SUNG EUCHARIST ATTENDED BY THE MAYOR OF CHICHESTER, MEMBERS OF CHICHESTER CITY COUNCIL AND DELEGATES OF THE COBURG CONFERENCE Sunday 13th October 2019 at 11.00am Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity WELCOME TO CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL This booklet contains all you will need to follow the Cathedral Eucharist. Please take it home to aid your daily devotions. 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 the stewards if you would like a copy. If you wish to receive a gluten-free wafer at the communion, please indicate this to one of the stewards before the Service. An induction loop is provided for the benefit of hearing aid users. To use this, please switch your hearing aid to ‘T’. A collection will be taken after The Peace. Very many regular, even infrequent, members of the congregation adopt Christian Stewardship and donate to the Cathedral by the Parish Giving Scheme. For more information about this, please see the Pew Sheet or pick up details at the Information Desk or ask a steward. GIFT AID - If you are a UK taxpayer, it would help enormously if you would place your donation in a Gift Aid envelope (included in the service booklet) before putting it in the collection, because we can then reclaim 25p from HMRC for every £1 you give. The Cathedral Choristers are educated at the Prebendal School. For more information about the outstanding educational opportunities offered by the school please visit www.prebendalschool.org.uk Children’s activities - A crèche and children’s group, Pebbles (ages 2-11), meet in the Canons’ Vestry during this service. If your children would like to join the group please ask a steward for more information. Parents are welcome too! Toy bags are also available during the service. Photography, filming and audio recording are not permitted during this service. 2 ORDER OF SERVICE Celebrant The Reverend Canon Tim Schofield, Precentor The Gathering Please stand. Processional Hymn The congregation is invited to sing today’s hymns in either English or German: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen King of creation; König der Ehren, O my soul, praise him, for he is thy meine geliebete Seele, das ist mein health and salvation: Begehren. come ye who hear, Kommet zuhauf, brothers and sisters draw near, Psalter und Harfe, wacht auf, praise him in glad adoration. lasset den Lobgesang hören! Praise to the Lord, who o’er all things Lobe den Herren, der alles so herrlich so wondrously reigneth, regieret, shelters thee under his wings, yea, so der dich auf Adelers Fittichen sicher gently sustaineth: geführet, hast thou not seen der dich erhält, all that is needful hath been wie es dir selber gefällt; granted in what he ordaineth? hast du nicht dieses verspüret? 3 Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper Lobe den Herren, der sichtbar dein thy work, and defend thee; Leben gesegnet, surely his goodness and mercy here der aus dem Himmel mit Strömen der daily attend thee; Liebe geregnet. ponder anew Denke daran, all the Almighty can do, was der Allmächtige kann, he who with love doth befriend thee. der dir mit Liebe begegnet! Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in Lobe den Herren, was in mir ist, lobe me adore him! den Namen. All that hath life and breath come now Alles, was Odem hat, lobe mit with praises before him! Abrahams Samen. Let the Amen Er ist dein Licht, sound from his people again: Seele, vergiß es ja nicht. gladly for ay we adore him. Lob ihn in Ewigkeit! Amen. NEH 440 / Evangelisches Gesangbuch 316 Lobe den Herren Joachim Neander (1650-1680) Melody to Hast du denn, Liebster tr. Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878) and others set to Neander’s Lobe den Herren (Psalm 103) in The Chorale Book for England (1863) The president greets the people: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Lord be with you and also with you. Prayer of Preparation Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen. 4 Prayers of Penitence The people are invited to call to mind and 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. Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in life eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 5 The choir sings Gloria in excelsis Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, goodwill towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesu Christ: O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art Most High, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Communion Service in C and F Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) The Collect Let us pray. Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Please sit. 6 The Liturgy of the Word First Reading 2 KINGS 5: 1, 9-15C Read by Cllr Richard Plowman, Mayor of Chichester Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favour with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, ‘Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.’ But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, ‘I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy! Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?’ He turned and went away in a rage. But his servants approached and said to him, ‘Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, “Wash, and be clean”?’ So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean. Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; Naaman came and stood before him and said, ‘Now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel.’ This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 7 The choir sings Psalm 111 I will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart: secretly among the faithful, and in the congregation. The works of the Lord are great: sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour: and his righteousness endureth for ever. The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous works: that they ought to be had in remembrance. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he shall ever be mindful of his covenant. He hath shewed his people the power of his works: that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. The works of his hands are verity and judgement: all his com- mandments are true. They stand fast for ever and ever: and are done in truth and equity. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever; holy and reverend is his Name. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good under- standing have all they that do thereafter; the praise of it endureth for ever. Second Reading 2 TIMOTHY 2: 8-15 Read by The Reverend Ulrike Trautwein Superintendent Bishop of the Evangelische Kirche in Berlin Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David – that is my gospel, for which I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal.