Orders of Service

 

        

Sunday 17th   March 2024

5th Sunday in Lent

Passiontide

 

 A Service of Words & Praise

 

 

 

 

303 Lift high the Cross (omit v3,4,5,6,7)

 

PASSIONTIDE is the last two weeks of Lent, when the readings and prayers of the liturgy focus on the Passion of Our Lord, referring to the historical events of Jesus' suffering and death.

It is also St Patrick’s Day.

 

Let us worship God

 

We have come together as the family of God

in our Father’s presence

to offer him praise and thanksgiving

to hear his holy word,

to bring before him the needs of the world,

to ask his forgiveness of our sins,

and to seek his grace

 

 

CONFESSION – sit or kneel

 

Leader:  Let us confess our sins in penitence and faith, firmly resolved to keep God’s commandments and to live in love and peace with all men.

 

All:  Almighty God our heavenly Father,

we have sinned against you and against our neighbour,

in thought, word and deed,

through negligence, through weakness,

through our own deliberate fault.

We are truly sorry and repent of all our sins.

Forgive us all that is past;

and grant that we may serve you in newness of life

to the glory of your name.  Amen

 

Leader:  Almighty God,

who forgives all who truly repent,

have mercy upon us,

pardon and deliver us from all our sins,

confirm and strengthen us in all goodness,

and keep us in life eternal.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen

 

Collect for  5th  Sunday of  Lent

Most merciful God,

who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ

delivered and saved the world:

grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross

we may triumph in the power of his victory;

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.

 

 

MINISTRY OF THE WORD – please sit.

 

Hebrews 5.5-10

 

69 Breath on me, Breath of God

 

John 12.20-33

 

Reflection read by Linda Rose

 

Interlude:    Chorale Prelude: Abridge by C S Lang

 

An affirmation of our faith

 

All: 

We believe in God the Father,

from whom every family

in heaven and earth is named.

 

We believe in God the Son,

who lives in our hearts through faith,

and fills us with his love.

 

We believe in God the Holy Spirit,

who strengthens us

with power from on high.

 

We believe in one God;

Father, Son and Holy Spirit.   Amen

 

 

293  Lead us heavenly father lead us

 

(The collection will be presented.)

 

Leader: 

Accept, O Lord, the offerings we have made, of ourselves and our possessions; and grant that we may ever work and pray to build a world of peace and joy and freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen

 

       Let us pray

 

Intercessions, followed by The Lord’s Prayer     

 

All:  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 that 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

 

 

446 Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle part 1 only v 1 – 4 

 

 

 

Dismissal

O God, knowing your almighty power, and your infinite goodness and mercy,
We pray, by the merits of the Passion and Death of our Saviour Jesus Christ, you will grant us eternal life, which you have promised to all who do the works of a good Christian;
and these we resolve to do, with the help of your Grace.

Amen.      

 

Blessing

All: Bless to us, O God, the road that is before us,

Bless to us, O God, the friends who are around us,

Bless to us, O God, your love which is within us,

Bless to us, O God, the light that leads us home.

Amen

 

Let us go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All:  In the name of Christ.  Amen

 

Voluntary:

Toccata Prima by Georg Muffat

Organist: James Lilwall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEXT SUNDAY:  Palm Sunday Service at 1030

 

 

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