All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city.
The final verse of Psalm 113 is missing from Luke Mayernik’s setting of the psalm, the second psalm in this Sunday evening’s service. It is “He makes the woman of a childless house to be a joyful mother of children.” This Sunday evening’s reading tells how God blesses a childless mother, Hannah, with a son, a son whom she dedicates to God’s service in thanksgiving for the gift of a child. That child would become the Prophet Samuel.
The reading is a story of a mother’s sorrow, her joy, and her sacrifice. In a roundabout way Hannah’s story foreshadows another story, a story of God who so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son to redeem it.
The prophet Samuel would anoint David king of Israel at God’s command. David was a forebear of Jesus, the Messiah, the Promised One of God.
Jesus’ mother, Mary, would also know sorrow and joy. Her son would suffer and die on a cross, only to rise to new life again, opening to us the way of salvation.
The Scripture reading for this Sunday evening is 1 Samuel 1:1-28 The Birth and Dedication of Samuel.
The homily is titled, “A Place for All Mothers.”
The dismissal song, “Mothering God” may be found in the music collection, I Will Not Sing Alone, by John L. Bell and Graham Maule, available from GIA Publications. Jean Janzen adapted the words from Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love in which Dame Julian, an anchoress and mystic, recorded the “shewings” or visions of the Passion of Christ that received on her sickbed, when she was so seriously ill that she believed that she was on the point of death. Dame Julian is now recognized as an important medieval English mystic and theologian. She is the first woman to author a book in English.
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May this service be a blessing to you.
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