All Hallows Evening Prayer for Wednesday Evening (September 21, 2022)
PROCLAMATION OF THE LIGHT
One or more candles may be lit.Light and peace in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
A light that no darkness can extinguish.
EVENING HYMN
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.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Blessed are you, O Lord our God, ruler of the universe!
Your word brings on the dusk of evening,
your wisdom creates both night and day.
You determine the cycles of time,
arrange the succession of seasons,
and establish the stars in their heavenly courses.
Lord of the starry hosts is your name.
Living and eternal God, rule over us always.
Blessed be the Lord, whose word makes evening fall. Amen.
HYMN OF THE DAY
Open this link in a new tab to hear Alice Parker’s arrangement of Carl P. Daw Jr.’s “Let All Creation Bless the Lord.”
1 Let all creation bless the Lord,
till heav'n with praise is ringing.
Sun, moon, and stars, peal out a chord,
stir up the angels' singing.
Sing, wind and rain! Sing, snow and sleet!
Make music, day, night, cold and heat:
exalt the God who made you,
exalt the God who made you.
2 All living things upon the earth,
green fertile hills and mountains,
sing to the God who gave you birth;
be joyful, springs and fountains.
Lithe waterlife, bright airborne birds,
wild roving beasts, tame flocks and herds:
exalt the God who made you,
exalt the God who made you.
3 O men and women everywhere,
lift up a hymn of glory;
all you who know God's steadfast care
tell out salvation's story.
No tongue be mute; but sing your part,
with humble souls and thankful heart:
exalt the God who made you,
exalt the God who made you.
SCRIPTURE
Psalm 66: 1-4 A Song of Praise and Thanksgiving
Shout joyful praises to God, all the earth!
Sing about the glory of his name!
Tell the world how glorious he is.
Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
Everything on earth will worship you;
they will sing your praises,
shouting your name in glorious songs.
Silence
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory
HOMILY
Sing Praises to God, Sing Praises!
Today’s reading is a rather short one—the first four verses of Psalm 66, minus the second half of the third verse. Why such a short reading you may wonder. It was chosen because it is representative of numerous verses found throughout the Old Testament about offering thanks and praise to God in song, declaring God’s mighty deeds in song, and the like.
In the Old Testament we read that songs were composed to celebrate important events in the life of the community as well as the life of the composer. Songs were also composed to warn future generations of how the people of Israel had failed God in the past and not to make the same mistakes. They were also composed to lament the passing of a king or some other important or famous person.
While the New Testament has less references to singing, it does contain a number of songs or fragments of songs.
While the worship of the Temple had trained choirs of Levites who sang songs of praise and thanksgiving to God and who played various musical instruments to accompany their singing, the ordinary people took part in the singing. Singing in Old Testament times was not exclusively the domain of professionals. Nor was it in New Testament times.
Jesus and his disciples sang a hymn, most likely Psalm 116 or a portion of that psalm, after they had eaten the Last Supper together. In his first letter to the Corinthians Paul talks about sharing a song, a teaching, or a prophecy at church meetings and the importance of whatever is done strengthening everyone who is present (1 Corinthians 14:26-33). In his letters to the Ephesians and the Colossians he urges the churches at Ephesus and Colossae to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16).
While some churches choose not to use musical instruments in their worship of God because the New Testament is silent on the use of instruments in Christian worship, it must be pointed out that the same churches permit the use of other things that are not mentioned in the New Testament—pews, meeting houses, electric lights, pulpits, and the like. They are selective in the application of this principle. The New Testament contains no prohibition against the use of musical instruments and therefore we are free to use them in our worship.
At the same time, I recognize that a congregation can greatly benefit from learning to sing without accompaniment of any kind The members of the congregation get to hear their combined voices and this itself can have a positive effect on their singing.
In The Art of Public Worship (1920) Percy Dearmer, Anglican priest, author, hymn writer and translator, and editor of The English Hymnal (1906), observed that when members of a congregation sing together, they have a natural tendency to harmonize their voices. Others have observed that when one or more strong voices are singing the tune of a hymn, the rest of the congregation will match their voices to the voices of this individual or group of individuals.
A congregation can benefit from strong musical leadership, but it need not be in the form of a choir or the vocalists on a worship band or a praise band. A cantor or precentor can lead the congregational singing.
If the voice of the cantor or precentor is electronically amplified, the amplification should not be so loud that the congregational singing cannot be heard. This may mean that the cantor or precentor should step back from the microphone, or the amplification should be turned down. The music of a worship service should not be one long solo. A cantor or precentor can perform special music, but this should not be their principal task, which is leading the congregational singing.
