This Sunday, 12 July, is the Sixth Sunday after Trinity. There are services of Morning Worship at 9am in St Bartholomew, Burstow and at 11am in St John the Baptist, Outwood and Holy Communion at 10am in St Mary the Virgin, Horne. Café Church is at 3pm in Smallfield Church Hall.
This week’s online service is led by the Revd Alan Bayes.
To follow today’s online service, click on the arrow here and find the words below.
Come down, O Love divine,
Seek thou this soul of mine,
And visit it with thine own ardour glowing;
O Comforter, draw near,
within my heart appear,
And kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.
O let it freely burn,
Till earthly passions turn
To dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
And let thy glorious light
shine ever on my sight,
And clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
Let holy charity
Mine outward vesture be,
And lowliness become mine inner clothing;
True lowliness of heart,
which takes the humbler part,
And o’er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
And so the yearning strong,
With which the soul will long,
Shall far outpass the pow’r of human telling;
Nor can we guess its grace,
till we become the place
Wherein the Holy Spirit makes his dwelling.
Bianco da Siena (d.1434) trans. Richard Litterdale (1833-1890)
Tune: Down Ampney, R Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
You raise the dead to life in the spirit.
Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
You bring pardon and peace to the broken in heart.
Christ have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
You make one by your Spirit the torn and divided.
Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Absolution
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.
The Collect Prayer
Almighty and everlasting God,
by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church
is governed and sanctified:
hear our prayer which we offer for
all your faithful people,
that in their vocation and ministry
they may serve you in holiness and truth
to the glory of your name;
through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Sprit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen.
The Readings
The first reading is from Isaiah 55:1-13
Read by Ginette Nye
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel reading is from Matthew 13:1-9,18-23
Read by Sue Wates
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ.
Talk
by Revd Alan Bayes
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Grant, O Lord, we beseech you,
that the course of this world
may be so peaceably ordered by your governance,
that your Church may joyfully serve you
in all godly quietness;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Blessing
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
In the name of Christ. Amen.
How shall I sing that majesty which angels do admire?
Let dust in dust and silence lie; sing, sing, ye heav’nly choir.
Thousands of thousands stand around Thy throne, O God most high;
Ten thousand times ten thousand sound Thy praise; but who am I?
Thy brightness unto them appears, whilst I Thy footsteps trace;
A sound of God comes to my ears, but they behold Thy face.
They sing because Thou art their Sun; Lord, send a beam on me;
For where heaven is but once begun there alleluyas be.
Enlighten with faith’s light my heart, inflame it with love’s fire;
Then shall I sing and bear a part with that celestial choir.
I shall, I fear, be dark and cold, with all my fire and light;
Yet when Thou dost accept their gold, Lord, treasure up my mite.
How great a being, Lord, is thine, which doth all beings keep!
Thy knowledge is the only line to sound so vast a deep.
Thou art a sea without a shore, a sun without a sphere;
Thy time is now and evermore, thy place is ev’rywhere.
John Mason (1645-1694)
Tune: Coe Fen, Ken Naylor (1931-1991)
Organist: Peter Nye.
Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England (2000), material from which is included in this service, is copyright © The Archbishops’ Council 2000.
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