Online Service for 23 June | Windmill United Benefice

This Sunday, 23 June, there is a services of Holy Communion at 10am at St Mary the Virgin, Horne and Morning Worship at 9:30am St Bartholomew, Burstow and 11am at St John the Baptist, Outwood.

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)

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

Introduction

The Collect prayer for the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist

Almighty God,
by whose providence your servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born,
and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Saviour
by the preaching of repentance:
lead us to repent according to his preaching
and, after his example,
constantly to speak the truth, boldly to rebuke vice,
and patiently to suffer for the truth’s sake;
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.

The readings
Read by Rosemary Spruce

The first reading is from Isaiah 40:1-11

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

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

The Gospel reading is from Luke 1:57-66,80

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

Talk
by Revd Charles Sargent

Prayers

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

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
In the name of Christ. Amen.

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I’m found,
was blind, but now I see.

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed!

Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come.
‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me,
his word my hope secures;
he will my shield and portion be
as long as life endures.

When we’ve been there a thousand years,
bright shining as the sun,
we’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
then when we first begun.

John Newton (1725-1807)
Tune: Amazing Grace, American folk melody arr. Richard Lloyd (b 1933)