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, September 13, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Eric Bashor, Guest Second Reader
Subject: SUBSTANCE
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Communion Op. 8 by Louis Vierne
Meditation (from Medieval Suite) by Jean Langlais
Hymn 527
Elizabeth Glass Barlow, alt., words
Désirée Goyette, music
"Lord, ... open his eyes, that he may see,"
The mighty prophet prayed.
Send not armies great and strong,
Neither strength to battle wrong,
But lift his vision to behold
Your truth already here,
The legions of omnipotence,
The hosts of Your deliverance.
Awake, O man, and know
Love’s all-embracing sphere.
Lord, open my eyes that I may see
Your presence everywhere,
My dwelling circled by Your might,
My mountaintop aflame with light,
The shining sentinels of Your love
Triumphant in this hour.
For You with me are greater far
Than all the seeming evils are.
Be still, O heart, and trust
God’s omnipresent power.
Words © 1960, renewed 1988 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
John 9:1–7
Psalms 121:1–8
Psalms 123:1, 2
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 484
verses 1, 2 CSPS; verse 3 Javier Gacías; eng. tr. CSPS, words
Javier Gacías; harm. Felipe Blycker J., music
God is here with me.
While praying, I find all good here provided.
I’m seeing views of Truth, and understanding all is well.
Infirmity is gone, now leaving me perfectly free.
I’m at one with God;
In unity with Love, no fear assails us.
Her love alone is filling every moment, every place.
My demonstration is complete in Her heavenly love.
God is true to me.
While praying, I can feel Her soft embracing.
As surely as the air I breathe, or as the morning dawns,
Love, serenading, whispers: I will be comforting you.
Words and Music © 1979 Javier Gacías.
Notices
Solo
Tessa Frost, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
Be Thou My Vision
Be Thou my vision, oh Lord of my heart.
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light
Be Thou my wisdom and Thou my true word.
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord.
Thou my great father and I Thy true son
Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
Riches I need not nor man’s empty praise
Thou mine inheritance now and always.
Thou and Thou only first in my heart
High King of Heaven, my treasure Thou art
High King of heaven, my victory won.
May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s sun.
Heart of my own heart, whate’er befall
Still be my vision, O ruler of all
Traditional Irish Melody
Versified by Eleanor H. Hull
Arranged by Margaret Dorn
© 2006 Westrax Music Publishing ASCAP All rights reserved.
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Subject: SUBSTANCE
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Luke 10:23 Blessed
. . . Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
Responsive Reading:
II Kings 6:8 the, 9, 11, 12, 13 And it, 14 (to :), 15–17
8 . . . the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
13 . . . And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host:
15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
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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Praised be Thou, Jesus Christ, BWV 604 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymn 482
Graça de Maria Amorim dos Santos; eng. tr. CSPS, words
Graça de Maria Amorim dos Santos; arr. CSPS, music
God created us in His own image,
All the universe is His creation too;
He created us as His reflection,
Filling us with wisdom, bold and true.
Life is made for living to the fullest,
Spirit made us knowing who we truly are,
Knowing how to see reality,
Pure and innocent and free,
Made in the likeness of our God.
REFRAIN
This clear view of man is perfect,
Seen in all the radiance of light;
Here we find our nature revealed,
Spiritual and whole in God’s sight.
Everything our Master Jesus taught us
Showed the way to love each other dearly,
When he healed the sick and freed the sinner,
Seeing them in God’s own light so clearly.
As we gain the perfect understanding
That eternal Mind is the All-in-all,
We shall come to see reality,
Pure and innocent and free,
Made in the likeness of our God.
REFRAIN
English translation, Music © 2017 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
Ps. 128:5
Postlude
Prelude in C Major, BWV 547/1 by J.S. Bach
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