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
8th,
2015-Remembrance Sunday
Bold text is the
response of all the people.
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
*Legion Parade and Colour Party
*Presentation
of Colours
*O Canada
VU524
*Reading of the
Roll of Honour
*Last Post
*The Silence
*Reveille
*The Act of
Remembrance
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the
sun and in the morning
we will
remember them.
All: We will
remember them.
*Presentation
of Wreaths
*God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen
God save the Queen
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen
Greeting One Another
with the Peace of Christ
One: Jesus said,
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.”
John 16:33
All: We meet in the name of Christ
and share his peace.
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
God calls us to bring good news to the afflicted, to heal the
broken-
hearted, to announce release and freedom.
Jesus said, “Blessed
are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
We gather in the name of
the God of peace and justice.
Let us worship God.
Opening
Prayer
Loving God, on this
weekend before Remembrance Day we recognize the double-edged nature
of our remembering. We acknowledge and lament the ultimate evil of
war and our society's part in adding to the violence of our world.
Yet we remember, with
very real gratitude, those who have sacrificed their health and their
lives to resist evil. They struggled as best they could on behalf of
freedom and justice in the face of terrible tyranny.
Be with us, God, in our
remembering. Strengthen us all to resist evil.
Help us to work for
peace with the same commitment and self-sacrifice as those whom we
honour in this week of Remembrance. Amen.
* Hymn Make
Me a Channel of Your Peace VU
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Prayer for
Wholeness
Response:
One: Forgive us O God...All:
...and give us your peace.
Assurance
of Love
Hear the vision of the
prophets: “and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift
up sword against nation,
neither shall they
learn war anymore.”
Trust the God who longs
for peace.
We are forgiven,
strengthened, empowered
to be
peacemakers in our world. Thanks be to God. Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Ruth
3:1–5; 4:13–17 Ruth marries Boaz;
restores the family line.
Psalm
127 Unless
God builds the house. VU851
*Hymn Seek
Ye First the Kingdom VU356
Opening the Word &
the Lord's Prayer
The Gospel Acclamation
Mark
12:38-44 The widow offers two small,
copper coins.
Opening the Word 2
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
Offering of Music In
Flanders Fields Choir
Minute for Mission & Offering
Our Gifts to God
*Offering
Prayer
May these
gifts be multiplied as we conceive of God’s abundant love and give
birth to the ways
of peace, love and justice in our
world. Amen.
Prayers
of Thanksgiving and Concern
Response:
God, be in our hearts and understanding
All:
as we bring our memories into the light of your love.
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn Let
there be peace on earth Printed
Commissioning and Blessing
One: Let us go in peace to love and
serve God.
All: We rejoice in the power of the
Spirit,
and go to serve God with heart,
soul, mind, and strength.
One: Let us go knowing that the
blessing of God,
Creator,
Christ and Spirit, is with us this day and always.
*Choral Amen
