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The Bishop of Gibraltar
Robert Innes
Tel: +44 20 7898 1160
Chaplain
David Phillips
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Amersfoort Chaplain
Grant Crowe
Tel: 06 123 238 72
Chaplaincy Administrator
Hanna Cremer Eindhoven
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Coordinator of Studen Ministry
Erik Heemskerk
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Lay Pastoral Assistants
Harry Barrowclough
Peter Boswijk (06 211 152 79)
Director of Music
Henk Korff (06 53 13 00 86)
Wardens
Rosemarie Strengholt
Adrian Los
(06 11 88 50 75)
Treasurer
Sandra Sue
Secretary
Simon Urquhart
/ CHRISTMASTIDE SERVICES:
• Mon Dec 28th - The Innocent's
◦ 10.00 Said Communion inEnglish
• Wed Dec 30
◦ 7pm Said Holy Communion in English
• Fri Jan 1 – The Circumcision of Christ
◦ 11:00 Sung Communion inDutch/Eng
• Sun Jan 3 - Second Sunday after Christmas
◦ 09.00 SungCommunionin English
◦ 11.00 All Age Communion in English
• Wed Jan 6 – The Epiphany of our Lord
◦ 8pm Sung Communion in English
NOTICES:
Today’s Charitable giving: Huize Agnes in Utrecht provides temporary shelter to refugee women and their children residing in the Netherlands without a valid residence permit. They help women and their children in the areas of health, education, language and finances.
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Sunday January 3, we will have a shared lunch after the 11am service. All are welcome to join. For more information please contact Danielle Los: 030 236 85 72.
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Welcome to Worship!HOLY TRINITY
ANGLICAN CHURCH UTRECHT
The Sunday after Christmas
11am, December 27, AD 2015
The Nativity, Bladelin Triptych (central panel), Rogier van derWeyden, 1445-1450
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us).
St Matthew 1:22-23
The Sunday after Christmas
Choral Communion according to Common Worship
(Music mass setting: Patrick Hopper Mass in D)
OPENING HYMNS: 58 Long ago, prophets knew
Priest In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All Amen.
Priest The Lord be with you
All and also with you.
We kneel to pray…
All Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known,
and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Summary of the Law
The response to the Summary is: Amen. Lord, have mercy.
Kyrie
Cantor All
Lord, have mer – cy Lord, have mer – cy
Cantor All
Christ, have mer –– cy Christ, have mer –– cy
Cantor All
Lord, have mer ––– cy Lord, have mer –– cy
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Prayers after Communion:
The priest offers a post-communion prayer and then we all pray…
All Father of all,
we give you thanks and praise,
that when we were still far off
you met us in your Son and brought us home.
Dying and living, he declared your love,
gave us grace, and opened the gate of glory.
May we who share Christ’s body live his risen life;
we who drink his cup bring life to others;
we whom the Spirit lights give light to the world.
Keep us firm in the hope you have set before us,
so we and all your children shall be free,
and the whole earth live to praise your name;
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The priest pronounces the Final Blessing
CLOSING HYMN: 230 Ye watchers and ye holy ones
Then the minister says: Go in the peace to love and serve the Lord.
All reply In the name of Christ. Amen.
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Agnus Dei
All We do not presume to come to this your table, O merciful Father,
trusting in our own righteousness, but in your manifold and great mercies.
We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under your table.
But you are the same Lord, whose nature is always to have mercy.
Grant us therefore, gracious Lord,
so to eat the flesh your dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood,
that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body
and our souls washed through with his precious blood,
and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
The Communion
Baptized persons who are communicant members of other Churches which subscribe to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and are in good standing in their own Church are welcome to Communion. Come forward with faith, hope, and charity, discerning the Lord’s body.
Those who do not wish to receive communion are welcome to come forward for a blessing – you may indicate by crossing your arms over your chest at the altar rail.
Communion Hymns: 49 Come, thou Redeemer of the earth
60 Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
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Gloria in excelsis (stand)
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The Collects (we kneel or sit)
O ALMIGHTY God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings has ordained strength, and made infants to glorify you by their deaths: Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by your grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith, even unto death, we may glorify your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Almighty God, you have given us your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin: grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit; 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. Amen.
First Reading: Isaiah 62:10-12
This is the Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.
Psalm 45: 1-7
MY heart is inditing of a ’ good ’ matter : I speak of the things which I have ’ made ’ unto the ’ King.
2 My tongue is the ’ pen : of a ’ ready ’ writer.
3 Thou art fairer than the ’ children of ’ men : full of grace are thy lips, because God hath ’ blessed ’ thee for ’ ever.
4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh O ’ thou most ’ Mighty : according to thy ’ worship ’ and re’nown.
5 Good luck have thou ’ with thine ’ honour : ride on because of the word of truth, of meekness and righteousness, and thy right hand shall ’ teach thee ’ terrible ’ things.
6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued ’ unto ’ thee : even in the midst a’mong the ’ King's ’ enemies.
7 Thy seat O God en’dureth for ’ ever : the sceptre of thy kingdom ’ is a ’ right ’ sceptre.
Glory be to the Father ‘ and to · the ‘ Son : and ‘ to the ‘ Holy ‘ Ghost;
As it was in the beginning is ‘ now and · ever ‘ shall be : world without ‘end. A’—‘men.
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Lord, you are holy indeed, the source of all holiness;
grant that by the power of your Holy Spirit,
and according to your holy will, these gifts of bread and wine
may be to us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ;
who, in the same night that he was betrayed, took bread and gave you thanks;
he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying:
Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you;
do this in remembrance of me.
In the same way, after supper he took the cup and gave you thanks;
he gave it to them, saying:
Drink this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,
which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
Great is the mystery of faith:
All Christ has died: Christ is ris - en: Christ will come a - gain.
And so, Father, calling to mind his death on the cross,
his perfect sacrifice made once for the sins of the whole world;
rejoicing in his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension,
and looking for his coming in glory,
we celebrate this memorial of our redemption.
As we offer you this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving,
we bring before you this bread and this cup
and we thank you for counting us worthy
to stand in your presence and serve you.
Send the Holy Spirit on your people and gather into one in your kingdom
all who share this one bread and one cup,
so that we, in the company of [N and] all the saints,
may praise and glorify you for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord;
by whom, and with whom, and in whom, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all honour and glory be yours, almighty Father, for ever and ever.
All Amen.
[a moment of silence]
Let us pray.
All Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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Eucharistic Prayer B
The Lord be with you. And al-so with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give thanks and praise.
All glory and honour be yours always and everywhere,
mighty Creator, ever-living God.
We give you thanks and praise for your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who for love of our fallen race humbled himself,
and was born of the Virgin Mary
by the power of your Spirit, and lived as one of us.
In this mystery of the Word made flesh
you have caused his light to shine in our hearts,
to give knowledge of your glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
In him we see our God made visible
and so are caught up in the love of the God we cannot see.
Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven,
we proclaim your great and glorious name, for ever praising you and singing:
Ho----ly, ho----ly, ho ---- ly Lord,
God of power and might, hea - ven and earth are
full of your glo --- ry. Ho --- san --- na in the high – est!
Bless - ed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord, Ho --- san --- na in the high – est!
(we kneel to pray)
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Second Reading: Galatians 4:1-7
I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GRADUAL HYMN: 73 Unto us a child is born!
Alleluia (repeat)
The Word became flesh and lived ‘ a - ‘ mong us
We have seen his glory full of ‘ grace • and ‘ truth.
Alleluia (repeat)
The Gospel St. Matthew 1:18-25
When the Gospel is announced we respond: Glory to you, O Lord
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us). When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
After the Gospel reading we say: Praise to you, O Christ
The Sermon
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The 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 Being with the Father;