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ST Saviours Newsletter - 20 January 2019
ST Saviours Newsletter - 20 January 2019
ST Saviours Newsletter - 20 January 2019
St Saviour’s Church
20 January 2019 - Epiphany 3 (OT2)
Churchwardens:
READINGS THIS WEEK READINGS NEXT WEEK PSALM:
Isa 62:1-5 Bill Eastwood
Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Proclaim the wonders 07800 946949
Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8, Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15
9-10 of the Lord among all David Gibbins
1 Cor 12:12-30 07813160825
1 Cor 12:4-11 the peoples. (4vv)
Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21
John 2:1-11
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FIRST READING SECOND READING called the bridegroom and said to
him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine
The First reading is from the book of A reading from the first letter of Paul first, and then the inferior wine after
Isaiah. to the Corinthians. the guests have become drunk. But
you have kept the good wine until
About Zion I will not be silent, There is a variety of gifts but always now.’ Jesus did this, the first of his
about Jerusalem I will not grow the same Spirit; there are all sorts of signs, in Cana of Galilee, and
weary, until her integrity shines out service to be done, but always to the revealed his glory; and his disciples
like the dawn and her salvation same Lord; working in all sorts of believed in him.
flames like a torch. different ways in different people, it
The nations then will see your is the same God who is working in This is the Gospel of the Lord.
integrity, all the kings your glory, all of them. The particular way in John 2
and you will be called by a new which the Spirit is given to each
name, one which the mouth of the person is for a good purpose. One
Lord will confer. may have the gift of preaching with
You are to be a crown of splendour wisdom given him by the Spirit;
in the hand of the Lord, another may have the gift of
a princely diadem in the hand of preaching instruction given him by
your God; no longer are you to be the same Spirit; and another the gift
named ‘Forsaken’, nor your land of faith given by the same Spirit;
‘Abandoned’, but you shall be called another again the gift of healing,
‘My Delight’ and your land ‘The through this one Spirit; one, the
Wedded’; for the Lord takes delight power of miracles; another,
in you and your land will have its prophecy; another the gift of
wedding. recognising spirits; another the gift
Like a young man marrying a virgin, of tongues and another the ability to
so will the one who built you wed interpret them. All these are the
you, and as the bridegroom rejoices work of one and the same Spirit,
in his bride, so will your God rejoice who distributes different gifts to
in you. different people just as he chooses.
This is the word of the Lord. This is the word of the Lord.
Isa 62 1 Cor 12
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel
RESPONSORIAL PSALM according to St John.
Proclaim the wonders of the Lord
among all the peoples. On the third day there was a
wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the
O sing a new song to the Lord, mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and
sing to the Lord all the earth. his disciples had also been invited to
O sing to the Lord, bless his name. the wedding. When the wine gave
out, the mother of Jesus said to him,
Proclaim his help day by day, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said
tell among the nations his glory to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that
and his wonders among all the to you and to me? My hour has not
peoples. yet come.’ His mother said to the
servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’
Give the Lord, you families of Now standing there were six stone
peoples, water-jars for the Jewish rites of
give the Lord glory and power; purification, each holding twenty or
give the Lord the glory of his name. thirty gallons. Jesus said to them,
‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they
Worship the Lord in his temple. filled them up to the brim. He said to
O earth, tremble before him. them, ‘Now draw some out, and take
Proclaim to the nations: ‘God is it to the chief steward.’ So they took
king.’ it. When the steward tasted the
He will judge the peoples in water that had become wine, and
fairness. did not know where it came from
Psalm 96 (though the servants who had
drawn the water knew), the steward