Worship from Seal Church

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com Preacher: Kevin Bright Image: The Incredulity of St Thomas by Daniel Seiter Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Alleluia, Alleluia, Hearts to heaven and voices raise 1 Alleluia, Alleluia! hearts to heaven and voices raise; sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise: he who on the Cross a victim for the world's salvation bled, Jesus Christ the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. 2 Christ is risen, Christ the first-fruits of the holy harvest field, which will all its full abundance at his second coming yield; then the golden ears of harvest will their heads before him wave, ripened by his glorious sunshine, from the furrows of the grave. 3 Christ is risen, we are risen; shed upon us heavenly grace, rain and dew, and gleams of glory from the brightness of thy face; that we, with our hearts in heaven, here on earth may fruitful be, and by angel-hands be gathered, and be ever, Lord, with thee. 4 Alleluia, Alleluia, glory be to God on high; Alleluia to the Saviour, who has gained the victory; Alleluia to the Spirit, fount of love and sanctity; Alleluia, Alleluia, to the Triune Majesty. Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Anon: Christ meets Mary in the garden c.1603 Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Thine Be the Glory --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Entry of Christ into Jerusalem by Anthony van Dyck Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: My Song is Love Unknown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: a cross in Seal churchyard. Photo by Anne Le Bas Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: All My Hope in God is founded   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Words for mother in many languages Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: For the Beauty of the Earth 1 For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies: Lord of all, to thee we raise this our sacrifice of praise. 2 For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale, and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light: Chorus 3 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth, and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild: Chorus 4 For each perfect gift of thine to our race so freely given, graces human and divine, flowers of earth and buds of heaven: Chorus Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (1835-1917) (Public Domain) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Christ driving the traders out of the Temple, by Cecco del Caravaggio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecco_del_Caravaggio#/media/File:Cecco_del_Caravaggio_Expulsi%C3%B3n_de_los_mercaderes_del_templo_1610_Staatliche_museen_Berlin.JPG Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Lord thy word abideth 1 Lord, thy word abideth, and our footsteps guideth; who its truth believeth light and joy receiveth. 2 When our foes are near us, then thy word doth cheer us, word of consolation, message of salvation. 3 When the storms are o'er us, and dark clouds before us, then its light directeth, and our way protecteth. 4 Who can tell the pleasure, who recount the treasure, by thy word imparted to the simple-hearted? 5 Word of mercy, giving succour to the living; word of life, supplying comfort to the dying. 6 O that we discerning its most holy learning, Lord, may love and fear thee, evermore be near thee. Henry Williams Baker (1821-1877)   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: "Get thee behind me, Satan" by James Tissot https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Brooklyn_Museum_-_Get_Thee_Behind_Me_Satan_%28R%C3%A9tire-toi_Satan%29_-_James_Tissot.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: The God of Abraham praise --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Kevin Bright Image:Christ in the Wilderness by Ivan Kramskoy Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Forty Days and Forty Nights --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Transfiguration Window in Seal Church Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: To God be the Glory --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, by Jan Brueghel the Elder https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Jan_Brueghel_the_Elder_%28Brussels_1568-Antwerp_1625%29_-_Adam_and_Eve_in_the_Garden_of_Eden_-_RCIN_405512_-_Royal_Collection.jpg Today's hymn is: All creatures of our God and King sung by St Martin's Voices 1 All creatures of our God and King lift up your voice and with us sing Alleluia, alleluia. Thou burning sun with golden beam, thou silver moon with softer gleam, O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. 2 Thou rushing wind that art so strong, ye clouds that sail in heaven along, O praise him, alleluia. Thou rising morn, in praise rejoice, ye lights of evening, find a voice; Chorus 3 Thou flowing water, pure and clear, make music for thy Lord to hear, Alleluia, alleluia. Thou fire so masterful and bright, that givest hearts both warmth and light: Chorus 4 Dear mother earth, who day by day unfoldest blessings on our way, O praise him, alleluia. The flowers and fruits that in thee grow, let them his glory also show: Chorus 5 Let all things their Creator bless, and worship him in humbleness; O praise him, alleluia. Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son, and praise the Spirit, Three in One; Chorus William Henry Draper (1855-1933) based on Laudato sii, O me signore St Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun (Public Domain) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

