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The Ordination of Deacons President: The Right Reverend Christine Hardman Bishop of Newcastle Preacher: Canon Dr David Kennedy Saturday 3rd July, 2021 at 3pm PLEASE TAKE THIS BOOKLET HOME, OR PUT IT IN THE BIN BY THE EXIT AFTER USE. A warm welcome to St George’s, Jesmond. A large print copy of this service sheet is available. Please ask one of our welcome team at the door. We hope you enjoy this moving and important service as we come to support and pray for those to be ordained Deacon today. We are most grateful to the Rev’d Canon Brian Hurst and the people of St George’s, for making us so welcome today. The Cathedral Wardens and other welcomers are stationed by the entrance and will be happy to assist during your time with us today. Please feel free to sit or kneel if standing is difficult for you. The Choir is conducted by Ian Roberts, Director of Music at Newcastle Cathedral. The organ is played by Kris Thomsett, Assistant Director of Music. Mass setting: Missa Aeterna Christi munera G.L. da Palestrina (c. 1525 – 1594) sung by the Cathedral’s Lay Clerks & Choral Scholars 2 Worshipping safely together: Face masks – unless you have a medical exemption, please keep your mask on the whole time you are in the building. (The only exception is for those leading our worship when they are speaking, and the choir when they are singing.) Seating – you may only sit where a service sheet has been placed. If you are here with member(s) of your own household or “bubble”, you may move a service sheet in order to sit together, as long as you sit in the seat furthest from your nearest neighbour to keep a 2m distance. Once you have chosen your seat, please do not change, as that place will then have to be sanitised before anyone else can sit there. Receiving Holy Communion – Holy Communion will be distributed (in one kind only) at your seat. Please remain seated until it is brought to you. You may wish to stand to receive, but please keep your mask on until you have been given the Communion Wafer, which will be dropped into your cupped hands so there is no skin contact. You may remove the mask to put the wafer in your mouth, but then please replace it immediately. At the end of the service – please remain seated until the end of the organ voluntary, and then leave, keeping your distance from others, as directed by the Wardens. 3 Introduction to the Ordination Service The Church is the Body of Christ, the people of God and the dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit. In baptism the whole Church is summoned to witness to God’s love and to work for the coming of his kingdom. To serve this royal priesthood, God has given a variety of ministries. Deacons are ordained so that the people of God may be better equipped to make Christ known. Theirs is a life of visible self-giving. Christ is the pattern of their calling and their commission. As he washed the feet of his disciples, so they must wash the feet of others. Please pray God’s blessing on all those to be ordained Deacon at this time, for their training Incumbents and for the parishes where they will serve their title: Lynne Dean to serve in the benefice of Ovingham and Wylam Henry Hope to serve in the benefice of Hexham Miriam Jones to serve in the benefice of Newburn Alison McCarthy to serve in the benefice of Jesmond, Holy Trinty Adam Smith to serve in the Chapel of St Thomas the Martyr and the St Thomas’ Bishop’s Mission Initiative 4 The Declaration of Assent The candidates to be ordained this afternoon have already made the Declaration of Assent and the necessary Oaths required of Deacons, Priests and Bishops of the Church of England when they are ordained and on each occasion when they take up a new appointment (Canon C15). The text of these is printed below. Preface 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? Declaration of Assent 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 authorized or allowed by Canon. The Oath of Allegiance I, N, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God. The Oath of Canonical Obedience I, N, do swear by Almighty God that I will pay true and canonical obedience to the Lord Bishop of Newcastle and her successors in all things lawful and honest. So help me God. 5 Order of Service Organ Prelude Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 545 J.S Bach 1685-1750 The Gathering and Presentation Please stand as the choir (only) sings: The Processional Hymn Thy hand, O God, has guided thy flock, from age to age; the wondrous tale is written, full clear, on every page; our forebears owned thy goodness, and we their deeds record; and both of this bear witness: one Church, one Faith, one Lord. Thy heralds brought glad tidings to greatest, as to least; they bade all rise, and hasten to share the great King’s feast; and this was all their teaching, in every deed and word, to all alike proclaiming one Church, one Faith, one Lord. Through many a day of darkness, through many a scene of strife, the faithful few fought bravely to guard the nation’s life. Their gospel of redemption, sin pardoned, souls restored, was all in this enfolded, one Church, one Faith, one Lord. 6 And we, shall we be faithless? Shall hearts fail, hands hang down? Shall we evade the conflict, and cast away our crown? Not so: in God’s deep counsels some better thing is stored; we will maintain, unflinching, one Church, one Faith, one Lord. Thy mercy will not fail us, nor leave thy work undone; with thy right hand to help us, the victory shall be won; and then, in earth and heaven, thy name shall be adored, and this shall be our anthem, one Church, one Faith, one Lord. Words: Edward Plumptre 1821-1891 Tune: Thornbury NEH 485 Music: Basil Harwood 1859-1949 The Greeting Please remain standing as the Bishop greets the people, saying: Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. All Blessed be his kingdom, now and for ever. Amen. There is one body and one spirit. All There is one hope to which we were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, All one God and Father of all. Peace be with you. All And also with you. 7 The Presentation Please sit. The Ordinands are presented to the Bishop by the Archdeacon of Lindisfarne, the Venerable Dr Catherine Sourbut Groves. Reverend Mother in God, I present N to be ordained to the office of deacon in the Church of God; he/she is to serve in N. When the Ordinands have been presented, the Bishop asks these questions, to which the Archdeacon responds: Have those whose duty it is to know these ordinands and examine them found them to be of godly life and sound learning? They have. Do they believe them to be duly called to serve God in this ministry? They do. The Bishop asks the Ordinands: Do you believe that God is calling you to this ministry? I do so believe. I invite the Archdeacon to confirm that the Ordinands have taken the necessary oaths and made the Declaration of Assent. The Archdeacon says: They have duly taken the oath of allegiance to the Sovereign and the oath of canonical obedience to the Bishop. They have affirmed and declared their 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.’ 8 The Bishop introduces a period of silent prayer saying: Let us pray for those to be ordained Deacon: for Lynne and Henry, for Miriam, Alison and Adam, and for the ministry of the whole people of God. The Collect God our Father, Lord of all the world, through your Son you have called us into the fellowship of your universal Church: hear our prayer for your faithful people that in their vocation and ministry each may be an instrument of your love, and give to your servants now to be ordained the needful gifts of grace; 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.
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