Order of Worship – September 15, 2024
September 15, 2024, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Communion
Speaker: Dr. Afonso Issa
Liturgist: Robert Beeksma
10:15 - 11:30 AM at the Chapel
Favourite hymns and songs
Prelude: "Morning has broken"
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 - Responsive
(from Psalm 150)
Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary, praise him in his mighty heavens!
Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
Praise him with tambourine and dace; praise him with strings and pipe!
Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Song: "Psalm 150"
Prayer of Adoration
Prayer of Confession - Unison
We cast ourselves on your mercy, O God, confessing our betrayal of your love, our misguided responses to your love, and our futile attempts at running away from your love. Help us to trust when nothing seems trustworthy, to hope when everything seems hopeless; for it is in the name of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Saviour, that we come. Amen.
Assurance of God's Grace and Pardon
Passing of the Peace
Catechism for Today (from the Presbyterian Church in Canada)
Question 71. What does it mean that the church is the “body of Christ”?
It means that Christ indwells his church as its head, and that believers are “in Christ”. We belong to Christ and to one another. By baptism we are joined to Christ and in the Lord’s Supper we share in his body and blood. The church is his body even though it clearly has many flaws and failings.
Question 72. How is the church “the fellowship of the Holy Spirit”?
As the church is related to God and to Jesus Christ, it is also related to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit’s work is to create fellowship or community. Christian fellowship means oneness and solidarity: the strong have responsibility for the weak, the rich for the poor, the healthy for the ill, and the joyful for those who weep.
Hymn: "O holy Dove of God descending" Book of Praise #392
Prayer for understanding
Scripture reading: John 19: 23-30 (ESV)
Sermon: “Jesus gives us a new family”
Song: "Build my life"
Prayers of the People
The Communion
Invitation to the Table and Institution
Sursum corda
Great Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Lord’s Prayer
Breaking of the bread; blessing of the cup
Prayer
Doxology
Song: “We are marching”
Charge and Benediction
Three-fold Amen
Postlude: “I sing the mighty pow'r of God”