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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
May
19th, 2013
Pentecost Sunday
Pentecost
plays with fire. Its essential message is that Christian community, and all
creation itself, relies for life on the sending of God’s Spirit. As such,
Pentecost reminds us, individually and corporately, of God’s extraordinary and
powerful freedom. Such freedom accounts for details of “every nation” and “all
of them were filled” and “everyone who calls on the name.” That is, the freedom
in God’s sending of Spirit bursts across the usual boundaries. Copyright © Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
2012
Seasons of the Spirit™ SeasonsFUSION Lent • Easter 2013 ,
p. 195
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 Spirit Come
(Chorus)
Spirit come, Spirit come.
Open our eyes, open our hearts,
come Spirit come.
Call to Worship: Pentecost Procession of the Fire
* Hymn Spirit
Come Printed
Opening Prayer A prayer in multiple
voices depicting a
growing community and the effect of the Spirit ever expanding.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Sung Refrain before the reading: Spirit
Come
Acts 2:1–21 The Spirit comes on the Day of
Pentecost.
Sung Refrain after the reading: Spirit Come
Psalm 104 God and Wisdom create the
Earth’s creatures. Pt. 2VU 827
* Hymn Spirit of the Living God VU 376
Opening the Word/Children's Time & The Lord’s Prayer
Affirmation
One: Holy
Spirit:
luscious
and abundant energy of heaven,
enlivening
dry bones to dance
a new
dance of vibrant conspiracy –
God’s own
dance of resurrection.
All: As flame
she clears the wasteland
as water
she runs in the earth
as wind
she blows through the desert.
The Spirit
makes a new day.
One: Holy
Spirit:
disturber
of the world
and
catalyst of change,
filling us
with the energy of heaven
and a call
to renew the world,
with songs
of justice and words of peace –
God’s own
word, of resurrection.
All: With
flame the Holy Spirit lights a passion
with water
she soaks our birth
with wind
she blows a new order.
The Spirit
makes a new day.
One: Holy
Spirit:
shaper of
the future,
interrupting
our now;
burning
through all that is corrupt,
with a
revelation of justice;
filling
the old and young with new vision and dreams –
God’s own
dream, of resurrection.
All: With
flame she burns a candle
with water
she quenches our thirst
with wind
she shakes through our dryness.
The Spirit makes a
new day.
Sung Refrain before the reading: Spirit Come
John 14:8–17, (25–27) God will send you the Spirit of truth.
Sung Refrain after the reading: Spirit Come
Building Rainbows-A Meditation
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn Breathe on Me, Breath of God VU 382
Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
* Offering Prayer
Ever
present God, these offerings are an act of faith.
In the
world we live in, money has great power.
It has power to make wonderful things possible.
It also has the power to constrain us, to worry us.
In this
place of worship, on this Pentecost Sunday,
may the
Spirit bless these offerings with great power for good.
And may the givers be blessed with freedom and peace,
knowing that the use of this money glorifies you, God,
and betters this world. In Jesus’ name we prayer. Amen.
Written by Elaine Bidgood Sweet, Port Perry
U.C.
& Prince Albert U.C., Port Perry,
Ont.
Gathering, Lent/Easter/Pentecost 2008, page
45. Used with permission
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn Because He Lives Printed
* Commissioning and Benediction
May the
Spirit always dance in your souls.
May the
Spirit journey with you so nothing is ever taken for granted,
and may
the Spirit tell you in a million different ways
you are
known and held and loved by God.
