Sending
love and prayers to you at this time and very much hoping you are keeping
well.
Here is
our third 'worship whilst away from church', which I hope you will find
helpful. Our focus for the morning is Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of
Holy Week.
Throughout
this week we will be providing worship opportunities every evening for the next
day - except for Saturday, where we will be taking a break, and today - where
this email contains the worship materials for both today (Palm Sunday) and
tomorrow (Holy Week Monday).
Many
thanks to:
Sarah
Bottom, who provided the information on Palm Sunday and some ways to make
Palm Crosses at home
Simon
Parnall, who chose the songs
Judy
Parnall and Tomos Davies, who have both provided sermons for us (I suggest
you listen to one today and one tomorrow, providing worship for both
days). They are both very much worth listening to.
David
Wright and Neill Oakley, who have both provided intercessions for us
(again, I suggest you use one set of intercessions to pray today and the
other to pray tomorrow)
Do keep in
touch - at any time you wish. Your messages are very important to me and I
always respond to them as soon as I am able. (07312 113019)
Continuing
to hold you all in my prayers,
Love from
Alex (Vicar of St. Mary's Burgh Heath and St. Paul's Nork)
Please
click on this link to hear a service introduction from me and an opening
prayer:
Song 1
- All Glory Laud and Honour:
Please
listen to or sing along with this rousing version of this beautiful Praise
Hymn:
Song 2 -
Great is He, who's the King of Kings
For those
who would like a second song, the following is also very refreshing:
Reading:
Matthew 21.1-11 NIV
You may
like to read thus in your own bibles, (Judy also reads
the passage as part of her sermon):
The
Sermons: Palm Sunday
To listen
to Tomos' sermon, please click here:
To listen
to Judy's sermon, please click here:
They are
both very well worth listening to (I am SO very proud of them both for
getting these videos ready for us - they have worked so hard to do this!),
so please do choose to listen to the other one tomorrow as your Holy Week
Monday worship.
Song 3:
Hosanna
At the end
of Judy's sermon, she encourages us to get up and march around our houses/
flats (as if in a Palm Sunday procession) to this song. If you feel able, do do
this! It is very invigorating - and an expression of the joy and magnificent
hope we have in our loving Lord!:
Intercessions
(attached as a PDF): Click Here for Prayers 1 and Click Here for Prayers 2
Please
pray through the intercessions provided by Neill or David (and use the second
set for your worship tomorrow) and then close with the Lord's Prayer:
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.
Song 4:
Ride on Ride on in Majesty!
For our
final song (another rousing one!), please click here:
Closing
Prayer: (You may
like to read the one I have written, or pray something similar of your own)
Loving
Lord,
We thank
you for being with us during this time of worship.
Thank you
for Holy Week, where we remember all that you did for us in dying on the cross
and rising again to glory, on Easter Saturday.
We pray that you will sharpen our desire for you this week and help us to draw
ever closer to you as we worship you each day.
Praying
your blessing on all in our families, all in our churches, all in our
neighbourhoods and all who we love.
Amen.
Rev Alex Williams
Vicar
Parish of Nork with Burgh Heath
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The PCC of the Parish of Nork with
Burgh Heath is a Registered UK Charity No 1180563
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