Twenty-second Sunday in Trinity
St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe
Sunday, 1st November 2026
7:00 AM
Namirembe Hill, Kampala
“Forgive as God in Christ forgave you.” — Ephesians 4:32
The Order of Worship
Opening Hymn
HTC 367 Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright
(St. Hugh) — “Lord, teach us how to pray aright, with reverence and with fear…” — James Montgomery
Prayers of Penitence
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First Reading
Philippians 1:3–11 (I thank my God always whenever I remember you)
Hymn after Epistle
HTC 43 Thank You, O Lord of Earth and Heaven
(St. Clement) — “Grant us, because of all your mercies, lips which proclaim our thanks and praise…” — J. E. Seddon
Gospel
Matthew 18:21–35 (Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?)
The Nicene Creed
recited together
Welcome Remarks
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Notices & Testimonies
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Songs before the Sermon (on screens)
- I Then Shall Live — Gloria Gaither
- His Mercy Is More — Boswell & Papa
Sermon
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Offertory
HTC 111 Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive
(Martyrdom) — “How can your pardon reach and bless the unforgiving heart…” — Rosamond Herklots
Hymn
HTC 292 We Plough the Fields and Scatter
(Wir Pflügen) — “Accept the gifts we offer…” — Jane M. Campbell
Holy Communion
We Are One
— Emu Music
Recession
Organ music
Additional Notes
- The Nicene Creed will be recited.
- Welcome remarks, notices & testimonies.
- All hymns & songs displayed on screens for congregational participation.
- Opening hymn & songs before sermon projected.
- Theme: Forgive as God in Christ forgave you.
Nicene Creed · said together
Scan to Listen
Point your phone camera at a QR code — each song plays on YouTube.
Recordings are shared for private listening and rehearsal.
Opening: HTC 367
Readings: Philippians 1 · Matthew 18
Offertory: HTC 111
Communion · We Are One
All hymns & songs will be displayed on the screens for congregational participation.
Hymn Lyrics
Full texts of the hymns and songs for this service. Verses are numbered for easy singing.
HTC 367 Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright
1
Lord, teach us how to pray aright with reverence and with fear:
though dust and ashes in your sight, we may, we must draw near.
2
We perish if we cease from prayer: O grant us power to pray;
and when to meet you we prepare, Lord, meet us by the way.
3
O God of love, before your face we come with contrite heart
to ask from you these gifts of grace — truth in the inward part:
4
Faith in the only Sacrifice that can for sin atone;
to found our hopes, to fix our eyes on Christ, and Christ alone:
5
Patience to watch and weep and wait, whatever you may send;
courage that will not hesitate to trust you to the end.
6
Give these, and then your will be done; thus, strengthened with all might,
we through your Spirit and your Son shall pray, and pray aright.
HTC 43 Thank You, O Lord of Earth and Heaven
1
Thank you, O Lord of earth and heaven, thank you for all your love has planned;
thank you for food and daily blessings, gifts from your ever-gracious hand.
2
Thank you for such a great salvation, mercy as boundless as the sea;
thank you for love which died to save us, love which gave all to set us free.
3
Thank you for means of grace and guidance, gifts of your Spirit, strength divine;
thank you for word and prayer and symbol, food for our souls in bread and wine.
4
Thank you for that blessed hope of glory, great day when Christ shall come again,
day when, in perfect love and justice he in his majesty shall reign.
5
Grant us, because of all your mercies, lips which proclaim our thanks and praise;
lives which, in loving glad surrender, serve and adore you all their days.
6
Glory to God our heavenly Father, glory to Jesus, God the Son,
glory to God the Holy Spirit, glory to God the Three-in-One.
I Then Shall Live
1
I then shall live as one who's been forgiven.
I'll walk with joy to know my debts are paid.
I know my name is clear before my Father;
I am his child and I am not afraid.
So, greatly pardoned, I'll forgive my brother;
the law of love I gladly will obey.
2
I then shall live as one who's learned compassion.
I've been so loved that I'll risk loving too.
I know how fear builds walls instead of bridges;
I'll dare to see another's point of view.
And when relationships demand commitment,
then I'll be there to care and follow through.
3
Your kingdom come around and through and in me;
your power and glory, let them shine through me.
Your hallowed name, O may I bear with honour,
and may your living kingdom come in me.
The Bread of Life, O may I share with honour,
and may you feed a hungry world through me.
His Mercy Is More
1
What love could remember no wrongs we have done?
Omniscient, all-knowing, he counts not their sum.
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore,
our sins, they are many; his mercy is more!
Refrain
Praise the Lord! His mercy is more!
Stronger than darkness, new every morn,
our sins, they are many; his mercy is more!
2
What patience would wait as we constantly roam?
What Father, so tender, is calling us home?
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor;
our sins, they are many; his mercy is more!
Refrain
Praise the Lord! His mercy is more!
Stronger than darkness, new every morn,
our sins, they are many; his mercy is more!
3
What riches of kindness Christ lavished on us,
his blood was the payment, his life was the cost!
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford;
our sins, they are many; his mercy is more!
Refrain
Praise the Lord! His mercy is more!
Stronger than darkness, new every morn,
our sins, they are many; his mercy is more!
HTC 111 Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive
1
'Forgive our sins as we forgive,' you taught us, Lord, to pray;
but you alone can grant us grace to live the words we say.
2
How can your pardon reach and bless the unforgiving heart
that broods on wrongs, and will not let old bitterness depart?
3
In blazing light your cross reveals the truth we dimly knew:
what trivial debts are owed to us, how great our debt to you!
4
Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls and bid resentment cease;
then, bound to all in bonds of love, our lives will spread your peace.
HTC 292 We Plough the Fields and Scatter
1
We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land;
but it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand:
he sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain;
the breezes and the sunshine and soft refreshing rain.
Refrain
All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above:
then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all his love.
2
He only is the maker of all things near and far;
he paints the wayside flower, he lights the evening star:
the winds and waves obey him, by him the birds are fed;
much more, to us his children he gives our daily bread.
Refrain
All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above:
then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all his love.
3
We thank you, then, our Father, for all things bright and good;
the seed-time and the harvest, our life, our health, our food:
accept the gifts we offer for all your love imparts,
and that which you most welcome our humble, thankful hearts!
Refrain
All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above:
then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all his love.
We Are One
1
Sister, let me wipe your tears, brother, let me bear your fears;
come on, every daughter, every son, let us walk in love, for we are one.
2
Though we walk a long and broken road, we are here to bear each other's load,
and forgive as you've forgiven us; let us walk in love, for we are one.
Refrain
We are one in the Father's love, we of every tribe and every tongue;
we are found in the risen Son, we are bound together by his blood;
let us walk in love, for we are one.
3
There's a love that conquers all divides, there's a love that paid the greatest price;
for the battle over death is won, now alive in Christ we live as one.
4
On the day you come to call us home, with the multitude before the throne,
now with all the saints who've overcome, for eternity we'll sing as one.
you are always welcome here!
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