St Columba’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Largs

   Trinity 18   – Harvest Festival –   4 October 2015

Charity no:SC004796

Readings:  Joel 2:21-27;  Psalm 126;  1 Timothy 6:6-10;  Matthew 6:25-33

Collect:  Creator of the fruitful earth, you made us stewards of all things.  Give us grateful hearts for all your goodness, and steadfast wills to use your bounty well, that the whole human family, today and in generations to come, may with us give thanks for the riches of your creation.  We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord.

Post Communion:  God of our hope, in this eucharist we find the source of all your blessings.  Nourished in these holy mysteries may we, with our lives, give you continual thanks and praise.  This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Services and notices for this week    

Sunday:   8.00am Said Eucharist       11.00am Harvest Festival Sung Eucharist    6.30pm Evening Prayer

Wednesday:  10.00am Said Eucharist (Scottish Liturgy 1970)        6.00pm Columba’s Creatives

Thursday:   7.30pm Choir Rehearsal

The nonperishable food items brought to today’s Harvest Festival will be donated to the North Ayrshire Foodbank.  Please let Audrey Hodgson know if you are able to deliver a harvest basket to one of our sick or housebound members.  You are very welcome to join us in the hall following the 11.00am Harvest Festival for a bring-and-share harvest lunch.

Remember to check/amend your details on the church roll at the back of church.

Thank you to Frances Robertson for preparing our new Memorial Book.  This will be blessed at the 11.00am Harvest Festival service.

Hymns for 11.00am Harvest Festival Sung Eucharist

Mass Setting: Dom Gregory Murray       

Introit:      282

Psalm 126             

Gospel Acclamation:  Celtic Alleluia     

Offertory:   284

Communion: ‘The Fruits of the Land’.  David Ogden

Post Communion:   290