Service of the Word, Wednesday, 25th August 2021- St Augustine of Hippo
Welcome to our Harvest Page of pictures, bible passages, poems, hymns
and prayers we'd like to share with you
Thank you to everyone who contributed.
First the blade and then the ear
Then the full corn shall appear
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be
for the Lord your God will bring you into a good land - a land with wheat and barley
Deuteronomy 8:7
TO AUTUMN (excerpt)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
John Keats 1820
We thank thee, then, O Father
for all things bright and good
the seed-time and the harvest,
our life, our health, our food
Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.
Exodus 23:16
For the fruits of His creation
Thanks be to God
For the barley and wheat that we cut from the field
for the long runner-beans our allotments do yield
for apples and pears and all sorts of fruits
for carrots and swedes and long parsnip roots
for hay from the meadow for fodder and silage
for 'local is better' and 'cut down the mileage'
for food in our bellies with extra to share
for churches and people to lift up our prayer
Dear Lord of the Harvest, we thank you
Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation
through your goodness we have
this bread to set before you,
which earth has given
and human hands have made