A small ensemble can also lead congregational singing.
When an organ or electric guitars and a drum kit are played too loudly, they can drown out congregational singing but also discourage it.
A small ensemble can also lead congregational singing.
When an organ or electric guitars and a drum kit are played too loudly, they can drown out congregational singing but also discourage it.
Hand drums like the bodhran (or Celtic frame drum), box drum, djembe, or steel drum are preferrable to a set of drums and cymbals played by one person. Every song does not require drum accompaniment.
For small churches a good quality upright piano is best musical instrument to accompany congregational singing. The congregation can hear the notes of a tune more clearly when played on a piano, and unlike a grand piano, the sound of an upright piano travels outward, not upward, and electronic amplification may not be required.
During World War I Percy Dearmer found that men were more likely to join in singing hymns accompanied on a piano in an informal setting than they were accompanied on an organ, in the more formal setting of a parish church. This and the abysmal state of organ music in the early twentieth century led him to propose a moratorium on organs in churches.
A number of percussion, string, and wind instruments can be used in Christian worship—hand bells, chimes, gongs, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, cello, violin, Appalachian dulcimer (or mountain dulcimer), mandolin, lap harp, penny whistle, recorder, flute, oboe, ocarina, melodica, uillean pipes, and bag pipes, just to name a few.
For small churches a good quality upright piano is best musical instrument to accompany congregational singing. The congregation can hear the notes of a tune more clearly when played on a piano, and unlike a grand piano, the sound of an upright piano travels outward, not upward, and electronic amplification may not be required.
During World War I Percy Dearmer found that men were more likely to join in singing hymns accompanied on a piano in an informal setting than they were accompanied on an organ, in the more formal setting of a parish church. This and the abysmal state of organ music in the early twentieth century led him to propose a moratorium on organs in churches.
A number of percussion, string, and wind instruments can be used in Christian worship—hand bells, chimes, gongs, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, cello, violin, Appalachian dulcimer (or mountain dulcimer), mandolin, lap harp, penny whistle, recorder, flute, oboe, ocarina, melodica, uillean pipes, and bag pipes, just to name a few.
The musical talents of members of a congregation can be used to ornament and enrich the worship of the congregation and to offer thanksgiving for these talents to God. Employing someone’s musical talents is one way of assimilating them into a congregation.
Among the reasons that people join a particular church is that it provides them with opportunities to employ their talents, life experiences, interests, acquired skills, and spiritual gifts in ways that are meaningful to them.
A number of principles can be inferred from the Scriptures on what kind of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs should be used in our worship. Those who are responsible for planning the music for a particular service of worship should give careful consideration to these principles in selecting psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for that service.
Except for special music, they should be songs whose words and tunes the average singer in the congregation can master and sing without too much difficulty. This means that the tune should be in the range of the average singer in the congregation.
They should give expression to thoughts and feelings to which those who sing them are able to relate.
They should offer praise and thanks to God.
They should extol God’s character and his deeds.
They should encourage and strengthen those hearing them.
They may take the form of prayer and supplication.
They may give expression to the congregation’s repentance from sin and its confidence and trust in God.
They may commemorate or celebrate particular events in salvation history such as the birth, life, ministry, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.
They should include old songs, those which have been passed on from one generation to the next, as well as songs of recent composition. The number of familiar songs should exceed the unfamiliar ones.
Congregational singing is an integral part of a congregation’s worship of God. It is not as we too often hear preparation for the sermon. The purpose of the songs is NOT to put the congregation in the right frame of mind for the sermon.
Every song in a service does not need to be related to the text of the sermon but it does need to be suitable for the place in the service where it is used, and it should not give a contradictory message to the sermon. It should also be appropriate to the season of the liturgical year if a church observes the liturgical year. This does not mean that every song must be a seasonal one, but it does mean that the song should not be unsuitable for a particular season. Some psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs can be sung year round while others lend themselves only to a particular season or occasion.
I would argue that the care we put into the selection of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for a particular worship service is as important as the care that we put in the preparation of the sermon for that service. Songs have a stickiness that sermons don’t. If we hear the words and tune of a song enough times, we will internalize it. We will catch ourselves singing a snatch of the song or humming its tune. But we won’t do that with any sermon that we hear.
Worship leaders who are always using new songs week after week and never giving the congregation enough time to learn them, do not appreciate the value of congregational singing. The songs we sing in our worship services are one of the ways that we not only reinforce our faith but pass on our faith to others. They are part of past generations’ witness to us.
