Whew...what a week!
Below you will find the liturgy for the 9:00 service at Travis Park UMC for the week of October 22nd. (I'm really excited because our violist and cellist (the amazing Emily Watkins and Ken Freudigman from Camerata San Antonio and the San Antonio Symphony) are going to be performing the music of Astor Piazzolla: who was amazing! Tango Sunday!!!!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Milonga en Re Astor Piazzolla
Lana Cartlidge Potts, piano; Ken Freudigman, cello
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Make a joyful noise to Yahweh.
Worship God with gladness and singing.
Know that Yahweh is God and we are God’s people.
Give thanks to God and bless God’s holy name.
For God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Adapted from Psalm 100 by Alison Boone
OPENING HYMN* No. 352 It’s Me, It’s Me, O Lord All
PRAYER of CONFESSION
O God of all that is, we live in a binary, technological world where we are taught to think in terms of yes/no, on/off, black/white, right/wrong. We have come to believe that every question has an answer, and only one answer, if we only research or experiment or think enough. We have even tried to place you, O God, in tidy files and neat categories.
O Divine One, remind us that your ways are not our ways. Remind us that you are more ready to hear than we are to speak. Remind us that you stand ready to do for us more than we dare ask or imagine. Remind us that we are understood even when all we can pray are sighs too deep for words. Amen.
--Alison Boone
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Luke 18:1-8 Rev. Karen Vannoy
A Witness to Transformation Carlos Guadarrama & Phil Watkins
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Be Known to Us
Text: James Montgomery; Music: Austin Lovelace
Sanctuary Choir
Be known to us in breaking bread,
be known to us, but do not then depart.
Savior, abide with us,
And spread Thy table in our heart, our heart.
There sup with us in love divine,
Thy body and Thy blood,
that living bread, that heav’nly wine
be our immortal food.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Lana Cartlidge Potts
PRAYER AFTER RECEIVING
Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery in which you have given yourself to us. Grant that we may go into the world in the strength of your Spirit, to give ourselves for others. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
--From The United Methodist Hymnal
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 451 Be Thou My Vision All
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: La Calle 92 Astor Piazzolla Emily Watkins, viola; Ken Freudigman, cello
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