We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word in the company of the choirs and orchestra of St Andrew’s Kirk in Chennai, India, with hymn 362, Glorious things of Thee are spoken …
The Liturgy of the Word – the Lessons, Creed and Intercessions plus a sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland – enhanced by resources from around the internet. There are links to the text of the Lessons at the Bible Gateway website where you can hear the chapters read by the actor David Suchet, famous for portraying Hercule Poirot on TV. Thanks to YouTube, the Psalms and hymns for the day are sung by excellent choirs from around the world, as well as organ voluntaries. In addition, there are links to the words of the Psalms at the Episcopal.net website and hymns at Hymnary.org.
Sunday worship for 17 October 2021, Trinity 20
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word in the company of the choir and congregation of First Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska with hymn 473, When morning gilds the skies, and end in Haarlem, Holland, with a wonderful video recording of JS Bach’s Prelude and fugue in C major …
Sunday worship for 10 October 2021, Trinity 19
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 264, All things bright and beautiful …
Sunday worship for 3 October 2021, Harvest
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 262, We plough the fields, and scatter …
Sunday worship for 26 September 2021, Trinity 17
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 433, O worship the King …
Sunday worship for 19 September 2021, Trinity 16
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 7, Hills of the North, rejoice …
Sunday worship for 12 September 2021, Trinity 15
For this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we head to Nigeria to open our worship with hymn 365, God moves in a mysterious way …
Sunday worship for 5 September 2021, Trinity 14
For this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we open our worship with hymn 476, Ye servants of God, your masters proclaim …
Sunday worship for 29 August 2021, Trinity 13
For this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we open our worship with hymn 349, Come, let us join our cheerful songs …
Sunday worship for 22 August 2021, Trinity 12
Once again we can enjoy congregational singing in church, and our worship will open – as it does in this online Liturgy of the Word – with hymn 238, New every morning is the love …
Sunday worship for 15 August 2021, Trinity 11
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Hornby in Lancashire, Guildford Cathedral, Windsor Castle and Westminster Cathedral, opening our worship with hymn 349, Come, let us join our cheerful songs …
Sunday worship for 8 August 2021, Trinity 10
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Worcestershire, Guildford, Marlborough College, Hammersmith and Paris, opening our worship with hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Sunday worship for 1 August 2021, Trinity 9
Once again we can enjoy congregational singing in church, and our worship will open – as it does in this online Liturgy of the Word – with hymn 368, Guide me, O thou great Redeemer …
Sunday worship for 25 July 2021, Trinity 8
On this Sunday when at last we can resume congregational singing in church, our worship will open – as it does in this online Liturgy of the Word – with hymn 334, All people that on earth do dwell …
Sunday worship for 18 July 2021, Trinity 7
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Chester, Cambridge, Kansas and Westminster Abbey, opening our worship with hymn 52, O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness …
Sunday worship for 11 July 2021, Trinity 6
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. This week we open our worship at another All Saints, the Royal Garrison Church in Aldershot, with hymn 377, Immortal, invisible, God only wise …
Sunday worship for 4 July 2021, Trinity 5
This week’s online Liturgy of the Word is complemented by hymns from Worcestershire, Hammersmith and Guildford, a psalm from Westminster Abbey, and a wonderful organ voluntary from Scarsdale, New York. We open our worship with hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Sunday worship for 27 June 2021, Trinity 4
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Salisbury, Oxford, Warsaw and St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, opening our worship with hymn 338, At the name of Jesus …
Sunday worship for 20 June 2021, Trinity 3
This week we enjoy music and singing from Peterborough Cathedral in 1967, St Ninian’s Cathedral in Perth in 1989 and Sweden just three years ago. But we open our worship at St Paul’s Cathedral in 2012, marking the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ setting of the Old Hundred for hymn 334, All people that on earth do dwell …
Sunday worship for 13 June 2021, Trinity 2
This week we enjoy music and singing from Germany, Nigeria … and Troon. We open our worship with hymn 145 All hail, adored Trinity …
Sunday worship for 6 June 2021, Trinity 1
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. We open our worship for Trinity Sunday with Hymn 146, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty …
Sunday worship for 30 May 2021, Trinity
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. We open our worship for Trinity Sunday with Hymn 146, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty …
Sunday worship for 23 May 2021, Pentecost
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word for Pentecost our musical itinerary includes visits to London, Los Angeles and Moscow. We open our worship with hymn 137, Come down, O Love divine …
Sunday worship for 16 May 2021, Easter 7
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we celebrate Jesus’ ascension with music from Britain, Nigeria and the United States, ending with a majestic organ voluntary, Alexandre Guilmant’s Grand Choeur in D major. We open our worship with hymn 130, Hail the day that sees Him rise …
Sunday worship for 9 May 2021, Easter 6
We open this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 366, God of mercy, God of grace …
Sunday worship for 2 May 2021, Easter 5
Our music accompanying this week’s Liturgy of the Word comes from Newcastle and Ely Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey and finally from Milwaukee and Manhattan with choral and organ renditions of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ traditional tune Kingsfold – I heard the voice of Jesus say. We open our worship with hymn 102, A brighter dawn is breaking …
Sunday worship for 25 April 2021, Easter 4
Today we are joined in church by Bishop Kevin Pearson, who will celebrate the Eucharist and preach. We open our worship with hymn 117, The Day of Resurrection …
Sunday worship for 18 April 2021, Easter 3
This week’s online Liturgy of the Word and our morning service in church have as their backdrop the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh – and the peace of the risen Christ. We open our worship with hymn 119, The strife is o’er, the battle won …
Sunday worship for 11 April 2021, Easter 2
We continue through Eastertide with a Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. This week we enjoy music from Chichester, Warwick, Durham, Landsberg am Lech in Germany and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, where we open our worship with hymn 117, The Day of Resurrection …
Sunday worship for 4 April 2021, Easter Day
Christ is risen! A happy Easter to everyone! The music accompanying today’s Liturgy of the Word presents two exceptional performances – of This Joyful Eastertide by a young man beautifully singing all four parts, and of Charles-Marie Widor playing his own Toccata at St Sulpice in Paris, in 1932. We open with hymn 120, Thine be the glory …
