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Gospel for Sunday 7th August, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C: Luke 12:32-48

After the Gospel passage, you will find some thoughts from Ruth to hopefully help you reflect further. Feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments.
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The Drop In runs 6.30 -8pm every Wednesday evening in St Wilfrid’s Church.
The volunteers assist in setting up and tidying away the space, providing refreshments, assigning the needed clothing or toiletries, as well as spending time listening and talking with the people, so they are reminded of and have an experience of God’s love and mercy.
If this sounds like a role you would like to give your time to or you would like any more information, please ring Jen 07957566741 or email jen@metanoiaproject.co.uk
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🎼Worship Wednesday🎼

Honey in the Rock - Brooke Ligertwood (with Brandon Lake)

"I don't need to worry now that I know, everything I need You've got".

This is surely the answer to everything right?!

Every uncertainty, I don't need to worry.
Every set back, I don't need to worry.

When everything seems wrong, when I feel lost, when I want more, when I forget what all this is about....God has everything I need. And even better, it's sweet, better than good!

Only God can truly satisfy us, earthy satisfaction pales in comparison.

I laugh at myself when I remember this. Obviously I always know it, but do I let myself believe it always and trust in it?

I know I don't need to worry about anything, but I let myself get caught up in the things of the world, when they aren't for me to worry about.

"freedom where the spirit is" Holy Spirit come anew, fill us and free us to live for God!

God keeps giving and providing. He is EVERYTHING we need and more, always.

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It is our last Unveiled for a summer break on Friday and we are already expectant of a beautiful evening .
Why not come and join us , you are very welcome .
Praise and worship, a short talk , adoration all inside St Wilfrid's Church at 7.30pm.
Let us know us and your friends know you are coming by clicking to attend ! Why not invite your friends too !
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Our Breakthroughs group finished for summer in style tonight - we started the evening doing an Escape room ( breaking codes , solving puzzles and unlocking many locks) , played party games and ate party food. There was obviously time for many photo booth dress ups and  poses too. 
This  has been a new group to us this last year and despite the beginning of the year  seeing an up / down of different faces,  over the last term God seems to be forming a solid group of regulars who make our Mondays alive and bright.  
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Our Breakthroughs group finished for summer in style tonight - we started the evening doing an Escape room ( breaking codes , solving puzzles and unlocking many locks) , played party games and ate party food. There was obviously time for many photo booth dress ups and poses too.
This has been a new group to us this last year and despite the beginning of the year seeing an up / down of different faces, over the last term God seems to be forming a solid group of regulars who make our Mondays alive and bright.
Breakthroughs have a lovely summer break .
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Last friday Seekers for a summer break . Party games , party food and thanking God for our last year togther - He has given us so much fun !Image attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment
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🎼 Worship Wednesday 🎼
Trust in you (Lauren Daigle)

This song touches me throughout any season, all year round. Within our lives we often come across challenges, struggles, or question marks where we have difficulty finding an answer. In which case we Trust in the Lord. When we have worries or distressing times we Trust in the Lord.

I can personally relate to this song as the path ahead for me is unclear at the moment, and out of my control...it is at times like this where I hand over all my dreams to God and Trust in Him to show me the path designed for me. It may not be what I expect but I know it is the right path when all is out of my control.

The Lord knows every gift I offer, every strength and every weakness, He knows where I am needed in the world and wherever my path may lead I know He will be there waiting for me. If ever you are worried or unsure of the journey ahead just let go of everything and hand it over to God. We are not built to do this alone, God is there to help us, guide us, and protect us.

"No matter what I face, you're by my side"
"I will Trust in You!"

"You are my strength and comfort
You are my steady hand
You are my firm foundation
The rock on which I stand
Your ways are always higher
Your plans are always good
There's not a place where I'll go
You've not already stood"

These words emphasises how much we can Trust God. When we are weak or wobbly, God is strong and steady...talk to Him about your worries, talk to Him about your Joys, stay connected to Him because He can help in so many glorious ways. Just stop doing it alone and take joy in Trusting in the Lord.
LORD I WILL TRUST IN YOU.

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Ice lollies , Jesus tattoos, Jesus chalk wall art and bouncy castle fun - Seekers Summer Party was such fun !
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🎼 Worship Wednesday🎼
Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation (He Won’t)
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I've started my day with this song every day for the last two weeks , so I thought you may like to worship with me with this song too !

Life is so shaky , Jesus is the only one I want to hold onto during those shakes ! He is my firm foundation.

I sometimes get so overwhelmed and have have a huge sinking panic that nothing will ever go as right. ' Rain came and wind blew' but building my house on Jesus makes me so safe and 'I'm going make it through. ' He makes me so glad!

