30/05/2026
Readings & Newsletter for w/c 31/05/2026
Trinity Sunday: Holy Communion at St Oswald’s Church,10.30am this Sunday,
31st May 2026. Everyone is welcome. 🙏
Together, may we know today the fellowship and intimate friendship of all three persons of the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost!
Collect: 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.
Post Communion
Almighty and eternal God, you have revealed yourself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and live and reign in the perfect unity of love: hold us firm in this faith, that we may know you in all your ways and evermore rejoice in your eternal glory, who are three Persons yet one God, now and for ever.
Isaiah 40.12–17, 27–end 12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? 13 Who has directed the spirit of the Lord, or as his counsellor has instructed him? 14 Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice? Who taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? 15 Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust. 16 Lebanon would not provide fuel enough, nor are its animals enough for a burnt-offering. 17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness. 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God’? 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless. 30 Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; 31 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. This is the word of the Lord. All: Thanks be to God.
Gospel acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia! Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, one God, who was, and who is, and who is to come, the Almighty. (response) Alleluia!
Matthew 28.16–end 16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
Monday 1 June at 1.30pm EXPLORERS in the Parish Hall at Christ Church Croft Disciple?
Tuesday 2 June at 10am Communion in Culcheth Parish Hall led by Rev Trevor
Wednesday 3 June at 9am Morning Prayer at Christ Church Croft
Thursday 4 June at 9am Morning Prayer at St Oswald’s Winwick
Thursday 4 June at 10am ~12 Coffee time
Friday 5 June 1.30pm CULCHETH EXPLORERS the Family Room at Newchurch: WAR
Sunday 7 June Second Sunday of Trinity 10.30am Joint Service of Holy Communion at Newchurch ~ Rev Pat & Rector Martin
Sunday 7 June at 6pm Cafe-Church at 6pm at Culcheth Parish Hall This time of worship &fellowship led by the lovely Megan Bunce, from our Newchurch, and a superb group of Musicians. The room is laid out cafe style, and the service begins with tea, cake & biscuits. The worship songs are modern but gentle ~ a cosy and spiritually uplifting time! (I try never to miss it ~ Trev)
