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Listen live on Sundays at 10 am Eastern time or hear a replay until midnight Saturday night (ET). The service lasts one hour and an organ prelude and postlude extend 7–10 minutes before and after the service. An audio replay is available within 30–60 minutes after the service ends.

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, March 17, 2024

Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader

Subject: SUBSTANCE

Prelude

Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church

Meditation (from Organ Symphony No. 1) by Charles-Marie Widor
Meditation by William Wolstenholme
Elevation by Clément Loret

Hymn 594

Dietrich Bonhoeffer; eng. tr. and adapt. CSPS, words
Siegfried Fietz; arr. CSPS, music

We’re steadfastly protected by Your power,
Encircled in the caring arms of Love.
Together, we are sharing all our days now,
And year by year come blessings from above.

REFRAIN
We’re each held safe by God’s own holy power.
Whatever comes, Your comfort is at hand.
You’re at our side at evening and at morning,
And each new day unfolds as You have planned.

Your pure and quiet love spreads o’er us deeply;
We know Your fullness now and feel Your peace.
For Your one holy world of grace and power,
We all praise You with joy that will not cease.

REFRAIN

English translation © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © Abakus Musik.

Scriptural Selection

Isa. 55:1–11

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 599

Psalms 139: 7-10; desc. Psalms 46:10 and scriptural para., words
Mark Shepherd; desc. anon.; transcr. and arr. CSPS, music

Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there.
If I make my bed in hell, Thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there shall Thy hand lead me and Thy right
hand shall hold me.

DESCANT
Grace unto you and peace from above.
Peace from on high, from my Spirit.
Be still and know I am God.
Be still and know that I am God.
Peace has come, Let it stay.
Peace has come to all today.

Music © 2008 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music arrangement © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Notices

Solo

Teddy Crecelius, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church

Signs of the Heart
Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music by John Dowland

Come to me, joys of heaven!
Breathe through the summer air
A balm — the long-lost leaven
Dissolving death, despair!
O little heart,
To me thou art
A sign that never can depart.

Come to me, peace on earth!
From out life's billowy sea, —
A wave of welcome birth, —
The Life that lives in Thee!
O Love divine,
This heart of Thine
Is all I need to comfort mine.

Come when the shadows fall,
And night grows deeply dark;
The barren brood, O call
With song of morning lark;
And from above,
Dear heart of Love,
Send us thy white-winged dove.

Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text:  

 Psalms 20:5 (to :), 7 we

 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: . . . we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

Responsive Reading:  

Psalms 31:1–5, 7, 14–16 I trusted, 19, 20, 24
Hebrews 11:1 faith

Ps. 31:1 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
14 . . . I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Heb. 11:1 . . . faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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.


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Song by Flor Peeters


Hymn 553

Mara Purl, alt., words
American melody, Pilsbury’s United States’ Sacred Harmony, 1799; arr. CSPS, music

Our desire to heed God’s calling
Lifts us to a new design,
Outlined by pure inspiration,
Rendered in Love’s graceful line.

When our own plans seem to crumble
Incomplete or ill-defined,
Let us turn to God’s creation,
Always perfectly aligned.

With the model right before us,
Perfect God and perfect man,
Let God’s wholeness reign within us,
Let Mind’s will perfect our plan.

Far beyond the bounds of matter,
Unrestrained by fear or time,
All our plans unfold together
In Soul’s harmony and rhyme.

Words © 1985 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Words alteration and Music arrangement © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.

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. 55:12 ye

Postlude

Prelude in E-flat Major, BWV 552/1 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Copyright

Please note that the words to certain hymns and solos cannot be republished without permission due to copyright restrictions. Copyrighted Music included in today's streaming church service, including display of lyrics on this page if applicable, is either owned by the Church, directly licensed, or covered by one or more of the following licenses:

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