I love how 'He won't' is repeated , I need to be reminded of the fact Jesus will never let me sink, I need to sing it out and declare it over my fears and in doing so I'm reminded of all the times He has never let me down . In doing that my trust grows and I know He is continuously never letting me down . He will never , ever , ever let me sink - 'He wont' !

As we play this song and declare Jesus' goodness all over our shaky parts of life , let's seek out and live in His joy in the chaos and wrap ourselves in His peace that makes no sense.

He is our firm foundation.

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**Gospel for Sunday 7th August, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C: Luke 12:32-48**

**After the Gospel passage, you will find some thoughts from Ruth to hopefully help you reflect further. Feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments.**

**Gospel:
 **Jesus said to his disciples: ‘There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.
‘Sell your possessions and give alms. Get yourselves purses that do not wear out, treasure that will not fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and no moth destroy it. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
‘See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks. Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. I tell you solemnly, he will put on an apron, sit them down at table and wait on them. It may be in the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds them ready. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what hour the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house. You too must stand ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.’
Peter said, ‘Lord, do you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?’ The Lord replied, ‘What sort of steward, then, is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household to give them their allowance of food at the proper time? Happy that servant if his master’s arrival finds him at this employment. I tell you truly, he will place him over everything he owns. But as for the servant who says to himself, “My master is taking his time coming”, and sets about beating the menservants and the maids, and eating and drinking and getting drunk, his master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.
The servant who knows what his master wants, but has not even started to carry out those wishes, will receive very many strokes of the lash. The one who did not know, but deserves to be beaten for what he has done, will receive fewer strokes. When a man has had a great deal given him, a great deal will be demanded of him; when a man has had a great deal given him on trust, even more will be expected of him.

**Reflection:**

What a wonderful opening to the Gospel we hear today: There is no need to be afraid, because our Father is pleased to give us the Kingdom. Not, He will give it to us grudgingly if we happen to fulfil all the correct criterion, or He will give it as some sort of bribe to get us to behave in a certain manner, but He is pleased to give this wonderful gift to each of us because He is our Father.

How do we receive this wonderful gift? Jesus tells us to stand ready, to be like servants waiting for their master to return, eager to welcome him as soon as he knocks.

In order to really get excited by this promise, we need to understand what the Kingdom is. It is where we belong, our true home. We were created to live in the Kingdom with God. It is where we will experience complete fulfilment and recognise our deepest identities. In our second reading today, we hear all about how Abraham and Sarah were willing to leave everything and everyone they knew behind and set out not knowing where they were going. They could do this because they trusted in and looked forward to ‘a city founded, designed and built by God.’ So many times in their lives, they had to believe in promises that they couldn’t yet see, but by faith they ‘saw them in the far distance and welcomed them’. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews is using their example to help us understand that ‘only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of the realities that at present remain unseen’.

So, as we, like the servants, are waiting for our master’s return, we need trust and hope that what He has promised us is true. The Collect at the start of Mass today reminds us that the key to inheriting the Kingdom is adoption as sons and daughters. We pray that this spirit of adoption will be brought to perfection in our hearts, that we would truly understand who we are in God’s sight and what that promise holds for us. And we must not lose focus of this in our waiting and set about trying to do things our own way like the servant who says, ‘My master is taking his time coming’. This servant, rather than recognise the privileged position gifted to him by his master, sets about gaining power and pleasure through his own means: his cruelty inciting fear and his gluttony leading to drunkenness. But what he fails to realise is that his position only makes sense in light of the master. He has no power over other individuals other than that entrusted to him by the master, he has no claim to food and drink other than that given to him by the master to share amongst the people. But he has indeed been given these things and does not need to go about proving his position or the wealth at his fingertips. In our first reading we hear ‘You made us glorious by calling us to you’. We are indeed made glorious by God – You are glorious! But that glory only makes sense in the light of the Master. Any time we lose focus on the One Whose glory we share, and attempt to make ourselves glorious, we end up bringing others down to raise ourselves up and all attempts are futile.

We must be grateful for the immensity of the gift we have been given as adopted sons and daughters and recognise the privileged position that puts us in. Otherwise, not only will we miss out on what God is offering to us, we will not take seriously our responsibility to help others receive the gift too. As Jesus says: ‘what sort of steward, then, is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household?’ As we explored above, the one who believes what has been promised will come true and who keeps his eyes fixed on the ‘treasure that will not fail you’.

