Final Hymn 14th February 2021

1. King of kings, majesty, The Sunday next before Lent God of heaven living in me, gentle Saviour, closest friend, Opening Hymn strong deliverer, beginning and end, all within me falls at your throne. 1. O worship the Lord Your majesty, I can but bow, in the beauty of holiness! I lay my all before you now. bow down before him, In royal robes I don't deserve his glory proclaim; I live to serve your majesty. with gold of obedience, and incense of lowliness, kneel and adore him, 2. Earth and heaven worship you, the Lord is his name! love eternal, faithful and true, who bought the nations, ransomed souls, 2. Low at his feet lay brought this sinner near to your throne; thy burden of carefulness, all within me cries out in praise. high on his heart Your majesty, I can but bow, he will bear it for thee, I lay my all before you now. comfort thy sorrows, In royal robes I don't deserve and answer thy prayerfulness, I live to serve your majesty, guiding thy steps I live to serve your majesty. as may best for thee be. Jarrod Cooper © Sovereign Lifestyle Music Ltd., PO Box 356, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 3WP 3. Fear not to enter his courts in the slenderness of the poor wealth thou wouldst reckon as thine: truth in its beauty, and love in its tenderness, these are the offerings to lay on his shrine.

4. These, though we bring them First Reading Second Reading in trembling and fearfulness, 2 Corinthians 4: 3-6 Mark 9: 2-9 he will accept for And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to the name that is dear; Jesus took with him Peter and James and those who are perishing. In their case the mornings of joy John, and led them up a high mountain apart, god of this world has blinded the minds of give for evenings of tearfulness, by themselves. And he was transfigured the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing trust for our trembling before them, and his clothes became dazzling the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, and hope for our fear. white, such as no one on earth could bleach who is the image of God. For we do not them. And there appeared to them Elijah with 5. O worship the Lord proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Then in the beauty of holiness! as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Peter said to Jesus, ‘Rabbi, it is good for us to bow down before him, Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who said, ‘Let be here; let us make three dwellings, one for his glory proclaim; light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.’ He with gold of obedience, our hearts to give the light of the knowledge did not know what to say, for they were and incense of lowliness, of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. terrified. Then a cloud overshadowed them, kneel and adore him, and from the cloud there came a voice, ‘This the Lord is his name! This is the word of the Lord. is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!’ Thanks be to God. John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811-1875) Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus.

As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they Collect had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen Almighty Father, from the dead. whose Son was revealed in majesty before he suffered death upon the cross: This is the word of the Lord. give us grace to perceive his glory, Thanks be to God. that we may be strengthened to suffer with him and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.