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March 13, 2022 at 1:30 pm
Worship Service Outline
Rev. Jan Bihl (leading) | Nathan Mah (guest musician)
Hymn lyrics and copyright information can be found
on the service livestream and recording.
*indicates to stand as you are able
Opening Music for Meditation - Instrumental
The Peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.
As we gather for worship, we acknowledge that Como Lake United Church resides on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem pronounced kwee-kwet-lum) First Nation. May we work to learn and build right relationship now and into the future.
Welcome/Call to Worship
*Hymn: MV#27 Creator God, You Gave Us Life
Lighting the Christ Candle
Hymn: MV#82 Bathe Me In Your Light
Lenten Prayer
Music for Meditation: Instrumental
Scripture:
Psalm 27 excerpts from Psalms for Praying
Luke 1:31-35
Sermon: Rev. Jan Bihl
Response
Offering Invitation
VU#670 Precious Lord, Take My Hand;
VU#400 Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
(You may want to light a prayer candle at this time.)
Prayers for the Community and World
The Lord’s Prayer VU#921
*Concluding Hymn: VU#626 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Sending Forth and Blessing
Instrumental
St. Patrick’s Breastplate Prayer
1 I bind unto myself today the strong name of the Trinity
by invocation of the same, the Three in One and One in Three.
2 I bind this day to me forever, by power of faith, Christ’s incarnation,
his baptism in the Jordan river, his cross of death for my salvation,
his bursting from the spiced tomb, his riding up the heavenly way,
his coming at the day of doom, I bind unto myself today.
3 I bind unto myself today the virtues of the starlit heaven,
the glorious sun’s life-giving ray, the whiteness of the moon at even,
the flashing of the lightning free, the whirling wind’s tempestuous shocks,
the stable earth, the deep salt sea around the old eternal rocks.
4 I bind unto myself today the power of God to hold and lead,
God’s eye to watch, God’s might to stay, God’s ear to hearken to my need,
the wisdom of my God to teach, God’s hand to guide, God’s shield to ward,
the word of God to give me speech, God’s heavenly host to be my guard.
6 I bind unto myself the name, the strong name of the Trinity
by invocation of the same, the Three in One and One in Three,
of whom all nature has creation, eternal Father, Spirit, Word.
Praise to the Lord of my salvation; salvation is of Christ the Lord.
From VU#317 Words: attrib. St. Patrick; trans. Cecil Frances Alexander 1889 Public Domain
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Copyright Information
VU#652 Be Still My Soul
Words: Katharina von Schlegel 1752; Engl. Trans. Jane Laurie Borthwick 1855, alt.
Public Domain
VU#374 Come and Find the Quiet Center
Words: Shirley Erena Murray, alt. 1989
©1992 Hope Publishing Company
All rights reserved. Used with permission.
One License #A716697
MV#27 Creator God, You Gave Us Life
Words: Judith Snowdon, 2004
©2004 Judith Snowdon
MV#82 Bathe Me In Your Light
©2002 John Wesley Oldham
All rights reserved. Used with permission.
LicenSing #C15069
Thy Word is a Lamp Unto My Feet (Michael W. Smith)
Contributors: Michael W. Smith
Tune: © 1996, Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. - represented by Hal Leonard Corporation (Sonv/ATV)
One License #A716697
VU#670 Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Words by Thomas A. Dorsey 1932
©1938 Unichappell Music Inc.
All rights reserved. Used with permission.
One License #A716697
VU#400 Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
Words: Ken Medema ©1971 Hope Publishing Company
All Rights reserved. Used with permission.
One License #A716697
VU#921 The Lord’s Prayer Adpt. from a chant by R. Langdon.
Public domain.
VU#626 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Public Domain
VU#424 May the God of Hope Go With Us
Words: v1 Alvin Schutmatt 1984 – Public Domain
Words: Fred Kaain 1993 © Hope Publishing
All rights reserved. Used with permission.
One License #A716697
Psalms for Praying
Nan C. Merrill
St. Patrick’s Breastplate Prayer
From VU#317 Words: attrib. St. Patrick;
trans. Cecil Frances Alexander 1889
Public Domain