So where is your treasure? Jesus says: ‘For where your treasure is, there will you heart be also’. Are your eyes firmly set on the promises of God, the promise of a true homeland and of adoption? Or is your heart divided by various treasures? We may think that we can juggle other interests and passions alongside our faith but Jesus is making it clear this is not possible. Every single aspect of our lives must be seen in the light of Christ and be for His glory because that is what makes us truly glorious members of the Kingdom.

- Ruth
**Gospel for Sunday 7th August, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C: Luke 12:32-48**

**After the Gospel passage, you will find some thoughts from Ruth to hopefully help you reflect further. Feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments.**

**Gospel:
**Jesus said to his disciples: ‘There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.
‘Sell your possessions and give alms. Get yourselves purses that do not wear out, treasure that will not fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and no moth destroy it. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
‘See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks. Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. I tell you solemnly, he will put on an apron, sit them down at table and wait on them. It may be in the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds them ready. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what hour the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house. You too must stand ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.’
Peter said, ‘Lord, do you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?’ The Lord replied, ‘What sort of steward, then, is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household to give them their allowance of food at the proper time? Happy that servant if his master’s arrival finds him at this employment. I tell you truly, he will place him over everything he owns. But as for the servant who says to himself, “My master is taking his time coming”, and sets about beating the menservants and the maids, and eating and drinking and getting drunk, his master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.
The servant who knows what his master wants, but has not even started to carry out those wishes, will receive very many strokes of the lash. The one who did not know, but deserves to be beaten for what he has done, will receive fewer strokes. When a man has had a great deal given him, a great deal will be demanded of him; when a man has had a great deal given him on trust, even more will be expected of him.

**Reflection:**

What a wonderful opening to the Gospel we hear today: There is no need to be afraid, because our Father is pleased to give us the Kingdom. Not, He will give it to us grudgingly if we happen to fulfil all the correct criterion, or He will give it as some sort of bribe to get us to behave in a certain manner, but He is pleased to give this wonderful gift to each of us because He is our Father.

How do we receive this wonderful gift? Jesus tells us to stand ready, to be like servants waiting for their master to return, eager to welcome him as soon as he knocks.

In order to really get excited by this promise, we need to understand what the Kingdom is. It is where we belong, our true home. We were created to live in the Kingdom with God. It is where we will experience complete fulfilment and recognise our deepest identities. In our second reading today, we hear all about how Abraham and Sarah were willing to leave everything and everyone they knew behind and set out not knowing where they were going. They could do this because they trusted in and looked forward to ‘a city founded, designed and built by God.’ So many times in their lives, they had to believe in promises that they couldn’t yet see, but by faith they ‘saw them in the far distance and welcomed them’. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews is using their example to help us understand that ‘only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of the realities that at present remain unseen’.

So, as we, like the servants, are waiting for our master’s return, we need trust and hope that what He has promised us is true. The Collect at the start of Mass today reminds us that the key to inheriting the Kingdom is adoption as sons and daughters. We pray that this spirit of adoption will be brought to perfection in our hearts, that we would truly understand who we are in God’s sight and what that promise holds for us. And we must not lose focus of this in our waiting and set about trying to do things our own way like the servant who says, ‘My master is taking his time coming’. This servant, rather than recognise the privileged position gifted to him by his master, sets about gaining power and pleasure through his own means: his cruelty inciting fear and his gluttony leading to drunkenness. But what he fails to realise is that his position only makes sense in light of the master. He has no power over other individuals other than that entrusted to him by the master, he has no claim to food and drink other than that given to him by the master to share amongst the people. But he has indeed been given these things and does not need to go about proving his position or the wealth at his fingertips. In our first reading we hear ‘You made us glorious by calling us to you’. We are indeed made glorious by God – You are glorious! But that glory only makes sense in the light of the Master. Any time we lose focus on the One Whose glory we share, and attempt to make ourselves glorious, we end up bringing others down to raise ourselves up and all attempts are futile.

We must be grateful for the immensity of the gift we have been given as adopted sons and daughters and recognise the privileged position that puts us in. Otherwise, not only will we miss out on what God is offering to us, we will not take seriously our responsibility to help others receive the gift too. As Jesus says: ‘what sort of steward, then, is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household?’ As we explored above, the one who believes what has been promised will come true and who keeps his eyes fixed on the ‘treasure that will not fail you’.

So where is your treasure? Jesus says: ‘For where your treasure is, there will you heart be also’. Are your eyes firmly set on the promises of God, the promise of a true homeland and of adoption? Or is your heart divided by various treasures? We may think that we can juggle other interests and passions alongside our faith but Jesus is making it clear this is not possible. Every single aspect of our lives must be seen in the light of Christ and be for His glory because that is what makes us truly glorious members of the Kingdom.

- Ruth
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