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Following in the footsteps of the saints, A Service for the All Saints Day. | Rev Canon Claire Lording leads our time of online worship from Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire. We will be reminded how we can come together as a... | By The Church of England | - Good morning and a very warm welcome to the Church of England's online worship service, on this All Saints' Day. I am Canon Claire Lording, and this is Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire, where children, women, and men for over a thousand years have gathered together to worship God. Come and join us today! - Welcome to the Church of England's weekly online service. - God created all things in heaven and on earth. - I greet you in the name of Jesus Christ. - Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. - Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. - [Congregants] And also with you. - A very warm welcome to our service this morning. We welcome everyone here in the Abbey and all those of you who are worshipping with us online. I'm Angela, and Peter and I are both Readers, while Jane is our Curate. And together with members of our Abbey community, we will lead the service today. Today, of course, is All Saints' Day, and our service reflects that throughout. And so we're going to begin with the first hymn, "For All the Saints From Who Their Labours Rest." (orchestral music playing) ♪ For all the saints who from their labours rest ♪ ♪ Who thee by faith before the world confessed ♪ ♪ Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ Thou wast their rock, their fortress and their might ♪ ♪ Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight ♪ ♪ Thou, in the darkness drear their one true light ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ O blest communion, fellowship divine ♪ ♪ We feebly struggle, they in glory shine ♪ ♪ Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ But lo, there breaks a yet more glorious day ♪ ♪ The saints triumphant rise in bright array ♪ ♪ The King of glory passes on His way ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast ♪ ♪ Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host ♪ ♪ Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ - You sit or kneel for the prayers of penitence. Since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, looking to Jesus in penitence and faith. - [All] Lord God, we have sinned against you. We have done evil in your sight. We are sorry and repent. Have mercy on us according to your love. Wash away our wrongdoing and cleanse us from our sin. Renew a right spirit within us and restore us to joy of your salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. - Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. - [All] Amen. - And the Collect for today: God of holiness, your glory is proclaimed in every age as we rejoice in the faith of your saints. Inspire us to follow their example, with boldness and joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. - [All] Amen. - A reading from the prophet Isaiah. "On this mountain, the Lord of Hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-matured wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-matured wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people, he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, "Lo, this is our God! We have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited. Let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation." For the word of the Lord - [All] Thanks be to God. (orchestral music) ♪ For all the saints who showed your love ♪ ♪ In how they lived and where they moved ♪ ♪ For mindful women, caring men ♪ ♪ Accept our gratitude again ♪ ♪ For all the saints who loved your name ♪ ♪ Whose faith increased the Saviour's fame ♪ ♪ Who sang your songs and shared your word ♪ ♪ Accept our gratitude, good Lord ♪ ♪ For all the saints who named your will ♪ ♪ And saw your kingdom coming still ♪ ♪ Through selfless protest, prayer, and praise ♪ ♪ Accept the gratitude we raise ♪ ♪ Bless all whose will or name or love ♪ ♪ Reflects the grace of heaven above ♪ ♪ Though unacclaimed by earthly powers ♪ ♪ Your life through theirs has hallowed ours ♪ - A reading from the gospel of St. John. "When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you have sent me." When he had said this, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go." For the word of the Lord - [All] Thanks be to God. - Today, we are remembering All Saints' Day and hearing about all sorts of incredible people, some known, some unknown, women, men, children, who have followed Jesus and tried to live a godly life. So we were thinking about our community and wondering who we could talk to to explore a little further what it might be to be like a saint and to follow in their footsteps. So it's lovely to be with you today, Sam. - Hi. - So Sam, you want to introduce yourself and let everyone know what role you have here at Pershore Abbey. - Yeah, sure. So I am Sam Andrews, and I am the Children and Families Worker for Pershore Abbey. So I put on events for children and try and gently introduce them to Jesus and a way of faith. - That sounds really great. So what kind of things have you done to share your amazing faith in Jesus with the age groups and the people that you've been involved with? - So over the summer, I've run a children's group for pre-schoolers and their siblings where we had activities based on a theme. So a little message was given that went alongside a story that was told, and then we'd say a prayer together, which the children were invited to make their own if they wanted by joining in with the 'Amen', and then