Sunday 1st August
Ninth Sunday after Trinity

Welcome to all who join in our worship today, especially newcomers and visitors and The Venerable Christine Wilson, Archdeacon of Chesterfield, who will be celebrating communion at 8am today.

8am SAID HOLY COMMUNION
10am ALL AGE WORSHIP
6.30pm EVENSONG
Hymns: 346, Ps 107: 1-9, 137,
143, 408
Readings: Genesis 50: 4-end,
1 Corinthians 14: 1-19

COLLECT
O God, the giver of every gift that endures,
only by your grace can we rightly understand
the wonder of life
and why it is given.
By the word of your Son
challenge our foolishness,
confront our greed,
and shape our lives
to the wisdom of the gospel.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen

POST COMMUNION PRAYER
Holy Father,
who gathered us here around the table of
your Son
to share this meal with the whole household
of God:
in that new world where you reveal the fullness of your peace,
gather people of every race and language
to share in the eternal banquet of
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

The readings marked with # will be read at communion services.

# OLD TESTAMENT READING
Ecclesiastes 1.2, 12–14; 2.18–23
A reading from the book of Ecclesiastes.
2 Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
12 I, the Teacher, when king over Israel in Jerusalem,
13 applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with.
14 I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
18 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me –
19 and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? Yet they will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
20 So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labours under the sun,
21 because sometimes one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by another who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?
23 For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation;
even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.

# PSALM
Psalm 49.1–12
Response: My mouth, O Lord, shall speak of wisdom.
1 Hear this, all you peoples; hearken, all you who dwell in the world, you of high degree and low, rich and poor together.

2 My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall meditate on understanding.
Response:
3 I will incline my ear to a proverb and set forth my riddle upon the harp.
4 Why should I be afraid in evil days, when the wickedness of those at my heels surrounds me,
5 The wickedness of those who put their trust in their goods, and boast of their great riches?
Response:
6 We can never ransom ourselves, or deliver to God the price of our life;
7 For the ransom of our life is so great, that we should never have enough to pay it,
8 In order to live for ever and ever, and never see the grave.
Response:
9 For we see that the wise die also; like the dull and stupid they perish and leave their wealth to those who come after them.
10 Their graves shall be their homes for ever, their dwelling places from generation to generation, though they call the lands after their own names.
Response:
11 Even though honoured, they cannot live for ever; they are like the beasts that perish.
12 Such is the way of those who foolishly trust in themselves, and the end of those who delight in their own words.
Response:
EPISTLE
Colossians 3.1–11
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Colossians.
1 If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth,
3 for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.
7 These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life.
8 But now you must get rid of all such things – anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices
10 and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.
11 In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!

# GOSPEL
Luke 12.13–21
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.
13 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’
14 But he said to him, ‘Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?’
15 And he said to the crowd, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.’
16 Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly.
17 And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?”
18 Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’”
20 But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?”
21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’