THE LORD’S DAY

An Order for Worship

Trinity Sunday

May 18, 2008

 

Minister                                                         The Reverend Bruce Hedman, Ph.D.

Organist                                                                                                 Ethel Platt

 

The Ministry of Praise

Organ Prelude

Call to Worship

*Pilgrim Hymnal No. 251                                                                           Nicaea

“Holy, Holy, Holy!  Lord God Almighty”

Prayer of Adoration and Lord’s Prayer (unison, using “debts”)

Prayer of Confession (unison):

ALMIGHTY AND EVERLASTING GOD, WHO HAST REVEALED THYSELF AS FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIIRT, AND DOST EVER LIVE AND REIGN IN THE PERFECT UNITY OF LOVE:  FORGIVE US WHEN WE FAIL TO HOLD FIRMLY AND JOYFULLY TO THIS FAITH AND WHEN WE PRESUME UPON THY MERCY BY WHAT WE KNOW OF THY LOVE FOR US.  BY THE POWER OF THY SPIRIT MAY WE BE FOREVER DRAWN TO THEE IN TRUE ADORATION AND WORSHIP, WHO ART THREE PERSONS IN ONE GOD, WORLD WITHOUT END. AMEN.

Assurance of Pardon

Psalter Reading (responsive):        Psalm 148           Selection 108             p. 538

*Gloria Patri

 

 

The Fellowship of Prayer

Greetings and Announcements

Call to Prayer

Pastoral Prayer and Silent Prayer

Organ Response

The Offertory

Offertory Sentences & The Collection

*Doxology and Prayer of Dedication

*Pilgrim Hymnal No. 247                                      Grosser Gott, Wir Loben Dich

“Holy God, We Praise Thy Name”

 

*  = “congregation please stand”

 

 

The Proclamation of the Word

Collect of the Day

Old Testament Lesson                                                                        Isaiah 6: 1-8

Epistle Lesson                                                                            Ephesians 1: 3-14

Gospel Lesson                                                                                  John 14: 8-17

 Sermon                                                                                                Dr. Hedman

“The Trinity”

Ascription of Glory

*The Apostles’ Creed                      Selection 51                                         p. 511

*Pilgrim Hymnal No. 246                                                                 Italian Hymn

“Come, Thou Almighty King”

*Benediction

*Organ Postlude

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you have any pastoral concerns, please phone Dr. Hedman anytime at (860) 456-8733.

If you are on-line remember to bookmark our church website at

www.abingtonchurch.org

to check for special announcements and next week’s bulletin.

 

Copies of our ABINGTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH history are available for $15 in the bookcase in our narthex.

 

Remember to save PULL-TABS off of cans in support of the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital.

 

Remember to save loose change for our STEEPLE FUND, which is collected in a can in the narthex.

 

Pray for our Service Personnel:

Emmy Pike, Seth Platt, Tim Carlson, Rito Soricco

 

Cycle of Prayer for Area Churches:

The East Woodstock Congregational Church

The Reverend Susan Foster

 

NEXT WEEK’S LESSONS                                    Pentecost 2 Year B

Old Testament Lesson:                                                              2nd Samuel 7: 4-16

Epistle Lesson:                                                                                 Acts 2: 37-end

Gospel Lesson:                                                                                Luke 14: 15-24

“The Church’s Unity and Fellowship”