A special extra podcast for the Feast of Candlemas, which marks the end of the Epiphany and Christmas season. Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Simeon and Anna in the Temple, by Rembrandt Hymn: Faithful Vigil Ended, sung by the choir of St Martin in the Fields --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Kevin Bright Image: Eleventh Century Fresco: the Exorcism at Capernaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_the_synagogue_of_Capernaum#/media/File:Christus_heilt_einen_Besessenen.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: King of Glory, King of Peace --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Wedding at Cana by Paulo Veronese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_at_Cana#/media/File:Paolo_Veronese_008.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Songs of thankfulness and praise. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Eli and Samuel , by John Singleton Copley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eli_and_Samuel.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Hail to the Lord's Anointed 1 Hail to the Lord's Anointed, great David's greater Son! Hail, in the time appointed, his reign on earth begun! He comes to break oppression, to set the captive free, to take away transgression, and rule in equity. 2 He comes, with succour speedy, to those who suffer wrong; to help the poor and needy, and bid the weak be strong; to give them songs for sighing, their darkness turn to light, whose souls, condemned and dying, were precious in his sight. 3 He shall come down like showers upon the fruitful earth; that love, joy, hope, like flowers, spring in his path to birth; before him, on the mountains, shall peace the herald go; and righteousness, in fountains, from hill to valley flow. 4 Kings shall bow down before him, and gold and incense bring; all nations shall adore him, his praise all people sing; to him shall prayer unceasing and daily vows ascend, his kingdom still increasing, a kingdom without end. 5 O'er every foe victorious, he on his throne shall rest; from age to age more glorious, all-blessing and all-blest. The tide of time shall never his covenant remove; his name shall stand for ever, his changeless name of Love. James Montgomery (1771-1854) (Public Domain) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Adoration of the Kings, by Jan Brueghel the Elder https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-brueghel-the-elder-the-adoration-of-the-kings Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning Brightest and best sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 2 Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining; low lies his head with the beasts of the stall; angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all. 3 Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion, odours of Edom, and offerings divine, gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean, myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine? 4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation, vainly with gifts would his favour secure: richer by far is the heart's adoration, dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. 5 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Reginald Heber (1783-1826) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for Christmas worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com This podcast contains the sermon I preached at our Christmas night service. If you would like to hear the story I told on Christmas Morning you can find a link to it on our church website and blog.   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Adoration of the Shepherds by Guido Reni https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/guido-reni-the-adoration-of-the-shepherds Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: It came upon the midnight clear and the music at the start of the service is played by Philip Le Bas --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness, by Pier Francesco Mola https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pier-francesco-mola-saint-john-the-baptist-preaching-in-the-wilderness Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: O come, O come, Emmanuel 1 O come, O come Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here, Until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. 2 O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan's tyranny; From depths of hell Thy people save, And give them victory o'er the grave. Refrain 3 O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here; Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death's dark shadows put to flight. Refrain 4 O come, Thou Key of David, come, And open wide our heavenly home; Make safe the way that leads on high, And close the path to misery. Refrain 5 O come, O come, Thou Lord of might, Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai's height, In ancient times didst give the law In cloud and majesty and awe. Refrain Latin 13th century translated by John M Neale (1818-1866) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: John the Baptist by Phillipe de Champaigne Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's cry --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Advent Candle https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtsofan/23796332085 Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Lo He comes with clouds descending --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Kevin Bright Image: A young Syrian boy herding sheep Public Domain Dedication. Public Use Notice of Limitations: https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: All hail the power of Jesus' name --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Rev Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The parable of the talents. Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: O God our help in ages past O God our help in ages past sung by the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields 1 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home; 2 Under the shadow of thy throne thy saints have dwelt secure; sufficient is thine arm alone, and our defence is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood, or earth received her frame, from everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone; short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away; they fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. 