Watchword for the Week
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new
and right spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10)
(Moravian Daily Texts 2018)
ORGAN PRELUDE
WELCOME and OPENING RESPONSES
Jesus says,
“Ask and you will receive,
seek and you will find,
knock and the door will be opened.”
Amen.
Jesus says,
“Come to me all you who labour
and are heavy laden. I will give you rest.
Amen.
Jesus says,
“Heal the sick.” “Feed the hungry.”
“Free the oppressed.” “Watch and pray.”
Amen.
Hymn 641 * Seek ye first the kingdom of God
People’s Choice Hymns are marked with an asterisk (*)
PRAYER of APPROACH
Eternal God, we praise you as centuries of
people have done within these walls.
We are not alone: saints and angels,
invisible, yet in splendour, surround us;
Jesus, the healer, is with us.
Your Holy Spirit leads us to yearn for our own
completeness, for the well-being of others,
and for a better life.
Fill us with the expectation of goodness;
and should any here feel burdened by guilt
or inadequacy, let the grace of Jesus
be made real in all its liberating power.
Here let your word come alive in our hearing;
here let our concern respond to your
compassion.
Here let hope lead a path through heaviness;
here may your kingdom come. Amen.
Nada te turbe / Nothing can trouble (Taizé 50)
Nothing can trouble, nothing can frighten.
Those who seek God shall never go wanting.
Nothing can trouble, nothing can frighten.
God alone fills us.
CHILDREN’S TIME
Hymn 760 * Gloria in excelsis Deo (Taizé 25)
(Children may join the Kids’ Church programme)
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Jeremiah 31:31-34 OT p. 767 (768)
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia (Taizé 69)
St. John 12:20-33 NT p. 135
People may stand for the Gospel reading.
The word of God: Thanks be to God!
Hymn 347 Unless a single grain of wheat fall
SERMON Rev. James Brown
Hymn 396(2) And can it be, that I should gain?
(Offerings are gathered and brought forward)
(Hymn of the Month, March 2018)
PRAYERS for OTHERS
Response: Lord, hear our prayer:
Kyrie, Kyrie eleison (Taizé 79)
The LORD’S PRAYER
(Please pray in your own preferred language / version.)
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.
INVITATION to the Laying on of Hands
Chorus (Taizé 30)
In manus tuas, Pater, commendo spiritum meum.
(Into your hands, Father, I commend my spirit.)
PRAYER of INVOCATION
Come Holy Spirit,
you have placed yearning in our hearts,
now bring healing to body, mind and spirit.
Bless the heads that bow,
the hands that touch,
the hearts that hope.
Bring healing; bring peace.
If you wish to receive the prayer of blessing and
the laying-on of hands, come to sit, stand or kneel
in the sanctuary area. You may also share in
pronouncing the prayer of blessing on others.
PRAYER for the LAYING-ON of HANDS
Spirit of the living God, present with us now,
enter you, body, mind, and spirit,
and heal you of all that harms you,
in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Taizé 24)
Sing to God with joyful hearts.
Praise the Lord for evermore.
Praise the Lord for evermore.
ANNOUNCEMENTS (See Notices overleaf)
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious unto you:
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace.
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
Hymn 359 * He came down…
BLESSING (Ancient Syriac Prayer)
ORGAN POSTLUDE
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