Welcome
The Love and the Peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
And also with you.
As we come to worship and praise
Father God, we welcome you!
As we come together in friendship
Father God, we welcome you!
As we come to listen and learn
Father God, we welcome you!
As we bring our worries and problems
Father God, we welcome you!
Lord, we invite you into our church,
We invite you into our minds
We invite you into our hearts.
Hymn 34 Hanover
We say sorry for the things we have done wrong
Heavenly Father, I am sorry for the things I have done wrong this week which have pained your heart of love. And for the unkind things I may have done or said that have hurt my family and friends, and even those I find hard to be friendly with. Forgive me Lord for the times I’ve let you down, or myself, or other people, and help me to be my best self. Amen.
We are forgiven
May the God of love forgive us,
lift our burdens from us,
heal and strengthen us by his spirit;
that we may journey in love
to live our lives freely and lightly, Amen.
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel.
The Lord God proclaims: I myself will search for my flock and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out the flock when some in the flock have been scattered, so will I seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered during the time of clouds and thick darkness. I will gather and lead them out from the countries and peoples, and I will bring them to their own fertile land. I will feed them on Israel’s highlands, along the riverbeds, and in all the inhabited places. I will feed them in good pasture, and their sheepfold will be there, on Israel’s lofty highlands. On Israel’s highlands, they will lie down in a secure fold and feed on green pastures. I myself will feed my flock and make them lie down. This is what the Lord God says. I will seek out the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the wounded, and strengthen the weak. But the fat and the strong I will destroy, because I will tend my sheep with justice.
This is the Word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
Ezekiel 34. 11-16
Psalm, Dominus regit me (23)
1 The Lord is my shepherd; •
therefore can I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures •
and leads me beside still waters.
3 He shall refresh my soul •
and guide me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil; •
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
5 You spread a table before me
in the presence of those who trouble me; •
you have anointed my head with oil
and my cup shall be full.
6 Surely goodness and loving mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life, •
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son:
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be:
world without end. Amen.
A reading from the Revelation given to St John the Divine
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”
All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying:
“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honour
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”
Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
I answered, “Sir, you know.”
And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore,
“they are before the throne of God
and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne
will shelter them with his presence.
‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the centre of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’ ”
This is the Word of the Lord. Revelation 7.9-17
Thanks be to God.
Hymn 346 Angel Voices
Hear the Gospel of our Saviour Christ, according to St Mark.
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a deserted place, and the hour is now very late; send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.’ But he answered them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ They said to him, ‘Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?’ And he said to them, ‘How many loaves have you? Go and see.’ When they had found out, they said, ‘Five, and two fish.’ Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and he divided the two fish among them all. And all ate and were filled; and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Mark 6.30-44
What do we believe?
We believe in God the Father,
the source of all life, by whom every family in heaven and earth
has been created.
We believe in God the Son,
our friend and brother Jesus, who lives in our hearts through faith
and fills us with his love.
We believe in God the Holy Spirit,
who strengthens us with his power, and makes Jesus known in the world.
We believe and trust in one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hymn 20 St Columba
We say our Prayers
Sometimes we are selfish and put our own needs before the needs of others. Help us to always try to love others. Amen
Heavenly Father,
Show us how to love and care for others in the same way that you love and care for us. Amen
Heavenly Father,
Help us to see when people need help and to try to help them in any way we can. Amen
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for everything that you have given to us.
May we help others who are less fortunate than us.
Amen
Heavenly Father,
we give thanks for all the gifts we are given.
Help us to see the needs of others.
Help us to be generous in sharing what we have.
Help us to have courage and to be openhearted
in answering the needs of others.
Amen
The prayer that Jesus taught us
To tune our hearts and minds to the love of our Lord Jesus,
let us take the Lord’s Prayer
one phrase at a time.
