All Hallows Evening Prayer for Saturday Evening (October 1, 2022)
THE BLESSING OF THE LIGHT
A lamp or candle may be lit. The Lord is my light and my salvation:
my God shall make my darkness to be bright.
The light and peace of Jesus Christ be with you
and also with you.
Blessed are you, Lord God, creator of day and night:
to you be praise and glory for ever.
As darkness falls you renew your promise
to reveal among us the light of your presence.
By the light of Christ, your living Word,
dispel the darkness of our hearts
that we may walk as children of light
and sing your praise throughout the world.
Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit:
Blessed be God for ever.
Other candles may be lit as the following is sung.
Open this link in a new tab to hear William George Storey’s translation of the Phos hilaron, “O Radiant Light, O Sun Divine.”
1 O radiant light, O sun divine,
Of God the Father's deathless face,
O image of the light sublime
That fills the heav'nly dwelling place.
2 O Son of God, the source of life,
Praise is your due by night and day.
Our happy lips must raise the strain
of your esteem'd and splendid name.
3 Lord Jesus Christ, as daylight fades,
As shine the lights of eventide,
We praise the Father with the Son,
The Spirit blest and with them one.
As Psalm 141 — A Song of the Evening Sacrifice ,is sung, incense may be burned.
Open this link in a new tab to hear Peter Inwood’s setting of Psalm 141, “O Lord, Let My Prayer Rise Before You Like Incense.”
O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like incense,
my hands like an evening offering.
1. Lord, I am calling:
hasten to help me.
Listen to me as I cry to you.
Let my prayer rise before you like incense,
my hands like an evening offering.
O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like incense,
my hands like an evening offering.
2. Lord, set a guard at my mouth,
keep watch at the gate of my lips.
Let my heart not turn to things that are wrong,
to sharing the evil deeds done by the sinful.
No, I will never taste their delights.
O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like incense,
my hands like an evening offering.
3. The good may reprove me,
in kindness chastise me,
but the wicked shall never anoint my head.
Ev’ry day I counter their malice with prayer.
O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like incense,
my hands like an evening offering.
4 To you, Lord, my God, my eyes are turned:
in you I take refuge;
do not forsake me.
Keep me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those who do evil.
O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like incense,
my hands like an evening offering.
5 Praise to the Father, praise to the Son,
all praise to the life-giving Spirit.
As it was, is now and shall always be
for ages unending. Amen.
O Lord, let my prayer rise before you as incense,
my hands like an evening offering.
This opening prayer is said.
That this evening may be holy, good and peaceful,
let us pray with one heart and mind.
Silence is kept.
As our evening prayer rises before you, O God,
so may your mercy come down upon us
to cleanse our hearts
and set us free to sing your praise
now and for ever.
Amen.
THE WORD OF GOD
PSALMODY
Open this link in a new tab to hear Kiran Young Wimberly's adaptation of Psalm 27, "The Lord Is My lIght."
The Lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear, whom shall I fear?
Enemies will stumble and fall,
My heart will not fear, though war should rage
One thing I ask, one thing I seek
To dwell in the house of the Lord all of my life
To behold the beauty of God all the days of my life
The Lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear, whom shall I fear?
Enemies will stumble and fall,
My heart will not fear, though war should rage
Hear me when I call, O Lord!
Be merciful to me and answer me,
Your face, O Lord, I seek.
I seek your face.
The Lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear, whom shall I fear?
Enemies will stumble and fall,
My heart will not fear, though war should rage
One thing I ask, one thing I seek
To dwell in the house of the Lord all of my life
To behold the beauty of God all the days of my life
Whom shall I fear, whom shall I fear?
Enemies will stumble and fall,
My heart will not fear, though war should rage
One thing I ask, one thing I seek
To dwell in the house of the Lord all of my life
To behold the beauty of God all the days of my life
[Instrumental interlude]
The Lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear, whom shall I fear?
