St. Giles’ Cathedral
Morning Service at 11am
All Saints
Sunday 5th November 2023
Organ Music
Georg Böhm Vater unser im Himmelreich
C.V.Stanford Prelude on Tallis’ Canon
Introit
Hear me O God
Hear me O God in the multitude of thy mercy
Even in the truth of thy salvation
Text: Psalm 69 v14
Music: Stuart Murray Mitchell
Processional Hymn
Ye holy angels bright,
who wait at God's right hand,
or through the realms of light
fly at your Lord's command,
assist our song,
or else the theme
too high doth seem
for mortal tongue.
Ye blessed souls at rest,
who ran this earthly race,
and now from sin released,
behold the Saviour's face,
his praises sound,
as in his light
with sweet delight
ye do abound.
Ye saints, who toil below,
adore your heavenly King,
and, onward as ye go
some joyful anthem sing;
take what he gives
and praise him still,
through good and ill,
who ever lives.
My soul, bear thou thy part,
triumph in God above,
and with a well-tuned heart
sing thou the songs of love.
Let all thy days
till life shall end,
whate'er he send,
be filled with praise.
Text: Richard Baxter 1615-91 and others
Music: Darwall’s 148th CH4 449 John Darwall 1731-89
Scripture Sentences
The Preces
O Lord open thou our lips
Thomas Morley 1557-1602
Bidding
Prayer
Collect
Eternal God, neither death nor life can separate us from your love. Grant that we may serve you faithfully here on earth, and in heaven rejoice with all your saints who ceaselessly proclaim your glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen
First Lesson Revelation 7 9-17
The Choir sings Psalm 43
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Second Lesson St Matthew 5 1-12
Hymn
Blest be the everlasting God
the Father of our Lord!
Be his abounding mercy praised,
his majesty adored!
When from the dead he raised his Son,
and called him to the sky,
he gave our souls a lively hope
that they should never die.
To an inheritance divine
he taught our hearts to rise;
'tis uncorrupted, undefiled,
unfading in the skies.
Saints by the power of God are kept,
till the salvation come:
we walk by faith as strangers here:
but Christ shall call us home.
Text: Scottish Paraphrases 1781 From 1 St Peter 1:3-5
Music: Bishopthorpe CH4 424 Probably by Jeremiah Clarke c.1673-1707
Sermon
Anthem
And I saw a new heaven
And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth
For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away
and there was no more sea, And I John saw the holy city,
Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying,
Behold the tabernacle of God is with men
and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them and be their God
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes
And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying
neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away.
Text: Revelation 21 1-4
Music: Edgar Bainton 1880-1956
The Offering
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.
Hymn
Give thanks for life, the measure of our days,
mortal we pass through beauty that decays,
yet sing to God our hope, our love, our praise,
Alleluia!
Give thanks for those who made their life a light
caught from the Christ-flame, bursting through the night,
who touched the truth, who burned for what is right,
Alleluia!
And for our own, our living and our dead,
thanks for the love by which our life is fed,
a love not changed by time or death or dread,
Alleluia!
Give thanks for hope, that like the wheat, the grain
that lies in darkness does its life retain
in resurrection to grow green again,
Alleluia!
Text: Shirley Elena Murray 1931-2020
Tune: Sine nomine CH4 736 Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958
Benediction
Organ Voluntary
J.S.Bach Prelude in C major BWV 547
CCL Licence No 980930
Streaming Licence 57837
The service was conducted by The Rev Sigrid Marten