St Oswalds Preesall and Knott End

Sunday 23 October BIBLE SUNDAY

8:30am HOLY COMMUNION

Curate - Revd Dawn Banks Squires Gate Farm Head Dyke Lane Pilling PR3 6SD Tel: 01253 790250

Reflection and Call to Worship May the word of Christ dwell in us richly; and with gratitude in our hearts may we sing
psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to God. Come, let us worship the Lord our God.

Collect Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning; help us to hear them, to read, mark,
learn and inwardly digest them that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace and for ever hold fast the hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

First Reading Nehemiah 8: 1-4, 8-12 Hearing the scriptures inspires Gods people to tears and celebration. Second Reading - Colossians 3: 12-17 As Christians gather in worship and listen to God, they are encouraged to show the
generosity to others that God has shown to them.

Gospel - Matthew 24: 30-35 Jesus urges his followers to pay attention to the signs of the times.

-------------------------------------------------------10:30am A CELEBRATION OF THE BIBLE (non-Eucharistic service) Please place weekly offerings in the plate at the back of church -------------------------------------------------------A prayer based on verses from todays Psalm 119 Lord, your precepts are my delight, and I find more joy in them than one who finds great riches
(from the Prayer Trust booklet Songs of Hope and Joy)

-------------------------------------------------------St Oswalds this week and beyond

Today 8:30am Holy Communion; 10:30am A special service celebrating the history of the Bible in words and music (see p7 of the October parish magazine); Sunday School in church; 12:15pm Baptism of Daisy Mae S Tuesday 25 7:00pm Worship Committee, Choir Vestry Wednesday 26 11:00am, Carleton Funeral of David Gardner, RIP; 2:30pm Midweek Holy Communion in the Lady Chapel; 3:15pm Interment of Ashes of Jan Bamber, RIP next Sunday, All Saints 8:30am Holy Communion; 10:30am Family Communion with Baptism of Samuel Michael George Rawlinson; Sunday School in the hall; after the 10:30 service Interment of Ashes of Bob Mutch, RIP REMINDER - CLOCKS GO BACK AT 2:00am SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER

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Anglo-Saxon Proto-English Manuscripts (995 AD): God lufode middan-eard swa, dat he seade his an-cennedan sunu, dat nan ne forweorde de on hine gely ac habbe dat ece lif."

Wycliff (1380, in Early Middle English): "for god loued so the world; that he gaf his oon bigetun sone, that eche man that bileueth in him perisch not: but haue euerlastynge liif," Tyndale (1534, in Late Middle English): "For God so loveth the worlde, that he hath geven his only sonne, that none that beleve in him, shuld perisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe."

New Revised Standard Version (1989) For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. New English Bible (1970) God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not die but have eternal life.

John 3.16 - a journey through time, language, and faith

Latin Vulgate: sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut Filium suum unigenitum daret ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat sed habeat vitam aeternam

1 , , . 2 . 3 , . 5 , . 14 , , , . John 1.1,2,3,5 & 14 in the original Greek

King James with modernised spellings: For French God so loved Car Dieu a tant aim le monde qu'il a donn son Fils the world, that unique, afin que quiconque croit en lui ne prisse point, he gave his mais qu'il ait la vie ternelle. only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in German Spanish him should not Denn so hat Gott die Welt geliebt, da Porque tanto am Dios al mundo, perish, but er seinen eingeborenen Sohn gab, que dio a su Hijo unignito, para have damit jeder, der an ihn glaubt, nicht que todo el que cree en l no se everlasting verloren gehe, sondern ewiges Leben pierda, sino que tenga vida eterna. life. habe.

Great Bible (1539): "For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in him, shulde not perisshe, but haue euerlasting lyfe."

Geneva (1560): "For God so loueth the world, that he hath geuen his only begotten Sonne: that none that beleue in him, should peryshe, but haue euerlasting lyfe."

1st Ed. King James (1611; in Early Modern English): "For God so loued the world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life."

Rheims (1582): "For so God loued the vvorld, that he gaue his only-begotten sonne: that euery one that beleeueth in him, perish not, but may haue life euerlasting"