Holy Trinity, Ventnor - 1st Sunday after Trinity - Sunday after Corpus Christi - 2nd June, 2024

The Celebrant and Preacher is Rev. Tom Burden, Vicar of Ventnor and Rector of Bonchurch.
Words for the hymns can be found below. Do join in singing at home!
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OPENING HYMN: NEH 473 When morning gilds the skies
(tune: Laudes Domini - Sir Joseph Barnby)
1. WHEN morning gilds the skies,
My heart awaking cries,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
Alike at work and prayer
To Jesus I repair;
May Jesus Christ be praised.
2. The sacred minster bell
It peals o'er hill and dell,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
O hark to what it sings,
As joyously it rings,
May Jesus Christ be praised.
3. My tongue shall never tire
Of chanting in the choir,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
The fairest graces spring
In hearts that ever sing,
May Jesus Christ be praised.
6. The night becomes as day,
When from the heart we say,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
The powers of darkness fear,
When this sweet chant they hear,
May Jesus Christ be praised.
7. In heaven's eternal bliss
The loveliest strain is this,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
Let air, and sea, and sky
From depth to height reply,
May Jesus Christ be praised.
8. Be this, while life is mine,
My canticle divine,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
Be this the eternal song
Through all the ages on,
May Jesus Christ be praised.
Old Testament reading: Deuteronomy 5:12-15.
“Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God.”
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 4: 5-12
“For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
(GRADUAL) HYMN: NEH 257 This is the day the Lord has made
1. This is the day the Lord hath made,
He calls the hours his own;
Let heaven rejoice, let earth be glad,
And praise surround the throne.
2. Blest be the Lord, who came to men
With heavenly truth and grace;
Who came in God his Father's name,
To save our sinful race.
3. To-day He rose and left the dead,
And Satan's empire fell,
To-day the saints his triumph spread,
And all His wonders tell.
Gospel: Mark 2: 23 to 3: 6
“And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.”
SERMON; CREED; INTERCESSIONS; PEACE
OFFERTORY HYMN: NEH 254 Come, let us with our Lord arise (tune: Surrey)
1. Come, let us with our Lord arise,
Our Lord who made both earth and skies;
Who died to save the world he made,
And rose triumphant from the dead;
He rose, the prince of life and peace,
And stamped the day for ever his.
2. This is the day the Lord has made,
That all may see his love displayed,
May feel his resurrection's power,
And rise again to fall no more,
In perfect righteousness renewed,
And filled with all the life of God.
3. Then let us render him his own,
With solemn prayer approach the throne,
With meekness hear the gospel word,
With thanks his dying love record;
Our joyful hearts and voices raise
And fill his courts with songs of praise.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
COMMUNION HYMN: NEH 304 Once, only once, and once for all
1. Once, only once, and once for all,
His precious life he gave;
Before the Cross in faith we fall,
And own it strong to save.
2. 'One offering, single and complete,'
With lips and hearts we say;
But what he never can repeat
He shows forth day by day.
3. For as the priest of Aaron’s line
Within the holiest stood,
And sprinkled all the mercy-shrine
With sacrificial blood ...
CLOSING HYMN: NEH 373 How shall I sing that majesty (tune: Coe Fen)
1. How shall I sing that majesty
Which angels do admire?
Let dust in dust and silence lie;
Sing, sing, ye heavenly choir.
Thousands of thousands stand around
Thy throne, O God most high;
Ten thousand times ten thousand sound
Thy praise; but who am I?
2. Thy brightness unto them appears,
Whilst I thy footsteps trace;
A sound of God comes to my ears,
But they behold thy face.
They sing because thou art their Sun;
Lord, send a beam on me;
For where heaven is but once begun
There alleluyas be.
3. Enlighten with faith’s light my heart,
Inflame it with love’s fire;
Then shall I sing and bear a part
With that celestial choir.
I shall, I fear, be dark and cold,
With all my fire and light;
Yet when thou dost accept their gold,
Lord, treasure up my mite.
4. How great a being, Lord, is thine,
Which doth all beings keep!
Thy knowledge is the only line
To sound so vast a deep.
Thou art a sea without a shore,
A sun without a sphere;
Thy time is now and evermore,
Thy place is everywhere.

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We went to ventnor for our holidays in the 60s .my second home i called it .wonderful.

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Ventnor is still wonderful! Do come back again.