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This booklet contains all you will need to follow the service. The booklet includes suggestions about posture, but it is important that individuals feel comfortable. This booklet is also available in a format with larger print – please ask a Steward if you would like a copy. Communion will be offered in one form only, and will be brought to worshippers by the presiding clergy. If you wish to receive a gluten-free wafer at communion, please indicate this to one of the Stewards before the Service. Face coverings – Although not mandatory, we request that face coverings continue to be worn throughout the service. Online live-streaming – This service will be live-streamed and broadcast online via the Cathedral’s website, YouTube channel and Facebook pages. Typically, services are made available for up to 7 days, however this period may be longer for special recordings. For further questions, both on live-streaming and on data protection, please contact: [email protected] The congregation are asked to note that photography, filming and audio recordings are not permitted during this service. Please ensure that mobile telephones are switched off or silenced. An induction loop is provided for the benefit of hearing aid users. To use this, please switch your hearing aid to ‘T’. In the event of an emergency please follow the direction of the Vergers and stewards. www.chichestercathedral.org.uk A very warm welcome to the families, friends and those who have come from the parishes of the candidates to support those who are to be licensed as Readers during the service this morning at the Cathedral. We recognise that the years of initial training that the candidates have now completed have been a considerable sacrifice in terms of time and study. This is a sign of their dedication to their call to this ministry in the Church. We all join with them this morning with gratitude and thanksgiving to God for their commitment and we pray that he will continue to give them his grace for their future ministry. This is also an opportunity to give thanks for those closest to the candidates who have shared their journey over this period – families and friends from the parish. Their support has been essential, and we give thanks for it. We hope and pray that it will continue in the coming years. Today the Bishop of Lewes will admit the following candidates to the office of Reader in the Church of England and license them to their parishes: Elaine Corbett Amberley with North Stoke, Parham, Wiggonholt and Greatham (The Wildbrooks Benefice) Andy Delves All Saints’ Church, Waldron and St. Bartholomew’s Church, Cross in Hand Martin Hennock St Mark’s, Holbrook Miriam Owen Trinity Church, Lewes Elisabeth Telcs St Nicholas’, Saltdean Katherine Wydra West Grinstead Please pray for them and for the parishes in which they will serve. Immediately before this service of Admission and Licensing, the candidates made the Declarations of Assent and Obedience and the Declaration required by Canon E6 before the Bishop. The Bishop said The Church of England is part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, worshipping the one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It professes the faith uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds, which faith the Church is called upon to proclaim afresh in each generation. Led by the Holy Spirit, it has borne witness to Christian truth in its historic formularies, the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, The Book of Common Prayer and the Ordering of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. In the declaration you are about to make, will you affirm your loyalty to this inheritance of faith as your inspiration and guidance under God in bringing the grace and truth of Christ to this generation and making Him known to those in your care? The candidates responded I, N, do so affirm, and accordingly declare my belief in the faith which is revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds and to which the historic formularies of the Church of England bear witness; and in public prayer and administration of the sacraments, I will use only the forms of service which are authorised or allowed by Canon. I, N, will give due obedience to the Lord Bishop of Chichester and his successors in all things lawful and honest. I, N, about to be licensed to exercise the office of Reader in the Parish of N, do hereby promise to endeavour, as far as in me lies, to promote peace and unity, and to conduct myself as becomes a worker for Christ, for the good of his Church, and for the spiritual welfare of all people. I will give due obedience to the minister in whose cure I may serve, in all things lawful and honest. THE GATHERING Please stand. PROCESSIONAL HYMN All my hope on God is founded; he doth still my trust renew. Me through change and chance he guideth, only good and only true. God unknown, he alone calls my heart to be his own. Human pride and earthly glory, sword and crown betray his trust; what with care and toil he buildeth, tower and temple, fall to dust. But God’s power, hour by hour, is my temple and my tower. God’s great goodness aye endureth, deep his wisdom, passing thought: splendour, light, and life attend him, beauty springeth out of naught. Evermore from his store new-born worlds rise and adore. Daily doth th’ Almighty giver bounteous gifts on us bestow; his desire our soul delighteth, pleasure leads us where we go. Love doth stand at his hand; joy doth wait on his command. Still from earth to God eternal sacrifice of praise be done, high above all praises praising for the gift of Christ his Son. Christ doth call one and all: ye who follow shall not fall. NEH 333 Michael Robert Bridges (1844-1930) Herbert Howells (1892-1983) based on Joachim Neander (1650-1680) THE PREPARATION The Bishop greets the people: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Peace be with you and also with you. The Bishop welcomes the people and introduces the Eucharist. PRAYERS OF PENITENCE The Bishop invites the people to confess their sins: Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we have sinned against you and against our neighbour in thought and word and deed, through negligence, through weakness, through our own deliberate fault. We are truly sorry and repent of all our sins. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, who died for us, forgive us all that is past and grant that we may serve you in newness of life to the glory of your name. Amen. The Bishop says Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon us, pardon and deliver us from all our sins, confirm and strengthen us in all goodness and keep us in life eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. All sing GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO Glory be to God in heaven, Only Son of God the Father, peace to those who love him well: Lamb that takes our sin away, on the earth let all his people now with him in triumph seated – speak his grace, his wonders tell: for your mercy, Lord, we pray: Lord, we praise you for your glory, Jesus Christ, most high and holy, mighty Father, heaven’s King; Saviour, you are God alone hear our joyful adoration in the glory of the Father and accept the thanks we bring. with the Spirit: Three-in-one! Gloria in excelsis Ode to Joy Versified by Michael Perry Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) THE COLLECT The Bishop says Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified: hear our prayer which we offer for all your faithful people, that in their vocation and ministry they may serve you in holiness and truth to the glory of your name; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Please sit. THE LITURGY OF THE WORD OLD TESTAMENT READING Read by Claire Levin Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’ Then I said, ‘Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a child.’ But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not say, “I am only a child”; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.’ Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, ‘Now I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.’ This is the word of the Lord. Jeremiah 1: 4-10 Thanks be to God. NEW TESTAMENT READING Read by Peter Shears I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God— what is good and acceptable and perfect.