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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 21, 2024
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader
Subject: LIFE
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Adagio con espressione (from Chorale Fantasia Op. 52/2) by Max Reger
Prelude & Cantilena (from Suite in E Major) by Everett Titcomb
Hymn 135
Richard Massie, Tr., adapted, words
William H. Monk, music
I know no life divided,
O Lord of life, from Thee;
In Thee is life provided
For all mankind and me:
I know no death, O Father,
Because I live in Thee;
Thy life it is that frees us
From death eternally.
I fear no tribulation,
Since, whatsoe’er it be,
It makes no separation
Between my Lord and me:
Since Thou, my God and Father,
Dost claim me as Thine own,
I richly shall inherit
All good, from Thee alone.
Scriptural Selection
I John 1:1–5
I John 2:21, 22 (to ?), 23–28 he (to ;)
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 15
based on the Danish of Bernhard S. Ingemann, words
C. Christian Hoffman, music
As gold by fire is tested,
Its purity shown forth,
So cleansing fires of Truth may prove
To man his native worth.
And as a mirror shows us
A likeness clear and bright,
So God forever sees His child
Revealed in radiant light.
’Twas thus the loving Master
Saw man’s perfection shine,
Beheld God’s child forever pure
In radiance all divine.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
Circle of Infinity
Words and Music by Carolyn Kardinal
Within the circle of Infinity,
our lives unfold in ageless harmony.
No unfinished line, no crooked beam,
No ragged edges nor tattered seam.
Unbroken threads of Life’s tapestry
reveal the freshness and promise of divinity.
Within the circle of Infinity,
We find abundance, strength and purity.
Being unfolds in the beauty of Soul,
undisturbed, unchanging, whole,
Timeless as joy, blooming eternally.
Complete and perfect in reality.
Man cannot lose his high estate;
He cannot fall or have an uncertain fate.
God’s creation has his purpose defined
that emanates from immortal Mind.
No lack, no sorrow, no insecurity,
Just deathless Life, undefiled and free,
for man to God is reconciled
by Christ as God’s beloved child!
Within the circle of Infinity,
our lives unfold in ageless harmony.
No unfinished line, no crooked beam,
No ragged edges nor tattered seam.
Unbroken threads of Life’s tapestry
reveal the patterns of Life’s continuity.
© 2012 by Carolyn Kardinal
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 42:2 (to .)
I thirst for the living God.
Responsive Reading:
Psalms 31:1 (to 1st .), 6 I trust, 7 (to 1st .), 8, 15 (to 1st .), 22, 23 (to 1st .); 34:1, 2 (to 1st .), 5, 7, 10 those, 11, 18, 19; 62:1, 8 (to 1st .)
31:1 Lord, I trust in you.
6 . . . I trust only in the Lord.
7 I will be glad because of your love.
8 You have not let my enemies defeat me. You have set me in a safe place.
15 My life is in your hands.
22 In my distress, I said, “God cannot see me!” But you heard my prayer when I cried out to you for help.
23 Love the Lord, all you who belong to him.
34:1 I will praise the Lord at all times. His praise is always on my lips.
2 My whole being praises the Lord.
5 Those who go to him for help are happy. They are never disgraced.
7 The Lord saves those who fear him. His angel camps around them.
10 . . . those people who go to the Lord for help will have every good thing.
11 Children, come and listen to me. I will teach you to worship the Lord.
18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. He saves those whose spirits have been crushed.
19 People who do what is right may have many problems. But the Lord will solve them all.
62:1 I wait patiently for God. Only he can save me.
8 People, trust God all the time.
The Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the International Children's Bible®.
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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Diapason Movement by John Bennett
Hymn 370
Nellie B. Mace, words
James Langran, music
We are hid with Christ forever
In the Father’s holy plan.
In this pure eternal union
We behold the perfect man;
And we know that sin can never
Overthrow the sacred rod
Of dominion over evil:
We are hid with Christ in God.
Hid with Christ in God, O gladness:
O the meekness and the might,
When the risen Christ has lifted
All our thoughts into the light,
Light of Truth wherein no sadness
Dims the radiant peace we find,
As we set our whole affection
On the beauteous things of Mind.
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
I John 5:12 (to ;), 20
Postlude
Pièce d'orgue (Fantasia in G Major ) BWV 572 by Johann Sebastian Bach
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