Chelmsford Cathedral © Mike Moyers, 2020 The Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity ENVIRONMENT SUNDAY Sunday 6th June 2021 at 10.30am President: The Very Rev’d Nicholas Henshall Preacher: The Ven Elizabeth Snowden You are warmly welcomed to the Eucharist at Chelmsford Cathedral. Today is the First Sunday after Trinity. It is also Environment Sunday, and so in today’s service we encourage awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Everything you need for this celebration is in this booklet. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. Hearing Aids: There is a loop system installed throughout the church. If you are a hearing aid user, please turn it to T. Music: The music today is sung by the Occasional Singers. The organist is James Davy, Organist and Master of the Choristers. Please feel free to join in at home with the singing of the hymns. You are warmly invited to make a financial contribution to the life of the cathedral by making a donation using the contactless giving plates near the doors. Your gift will be used to enable us to deliver our ministry in its varied forms, from hosting community events, cultural activities, maintaining free entry to this glorious building, supporting our musical and worship tradition and much more. If you would like to find out more about our planned giving scheme, please ask one of the stewards. To donate online, please visit the cathedral website, scroll towards the bottom of the page and under the heading “supporting your cathedral” click the link. Thank you. Receiving communion: You are invited to receive communion (in one kind – the bread) at your seat. Please hold out your hands to receive and the bread will be placed in your hands. Gluten-free wafers are available. Please speak to one of the stewards. If the alarm sounds, please exit the Cathedral and, if safe, assemble at the rear of the Shire Hall in the South Eastern corner of the churchyard. Please leave your belongings until it is safe to collect them. Rubrics: Please stand or sit as is comfortable for you. If you would like to know more about the Christian faith and the life of the Christian community in this place please speak to Canon Imogen Nay, ring 01245 294486 or visit us at chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk. Do join us for coffee outside after the service. Please bring your own mug. Zoom coffee will also take place at 12pm. Meeting ID: 894 9109 5348; passcode: 631194, (contact Yvonne Spence for more details). Music copyright: permission to copy words and music covered by One License A-633635. 2 Music before the Service ¶ The Gathering Before the celebration begins, the congregation is welcomed. Please stand The Greeting The President says The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all All and also with you. Prayers of Penitence The Deacon says Let us confess our greed and repent of the ways in which we have damaged God’s good creation: We confess to you our lack of care for the world you have given us. Lord have mercy. All Lord, have mercy. We confess to you our selfishness in not sharing the earth’s bounty fairly. Christ have mercy. All Christ, have mercy. We confess to you our failure to protect the environment. Lord have mercy. All Lord, have mercy. 3 The President declares God’s forgiveness May the Father of all mercies cleanse you from your sins, and restore you in his image to the praise and glory of his name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. All Amen. The choir sings The Gloria Gloria in excelsis deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te. Glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata mundi suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus sanctus. Tu solus Dominus, Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris. Amen. 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. Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord the Only- begotten Son, Jesus Christ. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. Thou that takest away the sins of the world have mercy on us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world receive our prayer. Thou sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For thou only art holy. Thou only art the Lord. Thou only art the Most High, Jesus Christ. With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen. The Collect The President says Let us pray. The congregation, still standing, remains for a short time in silent prayer, after which the President prays: In a time of silence, let us pray that our worship will bring us closer to the one who has created all things. Glorious God, the whole creation proclaims your marvellous work: increase in us a capacity to wonder and delight in it, that heaven’s praise may echo in our hearts and our lives be spent as good stewards of the earth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. All Amen. 4 Please sit ¶ The Liturgy of the Word The First Reading Job 28 v 1 - 11 ‘Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold to be refined. Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. Miners put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness. They open shafts in a valley away from human habitation; they are forgotten by travellers, they sway suspended, remote from people. As for the earth, out of it comes bread; but underneath it is turned up as by fire. Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold. ‘That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it. The proud wild animals have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it. ‘They put their hand to the flinty rock, and overturn mountains by the roots. They cut out channels in the rocks, and their eyes see every precious thing. The sources of the rivers they probe; hidden things they bring to light. I know that my Redeemer lives All and that at the last he will stand upon the earth. Psalm 130 Please remain seated as the choir sings the psalm. Refrain: My soul waits for the Lord. Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice; let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication. If you, Lord, were to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you shall be feared. 5 Refrain: My soul waits for the Lord. I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; in his word is my hope. My soul waits for the Lord, more than the night watch for the morning, more than the night watch for the morning. Refrain: My soul waits for the Lord. O Israel, wait for the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy; With him is plenteous redemption and he shall redeem Israel from all their sins. Refrain: My soul waits for the Lord. Alleluia Please stand as the choir sings Choir I am the light of the world, says the Lord: whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life. All Alleluia… The Gospel Reading Mark 4 v 30 - 32 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark. Choir Jesus also said, ‘With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.’ 6 This is the Gospel of the Lord. Choir Please sit The Sermon The Ven Elizabeth Snowden, Archdeacon of Chelmsford Music after the Sermon Organ music Please stand Nicene Creed We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. 7 We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.