Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Fourth Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Emily Watkins, viola
"I'll Bid My Heart Be Still" Rebecca Clarke
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: In your wisdom, O God, you call us here to worship you.
People: We gather, alive to the Word of God.
Leader: You call us to be fully alive with your life abundant, ready to listen and respond with
heart, soul, strength, and mind.
People: We listen, alive to the Word of God.
Leader: You call us to be always watchful for your Word of wisdom, sometimes startling and
unexpected, sometimes still and quiet, but always dwelling among us.
People:: We watch and wait for the Word of God.
--Reformed Worship
OPENING HYMN* No. 2008 Let All Things Now Living ALL
CALL TO CONFESSION
O God, make me discontented with things the way they are in the world,
and in my own life. Make me notice the stains when people get spilled on.
Make me care about the slum child downtown, the misfit at work, the people crammed into the mental hospital, the men, women and youth behind bars.
Jar my complacence, expose my excuses, get me involved in the life of my city and world. Give me integrity once more, O God, as we seek to be changed and transformed, with a new understanding and awareness of our common humanity.
-- adapted from Robert Raines
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “Parties for Prodigals” Luke 15 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Agnus Dei
Words: English text from the Burial Service, 1662 Book of Common Prayer; Latin text, Missa pro defunctis
Music: John Rutter
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist; Jackie Shepherd, conductor
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world.
dona eis requiem. grant them rest.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succor?
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(See insert)
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: Emily Watkins, viola
"Londonderry Air" trad. Arr. By Lionel Tertis
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 384 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Lana Cartlidge Potts
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