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”