From January 2024 we are working towards this pattern of worship:
First Sunday of the Month
10.00 Parish Sung Eucharist (Common Worship)
With full serving team
Second Sunday of the Month
10.00 Parish Sung Eucharist (Common Worship)
Followed by Parish Brunch
Third Sunday of the Month
10.00 Parish Sung Eucharist
Wednesday: Compline and Cocoa (aka Lent Group in Lent)
Last Sunday of the Month
10.00 Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer 1662)
working towards Junior Church/Sunday School for EYFS (ie from Nursery age in school) to Year 6
There will be simple self-service refreshments after worship (eg pump vacuum flasks of tea and coffee and cold drinks)
Young or old, from near or far you are all
Welcome!
Newton Heath All Saints
Sunday 28th April 2024
The Fourth Sunday after Easter
Holy Communion (BCP 1662)
Music before the service
Variations on Noel Nouvelet Philip Moore
Introit Hymn
Alleluia, Alleluia!
hearts to heaven and voices raise;
sing to God a hymn of gladness,
sing to God a hymn of praise:
he who on the Cross a victim
for the world's salvation bled,
Jesus Christ the King of glory,
now is risen from the dead.
Christ is risen, Christ the first-fruits
of the holy harvest field,
which will all its full abundance
at his second coming yield;
then the golden ears of harvest
will their heads before him wave,
ripened by his glorious sunshine,
from the furrows of the grave.
Christ is risen, we are risen;
shed upon us heavenly grace,
rain and dew, and gleams of glory
from the brightness of thy face;
that we, with our hearts in heaven,
here on earth may fruitful be,
and by angel-hands be gathered,
and be ever, Lord, with thee.
Alleluia, Alleluia,
glory be to God on high;
Alleluia to the Saviour,
who has gained the victory;
Alleluia to the Spirit,
fount of love and sanctity;
Alleluia, Alleluia,
to the Triune Majesty.
Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885)
Collect of the Day
O ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For the Epistle
Acts 8.26-40
26And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
27And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
28Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
29Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
30And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
32The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
33In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
34And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
35Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
36And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
37And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
38And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
39And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
40But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
Gospel
John 15.1-8
15I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
THE CREED
(Order of Service booklet p 2)
The Sermon
Cycle of Prayer
Our bishops:
David, Mark, and Matthew
The Anglican Communion
The Church of Bangladesh,
Porvoo Communion
The Diocese of Gothenburg:
Church of Sweden;
The Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway: Scottish Episcopal Church.
Schools and Colleges
All Saints; St Wilfrid’s;
Briscoe Lane Academy; Christ the King;
Co-op Academy Broadhurst;
Oldham Blue Coat; Trinity High School;
Hopwood Hall College;
St Ambrose College
Parish
Crosby Road, Crowbank Walk,
Crown Point Avenue, Croydon Drive, Culcheth Lane, Cuthill Walk.
Book of Remembrance
Rita Fletcher, Enid Barlow, Ivy Horrocks, Edward Price, George Brickell-Bowers, Susan Brierley, Edith Gibbons,
Amy Pearson.
Hymn after Communion
Now the green blade rises
from the buried grain,
wheat that in the dark earth
many days has lain;
love lives again,
that with the dead has been:
Love is come again,
like wheat that springs up green.
In the grave they laid him,
Love whom men had slain,
thinking that he never
would awake again,
laid in the earth l
ike grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again, l
ike wheat that springs up green.
Forth he came at Easter,
like the risen grain,
he that for the three days
in the grave had lain,
back from the dead
my risen Lord is seen:
Love is come again,
like wheat that springs up green.
When our hearts are wintry,
grieving, or in pain,
then your touch can call us
back to life again,
fields of our hearts
that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again,
like wheat that springs up green.
John Macleod Campbell Crum (1872-1958)
© Oxford University Press
Gloria
(Order of Service booklet p 8)
Hymn
O Jesus, I have promised
to serve thee to the end;
be thou for ever near me,
my Master and my Friend:
I shall not fear the battle
if thou art by my side,
nor wander from the pathway
if thou wilt be my guide.
O let me feel thee near me:
the world is ever near:
I see the sights that dazzle,
the tempting sounds I hear:
my foes are ever near me,
around me and within;
but, Jesus, draw thou nearer,
and shield my soul from sin.
O let me hear thee speaking
in accents clear and still,
above the storms of passion,
the murmurs of self-will;
O speak to reassure me,
to hasten or control;
O speak, and make me listen,
thou guardian of my soul.
O Jesus, thou hast promised
to all who follow thee,
that where thou art in glory
there shall thy servant be;
and, Jesus, I have promised
to serve thee to the end:
O give me grace to follow,
my Master and my Friend.
O let me see thy foot-marks,
and in them plant mine own;
my hope to follow duly
is in thy strength alone:
O guide me, call me, draw me,
uphold me to the end;
and then in heaven receive me,
my Saviour and my Friend.
John Ernest Bode (1816-1874)
Blessing
Voluntary
Paean Philip Moore
Authorised Version of the Bible and Collects
(Book of Common Prayer, 1662)
© Crown and Cambridge University Press
APCM 11.00 am Sunday 19st May 2024
As a charitable body, we are obliged to hold a meeting annually to ‘sign off’ the previous year’s work and accounts (to the year ending 31st December) elect Church Wardens, other parish officers; fill vacancies on the PCC if there are any, and present the revised Electoral Roll (which is begun from scratch every six years).
There is a strict timetable leading up to this in terms of notices of elections and revision of the Electoral Roll.
Revision of the Electoral Roll ends on Saturday 4th. If you wish to be on the roll please complete an application form in church today, or return one to the Rectory, through the letterbox or email inbox by Saturday. The new Roll (names only) will be published on Sunday 5th, along with notice of the Annual Meetings.
Agenda and reports for the Annual Meetings will be available from Sunday 12th May
Manchester and Salford Whit Walk 2024
We are registered
9.30 am Assemble in Cathedral Gardens
10.00 am Procession to St Peter’s Square
10.45 am Act of Worship
11.30 am Return procession to Cathedral