Enemies will stumble and fall,
My heart will not fear, though war should rage
Hear me when I call, O Lord!
Be merciful to me and answer me,
Your face, O Lord, I seek.
I seek your face.
Silence is kept.
God, our light and our salvation,
illuminate our lives,
that we may see your goodness in the land of the living,
and, looking on your beauty,
may be changed into the likeness of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
OFFICE HYMN
Open this link in a new tab to hear James Quinn’s evening hymn, “Day Is Done.”
1 Day is done, but love unfailing
Dwells ever here;
Shadows fall, but hope prevailing,
Calms ev'ry fear.
Loving Father, none forsaking,
Take our hearts, of love's own making,
Watch our sleeping, guard our waking,
Be always near.
2 Dark descends, but light unending
Shines through the night;
You are with us, ever lending
New strength to sight:
One in love, your truth confessing,
One in hope of heaven's blessing,
May we see, in love's possessing,
Love's endless light!
3 Eyes will close, but you, unsleeping,
Watch by our side;
Death may come, in love's safekeeping
Still we abide.
God of love, all evil quelling,
Sin forgiving, fear dispelling,
Stay with us, our hearts indwelling,
This eventide.
Silence is kept.
SCRIPTURE READING
2 Timothy 1:1-14 Paul encourages Timothy to be faithful
This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. I have been sent out to tell others about the life he has promised through faith in Christ Jesus.
I am writing to Timothy, my dear son.
May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.
Timothy, I thank God for you—the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. I long to see you again, for I remember your tears as we parted. And I will be filled with joy when we are together again.
I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
So never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord. And don’t be ashamed of me, either, even though I’m in prison for him. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the sake of the Good News. For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. And now he has made all of this plain to us by the appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior. He broke the power of death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News. And God chose me to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of this Good News.
That is why I am suffering here in prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return.
Hold on to the pattern of wholesome teaching you learned from me—a pattern shaped by the faith and love that you have in Christ Jesus. Through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted to you.
Silence
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory
HOMILY
Paul wrote these words of today’s reading, 2 Timothy 1:1-14, or dictated them to someone else, while chained in the lower levels of Rome’s most infamous prison, awaiting what would be his execution. From the descriptions I have read, it was not a place where anyone would want to spend the last days of their life. Dark, dank, and foul smelling. As he speaks of his longing to see Timothy again, he must have known that he would see him only in the next life. Yet he offers Timothy words of encouragement.
Paul urges Timothy not to be timid and fearful and ashamed to tell others about Jesus. We face all kinds of hurdles in telling people about Jesus in our day and time. In the day and time in which Paul and Timothy lived, crucifixion was considered a very shameful way of dying, so shameful that people did not speak about it. The fact that Jesus was executed in this manner as a common criminal would have been very embarrassing for Timothy. It would have been a major hurdle for him in telling others about Jesus.
The Romans ridiculed the early Christians for believing in a god who died on a cross. A crude picture has been founded scratched on the remains of a wall of one Roman building, depicting a Christian worshiping a crucified man with a head of an ass, or donkey. This is the kind of contempt with which some Romans viewed Christians.
Paul reminds Timothy that he has received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a spirit of power, love, and self-control.
If we see a new movie and we really like it. We cannot contain our excitement and we tell everyone about it. When we discover a new computer game and we really like it, we do the same thing. However, when it comes to Jesus, we become reticent, unable to speak our thoughts and our feelings. There are all kinds of reasons that this happens, and they vary with the individual Christian. Each of us clams up for our own particular reason.
Too often we will settle on acting toward others in a way that we believe Jesus wants us to act toward them in hopes that our actions alone will be a sufficient witness to Jesus and will convince them that Jesus is more than a myth or an itinerant rabbi who ran afoul of the Jewish religious authorities. While embodying our faith in our actions is important, so is sharing with others what we believe in words. The two, when they are combined, enable us to be much more effective in showing that believing in Jesus and living according to his teaching and example can make a difference in someone’s life.
