Liturgical color - WhiteIntroit - Sing A New Song printed
During the Season after Epiphany and Lent we are reading a section of the most recent United Church affirmation of faith, A Song of Faith, as a part of worship. You are encouraged to reflect on this document as congregations and presbyteries prepare to respond to Remits 6.
Responsive Reading from A Song of Faith:
Sung Response: Refrain of “Sing a New Song”
We find God made known in Jesus of Nazareth,
and so we sing of God the Christ, the Holy One embodied.
We sing of Jesus,
a Jew,
born to a woman in poverty
in a time of social upheaval
and political oppression.
He knew human joy and sorrow.
So filled with the Holy Spirit was he
that in him people experienced the presence of God among them.
We sing praise to God incarnate.
Jesus announced the coming of God’s reign—
a commonwealth not of domination
but of peace, justice, and reconciliation.
He healed the sick and fed the hungry.
He forgave sins and freed those held captive
by all manner of demonic powers.
He crossed barriers of race, class, culture, and gender.
He preached and practised unconditional love—
love of God, love of neighbour,
love of friend, love of enemy—
and he commanded his followers to love one another
as he had loved them.
Sung Response: Refrain of “Sing a New Song”
Hymns
1. Joyful, Joyful - 232
2. Holy Spirit Hear Us - 377
3. Holy Ground (printed)
4. Come And Find the Quiet Centre - 374
Psalm 50 The heavens proclaim your justice - 775
Offering Prayer/Song Grant Us, God, the Grace - 540