they took part in the crafts and activities that were there. - Sounds like it might be fun following Jesus if they have to do things like that. - It certainly can be. - So there's been so many times during the church's year, aren't there, when we stop and mark really important seasons? I'm wondering, how does that figure in your work when you're trying to share the Christian story and the Christian year with the families and the children that you meet along the way? - So recently, we have hosted a Light Party, so we've given an alternative to Halloween, and again, had messages from the Bible and a little prayer activity that the children took part in. Coming up to Christmas, we do an edible nativity where the nativity scene is made out of gingerbread and the children listen to the Christmas story and decorate those figures as they go along. We also do the shoe boxes, so fulfilling our faith by helping others. - That sounds absolutely wonderful, and I know lots of people all ages are sort of thinking about wanting to follow in the footsteps of the amazing saints, but sometimes aren't quite sure what to do and perhaps coming to organised church, traditional church is quite challenging. Is there an alternative fit that you share with people? - Yes, we have a really lovely alternative service in our St. Andrew's building, cafe church. So much more informal, very child-friendly, and we have quite an established but growing congregation that come to that. - That's brilliant. I know there's so much more to share, but how does your faith, just really briefly, how does your faith impact the work that you do? - It's at the centre of everything I do. It's always on my mind how I can share my faith and what I do with the children and their families. - Well, I'm sure, Sam, you are a complete inspiration and inspiration to us and all those who want to try and follow in those saintly footsteps. - May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. - [All] Amen. Pershore Abbey is a very busy town church. As well as our services, we are a busy concert venue, a tourist venue. We worked with our local schools and our new pipe organ, attracts organists from near and far. But we couldn't do all of that if it weren't for the people involved and the connections those people make with each other and the wider community. It is indeed that very connectedness that makes our church what it is, and for me, it makes what the whole of the Christian Church is. Without those connections to each other inside and outside the church, we simply could not do what we do now and what we seek to do in the future. And what better day to talk about connectedness than All Saints' Day? A day when we celebrate and connect with all the saints, known and unknown. Here at Pershore Abbey, we often refer to all those people who together make up this church, both at our services and across the community that we serve as the Abbey Family. And of course, the connections we make at the Family, help us to be part of the wider Church, in the diocese, in this country, across the world, and indeed, I believe, across time and space. We have some of our Abbey Family here today, and of course, we can see them and we can talk to them as we share our service and in the fellowship that will follow. But today, we also share all of this with those of you who are watching online, a much wider family, a family we cannot see or talk to directly, but with whom we know that we share the wonder of our Christian connection. I believe that one of the reasons Jesus came to earth was to connect, to strengthen that connection between God and humanity, and what an amazing job he made of it. He was able to bring together that human side of his nature with the holy side of his nature, not just to understand us, but to be human. In our gospel this morning, we see a true example of both that connection as a human and his promise as the Son of God. Lazarus was one of Jesus's closest friends. So when he was told of his death, his reaction was totally human. He cried. The Son of God, touched by the human tragedy of death. He knew Lazarus was promised eternal life in heaven, but still, the human part of him was totally crushed. Yes, he was able when he reached Lazarus to change what had happened, to act as the Son of God. But for those first early moments, his connection was totally human. What an amazing lesson for all of us in terms of what our church is and a great example of the connection that makes us the church we are and can be. Now, All Saints' Day asks us to recognise and strengthen all the connections we have, not just on earth, but with that community of saints, known to us or not, all of those women, those men, young and old who have helped build the Christian church here on earth and are now joined with us from their place in heaven. That community of saints, together with us, is sometimes referred to as the cloud of witness. Now, I know my grandchildren would be very clear what the cloud is. It is that strange thing that helps us to use our computers in ways that I hardly understand. So I suppose the idea of a cloud is quite apt for us today, as we use the wonders of technology to continue to build our church, to reach out and share our worship with so many outside this building. But of course, this cloud of witness is very different from that digital cloud. It helps all of us, computer literate or not, to become more connected together, both here on earth and across heaven, to strengthen the whole church, to make sure that we can become what we are led and indeed challenged to become. Now, I did have a short moment when I was preparing this talk about whether or not I could become a recognised saint. But