22C - Lent 4C — 24C - Passion Sunday OR 24C Palm Sunday
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Psalm 126 (a version for today)
When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion
it was a golden age, like living in a dream;
our mouths overflowed with laughter,
and our tongues sang with joy.
All the people round about said,
“The LORD has done a great thing for them.”
The LORD had indeed done a great thing for us –
and we were overjoyed,
happy as we had never known.
O LORD, restore us again,
like the creek-beds outback:
when those who sowed with sweat and tears
reap with shouts of gladness,
when our journey in a broken world
gives way to abundant joy.
OFFERING
God of abundance,
you call us not to remember the past
but to watch for the new things you are doing.
Empowered by your Spirit
may our gifts and our living
restore life to others
like floodwaters flowing
in dead, parched creek-beds outback.
to your glory and praise;
in the name of Jesus,
whom we seek to follow. Amen.
A CREATIVE MOMENT
Click here for some ideas for worship in Lent and Easter gleaned from the pages of “On the Move” (now out of print) which was published by the Joint Board of Christian Education, Melbourne, Australia.
THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
(A prayer to gather the spoken and silent concerns/joys/thanks expressed by the congregation and lead into a more structured Intercession with connection to the lections for the day. Sometimes this prayer borrows lightly from other sources e.g. Uniting in Worship 2 or publications of the Iona Community.)
Holy mystery,
whose love permeates
like the fragrance of perfume,
help us bring consolation to those know to us;
those we name on our lips
and in our silence;
return to our memory those whom we have forgotten
and be present to those who have no-one …
that those who go out weeping with the seed
might return rejoicing with the harvest…
(The Prayers of the People continue)
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Try David MacGregor’s Together to Celebrate
| HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR LENT 5C |
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| Be thou my vision | TIS 547 |
| God is my strong salvation | TIS 15 |
| Love Divine all loves excelling | TIS 217 |
| My song is love unknown | TIS 341 |
| Praise to the Holiest in the height | TIS 141 |
| Isaiah 43:16-21 | |
| Almighty God lift up our eyes | TIS 615 |
| I, the Lord of sea and sky | TIS 658 |
| This is a day of new beginnings |
TIS 653 |
| We are your people | TIS 468 |
| Psalm 126 | |
| For the fruits of all creation | TIS 168 |
| Forth in your name, O Lord, I go | TIS 571 |
| Hail to the Lord’s anointed | TIS 275 |
| In suffering love the thread of life | TIS 177 |
| The Lord has done great things for us | TIS 80 |
| To God be the glory, great things he has done | TIS 147 |
| When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage | TIS 80 |
| Philippians 3:4b-14 | |
| All praise to our redeeming Lord | TIS 442 |
| Come, let us join our cheerful songs | TIS 209 |
| God gives us a future |
TIS 687 |
| I greet you, my Redeemer sure, who lives | TIS 198 |
| In faith and hope and love | TIS 628 |
| Jesus comes will all his grace | TIS 219 |
| Lord Jesus, joy of loving hearts | TIS 499 |
| My God, accept my heart this day | TIS 485 |
| We limit not the truth of God… | TIS 453 |
| When I survey the wondrous cross | TIS 342 |
| John 12:1-8 | |
| A prophet-woman broke a jar | TIS 696 |
| Myrrh-bearing Mary from Magdala came | TIS 660 |
| No weight of gold or silver | TIS 249 |
| What shall I do my God to love | TIS 122 |
| What shall we offer our good Lord | TIS 439 |
| Woman in the night |
TIS 661 |