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Sixth Sunday of Easter The Parish Church of Saint Peter, West Green SUNDAY 17th MAY 2020 Sixth Sunday of Easter 1 WELCOME to our service this Sunday Pavilioned in splendour and girded at St Peter’s. We hope you will find this with praise. service sheet useful for prayer, meditating on the scriptures and as an O tell of his might, O sing of his information service. grace, Whose robe is the As a church family we need to work light, whose canopy together to protect our most space; vulnerable members. If you are self- isolating, then please let us know – His chariots of so that we can pray for you at wrath the deep Church and offer any additional thunder clouds support you may require. form, Most importantly as a Christian And dark is his path on the wings family let us remember to pray for of the storm. one another and let us gain strength from that knowledge This earth, with its store of wonders untold, Hymns in this service sheet Almighty, thy power hath founded If you have a computer and use the of old; internet you can go into, say, Google or Yahoo, and look up a hymn. Hath stablished it fast by a You will probably find a choir or an organist changeless decree, who will sing it or play the tune. And round it hath cast, like a If so, you could accompany the musician or mantle, the sea. choir and sing along with them, a bit like in church. You might even be joining in with Thy bountiful care what tongue Kings College Choir, Cambridge or a cathedral can recite? choir. What a joy and what fun, too! Fr Paul It breathes in the air, it shines in Today’s theme – building bridges and the light; speaking for God It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain; THE GATHERING And sweetly distils in the dew and We get ready to worship God and we sing our the rain. opening hymn: O worship the King, all glorious Frail children of dust, and feeble above; as frail, O gratefully sing his power and his In thee do we trust, nor find thee love; to fail; Our shield and defender, the Thy mercies how tender, how firm Ancient of Days, to the end, 2 Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, Lord, have mercy. and Friend. You promise us the Holy Spirit as our guide. Christ, have mercy. O measureless might, ineffable You give us the peace that the world cannot give. Lord, have mercy. love, While angels delight to hymn thee Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver above, you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen Thy humbler creation, though you in all goodness, and keep you in life eternal; feeble their lays, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. With true adoration shall sing to THE GLORIA (our glory to God) thy praise. Robert Grant (1779-1838) Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his THE GREETING people on earth. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, Lord God, heavenly and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. King, almighty God Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Father, we and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you worship you, and also with you. we give you thanks, we praise you Alleluia. Christ is risen. for your glory. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, Jesus will soon return to the Father, but in you take away the sin of the today’s gospel he promises to send the Spirit of truth on the disciples. Let us give thanks that the world: have mercy on us; you are Holy Spirit reveals to us the truth about Jesus and seated at the right hand of the gives us the grace to understand and to keep his Father: receive our prayer. commandments. For you alone are the Holy One, PRAYERS OF PENITENCE you alone are the Lord, you alone We say sorry for the wrong are the Most High, Jesus Christ, things we have done and ask with the Holy Spirit, in the glory God to forgive us of God the Father. Amen. Jesus does not leave us on our own. His Spirit THE COLLECT - A prayer which collects or guides us through our lives, showing us the way sums up our worship themes for today to justice and truth. Let us confess our failings in love towards God, Let us pray. our neighbours and ourselves, praying grace for repentance, forgiveness and amendment of life. God our redeemer, you have delivered us from the power of darkness and brought us into the Silence is kept for a time of reflection kingdom of your Son: grant, that as by his death he has recalled us to life, so by his continual You are the way to the Father. presence in us he may raise us to eternal joy; 3 through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, him—though indeed he is not far who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. from each one of us. 28 Amen For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of LITURGY OF THE your own poets have said, WORD “For we too are his offspring.” The bible readings for today: 29 Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity FIRST READING from the Acts of the is like gold, or silver, or stone, an Apostles 17.22-31; Paul develops his message image formed by the art and by teaching that God is Creator and Judge, imagination of mortals. and by declaring the truth about Jesus Christ 30 While God has overlooked the and His resurrection from the dead 22 times of human ignorance, now he Paul stood in front of the commands all people everywhere to Areopagus and said, repent, 31 because he has fixed a day ‘Athenians, I see how extremely on which he will have the world religious you are in every way. 23 judged in righteousness by a man For as I went through the city and whom he has appointed, and of this looked carefully at the objects of he has given assurance to all by your worship, I found among them raising him from the dead.’ an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown god.” This is the word of the Lord What therefore you worship as Thanks be to God. unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and Psalm 66.7-18 everything in it, he who is Lord of 7 Bless our God, O you peoples; make the heaven and earth, does not live in voice of his praise to be heard, 8 Who holds our souls in life and suffers shrines made by human hands, 25 not our feet to slip. nor is he served by human hands, 9 For you, O God, have proved us; as though he needed anything, since you have tried us as silver is tried. he himself gives to all mortals life and 10 You brought us into the snare; you laid breath and all things. heavy burdens upon our backs. 26 From one ancestor he made all 11 You let enemies ride over our heads; nations to inhabit the whole earth, we went through fire and water; but you brought us out into a place of liberty. and he allotted the times of their 12 I will come into your house with burnt existence and the boundaries of the offerings and will pay you my vows, which places where they would live, my lips uttered and my mouth promised 27 so that they would search for God when I was in trouble. and perhaps grope for him and find 4 13 I will offer you fat burnt sacrifices with God. He was put to death in the the smoke of rams; I will sacrifice oxen flesh, but made alive in the spirit, and goats. 19 in which also he went and made a 14 Come and listen, all you who fear God, proclamation to the spirits in prison, and I will tell you what he has done for my 20 soul. who in former times did not obey, 15 I called out to him with my mouth and when God waited patiently in the his praise was on my tongue. days of Noah, during the building of 16 If I had nursed evil in my heart, the ark, in which a few, that is, eight the Lord would not have heard me, people, were saved through water. 17 But in truth God has heard me; he has 21 And baptism, which this prefigured, heeded the voice of my prayer. now saves you—not as a removal of 18 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer, nor withheld his loving mercy dirt from the body, but as an appeal from me. to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus SECOND READING: 1 Peter 3.13-22; Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven Peter encourages Christians to be prepared to and is at the right hand of God, with defend their faith in public angels, authorities, and powers made 13 Now who will harm you if you are subject to him. eager to do what is good? 14 But even if you do suffer for doing This is the word of the Lord what is right, you are blessed.
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