Order of Sunday Service on October 1, 2023

World Communion Sunday / October 1st, 2023

South Stormon Pastoral Charge 
(Ingleside-Newington United Church & St. Andrew's-St. Mark's United Church)

Led by Rev. Min Hwang

*Gathering Hymn This Is God’s Wondrous World (#296 VU | vs. 1&3)

Welcome

Lighting the Christ Candle

Call to Worship

HwanYoungHapNiDa! Welcome!

Willkommen! Bienvenue!

Whatever your language,

Wherever you were born, welcome.

There’s a place for you here!

We join together in worship.

We join together at the table.

We are one family in Christ!

*Heather Ferrier.Gathering Pentecost 2 2023, page 41.

Opening Prayer (Unison)

Holy One, who renews us to usher in Your Kingdom on earth, we come together on this World Communion Sunday with hearts full of gratitude and unity. We offer our thanks for the opportunity to celebrate the gift of communion with our siblings in faith around the globe. Guideus to remember that in Christ, we are one body, bound together in love and fellowship. May this communion service strengthen our connection with believers everywhere, empowering us to be instruments of peace and reconciliation in the world.Amen.

*Opening Hymn We Are One (#402 VU|vs. 1&2)

Profession of Our Faith (Unison)

Carrying a vision of creation healed and restored,

we welcome all in the name of Christ.

Invited to the table where none shall go hungry,

we gather as Christ’s guests and friends.

In holy communion

we are commissioned to feed as we have been fed,

forgive as we have been forgiven,

love as we have been loved.

The open table speaks of the shining promise

of barriers broken and creation healed.

In the communion meal, wine poured out and bread broken,

we remember Jesus.

We remember not only the promise but also the price that he paid

for who he was,

for what he did and said,

and for the world’s brokenness.

We taste the mystery of God’s great love for us,

and are renewed in faith and hope.

(a time of silent reflection)Amen.

*from A Song of Faith (A Faith Statement of the United Church of Canada)

Announcements and Minute for Mission

Prayer for Illumination We Are One (v. 4| #402 VU)

We are one as we hear, as we hear, heart and hand unite;

in the word we receive there's a sense that God is light.

We are one as we leave, as we love, we are loved;

and we seek justice in God's ways as we move together from this place.

Proclaiming the Scriptures

Philippians 2:1-11 Let the same mind e in you that was in Jesus.

Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16 (VU p.792, Part 1&2) God did marvellous things for our ancestors.

Matthew 21:28-32 Who did the will of God?

This is the Good News from the Bible.

  Thanks be to God.

Anthem

Sermon (click here)

*Hymn One Bread, One Body (#467 VU)

*Offering

*Offertory Hymn (#540 VU, Grant Us, God, the Grace)

Grant us, God, the grace of giving,
with a spirit large and free,
that ourselves and all our living
we may offer faithfully.

*Offertory Prayer (Unison)

Gracious God, we pray that our offering this morning will multiply our blessings so that our neighbours next door and across the globe might be nourished in body, mind, and spirit. We pray that your reign of love and justice be made tangible and visible and that no one be left out of the banquet. Amen.

*United Church of Canada, Season of Gratitude: World Communion Sunday to All Saints’ Sunday

 

Sacrament of Communion

< All are welcome to this table.>

* This order of the communion is mostly attributed to Celebrated God’s Presence

 

Invitation to Communion

We are invited to this table where our living finds wholeness

We bring our woundedness to be healed, and we bring our hope for abundant life in Christ.

We are invited to this table where the humble foods of life are offered.

Bread and cup to nourish, love and acceptance to nurture.

We are all one in the body of Christ, joining today with the body of Christ worldwide.

    Thanks be to God.

*Wanda Burse.Gathering Pentecost 2 2019, Page 45. Used with permission.

Hymn: We Are One (v. 3 | #402 VU)

We are one as we feast,as we feast, peace becomes the sign;

in the bread and the winethere's a sense of love divine.

We are one as we come,as we feed, we are fed;

and we feel God's refreshing graceas we meet at table in this place.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Creator, Christ, and Spirit, we praise you for your love revealed to us in Jesus, who walks with us, our Wisdom and our Way, sharing our joy and sorrow, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and setting the captive free. So it is that we join the song of all creation to proclaim your goodness:

The Song of Creation Holy, Holy, Holy (#203 MV)

O holy, holy, holy God, O God of time and space.

All earth and sea and sky above bear witness to your grace.

Hosanna in the highest heav'n, creation sings your praise.

And blessed is the One who comes and bears your name always!

The Story Remembered

On the night before he died, it was Jesus who took a loaf of bread, gave you thanks, broke it, and said, “Take and eat; whenever you do this, remember me.”Likewise, after supper, he took the cup, saying, “This is the new covenant; remember me.”

Prayer of Self-Giving

Loving God, we rejoice in the gift of your grace, remembering Christ’s life and death, proclaiming his resurrection, waiting in hope for his coming again. Grant that in praise and thanksgiving,we may so offer ourselves to youthat our lives may proclaim the mystery of faith:

Affirmation of Memory and Hope Memorial Acclamation (#204 MV)

Sing Christ has died and Christ is risen, Christ will come again! (X 2)

Prayer for Transformation

Send, O God, your Holy Spirit upon us and upon these gifts,that all who share in this bread and cup, may be the body of Christ: light, life, and love in the world. In this hope, and as your people, we praise you:

Doxology Great Amen (#205 MV)

Amen, Amen, O Holy One! Hosanna and Amen! (X2)

Prayers of the People and Lord’s Prayer

Sharing of Bread and Wine

The gifts of God for the people of God

    Thanks be to God.

Prayer after Communion (Unison)

Live-Giving God, we have taken our place at your table. We have participated in this remembrance with Christians the world over today. We accept that we are now called to live Christ-like lives, serving others, protecting the earth, and making right our relationships with each other. For this Christ came, for this Christ served, and for this we are grateful, in Christ’s name. Amen.

*Catherine Tovell.Gathering Pentecost 3 2023, Page 42.

*Closing Hymn Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (#684 VU)

*Commissioning

The worship time is concluded and we go now to resume our daily activities.

We have feasted and our spirits are well nourished.

Let us take up the challenge of radical loving, courageous justice seeking, and compassionate nurturing.

May the grace of God sustain us.
  May the example of Jesus guide us.

May the daring of the Holy Spirit encourage us,

today, tomorrow, and in all the days ahead. Amen.

* Laura J. Turnbull. Gathering Pentecost 2 2023.page 42.

*Commissioning Song Peace Be With You(#215 MV)

Peace be with you, peace forever, peace be with you my friends.

Till we meet again, may God be with you. Peace, peace, peace.


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