St. Giles’ Cathedral
Morning Service at 11am
The Reign of Christ the King
24th November 2024
Organ Music
Sigfrid Karg-Elert Kyrie Eleison
J.C.Bach Chorale Prelude on Ein feste Burg
Léon Boëllmann Offertoire
Introit
Christ whose glory fills the sky
Christ whose glory fills the sky
fill us with radiance
and scatter the darkness from our path.
Christ, the dayspring on high,
draw near to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Text: adapted from Morning Hymn by Charles Wesley 1707-1788
Music: Andrew Carvel b.1989
Minister: Lift up your heads, O gates;
be lifted up, you everlasting doors;
Congregation: and the King of glory shall come in.
Minister: ‘Who is the King of glory?’
Congregation: ‘The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord who is mighty in battle.’
Minister: Lift up your heads, O gates;
be lifted up, you everlasting doors;
Congregation: and the King of glory shall come in.
Minister: ‘Who is this King of glory?’
Congregation: ‘The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory.’
Processional Hymn
Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
Christ, the Lamb, for sinners slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
join to sing the glad refrain:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.
Every eye shall now behold him
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at naught and sold him,
pierced and nailed him to the tree,
deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.
Those deep wounds of cross and passion
still his glorious body bears;
cause of endless exultation
to his ransomed worshippers:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
See! the day of God appears.
Yea, amen, let all adore you,
high on your eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory,
claim the kingdom for your own:
oh, come quickly, oh, come quickly, oh, come quickly
Alleluia! come, Lord, come!
Text: Charles Wesley 1707-88 Based on a hymn by John Cennick 1718-1755
Music: Helmsley CH4 477 Melody from John Wesley Select Hymns 1765
Scripture Sentences
The Preces
O Lord open thou our lips
Kenneth Leighton 1929-1988
Bidding
Prayer
Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, it is your will to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, our Lord and King. Grant that the peoples of the earth, now divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his gentle and loving rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
First Lesson 2 Samuel 23 1-7
The Choir sings PSALM 93
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.
Second Lesson Revelation 1 4-8
Hymn
The bright wind is blowing, the bright wind of heaven,
and where it is going to, no-one can say;
but where it is passing our hearts are awaking
to stretch from the darkness and reach for the day.
The bright wind is blowing, the bright wind of heaven,
and many old thoughts will be winnowed away;
the husk that is blown is the chaff of our hating,
the seed that is left is the hope for our day.
The bright wind is blowing, the bright wind of heaven,
the love that it kindles will never betray;
the fire that it fans is the warmth of our caring,
so lean on the wind - it will show us the way.
Text: Cecily Taylor 1930-2018
Music: The road and the miles to Dundee CH4 697 Scottish traditional melody
Sermon
Anthem
Sedebit Dominus Rex
The Lord sits enthroned as King forever: may the Lord bless his people with peace.
Lord, you give us Christ, the King of all creation, as food for everlasting life.
Help us to live by the Gospel, and bring us to the joy of his kingdom.
Text: Psalm 29: 9b, 10b
Music: James MacMillan b.1959
The Offering
Prayer
Minister: Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come
Congregation: Hear our prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in 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.
Hymn
Forth in the peace of Christ we go;
Christ to the world with joy we bring;
Christ in our minds, Christ on our lips,
Christ in our hearts, the world's true King.
King of our hearts, Christ reigns in us;
kingship with him his servants gain;
with Christ, the Servant-Lord of all,
Christ's world we serve to share Christ's reign.
Priests of the world, Christ sends us forth
this world of time to consecrate,
our world of sin by grace to heal,
Christ's world in Christ to re-create.
Prophets of Christ, we hear his Word;
he claims our minds, to search his ways;
he claims our lips, to speak his truth;
he claims our hearts, to sing his praise.
We are his Church, he makes us one;
here is one hearth for all to find;
here is one flock, one Shepherd-King;
here is one faith, one heart, one mind.
Text: James Quinn 1919-2010
Tune: Duke Street CH4 646 Melody attributed to John Hatton
Benediction
Organ Voluntary
Jehan Alain Litanies
CCL Licence No 980930
Streaming Licence 57837
The service was conducted by The Rev. Dr George J. Whyte