Quiet Time with St John's and Kiltermon Saturday 16 May 2020


BREATHE Quiet Time with St John's and Kiltermon

11am Saturday 16 May 2020

Easter 5

 

Jesus Heals at the Pool of Bethesda
Words and prayer of welcome

Settling In and Noticing
How are you as you meet this morning?

Softly And Tenderly

Jesus is calling

Calling for you and for me

See on the portal

He's waiting and watching

Watching for you and for me

 

Come home

Come home

He who are weary

Come home

Earnestly, tenderly

Jesus is calling

Calling "Oh sinner, come home"

 

Why should we tarry

When Jesus is pleading

Pleading for you and for me

Why should we linger and heed not His mercies

Mercies for you and for me

 

Time is now fleeting

While moments are passing

Passing from you and from me

Shadows are gathering

Deathbeds are calling

 

St John 5 The Healing At The Pool

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralysed.

One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him,

 

‘Do you want to get well?’

 

‘Sir,’ the invalid replied, ‘I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.’

 

Then Jesus said to him, ‘Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.’ At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

 

Psalms 1 and 23
1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
 and who meditates on his law day and night.

That person is like a tree planted by streams
of water, which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither –
 whatever they do prospers.
Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

23 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
He refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, 
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
for ever.

·        Waiting On God

 

Bible Reading St John 5 The Healing At The Pool

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralysed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, ‘Do you want to get well?’

‘Sir,’ the invalid replied, ‘I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.’

Then Jesus said to him, ‘Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.’ At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, ‘It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.’

But he replied, ‘The man who made me well said to me, “Pick up your mat and walk.”’

So they asked him, ‘Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?’

The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, ‘See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.’ The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

 

This is the Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

 

Invitation to be present in the Scripture

Prayer and Response

Prayer
Christ has no body now, but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which he looks
With compassion on this world.
Let nothing disturb you.
Nothing distress you.
For all things fade away:
God is unchanging.
Be patient for with God in your heart
Nothing is lacking, God is enough.
St Teresa of Avila

Sometimes in a lonely place
In the presence of my God,
I stand and listen.
In the silence of my heart
I can hear God’s will, when I listen.
For I am but a servant
who is guided by my King
When I listen.
St. Columba

Keep Your face
towards the sunshine,
and shadows
will fall behind you
Walt Whitman                   

Fix your eyes on Jesus,
the beginner, and completer of your faith
Hebrews 12                               
I think that maybe
I will be a little surer
of being a little nearer.
That's all.
Eternity is in the understanding
that that little is more than enough. 
RS Thomas

The Collect The Sixth Sunday Of Easter
God our redeemer,
you have delivered us from
the power of darkness
and brought us into
the kingdom of your Son:
Grant, that as by his death
he has recalled us to life,
so by his continual presence in us
he may raise us to eternal joy; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Closing Reflection

When Peace, Like A River, attendeth my way,

When sorrows like sea billows roll;

Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,

It is well, it is well with my soul.

 

It is well with my soul,

It is well, it is well with my soul.

 

Though Satan should buffet,

though trials should come,

Let this blest assurance control,

That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,

And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

 

My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!—

My sin, not in part but the whole,

Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

 

And Lord, haste the day

when my faith shall be sight,

The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;

The trump shall resound,

and the Lord shall descend,

Even so, it is well with my soul.


Silent Prayer

The Grace

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