We held virtual worship on Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 10am! You can watch the recording below or on on facebook by clicking here.
By Iconographer and Fine Artist Julia Stankova
CALL TO WORSHIP
OPENING TO GOD Howard Thurman
Lord, Lord, Open Unto Us!
Open unto us — light for our darkness.
Open unto us — courage for our fear.
Open unto us — hope for our despair.
Open unto us — peace for our turmoil.
Open unto us — joy for our sorrow.
Open unto us — strength for our weakness.
Open unto us — wisdom for our confusion.
Open unto us — forgiveness for our sins.
Open unto us — love for our hates.
Open unto us — thy Self for our self.
Lord, Lord, open unto us!
GOSPEL Mark 7:24-30 Emily Franz
From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
REFLECTION
MUSIC Lament Mark Miller
COMMUNION
PRAYER FOR THE WEEK Rev. Jill Colley Robinson
Holy God, Holy One, Holy Three,
You are,
all at once,
from the beginning to the ending of all things,
Parent and Creator,
Sibling and Redeemer,
Spirit and Sustainer.
It is such a mystery —
how you are
united, undivided,
coeternal, consubstantial, coessential;
and yet distinct, diverse,
even different in our experience of you.
Our majestic names and words for you in any language fall short.
And yet,
yours is the mystery that brings us, inarticulate, to our knees
at such a time as this,
for if we are all truly fearfully and wonderfully made
in your image
then we, too, can be
united and distinct,
undivided and diverse,
coessential and different.
This is your baptism.
This is your blessing.
This is you, as close as our breath, with us always.
We must remember.
Let it be so. Amen.
SHARING PRAYERS
LORD’S PRAYER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BENEDICTION Mark Berry, modified
In the name of the divine and mysterious Trinity,
We have been called into being through love.
We have been joined to one another in love.
We have been have placed in your world to love.
Go in the name of the Spirit
who moves across the surface the waters,
and in the beating of the human heart,
Go in the name of Jesus,
the God-Man who died, rose and lives on for us,
Go in the name of the Creator and re-Creator,
the mother of grace.
Amen
POSTLUDE Fantasy on When Morning Guilds the Sky
Kathryn Ammel Parker
