Organ Music

Jean Langlais Andante in Mode of D
Ernest Bullock Rhapsody No 2

Introit

O taste and see

O taste and see how gracious the Lord is:
blest is the man that trusteth in him.

Text: Text: Psalm 34 8
Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958

Processional Hymn

Sing for God’s glory that colours the dawn of creation,
racing across the sky, trailing bright clouds of elation;
sun of delight
succeeds the velvet of night,
warming the earth’s exultation.

Sing for God’s power that shatters the chains that would bind us,
searing the darkness of fear and despair that could blind us,
touching our shame
with love that will not lay blame,
reaching out gently to find us.

Sing for God’s justice disturbing each easy illusion,
tearing down tyrants and putting our pride to confusion;
lifeblood of right,
resisting evil and slight,
offering freedom’s transfusion.

Sing for God’s saints who have travelled faith’s journey before us,
who in our weariness give us their hope to restore us;
in them we see
the new creation to be,
spirit of love made flesh for us.

Text: Kathryn Galloway b.1952
Music: Lobe den Herren CH4 124 Praxis Pietatis Melica 1668

Invitation

Confession

God of all mercy, give us grace to make a new start today. We know we have not loved you with our whole heart, nor have we loved our neighbour as ourselves. As we hope to be forgiven, teach us also to forgive; and lead us forward in a new life where neither grudges nor resentment have a part; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Kyrie Eleison sung by the Choir

Kyrie Eleison
Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison

Missa brevis Mátyás Seiber

Declaration of forgiveness

Gloria patri sung by the choir (Ridout)

First Lesson   Leviticus 19 1-2, 9-18

Metrical Psalm

The Lord doth reign, and clothed is he
with majesty most bright;
his works do show him clothed to be,
and girt about with might.

The world is also stablished,
that it cannot depart.
Thy throne is fixed of old, and thou
from everlasting art.

The floods, O Lord, have lifted up,
they lifted up their voice;
the floods have lifted up their waves,
and made a mighty noise.

But yet the Lord, that is on high,
is more of might by far
than noise of many waters is,
of great sea-billows are.

Thy testimonies every one
in faithfulness excel;
and holiness for ever, Lord,
thine house becometh well.

Text: Scottish Psalter 1929 Psalm 93
Music: Stroudwater from Wilkins’s Psalmody c.1730

The Gospel    St Matthew 5 39-48

The Sermon

The Apostles' Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
Born of the Virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, dead, and buried:
He descended into hell;
The third day he rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
The Holy Catholic Church;
The Communion of Saints;
The Forgiveness of sins;
The Resurrection of the body,
And the Life everlasting.

The Offering

The Intercessions

Gloria in Excelsis sung by the choir

Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, goodwill towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty.

O Lord, the only-begotten Son Jesu Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.

For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Missa brevis William Mathias

Thanksgiving

The Lord be with you
And also with you

Lift up your hearts
We lift them to the Lord

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
It is right to give our thanks and praise

Prayer

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in 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.

Agnus Dei

Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world,
Have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world,
Have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world,
Grant us your peace.

Holy Communion

During Communion the Choir sings

Agnus Dei
O Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world, have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world, have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world, grant us your peace.

Music: William Mathias 1934-1992

Prayer

Hymn

Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round
of circling planets singing on their way;
guide of the nations from the night profound
into the glory of the perfect day;
rule in our hearts, and keep us ever true,
directed, strengthened and upheld by you.

We are your own, the children of your love,
your family, with your beloved Son;
come to us, Holy Spirit, like a dove,
and fill our hearts that we may be as one:
as one with you, our comforter and friend;
as one with him, our way, our life, our end.

We would be one in hatred of all wrong,
one in our love of all things kind and fair,
one with the joy that finds a voice in song
one with the grief that trembles into prayer,
one in the power that sets us free from fear
to follow truth, and so to find you near.

Text: John White Chadwick 1840-1904
Tune: Song 1 CH4 269 Melody and most of the bass by Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625

Benediction

Organ Voluntary
Louis Vierne Carillon de Westminster