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October 6, 2024
Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
We Come Together as God’s People
Prelude Prelude on St. Columba Harold Friedell
Dr. John Allegar, organ (1905-1958)
Welcome Rev. Christopher A. Henry
Choral Call to Worship Haleluya! Pelo tsa rona South African
Children’s Choirs, Sanctuary Choir, Percussion
Haleluya! Pelo tsa rona, di thabile kaofela.
[Hallelujah! We sing your praises; all our hearts are filled with gladness.]
Christ the Lord to us said: I am wine, I am bread.
I am wine, I am bread: give to all who thirst and hunger.
Text: Sotho/trans. Gracia Grindal (1984)
* Call to Worship Rev. Hannah G. Ostlund
One: All who hunger, gather around.
All: There is bread here, for empty bellies.
There is compassion here, for broken hearts.
One: There is grace here, for shattered lives.
There is family here, for lonely souls.
All: There is hope here, for dreams denied.
There is peace here, for all who need it.
One: All who hunger, gather around and lift your hearts to God.
All: Taste and see that the Lord is good.
One: People of God, welcome home!
* Prayer of Adoration
* Processional Hymn #470 O Day of Radiant Gladness ES KLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN
Invitation to Confession
Sung Prayer of Confession Ngothando Mbuso Ndlovu
Children’s Choirs and Sanctuary Choir (b. 1982)
Ngothando kuphela, Through love, only,
Sonqoba konke, We will conquer everything,
Izimo zonke, All situations,
Azinakusigwinya. Cannot swallow (devour) us.
Text: Sung in IsiZulu, a language spoken by the Zulu people who primarily inhabit
the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
Silent Prayer
Assurance of God’s Grace
* Response of Praise LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.
Praise God, all creatures here below.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God above, ye heavenly host.
Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
* Passing the Peace of Christ
* Hymn #515 Now to Your Table Spread LOVE UNKNOWN
We Experience God’s Word
The Word with Children
Prayer for Illumination Alicia Buckley
First Scripture Lesson Psalm 23 (p. 491)
One: The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
All: He makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;
One: he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake.
All: Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil;
for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me.
One: You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
All: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long. Sing Refrain.
Second Scripture Lesson 1 Corinthians 11:20-26 (p. 1045)
Sermon Rev. Christopher A. Henry
Table Manners
“For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus
on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,
‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’”
(1 Corinthians 11:23-24)
Moment of Silent Meditation
We Give Thanks to God
Sacrament of Holy Communion
Invitation to the Lord’s Table
Great Prayer of Thanksgiving
One: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord.
All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Sanctus Sanctus (from Mass in G) Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
Breaking of the Bread
Communion of the People
Ushers will extend an invitation to receive communion by pew.
Please come forward using the aisle to your right.
If you prefer not to take communion by intinction,
there is an Elder near the center with a tray of individually packaged elements.
All bread at all stations is gluten free.
Communion Anthem Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether Harold Friedell
(1905-1958)
Draw us in the Spirit’s tether; For when humbly, in thy name,
Two or three are met together, Thou art in the midst of them:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Touch we now thy garment’s hem.
As the brethren used to gather In the name of Christ to sup,
Then with thanks to God the Father Break the bread and bless the cup,
Alleluia! Alleluia! So knit thou our friendship up.
All our meals and all our living Make as sacraments of thee,
That by caring, helping, giving, We may true disciples be.
Alleluia! Alleluia! We will serve thee faithfully.
Text: Percy Dearmer
Prayer after the Meal
Invitation to Discipleship and Generosity
Offertory Sicut Novellae Olivarum Kevin Allen
Caitlin Stewart, Kristin Shaffer, and Caleb Crawford, soloists
Sicut novellae olivarum Eccelesiae Like new olive plants to the Church
Filii sint in circuitu mensae Domini. Are children around the table of the Lord.
Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum, Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
Qui ambulant in viis eius. Those who walk in God’s ways.
Filii tui sicut novellae olivarum Your children are like young olive trees
In circuitu mensae tuae. Around your table.
Et videas filios filiorum tuorum, And you shall see the children of your children,
Pacem super Israel. Peace upon Israel.
We Go Forth to Serve
* Closing Hymn Haleluya! Pelo tsa rona South African
* Charge and Benediction
* Choral Benediction Amen, Amen South African
arr. Michael Barrett (b. 1983)
Postlude March on ‘Siyahamba’ Rebecca Groom te Velde
(b. 1956)