Online Worship for 18 February | Windmill United Benefice

This Sunday, 18 February, there are services of Holy Communion at 9.30am at St Bartholomew, Burstow and 11am at St John the Baptist, Outwood and Morning Worship at 10am at St Mary the Virgin, Horne.

This week’s online service is led by the Revd Charles Sargent.

To follow today’s online service, click on the arrow here and find the words below.

Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
o’er the world’s tempestuous sea;
guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
for we have no help but thee;
yet possessing every blessing,
if our God our Father be.

Saviour, breathe forgiveness o’er us:
all our weakness thou dost know;
thou didst tread this earth before us,
thou didst feel its keenest woe;
lone and dreary, faint and weary,
through the desert thou didst go.

Spirit of our God, descending,
fill our hearts with heavenly joy,
love with every passion blending,
pleasure that can never cloy:
thus provided, pardoned, guided,
nothing can our peace destroy.

James Edmeston (1821)
Tune: Mannheim, Friedrich Filitz (1804-1876), harm. Lowell Mason (1792-1872)

This is the day that the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

The Collect prayer for the First Sunday of Lent

Heavenly Father,
Your Son battled with the powers of darkness,
and grew closer to You in the desert.
Help us to use these days to grow in wisdom and prayer,
that we may witness to your saving love,
in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

The readings
Read by Julie Mohacek

The first reading is from Genesis 9:8-17

This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
Glory to you, O Lord.

The Gospel reading is from Mark 1:9-15

This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ.

Talk
by Revd Charles Sargent

The Lord’s Prayer
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

God is working His purpose out,
as year succeeds to year;
God is working His purpose out,
and the time is drawing near;
nearer and nearer draws the time,
the time that shall surely be:
when the earth shall be filled with the glory of God
as the waters cover the sea.

From utmost east to utmost west,
wherever feet have trod,
by the mouth of many messengers
goes forth the voice of God:
“Give ear to me, ye continents,
ye islands, give ear to me,
that the earth may be filled with the glory of God
as the waters cover the sea.”

Forth we go in the strength of God,
with the banner of Christ unfurled,
that the light of the glorious gospel of truth
may shine throughout the world.
Let us all fight with sorrow and sin
to set the captives free,
that the earth may be filled with the glory of God
as the waters cover the sea.

All we can do is nothing worth
unless God blesses the deed.
Vainly we hope for the harvest-tide
till God gives life to the seed.
Yet nearer and nearer draws the time,
the time that shall surely be,
when the earth shall be filled with the glory of God
as the waters cover the sea.

Arthur Campbell Ainger (1894)
Tune: Benson, Millicent D. Kingham (1894)