April 10th 2022: Palm Sunday
A loop system is fitted in St. Mary’s Barnard Castle: please switch to ‘T’ At communion we can provide a gluten free wafer if you prefer: please inform one of the sidespeople Large Print pew sheets, service orders and hymns are available from the sidesmen/women Wheelchairs, scooters and buggies can easily be brought into Barnard Castle church Refreshments are free and are served after most services At Barnard Castle there is an accessible toilet/baby change facility in the porch You and your children are welcome here: should you need them there are children’s ‘action packs’ available in church. St. Margaret’s chapel on the left of the church in Barnard Castle is a useful ‘bolt hole’ if your baby wants to shout! We do not take a collection during services: plates for your gifts are at the back of church Today we use communion prayer B which can be found on page 22
Dear friends in Christ, during Lent we have been preparing by works of love and selfsacrifice for the celebration of our Lord’s death and resurrection. Today we come together to begin this solemn celebration in union with the church throughout the world. Christ enters his own city to complete his work as our Saviour, to suffer, to die and to rise again. Let us go with Him in faith and love, so that, united with him in his sufferings, we may share his risen life.
The Collect Almighty and everlasting God, who in your tender love towards the human race sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross: grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen The Old Testament Reading
Isaiah 50.4-9a
The servant of the LORD said: The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens – wakens my ear to listen as those 4
who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backwards. 6I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. 5
The Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; 8he who vindicates me is near. 7
Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me. 9 It is the Lord GOD who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
This is the word of the Lord
All: Thanks be to God
Commemoration of the Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem. When all are ready these words are used: Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Behold your King comes to you O Zion, meek and lowly, sitting upon an ass. Ride on in the cause of truth and for the sake of justice. Your throne is the throne of God, it endures for ever; and the sceptre of your kingdom is a righteous sceptre. You have loved righteousness and hated evil; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. The Lord be with you, and also with you.
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
Glory to you O Lord.
Luke 19.28-40 Jesus went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
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When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, 30‘Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31If anyone asks you, “Why are you untying it?” just say this, “The Lord needs it.”’ 32So those who were sent departed and found it as he had told them. 33As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, ‘Why are you untying the colt?’ 34They said, ‘The Lord needs it.’ 29
Then they brought it to Jesus; and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. 36As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. 37As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, 38saying, ‘Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!’ 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, order your disciples to stop.’ 40 He answered, ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.’ 35
This is the gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ. The people receive their Palm Crosses The people hold up their palms while this prayer is said: God our Saviour, whose Son Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem as Messiah to suffer and to die, let these palms be for us signs of his victory; and grant that we who bear them in his name may ever hail him as our King, and follow him in the way that leads to eternal life; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen
We remember in our prayers Those preparing for Baptism: Isla, Mason and Jenson Parry, Jodi & Maddie Balmer, Aiden Bannister, Sullivan Byers, Hudson Wood, Archie Stephenson, Oliver Massey, Indi Massey, Arthur Neasham Those who are unwell: Pat Wise, Joyce Cross Those who have died: Thomas (Tommy) Toulson, Denise Ellis, Joyce Lawrence, John Wilkinson Those whose year’s mind falls at this time: Ada Jones, Wendy Sparrow, Audrey Robinson Post communion Lord Jesus Christ, you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant, and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation: give us the mind to follow you and to proclaim you as Lord and King, to the glory of God the Father.
Holy week services in the Parish Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Compline in Holy Week 7.00pm on zoom (please apply to the clergy for the zoom code Alec.Harding@durham.anglican.org ) Maundy Thursday: Church Family meal in Barnard Castle Parish Hall (5.45pm for 6.00pm) followed by Holy Communion & Vigil 7.30pm Good Friday: Churches Together Act of witness (from the Green Bridge) 10.00am Service of reflection and prayer at Whorlton 12 noon The Good Friday Liturgy at Barnard Castle 2.00pm Holy Saturday: Preparation of the Easter Garden (and Easter Egg hunt) at Barnard Castle 10.00am Easter Day: Holy Communion at Barnard Castle 8.30am Holy Communion and Easter Ceremonies at Barnard Castle 10.30am Holy Communion at Whorlton 4.00pm
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