This Sunday is the First Sunday of Lent. There are services of Holy Communion at 9:30am in St Bartholomew’s, Burstow; at 10am in St Mary the Virgin, Horne; and at 11am in St John the Baptist, Outwood.
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.
Forty days and forty nights
thou wast fasting the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted, and yet undefiled.
Sunbeams scorching all the day,
chilly dew-drops nightly shed,
prowling beasts about thy way,
stones thy pillow, earth thy bed.
Shall not we thy sorrows share,
and from earthly joys abstain,
fasting with unceasing prayer,
glad with thee to suffer pain?
And if Satan, vexing sore,
flesh or spirit should assail,
thou, his vanquisher before,
grant we may not faint nor fail.
So shall we have peace divine;
holier gladness ours shall be;
round us too shall angels shine,
such as ministered to thee.
Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
ever constant by thy side,
that with thee we may appear
at the eternal Eastertide!
George Hunt Smyttan (1822-1870) and Francis Pott (1832-1909)
Tune: Aus der tiefe, Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch (1676)
Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
And also with you.
Introduction
Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin.
Lord, have mercy,
Lord have mercy.
Make me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Christ have mercy,
Christ have mercy.
Cast me not away from your presence and take not your holy spirit from me.
Lord, have mercy,
Lord have mercy.
Absolution
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
Read by Ginette Nye
The first reading is from Genesis 2:15-17,3:1-7
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 4:1-11
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.
Lord God,
you have renewed us with the living bread from heaven;
by it you nourish our faith,
increase our hope, and strengthen our love.
Teach us always to hunger for him
who is the true and living bread,
and enable us to live by every word
that proceeds from out of your mouth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Blessing
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
In the name of Christ. Amen.
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.
And so the yearning strong,
with which the soul will long,
shall far out pass the power of human telling;
for none can guess its grace,
till Love create a place
wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling.
Bianco da Siena (c1350-1434), trans. Richard Frederick Littledale (1833-1890)
Tune: Down Ampney, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
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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