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Welcome And Opening Prayer              

Prelude Psalm-Prelude: “Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee”                     Herbert Howells

Responsive Call to Worship    

One: There is the family you were born into,

All: and the family you choose.

One: We are all part of the human race,

All: and we are all God’s children.

One: We are a family of faith.

All: Praise God!

One: We do not always agree.

All: Of course not.

One: But we come together this morning and can say in one voice,

All: let us worship the Living God!

Hymn Red 593* “The Gift of Love”

Though I may speak with bravest fire,
and have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love, my words are vain;
as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.

Though I may give all I possess,
and striving so my love profess,
but not be given by love within,
the profit soon turns strangely thin.

Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide every deed;
by this we worship, and are freed.

Call to Confession

Confession of Sin   

Time for silent prayer and reflection.

Assurance of Pardon  

Gloria Patri

Passing of the Peace

Prayer for Illumination in Unison

Holy God, humble us and open us to your life-giving Word. As we hear your Word read and proclaimed today, may our hearts and minds be open to the Spirit’s moving and Jesus’ teaching. Amen.

First Scripture Reading (In Unison) Mark 3:31-35

Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you.’ And he replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’

Second Scripture Reading John 19:25-27   

Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

Sermon Behold Your Son…Behold Your Mother   Rev. Robin Miller Currás

Hymn Red 436* “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love”

Jesu, Jesu,
fill us with your love, show us how to serve
the neighbors we have from you.

Kneels at the feet of his friends,
silently washes their feet,
Master who acts as a slave to them.

Neighbors are rich and poor,
neighbors are black and white,
neighbors are near and far away.
These are the ones we should serve,
these are the ones we should love,
all these are neighbors to us and you.

Loving puts us on our knees,
serving as though we are slaves,
this is the way we should live with you.

Kneel at the feet of our friends,
silently washing their feet,
this is the way we should live with you.

Affirmation of Faith           The Confession of 1967, 9:44

God has created the peoples of the earth to be one universal family. In his reconciling love, God overcomes the barriers between sisters and brothers and breaks down every form of discrimination based on racial or ethnic difference, real or imaginary. The church is called to bring all people to receive and uphold one another as persons in all relationships of life: in employment, housing, education, leisure, marriage, family, church, and the exercise of political rights. Therefore, the church labors for the abolition of all racial discrimination and ministers to those injured by it. Congregations, individuals, or groups of Christians who exclude, dominate, or patronize others, however subtly, resist the Spirit of God and bring contempt on the faith which they profess.

Richard Hagen, horn

Doxology

Prayer after the Offering

Pastoral Prayers/The Lord’s Prayer                                                     

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Hymn Red 437* “Help Us Accept Each Other”

Help us accept each other
as Christ accepted us;
teach us as sister, brother,
each person to embrace.
Be present, Lord, among us
and bring us to believe
we are ourselves accepted,
and meant to love and live.

Teach us, O Lord, your lessons,
as in our daily life
we struggle to be human
and search for hope and faith.
Teach us to care for people,
for all, not just for some,
to love them as we find them
or as they may become.

Let your acceptance change us,
so that we may be moved
in living situations to do the truth in love,
to practice your acceptance
until we know by heart
the table of forgiveness
and laughter’s healing art.

Lord, for today’s encounters
with all who are in need,
who hunger for acceptance,
for righteousness and bread,
we need new eyes for seeing,
new hands for holding on;
renew us with your Spirit,
Lord, free us, make us one!

Benediction

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