HOLMBURY
ST MARY
SELF-SERVICE for SUNDAY, 21st FEBRUARY 2021
ORDER OF SERVICE
for the First Sunday of Lent
ORGAN PRELUDE
James Stanton plays Durch Adams falI ist ganz verderbt
by F.W. Zachau
WELCOME by David
HYMN Click and join in or listen:
Love divine, all loves excelling
CONFESSION
In this first Sunday in Lent you are invited to make a personal confession with these words, before hearing the declaration of forgiveness:
Lord God,
I confess my neglect of your call,
My wrongdoing, thinking and speaking,
The hurts I have done to others,
And the good I have not done.
I turn to you again.
Wash away my wrongdoing,
Renew a right spirit within me,
And restore me to the joy of your salvation,
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
ASBOLUTION (David)
TALK by Revd Paul Frostick:
What Lent means to me
COLLECT
Virginia reads the Collect for the First Sunday of Lent
Heavenly Father,
your Son battled with the powers of darkness,
and grew closer to you in the desert:
help us to use these days to grow in wisdom and prayer
that we may witness to your saving love
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
FIRST READING
God's covenant with Noah
Francis reads Genesis 9: 8 – 17
HYMN Click and join in or listen:
GOSPEL READING
Jesus is tempted by Satan in the wilderness
Judith reads Mark 1: 9 – 15
SERMON Preached by Martha
With the wild beasts
HYMN Click and join in or listen:
Forty days and forty nights
PRAYERS Led by Liz
Let us join with Liz and Francis, saying
THE LORD'S PRAYER:
HYMN
In our last hymn, we acknowledge that Jesus’ time in the wilderness ultimately ended in triumph.
Click and join in or listen:
Jesus is Lord
BLESSING given by Bishop Andrew
ORGAN VOLUNTARY
James Stanton plays Erbarm’ dich mein, O Herre Gott
by J.S. Bach
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Background image:
Noah gives thanks for deliverance (1901)
Domenico Morelli (1823–1901)
Dorotheum auction house (public domain image)
