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Fourteenth Sunday
after Pentecost
Sunday 29 August 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAtimLGCxDQ
I have seen the sun break through
to illumine a small field for a while,
and gone my way and forgotten it.
But that was the pearl of great price,
the one field that had the treasure
in it. I realise now that I must give
all that I have to possess it. Life is
not hurrying on to a receding future,
nor hankering after an imagined past.
It is the turning aside like Moses to
the miracle of the lit bush, to a
brightness that seemed as transitory
as your youth once, but is the
eternity that awaits you.
R S Thomas
Led by the Very Revd Professor David Fergusson, Hillary Leslie,
and the congregation in church and online
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AS A DIVERSE PEOPLE, THE CHURCH GATHERS TO WORSHIP ALMIGHTY GOD
Organ Voluntary
Welcome & Church News
The Grace
Preparatory Silence for Worship
Call to Worship
Leader: The earth is the Lord’s.
All: And all that is in it.
Leader: We love the house in which you dwell.
All: And the place where your glory abides.
Leader: O Lord, open our lips
All: And our mouths shall proclaim your praise.
Hymn 172 Sing for God's glory
(t. Lob Den Herren)
Sing for God's glory that colours
the dawn of creation,
racing across the sky, trailing bright
clouds of elation;
sun of delight
succeeds the velvet of night,
warming the earth's exultation.
Sing for God's power that shatters the
chains that would bind us,
searing the darkness of fear and
despair that could blind us,
touching our shame
with love that will not lay blame,
reaching out gently to find us.
Sing for God's justice disturbing each
easy illusion,
tearing down tyrants and putting our
pride to confusion;
lifeblood of right,
resisting evil and slight,
offering freedom's transfusion.
Sing for God's saints who have travelled
faith's journey before us,
who in our weariness give us their hope
to restore us;
in them we see
the new creation to be,
spirit of love made flesh for us.
Kathryn Galloway (b.1952)
Prayer of Approach, Praise and
Confession & Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory,
for ever. Amen.
Reflection
Led by Hillary Leslie
Reading Psalm 84:1 - 5
Read by Andrew Cubie
The Joy of Worship in the Temple
1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longs, indeed it faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Happy are those who live in your house,
ever singing your praise.Selah
5 Happy are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Anthem How beautiful upon the mountains
Words: Isaiah 52 v 7
Music: John Stainer (1840 - 1901)
How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace;
that publisheth salvation; that saith
unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Reading 1 Peter 2: 4 – 10
Read by Andrew Cubie
4 Come to him, a living stone, though
rejected by mortals yet chosen and
precious in God’s sight, and 5 like
living stones, let yourselves be built into
a spiritual house, to be a holy
priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 For it stands in scripture:
‘See, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious;
and whoever believes in him will not
be put to shame.’
7 To you then who believe, he is
precious; but for those who do not believe,
‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the very head of the
corner’, 8 and ‘A stone that makes
them stumble, and a rock that makes
them fall.’
They stumble because they disobey
the word, as they were destined to
do. 9 But you are a chosen race,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
God’s own people, in order that
you may proclaim the mighty acts
of him who called you out of
darkness into his marvellous light.
10 Once you were not a people,
but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy.
Hymn 522 The Church is wherever God's people are praising
(t. The Bard of Armagh)
The Church is wherever God's people are praising,
knowing they're wanted and loved by their Lord.
The Church is wherever Christ's followers are trying
to live and to share out the good news of God.
The Church is wherever God's people are loving,
where all are forgiven and start once again,
where all are accepted, whatever their background,
whatever their past and whatever their pain.
The Church is wherever God's people are seeking
to reach out and touch folk wherever they are --
conveying the Gospel, its joy and its comfort,
to challenge, refresh, and excite and inspire.
The Church is wherever God's people are praising,
knowing we're wanted and loved by our Lord.
The Church is where we as Christ's followers are trying
to live and to share out the good news of God.
Carol Rose Ikeler (b.1920)
Sermon
The Very Revd Professor David Fergusson
Prayer for Others
Hymn 739 The Church's one foundation
(t. Aurelia)
The Church's one foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord:
she is his new creation
by water and the word;
from heaven he came and
sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her,
and for her life he died.
Called forth from every nation,
yet one o'er all the earth,
her charter of salvation:
one Lord, one faith, one birth.