What Paul tells Timothy about the Holy Spirit is key to overcoming our reluctance to tell others about Jesus. First, it is the Holy Spirit and not our persuasiveness that will cause the person about whom we are telling Jesus to believe in Jesus. For our part, we need to do a lot of listening first before we tell someone about Jesus. We need to demonstrate a genuine willingness to listen to them if we expect them to give us a hearing. We also need to remember that we are not giving a sales pitch. What we are seeking to do is to have an honest and open conversation about spiritual matters, which include Jesus, a conversation in which we acknowledge our own doubts as well as the limits to our knowledge, a conversation in which we show a genuine interest in the other person and their opinions. The Holy Spirit will use this opening as he chooses. We can expect to have more than one conversation with that person. Friends talk to each other about such things more than once. We are not trying to make a convert but to build a relationship.
This leads us to the second characteristic that Paul attributes to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a spirit of love. If the Holy Spirit is active in us, our motives, our actions, and our words will embody the love which Jesus emphasized in his teaching and by example. We will seek to tell others about Jesus out of a desire for their emotional and spiritual wellbeing. We will want them to know Jesus’ love and to love Jesus. We will not be trying to add them to a collection of people whom we have convinced ourselves that we played a major role in their conversion.
When I was a boy, I collected stamps. Later on in life I collected military miniatures for table-top war games. In this season of my life, I collect “hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs, all kinds of church music.
On Facebook now and then I have run into people who collect people. I am not talking about having a lot of Facebook friends. These particular individuals collect people who exhibit one or more characteristics. They may be all middle-aged men. These particular individuals are people collectors. I am not going to speculate on what motivates them. However, we do not want to be like them, adding people to a collection. We reach out to others and engage them in spiritual conversations because we, like Jesus, love them and care about them.
Paul also tells Timothy that the Holy Spirit is a spirit of self-control. Iin his Letter to the Galatians Paul writes that among the fruit that Holy Spirit produces in us is patience and self-control. I mention the two together because patience often requires self-control and self-control require patience. The two qualities cannot be separated from each other. Patience is the ability to wait, or to continue to do something despite difficulties or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed or angry. Self-control is the ability to control our feelings and actions. Telling others about Jesus takes time and consequently patience. It means being open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, not to be in a hurry, and not letting our feelings do our thinking for us. It means acting and speaking with restraint when we need to. It means not being so eager to say what we want to say that we do not allow the other person to finish what they are saying, not being more interested in scoring points than we are in attentively listening to what they are saying.
Sounds challenging, doesn’t it? But like anything new that we are learning, it will become second nature with practice. It will become a natural part of ourselves. To top it off, we have the Holy Spirit coming alongside us, working with us, working in us, working through us, and working in the other person. If we think about it, we have a lot going for us. What we have going for us is grace, God’s favor and goodwill, his merciful kindness, his divine influence, and his indwelling presence to boot. We do not need to be timid, fearful, or ashamed. We can go ahead and show and share the love of Jesus with everyone we meet, in our words as well as our deeds. Paul did. Timothy did. We can do it too.
Silence is kept.
GOSPEL CANTICLE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Owen Alstott’s “Luke 1: My Soul Rejoices.”
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
My soul proclaims your mighty deeds.
My spirit sings the greatness of your name.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
Your mercy flows throughout the land
and ev’ry generation knows your love.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
You cast the mighty from their thrones
and raise the poor and lowly to new life.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
You fill the hungry with good things.
With empty hands you send the rich away.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
Just as you promised Abraham,
You come to free your people, Israel.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
PRAYERS
(Let us offer our prayers to the source of all love and all life, saying, “Lord, hear our prayer.”)
