Prayer for the Week

Heavenly Father, I place this week into Your hands. Fill my heart with Your peace and give me clarity in all my tasks. Let my work bring You glory and bless those around me. Strengthen my spirit to resist discouragement and keep my heart fixed on You. I declare this week shall be filled with productivity, joy, and divine favour.  Direct my steps and help me walk in Your wisdom. Let my thoughts be aligned with Your will, and may my heart be sensitive to Your voice. Help me to make the right decisions, and when I am uncertain, let Your peace be my confirmation. Lord, I pray for wisdom in my work, relationships, and responsibilities. May I discern the right paths and make decisions that honour You. Let my actions reflect Your grace, and may my words bring encouragement. Grant me insight and understanding to navigate the week with confidence and peace. Amen

Prayers for the sick and for those recovering:  Wendy, Auril, Ian, Zelma, Mike, Jacqui, Frank, River, Theo, Maggie, David, Priscilla, Paul, Rod, Kiera, Yolanda, Sarah, Levi, Joy, Viola, Martin, Joan , Katarina, Liz, Sharon, Vlad, Rachel, Esa, Sr Mary-Lawrence, Tyson, David, Sally and Jenny, Val, Frank and Joan.

Pray for those who have departed from this world : 

From our Book of Remembrance: Margaret Williams, Joan Cullum, Doris Williams, Dean Mwamuka, Abdul Seckam

May their souls rest in peace AND RISE IN GLORY

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pour into our hearts such love toward you that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,

who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Hosea 1. 2-10

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. And the Lord said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.” She conceived again and bore a daughter. Then the Lord said to him, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or forgive them. But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God; I will not save them by bow, or by sword, or by war, or by horses, or by horsemen.”

When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God.” ¹Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Colossians 2. 6-19

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.

Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what

 Cippenham St. Andrew’s, 

Anglican Parish            27^th July 2025 

 (Green) 

Contact Person 

Rev. Neil Popham - 01628 661994

Trinity 6 Sunday

Holy Communion by Extension Service 9.30am– LLM Angeline

Tuesday

Children’s ministry 6-8pm

No Bible Study for 3 weeks

Wednesday

Foodbank 11am-1pm

Thursday: 

Holy Communion Service 10.45am Rev Jane

No Family Time 16.30-18.30pm

Friday:

No Poppets from 9.15-11.15am

Choir practice - 6.30pm

Saturday

Coffee shop 10-12

Trinity 7 Sunday

Holy Communion Service 9.30am– Rev Jane Cresswell

Readings for Next Week

Hosea 11. 1-11, Colossians 3. 1-11, Luke 12. 13-21.

Dates for your Diary 2025

PCC Meetings – 7pm on 17^th September, 12^th November

Songs of Praise at St Nicholas Taplow – 7^th September

Afternoon High Tea – Saturday 20^th September 2-4pm

Harvest Service – 12^th October

St Andrew’s Day Service – TBA 

Christmas Fair 6^th December from 10am

Collect

Merciful God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as pass our understanding:

is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling on visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

Luke 11. 1-13

He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. ³Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.” And he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.’ And he answers from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs. “So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. ¹¹Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Post Communion Prayer

God of our pilgrimage, you have led us to the living water: refresh and sustain us as we go forward on our journey, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen