Hymn suggestions for Sunday 22 June 2025
- General:
- Lectionary
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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.
1 Kings 19: 1-4 (5-7) 8-15a
God has spoken - by his prophets (StF 157)
We cannot bear the full light of your glory (website only)
When listening prophets dare to speak (StF 163)
Psalms 42; 43
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
A safe stronghold our God is still (StF 623)
The thirsty deer longs for the streams (StF 514)
When our confidence is shaken (StF 644)
Galatians 3: 23-29
Beauty for brokenness (StF 693)
Community of Christ (StF 681)
Gracious God, you call your people (website only)
‘I have a dream’, a man once said (website only)
In Christ there is no east or west (StF 685)
Luke 8: 26-39
* Before the world began (StF 101)
Deep in the darkness a starlight is gleaming (StF 625)
Lord of life, we come to you (StF 651)
The kingdom of God is justice and joy (StF 255)
We come today to celebrate (website only)
We cannot measure how you heal (StF 655)
Alternative related readings
Isaiah 65: 1-9
* Because you came and sat beside us (StF 420)
In the darkness of the still night (StF 109)
In the wonder of creation (StF 110)
Psalm 22: 19-28
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
* Because you came and sat beside us (StF 420)
* Before the world began (StF 101)
God, who sets us on a journey (website only)
A prayer for the triumph of God's will
God of grace and hope,
Where the warmth of a smile eclipses the sinister sneer –
Let hope stand triumphant.
Where an act of kindness
undermines an evil deed –
Let hope stand triumphant.
Where a word of peace
silences the terrorist’s threat –
Let hope stand triumphant.
Where difference is diversity
in place of disunity –
Let hope stand triumphant.
Where youth is innocent
and age is wisdom –
Let hope stand triumphant.
Where love is real
and faith is kindled –
Let hope stand triumphant.
Praying that praise and protest
would be partners in our living and in our praying,
that your kingdom may come among us.
Amen.
Andy Fyall, District Chair, Nottingham and Derby District
A prayer that we may lose ourselves in God - Alternative Prayer
Let us be lost in your will, O God, lost in the doing of it, lost in the presence of your Spirit, lost in your redeeming love and lost in you forever. Amen.
Mary Porteous, Primitive Methodist itinerant (1783-1861)