Merciful Lord, we pray for all who call themselves Christians: that we may be faithful disciples of your Son Jesus Christ.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for N our pastor, for all pastors, and for all who serve Christ in his Church: that they may remain faithful to their calling and rightly proclaim the word of truth. Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for the leaders of the nations, and all in authority: that your people may lead quiet and peaceable lives.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for our community and those who live here, the poor and the rich, the elderly and the young, men and women: that you will show your favor and goodwill to all.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for those who are in any kind of trouble or need that you will deliver them from their distress.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for _______________________.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We give thanks for all the saints who have found favor in your sight from earliest times, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and those whose names are known to you alone: and we pray that we too may be counted among your faithful witnesses.
Lord, hear our prayer.
Free Prayer
In silent or spontaneous prayer all bring before God the concerns of the day.
The Collect
Faithful God,
Whom shall I fear, whom shall I fear?
Enemies will stumble and fall,
My heart will not fear, though war should rage
Hear me when I call, O Lord!
Be merciful to me and answer me,
Your face, O Lord, I seek.
I seek your face.
Silence is kept.
God, our light and our salvation,
illuminate our lives,
that we may see your goodness in the land of the living,
and, looking on your beauty,
may be changed into the likeness of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
OFFICE HYMN
Open this link in a new tab to hear James Quinn’s evening hymn, “Day Is Done.”
1 Day is done, but love unfailing
Dwells ever here;
Shadows fall, but hope prevailing,
Calms ev'ry fear.
Loving Father, none forsaking,
Take our hearts, of love's own making,
Watch our sleeping, guard our waking,
Be always near.
2 Dark descends, but light unending
Shines through the night;
You are with us, ever lending
New strength to sight:
One in love, your truth confessing,
One in hope of heaven's blessing,
May we see, in love's possessing,
Love's endless light!
3 Eyes will close, but you, unsleeping,
Watch by our side;
Death may come, in love's safekeeping
Still we abide.
God of love, all evil quelling,
Sin forgiving, fear dispelling,
Stay with us, our hearts indwelling,
This eventide.
Silence is kept.
SCRIPTURE READING
2 Timothy 1:1-14 Paul encourages Timothy to be faithful
This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. I have been sent out to tell others about the life he has promised through faith in Christ Jesus.
I am writing to Timothy, my dear son.
May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.
Timothy, I thank God for you—the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. I long to see you again, for I remember your tears as we parted. And I will be filled with joy when we are together again.
I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
So never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord. And don’t be ashamed of me, either, even though I’m in prison for him. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the sake of the Good News. For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. And now he has made all of this plain to us by the appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior. He broke the power of death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News. And God chose me to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of this Good News.
That is why I am suffering here in prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return.
Hold on to the pattern of wholesome teaching you learned from me—a pattern shaped by the faith and love that you have in Christ Jesus. Through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted to you.
Silence
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory
HOMILY
Not a Spirit of Timidity and Fear
Paul wrote these words of today’s reading, 2 Timothy 1:1-14, or dictated them to someone else, while chained in the lower levels of Rome’s most infamous prison, awaiting what would be his execution. From the descriptions I have read, it was not a place where anyone would want to spend the last days of their life. Dark, dank, and foul smelling. As he speaks of his longing to see Timothy again, he must have known that he would see him only in the next life. Yet he offers Timothy words of encouragement.
Paul urges Timothy not to be timid and fearful and ashamed to tell others about Jesus. We face all kinds of hurdles in telling people about Jesus in our day and time. In the day and time in which Paul and Timothy lived, crucifixion was considered a very shameful way of dying, so shameful that people did not speak about it. The fact that Jesus was executed in this manner as a common criminal would have been very embarrassing for Timothy. It would have been a major hurdle for him in telling others about Jesus.
The Romans ridiculed the early Christians for believing in a god who died on a cross. A crude picture has been founded scratched on the remains of a wall of one Roman building, depicting a Christian worshiping a crucified man with a head of an ass, or donkey. This is the kind of contempt with which some Romans viewed Christians.
Paul reminds Timothy that he has received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a spirit of power, love, and self-control.
