Join us for worship
from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church
website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com
Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas
Image: Detail from "The Unforgiving Servant" by Jan van Hemmessen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_Hemessen_-_The_Parable_of_the_Unmerciful_Servant.jpg
Today’s hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Dear Lord and Father of mankind.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind
sung by St Martin’s Voices
1 Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
re-clothe us in our rightful mind;
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
2 In simple trust like theirs who heard
beside the Syrian sea
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word
rise up and follow thee.
3 Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.
4 Breathe through the heats of our desire
thy coolness and thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
