Service Sheet - Sunday, 1 December 2024

Edinburgh Northwest Kirk

 

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT – HOPE

BAPTISM & COMMUNION

10.30 am

Minister :  Reverend Julia A Cato

Organist :   Simon Bertram

Pianist : Katherine Campbell

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The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all

(congregation to stand as the Bible is brought into church)

WELCOME & INTIMATIONS

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader :   From the dust of the earth, the Holy One breathed us into life.

All :  Through the breath of God we are all connected.

Leader :   Shaped in God’s image, God formed us with a purpose:

All :   to create

  to serve

  to tend

  to protect

  to love

Leader :   that life may flourish in all its forms,

All :  May the spirit of the living God be manifest in us!

HYMN 273  O come, O come, Emmanuel

PRAYERS OF ADORATION AND CONFESSION

THE LORD’S PRAYER

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

Maxwell Robert Friedhoff and Rory Alexander Friedhoff

BLESSING 

The Lord bless you and keep you,

The Lord make his face to shine upon you

And be gracious unto you.

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you

And give you peace.

ADVENT CANDLE LIGHTING

A candle is burning, a flame warm and bright,

a candle of hope in December’s dark night,

while angels sing blessings from heaven’s dark sky,

our hearts we prepare now for Jesus is nigh.

FIRST READING  Jeremiah 33 : 14 – 16   Claire Chapman

ANTHEM  People, look east  Malcolm Archer

SECOND READING  Luke 21 : 25 - 36

SERMON     

OFFERTORY HYMN   As I went down in the river to pray

DOXOLOGY 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

Praise God, all creatures here below;

Praise God for all that love has done;

Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One.  Amen.

PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING & INTERCESSION

CELEBRATION OF COMMUNION

Invitation to the Table

COMMUNION HYMN 19   Ye gates

The Great Thanksgiving

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

It is indeed right this day to give you thanks, O God.

In fulfilment of your promise, you pour your Spirit upon us, filling us with your gifts, leading us into all truth, and uniting peoples of many tongues in the living of the gospel day by day.

Infused with the Spirit, we join with your people

of all places and times,

with the whole company of heaven,

and with all the saints, to proclaim your greatness

and sing your praise in the angels’ unending hymn:

 

Holy, Holy, Holy one, God of love and peace

Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest!

Blessed is the one who comes

in the name of God.

Hosanna in the highest!

Sharing the Feast

CLOSING PRAYER

HYMN 286  Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord

BENEDICTION  Amen, amen, alleluia, amen

RECESSIONAL  Nunc Dimittis     Frank Shera

 

 

Cramond Kirk is part of Edinburgh Northwest Kirk

www.edinburghnorthwestkirk.org.uk  Charity No : SC006457

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