Hymn suggestions for Sunday 26 January 2025
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Holocaust Memorial Day is marked on 27 January. This year’s theme is: For a Better Future
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
General
*Listen for God (website only)
Lord, you have my heart (StF 559)
O thou who camest from above (StF 564)
You're calling us and so we are gathered here (StF 37)
Nehemiah 8: 1-3, 5-6, 8-10
Come, divine Interpreter (StF 154)
Come, O Lord, give us your Spirit (StF 759)
Deep in the shadows of the past (StF 463)
Not far beyond the sea nor high above the heavens, but very nigh (StF 159)
Psalm 19
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
From all that dwell below the skies (StF 75)
Your words to me are life and health (StF 164)
1 Corinthians 12: 12-31a
Beauty for brokenness, hope for despair (StF 693)
I will speak out for those who have no voices (StF 703)
One is the body and one is the Head (StF 688)
Of all the Spirit’s gifts to me (StF 709)
Luke 4: 14-21
Alleluia, alleluia! (The word of the Lord lasts for ever) (StF 757)
God’s spirit is in my heart (StF 404)
Heaven shall not wait for the poor to lose their patience (StF 701)
*Listen for God (website only)
Make way, make way, for Christ the king in splendour arrives (StF 264)
Sent by the Lord am I (StF 239)
A prayer for peace in the world
Peace is a rose.
So lovely, so delicate, so fragrant,
so easily crushed.
Holy God, let peace flower in our damaged world.
In parched places, let peace take root,
in broken places, let peace send forth strong shoots,
in barren places, let peace bud and bloom,
that all may see her beauty,
feel her softness,
be overcome by her gentle perfume,
and tend her.
Amen.
Sally Jones, presbyter, South Warwickshire Circuit
A prayer for God's guidance - Alternative Prayer
In pilgrimage, O Lord, show us the path to be taken; in commitment, the will to be obeyed; in service, the cost to be borne; and in faithfulness, the crown to be won.
Ann Mason, Bible Christian minister (1797-1826)