The 20th Sunday after Trinity The Greatest Commandment Week beginning: Sunday 25th October 2020 Sunday services From next Sunday our morning service will begin at 9.45am and the services for October are: 25th Holy Communion The Communion services will be from the Common Worship booklets Should anyone need assistance of any kind, i.e. shopping, medicines etc. please contact: Lane Thompson at the Timebank on 01480 467209 or 07484 524180 or houghtonwytontimebank@gmail.com Contacts: Revd Geoff Boucher, The Rectory, 3 Rectory La, Wyton, PE28 2AQ, 01480 461846 Church Wardens: Mike Batchelor: 01480 300390 Guy Morton: 01480 494641 Collects for 1 The 20th Sunday after Trinity God, the giver of life, whose Holy Spirit wells up within your Church: by the Spirit’s gifts equip us to live the gospel of Christ and make us eager to do your will, that we may share with the whole creation the joys of eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. 2 The 20th Sunday after Trinity God, our light and our salvation: illuminate our lives, that we may see your goodness in the land of the living, and looking on your beauty may be changed into the likeness of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayer for Coronavirus Loving    and    healing    God,    We    turn    to you   in   prayer,   confident   that   you   are with    us    and    with    all    people    in    every moment.    We    stand    before    you    as    a people   of   hope,   trusting   in   your   care and   protection.   May   your   faithful   love support    us    and    soothe    the    anxiety    of our hearts.   Amen  .

1 st Reading: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica 1 You   yourselves   know,   brothers   and   sisters, that   our   coming   to   you   was   not   in   vain, 2 but though    we    had    already    suffered    and    been shamefully    maltreated    at    Philippi,    as    you know,   we   had   courage   in   our   God   to   declare to   you   the   gospel   of   God   in   spite   of   great opposition. 3 For   our   appeal   does   not   spring from   deceit   or   impure   motives   or   trickery, 4 but   just   as   we   have   been   approved   by   God to    be    entrusted    with    the    message    of    the gospel,    even    so    we    speak,    not    to    please mortals,    but    to    please    God    who    tests    our hearts. 5 As    you    know    and    as    God    is    our witness,    we    never    came    with    words    of flattery   or   with   a   pretext   for   greed; 6 nor   did we   seek   praise   from   mortals,   whether   from you   or   from   others, 7 though   we   might   have made   demands   as   apostles   of   Christ.   But   we were   gentle   among   you,   like   a   nurse   tenderly caring   for   her   own   children. 8 So   deeply   do we   care   for   you   that   we   are   determined   to share   with   you   not   only   the   gospel   of   God but   also   our   own   selves,   because   you   have become very dear to us. Gospel: Matthew 22:34-46 The Greatest Commandment 34 When    the    Pharisees    heard    that    he    had silenced     the     Sadducees,     they     gathered together, 35 and   one   of   them,   a   lawyer,   asked him   a   question   to   test   him. 36 ‘Teacher,   which commandment   in   the   law   is   the   greatest?’ 37 He   said   to   him,   ‘   “You   shall   love   the   Lord your   God   with   all   your   heart,   and   with   all your   soul,   and   with   all   your   mind.” 38 This   is the   greatest   and   first   commandment. 39 And   a second    is    like    it:    “You    shall    love    your neighbour     as     yourself.” 40 On     these     two commandments    hang    all    the    law    and    the prophets.’ The Question about David’s Son 41 Now    while    the    Pharisees    were    gathered together,    Jesus    asked    them    this    question: 42 ‘What   do   you   think   of   the   Messiah?   Whose son   is   he?’   They   said   to   him,   ‘The   son   of David.’ 43 He   said   to   them,   ‘How   is   it   then that    David    by    the    Spirit    calls    him    Lord, saying, 44   “The   Lord   said   to   my   Lord,   ‘Sit   at my    right    hand,    until    I    put    your    enemies under   your   feet’   ”? 45 If   David   thus   calls   him Lord,   how   can   he   be   his   son?’ 46 No   one   was able   to   give   him   an   answer,   nor   from   that day   did   anyone   dare   to   ask   him   any   more questions.