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Sunday services are conducted by a First and Second Reader and include music, hymns, prayer, and readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader
Subject: UNREALITY
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Adagio e dolce (from Sonata No. 3 in D minor) BWV 527/2 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Communion by Charles Callahan
Hymn 181
Rosemary B. Hackett, words
Arr. from L. van Beethoven, music
Loving Father, we Thy children
Look to Thee in fear’s dark night
While the angels of Thy presence
Guide us upward to the light.
Then we feel the power that lifts us
To Thy holy secret place,
Where our gloom is lost in glory
As we see Thee face to face.
We would learn, O gracious Father,
To reflect Thy healing love.
May we all awake to praise Thee
For Thy good gifts from above.
Make us strong to bear the message
To Thy children far and near:
Fear shall have no more dominion.
God is All, and heaven is here.
Scriptural Selection
Isa. 57:15 thus; 58:6, 8–12; 60:3, 4 (to 1st :)
Prayer
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)
Hymn 103
Florence L. Heywood, words
Darmstadt Gesangbuch, 1698, music
Hear our prayer, O gracious Father,
Author of celestial good,
That Thy laws so pure and holy
May be better understood.
Armed with faith, may we press onward,
Knowing nothing but Thy will;
Conquering every storm of error
With the sweet words: Peace, be still.
Like the star of Bethlehem shining,
Love will guide us all the way,
From the depths of error’s darkness
Into Truth’s eternal day.
Notices
Solo
Anna Thornton, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
The Lord Is My Light
The Lord is my light and my salvation
whom shall I fear?
the Lord is the strength of my life
of whom shall I be afraid?
Though an host should encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear:
though war should rise against me,
in this will I be confident.
I had fainted,
unless I had believed to see
the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait on the Lord:
be of good courage
and he shall strengthen thine heart:
The Lord is my light and my salvation
whom shall I fear?
the Lord is the strength of my life
of whom shall I be afraid?
Words from Psalm 27
Music by Glenn Hardy
© 1990 HardyMuse Publications
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
I Thessalonians 5:5 We
. . . We do not belong to the night or to darkness.
The Golden Text is from the Holy Bible: International Standard Version®.
Responsive Reading:
Psalms 139:1, 11, 12; 18:1, 3, 4, 6 (to 1st .), 19, 20, 28; 97:11, 12
139:1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
18:1 I love you, Lord, my strength.
3 I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I have been saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
6 In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help.
19 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.
20 The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
28 You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.
97:11 Light shines on the righteous and joy on the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, you who are righteous, and praise his holy name.
The Responsive Reading is from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®.
The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
Offertory and collection
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Meditation by Flor Peeters
Hymn 392
Laura C. Nourse, words
Arthur S. Sullivan, music
With love and peace and joy supreme
We hail the new appearing;
From out the darkness and the dream,
The haven of rest is nearing.
With gifts of healing in his wings
To light the Christ now guides us,
The heart that knows him burns and sings,
For endless joy betides us.
His touch the door of Life unseals
And bids us freely enter,
His word the heaven of heavens reveals
With Love its bound and center.
For God is all, and Christ the way;
Our meek and bold defender
Has cleft the night and lo, the day
Bursts forth in mighty splendor.
Scientific Statement of Being
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8
Correlative Scripture
I John 3:1-3
Benediction
Isa. 60:19
Postlude
O Christ, Who Art the Light and Day by Johann Pachelbel
Dialogue sur les Trompettes, Clairon et Tierces by François Couperin
Copyright.
The Golden Text for "Unreality" is from the Holy Bible: International Standard Version®, copyright © 1996-forever by The ISV Foundation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. Used by permission. The Responsive Reading is from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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