St Luke the Evangelist - October 20 2013

• Organ: Adagio in E – Frank Bridge (1879-1941) 
• Opening Hymn “By all your saints still striving” (Thornbury)

  By all your saints still striving, for all your saints at rest,
  your holy name, O Jesus, forevermore be blessed!
  For those passed on before us, we sing our praise anew
  and, walking in their footsteps, would live our lives for you.
  
  For Luke, belov’d physician, all praise; whose gospel shows
  the healer of the nations, the one who shares our woes.
  Your wine and oil, O Saviour, upon our spirits pour,
  and with true balm of Gilead anoint us evermore.
  
  We pray for saints we know not, for saints still yet to be,
  for grace to bear true witness and serve you faithfully,
  till all the ransomed number who stand before the throne
  ascribe all power and glory and praise to God alone. 

• Service Music: John Merbecke 
• Psalm 147: 1-7 
• Gospel
  

  Alleluia Choir: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
  All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
  Cantor: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace: who brings good news / who announces salvation. All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia 

• Offertory Hymn (Gonfalon Royal)

  Let the round world with songs rejoice;
  let heaven return the joyful voice;
  all mindful of the Apostles' fame,
  let heaven and earth their praise proclaim.
  
  Ye servants who once bore the light
  of Gospel truth o'er heathen night,
  still may your work that light impart,
  to glad our eyes and cheer our heart.
  
  O God, by whom to them was given
  the key that shuts and opens heaven,
  our chains unbind, our loss repair,
  and grant us grace to enter there;
  
  for at thy will they preached the word
  which cured disease, which health conferred:
  O may that healing power once more
  our souls to grace and health restore:
  
  that when thy Son again shall come,
  and speak the world's unerring doom,
  he may with them pronounce us blessed,
  and place us in thy endless rest.
  
  To thee, O Father; Son, to thee;
  to thee, blessed Spirit, glory be! .
  So was it ay for ages past,
  so shall through endless ages last. Amen. 

• Anthem: Judge Eternal – Malcolm Archer (1952- )
  The text of the anthem can be found in the blue hymnbook # 594. 
• Communion Hymn 74 - For the bread which you have broken (Omni dei dic Maria) 
• Concluding hymn 433  - Lord you give the great commission (Abbot’s Leigh)
• Organ: Allegretto grazioso – Frank Bridge (1879-1941)

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