The heavenly worship in the Revelation to John provides us with a model for our services of public worship on Sundays and other occasions. A helpful exercise is to compare the heavenly worship of Revelation with our own worship services. Th great multitude of the redeemed are not listening the hosts of heaven praising the One seated on the throne and the Lamb, they are joining in their voices to the angels! The heavenly worship of Revelation is doxological and so should be our worship services.
The members of a congregation cannot fulfill their role as worshipers if they have not been given ample opportunity to learn the words and tune of a song. They are reduced to passive spectators to someone else’s worship when they should be active participants in the various acts of worship on Sundays and other occasions.
Unless a concerted effort is made to involve the congregation in these acts of worship, acts of worship such as singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, leading prayers, reading Scripture, presenting the people’s offerings, and the like, our worship services are worship in name only. They are nothing more than a choir or band concert with a lecture or inspirational talk tacked on to it.
Whatever they are, they are not corporate worship. Corporate worship engages the whole Body of Christ in its local manifestation—a particular congregation of the faithful gathered in one place to pray, sing, learn, and worship together.
This is a simple truth that we need to grasp as Christians. We cannot worship God through a proxy, through someone else. We must honor and reverence God ourselves.
The people of Israel thought that in offering sacrifices to God and observing the festivals and the new moons as a nation, they were performing their religious duties to God. God’s response which was spoken through the Old Testament prophets was to point to their attention that their hearts, the place where it mattered most, were far from him. They were not as a people living their lives individual and collectively as he had instructed.
Jesus himself reiterated this message: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” When Jesus talks about worshiping God in spirit and in truth, he is talking about we ourselves worshiping God, not someone else worship God on our behalf. The honor and reverence that we offer God must be our own and must come from within us.
While we may not be accustomed to thinking of it that way, congregational singing, like prayer, is a means of grace, a channel through which God’s grace flows to us. Indeed, congregational singing is a form of prayer. For this reason, we should not sing a song part way through and then stop. If we do not want to use all the stanzas of a song, we should carefully edit the song beforehand so that the stanzas that we sing make sense.
While congregational singing is not the only form of worship that we can offer God, it is an important one in corporate worship. It therefore behooves not only the leaders of a particular congregation but also the members of that congregation to ensure that it is not neglected. The congregation should not only be given ample opportunity to sing but also every effort should be made to make congregational singing a positive experience for everyone. This includes helping the members of the congregation to develop an appreciation of the importance of congregational singing not just in their services of public worship but also in their other church functions.
For Methodists singing hymns together whenever they gathered has long been a part of their ethos and tradition. My maternal grandfather was a Wesleyan and we sung hymns at home and on family outings. During my early school years, I attended a Church of England elementary school and then two English village schools and began the school day with hymns and gospel songs. I suspect these hymns and gospel songs helped to form and shape my faith.
Congregational singing is a vital ingredient in our services of public worship, and we should not allow the singing of one small part of the congregation to take its place. Just as the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is a foretaste of the Wedding Supper of the Lamb so are our united voices a foretaste of the heavenly worship that goes on unceasingly before the throne of God. Let us glorify God in all that we say and do. But especially let us glorify God with song.
Silence
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
Let us affirm our faith in the words of the Apostles’ Creed.
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
SONG OF PRAISE
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.
1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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 OF THE PEOPLE
(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
Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth, and ourselves in your image. Teach us to discern your hand in all your works and to serve you with reverence and thanksgiving; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
RESPONSE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Josh Blakesley’s Mass of Restoration setting of the Kyrie Eleison.
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
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.
BLESSING
The almighty and merciful God bless us
and keep us now and for ever. Amen.
A number of principles can be inferred from the Scriptures on what kind of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs should be used in our worship. Those who are responsible for planning the music for a particular service of worship should give careful consideration to these principles in selecting psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for that service.
Except for special music, they should be songs whose words and tunes the average singer in the congregation can master and sing without too much difficulty. This means that the tune should be in the range of the average singer in the congregation.
They should give expression to thoughts and feelings to which those who sing them are able to relate.
They should offer praise and thanks to God.
They should extol God’s character and his deeds.
They should encourage and strengthen those hearing them.
They may take the form of prayer and supplication.
They may give expression to the congregation’s repentance from sin and its confidence and trust in God.
They may commemorate or celebrate particular events in salvation history such as the birth, life, ministry, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.
They should include old songs, those which have been passed on from one generation to the next, as well as songs of recent composition. The number of familiar songs should exceed the unfamiliar ones.
Congregational singing is an integral part of a congregation’s worship of God. It is not as we too often hear preparation for the sermon. The purpose of the songs is NOT to put the congregation in the right frame of mind for the sermon.
