Plainsong Eucharist will be livestreamed and available online at Holy Trinity’s YouTube site from 10.55am on Sunday at
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Welcome
Introit hymn
1 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord, to thee;
here at thy feet none other may we see:
'Lift up your hearts!' E'en so, with one accord,
we lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.
2 Above the swamps of subterfuge and shame,
the deeds, the thoughts, that honour may not name,
the halting tongue that dares not tell the whole,
O Lord of truth, lift every Christian soul.
3 Lift every gift that thou thyself hast given:
low lies the best till lifted up to heaven;
low lie the pounding heart, the teeming brain,
till, sent from God, they mount to God again.
4 Then, as the trumpet-call, in after years,
'lift up your hearts!' rings pealing in our ears,
still shall those hearts respond, with full accord,
'We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.'
Opening prayer
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Amen.
I will go unto the altar of God.
Even unto the God of my joy and gladness.
Our help is in the name of the Lord
Who hath made heaven and earth.
Pause for reflection
We confess to God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,
that we have sinned in thought, word, and deed,
through our own grievous fault.
Wherefore we pray God to have mercy upon us.
Almighty God have mercy upon us,
forgive us all our sins and deliver us from evil,
confirm and strengthen us in all goodness,
and bring us to life everlasting. Amen.
KYRIE Missa De Angelis
ABSOLUTION
May the almighty and merciful Lord
Grant you pardon and remission of all your sins,
Time for true repentance,
Amendment of life,
And the grace and comfort of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Almighty God,
unto whom all hearts be open,
all desires known,
and from whom no secrets are hid:
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit,
that we may perfectly love thee,
and worthily magnify thy holy name;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
GLORIA
Glory be to God the Father,
Glory be to God the Son,
Glory be to God the Spirit –
Trinity of Three in One.
Alleluia Alleluia
While eternal ages run.
COLLECT
First Reading
A reading from the book of the Song of Solomon
The voice of my beloved!
Look, he comes,
leaping upon the mountains,
bounding over the hills.
My beloved is like a gazelle
or a young stag.
Look, there he stands
behind our wall,
gazing in at the windows,
looking through the lattice.
My beloved speaks and says to me:
‘Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away;
for now the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of singing has come,
and the voice of the turtle-dove
is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its figs,
and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away. Song of Solomon 2:8-13
Responsorial Psalm:
RESPONCE
Grace flows from your lips,
God has blessed you for ever.
1 My heart is stirring with a noble song;
let me recite what I have fashioned for the king;
my tongue shall be the pen of a skilled writer.
2 You are the fairest of men;
grace flows from your lips, because God has blessed you for ever.
RESPONSE
7 Your throne, O God, endures for ever and ever,
a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of your kingdom;.
you love righteousness and hate iniquity;
8 Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
RESPONSE
9 All your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia,
and the music of strings from ivory palaces makes you glad.
10 Kings’ daughters stand among the ladies of the court;
on your right is the queen, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
RESPONSE
Second Reading
A reading from the letter of James
Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfilment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures. You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget, but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing. If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James 1:17-27
GRADUAL HYMN
1 Father, hear the prayer we offer:
not for ease that prayer shall be,
but for strength that we may ever
live our lives courageously.
2 Not for ever in green pastures
do we ask our way to be;
but the steep and rugged pathway
may we tread rejoicingly.
3 Not for ever by still waters
would we idly rest and stay;
but would smite the living fountains
from the rocks along our way.
4 Be our strength in hours of weakness,
in our wanderings be our guide;
through endeavour, failure, danger,
Father, be thou at our side.
ALLELUIA
GOSPEL
When it is announced:
Glory to Christ our Saviour.
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ He said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
“This people honours me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.”
You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.’
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.’ For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.’
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
At end:
Give thanks to the Lord for his glorious Gospel.
Praise to Christ our Lord.
Sermon
INTERCESSIONS
PEACE
We meet in Christ's name.
Let us share his peace.
OFFERTORY PROPER
OFFERTORY HYMN
Christ’s is the world in which we move;
Christ’s are the folk we’re summoned to love;
Christ’s is the voice which calls us to care,
and Christ is the one who calls us here.
Refrain: To the lost Christ shows his face,
to the unloved he gives his embrace,
to those who cry in pain or disgrace,
Christ makes, with his friends, a touching place.