6 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be thou our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home. Isaac Watts (1674-1748) (Public Domain) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: O Worship the King --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Saint Edith, medieval manuscript. Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: For all the saints sung by the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields 1 For all the saints who from their labours rest, who thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesu, be for ever blest: Alleluia, alleluia! 2 Thou wast their rock, their fortress and their might; thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight; thou in the darkness still their one true light: Alleluia, alleluia! 3 O blest communion, fellowship divine. we feebly struggle, they in glory shine; yet all are one in thee, for all are thine: Alleluia, alleluia! 4 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! 5 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! William W How (1823-1897) (CCLI 90590)  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Kevin Bright Image: A coin of Tiberius, used for paying taxes Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: O Jesus I have promised 1 O Jesus, I have promised to serve thee to the end; be thou for ever near me, my Master and my Friend: I shall not fear the battle if thou art by my side, nor wander from the pathway if thou wilt be my guide. 2 O let me hear thee speaking in accents clear and still, above the storms of passion, the murmurs of self-will; O speak to reassure me, to hasten or control; O speak, and make me listen, thou guardian of my soul. 3 O Jesus, thou hast promised to all who follow thee, that where thou art in glory there shall thy servant be; and, Jesus, I have promised to serve thee to the end: O give me grace to follow, my Master and my Friend. 4 O let me see thy foot-marks, and in them plant mine own; my hope to follow duly is in thy strength alone: O guide me, call me, draw me, uphold me to the end; and then in heaven receive me, my Saviour and my Friend. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Detail of Assyrian attack on the Elamites . © The Trustees of the British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/372358001 Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: The King of Love my Shepherd is: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night#/media/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: We plough the fields and scatter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Jesus clears the traders from the Temple by James Tissot https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4543 Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Alleluia, Sing to Jesus --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Jonah. From an 11th century Russian Manuscript, the Menologion of Basil. https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1613/0081?sid=a7590df9b8aca22111c8359533716419 Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: God of Grace and God of Glory --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Detail from "The Unforgiving Servant" by Jan van Hemmessen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_Hemessen_-_The_Parable_of_the_Unmerciful_Servant.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Dear Lord and Father of mankind. Dear Lord and Father of mankind sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways; re-clothe us in our rightful mind; in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise. 2 In simple trust like theirs who heard beside the Syrian sea the gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word rise up and follow thee. 3 Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. 4 Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Prodigal Son by Rembrandt Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Immortal Love, for ever full 1 Immortal love, forever full, for ever flowing free, for ever shared, forever whole, a never-ebbing sea. 2 Our outward lips confess the name all other names above; love only knoweth whence it came and comprehendeth love. 3 We may not climb the heavenly steeps to bring the Lord Christ down; in vain we search the lowest deeps, for him no depths can drown. 4 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet a present help is he; and faith has still its Olivet, and love its Galilee. 5 Through Him the first fond prayers are said our lips of childhood frame; the last low whispers of our dead are burdened with his name. 6 Alone, O love ineffable, thy saving name is given; to turn aside from thee is hell, to walk with thee is heaven. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Kevin Bright Image: Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: When I survey the wondrous cross 1 When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of glory died, my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride. 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast save in the cross of Christ, my God! All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them through his blood. 3 See, from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown? 4 His dying crimson, like a robe, spreads o'er his body on the tree; then am I dead to all the globe, and all the globe is dead to me. 5 Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small. Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. Isaac Watts (1674-1748)   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The shrine to Pan at Banias, near the site of Caesarea Philippi Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Christ is made the sure foundation Christ is made the sure foundation sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Christ is made the sure foundation, Christ the head and corner-stone, chosen of the Lord, and precious, binding all the church in one, holy Zion's help for ever, and her confidence alone. 