Welcome and Announcements
Welcome to our worship service for the Third Sunday after Pentecost. If we were in church for this worship service we would notice the green banners and cloths decorating our nave, because the liturgical color for this time of year after Pentecost is green. In Godly Play we say these are the green growing Sundays. As Christians we are always growing in faith, love and service. Although we can’t be in church this Sunday, we can see green all around us. May this season foster much growth in us all.
We welcome our lay leader John Watkins, (who also happens to be a master gardener, speaking of green growth) this Sunday. Rhonda Stanton and Zoë Pouliot have provided our hymns, Kathy’s son Chris chimes in with a postlude, and we are blessed with lay readers, Brittany, Jonathan, and Missy, from the congregation for our scripture readings. Thank you to everyone!
Children’s Resources
- Father’s Day Coloring Pages to download and print
- Gospel Coloring Page (“you are of more value than many sparrows”)
- Guided Lectionary Reading for families for June 21
- Episcopalians Tucked In – video story book: God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Godly Play: The Holy Family video from Church of the Incarnation – features nice clear audio, six and a half minutes.
Opening Hymn: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
1 Come, thou fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace!
Streams of mercy never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! O fix me on it,
mount of God’s unchanging love.
2 Here I find my greatest treasure;
hither by thy help, I’ve come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.
3 Oh, to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee;
prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart, oh, take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.
Collect of the Day
First Reading: Genesis 21:8-21
Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17
Second Reading: Romans 6:1b-11
Gospel Hymn: Take Up Your Cross
1. Take up your cross, the Savior said
If you would my disciple be
Take up your cross with willing heart
And humbly follow after me.
2. Take up your cross, let not its weight
Fill your weak spirit with alarm
His strength shall bear your spirit up
And brace your heart, and nerve your arm.
3. Take up your cross, heed not the shame
And let your foolish heart be still
The Lord for you accepted death
Upon a cross, on Calvary’s hill.
4. Take up your cross, then, in his strength
And calmly every danger brave
It guides you to abundant life
And leads to victory o’er the grave.
5. Take up your cross and follow Christ
Nor think, ’til death, to lay it down
For only those who bear the cross
May hope to wear the glorious crown.
Gospel Reading
Sermon
Nicene Creed
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Prayers of the People
Closing Hymn: All Creatures of our God and King
1 All creatures of our God and King,
lift up your voices, let us sing:
alleluia, alleluia!
Bright burning sun with golden beams,
Pale silver moon that gently gleams,
O praise him, O praise him,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
2 Great rushing winds and breezes soft,
you clouds that ride the heavens aloft,
O praise him, Alleluia!
Fair rising morn, with praise rejoice,
stars nightly shining, find a voice:
O praise him, O praise him,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
3 Swift flowing water, pure and clear,
make music for your Lord to hear,
Alleluia, alleluia!
Fire, so intense and fiercely bright,
you give to us both warmth and light,
O praise him, O praise him,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
7 Let all things their creator bless,
and worship him in humbleness,
O praise him, Alleluia!
Praise God the Father, praise the Son,
and praise the Spirit, Three in One:
O praise him, O praise him,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Dismissal
Postlude: Wachet Auf Ruft Uns Die Stimme (Awake, the voice is calling us), J. S. Bach
