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
Presbytery Website:
inverguyunited.ca
Ministers: The Whole
People of God
Minister: Nan
Corrigan D. M.
Minister of Music:
Al Fougere
October
25th
2015-22nd
Sunday after Pentecost
Thoughts
around which to gather as we worship:
Bartimaeus throws
off his beggar’s cloak and immediately follows Jesus “on the
way.”
What do you need
to throw aside in order to follow with eyes of faith wide open?
Copyright
© Wood Lake Publishing Inc. 2014 Seasons
of the Spirit™ SeasonsFUSION
Season of Creation • Pentecost 2 2015, p. 117
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:
Blind Bartimaeus sat by the roadside and cried out:
All:
Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.
One:
Others sit by life’s roadsides today, crying out:
All:
Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.
One:
Even though voices try to silence them, still they cry:
All:
Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.
One:
When other voices put us down, still we will cry:
All:
Jesus, oh Jesus, have mercy on me.
One:
Come, let us worship God!
Opening
Prayer Blind
Bart’s Leap
Open our eyes, O Holy Wisdom,
to what we cannot see,
despite our looking.
Open our eyes, O Holy Wisdom,
to what we cannot see,
despite our looking.
Open
our eyes, Source of All Truth,
to what we refuse to see,
despite our need.
to what we refuse to see,
despite our need.
Open
our eyes, Sacred Coincidence,
to the opportunities that pass right before us,
despite our protests of bad luck.
to the opportunities that pass right before us,
despite our protests of bad luck.
Open
our eyes, Alluring Love,
to the future you call us to create,
despite our disbelief.
to the future you call us to create,
despite our disbelief.
Show
us the way,
that we might shed our sightless selves
like an old cloak
and leap, with blind Bartimaeus,
at the Christ’s invitation
to restore our vision. Amen. ~ If Darwin Prayed, by Bruce Sanguin
that we might shed our sightless selves
like an old cloak
and leap, with blind Bartimaeus,
at the Christ’s invitation
to restore our vision. Amen. ~ If Darwin Prayed, by Bruce Sanguin
*
Hymn Come,
Let Us Sing VU
222
Prayer for
Wholeness
Response: One:
Jesus, Friend and Saviour
All: have mercy on us.
Assurance of Love
…when
we cry out to God – in praise, in confession, in anger, in wonder –
God hears us. And God responds to us. And God loves us.
All:
Thanks be to God! Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Job
42:1–6,
10–17
Job
acknowledges God’s power; Job’s fortunes are restored.
One: This is
the witness of the Hebrew people. All:
Thanks
be to God.
Psalm
34:1–8 Taste
and see that God is good. VU761
*Hymn In
the Bulb, There Is a Flower VU703
Opening the
Word/The Lord's Prayer
The Gospel
Acclamation
Mark
10:46–52
The
healing of blind Bartimaeus.
One: The
gospel of Jesus Christ. All:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Opening the Word
2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
*Hymn Amazing
Grace, How Sweet the Sound VU266
Blessing of
Prayer Shawls, Chemo Caps and Comfort Cushions
Minute for
Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Prayer
We know that you
hear us, Gracious God, and that in your love
you answer us.
You call people to freedom, to justice, and to
new life. Take
these gifts we offer; use them and us to further
your work in our
world, that we might do what we can to
encourage
freedom, and justice, and new life. Amen.
Prayers
of Thanksgiving and Concern
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
*
Hymn Will
Your Anchor Hold VU675
* Commissioning
and Blessing
One: Taste and see
the goodness of our God!
Go out to seek God.
Hold your head high,
and know that God
hears your cries
and is attuned to
all your needs.
Know that God will
be with you at every turning.
*Choral Amen