2 To this temple, where we call thee, come, O Lord of Hosts, today; with thy wonted loving-kindness hear thy servants as they pray; and thy fullest benediction shed within its walls alway. 3 Here vouchsafe to all thy servants what they ask of thee to gain, what they gain from thee for ever with the blessèd to retain, and hereafter in thy glory evermore with thee to reign. 4 Laud and honour to the Father, laud and honour to the Son, laud and honour to the Spirit, ever Three, and ever One, consubstantial, co-eternal, while unending ages run. Anonymous Latin translated by John M Neale (1818-1866) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Canaanite woman: detail from the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Barry: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_164r_-_The_Canaanite_Woman.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Just as I am, without one plea Just as I am, without one plea sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Just as I am, without one plea but that thy blood was shed for me, and that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come. 2 Just as I am, though tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubt, fightings within and fears without, O Lamb of God, I come. 3 Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind; sight, riches, healing of the mind, Yea, all I need, in thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come. 4 Just as I am, thou wilt receive, wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve: because thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come. 5 Just as I am (thy love unknown has broken every barrier down), now to be thine, yea, thine alone, O Lamb of God, I come. 6 Just as I am, of that free love the breadth, length, depth, and height to prove, here for a season, then above, O Lamb of God, I come. Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Peter trying to walk on water, stained glass window, Seal Church Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Eternal Father, strong to save Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arm doth bind the restless wave, who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep: O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. 2 O Saviour whose almighty word the winds and waves submissive heard, who walkedst on the foaming deep, and calm amid its rage didst sleep: O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. 3 O sacred Spirit, who didst brood upon the chaos dark and rude, who badst its angry tumult cease, and gavest light and life and peace: O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. 4 O Trinity of love and power, our brethren shield in danger's hour; from rock and tempest, fire and foe, protect them whereso'er they go: and ever let there rise to thee glad hymns of praise from land and sea. William Whiting (1825-1878) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Transfiguration window, Seal Church Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Christ whose glory fills the skies 1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only light, sun of righteousness, arise, triumph o'er the shades of night; day-spring from on high, be near; day-star, in my heart appear. 2 Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee: joyless is the day's return,6 till thy mercy's beams I see, till they inward light impart, glad my eyes, and warm my heart. 3 Visit then this soul of mine; pierce the gloom of sin and grief; fill me, radiancy divine; scatter all my unbelief; more and more thyself display, shining to the perfect day. Charles Wesley (1707-1788) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Sower, by Jean-Francois Millet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sower_(Millet)#/media/File:Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet_-_The_Sower_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour, first-begotten from the dead, Thou alone, our strong defender, liftest up Thy people's head. Alleluia, alleluia, Jesu, true and living bread. 2 Here our humblest homage pay we, here in loving reverence bow; here for faith's discernment prayer we, lest we fail to know thee now. Alleluia, alleluia, thou art here, we ask now how. 3 Though the lowliest form doth veil thee as of old in Bethlehem, here as there thine angels hail thee, branch and flower of Jesse's stem. Alleluia, alleluia, we in worship join with them. 4 Paschal Lamb, thine offering finished once for all when thou wast slain, in its fullness undiminished shall for evermore remain. Alleluia, alleluia, cleansing souls from every stain. 5 Life-imparting heavenly manna, stricken rock, with streaming side, heaven and earth with loud hosanna worship thee, the Lamb who died. Alleluia, alleluia, risen, ascended, glorified! George Hugh Bourne (1840-1925)  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Weary Travellers, by Eugene Higgins, https://whitney.org/collection/works/598 Today's hymn is Amazing grace sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Amazing grace! – how sweet the sound – that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see. 2 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved; how precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed! 3 Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; 'tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home. 4 The Lord has promised good to me, his word my hope secures; he will my shield and portion be as long as life endures. 5 When we've been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun. John Newton (1725-1807), William Cowper (1731-1800), John Rees (1828-1900) (Public Domain) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Icon of St Peter and St Paul Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: God of Grace and God of Glory 1 God of grace and God of glory, on thy people pour thy power; now fulfil thy church's story; bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, for the facing of this hour. 2 Lo, the hosts of evil round us scorn thy Christ, assail his ways; from the fears that long have bound us free our hearts to faith and praise. