged: Susette Fink-Jensen,Kloostertuin 15, 3994ZJ Houten 10:00-12:00am

9 February8:00 pm Christian Classics Study Group at the Parsonage, dinner starts at 6:30 pm. Martine Oldhoff will lead this evening on the Heidelberg Catechism. See our website or Newsletter for more information.

10 March is the nextconfirmation planned forHoly Trinity Chaplaincy. The Rt Rev Norman Banks will be visiting from England as Bishop Robert is not available this Spring. Confirmation classes have begun. If you are interested, please contact David 0612410431 .

A warm welcome to you this day!

If you can, please stay for tea or coffee in the church hall after the service.

Daily Bible Readings – Septuagesima – January 29 to February 3

Welcome to Worship!

HOLYTRINITY

ANGLICAN CHURCH UTRECHT

The Sunday called Septuagesima

1030, 28January 2018 AD

God’s creation of light, in the mosaic at Monreale Cathedral in Sicily,

is here figured as the creation of the angels on the first day.

Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.

And God saw that the light was good; and

God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:3

The Sunday called Septuagesima

Opening Hymn: 369All people that on earth do dwell

Worship continues on page 1 of the liturgy booklets.

The Collect:O LORD, we beseech you favourably to hear the prayers of your people; that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by your goodness, for the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end.Amen.

Old Testament Reading:Genesis 1:1-5

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Psalm 9:10-20

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10 And they that know thy Name will put their ’ trust in ’ thee : for thou Lord hast never ’ failed them that ’ seek thee.

11 O praise the Lord which ’ dwelleth in ’ Sion : shew the ’ people ’ of his ’ doings.

12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he re’membereth ’ them : and forgetteth not the com’plaint ’ of the ’ poor.

13 Have mercy upon me O Lord, consider the trouble which I suffer of ’ them that ’ hate me : thou that liftest me up ’ from the ’ gates of ’ death.

14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the ’ daughter of ’ Sion : I will re’joice in ‘ thy sal’vation.

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15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit ’ that they ’ made : in the same net which they hid privily ’ is their ’ foot ’ taken.

16 The Lord is known to ’ execute ’ judgement : the ungodly is trapped in the ’ work of his ’ own ’ hands.

17 The wicked shall be turned ’ into ’ hell : and all the people ’ that for’get ’ God.

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18 For the poor shall not always ’ be for’gotten : the patient abiding of the meek ’ shall not ’ perish for ’ ever.

19 Up Lord, and let not man have the ’ upper ’ hand : let the heathen be ’ judg-ed ’ in thy ’ sight.

20 Put them in ’ fear O ’ Lord : that the heathen may

know them-’selves to ’ be but ’ men.

Glory be to the Father ’ and to • the ’ Son : and ’ to the ’ Holy ’ Ghost;

As it was in the beginning is ’ now and • ever ’ shall be : world without ’ end. A ’— ’ men.

New Testament Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Gradual Hymn: 423Fight the good fight

[Tune 1: Duke Street]

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia (3x)

I am the Light of the world ’ says the ’ Lord.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will ’ have the • light of ’ life.

Alleluia (3x)

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The Gospel: St Matthew 20:1-16

Before the Gospel we sing: Glory to you, O Lord

The kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ So the last will be first, and the first last.”

This is the Gospel of the Lord

After the Gospel we sing: Praise to you, O Christ

Sermon: Mr Tjeerd Bijl