Saturday

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I lift up my eyes to the hills; from where is my help to come?

My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

 

Opening Prayer

 

Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your apostles, ‘Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you’: look not on our sins but on the faith of your Church and grant it the peace and unity of your kingdom; where you are alive and reign with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

      

Reading from scripture - choose one of the following:

  

 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.' The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. (Isaiah 6.1 – 4)

 

 I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.' (Revelation 21.1 – 4)

 

 

The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder's den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11.6 – 9)

 

A Time of Silence is kept

 

 

Psalm - Read one of the following Psalms

33, 139, 116, 65, 145, 23, 125, 92, 97, 149

 

Prayers may include these concerns

 

                                                       That Christians may live as citizens of heaven

                                                       That the nations of the world will live in harmony                                                                                                   That the dying will know the joy of resurrection

 

Collect

     

                                                        God be in my head, and in my understanding;

                                                        God be in my eyes, and in my looking;

                                                        God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;

                                                        God be in my heart, and in my thinking;

                                                        God be at mine end, and at my departing.

                                                        (Sarum Primer)

          

 

The Lord's Prayer is said.

 

 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore.        Amen

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