If we see a new movie and we really like it. We cannot contain our excitement and we tell everyone about it. When we discover a new computer game and we really like it, we do the same thing. However, when it comes to Jesus, we become reticent, unable to speak our thoughts and our feelings. There are all kinds of reasons that this happens, and they vary with the individual Christian. Each of us clams up for our own particular reason.
Too often we will settle on acting toward others in a way that we believe Jesus wants us to act toward them in hopes that our actions alone will be a sufficient witness to Jesus and will convince them that Jesus is more than a myth or an itinerant rabbi who ran afoul of the Jewish religious authorities. While embodying our faith in our actions is important, so is sharing with others what we believe in words. The two, when they are combined, enable us to be much more effective in showing that believing in Jesus and living according to his teaching and example can make a difference in someone’s life.
What Paul tells Timothy about the Holy Spirit is key to overcoming our reluctance to tell others about Jesus. First, it is the Holy Spirit and not our persuasiveness that will cause the person about whom we are telling Jesus to believe in Jesus. For our part, we need to do a lot of listening first before we tell someone about Jesus. We need to demonstrate a genuine willingness to listen to them if we expect them to give us a hearing. We also need to remember that we are not giving a sales pitch. What we are seeking to do is to have an honest and open conversation about spiritual matters, which include Jesus, a conversation in which we acknowledge our own doubts as well as the limits to our knowledge, a conversation in which we show a genuine interest in the other person and their opinions. The Holy Spirit will use this opening as he chooses. We can expect to have more than one conversation with that person. Friends talk to each other about such things more than once. We are not trying to make a convert but to build a relationship.
This leads us to the second characteristic that Paul attributes to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a spirit of love. If the Holy Spirit is active in us, our motives, our actions, and our words will embody the love which Jesus emphasized in his teaching and by example. We will seek to tell others about Jesus out of a desire for their emotional and spiritual wellbeing. We will want them to know Jesus’ love and to love Jesus. We will not be trying to add them to a collection of people whom we have convinced ourselves that we played a major role in their conversion.
When I was a boy, I collected stamps. Later on in life I collected military miniatures for table-top war games. In this season of my life, I collect “hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs, all kinds of church music.
On Facebook now and then I have run into people who collect people. I am not talking about having a lot of Facebook friends. These particular individuals collect people who exhibit one or more characteristics. They may be all middle-aged men. These particular individuals are people collectors. I am not going to speculate on what motivates them. However, we do not want to be like them, adding people to a collection. We reach out to others and engage them in spiritual conversations because we, like Jesus, love them and care about them.
Paul also tells Timothy that the Holy Spirit is a spirit of self-control. Iin his Letter to the Galatians Paul writes that among the fruit that Holy Spirit produces in us is patience and self-control. I mention the two together because patience often requires self-control and self-control require patience. The two qualities cannot be separated from each other. Patience is the ability to wait, or to continue to do something despite difficulties or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed or angry. Self-control is the ability to control our feelings and actions. Telling others about Jesus takes time and consequently patience. It means being open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, not to be in a hurry, and not letting our feelings do our thinking for us. It means acting and speaking with restraint when we need to. It means not being so eager to say what we want to say that we do not allow the other person to finish what they are saying, not being more interested in scoring points than we are in attentively listening to what they are saying.
Sounds challenging, doesn’t it? But like anything new that we are learning, it will become second nature with practice. It will become a natural part of ourselves. To top it off, we have the Holy Spirit coming alongside us, working with us, working in us, working through us, and working in the other person. If we think about it, we have a lot going for us. What we have going for us is grace, God’s favor and goodwill, his merciful kindness, his divine influence, and his indwelling presence to boot. We do not need to be timid, fearful, or ashamed. We can go ahead and show and share the love of Jesus with everyone we meet, in our words as well as our deeds. Paul did. Timothy did. We can do it too.
Silence is kept.