Every song in a service does not need to be related to the text of the sermon but it does need to be suitable for the place in the service where it is used, and it should not give a contradictory message to the sermon. It should also be appropriate to the season of the liturgical year if a church observes the liturgical year. This does not mean that every song must be a seasonal one, but it does mean that the song should not be unsuitable for a particular season. Some psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs can be sung year round while others lend themselves only to a particular season or occasion.
I would argue that the care we put into the selection of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for a particular worship service is as important as the care that we put in the preparation of the sermon for that service. Songs have a stickiness that sermons don’t. If we hear the words and tune of a song enough times, we will internalize it. We will catch ourselves singing a snatch of the song or humming its tune. But we won’t do that with any sermon that we hear.
Worship leaders who are always using new songs week after week and never giving the congregation enough time to learn them, do not appreciate the value of congregational singing. The songs we sing in our worship services are one of the ways that we not only reinforce our faith but pass on our faith to others. They are part of past generations’ witness to us.
The heavenly worship in the Revelation to John provides us with a model for our services of public worship on Sundays and other occasions. A helpful exercise is to compare the heavenly worship of Revelation with our own worship services. Th great multitude of the redeemed are not listening the hosts of heaven praising the One seated on the throne and the Lamb, they are joining in their voices to the angels! The heavenly worship of Revelation is doxological and so should be our worship services.
The members of a congregation cannot fulfill their role as worshipers if they have not been given ample opportunity to learn the words and tune of a song. They are reduced to passive spectators to someone else’s worship when they should be active participants in the various acts of worship on Sundays and other occasions.
Unless a concerted effort is made to involve the congregation in these acts of worship, acts of worship such as singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, leading prayers, reading Scripture, presenting the people’s offerings, and the like, our worship services are worship in name only. They are nothing more than a choir or band concert with a lecture or inspirational talk tacked on to it.
Whatever they are, they are not corporate worship. Corporate worship engages the whole Body of Christ in its local manifestation—a particular congregation of the faithful gathered in one place to pray, sing, learn, and worship together.
This is a simple truth that we need to grasp as Christians. We cannot worship God through a proxy, through someone else. We must honor and reverence God ourselves.
The people of Israel thought that in offering sacrifices to God and observing the festivals and the new moons as a nation, they were performing their religious duties to God. God’s response which was spoken through the Old Testament prophets was to point to their attention that their hearts, the place where it mattered most, were far from him. They were not as a people living their lives individual and collectively as he had instructed.
Jesus himself reiterated this message: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” When Jesus talks about worshiping God in spirit and in truth, he is talking about we ourselves worshiping God, not someone else worship God on our behalf. The honor and reverence that we offer God must be our own and must come from within us.
While we may not be accustomed to thinking of it that way, congregational singing, like prayer, is a means of grace, a channel through which God’s grace flows to us. Indeed, congregational singing is a form of prayer. For this reason, we should not sing a song part way through and then stop. If we do not want to use all the stanzas of a song, we should carefully edit the song beforehand so that the stanzas that we sing make sense.
While congregational singing is not the only form of worship that we can offer God, it is an important one in corporate worship. It therefore behooves not only the leaders of a particular congregation but also the members of that congregation to ensure that it is not neglected. The congregation should not only be given ample opportunity to sing but also every effort should be made to make congregational singing a positive experience for everyone. This includes helping the members of the congregation to develop an appreciation of the importance of congregational singing not just in their services of public worship but also in their other church functions.
For Methodists singing hymns together whenever they gathered has long been a part of their ethos and tradition. My maternal grandfather was a Wesleyan and we sung hymns at home and on family outings. During my early school years, I attended a Church of England elementary school and then two English village schools and began the school day with hymns and gospel songs. I suspect these hymns and gospel songs helped to form and shape my faith.
Congregational singing is a vital ingredient in our services of public worship, and we should not allow the singing of one small part of the congregation to take its place. Just as the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is a foretaste of the Wedding Supper of the Lamb so are our united voices a foretaste of the heavenly worship that goes on unceasingly before the throne of God. Let us glorify God in all that we say and do. But especially let us glorify God with song.
Silence
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
Let us affirm our faith in the words of the Apostles’ Creed.
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
SONG OF PRAISE
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.
1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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 OF THE PEOPLE
(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
Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth, and ourselves in your image. Teach us to discern your hand in all your works and to serve you with reverence and thanksgiving; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
RESPONSE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Josh Blakesley’s Mass of Restoration setting of the Kyrie Eleison.
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison
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.
BLESSING
The almighty and merciful God bless us
and keep us now and for ever. Amen.
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