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/
Minister: Nan Corrigan
D. M.
Minister of Music: Al
Fougere
January 19th, 2014-2nd
Sunday after Epiphany
Make a Joyful Noise
A thought around which to gather as we
worship:
Best
of any song
is bird
song
in the
quiet, but first
you must
have the quiet.
From
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997, ©Wendell Berry 1998
Counterpoint Berkeley
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 Responsive
reading from A
Song of Faith
Sung
Response: Teach
Me, God, to Wonder VU
299 v.1
Teach
me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see;
let
your world of beauty capture me.
Praise
to you be given, love for you be lived,
life
be celebrated, joy you give.
God
is Holy Mystery,
beyond
complete knowledge,
above
perfect description.
Yet,
in
love,
the
one eternal God seeks relationship.
So
God creates the universe
and
with it the possibility of being and relating.
God
tends the universe,
mending
the broken and reconciling the estranged.
God
enlivens the universe,
guiding
all things toward harmony with their Source.
Grateful
for God’s loving action,
we
cannot keep from singing.
Responsive
Reading excerpted from A Song of Faith:
A
Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada
Sung Response:
Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see;
Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see;
let
your world of beauty capture me.
Praise
to you be given, love for you be lived,
life
be celebrated, joy you give.
*Call to Worship
The winter scenes afford
wonder and awe:
silence in falling
snowflakes landing on our faces;
the glistening in the
moonlight;
a gift of diamonds on the
blanket of new-fallen snow;
the glitter of tree limbs
in the snappy cold--
all from our Maker, Lord
God,
giver of life and love.
What a beautiful
creation!
Awe, praise, and
worship,
awe, praise, and
worship,
Father, Mother, Creator
God.
Written
by Brenda Duckworth, Wasuaksing & Shawanaga First Nations
Churches, Parry Sound, Ont. Gathering,
Advent/Christmas/Epiphany 2013-2014,
page 41. Used with permission.
* Hymn This Day God Gives
Me VU 410
Opening Prayer
The peace of morning's
stillness
the peace of new
beginnings
the peace of heaven's
kiss
to welcome us to this
day
to root us in this day
to free us in this day
that we may grow with
the greening earth
that we may grow from
the ground of glory
that we may grow in
grateful wonder
of You
Gracious Giver of this
day
Great Giver of this
day. Amen.
Praying with
the Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace
© John
Philip Newell 2011, The Canterbury Press, p. 50
* Hymn Sing a New Song Printed
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
1
Chronicles 16:23-34 Sing to the
Lord all the earth
This
is the witness of the Hebrew people. All: Thanks
be to God.
Music
Expresses Our Faith—a Reading from A Song of Faith
“We
sing of God the Spirit..”
*Psalm 100 Make a Joyful Noise VU 820
Opening the Word & Lord’s
Prayer
Gospel Acclamation
Matthew 4:1-10 Worship
the Lord your God and serve God only
This
is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Music
Expresses Our Faith—a Reading from A
Song of Faith
“We
sing of a church seeking to continue the story of Jesus...”
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn Many Are the Lightbeams VU 588
Minute for Mission
Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering Prayer
(together)
Ever-present
God, with this offering we present ourselves:
all that we
have been, all that we are, all that we may become
and with it
our commitment to follow your way. Amen.
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
One: God, listen to your children praying...
Sung response: “Lord, listen to your children praying” VU 400
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
*
Hymn How Great Thou Art VU
238
* Commissioning and Benediction
(together)
Let us go from this place to continue
our worship in the world.
Let us go out with a Joyful Noise in
our hearts and on our lips.
Let us go out blessed and to be a
blessing to all whom we meet.
May the love of God, the grace of
Jesus, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with each of us, now
and always.
* Choral Amen
