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What’s more, I learned it in Welsh as well as in English: “Ein tad, yr hwn wyt yn y nefoedd” here are words as familiar to me as “Our father who art in heaven.” And then, much later in my life, while living in faraway Haiti, these words wormed their way into my innermost mind in French and, marvellously, in Créole too. We weren’t church goers in our family and it’s salutary to think that I learned the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples in a secular environment rather than a religious one. All children were taught it in school and recited it at school assemblies. Indeed, in my earliest days, it seemed to be part of our national life. The Lord’s Prayer seems always to have been part of my life. We offer this prayer in the name of the risen Lord Jesus who, with you and the Holy Spirit, is one God, now and forever. Accept our worship this morning as we seek to express those mysteries which lie beyond words and whose meaning breathes life into our deepest selves. Yours, dear Lord, is a love that will not let us go and we pray for faith and hope in sufficient measure never to let go of it. In this joyous season of Easter, we thank you for the good news you have imparted to us – the story of a love that, even when assailed by cruelty and mockery, even when carrying an immense burden of suffering and pain, even when faced by the dark reality of death, remained unbroken, undiminished, untarnished, right to the end. “Our Father.” (tune: traditional Caribbean melody).ĭear Lord, our father in heaven, we gather together in your name to sing your praise and to offer you our worship. MUSIC (antiphonally – Robert Maginley and the congregation): He’ll be the cantor now as we sing the whole prayer this time we can all join in the responses.ģ. He lived, died, and was buried here and his soul goes marching on.Īt the beginning of the service we heard the opening words of a Caribbean version of the “Our Father” sung by my colleague Robert Maginley, born and raised in Antigua. And we too have our own history to be proud of - we’re the mother church of world Methodism ours is a bijou Georgian building put up by John Wesley, the founding father of Methodism. And west of us, just across the street, is the Bunhill Fields cemetery - a centuries-old burying ground for people who trod the road of dissent, people like John Bunyan, George Fox, William Blake and Isaac Watts. North of us, the new kid on the block, is the high-tech world of start-up companies, thousands of them, all centring on the Old Street Roundabout now fondly referred to as Silicon Roundabout. To the east lie the thriving, throbbing, clublands of Shoreditch and Hoxton, flooded, especially at weekends, by hordes of young people up for a good time. To the south of us lies the City of London, the Square Mile, with its banks and businesses and a history dating back to the Romans.
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Here in London, our church stands like the hub of a wheel whose spokes point out into different worlds. “Our Father,” the opening words of the most familiar prayer known to Christians in every part of the world, establishes the theme for this morning’s service. Good morning wherever you are from the heart of London. Thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name
Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name song series#
It’s led by the Superintendent, the Rev’d Dr Leslie Griffiths, and is the first of an occasional series of services reflecting on the Lord’s Prayer.
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It’s 10 past 8 and time now for Sunday Worship which comes live from Wesley’s Chapel in the City of London. It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to reflect current events.īBC Radio Four. It may include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor spelling and other errors that were corrected before the radio broadcast. This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it was prepared before the service was broadcast.