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St Columba, Port Hardy - Sunday Worship June 28 2020
Rev. Alastair Hunting
Rev. Alastair Hunting
Sunday, June 28, 2020
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ST. COLUMBA ANGLICAN-UNITED CHURCH

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. ~1 Peter 2.9

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgment

God’s People Gather...

Call to Worship

Sing praises to God, you faithful, give thanks to God's holy name!
Weeping may linger for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
God turns our weeping to dancing and clothes us in gladness.
May we praise God and not be silent! Thanks to you O God, forever! Amen

Hymn: MV 8 And on This Path

And on this path, the gates of holiness are open wide,
and on this path, the gates of holiness are open wide,
and on this path, the gates of holiness are open wide!
Open wide! Open wide! Open wide! The gates are open wide!

So enter in the gates of holiness are open wide,
so enter in the gates of holiness are open wide,
so enter in the gates of holiness are open wide!
Open wide! Open wide! Open wide! The gates are open wide!

Words Lynn Bauman copyright © 2000 Lynn Bauman, from Ancient Songs Sung Anew: the Psalms as Poetry. Music Linnea Good copyright © 2003 Borealis Music. All rights reserved.    

Prayer of Approach

Children’s Time

Song: “Alabaré a Mi Señor” (I Will Praise My Lord)

Chorus:
Alabaré, alabaré, alabaré, alabaré 
Alabaré a mi Señor 
Alabaré, alabaré, alabaré, alabaré 
Alabaré a mi Señor.  

Juan vio el numero de los redimientos 
Y todos alababan al señor 
Unos cantaban otros oraban 
Y todos alababan al senor  

Words and music © 1979, Manuel José Alonso and José Pagán. Exclusive agent: OCP.  

To Hear God's Word

Psalm: 13

The Gospel: Matthew 10:40-42

Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
Thanks be to God.

Sermon: How Long?

To Respond in Prayer and Action...  

A New Creed
We are not alone, we live in God’s world.

We believe in God: who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God's presence, to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God

Prayer of Confession

Gracious God, as people called to be your presence in the world, we search our hearts, and ask your forgiveness:

For opportunities not taken, for care not given,
forgive us we pray
For sorrow not shared, for joy not celebrated,
forgive us we pray
For love not offered, forgiveness not extended,
forgive us we pray
For those failings we cannot speak aloud,
forgive us we pray
Gracious God we seek your healing grace, and ask forgiveness in the name of Jesus.
Amen

(Silence follows)

Words of Assurance

The Peace

The peace of Christ be with you all.
And also with you.

The Offering
Hymn: VU 562 Jesus Calls Us

Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult
of our life's wild restless sea,
day by day his clear voice sounding,
saying, "Christian, follow me."

Long ago apostles heard it
by the Galilean lake,
turned from home and toil and kindred,
leaving all for Jesus' sake.

Jesus calls us from the worship
of the vain world's golden store,
from each idol that would keep us,
saying, "Christian, love me more."

In our joys and in our sorrows,
days of toil and hours of ease,
till he calls, in cares and pleasures,
"Christian, love me more than these."

Jesus calls us: by your mercies,
Saviour, may we hear your call,
give our hearts to your obedience,
serve and love you best of all.

Words: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1852, altered. Music: William Herbert Jude, 1874 Copyright © Public Domain.

VU 542
We give you but your own,
whate’er the gifts may be;
all that we have is yours alone,
we give it gratefully.

Offertory Prayer

Prayers of the People 

In our Shared Ministry Church Cycles of prayer, we pray for…

The church
The authorities
The World
The Local Community / Those in need
The departed and those who grieve

Let us pray together now for the universal church and the world.

Christ our hope at this critical time lead us into facing our denial. As the church, as a culture wake us up to an awareness of the responsibility and opportunities we now have.

We honour the wisdom gained by centuries of spiritual and artistic endeavour through the experience of our mystics and the lives and deaths of all our saints.

We pray for an open church that celebrates the coming together of all faith and wisdom traditions, the sciences and the arts.

We pray for a new time of hope, mystery and promise as we bring all these riches to bear on our global crisis.

God the Mother and Father of all creation we pray that a new way of living emerges out of the present reductionist system that’s robbed the world of its spirit and turned human beings into objects and nature into a machine.

We pray for a culture that allows us to live in harmony with all creation and stops crippling the earth’s diversity. We pray that your Spirit of passionate life that raised Christ from the dead bursts now into all people in our earth community.

Creator God we pray that we will wake up to a new consciousness.  

(from The Planetary Mass by the Nine O Clock Service)        

Columba on Iona  

~by Anne Corkett

(From “Christian Poetry in Canada” p. 208-209)

Antarctica 

~by Carole Forman

(From “Earth Prayers from Around the World,” p. 81)

Lord’s Prayer  

Collect

Hymn: Precious Memories

Precious memories, unseen angels
Sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger, ever near me
And the sacred past unfolds.

Precious memories how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness, of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold

Precious father, loving mother
Fly across the lonely years
And old home scenes of my childhood
In fond memory appears

Precious memories how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness, of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold.

Words and music J. B. F. Wright, 1925 Copyright © Public Domain.

Benediction

Threefold Amen    

Announcements:

Reprinted and podcast (video recording) with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-720359. All rights reserved.

-Bible Study Tuesday at 5 PM on Zoom (contact Rev. Alastair if you’d like to join)

-Loaves and Fishes Wed July 1st, 1-2pm (church parking lot)   ­­

Gila’kasla…May God bless you and your loved ones through this time when we can’t physically gather. May you know that you are not alone. May you know the presence of Christ and that the church family is here for you.