{"id":4697,"date":"2020-05-16T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/?page_id=4697"},"modified":"2020-05-16T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T13:56:00","slug":"collect-and-readings-7th-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/services\/collects-and-readings\/collect-and-readings-7th-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Collect and readings &#8211; 7th June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunday 7th June &#8211; Trinity Sunday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Almighty and everlasting God,<br>you have given us your servants grace,<br>by the confession of a true faith,<br>to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity<br>and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity:<br>keep us steadfast in this faith,<br>that we may evermore be defended from all adversities;<br>through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,<br>who is alive and reigns with you,<br>in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br>one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First reading<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah 40.12\u201317,27\u201331<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>12<\/sup> Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and marked off the heavens with a span,<br>enclosed the dust of the earth in a&nbsp;measure,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and weighed the mountains in&nbsp;scales<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and the hills in a balance?<br><sup>13<\/sup> Who has directed the spirit of the&nbsp;Lord,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;or as his counsellor has instructed him?<br><sup>14<\/sup> Whom did he consult for his enlightenment,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and who taught him the path of justice?<br>Who taught him knowledge,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and showed him the way of understanding?<br><sup>15<\/sup> Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and are accounted as dust on the&nbsp;scales;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.<br><sup>16<\/sup> Lebanon would not provide fuel enough,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nor are its animals enough for a burnt-offering.<br><sup>17<\/sup> All the nations are as nothing before him;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>27<\/sup> Why do you say, O&nbsp;Jacob,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and speak, O&nbsp;Israel,<br>\u2018My way is hidden from the Lord,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and my right is disregarded by my God\u2019?<br><sup>28<\/sup> Have you not known? Have you not&nbsp;heard?<br>The Lord is the everlasting God,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the Creator of the ends of the&nbsp;earth.<br>He does not faint or grow weary;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;his understanding is unsearchable.<br><sup>29<\/sup> He gives power to the faint,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and strengthens the powerless.<br><sup>30<\/sup> Even youths will faint and be&nbsp;weary,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and the young will fall exhausted;<br><sup>31<\/sup> but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;they shall mount up with wings like eagles,<br>they shall run and not be weary,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;they shall walk and not faint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gospel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 28.16\u201320<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>16<\/sup>&nbsp;Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. <sup>17<\/sup>When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. <sup>18<\/sup>And Jesus came and said to them, \u2018All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. <sup>19<\/sup>Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, <sup>20<\/sup>and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>All collects and readings appointed for this day as well as the orders of Morning  Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/almanac.oremus.org\/2020-06-07\">almanac.oremus.org\/2020-06-07<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 7th June &#8211; Trinity Sunday Collect Almighty and everlasting God,you have given us your servants grace,by the confession of a true faith,to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinityand in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity:keep us steadfast in this faith,that we may evermore be defended from all adversities;through Jesus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/services\/collects-and-readings\/collect-and-readings-7th-june-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Collect and readings &#8211; 7th June 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3895,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697\/revisions\/4698"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}