ETERNAL GOD,
In your great love you gave your servant NICHOLAS
A perpetual name for deeds of kindness
on land and sea.
Grant that your church may never cease to work for the happiness of children, the safety of sailors, the relief of the poor and the help of those tossed by tempests of doubt or grief; through JESUS CHRIST our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the HOLY SPIRIT, one GOD, now and for ever. AMEN
NOVENA
Nine days of Prayer
THE SPIRITUAL RICHES OF LIFE
In preparation for our Patronal festival
The Feast of St Nicholas
2012
Daily Worship 27 November – 5 December m.
9.30 a.m.
St Nicholas at Wade, Thanet --- All welcome
PRAY SISTERS
6 December,
Patronal festival
A HYMN
Look he comes, the one expected
Good St Nicholas we see
With your mitre and your crozier
Holy Bishop hear our plea
Make us all most glad as we
Wait for Christ’s nativity
Look he comes, the saint of caring,
For the young, the poor and me,
In his bag, the gifts of plenty
Children run and shout with glee
Make us all most glad as we
Wait for Christ’s nativity
Look he comes, the wonderworker
Miracles and legends tell
Of a man whose holy living
Speaks of how all shall be well.
Make us all most glad as we
Wait for Christ’s nativity
Look he goes, in shining splendour
We are filled with joy and love
May this feast and celebration
Seal our faith in God above
Now in
Christ - his blest nativity
Tune: Hela vȁrilden frőjdes Herran 1676 Swedish
Text: Dr J M Rosenthal 1951-
For St Nicholas at Wade 2012
Author’s note: The tune is well-worth knowing and can be found on the web . http://runeberg.org/sondag/0005.html ---The text has only this tune in mind while writing. It is no 4 in the Swedish Psalm Hymn Book
