*HYMN Christians, Lift Up Your Hearts SALVE FESTA DIES ORDER OF WORSHIP DAY OF PENTECOST

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1 May 20, 2018 ORDER OF WORSHIP DAY OF PENTECOST 10:00 a.m. *HYMN Christians, Lift Up Your Hearts SALVE FESTA DIES All sing refrain. Congregation sings verses 2, 4 and 6: The beginning of the opening voluntary is a call to silent, personal meditation. Please silence all electronic devices as we prepare our hearts and minds to worship God. OPENING VOLUNTARY Variations on Veni Creator Spiritus Maurice Duruflé ( ) Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, and lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart. Thy blessed unction from above is comfort, life and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light the dullness of our blinded sight. Anoint and cheer our soiled face with the abundance of thy grace. Keep far our foes, give peace at home: where thou art guide, no ill can come. Teach us to know the Father, Son and thee, of both, to be but One, that through the ages all along, this may be our endless song: Praise to thy eternal merit, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Latin, 9th Century CALL TO WORSHIP O bless the Lord, my soul, and praise God s name. Lord God, how great thou art, how bright thy fame! Thou who art clothed with majesty and glory, thou, robed in light, we honor and adore thee. The heavens thou hast stretched out like a tent, thy dwelling founded on the firmament. Clouds are thy chariot, storms lend thee their pinions; winds are thy heralds, fire and flame thy minions. Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of thy love. Psalm 104 from the Genevan Psalter

2 PRAYER OF CONFESSION Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and bright wings, brood even over the chaos of our lives: dispersing our sins, scattering our vanities, uprooting our indifference, enlarging our hearts, and opening our minds, to the new thing you are doing, through Jesus Christ our Lord. KYRIE ELEISON Kile Smith (b. 1956) PROMISE OF THE GOSPEL

3 *GLORIA PATRI Smith OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Ezekiel 37:1-14 (p. 806) PSALTER Psalm 104:25-26a, 28-32, 35 Peter Hallock ( ) Choir: *THE PEACE WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION As a forgiven people, let us share Christ s peace with one another. The peace of Christ be with you. And also with you. Holy One, when Christ ascended into heaven to reign with you in power and glory, you sent the Spirit of truth to guide us into the way, the truth, and the life of Christ. Send your Spirit, our Advocate, to guide us still, as your word is read and proclaimed, that we too may bear witness to the good news that is fullness of life and joy for all, in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Congregation: O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the great and wide sea with its living things too many to number, creatures both small and great. All of them look to you to give them their food in due season. You give it to them; they gather it; you open your hand, and they are filled with good things. Congregation: You hide your face, and they are terrified; you take away their breath, and they die and return to their dust. You send forth your Spirit, and they are created; and so you renew the face of the earth. May the glory of the Lord endure for ever; may the Lord rejoice in all his works. May these words of mine please him; I will rejoice in the Lord. Congregation:

4 NEW TESTAMENT LESSON Acts 2:1-21 (p. 119) OFFERING CHILDREN S MOMENT HYMN (seated) During the organ introduction, children through fifth grade may process to the Chapel to meet for the Gathering. Go with us, Lord, and guide the way, Through this and every coming day, That in your Spirit strong and true, Our lives may be our gift to you. TALLIS CANON SERMON Can These Bones Live? Ms. Jarvis The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He said to me, Mortal, can these bones live? Ezekiel 37:1, 3 *HYMN 129 Come, O Spirit, Dwell Among Us EBENEZER PRAYERS The Lord be with you, And with your spirit. Let us pray. O Lord show thy mercy upon us, And grant us thy salvation. O God, make clean our hearts within us, And take not thy Holy Spirit from us. Prayers concluding with 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. OFFERTORY ANTHEM Like the beams that from the sun pierce the blackness of the night, come to us, O Promised One, Spirit, Light. Pure as saints that have attained, clad in brightness for attire, cleanse our souls by vileness stained, Spirit, Fire. Stronger than uplifted arm in the tumult of the fight, shield our timid souls from harm, Spirit, Might. Soothing as the calm that falls when wind and billows cease, comfort us when fear appalls, Spirit, Peace. Come, O Gracious Spirit, come, we would have thee for our guest; make our souls thy chosen home, Spirit, Blest. *DOXOLOGY Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise God, all creatures here below, Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Leo Sowerby ( ) LASST UNS ERFREUEN

5 *AFFIRMATION OF FAITH I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, The Apostles Creed And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church, the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen. *BENEDICTION CLOSING VOLUNTARY Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist J.S. Bach (Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost) ( ) *Congregation standing *HYMN Rejoice! The Year Upon Its Way DEUS TUORUM MILITUM A Called Meeting of the Congregation May 20, 2018 The Session has voted to call a meeting of the congregation following worship on Sunday, May 20, 2018 for the purpose of: *Hearing the report of the Associate Pastor Nominating Committee and acting on their recommendation to call Brian Russo as Associate Minister for Youth and Senior Adult Ministry; *Hearing the report of the Nominating Committee and electing a Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC). The Mission Study Committee continues its work and anticipates completing its report mid-june at which time the PNC will begin its work. Respectfully submitted, Katherine F. Connelly, Clerk of Session

6 LEADING WORSHIP: Cynthia A. Jarvis, Brian D. Russo, and Austin Crenshaw Shelley; MUSIC: Gallery Choir; Daniel Spratlan, Conductor; Ken Lovett, Organist GREETERS: Elders: Daniel Pretz and Kevin Raphael; Deacons: Allison DeCaro and Rebecca DePasquale USHERS: William Chambers, Team #1 Leader; Richard Brown, Carolyn Manwaring, Kevin Raphael, Harry Spaeth, and Jim Spause FLOWER GUILD: Joan Demme and Grace Stewart Flowers in the chancel are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Mary Elizabeth Buehler, Sheldon Pfeifer, and Randall E. Cain by Linda Pfeifer. MUSIC ATTRIBUTIONS: Hymns, anthems and texts reproduced with permission CCLI. License #: OneLicense.net #: License # , copied with permission.