The Greeting
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 97 Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Tune Truro
We say sorry for the things we have done wrong
Almighty God, my heavenly Father, I am sorry for the
things I have done wrong this week, which have pained your
heart of love. I am sorry for the unkind things I have said
or done, that have hurt my family and friends. Forgive me
Lord for the times I’ve let you down, or let myself down, or
let others down, and help me to be the best that I can be.
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.

The Collect
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness
and to put on the armour of light now in the time of this mortal
life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
that on the last day when he shall come again in his glorious
majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life
immortal; through him who is alive and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
We Listen to the Word (please sit)
A reading from the book of the Prophet Isaiah.
The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 
In days to come
   the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
   and shall be raised above the hills;
all the nations shall stream to it. 
Many peoples shall come and say,
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
   to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways
   and that we may walk in his paths.’
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,
   and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 
He shall judge between the nations,
   and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
   and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

   neither shall they learn war any more. 
O house of Jacob,
   come, let us walk
   in the light of the Lord!
This is the Word of the Lord. Isaiah 2: 1-5
Thanks be to God.
Psalm, Laetatus sum (122)
1  I was glad when they said to me, •
   ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’
2  And now our feet are standing •
   within your gates, O Jerusalem;
3  Jerusalem, built as a city •
   that is at unity in itself.
4  Thither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, •
   as is decreed for Israel,
      to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5  For there are set the thrones of judgement, •
   the thrones of the house of David.
6  O pray for the peace of Jerusalem: •
   ‘May they prosper who love you.
7  ‘Peace be within your walls •
   and tranquillity within your palaces.’
8  For my kindred and companions’ sake, •
   I will pray that peace be with you.
9  For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, •
   I will seek to do you good.
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 letter of St Paul to the Romans.
Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment
for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now
than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is
near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the
armour of light; let us live honourably as in the day, not in
revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness,
not in quarrelling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its
desires. 
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God. Romans 13:11-14
Hymn 124 Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes Tune Bristol
Hear the Gospel of our Saviour Christ, according to St
Matthew.
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus said ‘But about that day and hour no one knows, neither
the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. For as
the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of
Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah
entered the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and
swept them all away, so too will be the coming of the Son of
Man. Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one will
be left. Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be
taken and one will be left. Keep awake therefore, for you do not
know on what day your Lord is coming. But understand this: if

the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the
thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not
have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be
ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Matthew 24:36-44
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
What do we Believe? (we say together)
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 639 O thou, who camest from above Tune Hereford
We say our prayers
Almighty God, you promised through your Son Jesus Christ to
hear the prayers of those who ask in faith. Lord of your people:
strengthen your Church in all the world, renew the life of this
diocese, bless Michael our Archbishop, and build us up in faith
and love.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer

Lord of creation: look with favour on the world you have made,
guide the nations in the ways of justice and of peace, and bless
our President Catherine Connolly, and all in authority.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer
Lord of our relationships: comfort and sustain the communities
in which we live and work and bear our witness; help us to love
our neighbours as ourselves; enable us to serve our families and
friends and to love one another as you love us.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer
Lord of all healing: relieve and protect those who are sick or
suffering, be with those who have any special need, deliver all
who know danger, violence or oppression.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer
Lord of eternity: bind us together by your Holy Spirit, in
communion with all who, having confessed the Faith, have died in
the peace of Christ, that we may come with all your saints to
the joys of your eternal kingdom.
Merciful Father,
accept these our prayers for the sake of your Son,
our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Our Father,
who art in heaven:
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever. Amen.
Hymn 712 (and collection)
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord Tune Woodlands
We pray 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 God 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.

The Dismissal
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!
in the name of Christ. Amen.

Saint Audoen’s Church

St. Audoen (or Ouen), Bishop of Rouen, 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; erected, in 1190, on the site of an older Church
dedicated to St. Columcille. Once one of the most prosperous Parishes within
the city, the Church was attended by the Lord Mayor and Corporation. It is said
that the last Catholic and the first Protestant Lord Mayors of Dublin are buried
under the old stone floor. The last surviving city gate stands close by.
Towards the end of the 20th century St. Anne’s Chapel was re-roofed as a
visitors’ centre in the care of the Office of Public Works (as it is now called),
like the unroofed parts of the Church, given into the care of the Board of Works
(as it was then called) at the disestablishment of the Church in 1870. The
Chapel dates from Henry VI, who in 1430 granted the erection of a Chantry,
dedicated to St. Anne. Its founders and their successors formed the Guild of St.
Anne which survived the Reformation by many years.
In the Church porch is preserved an early Celtic gravestone which has been kept
here or nearby since before 1309. It was first mentioned when Jon LeDecer,
Mayor of Dublin, erected a marble cistern for water in Cornmarket and placed
this stone against it. In 1826 it disappeared, until found many years later in front
of the newly-erected Catholic Church of St Audoen, its noble portico graced
with statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, her mother St Ann and St Audoen,
with his Bishop’s crozier.
In the porch below the tower lies the 15th century monument of Sir Roland Fitz-
Eustace, Earl Portlester, who died in 1496, and his wife, Margaret, buried at
Cotlandstown, County Kildare. A Purbeck marble effigy of an unknown
ecclesiastic is preserved close by, one of a number surviving in the vicinity of
the city of Dublin.
Among those buried in the church were Sir Thomas Molyneux and his son
Capel, and Edward Parry, Bishop of Killaloe (who died of the plague in 1650)
and his descendants, and Lady Frances Brudenell. The Parry monument can be
seen in the clergy vestry, defaced by the followers of the dictator Oliver
Cromwell, with its more recent counterpart.
The tower houses six bells, three of which are among the oldest in Ireland,
dating from 1423. They were unringable between 1898 and 1983, but after
being re-tuned and re-hung are now rung every week. The Bürk electric clock in
the Churchwarden’s vestry and some memorial brasses in the Church came
from St. Peter’s Church Aungier Street, closed in 1975 and lamentably
demolished. On its site stands the YMCA building, in which the east window

from St Luke’s Church, the Coombe, now hangs. The First World War
Memorial from St Matthias’ Church Adelaide Road, also closed (despite public
protest) and then demolished, for many years preserved in Christ Church
Leeson Park, by kind permission of its surviving Church of Ireland
congregation, has since been erected in St Audoen’s.