St. Giles’ Cathedral
Morning Service at 11am
2nd Sunday in Lent
Sunday 25th February 2024
Organ Music
Camille Saint-Saëns Improvisation on Pro Martyribus
Sigfrid Karg-Elert Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr
Introit
Jesu, the very thought of thee
Jesus, the very thought of Thee
With sweetness fills my breast;
But sweeter far Thy face to see,
And in Thy presence rest.
Text: Edward Caswall 1814-1878
Music: Edward Bairstow 1874-1946
Processional Hymn
New every morning is the love
our wakening and uprising prove;
through sleep and darkness safely brought,
restored to life, and power, and thought.
New mercies, each returning day,
hover around us while we pray;
new perils past, new sins forgiven,
new thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
If on our daily course, our mind
be set to hallow all we find,
new treasures still, of countless price,
God will provide for sacrifice.
The trivial round, the common task,
will furnish all we ought to ask,
room to deny ourselves, a road
to bring us daily nearer God.
Prepare us, Lord, in your dear love
for perfect life with you above;
and help us, this and every day,
to live more nearly as we pray.
Text: John Keble 1792-1866
Music: Melcombe CH4 214 (ii) Melody by Samuel Webbe 1740-1816
Scripture Sentences
The Preces
O Lord open thou our lips
John Reading 1685-1764
Bidding
Prayer
Collect
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified; mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
First Lesson Genesis 17 1-17, 15-16
The Choir sings the Psalm 22 23-31
Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Second Lesson St Mark 8 31-38
Hymn
Father of heaven, whose love profound
a ransom for our souls has found,
before thy throne we sinners bend:
to us your pardoning love extend.
Almighty Son, Incarnate Word,
our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord,
before your throne we sinners bend:
to us your saving grace extend.
Eternal Spirit, by whose breath
our souls are raised from sin and death,
before your throne we sinners bend:
to us your quickening power extend.
Jehovah-Father, Spirit, Son-
mysterious Godhead, Three in One,
before your throne we sinners bend:
grace, pardon, life to us extend.
Text: Edward Cooper 1770-1833
Music: Rivaulx CH4 483 J.B.Dykes 1823-1876
Sermon
Anthem
Justorum animae
The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and the torment of malice shall not touch them:
They seem in the eyes of the foolish to be dead, but they are at peace.
Text: Wisdom 3 1-3
Music: Charles Villiers Stanford 1852-1924
The Offering
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
Join all the glorious names
of wisdom, love, and power,
that ever mortals knew,
that angels ever bore:
all are too mean to speak his worth,
too mean to set my Saviour forth.
Great Prophet of my God,
my tongue would bless thy name;
by thee the joyful news
of our salvation came:
the joyful news of sins forgiven,
of hell subdued, and peace with heaven.
Jesus my great High-Priest
offered his blood and died;
my guilty conscience seeks
no sacrifice beside:
his powerful blood did once atone,
and now it pleads before the throne.
My dear almighty Lord,
my Conqueror and my King,
your sceptre and your sword,
your reigning grace, I sing;
yours is the power: behold I sit
in willing service at your feet.
Now let my soul arise,
and tread the tempter down;
my Captain leads me forth
to conquest and a crown.
a feeble saint shall win the day,
though death and hell obstruct the way.
Text: Isaac Watts 1674-1748
Music: Croft’s 136th CH4 460 Melody by William Croft 1678-1727
Benediction
Organ Voluntary
César Franck Pièce Heroïque
CCL Licence No 980930
Streaming Licence 57837
The service was conducted by The Rev Dr George J Whyte