Order of Worship – October 27, 2024
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October 27, 2024, 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Reformation Sunday
Speaker: Mr. Ian Rokeby
Worship Leader: Robert Beeksma; Liturgist: Dan Han
10:15 - 11:30 AM at the Chapel
Favourite hymns and songs
Prelude:
Welcome
Land Acknowledgement
We want to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples: Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations.
Call to Worship
Hymn: “A mighty fortress is our God” Book of Praise #315
Prayer of Adoration
Prayer of Confession - Unison
Holy and merciful God, in your presence we confess our sinfulness, our shortcomings, and our offenses against you. You alone know how often we have sinned in wandering from your ways, in wasting your gifts, in forgetting your love.
Have mercy on us, O Lord, for we are ashamed and sorry for all we have done to displease you. Forgive our sins, and help us to live in your light, and walk in your ways, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Amen
Assurance of God's Grace and Pardon
The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Passing of the Peace
Catechism for Today (from the Presbyterian Church in Canada)
Question 83: What is the Lord’s Supper?
The Lord’s Supper, Holy Communion, or the Eucharist is eating bread and drinking wine in remembrance of Christ’s body broken and his blood shed for us, in anticipation of his joyous return. The cup is a sharing in Christ’s blood and the bread a sharing in his body. The real presence of Christ does not come through some change in the bread and wine or through Christ being in or under the elements, but rather we are lifted up into the presence of Christ by faith in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Question 84: Who may participate in the Lord’s Supper?
All those who love the Lord Jesus and belong to any Christian church may participate. We come to the Lord’s table not because any individual goodness gives us a right to come, but because Christ welcomes us. He loved us, gave himself for us, and invites us to receive his body and blood to our spiritual nourishment and growth in grace. Baptized children may participate if they have their parent’s permission, the session’s approval, and have received instruction in the meaning of the Lord’s Supper.
Hymn: “From heaven you came helpless babe” Book of Praise #379
Prayer for understanding
Scripture readings:
Psalm 146 (NRSV)
Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!
I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.
When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God,
who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.
The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD!
Matthew 12:1-8 (NRSV)
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
Sermon: “Reformation Revisited”
Hymn: “Your hand, O God, has guided” Book of Praise #477
Offering
Doxology and Prayer
Prayers of the People
The Lord's Prayer
Hymn: “Lord, the light of your love is shining” Book of Praise #376
Charge and Benediction
Three-fold Amen
Postlude: Doxology