Summer Charity Concert
The Great Day Choir will be here at our church for a Summer, Family Concert on Sunday 11th June at 4pm. We are delighted to be their hosts for the afternoon.
Please use this link to buy your tickets in advance (under 16's go free!) for what promises to be a lovely afternoon.
Great News! Mike Procter, South African Cricket Legend and Founder of the Mike Procter Foundation will be joining us for our Summer Social on Saturday 17th June!
So, come along to the St Augustine's Community Catch-Up, on the school playing fields from 11am until 3pm to meet Mike, have a chat about cricket, plus, he'll be signing copies of his autobiography.
See more about the great work of the Foundation on its website.
https://mikeprocterfoundationuk.org/
They are looking forward to having a stall and want you all to come along and say hello to their wonderful Volunteers and their Guide Dogs and pups 🐾🦮
Shall I go for a pun about being 'barking mad to miss it'...? .....No? ....OK, I won't.
Thanks Deacon Vincent for your reflections for Trinity Sunday Year A
1st Reading from the book of Exodus 34: 4-6, 8-9.
This passage takes place just after Moses came down Mount Sinai and found the people worshipping a golden calf. Moses smashed the tablets of the Covenant to the ground and there was great fear of God’s retribution for breaking the Covenant. Moses has just successfully renegotiated a reconciliation, and so God reveals himself to Moses. Moses calls on the name of the Lord, and God passes before Moses face declaring that He is a God of, “tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness.” In my translation it states that Moses “hurried and bowed down to the ground and worshipped.” Then this beautiful scene where Moses begs God to journey with them again and forgive their sinfulness. They do journey together and God re-news his Covenant with the people of Israel. As a result of being close to God’s glory Moses’ face will shine out so brightly that he has to wear a veil for a period of time. A scene that will be repeated by Jesus at his transfiguration. God’s glory illuminates us and enables us to shine out in his presence. May we always remember that God himself refers to himself as slow to anger and rich in mercy. We are, indeed loved by God, let us always be thankful.
Psalm is from the book of Daniel 3: 52-56.
This beautiful song is the song of the three young men, who hand been thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue. It is used widely in Catholic Church’s liturgy, and also in Protestant liturgies. Some of them may be surprised to find that it is found in the Apocrypha, a section in scripture which is not accepted by the protestant Churches.
2nd Reading from the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians. 13: 11-13.
The Corinthians have exasperated Paul with their difficult and divided behaviour; so this is almost a relieved and exhausted, unusually brief closure of his letter, and does illustrate just how cross he is with them. It is therefore very surprising that one of the loveliest and best known prayers of the New Testament, the “Grace”, with its Trinitarian echoes, is the closing sentence of this tempestuous epistle.
The Holy Gospel according to John 3: 16-18.
We are witnessing Jesus trying to explain to Nicodemus, who has come to him by night a clear sign that he was in darkness and unable to understand what Jesus is saying because Jesus is the light. Those who believe in Jesus belong to the light and therefore belong up there, whilst those who cannot accept him belong in darkness down here. Those who believe are enlightened by the Holy Spirit and belong with the Saints in Heaven, they are heavenly creatures now, whilst the unbelievers are trapped in this world, besieged by greed and war, staggering around in the darkness. Let us always be thankful for the Graces we have received and never become accustomed to sin and darkness.
The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us always.
Deacon Vincent.
1st Reading from the book of Exodus 34: 4-6, 8-9.
This passage takes place just after Moses came down Mount Sinai and found the people worshipping a golden calf. Moses smashed the tablets of the Covenant to the ground and there was great fear of God’s retribution for breaking the Covenant. Moses has just successfully renegotiated a reconciliation, and so God reveals himself to Moses. Moses calls on the name of the Lord, and God passes before Moses face declaring that He is a God of, “tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness.” In my translation it states that Moses “hurried and bowed down to the ground and worshipped.” Then this beautiful scene where Moses begs God to journey with them again and forgive their sinfulness. They do journey together and God re-news his Covenant with the people of Israel. As a result of being close to God’s glory Moses’ face will shine out so brightly that he has to wear a veil for a period of time. A scene that will be repeated by Jesus at his transfiguration. God’s glory illuminates us and enables us to shine out in his presence. May we always remember that God himself refers to himself as slow to anger and rich in mercy. We are, indeed loved by God, let us always be thankful.
Psalm is from the book of Daniel 3: 52-56.
This beautiful song is the song of the three young men, who hand been thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue. It is used widely in Catholic Church’s liturgy, and also in Protestant liturgies. Some of them may be surprised to find that it is found in the Apocrypha, a section in scripture which is not accepted by the protestant Churches.
2nd Reading from the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians. 13: 11-13.
The Corinthians have exasperated Paul with their difficult and divided behaviour; so this is almost a relieved and exhausted, unusually brief closure of his letter, and does illustrate just how cross he is with them. It is therefore very surprising that one of the loveliest and best known prayers of the New Testament, the “Grace”, with its Trinitarian echoes, is the closing sentence of this tempestuous epistle.
The Holy Gospel according to John 3: 16-18.
We are witnessing Jesus trying to explain to Nicodemus, who has come to him by night a clear sign that he was in darkness and unable to understand what Jesus is saying because Jesus is the light. Those who believe in Jesus belong to the light and therefore belong up there, whilst those who cannot accept him belong in darkness down here. Those who believe are enlightened by the Holy Spirit and belong with the Saints in Heaven, they are heavenly creatures now, whilst the unbelievers are trapped in this world, besieged by greed and war, staggering around in the darkness. Let us always be thankful for the Graces we have received and never become accustomed to sin and darkness.
The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us always.
Deacon Vincent.
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