CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE

Date

Sun, 11/12/2022

Time

4pm

Location

The Church of the Good Shepherd, Murrayfield

All are welcome at our Christmas Carol service at 4pm on the afternoon of Sunday 11th December. Come and join us singing those well known and well loved carols.

Our Weekly Services

Come and join us for worship you will be given a warm welcome.

Our Church services are:

Sunday at 10am & Wednesday at 11am

If you are unable to attend in person you are invited to join in with the service at home by following the material in the Spiritual Communion booklet:

Praying At Home Booklet

Praying At Home (short version)

Praying at Home - Lectionary Year A Advent I 2022 - Trinity Sunday 2023

LECTIONARY YEAR C

Trinity Sunday - Christ-the-King 2025

Trinity XIX (Proper 30) Bible Sunday 26th October

Blessed Lord, who caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: help us so to hear them, to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace and for ever hold fast the hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Isaiah 45:22-25; Romans 15:1-6; Luke 4:16-24

Trinity XX (Proper 31) 2nd November for All Saints & All Souls

Almighty God, whose people are knit together in one holy Church, the mystical Body of your Son: grant us grace to follow your blessed saints in lives of faith and commitment, and to know the inexpressible joys you have prepared for those who love you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

2Esdras 2:42-48; Hebrews 12:18-24; Luke 6:20-36

All Souls Day 2nd November (translated to 3rd)

Father of all, we pray for those we love but see no longer: grant them your peace, let light perpetual shine upon them, and in your loving wisdom and almighty power work in them the good purpose of your perfect will: through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

Psalm 27:1-5; Philippians 2: 12-18; Luke 14:25-33

Trinity XXI (Proper 32) (3rd before Advent) 9th November

for the week

O God, our refuge and strength, the very author of devotion; hear the prayers of your Church; and grant that what we seek in faith we may in fact obtain; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

Job 19:23-27; 2Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17; Luke 20:27-38

Trinity XXI (Proper 32) Remembrance Sunday 9th November

O God, whose will it is to hold both heaven and Earth in a single peace: let the design of your great love shine on the wastes of our wraths and sorrows; and give peace to your Church, peace among nations, peace in our homes an peace in our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

Micah 4:1-8; Revelation 21:1-6a; Luke 1:68-79

Trinity XXII (Proper 33) (2nd Before Advent) Sunday 16th November

O Lord, forgive the transgressions of your people: and by your goodness release us from the snare of sin, in which, by our frailty, we have ben caught; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

Isaiah 65:17-25; 2Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19

St.Margaret of Scotland 16th November (translated to Monday 17th)

Almighty God, who called your servant Margaret to an earthly throne that she might advance your heavenly kingdom, and endued her with zeal fro you Church and charity towards your people: mercifully grant that we, who commemorate her example may be fruitful in good works and attain to the glorious company of your saints: through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

Proverbs 31:10-12,20,26-end; 1Corinthians 12:13-13:3; Matthew 25:34-end

Christ-the-King (Proper 34) 24th November

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in the kingdom of your well-beloved Son: mercifully grant that the peoples of the Earth, now divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

Jeremiah 23:1-6; Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 23:33-43

Collect for the week:

Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people: that they, richly bearing the fruit of good works, may by you be richly rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.

St.Andrew of Scotland 30th November 2025 (translated to 1st December)

Almighty God, who gave such grace to your apostle Saint Andrew that he readily obeyed the call of your Son Jesus Christ and brought his brother with him: call us by your holy word, and give us grace to follow you without delay and to tell the good news of your kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive an reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Romans 10:12-18; Matthew 4:18-22