KILRENNY PARISH CHURCH

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Kilrenny Parish Church Sunday 14th December 2025

3rd Sunday in Advent Communion Service

Welcome

Call to Worship

Leader: We come together in this place.

ALL: To be together and to claim that we are God's people.

Leader: We look to ourselves and to each other

ALL: To express the love of God as a sign of hope for the world.

Leader: We abandon ourselves

ALL: To the working of the Holy Spirit, trusting in God's mercy.

Leader: Gather us, O God

ALL: And we will know Your life that makes us one.

Leader: Gather us, O God

ALL: And we shall celebrate our variety and our uniqueness.

Leader: Gather us, O God

ALL: And we will give You the pain of our brokenness.

Leader: Gather us, O God

ALL: And we will share the gifts of Your Spirit.

Leader: Trinity of love, bind us as one.

ALL: That our brokenness be healed by You, that our fear be held by You, that our gifts be used by You,

that our lives be offered to You, so may the world believe. Amen

Hymn CH 103                             Fill your hearts with joy and gladness

Opening Prayer and “The Lord’s Prayer”

Lighting of the Advent Candle

A hymn for the lighting of the Advent candles

Advent Song: The Candle of Hope

(To the tune of: "O Worship the King, All Glorious Above!")

Verse 1

The candle of hope we light in this hour Proclaims that the Lord is coming in power. We wait for a future, now hidden from view,

When Christ in his glory will make all things new.

Verse 2

The candle of peace shines bright with God's plan; The wolf will lie down and dwell with the lamb.

Our guns and our weapons, our hatred and war, Will give way to gardens that heal and restore.

Verse 3

The candle of joy reminds us to sing, For God is at work to do a new thing.

The proud will be humbled; the lowly will rise. God's kingdom is one of delight and surprise.

Readings:    James 5: 7 - 10

St Matthew 11: 2 - 11

Hymn CH 291                             When out poverty is born

Prayers for Peace

Hymn CH 290                             The race that long in darkness pined

Reflection: ‘The patience of the Prophets’

Hymn CH 664                             Here, O Lord, I see thee face to face (v1 - v4)

Communion

Hymn CH 664                             Here, O Lord, I see thee face to face (v5 - v7)

Prayers of Dedication and Intercession

Hymn CH 282                             Christmas is coming!

Blessing

Sung Amen.