The
Congregations of St. Mark’s and St. David’s
United
Church of Canada
Port Hawkesbury/Port Hastings, NS
Office: 625-2229, Fax 625-3597, e-mail: stmarks1@eastlink.ca
Blog:
http://ourcontactonline.blogspot.com/
Ministers: Whole People of God
Minister: Nan Corrigan D. M. Music Director: Al Fougere
February 24th, 2013
2nd Sunday of Lent
When
the disciples arrive at the tomb, an angelic messenger –
symbolizing the future – tells them that they’ll have to look
somewhere other than the tomb if they want to find Jesus. He has gone
ahead of them to Galilee (Matthew 28:10)….
Followers of the Christ are always on the way to Galilee, drawn by
the promise of a coming order that may shatter, confirm, or
reorganize the existing order of our lives. This is what gives us
hope when our personal and planetary lives are falling apart. This is
how we evolve. It matters more now than at any other time on our
planet that we take hold of this future that is holding us – that
we consent to be apprehended by this hope, and we each find our
unique way of saying yes in God’s promise that God has gone ahead
of us, and yet is always coming to meet us.
~From
The
Advance of Love,
by Bruce Sanguin, “God
as Future,”
(p.112)
Announcements The Work of
Church and Community
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Greeting
One: The
peace of Christ be with you. All: And with your spirit.
*Introit
Tune: O WALY WALY/GIFT
OF LOVE (VU372)
Let us
press on to know the Lord;
as sure as
dawn God will appear.
Like
gentle show’rs, to us God comes;
as rains
of spring water the earth. (based on Hosea 6:3)
Written by John Moses, Trinity U.C., Charlottetown,
P.E.I.
Gathering, Lent/Easter 2013, page 9. Used with
permission.
* Call
to Worship
One: When
our hearts are troubled,
let us
draw near to a mothering Spirit
All:
who shelters us with love
and
protects us from hardships that threaten to consume.
Child:
Come, let us worship God. (hands forward, then up)
One: When
others disappoint and leave us,
let us
turn to a fathering Spirit
All:
who takes up the cause of those who suffer
and
defends the sorrowing with strong love.
Child:
Come, let us worship God.
One: As we
enter this shelter of love,
let us
take heart in a nurturing God
All:
who feeds us with the bread of grace
and
calls us by name to come and worship.
Child: Come, let us worship God.
Amen.
*Prayer of
Approach
*Hymn The
Church Is Wherever God’s People VU
579
Prayer
of Confession (back of bulletin)
God
Accepts Us—A Lenten Candle Liturgy Sung Response
Take, O take me as I am.
Summon out what I shall be.
Set your seal upon my heart and live in me.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
One:
This is the witness
of the Hebrew people. All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm
27 A Paraphrase in Two Voices from
The Message
Refrain: God is my light and
saving health, I shall not be afraid.
* Hymn I’m Gonna Live So
God Can Use Me VU 575
Opening the Word/Children's Time &
The Lord’s Prayer
The Gospel Acclamation:
Praise to you O Lord, King of
eternal glory.
Luke
13:31–35 Jesus cries over Jerusalem as a hen over her chicks.
One:
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. All:
Thanks be to God.
Reflection
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn O Day of Peace VU 682
Minute
for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
*
Offering Prayer
Gracious God, accept the gifts we bring and bless our service in
your name. May our voices sing your praise, our hands care for the
suffering, our feet walk your paths faithfully, our hearts love you
completely. All that we have is a gift from you.
We offer it in return out of love for the world. Amen.
* The Apostles' Creed & A New Creed
VU 918
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
One:
God of grace All: hear our prayer.
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn Great
Is Thy Faithfulness VU 288
*
Commissioning and Benediction
Sheltering God, remind us of your constant love.
Sheltering God, protect us from all that can hurt or harm.
Sheltering God, be with us in this Lenten journey
and make us instruments of your constant love.
*
Choral Amen