Feel for the people we most avoid –
strange or bereaved or never employed.
Feel for the women, and feel for the men
who fear that their living is all in vain.
Feel for the parents who’ve lost their child,
feel for the women whom men have defiled,
feel for the baby for whom there’s no breast,
and feel for the weary who find no rest.
Feel for the lives by life confused,
riddled with doubt, in loving abused;
feel for the lonely heart, conscious of sin,
which longs to be pure but fears to begin.
THE OFFERTORY
Blessed be thou, O Lord God, for ever and ever.
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty:
for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine:
thine is the Kingdom, O Lord,
and thou art exalted as head above all:
all things come of thee,
and of thine own do we give unto thee. Amen.
THE CONSECRATION
The Lord be with you.
And with thy spirit.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up unto the Lord.
Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.
It is meet and right so to do.
It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty,
that we should at all times, and in all places,
give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God.
Therefore with Angels and Archangels,
and with all the company of heaven,
we laud and magnify thy glorious Name;
evermore praising thee and saying:
SANCTUS
All glory and thanksgiving be to thee,
Almighty God, our heavenly Father,
for that thou of thy tender mercy
didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ
to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption;
and did institute, and in his holy Gospel
command us to continue,
a perpetual memorial of that his precious death and sacrifice until his coming again.
For, in the night that he was betrayed,
he took bread;
and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying,
Take, eat, this is my Body, which is given for you: Do this in remembrance of me.
Likewise after supper he took the cup;
and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying,
Drink ye all of this, for this is my Blood of the new testament,
which is shed for you and for many
for the remission of sins:
Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me.
Wherefore, O Lord, and heavenly Father,
according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son
our Saviour Jesus Christ,
we thy humble servants
do celebrate and make here before thy Divine Majesty,
with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee,
the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make:
And we thine unworthy servants
beseech thee, most merciful Father,
to hear us, and to send thy Holy Spirit upon us
and upon these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine,
that, being blessed and hallowed by his life-giving power,
they may become the Body and Blood of thy most dearly beloved Son,
to the end that all who shall receive the same
may be sanctified both in body and soul,
and preserved unto everlasting life.
And we earnestly desire thy fatherly goodness,
mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving,
And here we humbly offer and present unto thee, O Lord,
ourselves, our souls and bodies,
to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee,
beseeching thee to accept this our bounden duty and service,
not weighing our merits, but pardoning our offences,
Through Jesus Christ our Lord:
by whom, and with whom,
in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
all honour and glory be unto thee,
O Father Almighty, world without end.
Amen.
LORD’S PRAYER
As our Saviour Christ has commanded and taught us,
we are bold to say:
Our Father, which 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 them that 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.
THE FRACTION
We break this bread,
to share in the body of Christ.
Though we are many, we are one body,
for we all share in one bread.
PRAYER OF HUMBLE ACCESS
We do not presume to come to this thy Holy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table: but thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy. Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the Flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his Blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his most sacred Body, and our souls washed through his most precious Blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
COMMUNION CHANT
With you, O Lord (Taizé)
THANKSGIVING
O Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious.
And his mercy endureth for ever,
Let us pray
O Lord our God, thou Saviour of the world, through whom we have celebrated these Holy Mysteries: receive our humble thanksgiving, and of thy great mercy vouchsafe to sanctify us evermore in body and soul; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
FINAL HYMN
1 O Jesus, I have promised
to serve thee to the end;
be thou for ever near me,
my Master and my Friend:
I shall not fear the battle
if thou art by my side,
nor wander from the pathway
if thou wilt be my guide.
4 O Jesus, thou hast promised
to all who follow thee,
that where thou art in glory
there shall thy servant be;
and, Jesus, I have promised
to serve thee to the end:
O give me grace to follow,
my Master and my Friend.
5 O let me see thy foot-marks,
and in them plant mine own;
my hope to follow duly
is in thy strength alone:
O guide me, call me, draw me,
uphold me to the end;
and then in heaven receive me,
my Saviour and my Friend.
THE BLESSING
The peace of God which passes all understanding,
keep your hearts and minds
in the knowledge and love of God
and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord:
And the blessing of God almighty, the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit,
be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen.
Now let us go forth in peace.
Thanks be to God.
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