St Andrew's Presteigne

04/06/2026

01/06/2026

Services in the Presteigne Group of Parishes on Sunday 7 June (Trinity 1) are as follows:

9.30. Holy Communion (Common Worship: modern language) Lingen
11.00 Choral Holy Communion (Common Worship: modern language) Presteigne

Everyone is very welcome to join us for either of these services

31/05/2026

The Gospel Reading for Trinity Sunday, taken from St Matthew Chapter 28 verses
16-20

The eleven disciples went to Galilee,
to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.
When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted.
Then Jesus came to them and said,
'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptising them in the name of the Father
and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'

Prayers of Blessing
Bless us, God the Father,
who first loved us and made us accepted in the beloved Son,
Amen.

Bless us, God the Son,
who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Amen.

Bless us, God the Holy Spirit,
who sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts,
Amen.

May the blessing of the one true God,
to whom be all love and all glory for time and for eternity,
come down upon us and remain with us always.
Amen.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts:
the whole earth is full of his glory.

📷 Trinity banner, Bosbury Church, Herefordshire

31/05/2026

An Old Testament Reading for Trinity Sunday 31 May from Isaiah Chapter 1 verses 6:1-8

In the year that King Uzziah died,
I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted,
and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Above him were seraphs, each with six wings:
With two wings they covered their faces,
with two they covered their feet,
and with two they were flying.
And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook
and the temple was filled with smoke.
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!
For I am a man of unclean lips,
and I live among a people of unclean lips,
and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand,
which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
With it he touched my mouth and said,
“See, this has touched your lips;
your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
“Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said,
“Here am I. Send me!”

31/05/2026

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise him, all creatures here below,
Praise him above, angelic host,
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Thomas Ken (1637-1711)

The Collect for Trinity Sunday, 31 May

Holy God,
faithful and unchanging:
enlarge our minds with the knowledge of your truth,
and draw us more deeply into the mystery of your love,
that we may truly worship you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.

📷 'Holy, Holy, Holy' altar cloth in St Andrew's Church, Sedbergh, Cumbria

27/05/2026

We have just one service in the Presteigne Group of Parishes this Sunday, 31 May (Trinity Sunday)

11.00 Holy Communion (Common Worship: contemporary language) Presteigne

Everyone is very welcome to join us for this service. If you can't be with us in person, you can find A Short Service for use at Home on Trinity Sunday, with the appropriate Collect and readings, on our page at A Church Near You.
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice/18-217CP/news/edit/

📷 The Last Supper, Wakefield Cathedral

24/05/2026

Bible Reading from The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 2

When the day of Pentecost came,
the disciples were all together in one place.
Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind
came from heaven
and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire
that separated and came to rest on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Now there were staying in Jerusalem
God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
When they heard this sound,
a crowd came together in bewilderment,
because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
Utterly amazed, they asked:
“Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?
Then how is it
that each of us hears them in his own native language
We hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

📷 Pentecost fresco from the C16th century by Antonio Silviati, Santa Maria dell' Anima, Rome

24/05/2026

The Collect of Pentecost Sunday (24 May)

God, who as at this time
taught the hearts of your faithful people
by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit:
grant us by the same Spirit
to have a right judgement in all things
and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort;
through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

📷 Pentecost window, St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

20/05/2026

We have two services in the Presteigne Group of Parishes this Sunday 24 May (Pentecost):

11.00 Holy Communion (Common Worship: contemporary language) Presteigne
6.30 (Common Worship: contemporary language). Discoed

Everyone is most welcome to join us for either of these services. If you can't be with us in person, you can find A Service for Use at Home at Pentecost on our page at A Church Near You.
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/10690/news/

17/05/2026

A Reading for Ascension Sunday, 17 May from Acts chapter 1 verses 1-11

In my former book, Theophilus,
I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach
until the day he was taken up to heaven,
after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit
to the apostles he had chosen.

After his suffering, he showed himself to these men
and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive.
He appeared to them over a period of forty days
and spoke about the kingdom of God.

On one occasion, while he was eating with them,
he gave them this command:
“Do not leave Jerusalem,
but wait for the gift my Father promised,
which you have heard me speak about.
For John baptised with water,
but in a few days you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit.”

So when they met together, they asked him,
“Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
He said to them:
“It is not for you to know the times or dates
the Father has set by his own authority.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the ends of the earth.”
After he said this,
he was taken up before their very eyes,
and a cloud hid him from their sight.

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going,
when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
“Men of Galilee,” they said,
“why do you stand here looking into the sky?
This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven,
will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”