One holy name she blesses,
and shares one holy food,
as to one hope she presses,
with every grace endued.
In toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace for evermore,
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great Church
victorious
shall be the Church at rest.
Yet she on earth has union
with God the Three in One,
and mystical communion
with those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we,
like them, the meek and lowly,
on high may dwell with thee.
Benediction
Three-fold Choral Amen
Organ Voluntary
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THIS MORNING’S ANTHEM
Sir John Stainer was best known for the
popular cantata Crucifixion. The organist
at St Paul’s Cathedral, he was an important
and highly regarded figure in Victorian
Church music. The anthem, part of a
larger work, is very reminiscent of
Mendelssohn with the elegant opening
melody entering fugally in all four parts.
All are brought together for Thy God
reigneth before a quiet, shorter repetition
of the fugue.
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NEWS AND INTIMATIONS
PLEASE NOTE Sandy Forsyth is on holiday this week until Monday 30 August. For any urgent pastoral matters in his absence, please contact Kay McIntosh on
FORTHCOMING SERVICES From next Sunday (5 September), we return to two services at our traditional times of 9.30am for All Age Worship (with Sunday School) and the 10.45am Service of Worship.
The provision of teas and coffees is still being investigated to make sure that those helping and those enjoying the refreshments are kept safe and we will let you know when that can resume. There is no Zoom coffee tomorrow after the Sunday service. Please do contact the church office for more information.
MIDWEEK PRAYERS You’d be very welcome for prayers and a time for peace and reflection in the church, this Tuesday at 10.00am, led this week by Kay McIntosh.
THE GUILD A new joint Church of Scotland Guild is beginning for the churches on much of Edinburgh’s south side, including our own, which you are very welcome to join. Come along to a taster session for the new beginning on Tuesday 14th September at 2pm at Marchmont St Giles, to hear Karen Gillon, The Guild Associate Secretary, talk about the Guild and moving forward into the future
CURRY AND CONVERSATION: STUDENT HOSTING EVENT AT MAYFIELD SALISBURY ON THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 6.30pm – 8.30pm Mayfield Salisbury Church are hosting an ecumenical and interfaith welcome event on the evening of Thursday 16th September for postgraduate divinity students arriving next month to study at New College. It will be an informal get-together with a meal provided by the Mosque Kitchen. If you have already expressed an interest in supporting this, I will be in touch with you directly in the near future. If you have not yet done so but would like to attend to provide a welcome for these students, please let me know as soon as possible on
YOUTH NEWS
Youth Worship 29 August 7.00pm (Zoom) - We will be having a Youth Worship service on Zoom at 7pm - a time for prayer, readings, reflections and music for all ages! Contact Hillary for Zoom log-in details.
Youth Group 5 September 6.00pm - 7.30pm - On 5 September, the P6-S1 group is invited to join together for a treasure hunt on Blackford Hill! For more information and to sign-up, please contact Hillary.
PASTORAL CARE & PRAYER CHAIN Would you now like to be allocated a visitor or someone to phone you regularly? Are you going into hospital or know of someone who is ill? Do you have anything you would like to be prayed for, or included in the Prayer Chain? Contact Kay:
WILL RELIEF SCOTLAND We’re happy to be supporting Will Relief Scotland, a campaign that comes into effect every September. Participating solicitors all over Scotland set aside their fees for making or amending a will, and instead accept a donation for their services. That donation goes to four charities: Blythswood Care, EMMS International, MAF and Signpost International. These are four Scottish, Christian charities that have a shared vision to see the lives of people in need touched and transformed across the world.
If you are interested in making or amending your will as part of the campaign, for more information take a leaflet as you leave church, or visit willreliefscotland.org, the Will Relief Scotland Facebook page or phone Mairi who is co-ordinating the campaign on 01349 830777.
SUPPORT MAYFIELD SALISBURY CHURCH Regular and one-off donations, now possible through: www.give.net/20311853
Books for the Journey
Steve Aisthorpe, Re-Wilding the Church (2020)
Richard Frazer, Travels With a Stick: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela (2019)
Walter Brueggemann, Virus as a Summons to Faith (2020)
Forthcoming Deadlines
Order of service for next week: Thursday at 6.00pm.
Next Grapevine: Friday 1 September at 6.00pm.
Please send submissions to the Church Manager, William Mearns.
Phone: 0780 801 1234 or email:
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