SOUTH SHIELDS AND HEBBURN PASTORATE
ST ANDREW’S ST MARGARET’S AND ST PAUL & ST JOHN’S
UNITED REFORMED CHURCHES
28 March 2021, Palm Sunday, Holy Communion
www.southshieldsandhebburnurc.org.uk
Dear Friends,
I’m sending something a bit different this time. You should receive the order of service for our Palm Sunday Holy Communion, which you’ll need for prayer and responses. If anyone has asked for a Palm Cross, that should be included
Last year our churches ordered copies of the ‘Easter’ booklet for distribution, but we still had them. So I’m sending out what we have, which you might like to use yourself and/or pass on to a child you know. I’m also including an order of service for our Maundy Thursday Holy Communion service – do remember your bread and wine! Our next Newsletter should be available for Easter Day. I hope you enjoy it. God bless you always. Helen
Welcomes, Notices and Prayer Points
Call to worship and Bible verses:
HYMN All glory, laud/praise and honour R&S 208 R&S 9 HTC 120
MP sing first 4 lines of verse 1 again at the end
HTC sing chorus & verse 1, verses 2 & 3, verses 4 & 5 and chorus
Prayers inc. confession:
God our Father,
we have sinned against you
and against one another,
in thought, word and deed;
we have not loved you with all our heart;
we have not loved our neighbour as ourselves.
But you have kept faith with us.
Have mercy on us,
forgive us our sins,
and restore us to newness of life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Bible Readings: Psalm 118: 19 – 29 Mark 11: 1 – 11
Talk
Prayers & The Lord’s Prayer
HYMN
Here, Lord, we take the broken bread As you have given, so we would give
and drink the wine, believing ourselves for others’ healing;
that by your life our souls are fed, and as you lived, so we would live,
your parting gifts receiving. the Father’s love revealing.
C.V. Pilcher (1879-1961) altd R&S 448, HTC 404
Offertory: Eternal God, we come with these gifts
to offer the praise of our lives;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Narrative of the Institution
Thanksgiving and Sharing:
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise. … …
Prayer after Communion
HYMN Ride on ride on in majesty R&S 209 MP 580 HTC 119
MP and HTC omit verse 3 Blessing
BIBLE READINGS FOR HOLY WEEK
MONDAY
Psalm 36: 5- 11 Isaiah 42: 1 – 9 Hebrews 9: 11 – 15 John 12: 1 – 11
TUESDAY
Psalm 71: 1 – 14 Isaiah 49: 1 – 7 1 Corinthians 1: 18 – 31
John 12: 20 – 36
WEDNESDAY
Psalm 70 Isaiah 50: 4 – 9a Hebrews 12: 1 – 3
John 13: 21 – 32
MAUNDY THURSDAY
Psalm 116: 1 + 2, 12 – 19 Exodus 12: 1 – 4, (5 – 10), 11 – 14
1 Corinthians 11: 23 – 26 John 13: 1 – 17, 31b – 35
GOOD FRIDAY
Psalm 22 Isaiah 52: 13 – 53: 12 Hebrews 10: 16 – 25 or
Hebrews 4: 14 – 16, 5: 7 – 9 John 18: 1 – 19, 42
HOLY SATURDAY
Psalm 31: 1 – 4, 15 + 16 Job 14: 1 – 14 or Lamentations 3: 1 – 9, 19 – 24
1 Peter 4: 1 – 8 Matthew 27: 57 – 66 or John 19: 38 – 42
Some possible hymns for Good Friday/Holy Week
There is a green hill far away R&S 223 MP 674 HTC 148
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? R&S 227 MP 745
Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom
When I survey the wondrous cross R&S 217 MP 755 HTC 147
You laid aside your majesty MP 795
O sacred head sore/once wounded/surrounded R&S 220 MP 520 HTC 139
There are lots of Easter hymns, and no doubt you have your favourites. This year, I discovered these 3 in Hymns for Today’s Church, which I hadn’t come across before. The words are good, so I add them here for anyone who has a copy of that hymn book to take a look at. You could probably find them via a computer as well.
HTC 145 Through all our days we’ll sing the praise (tune: Greensleeves)
HTC 152 Comes Mary to the grave
HTC 157 Light’s glittering morning fills the sky
