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Sunday 31st May 2020

Pentecost

All public worship in church remains suspended to help keep people safe during this difficult time.

But that doesn’t mean everything has stopped – far from it!

The building may be closed to you, but the Church – the people of God – is still open!

Masses are livestreamed:

Sunday: 10am Monday – Friday: 6pm

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You do not need a Facebook account to watch and join in.

Simply: go to the page above and click ‘not now’ on the bottom of the sign-in pop up which appears.

The Eastertide ‘livestream’ mass booklet can be downloaded:

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If you are self-isolated, or need assistance, please contact: Bookings@stwilfrid.org or Office@stwilfrid.org

there are people we can contact to help you.

We still need to pay our bills, so please help us: Maintain your regular giving by standing order

Donate online at our parish website

The Collect

Let us pray that the Spirit will work through our lives to bring Christ to the world.

God, who as at this time taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending them the light of your Holy Spirit: grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The Liturgy of the Word

The First Reading Acts 2: 1-21

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 1Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.’ All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this mean?’ But others sneered and said, ‘They are filled with new wine.’

But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: ‘Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: “In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. The Psalm Psalm 104

R./ Bless the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord!

May the glory of the Lord endure for ever may the Lord rejoice in his works.

Who looks on the earth and it trembles who touches the mountains and they smoke. R./

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. May my meditation be pleasing to him,

for I rejoice in the Lord. R./

The Second Reading 1 Corinthians 12: 3b-13

A reading from the first letter to the Corinthians

Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says ‘Let Jesus be cursed!’ and no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

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

The Gospel acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia Come Holy Spirit, fill the heats of your people

and kindle in us the fire of your love. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. The Holy Gospel John 20:19-23

The Lord be with you And also with you

X Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John Glory to you, O Lord When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’

This is the Gospel of the Lord Praise to you, O Christ

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. For your prayers

Those who are acutely ill or undergoing treatment: Bek Sunley; Les Simpson; Lauren Woodhall; Dwayne; Doris; Patrick Bishop; Lee Nichols; Adrian Nowland; Jonathan Finch

The long term sick and all who care for them: William Kerridge; Jude King; Evelyn Todd; Kathleen Quilitz; Janet Marsden; Laura Gentry; Jean Chadha; Mervyn Legard

The Recently Departed: Raymond Plant; Millie Sawyer.

Those whose anniversary of death falls this week: Pamela Jocelyne Precious [Wednesday]; Hamish Dalziel [Saturday]

Mass Intentions this week

31 Sunday Pentecost We pray for: The Parish and its people 1 Monday Mary, Mother of the Church We pray for: Schools 2 Tuesday Feria We pray for: Local Authorities 3 Wednesday Ss Charles Lwanga & comp’s We pray for: Sanctuary Lamp Intentions 4 Thursday Feria We pray for: Universities 5 Friday St Boniface We pray for: The people of Germany 6 Saturday Feria We pray for: Financial institutions

Mass is streamed live online at 6pm on Weekdays and 10am on Sundays: www.facebook.com/Saintwilfrid We pray for all who live or work within the parish: Sunday Electoral Roll Members who live outside the parish boundary

Monday Electric Avenue; Euclid Avenue; Stonebeck Avenue; Beningborough Drive; Nunnington Crescent; Oaker Bank

Tuesday Harewood Road; Durham Way; Ely Close; Exeter Crescent; Truro Crescent; Salisbury Drive

Wednesday Burnside Drive; Burnside Road; Burnside Close; Burnside Walk; Burnby Close; Markenfield Road

Thursday Lincoln Grove; Lichfield Grove; Bramham Drive; Timble Grove; Nesfield Close; Newby Crescent

Friday Crowberry Drive; Tansy Road; Tansy Close; Bryony Road; Bryony Way; Campion Grove

Saturday Wood Aven Close; Jenny Field Drive; Ripon Way; Norwich Drive; Truro Road; Fewston Crescent

Parish Notices Hall Use In light of the current crisis, all hall users have suspended their activities and bookings. The hall is effectively ‘closed’ until further notice. Charities The Harrogate Homeless Project say in their latest newsletter that they are under tremendous pressure to provide for some of the most vulnerable at this time, and are in great need of toiletries, household cleaning products, milk, tinned foods and fresh meat. If anyone is able to offer help, please email contact@hhphostel.org Janet is in self-isolation, but can be contacted on 01423 536064, 0748 506 3512 or janet.thomas6@btinternet.com

200 Club Bumper Draw The bumper draw has now taken place and the winners are:- 1st prize 129 David Hughes £320 2nd prize 5 Tim & Heather Rhodes £192 3rd prize 80 Mike & Jane Woodhall £ 64 Online Fundraising An effortless way to make funds is to register with ‘Give as you live”. This is a click through site from which we can earn a commission on your purchases: https://www.giveasyoulive.com/charity/stwilfridsdevelopment please register and go via the site! 22 people have earned the parish nearly £800 at no cost to themselves. If you are able to order your grocery shopping online this would be a good way to help the parish.

Contacts

Team Rector Day off: Saturday

Fr Gary Waddington The Rectory, 51b Kent Road, Harrogate, HG1 2EU

teamrector@stwilfrid.org 07920 464818

Honorary Assistant Priest Honorary Assistant Priest Assistant Priest

Fr Tim Burrell Fr Gavin Gilchrist Fr Terry Buckingham

01423 883832 01423 549662 Frgavin@stwilfrid.org 01943 876066 Frterry@stwilfrid.org

Director of Music

Mr Anthony Gray

Dom@stwilfrid.org

Parish Administrator Facilities Manager

Mrs Linda Harrison Mrs Rebecca Oliver The Parish Office, Duchy Road, Harrogate, HG1 2EY

office@stwilfrid.org bookings@stwilfrid.org 01423 504629

The Parish staff are working remotely at this present time.

We will do our best to monitor any phone messages left on the office phone BUT – please use email wherever you can

The Parish Church of St Wilfrid is part of the Harrogate St Wilfrid Team Ministry - a parish church of the Church of England in the Diocese of Leeds

www.stwilfrid.org

Bible readings are copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA and © The Crown/Cambridge University Press: The Book of Common Prayer (1662); Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England material from which is used in this service is copyright © The Archbishop’s Council of the Church of England (2000). Music in this service is reproduced under copyright license: CCL

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