ST ANDREWS-LHANBRYD & URQUHART PARISH CHURCH

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Order of Service, November 2
nd
2014
Welcome

Introit & Call to worship

Hymn - 454 A safe Stronghold our God is still (V 1,2) Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
1 A safe stronghold our God is still,
a trusty shield and weapon;
he'll help us clear from all the ill
that hath us now oertaken.
The ancient prince of hell
hath risen with purpose fell ;
strong mail of craft and power
he weareth in this hour ;
on earth is not his fellow.
2 With force of arms we nothing can,
full soon were we down-ridden;
but for us fights the proper Man,
whom God himself hath bidden.
Ask ye who is this same ?
Christ Jesus is his name,
the Lord Sabaoths Son ;
he, and no other one,
shall conquer in the battle.
*Minister: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the
Holy Spirit be with you all!
All : People: And also with you!
*Minister: Let us pray together. Lord God, by your grace we are running a race.
All : We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses

*Minister: Patriarchs and matriarchs, prophets and psalmists, disciples and evangelists,
martyrs and saints.
*All - We thank you for their example. We praise you for their lives of faith. For all
your saints, O Lord, who strove in you to live, who followed, obeyed, adored
you - our grateful hymn we sing.

*Minister: Lord God, by your grace we are running a race.
All : We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses--

*Minister: Loved ones now resting in you, who guided us, nurtured and cared for us;
ancestors who worked and traveled, lived and died that we might be who we are,
where we are--your precious children in this community of believers.
*All : We thank you for their example. We praise you for their lives of faith. For all
your saints, O Lord, who strove in you to die, who counted you their great
reward - accept our thankful cry.

Minister: Lord God, by your grace we are running a race.
People: We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses--

Minister: Family members and members of this congregation; fellow believers in every
country, every denomination; friends who help, guide and uplift us-- children of your family,
sheep of your fold, saints of your redeeming.

All : We thank you for their example. We praise you for their lives of faith. For this,
your name we bless, and humbly pray anew, that we like them in holiness may
live and die in you.

Minister: Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also
lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,
All : and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Minister: looking to Christ, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.
People: Amen


A Safe Stronghold is our God ( V 3, 4)
3 And were this world all devils oer,
and watching to devour us,
we lay it not to heart so sore ;
they cannot overpower us.
And let the prince of ill
look grim as eer he will,
he harms us not a whit ;
for why ? his doom is writ ;
a word shall quickly slay him.
4 Gods word, for all their craft and force,
one moment will not linger,
but, spite of hell, shall have its course ;
tis written by his finger.
And, though they take our life,
goods, honour, children, wife,
yet is their profit small ;
these things shall vanish all :
the city of God remaineth.
Martin Luther (14831546) translated Thomas Carlyle (17951881)

Prayer and Lords Prayer Modern

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.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and for ever
Amen

Family Talk

Hymn - Junior Praise 195 O when the saints
O when the saints go marching in
O when the saints go marching in
O Lord, I want to be among the number
When the saints go marching in!

O when they crown Him Lord of all,
O when they crown Him Lord of all:
O Lord, I want to be among the number
When they crown Him Lord of all.

O when all knees bow at His name,
O when all knees bow at His name,
O Lord I, want to be among the number
When all knees bow at His name.

O when they sing the Saviours praise,
O when they sing the Saviours praise,
O Lord, I want to be among the number
When they sing the Saviours praise.

O when the saints go marching in
O when the saints go marching in
O Lord, I want to be among the number
When the saints go marching in!



Readings: 1st John 3: 1-3, Revelation 7:9-17, Psalm 34 1-10, 22.


Congregation Response :
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

Reflection for All Saints Day

Hymn: The Beatitudes (verses 1 and 2, sung to Ode to J oy)
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for Gods kingdom shall be theirs
Blest are those who mourn with grieving; they of God shall be the heirs.
They shall not be lost, forsaken, but shall comfort full receive.
God will bless them with his mercy and their evry fear relieve.
Blessed are the meek and lowly; God shall give them of the earth.
Blest are they who thirst for rightness; God shall slake their hungering.
God shall bless the ones whose mercy mirrors his abundant grace.
God will bless them now, forever; they in heavn shall have a place.

Naming of the Earthly Saints

Hymn: The Beatitudes (verses 3 and 4, sung to Ode to J oy)
Blest are they whose hearts are purely living truly by Gods grace;
They receive Gods favoured blessing and behold him face to face.
Blest are those who seek not warfare but seek peace most constantly;
Children of the Lord, they always live in peace eternally.
Blessed are the persecuted, cursed, insulted, and reviled;
Though great evil stands before them, they shall never be defiled.
Who for Christs sake bear such evil, suffring, death, or bitter pain.
Their reward is great and plenteous: they Gods kingdom shall obtain.

Passing the Peace of Christ

Let the people show signs of grace and friendliness: Peace be with you.

748 Through saints we glimpse the light of Christ,
1. As stars adorn the night-veiled sky,
arrayed like jewels rare and bright,
so shine Gods saints in every age
to give the world new hope, new light.

2. The light saints bear is not their own
but shines through them as gift and sign:
to show how God can use and bless
frail human means for ends divine.

3. Through saints we glimpse the light of Christ,
the Morning Star that crowns the night,
whose rising heralds Gods new day,
the promised dawn of life and light.

4. That light is ours to claim and share,
not merely praise or gaze upon:
for all who are baptized become
light-bearers through the Risen One.
5. The saints inspire and challenge us
our holy calling to embrace:
to bear Christs light in our own day,
to be the vessels of Gods grace.
Carl P Daw, Jr (b.1944)


Sermon Who are the saints?

Offering

807 Praise God whom from all Blessings Flow
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host ;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Thomas Ken (16371711)

Prayers - dedication, ourselves and others

739 The Churchs one foundation
1 The Churchs one foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord :
she is his new creation
by water and the word ;
from heaven he came and sought her
to be his holy bride ;
with his own blood he bought her,
and for her life he died.
2 Called forth from every nation,
yet one oer all the earth,
her charter of salvation :
one Lord, one faith, one birth.
One holy name she blesses,
and shares one holy food,
as to one hope she presses,
with every grace endued.
3 In toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace for evermore,
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great Church victorious
shall be the Church at rest.
4 Yet she on earth has union
with God the Three in One,
and mystical communion
with those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy !
Lord, give us grace that we,
like them, the meek and lowly,
on high may dwell with thee.
Samuel John Stone (18391900)(alt.)

Benediction


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