Mothering Sunday All Age Service 2020

I suspect I might do services of Morning Prayer on a Sunday until further notice, but if we had been doing an All Age Family Service for Mothering Sunday, it might have gone something like this:

Mothering Sunday Family Service

Order of service

Warbleton 2020

Welcome & introduction



Hymn: Tell Out My Soul The Greatness of the Lord



Praise and Thanksgiving

We praise you, our God, for all mothers who have loved and laughed and laboured as they cared for their children.
Blessed be God for ever.

We praise you, our God, for all mothers who have wept in sorrow and joy for their children.
Blessed be God for ever.

We praise you, our God, for Jesus, born of a woman and nurtured in her love, and for Mary, a reminder of your patient, waiting love.
Blessed be God for ever.

Praise God who loves us.
Praise God who cares.

For the care of mothers;
Thanks be to God.

For their patience when tested;
Thanks be to God.

For their love when tired;
Thanks be to God.

For their hope when despairing;
Thanks be to God.

For their service without limit;
Thanks be to God.

Confession

Let us call to mind our sin, our failure to value the love of others
and our failure to love as Christ has loved us.

Lord God, your love gives us life from the moment of conception.
We fail to live as your children.
Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.

You call us to do good. We seek our own good.
Christ, have mercy.
Christ have mercy.

You hear us when we cry for help. We ignore the cries of others.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord have mercy.

May the Father of all mercies
cleanse you from your sins,
and restore you in his image
to the praise and glory of his name,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

First Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (page 1158)



This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God!



Song: He is the (CLAP – CLAP) Son of God … The Mighty Son of God (Ian Brown)



Second Reading: Luke 2:21-40 (page 1028)



This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God!



All Age Sermon

Hymn: Love Divine All Loves Excelling   

Creed

Let us declare our faith in God.

We believe in 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 us 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.

Prayers



The Collect for Mothering Sunday



God of compassion,

whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary,

shared the life of a home in Nazareth,

and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself.

Strengthen us in our daily living:

that in joy and in sorrow

we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal;

through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,

who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen.



Intercessions



The Lord’s Prayer



Hymn: In Christ Alone My Hope Is Found



Blessing



May God, who gave birth to all creation, bless us:
may God, who became incarnate by an earthly mother, bless us:
may God, who broods as a mother over her children, bless us.
May almighty God bless us, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
now and for ever.
Amen.