Readings for July 2018

The readings for the main services of Holy Communion on Sunday and Wednesday during July are as follows.

1 July
2 Samuel 1.1,17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 8.7-15; Mark 5.21-43

Hymns:
362 Come Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs – tune: Nativity
515 Jesus, In Your Life We See You – tune: Ebenezer (Ton-y-Botel)
506 The Church’s One Foundation – tune: Aurelia
763 Praise To The Holiest In The Height – tune: Gerontius   

4 July
Amos 5.14-15,21-24; Psalm 50.7-14; Matthew 8.28-34

8 July
2 Samuel 5.1-5,9-10; Psalm 48; 2 Corinthians 12.2-10; Mark 6.1-13

Hymns:
595 Be Thou My Vision – tune: Slane
814 Thy hand, O God, Has Guided – tune: Thornbury
104 Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise – tune Salzburg (Hintze)
475 Forth In The Peace Of Christ We Go – tune: Duke Street

11 July – Benedict of Nursia, Abbott (white)
Acts 2.42-47a; Psalm 34.1-8; John 15.12-17

15 July
2 Samuel 6.1-5,12b-19; Psalm 24; Ephesians 1.3-14; Mark 6.14-29

Hymns:
8 Today I Awake – tune Slithers Of Gold
667 I Danced In The Morning – tune: Lord Of The Dance
762 Praise The One Who Breaks The Darkness – tune: Nettleton
445 God Is Here! As We His People – tune: Abbot’s Leigh  

18 July
Isaiah 10.5-7,13-16; Psalm 94.5-11; Matthew 11.25-27

22 July – Mary Magdalene (obs.)
Song of Solomon 3.1-4; Psalm 42.1-10; 2 Corinthians 5.14-17; John 20.1-2,11-18

Hymns:
194 Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts To Heaven And Voices Raise – tune: Hyfrydol
592 As The Deer Pants For The Water – tune: As The Deer Pants
450 Jesus Calls Us here To Meet Him – tune: Jesus Calls Us (Lewis Folk Melody)
493 Hope Of Our Calling – tune: Woodlands

25 July – James the apostle
Acts 11.27-12.2; Psalm 126; 2 Corinthians 4.7-15; Matthew 20.20-28
If there is to be a service in Santa Margarita on this day, it will be at 10:00, because of the observance of the fiesta of Es Castell.

29 July
2 Samuel 11.1-15; canticle (Hallelujah, sung); John 6.1-21

Hymns:
666 I Cannot Tell Why He, Whom Angels Worship – tune: Londonderry Air
Canticle: Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
690 Jesus Is Lord – tune Jesus Is Lord 
358 Be Still, For The Presence Of The Lord – tune: Be Still
429 Bread Is Blessed And Broken – tune: Grace In Essence
652 Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer – tune: Cwm Rhondda 

Other festivals during July:

• 1 July
  Thomas – Apostle 
• 6 July
  Thomas More – scholar, martyr, 1535 
  John Fisher – bishop, martyr, 1535 
• 14 July
  John Keble – priest, poet, 1866 
• 16 July
  Osmund – bishop, 1099
• 18 July
  Elizabeth Ferard – deaconess, founder of the Community of St Andrew, 1883 
• 19 July
  Gregory – bishop, teacher of the faith, c 394
  and Macrina – sister of Gregory, deaconess, and teacher of the faith, c 379
• 20 July
  Margaret of Antioch – martyr, 4th century
  Bartolomé de las Casas – Apostle to the Indies, 1566
  
• 23 July
  Bridget – abbess, 1373
• 26 July
  Anne and Joachim – parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 27 July
  Brooke Foss Westcott – bishop, teacher of the faith, 1901
• 30 July
  William Wilberforce – social reformer, anti-slavery campaigner, 1833
  Olaudah Equiano – anti-slavery campaigner, 1797
  Thomas Clarkson – anti-slavery campaigner, 1846
• 31 July
  Ignatius of Loyola – founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556