ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
- Hymn: All People That on Earth Do Dwell (Common Praise #349 – words below)
- Greeting, Land Acknowledgement & Collect of the Day
- First Reading: Exodus 16:2-4,9-15
- Psalm 78:23-29 – The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
- Second Reading: Ephesians 4:1-16 (reading in French)
- Hymn: Shepherd of Souls, Refresh and Bless (Common Praise #85 – words below)
- Gospel: John 6:24-35
- Sermon: Gary van der Meer
- Hymn: Eat This Bread, Drink This Cup (Common Praise #63 – words below)
- Prayers of the People: Ian Myles
- The Lord’s Prayer (sung)
- Doxology & Blessing
- Hymn: Ye Holy Angels Bright (Common Praise - #323 – words below)
- Dismissal
ALL PEOPLE THAT ON EARTH DO DWELL
All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice
Him serve with mirth his praise forth tell; come ye before him and rejoice.
Know that the Lord is God indeed; without our aid he did us make;
We are his folk, he doth us feed, and for his sheep he doth us take.
O enter then his courts with praise, approach with joy his courts unto
Praise, laud, and bless his name always, for it is seemly so to do.
For why, the Lord our God is good; his mercy is forever sure;
His truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from age to age endure.
SHEPHERD OF SOULS, REFRESH AND BLESS
Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless your chosen pilgrim flock
With manna in the wilderness, with water from the rock.
We would not live by bread alone, but by your word of grace,
In strength of which we travel on to our abiding place.
Be known to us in breaking bread, but do not then depart
Saviour, abide with us, and spread your table in our heart.
Lord, sup with us in love divine; your body and your blood,
That living bread, that heavenly wine, be our immortal food.
EAT THIS BREAD, DRINK THIS CUP
Refrain
Eat this bread, drink this cup, come to me and never be hungry.
Eat this bread, drink this cup, trust in me and you will not thirst.
Verses
I am the bread of life, the true bread sent from the Father.
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but this is the bread come down from heaven.
Eat my flesh and drink my blood, and I will raise you up on the last day.
Anyone who eats this bread, will live forever.
If you believe and eat this bread, you will have eternal life.
YE HOLY ANGELS BRIGHT
Ye holy angels bright, who wait at God’s right hand,
Or through the realms of light fly at your Lord’s command,
Assist our song, or else the theme too high doth seem for mortal tongue.
Ye blessed souls at rest, who ran this earthly race,
And now from sin released behold the Saviour’s face,
Your praises sound as in God’s sight with sweet delight ye do abound.
Ye saints who toil below, adore your heavenly King,
And onward as ye go some joyful anthem sing;
In God rejoice, and thus proclaim the holy name with sounding voice.
My soul bear thou thy part, triumph in God above,
And with a well-tuned heart sing thou the songs of love!
Let all thy days till life shall end, what-e’er God send, be filled with praise.
