Hymn suggestions for Sunday 21 September 2025
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Peace Sunday is usually marked on the Sunday before or after the United Nations International Day of Peace (21 September). The World Council of Churches calls on churches to make this a day of prayer for peace, and to include prayers for peace in their services on the Sunday before or following. Resources are available at www.for.org.uk/peacesunday. Also see JPIT’s materials around Peacemaking.
This is a good Sunday to revisit Alan Gaunt's classic hymn: We pray for peace (StF 719), with its concluding note of certainty:
God, give us peace…
With you to lead us on,
through death or tumult, peace will come.
Creation Time runs from 1 September to the feast of St Francis on 4 October. The resource hub hosts a range of resources for worship and reflection under the theme of Climate and Creation
Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Jeremiah 8: 18 – 9:1
I will speak out for those who have no voices (StF 702)
The prophets' voice comes down the years (StF 162)
Psalm 79: 1-9
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
Because you came and sat beside us (StF 420)
Father, we have sinned in word, and deed, and thought (StF 422)
‘Forgive our sins as we forgive’, you taught us, Lord, to pray (StF 423)
Lord we turn to you for mercy (StF 429)
My troubled soul, why so weighed down? (StF 635)
Out of the depths I cry to thee, Lord God! Oh hear my prayer! (StF 433)
When, O God, our faith is tested (StF 643)
We come to you with no pretence (StF 435)
You showed us mercy when we were in darkness (StF 488)
1 Timothy 2: 1-7
Father, whose everlasting love (StF 320)
Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided (StF 470)
Pray for a world where every child finds welcome in a sheltered space (StF 527)
Victim divine, thy grace we claim (StF 600)
Luke 16: 1-13
A charge to keep I have (StF 658)
As water to the thirsty (StF 441)
Called by Christ to be disciples (StF 660)
Lord, we have come at your own invitation (StF 595)
O Jesus, I have promised to serve you to the end (StF 563)
Send down the fire of your justice (StF 413)
Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee (StF 566)
Teach me, my God and King, in all things thee to see (StF 668)
Alternative related readings
Amos 8: 4-7
Father, we have sinned in word and thought and deed (StF 422)
In an age of twisted values (StF 703)
The right hand of God is writing in our land (StF 715)
We lay our broken world in sorrow at your feet (StF 718)
Psalm 113
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
Blessed be the name of the Lord (StF 40)
Blessed be your name (StF 41)
From all that dwell below the skies (StF 75)
Give thanks to the Lord (StF 77)
My soul rejoices in God my Saviour (StF 60)
Worship God with the morning sunrise (StF 68)
Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (StF 340)