This Sunday, 19 March, is Mothering Sunday and posies of flowers will be handed to everyone at the three Benefice services: Morning Worship at 9.30am at St Bartholomew, Burstow, Holy Communion at 10am at St Mary the Virgin, Horne and Morning Worship 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 Nicholas Calver
To follow today’s online service just click on the arrow here and find the words below.
A hymn is sung
Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord
Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice;
Tender to me the promise of his word;
In God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice.
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his name:
Make known his might, the deeds his arm has done;
His mercy sure, from age to age the same;
His holy name, the Lord, the mighty one.
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his might:
Pow’rs and dominions lay their glory by;
Proud hearts and stubborn wills are put to flight,
The hungry fed, the humble lifted high.
Tell out, my soul, the glories of his word:
Firm is his promise and his mercy sure.
Tell out, my soul the greatness of the Lord
To children’s children and for evermore.
T Dudley-Smith (b 1926) based on Luke 1:46-55
© Timothy Dudley-Smith, administered by Oxford University Press in Europe
Used by permission
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Let us pray:
The Collect for Mothering Sunday
God of compassion, whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary,
shared the life of a home in Nazareth,
and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself:
strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow
we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal;
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 Wendy Jeavons
The New Testament reading is Colossians 3: 12-17
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel reading is from John 19: 25-27
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ.
Talk
by Revd Nicholas Calver
The Anthem
‘For the beauty of the earth’ by John Rutter, sung by the choir of St Mary the Virgin, Horne on Mothering Sunday 2019
For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
For the beauty of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flow’r,
Sun and moon, and stars of light:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth, and friends above;
pleasures pure and undefiled:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
For each perfect gift of thine,
To our race so freely giv’n;
graces human and divine,
flow’rs of earth and buds of heav’n:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
For thy church, which evermore
Lifteth holy hands above,
Off’ring up on ev’ry shore
her pure sacrifice of love:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
The Prayers
The response to the prayers is:
Lord in your mercy
Hear our 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.
Blessing
A hymn is sung
Now thank we all our God,
With hearts and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things hath done,
In whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mother’s arms
Hath blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love,
And still is ours today.
O may this bounteous God
Through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts
and blessèd peace to cheer us;
And keep us in his grace,
And guide us when perplexed,
And free us from all ills
In this world and the next.
All praise and thanks to God
The Father now be given,
The Son and him who reigns
With them in highest heaven,
The one eternal God,
Whom earth and heav’n adore;
For thus it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.
Organist: Peter Nye
Hymn words reproduced under CCLI: 845257
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.