then again, on looking at what was involved, it became very clear to me that I wouldn't meet the job description. But of course, it really doesn't matter, because as Paul says to his audience and to across the many year and to us, across the many years, in his letter to the Romans, "To all God's beloved in Rome who are called to be saints," and that explains it all. We are all called to be saints, because we are God's beloved. So when I think about All Saints' Day, I see us connecting with not just those who've gone to glory, but with all those here on earth who seek to spread God's good news. It's about all of us connecting together to make so much more than the sum of our individual parts. And by coming together as that great cloud of witness, we can surely brings God's kingdom here on earth so much closer. So whether you're here with us in person or joining us somewhere out there, then we share that connection that God showed us in Jesus. And let us go out and share that connection with everyone we meet. Share a love so great and so wonderful that we can be sure it will be with us, not just today, but every day, just as God is with us every day and always will be. Amen. - Let us declare our faith in God. - [All] We believe in the God the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. We believe in God, the Son, who lives in our hearts through faith and fills with his love. We believe in God the Holy Spirit, who strengthens us with power from on high. We believe in one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. - United in the company of all the faithful and looking for the coming of the kingdom, let us offer our prayers to God, the source of all life and holiness. Merciful Lord, strengthen all Christian people by your Holy Spirit that we may live as a royal priesthood and a holy nation to the praise of Jesus Christ, our Saviour. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. Bless Martin, our bishop, and all ministers of your church, that by faithful proclamation of your word, we may be built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets into our holy temple in the Lord. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. - Empower us by the gift of your Holy and life-giving Spirit that we may be transformed into the likeness of Christ from glory to glory. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. - Give to the world and its peoples the peace that comes from above that they may find Christ's way of freedom and life. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. - Hold in your embrace all who witness to your love in the service of the poor and needy, all who minister to the sick and dying, and all who bring light to those in darkness. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. - Touch and heal all those whose lives are scarred by sin or disfigured by pain, that raised from death to life in Christ, their sorrow may be turned to eternal joy. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. - Remember in your mercy, all those gone before us, who have been well pleasing to you from eternity. Preserve in your faith your servants on earth. Guide us to your kingdom, and grant us your peace at all times. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. - Hasten the day when many will come from east and west, from north and south, and sit at table in your kingdom. Lord, in your mercy- - [All] Hear our prayer. - We give you thanks for the whole company of your saints in glory, with whom in fellowship we join our prayers and praises. By your grace, may we, like them, be made perfect in your love. Blessing. - Blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honour and power be to our God for ever and ever. Amen. - As our Saviour taught us, so we pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever. Amen. (orchestral music playing) ♪ The Spirit lives to set us free ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ He binds us all in unity ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light of the Lord ♪ ♪ Jesus promised life to all ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ The dead were wakened by his call ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light of the Lord ♪ ♪ He died in pain on Calvary ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ To save the lost like you and me ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light of the Lord ♪ ♪ We know his death was not the end ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ He gave his Spirit to be our friend ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light of the Lord ♪ ♪ By Jesus' love our wounds are healed ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ The Father's kindness is revealed ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light of the Lord ♪ ♪ The Spirit lives in you and me ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ His light will shine for all to see ♪ ♪ Walk, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light, walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light ♪ ♪ Walk in the light of the Lord ♪ - May God who kindled the fire of his love in the hearts of the saints pour upon you the riches of his grace. - [All] Amen. - May he give you joy in their fellowship and a share of their praises. - [All] Amen. - May he strengthen you to follow them in the way of holiness and to come to the full radiance of glory. - [All] Amen. - And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit be among you and remain with you always. - [All] Amen. - Following God's sense, in the ways of holiness and truth, go in the peace of the Lord. - [All] Thanks be to God. 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