Morning Service Sunday 6 October 2024

Welcome and Intimations

Prayer and 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.

You Call Us, Lord, to Worship

(Tune: The Day of Resurrection)

1. You call us, Lord, to worship; the day is set aside.
   Your love is overflowing; the doors are opened wide.
   Yet as we see your goodness, we see what we have been.
   And so we humbly ask you, "Forgive us of our sin!"
   

2. We are forgiven people; we know your love's embrace.
   The peace of Christ is with us; forgiveness fills this place.
   We hear your word in scripture, in sermon and in song.
   Again, again, you tell us: we're loved and we belong.
   

3. We share our joys and sorrows and then we offer prayer
   For people who are hurting, for nations everywhere.
   We bring our tithes and offerings, returning what is yours,
   For what we keep may vanish, but what we give endures.
   

4. We celebrate your love, Lord, with water, wine and bread.
   For at your font we're welcomed and at your feast we're fed.
   We pray the prayer you taught us; we sing your praise and then
   Through daily, faithful living, we worship you again.
   

2002 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette

1. Job 1:1, 2:1-10
2. Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12

CH4 5 O Lord, Our Lord, Throughout the Earth

(Psalm 8)

1. O Lord, our Lord, throughout the earth
   how glorious is your name,
   and glorious too where unseen heavens
   your majesty proclaim.
   On infant lips, in children’s song
   a strong defence you raise
   to counter enemy and threat,
   and foil the rebel’s ways.
   

2. When I look up and see the stars
   which your own fingers made,
   and wonder at the moon and stars,
   each perfectly displayed;
   then I must ask, ‘Why do you care?
   Why love humanity?
   And why keep every mortal name
   in your memory?’
   

3. Yet such as us you made and meant
   just less than gods to be;
   with honour and with glory, Lord,
   you crowned humanity.
   And then dominion you bestowed
   for all made by your hand,
   all sheep and cattle, birds and fish
   that move through sea or land.
   
   Coda:
   O Lord, our Lord, throughout the earth
   how glorious is your name!
   

WGRG, The Iona Community

Meditation

CH4 667 Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling

1. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling
   of the glorious body sing,
   and the blood, all price excelling,
   which the world's great Lord and King,
   in a virgin's womb once dwelling,
   shed for this world's ransoming.
   

2. That last night, at supper lying,
   with the Twelve, his chosen band,
   Jesus, with the law complying,
   keeps the feast its rites demand;
   then, more precious food supplying,
   gives himself with his own hand.
   

3. Word-made-flesh! his word is making
   earthly bread his flesh to be,
   wine his blood; and all partaking
   should from sinful thoughts be free.
   Faith alone, sight's limits breaking,
   show true hearts the mystery.
   

4. Therefore we, before him bending,
   this great sacrament revere;
   older rituals have their ending,
   for the newer rite is here;
   faith, our outward sense befriending,
   makes our inner vision clear.
   

5. Unto God be praise and honour:
   to the Father, to the Son,
   to the mighty Spirit, glory,
   ever Three and ever One:
   power and glory in the highest
   while eternal ages run. Amen.
   

COMMUNION

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 252 As a Fire Is Meant for Burning

1. As a fire is meant for burning
   with a bright and warming flame,
   so the church is meant for mission,
   giving glory to God’s name.
   Preaching Christ, and not our customs,
   let us build build a bridge of care,
   joining hands across the nations,
   finding neighbours everywhere.
   

2. We are learners; we are teachers;
   we are pilgrims on the way.
   We are seekers; we are givers;
   we are vessels made of clay.
   By our gentle loving actions,
   we would show that Christ is light.
   in a humble, listening Spirit,
   we will live to God’s delight.
   

3. As a green bud in the springtime
   is a sign of life renewed,
   so may we be signs of oneness
   mid earth’s peoples many hued.
   As a rainbow lights the heavens
   when a storm is past and gone,
   may our lives reflect the radiance
   of God’s new and glorious dawn.
   

1992, GIA Publications, Inc.

Blessing