GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out A Service of the Word

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out The God of Glory be with you. The Lord bless you. Loving God, we have come to worship you. Help us to pray to you in faith, and be formed in Christ’s likeness that we may be confident in discipleship and joyful in your service, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Words of welcome. A hymn or song may be used.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Prayers of Penitence God calls us to the work of forgiveness, and calls us friends. Therefore let us confess our sins, in penitence and faith, confident in God’s mercy. Silence

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Christ came in compassion and loved the unloved. Forgive our reticence. Lord have mercy. Christ came in confidence and trusted God’s goodness. Forgive our hesitance. Christ have mercy.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Christ came in candidness and spoke truth in love. Forgive our ambivalence. Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out May the Father forgive us by the death of his Son and strengthen us to live in the power of the Spirit all our days. Amen. The Gloria or another song of praise may be sung.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out The Collect O God, by your Word you bring us to completion: forgiving our sins, healing our wounds and re-shaping our lives till we reflect your glory. Give us confidence in your transforming presence that, as we follow Christ, we may bear your image and likeness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Acclamation Surely God’s word is not too hard for you, it is never far away. The word is very near us: it is in our hearts and minds today.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out First Reading: Philippians 1:1-7 Silence The word is very near us: it is in our hearts and minds today.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Psalm God will cover you like a nesting bird. God’s wings will shelter you. God will cover you like a nesting bird. God’s wings will shelter you. All you sheltered by the Most High, who live in Almighty God’s shadow, say to the Lord, ‘My refuge, my fortress. My God I whom I trust.’ God will cover you like a nesting bird. God’s wings will shelter you.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out God will free you from hunters’ snares, will save you from deadly plague, will cover you like a nesting bird. God’s wings will shelter you. No night-time terror shall you fear, no arrows shot by day, no plague that prowls in the dark, no wasting scourge at noon. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand. But you shall live unharmed: God is sturdy armour. God will cover you like a nesting bird. God’s wings will shelter you.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out You have only to open your eyes to see how the wicked are repaid. You have the Lord as refuge, have made the Most High your stronghold. God will cover you like a nesting bird. God’s wings will shelter you. Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. God will cover you as a nesting bird. God’s wings will shelter you. A hymn or song may be used.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Second Reading: John 21:12-17 Silence The word is very near us: it is in our hearts and minds today.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out The Address A hymn or song may be used.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out The Creed Remembering all who have spoken before us, let us affirm our faith in the words of the Nicene Creed: We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father, Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation, he came down from heaven, was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried..

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out On the third day he rose again, in accordance with the Scriptures; He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the prophets.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out We believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Prayers of Intercession Prayers are offered for the church, the world, the local community, and those who suffer.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out The Lord’s Prayer Trusting in God’s presence with us now, as our Saviour has taught us, so we pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out 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.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Prayers of Thanksgiving Blessed are you, God for creating a world of wonder: you offer us intricate beauty and the simplicity of delight. Blessed be God for ever. Blessed are you, God, for your courageous intimacy: you share the depths of our suffering and the heights of every longed-for dream. Blessed be God for ever.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Blessed are you, God, for sharing the work of salvation: you give us strength to love, and courage to heal and forgive. Blessed be God for ever. Blessed are you, God, creator, redeemer, and sustainer: by your will we have our being, by your breath, we come to life. Blessed be God for ever.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out A hymn or song may be used.

GatheringThe WordThe PrayersSending Out Closing Prayers In every time, and every place, God calls a people as his own. We will walk the way of Christ, confident, as his disciples. The God of all grace, who called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, establish, strengthen and settle us in faith; and the blessing of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit be among us and remain with us always. Amen. Go in the peace of Christ. Thanks be to God.