This Sunday, 22 September, we have our online Harvest Festival. In church today, this is marked in St Mary the Virgin, Horne at 10am. There are services of Holy Communion at 9:30am in St Bartholomew’s, Burstow and at 11am in St John the Baptist, Outwood.

This week’s online service is led by the Revd Alan Bayes.

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

Come, ye thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home!
All is safely gathered in,
ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
for our wants to be supplied;
come to God’s own temple, come;
raise the song of harvest-home!

We ourselves are God’s own field,
fruit unto His praise to yield;
wheat and tares together sown,
unto joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear,
then the full corn shall appear;
grant, O harvest Lord, that we
wholesome grain and pure may be.

For the Lord our God shall come,
and shall take His harvest home;
from His field shall purge away
all that doth offend, that day;
give His angels charge at last
in the fire the tares to cast,
but the fruitful ears to store
in His garner evermore.

Then, thou church, triumphant come,
raise the song of harvest-home;
all be safely gathered in,
free from sorrow, free from sin,
there, forever purified
in God’s garner to abide:
come, ten thousand angels, come,
raise the glorious harvest-home!

Henry Alford (1844)
Tune: St George’s Windsor, George Elvey (1856)

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

Introduction

The Collect prayer for Harvest

Eternal God,
you crown the year with your goodness
and you give us the fruits of the earth
in their season:
grant that we may use them to your glory,
for the relief of those in need
and for our own well being;
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.
Amen.

The first reading is from 2 Corinthians 9:6-12
read by Elizabeth Barrett

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 Matthew 6:25-33
read by Elizabeth Barrett

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

Talk
by Revd Alan Bayes

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

We plough the fields, and scatter
the good seed on the land,
but it is fed and watered
by God’s almighty hand:
He sends the snow in winter,
the warmth to swell the grain,
the breezes and the sunshine,
and soft refreshing rain.
All good gifts around us are sent from heav’n above;
then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all His love.

He only is the Maker
of all things near and far;
He paints the wayside flower,
He lights the evening star;
He fills the earth with beauty,
by Him the birds are fed;
much more to us, His children,
He gives our daily bread.

We thank Thee, then, O Father,
for all things bright and good:
the seed-time and the harvest,
our life, our health, our food.
Accept the gifts we offer
for all Thy love imparts,
and, what Thou most desirest,
our humble, thankful hearts.

Matthias Claudius (1782), trans. Jane Campbell (1861)
Tune: Wir pflügen, Johann Schulz (1800) harm. John Dykes (1823-1876)

Organist: Peter Nye.
Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England (2000), material from which is included in this service, is copyright © The Archbishops’ Council 2000.
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