A Service of Morning Praise with Hymns from Complete Anglican Hymns Old & New

Hymns from Complete Anglican Hymns Old & New

37 Angel voices ever singing
84 Breathe on me breath of God
114 Come down O love divine
419 Lord the light of your love

The Collect
God, who as at this time taught the hearts of your faithful people by
sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit: grant us by the same Spirit to
have a right judgement in all things and evermore to rejoice in his holy
comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who is alive and
reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen

Readings : Ezekiel 37:1-14, 15.20-21; Acts 2:1-21; John 5:26-27, 16:4b-15

Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of
the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He
led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they
were very dry. He said to me, ‘Mortal, can these bones live?’ I answered,
‘O Lord GOD, you know.’ Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and
say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the
Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I
will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you
with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I
am the LORD.’
So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly
there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its
bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon
them, and skin had covered them; ...

Then he said to me, ‘Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel.
They say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off
completely.” Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I
am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my
people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know
that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your
graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I
will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have
spoken and will act, says the LORD.’

Acts 2:1-21
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one
place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided
tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of
them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in
Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered,
because each one heard them speaking in the native language of
each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are
speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native
language? ...

But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them:
‘Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and
listen to what I say...

“In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon
all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young
men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my
slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they
shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the
earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to
darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

John 5:26-27, 16:4b-15
‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the
Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You
also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.
But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may
remember that I told you about them. ...

And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness
and judgement: about sin, because they do not believe in me; about
righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no
longer; about judgement, because the ruler of this world has been
condemned.
‘I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When
the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not
speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to
you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take
what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this
reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

We pray for all those who live and work in Consort Road, Sun Hill, and the Parish of St
John The Baptist, Northwood.

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