Choral Evensong: Cuthbert, Bishop
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March 20
Choir Trinity Cathedral Choir
Homilist: The Rev. Keith Owen
Order of Service:
Prelude: Improvisation
Opening Preces
Office Hymn S60
Psalm 23
First Lesson: 2 Corinthians 6:1–10
Magnificat
Second Lesson: Matthew 6:24–34
Nunc Dimittis
Apostle’s Creed
Responses, Lord’s Prayer, and Collects
Greeting
Anthem: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy – Maurice Bevan (1921-2006)
Spoken Prayers
Concluding Versicle and Response
Blessing
Hymn 482
Postlude — Improvisation
Anthem
There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy – Maurice Bevan
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea; there’s a kindness in his justice which is more than liberty. There is no place where earth’s sorrows are more felt than up in heaven; there is no place where earth’s failings have such kindly judgment given. For the love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind; and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind. But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own; and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own. There is plentiful redemption in the blood that has been shed; there is joy for all the members in the sorrow of the Head. There is grace enough for thousands of new worlds as great as this; there is room for fresh creations in that upper home of bliss. If our love were but more simple we should take him at his word; and our lives would be all gladness in the joy of Christ our Lord.