+++
Introduction
Rev Sydney Maitland
At last, from today we can share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning. However, we will continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for the benefit of our wider audience. It also means we can enjoy the hymns and psalms that we’re unable to sing in church, with archive music from the 1960s and 1990s, and 2020 performances from Rochester, New York, and Lagos, Nigeria.
+++
Hymn 410
My God how wonderful thou art (words and music) | Choir of Marlborough College Chapel
+++
Collect
Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry with the bread of his life and the word of his kingdom. Renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your true and living bread, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
+++
First Reading
Click Bible links on this page to read the text at Bible Gateway. Once there, click 
to hear the full chapter read by David Suchet.
+++
Psalm
Psalm 17: 1-7, 16: Hear the right, O Lord (words) | Choir of Rochester Cathedral, 1993
+++
Second Reading
+++
Hymn 414
O for a closer walk with God (words and music) | Choir of Guildford Cathedral, 1966
+++
Gospel
+++
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland
God’s abundance, our struggles
Click link for full text.
+++
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father, the almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father. Through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation hecame down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living andthe dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father. With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
+++
Intercessions
• Pray for the world and its people, for those who suffer and those in need …
• Pray for Church and its members, especially Jenny M, Douglas N, Catriona M, Kenneth and Brenda M, Claire, Joanna, Elena J, Alan D, Jessie B, Edith B …
• Pray for the departed, especially those whose year’s mind falls this month: Richard Jenkins, Raymond Mckinna, Thomas Pickering, Florrie Sykes, Caroline Maitland, Cathy Cheyne, Harry Bradshaw, Ellen Lees …
• The Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Philippians:
‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.‘
And so let us each bring our own prayers, petitions and thanksgivings to the Lord …
+++
O God, whose will it is that all should find salvation and come to know the truth: receive the prayers and petitions which we offer in faith and love; through him who gave proof of your purpose, and who sacrificed himself to win freedom for all mankind, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
+++
Blessing
The peace of God, which passes all understanding, keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord: and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with us always. Amen.
+++
Hymn 415
O for a thousand tongues to sing (words) | Choir of the Fountain Worship Network, Lagos, Nigeria
+++
Voluntary
Herbert Howells: Sarabande for the morning of Easter | Played by Dale Nickell on the 1927 E.M. Skinner organ at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Rochester, New York
+++
