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Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas

Image: The Sower, by Jean-Francois Millet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sower_(Millet)#/media/File:Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet_-_The_Sower_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Today’s hymn sung

Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour

sung by St Martin’s Voices

1 Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour,

first-begotten from the dead,

Thou alone, our strong defender,

liftest up Thy people's head.

Alleluia, alleluia,

Jesu, true and living bread.

2 Here our humblest homage pay we,

here in loving reverence bow;

here for faith’s discernment prayer we,

lest we fail to know thee now.

Alleluia, alleluia,

thou art here, we ask now how.

3 Though the lowliest form doth veil thee

as of old in Bethlehem,

here as there thine angels hail thee,

branch and flower of Jesse’s stem.

Alleluia, alleluia,

we in worship join with them.

4 Paschal Lamb, thine offering finished

once for all when thou wast slain,

in its fullness undiminished

shall for evermore remain.

Alleluia, alleluia,

cleansing souls from every stain.

5 Life-imparting heavenly manna,

stricken rock, with streaming side,

heaven and earth with loud hosanna

worship thee, the Lamb who died.

Alleluia, alleluia,

risen, ascended, glorified!

George Hugh Bourne (1840-1925)