Sunday 3 October, 2021

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading

Job 1: 1, 2: 1-10

Adonai (website only)
A safe stronghold our God is still (StF 623)
All my hope on God is founded (StF 455)
Blessed be your name in the land that is plentiful (StF 41)
God of my faith, I offer you my doubt (StF 629) 
O for a heart to praise my God (StF 507)
O God, beyond all thought (StF 138)
When our confidence is shaken (StF 644)

Psalm 26

Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme

Now I have found the ground wherein sure my soul's anchor may remain (StF 561)
Thuma Mina (StF 782)
You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace (StF 487)

Hebrews 1: 1-4; 2:5-12

All hail the power of Jesu's name (StF 342)
And can it be that I should gain (StF 345)
At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow (StF 317)
Christ triumphant, ever reigning (StF 319)
Come, let us join our cheerful songs (StF 743)
Come, Lord, be our guest  (StF 580)
Crown him with many crowns (StF 347)
Eternal God, your love’s tremendous glory (StF 3)
For all he came, for all he lived (website only)
God has spoken - by his prophets (StF 157)
Heaven shall not wait (StF 701)
Jesus is the name we honour (StF 354)
Jesus - the name high over all (StF 357)
Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity (StF 362)
My eyes be open to your presence (StF 560)
O thou who camest from above (StF 564)
Sing to him in whom creation (StF 14)

Mark 10: 2-16

A new commandment I give unto you (StF 242)
As we gather, Father, seal  us (StF 570)
As your family, Lord, see us here (StF 571)
God is Love: let heaven adore him (StF 103)
God, how can we forgive? (StF 613)
God weeps at love withheld (StF 700)
Gracious God, you call your people (website only)
Great God, your love has called us here (StF 499)
Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy (StF 526)
O perfect love, all human thought transcending (StF 605)
Pray for a world where every child finds welcome in a sheltered space (StF 527)
Says Jesus, ‘Come and gather round. I want to each my friends' (StF 510)
Thanks for the friends who keep on loving (StF 619)
Thou God of truth and love (StF 620)
The day the universe was started (StF 540)
When love is found and hope comes home (StF 607)

Alternative related readings

The Revd Phillip Poyner writes: Mark 10: 2-16 will be regarded by some as pastorally insensitive and Genesis 2: 18-24 seems to compound the problem! One approach is to acknowledge our failings in personal relationships. Another is to reflect on the theme of ‘completeness’. Humanity can know a completeness in stewarding creation and in the marital bond but absolute completeness and perfection is found in Christ (Hebrews 1: 1-4). See hymns marked #

Genesis 2: 18-24

All people that on earth do dwell  (StF 1)
Now thank we all our God (StF 81)
Sacred the body God has created (StF 618)
Thou God of truth and love (StF 620)

Psalm 8

Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme

Morning has broken like the first morning (StF 136)
O Lord, our Lord, throughout the earth (StF 112)