GOSPEL CANTICLE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Owen Alstott’s “Luke 1: My Soul Rejoices.”
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
My soul proclaims your mighty deeds.
My spirit sings the greatness of your name.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
Your mercy flows throughout the land
and ev’ry generation knows your love.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
You cast the mighty from their thrones
and raise the poor and lowly to new life.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
You fill the hungry with good things.
With empty hands you send the rich away.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
Just as you promised Abraham,
You come to free your people, Israel.
My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour.
My spirit finds joy in God, the living God.
PRAYERS
(Let us offer our prayers to the source of all love and all life, saying, “Lord, hear our prayer.”)
Merciful Lord, we pray for all who call themselves Christians: that we may be faithful disciples of your Son Jesus Christ.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for N our pastor, for all pastors, and for all who serve Christ in his Church: that they may remain faithful to their calling and rightly proclaim the word of truth. Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for the leaders of the nations, and all in authority: that your people may lead quiet and peaceable lives.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for our community and those who live here, the poor and the rich, the elderly and the young, men and women: that you will show your favor and goodwill to all.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for those who are in any kind of trouble or need that you will deliver them from their distress.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for _______________________.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We give thanks for all the saints who have found favor in your sight from earliest times, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and those whose names are known to you alone: and we pray that we too may be counted among your faithful witnesses.
Lord, hear our prayer.
Free Prayer
In silent or spontaneous prayer all bring before God the concerns of the day.
The Collect
Faithful God,
have mercy on us your unworthy servant,
and increase our faith,
that, trusting in your Spirit's power to work in us
and through us,
we may never be ashamed to witness to our Lrd
but may obediently serve him all our days;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Hly Spirit,
one God, now and foor ever. Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
As our Savior taught his disciples,
we pray:
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.
CLOSING SONG
Open this link in a new tab to hear David Blackwell’s “A Scottish Blessing.”
Be our light before to lead me;
Be a guiding star above;
Jesu, may I always know thee,
may I always know thy love.
Be our light before to lead me;
Be a guiding star above;
Jesu, may I always know thee,
may I always know thy love.
There is no bird that soars the mountain,
there is no deer upon the hill,
there is no creature of the forest,
but shall sing thy praises, praises still.
Be a kindly shepherd for me,
Keep me safe thru’ all my days;
Jesus, may I always know thee,
May I always sing thy praise.
There is no life that swims the ocean;
there is no creature of sea;
there is no fish within the river,
but proclaims its praise for, for thee.
As the day falls into evening,
as the night is lit with stars,
at the ending of life’s journey
may thy heavenly peace be ours.
Let ev’ry creature in God’s kingdom,
Let ev’ry life upon the shore
Sing praise to God, the world’s creator,
Sing praises now and ever, evermore.
Sing praises now and evermore.
THE CONCLUSION
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the love of God, and the fellowship of
the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore.
Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
As our Savior taught his disciples,
we pray:
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.
CLOSING SONG
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Be our light before to lead me;
Be a guiding star above;
Jesu, may I always know thee,
may I always know thy love.
Be our light before to lead me;
Be a guiding star above;
Jesu, may I always know thee,
may I always know thy love.
There is no bird that soars the mountain,
there is no deer upon the hill,
there is no creature of the forest,
but shall sing thy praises, praises still.
Be a kindly shepherd for me,
Keep me safe thru’ all my days;
Jesus, may I always know thee,
May I always sing thy praise.
There is no life that swims the ocean;
there is no creature of sea;
there is no fish within the river,
but proclaims its praise for, for thee.
As the day falls into evening,
as the night is lit with stars,
at the ending of life’s journey
may thy heavenly peace be ours.
Let ev’ry creature in God’s kingdom,
Let ev’ry life upon the shore
Sing praise to God, the world’s creator,
Sing praises now and ever, evermore.
Sing praises now and evermore.
THE CONCLUSION
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the love of God, and the fellowship of
the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore.
Amen.
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