Morning Prayer

All Saints’ Day 

Sunday, 3rd November 2024

 

Preparation

O Lord, open our lips

All  and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Your faithful servants bless you.

All  They make known the glory of your kingdom.

 

Blessed are you, Sovereign God,

ruler and judge of all,

to you be praise and glory for ever.

In the darkness of this age that is passing away

may the light of your presence which the saints enjoy

surround our steps as we journey on.

May we reflect your glory this day

and so be made ready to see your face

in the heavenly city where night shall be no more.

Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

All Blessed be God for ever.

 

1 As the deer longs for the water brooks, ♦

so longs my soul for you, O God.

2 My soul is athirst for God, even for the living God; ♦

when shall I come before the presence of God?

3 My tears have been my bread day and night, ♦

while all day long they say to me, ‘Where is now your God?’

4 Now when I think on these things, I pour out my soul: ♦

how I went with the multitude

and led the procession to the house of God,

5 With the voice of praise and thanksgiving, ♦

among those who kept holy day.

6 Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul, ♦

and why are you so disquieted within me?

7 O put your trust in God; ♦

for I will yet give him thanks,

who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

 

This opening prayer may be said

The night has passed, and the day lies open before us;

let us pray with one heart and mind.

Silence is kept.

As we rejoice in the gift of this new day,

so may the light of your presence, O God,

set our hearts on fire with love for you;

now and for ever.

All Amen.

 

The Word of God

Psalmody

Psalm 24.1-6

Entrance into the Temple

Of David. A Psalm.

¹ The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
    the world, and those who live in it;
² for he has founded it on the seas,
    and established it on the rivers.

³ Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
    And who shall stand in his holy place?
⁴ Those who have clean hands and pure hearts,
    who do not lift up their souls to what is false,
    and do not swear deceitfully.
⁵ They will receive blessing from the Lord,
    and vindication from the God of their salvation.
⁶ Such is the company of those who seek him,
    who seek the face of the God of Jacob.

 

All  Glory to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning is now

and shall be for ever. Amen.

 

Canticle

A Song of the New Creation

Refrain:

All I will make a way in the wilderness,

and rivers in the desert.

1 ‘I am the Lord, your Holy One, ♦

the Creator of Israel, your King.’

2 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, ♦

a path in the mighty waters,

3 ‘Remember not the former things, ♦

nor consider the things of old.

4 ‘Behold, I am doing a new thing; ♦

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

5 ‘I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, ♦

to give drink to my chosen people,

6 ‘The people whom I formed for myself, ♦

that they might declare my praise.’ Isaiah 43.15, 16, 18, 19, 20c, 21

All  Glory to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning is now

and shall be for ever. Amen.

All I will make a way in the wilderness,

and rivers in the desert.

 

Scripture Reading

 

Isaiah 25:6-9

⁶ On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
    a feast of rich food, a feast of well-matured wines,
    of rich food filled with marrow, of well-matured wines strained clear.
⁷ And he will destroy on this mountain
    the shroud that is cast over all peoples,
    the sheet that is spread over all nations;
⁸ he will swallow up death for ever.
Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces,
    and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth,
    for the Lord has spoken.
⁹ It will be said on that day,
    Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us.
    This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
    let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

 

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord,

All  my lips shall proclaim your faithfulness.

The heavens bear witness to your wonders;

All  I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

The assembly of your saints proclaims your truth;

All  my lips shall proclaim your faithfulness.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;

steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

All  I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord,

my lips shall proclaim your faithfulness.

from Psalm 89

 

New Testament Reading

Revelation 21:1-6

The New Heaven and the New Earth

21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,

‘See, the home of God is among mortals.
He will dwell with them;
they will be his peoples,
and God himself will be with them;
⁴ he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more,
for the first things have passed away.’

⁵ And the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I am making all things new.’ Also he said, ‘Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.’ ⁶ Then he said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.

 

Gospel Reading

John 11:32-44

³² When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’ ³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. ³⁴ He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They said to him, ‘Lord, come and see.’ ³⁵ Jesus began to weep. ³⁶ So the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’ ³⁷ But some of them said, ‘Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?’

Jesus Raises Lazarus to Life

³⁸ Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. ³⁹ Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, ‘Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days.’ ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?’ ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, ‘Father, I thank you for having heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.’ ⁴³ When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ ⁴⁴ The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’

 

 

 

Gospel Canticle

The Benedictus (The Song of Zechariah)

Refrain:

All  You will guide us with your counsel, O God,

and afterwards receive us with glory.

1 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, ♦

who has come to his people and set them free.

2 He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour, ♦

born of the house of his servant David.

3 Through his holy prophets God promised of old ♦

to save us from our enemies,

from the hands of all that hate us,

4 To show mercy to our ancestors, ♦

and to remember his holy covenant.

5 This was the oath God swore to our father Abraham: ♦

to set us free from the hands of our enemies,

6 Free to worship him without fear, ♦

holy and righteous in his sight

all the days of our life.

7 And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, ♦

for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,

8 To give his people knowledge of salvation ♦

by the forgiveness of all their sins.

9 In the tender compassion of our God ♦

the dawn from on high shall break upon us,

10 To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, ♦

and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1.68-79

All  Glory to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning is now

and shall be for ever. Amen.

All You will guide us with your counsel, O God,

and afterwards receive us with glory.

 

Prayers

 

Silence may be kept.

The Collect of the day is said

Almighty and eternal God,
you have kindled the flame of love
in the hearts of the saints:
grant to us the same faith and power of love,
that, as we rejoice in their triumphs,
we may be sustained by their example and fellowship;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

All  Amen.

 

The Lord’s Prayer 

Uniting our prayers with the whole company of heaven,

let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us

All  Our Father, who art in heaven …

 

The Conclusion

May Christ, who has opened the kingdom of heaven,

bring us to reign with him in glory.

All  Amen.

Let us bless the Lord.

All  Thanks be to God.