Mothering Sunday Service

This Mothering Sunday will be a bit different for us all with our live stream.

If you want to follow along live please head to our Facebook page at 1100h 22nd March. Please use the service sheet below. After the service ends the video will be added to this page immediately for you to watch and take part in our worship.

https://www.facebook.com/HolyTrinityDunfermline/videos/517331755596857/

Scottish Liturgy 1982 with Alternative Eucharistic Prayers The Liturgy is printed with a minimum of instructions out of a conviction that worship in a contemporary idiom must be adapted to suit particular times and places. The words printed in bold type are intended for us all to say as well as the celebrant. The bits in Italics are there to guide or help you along.

1. Welcome:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

3. Collect for Purity:
Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

4. Summary of the Law †
Our Lord Jesus Christ said: The first commandment is this: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is the only Lord. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all Your strength.” The second is this: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these. Amen. Lord, have mercy

5. Confession and Absolution
God is love and we are his children. There is no room for fear in love. We love because he loved us first. Let us confess our sins in penitence and faith.
God our Father, we confess to you and to our fellow members in the Body of Christ that we have sinned in thought, word and deed, and in what we have failed to do. We are truly sorry. Forgive us our sins, and deliver us from the power of evil, for the sake of your Son who died for us, Jesus Christ, our Lord. God, who is both power and love, forgive us and free us from our sins, heal and strengthen us by his Spirit, and raise us to new life in Christ our Lord. Amen.

6. Kyrie †
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy

8. Collect of the day

God of love, passionate and strong, tender and careful: watch over us. All the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our lord. Amen

10. Epistle Reading: Colossians 2:1-10

11. Gospel : John 19:25b – 27
When it is announced:
Glory to Christ our Saviour.
At end: Give thanks to the Lord for his glorious Gospel. Praise to Christ our Lord.

13. Nicene Creed †
We believe in one God, the Father, the almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father. With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
Amen.

14. Intercessions
Prayer is offered for the world and its people, for those who suffer and those in need, for the Church and its members
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16. Peace
We meet in Christ’s name. Let us share his peace.
Try and say peace be with you to each other via the online comments section.

17. Offering

Let us present our offerings to the Lord. Yours, Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the splendour, and the majesty: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours. All things come from you, and of your own we give you.

18. Eucharistic Prayer V
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 him thanks and praise.

Worship and praise belong to you, Father, in every place and at all times. You made us, all the people of the world, and everything that is. You give us the daylight. Your Word lights up our minds. Jesus was born among us to be light in our darkness. Your Spirit lives in us so that we can look at the world with your eyes. One day we will be with you in heaven, but already we laugh with the saints and angels, and sing their joyful song:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Father, you never forget us or turn away from us, even when we fail you. You sent your Son Jesus who gave his life for us. He healed those who were sick, cared for those who were poor, and cried with those who were sad. He forgave sinners and taught us to forgive. For all your love we give you thanks in the way that Jesus showed us.

On the night before he died, while he was having supper with his friends, he took bread and offered you thanks. He broke the bread, and gave it to them, saying: “Take, eat. This is my Body: it is broken for you.” After supper, he took the cup, he offered you thanks, and gave it to them saying: “Drink this, all of you. This is my Blood of the new covenant; it is poured out for you, and for all, that sins may be forgiven. Do this in remembrance of me.”

So, as we do what he told us, we open our hearts to him; we remember how he died and rose again to live now in us. Together with him we offer you these gifts: in them we give you ourselves. Send your Holy Spirit on us and on this bread and this wine, that they may be the Body and Blood of Christ, and that, sharing your life, we may travel in your company to our journey’s end. With all your people we give you thanks and praise through the Son and in the Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

19. Breaking of the Bread
The living bread is broken for the life of the world.
Lord, unite us in this sign.

20. Lord’s Prayer
As our Saviour has taught us, so we pray:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed he your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not bring us to the time of trial but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and for ever. Amen

22. Communion Song †
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world: have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world: have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world: grant us peace

23. Sentence
An appropriate seasonal sentence may be used.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is gracious. And his mercy endures for ever.

24. Post communion prayer

May the peace of Christ rule in our hearts and homes. Amen

May we be filled with the joys of the Spirit and the gifts of our eternal home. Amen

And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen

25. Blessing †
The peace of God which passes all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord: And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.

26. Dismissal
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. In the name of Christ. Amen.

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