Online worship for 26 February | Windmill United Benefice

This Sunday, 26 February, there are services of Holy Communion at 9.30am at St Bartholomew, Burstow, at 10am at St Mary the Virgin, Horne and at 11am at St John the Baptist, Outwood. And as always, there is an online service here, too, which this week is led by the Revd Charles Sargent

To follow today’s online service just click on the arrow here and find the words below.

A hymn is sung

Forty days and forty nights
You were fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted still, yet unbeguiled.

Sunbeams scorching all the day,
Chilly dew-drops nightly shed,
Prowling beasts about your way,
Stones your pillow, earth your bed.

Let us your endurance share
And from earthly greed abstain,
With you vigilant in prayer,
With you strong to suffer pain.

Then if evil on us press,
Flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness,
Help us not to swerve or fail.

So shall peace divine be ours;
Holy gladness pure and true;
Come to us, angelic powers,
Such as ministered to you.

Keep, O keep us Saviour dear
Ever constant by your side
That with you we may appear
At th’ eternal Eastertide.

G H Smyttan (1822-70) adapted by Michael Forster (b. 1946)
© 1999 Kevin Mayhew Ltd.

This is the day that the Lord has made.

Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

The Collect prayer for the first Sunday of Lent

Almighty God,
whose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness,
and was tempted as we are, yet without sin:
give us grace to discipline ourselves in obedience to your Spirit;
and, as you know our weakness,
so may we know your power to save;
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.

The readings
by Ginette Nye

The first reading is Exodus 24: 12-18

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 Matthew 17: 1-9

This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ.

Talk
by Revd Charles Sargent

The Prayers

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.

Blessing

A hymn is sung

Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
O’er the world’s tempestuous sea;
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
For we have no help but thee;
Yet possessing every blessing
If our God our Father be.

Saviour, breathe forgiveness o’er us:
All our weakness thou dost know;
Thou didst tread this earth before us,
Thou didst feel its keenest woe;
Lone and dreary, faint and weary,
Through the desert thou didst go.

Spirit of our God, descending,
Fill our hearts with heav’nly joy,
Love with ev’ry passion blending,
Pleasure that can never cloy:
Thus provided, pardoned, guided,
Nothing can our peace destroy.

Organist: Peter Nye

Hymn words reproduced under CCLI: 845257.