The Fifth Sunday before Advent
30th October 2016
For services, please see Daily Prayer (Morning), Daily Prayer (Evening) and Holy Communion.
Principal Service
Collect One
Creator God,
you have filled the world with beauty:
open our eyes to behold
your gracious hand in all your works,
that, rejoicing in your whole creation,
we may learn to serve you with gladness,
for the sake of him
through whom all things were made,
your Son Jesus Christ our Lord;
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Collect Two
Blessed Lord,
who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning:
Help us to hear them,
to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them
that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word,
we may embrace and for ever hold fast
the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
The First Reading
The Psalm
The Second Reading
The Gospel Reading
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God of all grace,
your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry
with the bread of his life and the word of his kingdom.
Renew your people with your heavenly grace,
and in all our weakness
sustain us by your true and living bread,
who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,one God, now and for ever.
Suggested Hymns
(c) 1st Reading Habakkuk 1: 1–4 & 2: 1–4 [Pr22C*]
643* Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
509* Your kingdom come, O God
(c) Psalm Psalm 119: 137–144
6* Immortal, invisible, God only wise
705 New songs of celebration render
144 Word of justice, alleluia
(p) 1st Reading Isaiah 1: 10–18
357 I’ll praise my maker while I’ve breath
553* Jesu, lover of my soul
446* Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
498 What does the Lord require for praise and offering?
(p) Psalm Psalm 32: 1–8
562* Blessèd assurance, Jesus is mine
92* How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
2nd Reading 2 Thessalonians 1: 1–4, 11–12
92* How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
616 In my life, Lord, be glorified
639* O thou who camest from above
508 Peace to you
624 Speak, Lord, in the stillness
The Gospel Luke 19: 1–10
629* Abide among us with thy grace
417 He gave his life in selfless love
421* I come with joy, a child of God
576* I heard the voice of Jesus say
587* Just as I am, without one plea
132* [Lo! he comes with clouds descending]
637* O for a closer walk with God
214 O Love, how deep, how broad, how high!
9 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
78* This is the day that the Lord has made