Order of Service – Sunday 30 May 2021 – TRINITY SUNDAY
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CALL TO WORSHIP
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, let the whole earth rejoice.
Holy Lord, the earth is filled with Your glory. Purify our hearts and lives that we may hear Your voice and call.
Send Your church to declare the mystery of Your love.
Lord of all, we exalt You in all the earth.
TRINITY SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER
Father, You sent Your Word to bring us truth and Your Spirit to make us holy. Through them we come to know the mystery of Your life.
You reveal Yourself in the depths of our being, by proclaiming and living our faith in You.
Grant us through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen!
HYMN: 127 “Holy God We Praise Your Name”
INVOCATION
Into Your presence we come, O God of love and hope. Inspire us with the gift of Your most Holy Spirit as we gather here today. Empower us with a sense of anticipation as to what it is You will be doing among us in this sacred time and in this sacred place. In the name and the spirit of Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.
RESPONSIVE READING
Lord of life, truth and grace …..
Bring all creation to delight in Your peace.
God of love, Your mystery lies at the root of all creation. Deepen our awareness of your awesome being ……
Everlasting God, we exalt Your name in all the world.
Lord of grace, You reach through eternity to touch our mortal frame. Set our limited concerns in the wider vision of Your truth …..
As You share our life, so may we come to share Your divine glory.
Holy Spirit of fellowship, move between us to unite all people in one community. Strengthen all that builds cohesive living ….
God of peace, be present in our midst.
Triune God, in Your eternal vision You hold creation from its beginning to its end. Sustain in Your love all who are faint or whose strength is failing …..
Restore our faith that You are with us to the end of the age.
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, You make us little lower than angels, and are mindful of all people. With love and thanksgiving, we commend to You all the living and the dead….
Adorn us all, the living and the departed with Your glory and honour.
COLLECT FOR TRINITY SUNDAY
Almighty and everlasting God, You have given us Your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of Your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see You in Your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
HYMN: 137 “For the Beauty of the Earth”
COLLECTS FOR TRINITY SUNDAY
Almighty and everlasting God, You have given us Your servants grace by the confession of a true and a living faith to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and by Your divine power to worship You as One; we humbly pray that You would keep us steadfast in this faith and evermore defend us from all adversities; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Let us pray to the one God, Father, Son and Spirit, that our lives may bear witness to our faith. Father, You sent Your Word to bring us truth and Your Spirit to make us holy. Through them we come to know the mystery of Your life. Help us to worship You, one God in three Persons, by proclaiming and living our faith in You. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
O blessed Trinity, in whom we know the Maker of all things, seen and unseen, the Saviour of all, both near and far: by Your Spirit enable us to worship Your divine majesty, that with all the company of heaven we may magnify Your glorious name, saying:
Holy, holy, holy, Glory to You, O Lord most high. Amen.
HYMN: 167 “How Deep the Riches of Our God” (Tune 141)
BIBLE READINGS – Dianna Brookes
John 16:5-15 (Page 1069) 1 John 5:1-12 (Page 1210)
MUSICAL REFLECTION
SERMON: “Trinity! These Three are One” Krikor Youmshajekian
HYMN: 631 “Father, Lord of All Creation” (Tune 153)
NOTICES –Pizza/Movie Night – Tues 1 June 6:30 pm, movie at 7:15 pm.
- Lower North Shore Zone Meeting with Lunch – Sunday 6 June at Willoughby Uniting Church, Clanwilliam St. 12:00 noon.
- Combined Service with Lane Cove Uniting on the occasion of the Uniting Church 44th Anniversary. Sunday 20 June 2021, here.
- Exodus Foundation June Appeal – As we did last year, we are raising funds to support the mission of the Exodus Foundation. Please give generously, if you wish to do so.
OFFERING – Give cheerfully, to receive more from the loving Father.
HYMN: 140 “Firmly I Believe and Truly God is Three” (Tune 159)
THE LORD’S PRAYER
CLOSING PRAYER & BENEDICTION
We gather in the name of the Maker;
who lit up the world and breathed the breath of life into us.
We gather in the name of the Son;
who saved the world and stretched out His hand to us.
We gather in the name of the Spirit;
who encompasses the world and blesses our souls with yearning.
We gather in the name of the Trinity of love;
God above us, God beside us, God beneath us; the beginning, the end, the everlasting One.
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