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, for the living of these days. 3 Cure thy children's warring madness, bend our pride to thy control; shame our wanton selfish gladness, rich in goods and poor in soul. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, lest we miss thy kingdom's goal. 4 Set our feet on lofty places, gird our lives that they may be armoured with all Christlike graces in the fight till all be free. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, that we fail not man nor thee. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) © Stephen F Downs legal representative of Dr Elinor Downs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Ebstorf map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebstorf_Map#/media/File:Ebstorfer_Weltkarte_2.jpg Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Praise my soul the king of heaven 1 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven; to his feet thy tribute bring; ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, who like me his praise should sing? Alleluia, alleluia, praise the everlasting King. 2 Praise him for his grace and favour to our fathers in distress; praise him still the same for ever, slow to chide, and swift to bless: Alleluia, alleluia, glorious in his faithfulness. 3 Father-like he tends and spares us; well our feeble frame he knows; in his hands he gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes: Alleluia, alleluia, widely as his mercy flows. 4 Angels, help us to adore him, ye behold him face to face; sun and moon, bow down before him, dwellers all in time and space: Alleluia, alleluia, praise with us the God of grace. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Image: Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Immortal love, forever full 1       Immortal love, forever full,           for ever flowing free,           for ever shared, forever whole,           a never-ebbing sea. 2       Our outward lips confess the name           all other names above;           love only knoweth whence it came           and comprehendeth love. 3       We may not climb the heavenly steeps           to bring the Lord Christ down;           in vain we search the lowest deeps,           for him no depths can drown. 4       But warm, sweet, tender, even yet           a present help is he;           and faith has still its Olivet,           and love its Galilee. 5       Through Him the first fond prayers are said           our lips of childhood frame;           the last low whispers of our dead           are burdened with his name. 6       Alone, O love ineffable,           thy saving name is given;           to turn aside from thee is hell,           to walk with thee is heaven.   John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) (Public Domain) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Trinity window from the church of St Sampson, Bobital, Côtes d'armor, France Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Let all the world in every corner sing 1 Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! The heavens are not too high, his praise may thither fly; the earth is not too low, his praises there may grow. Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! 2 Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! The church with psalms must shout, no door can keep them out; but above all, the heart must bear the longest part. Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Kevin Bright Image: Detail from stained glass window in Queen's College, Oxford, taken by Laurence OP, https://flic.kr/p/4MsaUm Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: O thou who camest from above 1 O thou who camest from above The fire celestial to impart, Kindle a flame of sacred love On the mean altar of my heart! 2 There let it for thy glory burn With inextinguishable blaze, And trembling to its source return, In humble prayer and fervent praise. 3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desire To work, and speak, and think for thee; Still let me guard the holy fire, And still stir up the gift in me— 4 Ready for all thy perfect will, My acts of faith and love repeat, Till death thy endless mercies seal, And make the sacrifice complete. Charles Wesley (1707-1788) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Ascension window from Seal Church Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: All hail the power of Jesu's name 1 All hail the power of Jesu's name let angels prostrate fall; bring forth the royal diadem to crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him Lord of all. 2 Crown him, ye martyrs of your God, who from his altar call; praise him whose way of pain ye trod, and crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him Lord of all. 3 Ye seed of Israel's chosen race, ye ransomed of the fall, hail him who saves you by his grace, and crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him Lord of all. 4 Let every tribe and every tongue to him their hearts enthrall, lift high the universal song and crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him Lord of all. Edward Perronet (1726-92) and others (Public Domain)  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Immortal, invisible, God only wise sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes, most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. 