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
November
1st, 2015-All Saints Day
*
please stand as able
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 Come Build a
Church
Come build a church with soul and
spirit,
come build a church of flesh and bone.
We need no tower rising skyward;
no house of wood or glass or stone.
Come build a church with human frailty,
come build a church of flesh and blood.
Jesus shall be its sure foundation.
It shall be built by the hand of God.
Words
and music: Ken Medema Copyright © Ken Medema Music/Brier Patch Music
(ASCAP) 1995.
Used
by permission.
Call to Worship
One: Listen, O people, God is one: and
you shall love your God with all your heart, and soul, and mind, and
strength.
All: We have come to worship God!
One: Listen, O people, the second
commandment is like the first: you should love your neighbour as you
love yourself.
All: We have come to worship God!
One: Loving God, our neighbour, and
ourselves is more important than anything else.
All: We have come to worship God!
Opening Prayer
We give you thanks loving God, for
your presence in our lives wherever we go and for people in our
community who bear your presence to us. In turning us toward you, O
God, turn us toward one another. Amen.
*Hymn Help Us Accept Each
Other Printed
Prayer for Wholeness
Response: One: …forgive us. All:
Forgive us, loving God.
Assurance of Love
… So know that, whoever you are, and
wherever you find yourself, God loves you and is with you always.
All: Thanks be to God! Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Ruth 1:1–18 Ruth chooses to go with Naomi.
One: This is the
witness of the Hebrew people. All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm 146 I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve
breath. VU868
*Hymn O
for a Thousand Tongues to Sing VU325
The Gospel Acclamation
Mark 12:28–34
Story-The Most Important Rules
Opening the Word & Rhythmic
Chant
Love…Love
the Lord your God
with all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your mind
and with all your strength.
Love your neighbour as
yourself…Love.
The Lord's Prayer
Opening the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
*Hymn We Are Pilgrims VU595
Minute for Mission & Offering
Our Gifts to God
*Offering Prayer
With these gifts, O God, we express
a small portion of our love for you, and for our neighbours. Take
what we offer and use it to help fill the world to overflowing with
your abundant goodness. Amen.
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Concern
One: Loving God, on this All Saints Day
we are mindful of all those everyday, ordinary people who have chosen
to live their lives a little differently, to set aside their agenda
and ego and to find ways to serve you through their lives. We think
today of all those who have been examples of what it means to love
you and to love one another:
All: for those like Ruth and Naomi
who modelled a loving relationship regardless of the risks and the
costs, and for others who risk everything, in order to love others.
One: We honour those who recognize that
all our rules and laws can be summed in the simple commandments to
love you, O God, and to love one another, and to love ourselves.
All: We pray that we might be guided
each day to do the same.
One: You, O God,
are the one who made heaven and earth,
All: and we pray for all those who
care for the earth.
One: You, O God, keep your promises
forever,
All: and we pray for those who help
keep faith alive in the midst of struggle.
One: You, O God, seek justice for the
oppressed, and food for the hungry,
All: and we pray for those who take
risks to fight to end injustice and poverty.
One: You, O God, set prisoners free,
open the eyes of the blind, and lift up those who are bowed down,
All: and we pray for those who do
all they can to enhance the lives of others.
One: You, O God, love the righteous,
care for the stranger, and sustain the orphan and the widow,
All: and we pray for those who call
us to be forever mindful of the ones that the world so easily
forgets.
One: For all your saints, O God, and
for all people, everywhere, who seek to do your will, we pray that
your presence may be felt, realized, experienced, and shared.
Amen.
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
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Hymn For
All the Saints VU705
* Commissioning
and Blessing
*Choral Amen
