58C - Sunday 26C — 60C - Sunday 28C
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LAMENTATIONS 3:19-26
Remembering my misery and homelessness is bitter poison!
My heart recalls it again and again;
and is crushed within me.
This is what I will keep in mind,
and so regain my hope:
God’s steadfast love will never be spent
nor the Lord’s compassion come to an end;
they are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness!
I say to myself, “I have the Lord
in whom I will wait in hope.”
The Lord is good to all who wait with trust,
who seek God with expectant hearts.
It is good to wait in hopeful stillness for the salvation of the Lord.
OFFERING
Gracious God,
whose steadfast love never ceases
and whose never-ending mercies
are new every morning;
how can we make a sufficient offering?
Let our lives, our mustard-seed faith,
and these symbols of our daily labours,
be enough for today;
in Jesus’ name. Amen.
A CREATIVE MOMENT – Lamentations 1:1-6
There are events in the life of every congregation and its community which been negative, debilitating or the cause of collective grief. These may be situations which have been ‘blocked out’ or which remain unresolved but which nevertheless deserve to be acknowledged and lamented in the process of resolution and closure. The reading from Lamentations may offer the opportunity for a service of acknowledgement and lament.
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.)
God of all grace,
in you is hope
and in that hope we remember
the widow, the exile, the weeping,
the restless, the pursued, the desolate;
those we have named
on our lips and in our silence…
By your Spirit of grace
be present to those who have no-one;
help us bring consolation to those known to us;
return to our memory those whom we have forgotten;
in Jesus’ name…
(The Prayers of the People continue)
Looking for contemporary music and song resources?
Try David MacGregor’s Together to Celebrate
Or metrical psalms? Try Dale A. Schoening’s Sing the Psalms
| HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR SUNDAY 27C | |
| Be still, my soul: the Lord is on your side; | TIS 123 |
| Forth in thy name O Lord I go | TIS 571 |
| Sing praise and thanksgiving, | TIS 107 |
| We are your people, | TIS 468 |
| Lamentations 1:1-6 | |
| Great is your faithfulness, O God my Father | TIS 154 |
| Psalm 137 | |
| By the Babylonian waters | TIS 85 |
| By the waters | TIS 708 |
| How shall I sing to God | TIS 667 |
| God of Jeremiah grieving | TIS 679 |
| Lord, hear my praying, listen to me; | TIS 689 |
| 2 Timothy 1:1-14 | |
| Beauty for brokenness | TIS 690 |
| Breathe on me, breath of God | TIS 407 |
| Come to us, creative Spirit | TIS 652 |
| Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly dove | TIS 402 |
| Come, Holy Spirit, come! | TIS 422 |
| Come, Holy Spirit | TIS 710 |
| Come, Holy Spirit, our souls inspire | TIS 396 |
| Come, Spirit of God, holy Lord | TIS 399 |
| Come, Spirit blest, Creator, come | TIS 397 |
| God, your glory we have seen in your Son | TIS 462 |
| Have faith in God, my heart | TIS 619 |
| I’m not ashamed to own my Lord | TIS 562 |
| Like the murmur of the dove’s song | TIS 419 |
| Love Divine all loves excelling | TIS 217 |
| O Holy Spirit, enter in | TIS 400 |
| O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God | TIS 401 |
| Praise the Spirit in creation | TIS 415 |
| Spirit divine, attend our prayers | TIS 406 |
| Take up your cross the Saviour said | TIS 583 |
| There’s a spirit in the air | TIS 414 |
| Veni Creator | TIS 750 |
| Wa wa wa Emimimo | TIS 711 |
| Luke 17:5-10 | |
| God of grace and God of glory | TIS 611 |
| I sing the almighty power of God | TIS 119 |
| O Jesus I have promised | TIS 595 |