The Tew Benefice

Hymns A&M Rev.

482    Come ye thankful people come

314    As pants the hart

483    We plough the fields

172    All creatures of our God and King (omit vs 4 and 6)

 Harvest Collect

Almighty and Everlasting God,

We offer thee our hearty thanks

For thy fatherly goodness and care

In giving us the fruits of creation in their season;

Give us grace to use them rightly,

To thy glory

For our own well-being

And for the relief of those in need;

Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 26: 1-5, 9-11

Moses spoke to the people, saying: ¹When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, ²you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. ³You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, ‘Today I declare to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.’ ⁴When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the LORD your God,.’ You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. ¹¹Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house.

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, Alleluia, Jesus said: The seed that falls into good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it, Alleluia.

GOSPEL

Matthew 6:25-30, 33-34

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drinor, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil

 Offertory Sentence

As the grain once scattered in the fields
and the grapes once dispersed on the hillside
are now reunited on this table in bread and wine,
so, Lord, may thy whole Church soon be gathered together
from the corners of the earth
into thy kingdom. Amen.

Lord be pleased to accept the sacrifice we offer with humble and contrite hearts Amen

Blessing

MAY God the Father of or Lord Jesus Christ,

Who is the source of all goodness and growth,

Pour his blessing upon all things created ,

And upon us his children,

That we may use them to his glory,

And the Blessing of God almighty, Father Son and Holy Spirit

Be among you and remain with you in the coming seasons and year

 Vicar’s Contact Details
Revd William Burke
Mobile telephone number 07770 630202

Email [email protected]
The Vicarage, New Road, Great Tew OX7 4AG

The Daily Office

The Angelus and Mattins  – Morning Prayer (usually from the Book of Common Prayer) is said every day from Monday-Saturday at 9am in Great Tew Church
The Angelus and Evensong – Evening Prayer is said every day at 6pm

For your Prayers:

Ryan Walker, Victoria Gibbens, Tim Mayne, Robert Mayne, Stewart Douglas