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: stmarksuc@gmail.com
Blog:
http://ourcontactonline.blogspot.com/
Presbytery Website:
inverguyunited.ca
Ministers:
The Whole People of God
Minister:
Nan Corrigan D. M.
Minister of
Music: Al Fougere
July
12, 2015-7th
after Pentecost
| You do not have to be good. |
| You do not have to walk on your knees |
| for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. |
| You only have to let the soft animal of your body |
| love what it loves. |
| Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. |
| Meanwhile the world goes on. |
| Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain |
| are moving across the landscapes, |
| over the prairies and the deep trees, |
| the mountains and the rivers. |
| Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, |
| are heading home again. |
| Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, |
| the world offers itself to your imagination, |
| calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - |
| over and over announcing your place |
| in the family of things.
from Dream
Work by
Mary Oliver
published
by Atlantic Monthly Press © Mary Oliver
|
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 O God We
Call x2, 2nd
time quietly VU 411
Call
to Worship
God
lavishes us with the rich blessings of grace,
God
gathers us into mystery and makes it known to us,
God
gathers us up with all things in heaven and on earth
and
makes us God’s own people.
Come let us worship the
God of grace, mystery and inclusion.
Opening Prayer
Loving God,
you gather us up as your beloved people, your
children. We are bound
together by your spirit, that we might
be a living reflection of your
glory and grace and love. Open
our hearts this day to strengthen our
resolve to accept the
challenges that come with this call. Bring us
clarity of mind so
we might better know and understand your
intent for us within
your good creation. Amen.
* Hymn We
Are One VU 402
Prayer for
Wholeness
After a period
of silence.
You gather us
into your loving embrace.
We do wrong
and act without consideration, but we do not have to live with
brokenness, nor do we need to bear the pain of great acts of
repentance, and spend our lives on bended knees. To be forgiven we
need only ask for forgiveness.
So we come
simply and humbly and ask that once again you extend your mercy and
love to us.
Words
of Affirmation
As God extends
blessing throughout all the earth and into the heavens,
so God extends grace to us all and
forgives us our wrongdoing. Let us be thankful and rejoice.
Amen.WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
2 Samuel 6:1-5,
12b-19 David brings the ark to
Jerusalem.
One: Herein is Wisdom.
All:
Thanks be to God.Psalm 24 The earth is God's and all that is in it. VU 751
*Hymn This Is God's Wondrous World VU 296
Opening the Word
The Lord's Prayer
Ephesians
1:3-14 Heirs
of God's promises.
One: Herein is Good News. All:
Praise be to God.
Opening the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn I Danced in the Morning VU
352
Minute for Mission & Offering
Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Song/Doxology For
the Gift of Creation VU 538Prayers of the People Prayer Fish for General Council
WE
GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn We Are Marching VU
646
* Commissioning/Sending Out
In Christ we are
transported into a new world where we see everything in a new light –
the light of love –
and we are transformed into a more just,
compassionate, and peaceful world. Let it be so.
*Choral Amen
