Sunday Morning Worship led by Rev Michael Allardice
Sunday 05 January 2025
09:45 to 10:45
You Tube link: https://youtu.be/NWX0FDLI8nY
Kilrenny Parish Church
Sunday 5th January 2025
Rev Michael Allardice
Welcome
Call to Worship
Leader: Almighty God, creator of heavens and earth
All: We gather together today to worship You.
Leader: Father God, who loves us with an everlasting love
All: We gather together today to worship You.
Leader: Lord Jesus, light of the world who came down into the darkness of the world
All: We gather together today to worship You.
Leader: Holy Spirit, who abides in and with us until the completion of God's great story
All: We gather together today to worship You.
Amen
Hymn CH 331 Unto us a King is born!
Opening Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
Hymn CH 327 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
Reading: Ephesians 3: 1 – 6
Hymn CH 326 As with gladness men of old
Reading: St Matthew 2: 1 – 12
Prayers for Peace
Song The Holly and the Ivy
Reflection: ‘A new beginning’
Song Good King Wenceslas
Prayers of Dedication & Intercession
Hymn MP 740 We three Kings of Orient are
Blessing
Sung Amen.
The Holly and the Ivy
The holly and the ivy
When they are both full grown
Of all trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir
The holly bears a blossom
As white as lily flow'r
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our dear Saviour
O, the rising of the sun........
The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good
O, the rising of the sun.....
The holly bears a prickle
As sharp as any thorn
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas Day in the morn
O, the rising of the sun......
The holly bears a bark
As bitter as any gall
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir.
Songwriters: Andreas Vollenweider / Traditional
The Holly and the Ivy lyrics © Novello & Co. Ltd., Novello And Co Ltd., Inreco, Simply
Good King Wenceslas
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen
When the snow lay round about
Deep and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight
Gath'ring winter fuel
"Hither, page, and stand by me
If thou know'st it, telling
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?"
"Sire, he lives a good league hence
Underneath the mountain
Right against the forest fence
By Saint Agnes' fountain."
"Bring me bread and bring me wine
Bring me pine logs hither
Thou and I will see him dine
When we bear him thither."
Page and monarch forth they went
Forth they went together
Through the rude wind's wild lament
And the bitter weather
In his master's steps he trod
Where the snow lay dinted
Heat was in the very sod
Which the Saint had printed
Therefore, every men, be sure
Wealth or rank possessing
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing
Songwriters: Richard Blackmore, Traditional. Data From: Musixmatch
Hymn MP 740
We three Kings of Orient are
bearing gifts we travel afar,
field and fountain, moor and mountain,
following yonder star:....
O star of wonder, star of night,
star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding,
guide us to the perfect light.
Born a King on Bethlehem plain,
gold I bring to crown Him again;
King for ever, ceasing never,
over us all to reign.
O star of wonder......
Frankincense for Jesus have I,
God on earth yet Priest on high;
prayer and praising all men raising;
worship is earth's reply.
O star of wonder........
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume,
tells of His death and Calvary's gloom;
sorrowing, sighing, bleeding dying,
sealed in a stone-cold tomb.
O star of wonder...........
Glorious now, behold Him arise,
King, and God, and sacrifice!
Heaven sings out, 'Alleluia!'
'Amen!' the earth replies.
O star of wonder............
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