Welcome to this Service of Worship
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
9 July 2023 at 10.30am
Led by Revd Dr Sandy Forsyth
with the congregation in the sanctuary and online
Craigmillar Park Church
Mayfield Salisbury Church
Priestfield Church
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WELCOME! This congregation is part of the Church of Scotland: we are
Reformed in our understanding of Christian faith, Presbyterian in how we
form our community, and a member of the worldwide family of the
Christian Church. Whether you are in regular attendance at worship or this
is one of your first visits, you are very welcome as part of this community
and today’s service of worship. God bless you. If you would like to keep in
touch, please complete the Connection Card on the back page or email
AS A DIVERSE PEOPLE, THE CHURCH
GATHERS TO WORSHIP ALMIGHTY GOD
Musical Prelude
Welcome and Church News
Welcome to Pauline Robertson DCS,
Pastoral Assistant
The Peace
Preparatory Silence for Worship
Call to Worship: Psalm 135
Leader: ‘Praise the Lord!
All: Praise his name, you servants of the Lord,
Leader: Who stand in the Lord’s house,
All: In the temple of our God.
Leader: Praise the Lord, because he is good;
All: Sing praises to his name...’
Hymn 202
Stand Up and Bless the Lord
(t. Carlisle)
Prayer of Approach & 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.
First Reflection
Bettina Hather
Hymn 65
Jubilate, Everybody
(t. Jubilate Deo)
From Psalm 100
Reading
Psalm 98
Read by Anne Mulligan
Hymn 61
O Sing a New Song to the Lord
(t. St Magnus)
From Psalm 98: 1, 4-7
Reading
Colossians 3:12 - 17
Read by Anne Mulligan
Sermon: ‘Why Worship Together?’
Revd Dr Sandy Forsyth
Pause for Reflection
Hymn 577
Christ Be Beside Me
(t. Bunessan)
Prayers for Others
Prayer of Thanksgiving for the
NHS at 75 - Said together
God of healing and compassion,
We thank you for the establishment
seventy-five years ago of the
National Health Service, And for
the care and healing of millions
that has come from it.
We thank you for the commitment
and dedication of all who have
worked in the NHS. Give skill,
compassion and resilience to all who
care now for those who are ill,
and your wisdom to those
engaged in medical research.
Strengthen them in their vocation
through your Spirit. Be their
strength and their shield, as they
give of themselves in the care
of others. Through Jesus Christ
our Lord, Amen.
Hymn 103
Fill Your Hearts with Joy and Gladness
(t. Rhuddlan)
Psalm 147
Closing Responses
From the Iona Abbey Worship Book
Leader: In the end as in the beginning, God is God.
Women: Loved by us, wanted by us,
Men: Praised by us, served by us;
Women: Filling us with the gifts of the Spirit,
Men: Bringing us life in all its fulness
Leader: For the hope of heaven on earth and a song of joy
All: Thanks be to God
Benediction
Threefold Amen
Organ Voluntary
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CHURCH NEWS
1. A PILGRIMAGE TO IONA ABBEY
Today and over the next two Sunday
services, we will continue on a pilgrimage
to the island of Iona and around the
Abbey. Using as the backdrop the
life of St Columba, and of the
Benedictine community on Iona
in the Middle Ages, we will
explore the meaning of the
monastic tradition for our personal
faith and church life in the 21st
Century. Our principal guide over
the next few weeks will be the
book by George Lings, Seven
Sacred Spaces: Portals to Deeper
Community Life in Christ (2020).
The upcoming services will cover
these different ‘sacred spaces’
in and around Iona Abbey as follows:
9 July – ‘Chapel’
worshipping together
16 July – ‘Cloister and Chapterhouse’
meeting and living together in community
23 July – ‘Garden and Refectory’
work and hospitality.
2. OPEN TO ALL Coffee and tea will
be served in the Bill McDonald Hall at
the close of the Sunday services.
Everyone is very welcome.
3. PASTORAL CARE Welcome to
our new Pastoral Assistant, Pauline
Robertson DCS, who is now the
principal contact point for pastoral
matters. The contact details remain
the same as before -
(phone 07587 043 191).
