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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 1st June 2025
Seventh Sunday of Easter: Ascension Sunday
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leader: Rev Ian Gilmour
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 except where stated otherwise, and readings are from NRSV)
Organ:
Prelude on ‘St Magnus’, by Malcolm Archer
Gopsal, by Stanley Vann
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 449: Rejoice! the Lord is King [Tune: Gopsal (CH3 296(ii))]
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Young Church
Hymn 792: Our God is a God who makes friends [Tune: Our God]
Reading: Acts 1: 1-11 (NT: p114) [Reader: David Reid]
Hymn 438: The Head that once was crowned with thorns [Tune: St Magnus (Nottingham)]
Reading: Ephesians 1: 15–23 (NT: p189) [Reader: Keith Winton]
Sermon
Invitation to Communion
Hymn 19: Ye gates, lift up your heads on high [Tune: St George’s (Edinburgh)]
Thanksgiving
Communion
Prayers, led by Valerie Macniven
Hymn 436: Christ triumphant, ever reigning [Tune: Guiting Power]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
Organ:
Ascendit Deus in jubilatione, by Théodore Dubois