SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL The First Sunday of Advent An inclusive Christian community Sunday 3 December 2017 growing in orthodox faith and radical love Welcome to Southwark Cathedral. Children and young people during the We are a community that seeks to enfold 11.00am Eucharist: all people in the love of God. If you wish to Accompanied under-4s: Crèche with play mats, speak to a priest after the service, if you wish toys, songs and stories in the Education Centre. to find a corner to pray, if you wish simply to Reception class to Year 3: find some peace, please feel free and welcome JuniorXpress 1 in the to do so. Education Centre. Years 4-6: JuniorXpress 2 in the Queen Communicant members of all denominations Elizabeth Room. are welcome to receive Communion at this 11-18 s: YouthXpress 10.30am on first and service; please come forward as directed by third Sunday of the month in the John Trevor the Stewards. If you do not wish to receive Williams Room. Communion but would like a blessing, please bring the service booklet with you. Following the Choral Eucharist tea and coffee are served. Participation. If you have been a regular at the Cathedral for six months or more, Listen up! Sermons delivered in the Cathedral please ensure that your name is added to are available as text from cathedral. the Cathedral Electoral Roll - ask Stewards southwark.anglican.org/sermons, where you for details or email cathedral@southwark. can also find the weekly service sheet. They anglican.org can also be downloaded as from iTunes by searching for Southwark Cathedral Sermons. Giving: Regular worshippers are asked to join the Planned Giving Scheme by setting Weekly e-newsletter Keep up-to- up a bankers order. This greatly helps the date with events at Southwark Cathedral: Cathedral with financial planning. A blue form cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/signup is available from the Stewards. 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Today’s Services 8.30am Morning Prayer – Southwark Cathedral Reading Psalm 44; Isaiah 2. 1–5 Officiant The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean 9.00am Eucharist – Southwark Cathedral Readings Isaiah 64. 1–9; 1 Corinthians 1. 3–9; Mark 13. 24–27 Preacher The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean 9.30am Eucharist – St Hugh’s Preacher The Reverend Duncan Myers 11.00am Choral Eucharist and Rededication of the organ – Southwark Cathedral President Canon Gilly Myers, Precentor Preacher The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean Setting Missa Orbis factor ∙ Plainsong Keep in touch southwarkcathedral.org.uk twitter: @southwarkcathed Voluntary facebook: /southwarkcathedral Rorate coeli ∙ Jeanne Demessieux 020 7367 6700 A Safe Church Stand Entrance Hymn Any issues relating to the safeguarding of children or NEH 11 vulnerable adults should be directed to the Cathedral Safeguarding Officers: O come, O come, Emmanuel! Redeem thy captive Israel, Matthew Knight That into exile drear is gone [email protected] Far from the face of God’s dear Son. 020 7367 6726 Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Cherry James Shall come to thee, O Israel. [email protected] O come, thou Wisdom from on high! Jill Tilley Who madest all in earth and sky, [email protected] Creating man from dust and clay: Concerns can be brought to any member of the clergy. To us reveal salvation’s way. 3 O come, O come, Adonaï, When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, Who in thy glorious majesty you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. From Sinai’s mountain, clothed with awe, From ages past no one has heard, Gavest thy folk the ancient law. no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, O come, thou Root of Jesse! draw who works for those who wait for him. The quarry from the lion’s claw; You meet those who gladly do right, From those dread caverns of the grave, those who remember you in your ways. From nether hell, thy people save. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed. O come, thou Lord of David’s Key! We have all become like one who is unclean, The royal door fling wide and free; and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. Safeguard for us the heavenward road, We all fade like a leaf, And bar the way to death’s abode. and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. There is no one who calls on your name, O come, O come, thou Dayspring bright! or attempts to take hold of you; Pour on our souls thy healing light; for you have hidden your face from us, Dispel the long night’s lingering gloom, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. And pierce the shadows of the tomb. Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; O come, Desire of nations! show we are all the work of your hand. Thy kingly reign on earth below; Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, Thou Corner-stone, uniting all, and do not remember iniquity for ever. Restore the ruin of our fall. Now consider, we are all your people. Cologne 1710, based on the ancient Advent Antiphons Translated by Thomas Alexander Lacey and Editors Advent Prose Sit First Reading Second Reading Isaiah 64. 1–9 1 Corinthians 1. 3–9 Read by Alison Walker. Read by Elizabeth James. A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah. A reading from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, My brothers and sisters: so that the mountains would quake at your presence— Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has so that the nations might tremble at your presence! been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— just as the testimony of Christ has been 4 5 strengthened among you— so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as Sit Sermon you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen you The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Rededication of the Cathedral Organ After the sermon, the Dean introduces the rededication, and then moves into the Quire Stand Gospel Acclamation with the president and deacon. They are joined by the Cathedral organists. Dean Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, Gospel Sentence to you be praise and glory for ever. The whole earth delights in your gift of music; I have told you this before it occurs, says the Lord, you have inspired musicians throughout the ages so that when it does occur, you may believe. to articulate in tune and harmony the breadth of human expression. As voice and instrument raise their resonant sounds of devotion may we never cease to praise your name, Gospel Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Mark 13. 24–37 All Blessed be God for ever. Jesus said to his disciples: The Dean censes the organ. ‘But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, Chorale Prelude and the stars will be falling from heaven, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659) ∙ Johann Sebastian Bach and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see “the Son of Man coming in clouds” with great power and glory. Then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from Sit Intercessions the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. Led by Linda Ridgers-Waite. ‘From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly I tell you, Offertory Anthem this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven And the glory of the Lord (Messiah) ∙ Georg Friedrich Händel and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. ‘But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Stand Offertory Hymn Son, but only the Father. Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time NEH 18 will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work and commands the doorkeeper to be on the Ye servants of the Lord watch. Therefore, keep awake—for you do not know when the master of the Each for your Master wait, house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, or Observant of his heavenly word, else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly.