Sunday 3 January, 2016

2nd Sunday of Christmas

Also see readings and suggestions listed for The Feast of the Epiphany

Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading

Jeremiah 37: 7-14

The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want (StF 480)
The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want (Townend ver.) (StF 481)
You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace (StF 487)

Psalm 147: 12-20

Hymn echoing the psalmist’s theme



Glory be to God on high (StF 199)
I sing the almighty power of God (StF 107)

OR

Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 24: 1-12

Happy are they who find the grace, the blessing of God’s chosen race (StF 500)
Into a world of dark, waste and disordered space (StF 387)
O breath of life, come sweeping through us (StF 391)
Wind of God, dynamic Spirit (StF 400)

Canticle: Wisdom of Solomon 10: 15-21

Hymn echoing theme of canticle



Crashing waters at creation (StF 376)
Guide us, O thou great Jehovah (StF 465)

Ephesians 1: 3-14

As with gladness men of old (StF 224)
Come, thou fount of every blessing (StF 494)
To God be the glory, great things he has done! (StF 94)

John 1: (1-9) 10-18

Before the world began, one Word was there (StF 101)
Birth brings a promise of new life awaking (StF 226)
Father, in whom we live (StF 5)
God has spoken – by his prophets (StF 157)
He became poor that we may be rich (StF 344)
Stupendous height of heavenly love (StF 512)
The silent stars shine down on us (StF 231)