King's College Chapel, University of Aberdeen. Construction began in 1498 and ended with the consecration of the building in 1509. The chapel is dedicated to the Trinity and the Virgin Mary in her Nativity. The chapel also commemorates a number of monarchs, both Scottish and British, as well as founders and patrons of the university. The name "King's" in particular recalls King James IV of Scotland, the main patron of the university.
Service Sheet
Welcome
Rev Dr V Easter Smart
Opening Responses
Leader: In this season, we worship remembering Jesus suffering in love for us and all people.
ALL: Lent is a time of tears
Leader: But out of tears, joy is born- the joy of sin forgiven, hope reborn and life restored.
ALL: We stand in awe of God who brings joy out of tears and life out of death.
Leader: Let us worship with reverence as we sing our hymn:
Opening Hymn
Forty days and forty nights
thou wast fasting in the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted, yet undefiled.
Sunbeams scorching all the day;
chilly dew-drops nightly shed;
prowling beasts about thy way;
stones thy pillow; earth thy bed.
Shall not we thy sorrows share,
learn thy discipline of will,
and, like thee, by fast and prayer
wrestle with the powers of ill?
And if Satan, vexing sore
flesh and spirit should assail,
thou, his vanquisher before,
wilt not suffer us to fail.
Watching, praying, struggling thus,
victory ours at last shall be;
angels minister to us
as they ministered to thee.
Prayer
Leader: The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart you will not despise. Psalm 51:17
Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
ALL: and also with you.
Leader: Let us pray for grace to keep Lent faithfully.
Almighty and everlasting God
you hate nothing that you have made
and forgive the sins of all those who are penitent.
Create and make in us new and contrite hearts,
that, lamenting our sins and acknowledging our
wretchedness,
we may receive from you, the God of all mercy,
perfect forgiveness and peace;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
ALL: Our Father who art in Heaven...
Reading: I Corinthians 13:1-13
PSALM 51
Leader: Have mercy on me, God in your kindness.
In your compassion blot out my offence.
ALL: O wash me more and more from my guilt and cleanse
me from my sin.
Leader: My offences truly I know them;
my sin is always before me.
ALL: Against you, you alone, have I sinned;
what is evil in your sight I have done.
Leader: A pure heart create for me, O God,
put a steadfast spirit within me.
ALL: Do not cast me away from your presence,
nor deprive me of your Holy Spirit.
Leader: Give me again the joy of your help;
with a spirit of fervour sustain me,
ALL: that I may teach transgressors your ways and sinners
may return to you.
Reading: Luke 18:9-14
MEDITATION
Rev Dr Duncan Heddle
HYMN
Come down, O Love Divine,
seek out this soul of mine,
and visit it with your ardour glowing;
O Comforter, draw near,
within in my heart appear,
and kindle it, your holy flame bestowing.
O let it freely burn,
till earthly passions turn
to dust and ashes, in its heat consuming;
and let thy glorious light
shine ever on my sight
and clothe me round the while my path illuming.
Let holy charity
my out ward vesture be,
and lowliness of heart,
which takes the humbler part,
and o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
And so the yearning strong,
with which the soul with long,
shall far outpass the power of human telling;
we cannot guess its grace,
till we become the place
wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling.
PRAYER
Leader: Make our hearts clean, O God;
ALL: and renew a right spirit within us.
ALL: Father eternal, giver of light and grace,
we have sinned against you and against
our neighbour,
in what we have thought,
in what we have said and done,
through ignorance, through weakness,
through our own deliberate fault.
We are sorry and ashamed,
and repent of our sins.
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ,
who died for us,
forgive us all that is past;
and lead us out from darkness
to walk as children of light. Amen.
THE IMPOSITION OF ASHES
Leader: As a sign of the spirit of penitence with which we shall
keep the season of preparation for Easter, we invite you
to receive on your head in ash the sign of the cross, the
symbol of our salvation.
God our Father,
you create us from the dust of the earth:
grant that these ashes may be for us a sign of our
penitence and a symbol of our mortality;
for it is by your grace alone that we receive eternal life in
Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
People who wish to receive the imposition of ashes are invited to come forward. At the imposition the minister shall say to each person:
TURN AWAY FROM SIN AND BE FAITHFUL TO CHRIST
ALL: God our Father,
the strength of all who put their trust in you,
mercifully accept our prayers;
and because, in our weakness,
we can do nothing good without you,
grant us the help of your grace,
that in in keeping your commandments
we may please you, both in will and deed;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
HYMN
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died.
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.
See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
His dying crimson, like a robe,
Spreads o'er his body on the tree;
Then I am dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me.
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far to small;
Love so amazing. so divine,
Demands my soul, my life my all.
To Christ, Who won for sinners grace
By bitter grief and anguish sore,
Be praise from all the ransomed race
Forever and evermore.
BLESSING AND DISMISSAL
Some of the clergy that shared the service:
Chaplain to the university: Rev Dr Easter Smart, (Kirk of Scotland)
Rev. Dr Duncan Heddle, (Episcopal Church of Scotland)
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