2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might; thy justice like mountains high soaring above thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love. 3 To all life thou givest, to both great and small; in all life thou livest, the true life of all; we blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, and wither and perish, but naught changest thee. 4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight all laud we would render: O help us to see 'tis only the splendour of light hideth thee. Walter Chalmers Smith (1824-1908) (Public Domain)  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The coronation spoon and ampulla https://www.rct.uk/collection/31733/the-coronation-spoon Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Praise my soul, the King of Heaven 1 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven; to his feet thy tribute bring; ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, who like me his praise should sing? Alleluia, alleluia, praise the everlasting King. 2 Praise him for his grace and favour to our fathers in distress; praise him still the same for ever, slow to chide, and swift to bless: Alleluia, alleluia, glorious in his faithfulness. 3 Father-like he tends and spares us; well our feeble frame he knows; in his hands he gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes: Alleluia, alleluia, widely as his mercy flows. 4 Angels, help us to adore him, ye behold him face to face; sun and moon, bow down before him, dwellers all in time and space: Alleluia, alleluia, praise with us the God of grace. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Kevin Bright Image: Mosaic in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy, c. 425 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd#/media/File:%22The_good_Shepherd%22_mosaic_-_Mausoleum_of_Galla_Placidia.jpg Hymn :The King of love my shepherd is sung by St Martin's Voices 1 The King of love my shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am his and he is mine for ever. 2 Where streams of living water flow my ransomed soul he leadeth, and where the verdant pastures grow with food celestial feedeth. 3 Perverse and foolish oft I strayed, but yet in love he sought me, and on his shoulder gently laid, and home rejoicing brought me 4 In death's dark vale I fear no ill with thee, dear Lord, beside me; thy rod and staff my comfort still, thy cross before to guide me. 5 Thou spread'st a table in my sight; thy unction grace bestoweth; and O what transport of delight from thy pure chalice floweth! 6 And so through all the length of days thy goodness faileth never: good Shepherd, may I sing thy praise within thy house for ever. Henry Williams Baker (1821-1877)   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Road to Emmaus by Tissot https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/13524 Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Alleluia, alleluia 1 Alleluia, Alleluia! hearts to heaven and voices raise; sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise: he who on the Cross a victim for the world's salvation bled, Jesus Christ the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. 2 Christ is risen, Christ the first-fruits of the holy harvest field, which will all its full abundance at his second coming yield; then the golden ears of harvest will their heads before him wave, ripened by his glorious sunshine, from the furrows of the grave. 3 Christ is risen, we are risen; shed upon us heavenly grace, rain and dew, and gleams of glory from the brightness of thy face; that we, with our hearts in heaven, here on earth may fruitful be, and by angel-hands be gathered, and be ever, Lord, with thee. 4 Alleluia, Alleluia, glory be to God on high; Alleluia to the Saviour, who has gained the victory; Alleluia to the Spirit, fount of love and sanctity; Alleluia, Alleluia, to the Triune Majesty. Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com   Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: James Tissot, The women at the tomb. Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Thine be the Glory Thine be the glory sung by St Martin's Voices 1 Thine be the glory, risen conquering Son; endless is the victory thou o'er death hast won. Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, kept the folded grave clothes where thy body lay. Thine be the glory, risen conquering Son: Endless is the victory, thou o'er death hast won. 2 Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb; lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom. Let the church with gladness, hymns of triumph sing; for her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting. Refrain 3 No more we doubt thee, glorious prince of life! Life is nought without thee; aid us in our strife; make us more than conquerors, through thy deathless love: Bring us safe through Jordan to thy home above. Refrain Edmund L Budry (1854-1932), translated by Richard B Hoyle (1875-1939)   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas Image: Jesus enters Jerusalem, by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1854) , from a fresco in Paris, église Saint-Germain-des-Prés https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-entrance-of-christ-into-jerusalem-jean-hippolyte-flandrin.html Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: My Song is Love Unknown, sung by St Martin's Voices 1 My song is love unknown, My Saviour's love to me; love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be. O who am I, that for my sake my Lord should take frail flesh and die? 2 He came from His blest throne salvation to bestow; but men made strange, and none the longed-for Christ would know: But O! my Friend, my Friend indeed, who at my need His life did spend. 3 Sometimes they strew His way, and His sweet praises sing; resounding all the day Hosannas to their King: Then “Crucify!” is all their breath, and for His death they thirst and cry. 4 They rise and needs will have my dear Lord made away; a murderer they save, the Prince of life they slay, Yet cheerful He to suffering goes, that He His foes from thence might free. 5 Here might I stay and sing, no story so divine; never was love, dear King! Never was grief like Thine. This is my Friend, in Whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend. Samuel Crossman (1623-1683) (Public Domain) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anne-le-bas/message