Bible Readings

Drystone walls
are one of the defining features of the Dales landscape.
Like grey ribbons they meander along the valleys and stride across the open fells and moorland. They enclose fields and define the boundary between holdings
Most of the long, straight walls on the higher ground date from the Acts of Enclosure and are the result of lines drawn on maps by the surveyors who implemented the Acts. However difficult the route designated by these latter day “civil servants”, the owner of the land was required to follow it with the result that walls were strung up steep hillsides, across peaty bogs and over streams that became raging torrents in winter.
A well-made wall actually consists of two faces in-filled with small stones, bound together by “through-stones” A good wall is said to “outlive” its builder but they do collapse eventually. The action of frost, burrowing rabbits and leaping errant sheep all cause wall failures.

14 March Lent 4 (Mothering Sunday)
Joshua 5. 9-12
Psalm 32
2 Corinthians 5. 16-end
Luke 15. 1-3, 11b-end

21 March Lent 5
Isaiah 43. 16-21
Psalm 126
Philippians 3. 4b-14
John 12. 1-8

28 March    Palm Sunday
Liturgy of the Palms:
Luke 19:28-40
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-end

4 April     Easter Sunday
Isaiah 65:17-end
Psalm 118: 14-24
Acts 10:34-43
Luke 24:1-12

11 April     Easter 2
Acts 5. 27-32
Psalm 118.14-end
Rev. 1.4-8
John 20. 19-end

18 April     Easter 3
Acts 9. 1-20
Psalm 30
Rev. 5. 11-end
John 21. 1-19

25 April     Easter 4
Acts 9. 36-end
Psalm 23
Rev 7. 9-end
John 10. 22-30

Father of light,
in You is found no shadow of change
but only the fullness of life and limitless truth.
Open our hearts to the voice of Your Word
and free us from the original darkness
that shadows our vision.
Restore our sight that we may look upon Your Son
who calls us to repentance and a change of heart,
for he lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.
Amen

2 May     Easter 5
Acts 11.1-18
Psalm 148
Rev. 21.1-6
John 13. 31-35

9 May     Easter 6
Acts 16. 9-15
Psalm 67
Rev. 21.10, 22-22.5
John 14.23-29

16 May     Easter 7
Acts 16. 16-34
Psalm 97
Rev. 22.12-14, 16-17, 20-end
John 17. 20-end

23 May     Pentecost
Genesis 11: 1-9
Psalm 104:26-36,37b
Acts 2:1-21
John 14: 8-17, 25-27

30 May     Trinity
Prov. 8. 1-4,22-31
Psalm 8
Rom. 5.1-5
John 16. 12-15