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, July 12, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader
Subject: SACRAMENT
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Chaconne in F minor by Johann Pachelbel
Hymn 108
Horatius Bonar*, words
Genevan Psalter, 1551, music
Here, O my Lord, I’d see Thee face to face;
Here would I touch and handle things unseen;
Here grasp with firmer hand th’ eternal grace,
And all my weariness upon Thee lean.
Here would I feed upon the bread of God;
Here drink anew the royal wine of heaven;
Here would I lay aside each earthly load,
Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.
And as we rise, the symbols disappear;
The feast, though not the love, is past and gone;
The bread and wine remove, but Thou art here,
Nearer than ever, still my shield and sun.
Feast after feast thus comes and passes by;
Yet passing, points to the glad feast above,
Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,
The Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love.
Scriptural Selection
I Samuel 15:22 Hath
Micah 6:8
Matthew 6:1–8, 16–18
John 1:17 the
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 298
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Lyman Brackett, music
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?
Felt ye the power of the Word?
’Twas the Truth that made us free,
And was found by you and me
In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom,
Love wipes your tears all away,
And will lift the shade of gloom,
And for you make radiant room
Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain,
Cleanse the foul senses within;
’Tis the Spirit that makes pure,
That exalts thee, and will cure
All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless,
Life of all being divine:
Thou the Christ, and not the creed;
Thou the Truth in thought and deed;
Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.
Notices
Solo
Tessa Frost, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
Grace Alone
Ev’ry promise we can make,
Ev’ry prayer and step of faith,
Ev’ry diff’rence we can make
Is only by His grace.
Ev’ry mountain we will climb,
Ev’ry ray of hope we shine,
Ev’ry blessing left behind
Is only by His grace.
CHORUS
Grace alone, which God supplies,
Strength unknown He will provide,
Christ in us, our Cornerstone,
We will go forth in grace alone.
Ev’ry soul we long to reach,
Ev’ry heart we hope to teach;
Ev’rywhere we share His peace
Is only by His grace.
Ev’ry loving word we say,
Ev’ry tear we wipe away,
Ev’ry sorrow turned to praise
Is only by His grace.
CHORUS
Amazing grace, God’s grace.
Words and Music by Scott Wesley Brown and Jeffrey Dale Nelson
© 1984 Maranatha Music
(Administered by Music Services, Inc.) All Rights Reserved.
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
II Corinthians 13:14 (to 1st .)
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.
Responsive Reading:
II Corinthians 4:15 all
Matthew 20:17–19; 26:17–20, 26–28, 30
II Cor. 4:15 . . . all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
Matt. 20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
26:17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
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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Offrande by Flor Peeters
Hymn 1
Tate and Brady, words
Genevan Psalter, 1551, music
Be Thou, O God, exalted high;
And as Thy glory fills the sky,
So let it be on earth displayed,
Till Thou art here and now obeyed.
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:
John 1:16 of
Postlude
Grand Chœur Dialogué by Eugène Gigout
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