21st October 2022
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised Psalm 96:4
You Lord, are the source of all good things:
We praise you.
You call us to tend and care for your creation:
May we strive to do your will.
You have made us as brothers and sisters with all that lives:
May we live together in peace.
A reading from Psalm 96: 1,2, 11-13 (The Message)
Sing God a brand-new song!
Earth and everyone in it, sing!
Sing to God—worship God!
Let’s hear it from Sky,
With Earth joining in,
And a huge round of applause from Sea.
Let Wilderness turn cartwheels,
Animals, come dance,
Put every tree of the forest in the choir—
An extravaganza before God as he comes,
As he comes to set everything right on earth,
Set everything right, treat everyone fair.
A response:
O sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing, people, sing!
God is all holiness,
all love, all mercy, all kindness.
In God is our hope.
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
let the sea roar, and all that fills it –
the majestic whale, the dainty seahorse,
the kaleidoscopic coral and the vibrant seagrass.
Sing, people, sing!
God is all holiness,
all love, all mercy, all kindness.
In God is our hope.
Let the field exult, and everything in it –
the waving grass, the blood-red poppy,
the tiny field mouse and leaping hare.
And all the trees of the forest shall sing for joy.
Sing, people, sing!
God is all holiness,
all love, all mercy, all kindness.
In God is our hope.
Rejoice: the Lord is coming,
coming to free the earth –
to set free the persecuted and the imprisoned,
to set free the afflicted and those bound by poverty.
Sing, people, sing!
God is all holiness,
all love, all mercy, all kindness.
In God is our hope.
The Lord will liberate the world
with righteousness and with truth –
listen to the earth, understand the ways of God,
study the wisdom of nature and embrace God’s law.
Sing, people, sing!
God is all holiness,
all love, all mercy, all kindness.
In God is our hope.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
The Green Tau 