Please contact Pauline if you have
any pastoral issues or concerns and/
or if you wish anyone to be
remembered in the confidential
prayer chain or wish to be added
to the email circulation list. Many
thanks to Anne Mulligan for all that
she has done over the past few
months before Pauline’s arrival.
4. SHORT AFTERNOON SERVICE
– TUESDAY 11 JULY AT 2.30PM.
You are warmly invited to the
Summer Short Afternoon Service
to be led by our Minister, Rev Dr
Sandy Forsyth, on Tuesday 11 July
at 2.30pm in the Bill McDonald Hall,
via West Mayfield level access and
followed by refreshments.
Proceedings finish around 3.45pm.
Everyone always made most welcome.
And, for your diary – the following
Service (Holy Communion) will be held
on Tuesday 12 September 2023 at 2.30pm.
5. EDINBURGH SACRED ARTS
IN THE FESTIVAL FRINGE 2023
(13TH - 19TH AUGUST) The Sacred
Arts Festival is an exploration of the
profound resonance between faith
and the creative arts. It includes 3
exhibitions, 7 musical events, drama,
poetry and film, as well as special
services. It takes place in a range of
church venues, from the intimacy
of St Vincent’s Chapel at Stockbridge
to St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral
in Palmerston Place.
Our member, Christine De Luca, will
be leading a poetry and music event,
on Friday 18th August, 2.30 – 3.30pm
in St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place.
Strafed by Splendour: Under Paolozzi’s
Window will be a celebration of one of
Eduardo Paolozzi’s great artistic
achievements, the Ascension window.
Music from the flautist Katharine Wake.
You can book tickets here:
www.edinburghsacredartsfestival.org/2023-programme.html
6. CONGRATULATIONS to our elder,
Christine de Luca, for the honour of
reading Scripture at the National Service
this week in St Giles for King Charles III.
Christine read beautifully the Beatitudes
in Scots, from the first Scots translation
of the New Testament of 1520.
7. COFFEE AND BLETHERS will meet in
the second and fourth Thursdays of July
and August, i.e.13 and 27 July; and 10
and 24 August. We meet for good
company and chat from 2.00pm until
3.30pm in the Bill McDonald Hall.
Bring along friends and neighbours.
All welcome.
8. SUMMER SERVICES OF WORSHIP
Our summer morning service schedule
continues, with one Sunday service at
10.30am in July and August. All services
in July and August will be at Mayfield
Salisbury Parish Church, and from this
week held jointly with the congregations
of Craigmillar Park and Priestfield.
The three Ministers will be involved at
different times in leading worship and
Revd Dr. George Whyte will returning
to lead the service on 13 August.
Bettina and a rota of volunteers will
provide resources and a quiet area for
children at the morning services during
the summer.
9. YOUTH UPDATES and Annual Leave
Youth activities are taking a break over
the school summer holidays. Our
Children and Young Adult Worker,
Bettina, will be on annual leave from
Monday 10 to 24 July. Outwith this time,
she will be working and still be happy
to meet up with or hear from young
folks, including any young adults home
for the summer or preparing for their
next steps. Bettina can be contacted
as follows -
email:
Phone number: 07783 190114
10. RECYCLING/ UPCYCLING REQUESTS:
Glass jars, coffee tins, plastic storage boxes
(with lids even better!), baskets or similar
wanted for Bettina and the Team to reorder
our children’s & youth supplies & resources
over the summer ready for next session.
Thank you. Any queries to Bettina.
11. GIVING – QR CODE Our Quick
Response code is a handy way of using
your smart ‘phone or tablet’s QR app to
link you to our Giving Page. Once you
have joined the Giving Page safeguards
are still operative. PLATES: Those who
would have wished to use it may make use
of the offering plates situated in the
vestibule and halls entrance, at the close of
the service. Regular and one-off donations
are possible online at www.give.net/20311853
(scan the QR code) or please contact our
Freewill Offerings Treasurer, Hugh Somerville
on 0131 466 2446 or
Forthcoming Deadlines
Order of service for next week:
Thursday at 6.00pm
Next parish magazine Grapevine:
Friday 25 August at 6.00pm
Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church holds a CCLI Streaming License: #88916
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see you again soon. We would love to get to know you better! Please
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