Order of
Service
11th May
2003
Mother's Day Communion Service
Remembrance of Josephine
Costarella Safay
Easter 4
(Third Sunday after Easter)
We invite you to maintain a spirit of silence as
the prelude begins our service.
OUR
APPROACH TO GOD
Prelude "Prelude"
Introit "Isaiah 6:3" M. Lathbury
Welcome
Call to Worship:
The Magnificant
My soul magnifies the Lord!
AND MY SPIRIT REJOICES IN GOD MY
SAVIOR!...
God's mercy is for those who fear God from generation to generation.
GOD HAS HELPED THIS SERVANT
ISRAEL, IN REMEMBRANCE OF GOD'S MERCY ACCORDING TO THE PROMISES GOD
MADE
TO OUR ANCESTORS, TO ABRAHAM AND TO HIS DESCENDANTS FOREVER!
*Hymn: "Faith of Our Mothers"
Let us be before our God in silence.
Unison Prayer: Prayer of Judith
O GOD, MY GOD, HEAR ME, A
WIDOW...FOR YOUR STRENGTH DOES NOT DEPEND ON NUMBERS, NOR YOUR MIGHT ON
THE POWERFUL. BUT YOU ARE THE GOD OF THE LOWLY, HELPER OF THE
OPPRESSED,
UPHOLDER OF THE WEAK, PROTECTOR OF THE FORSAKEN, SAVIOUR OF THOSE
WITHOUT HOPE. PLEASE, PLEASE, GOD OF MY ANCESTORS, LORD OF HEAVEN AND
EARTH, CREATOR OF THE WATERS, RULER OF ALL CREATION, HEAR MY
PRAYER...LET YOUR WHOLE NATION AND EVERY TRIBE KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THAT
YOU ARE GOD, THE GOD OF ALL POWER AND MIGHT, AND THAT THERE IS NO OTHER
WHO PROTECTS PEOPLE BUT YOU ALONE!
LORD, HAVE MERCY ON US.
CHRIST, HAVE MERCY ON US.
LORD, HAVE MERCY ON US.
A Word of Assurance Isaiah
66: 10-13
The Summary of the Law (Mk 12: 29-31)
This is the first commandment:
HEAR O ISRAEL,
THE LORD OUR GOD,
THE LORD IS ONE!
THEREFORE
YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL,
WITH ALL YOUR MIND,
AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.
This is the second commandment:
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
There is no greater commandment than these.
Anthem "She Will Be Called Blessed" E. de Gravelle
THE WORD OF
GOD
*Responsive Reading: Mother's Day Proclamation
*Gloria Patri (Hymn No. 623)
GLORY BE TO THE FATHER
AND TO THE SON
AND TO THE HOLY GHOST.
AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING,
IS NOW AND EVER SHALL BE,
WORLD WITHOUT END,
AMEN, AMEN!
The Greeting of Peace
Announcements
*Hymn "We Will Sing a Song of Women"
Scripture Lessons:
Jewish Scriptures: Proverbs
31: 10-31
Epistle: Revelation
12: 1-6
Alleluia! ALLELUIA!
Gospel: Luke
1: 26-38
Communion Meditation
OUR
RESPONSE TO GOD
*The Offering
Doxology (625) and Prayer
PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW;
PRAISE GOD ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW;
PRAISE GOD ABOVE YE HEAVENLY HOSTS;
PRAISE FATHER (CREATOR), SON (CHRIST) AND HOLY GHOST.
The
Invitation to the Table
The Breaking of the Bread
The Great Thanksgiving & the Lord’s Prayer
*Hymn 556 "Now Thank We All Our God"
*Benediction
*Choral Response
Postlude "March" W. Hill
*Please stand if you are able.
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