NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DAY OF PRAYER
- Hymn: Let Streams of Living Justice (Common Praise #575 – words below)
- Greeting, Prayer in the Four Directions, Collect of the Day
- First Reading: Isaiah 40:25-41 (reading in French)
- Psalm: Give thanks to the Lord, God’s love endures for ever.
- Second Reading: Philippians 4:4-9 (First Nations Version)
- Hymn: Many and Great (Common Praise #407 – words below)
- Gospel: John 1:1-18 (First Nations Version)
- Sermon: Gary van der Meer
- Prayers of the People
- Confession, Absolution & Peace
- The Lord’s Prayer (sung)
- Doxology & Blessing
- Hymn: Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun (Common Praise #383 – words below)
- Dismissal
LET STREAMS OF LIVING JUSTICE
Let streams of living justice flow down upon the earth;
Give freedom’s light to captives, let all the poor have worth.
The hungry’s hands are pleading, the workers claim their rights,
The mourners long for laughter, the blinded seek for sight.
Make liberty a beacon, strike downt he iron power;
Abolish ancient vengeance: proclaim your people’s power.
For the healing of the nations, for the peace that will not end,
For the love that makes us lovers, God grant us grace to mend.
Weave our varied gifts together; knit our liv es as they are spun;
On your loom of time enroll us till our thread of life is run.
O great Weaver of our fabric, bind the church and world in one;
Dye our texture with our radiance, light our colours with your sun.
Your city’s built to music; we are the stones you seek;
Your harmony is language: we are the words you speak.
Our faith we find in service, our hope in other’s dreams,
Our love in hand of neighbour; our homeland brightly gleams.
Inbscribe our hearts with justice; your way - the path untried;
Your truth - the heart of stranger, your life - the Crucified.
MANY AND GREAT
Many and great, O God, are your works, maker of earth and sky.
Your hands have set the heavens with stars; your fingers spread the mountains and plains.
Lo, at your Word the waters were formed; Deep seas obey your voice.
Grant unto us communion with you, O star-abiding one.
Come unto us and dwell with us; with you are found the gifts of life.
Bless us with life that has no end, eternal life with you.
JESUS SHALL REIGN WHERE’ER THE SUN
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Doth its successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song,
And infant voicdese shall proclaim
Their earthly blessings on his name.
Blessings abound where’er he reigns;
The prisoners leap to lose their chains;
The weary find eternal rest,
And all who suffer want are blest.
Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar honours to our King,
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud Amen.
