Sunday Audio Service – Pentecost – Holy Communion – 8/6/25
HOLY SPIRIT, WE WELCOME YOU.
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Move among us with holy fire,
As we lay aside all earthly desires,
Hands reach out and our hearts aspire.
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit,
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Let the breeze of Your presence blow,
That Your children here might truly know
How to move in the Spirit’s flow.
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit,
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Please accomplish in me today
Some new work of loving grace, I pray.
Unreservedly have Your way.
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit,
Holy Spirit, we welcome You.
Chris Bowater.
___________________________________________
BREATHE ON ME, BREATH OF GOD,
Fill me with life anew.
That I may love what Thou dost love
And do what Thou wouldst do.
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Until my heart is pure.
Until my will is one with Thine
To do and to endure.
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Till I am wholly Thine.
Until this earthly part of me
Glows with Thy fire divine.
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
So shall I never die,
But live with Thee the perfect life
Of Thine eternity.
Edwin Hatch.
THERE MUST BE MORE than this:
O Breath of God, come breathe within.
There must be more than this:
Spirit of God, we wait for You.
Fill us anew, we pray.
Fill us anew, we pray.
Consuming fire, fan into flame
A passion for Your name.
Spirit of God, fall in this place.
Lord, have Your way,
Lord, have Your way with us.
Come like a rushing wind,
Clothe us with power from on high.
Now set the captives free.
Leave us abandoned to Your praise.
Lord, let Your glory fall.
Lord, let Your glory fall.
Tim Hughes
_______________________________________
LORD OF THE CHURCH,
We pray for our renewing:
Christ over all, our undivided aim.
Fire of the Spirit, burn for our enduing,
Wind of the Spirit, fan the living flame!
We turn to Christ amid our fear and failing,
The will that lacks the courage to be free,
The weary labours, all but unavailing,
To bring us nearer what a church should be.
Lord of the Church, we seek a Father’s blessing,
A true repentance and a faith restored,
A swift obedience and a new possessing,
Filled with the Holy Spirit of the Lord!
We turn to Christ from all our restless striving,
Unnumbered voices with a single prayer –
The living water for our souls’ reviving,
In Christ to live, and love and serve and care.
Lord of the Church, we long for our uniting,
True to one calling, by one vision stirred.
One cross proclaiming and one creed reciting,
One in the truth of Jesus and His word!
So lead us on; till toil and trouble ended,
One Church triumphant one new song shall sing,
To praise His glory, risen and ascended,
Christ over all, the everlasting King!
Timothy Dudley-Smith