Where our faith is weak,
Lord teach us to pray:
Our Father who art in heaven
When we are inclined to forget about you,
Lord teach us to pray:
Hallowed be thy name
When we feel pessimistic about our lives,
Lord teach us to pray:
Thy kingdom come
When we find ourselves with troubles or sadness, as well as in joy,
Lord teach us to pray:
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven
When we forget how blessed we are, compared to many in this world,
Lord teach us to pray:
Give us this day our daily bread
When we are worried about the things we might have done, and find it hard to forgive those who have hurt us,
Lord teach us to pray:
Forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us
We say together
Be with us Lord, as we go out into the world.
May the lips that have sung your praises always speak the truth;
may the ears that have heard your Word listen only to what is good; and may our lives as well as our worship be always pleasing in your sight, for the glory of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
The Blessing
May the Father from whom every family in earth and heaven receives its name strengthen you with his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith and that, knowing his love, broad and long, deep and high beyond all knowledge, you may be filled with all the fullness of God: and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be with you and remain with you always. Amen.
Hymn 652 – Mannheim
St Audoen’s Church Cornmarket
St. Audoen (or Ouen), Bishop of Rouen in Normandy, flourished in the 7th century, and a Church was dedicated to him in Dublin by the Anglo-Normans after they had seized control of the city. A new Church was erected in 1190 on the site of an older Church dedicated to St. Columcille. The Parish was one of the most prosperous in the city, and the Parish Church was for many years frequented by the Lord Mayor and Corporation.
At the Reformation the Parish Church became Anglican, while most of the inhabitants of the Parish remained Roman Catholic, and were served by priests and friars, often in secret, over the following centuries. The prosperity of the Parish declined towards the end of the 18th century, when many of the wealthy residents moved out, a process hastened by the Act of Union of 1800. In his ‘Historical Guide to the City of Dublin’ (1825) GN Wright reported that ‘Divine service is performed here every day at the usual hours. There are very few Protestants in this parish, though the number of inhabitants amounts to upwards of 5,180 and the number of houses to 468’. One family, now resident in Enniskerry, merchants in the High Street in the 17th century, retains a link with St Audoen’s Church to this day.
Towards the end of the 20th century an extensive restoration project was carried out. St. Anne’s Chapel was re-roofed and is now a visitors’ centre in the care of the Office of Public Works, as are the unroofed parts of the Church and the grounds to the South of the Church. That Chapel dates from the time of Henry VI, who in 1430 authorised the erection of a Chantry here, dedicated to St. Anne. Its founders and their successors formed the Guild or Fraternity of St. Anne which survived the Reformation by many years.
In the Church porch is preserved an early Celtic gravestone, kept here or nearby since before 1309, when Jon LeDecer, Mayor of Dublin, erected a marble water cistern in Cornmarket and placed this stone against it. It was said to have strange properties, and merchants and traders used to rub it for luck. It was stolen more than once but always found its way back! In 1826 it disappeared for twenty years, until found in front of the newly-erected Catholic Church of St Audoen in High Street.
In the porch lies a 15th century monument of Sir Roland Fitz-Eustace, Earl Portlester (died 1496) and his wife Margaret, buried at Cotlandstown, County Kildare.
Among those interred in the Church are Sir Thomas Molyneux and his son Capel. The street of that name stretches North from the River Liffey, boasting some of the oldest houses in Dublin. The monument (defaced by the followers of Cromwell) of Bishop Edward Parry (who died of the plague in 1650) and his descendants is in the clergy vestry.
The massive tower (one of a group of five medieval survivors in the city) its upper stories rebuilt in the 17th century, houses six bells, three of them among the oldest in Ireland, dating from 1423. Unringable in a cracked tower by 1898, which was braced in concrete in 1983, they are now rung every week. An early 20th century Bürk electric clock drives a large external face, both of them brought here from St. Peter’s Aungier Street, closed in 1975 and lamentably demolished. Memorials from St Peter’s have been restored and re-erected in St Audoen’s. On the site of St Peter’s stands the YMCA building, in which the East window from the recently rebuilt Church of St Nicholas without and St Luke now hangs.
