HYMN SING Christ Presbyterian Church, Canton, Ohio Sunday, 8 November, 2015 5:00 pm Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal, 2013 Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Author of Ecclesiastes: unknown, but possibly King Solomon Audience: the people of Israel Date: unknown; possibly as early as the tenth century BC Theme: this wisdom teacher reveals what he has discovered about... Everything Has Its Time 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; 7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. The God-Given Task 9 What gain have the workers from their toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. 11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; 13 moreover, it is God s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil. 14 I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.
Those who are able, please stand for: Hymn No. 305 Remaining seated for: Hymn No. 174 Please stand for: Hymn No. 3 3 Come Sing, O Church, in Joy Text: Brian Dill, 1988 Music: John Darwall, 1770 Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom Text: Ruth Duck, 1993 Music: Donna Kasbohm, 1995 Womb of Life and Source of Being Text: Ruth Duck, 1986, 1990, alt. Music: Skinner Chávez-Melo, 1983 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Remaining seated for: Hymn No. 36 For the Fruit of All Creation Text: Fred Pratt Green, 1970, alt. Music: Welsh Melody, c. 1784 9 What gain have the workers from their toil? 11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, Please stand for: Hymn No. 719 10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Come, Labor On Text: Jane Laurie Borthwick, 1859; rev. 1863, alt. Music: Thomas Tertius Noble, 1918
Seated: Hymn No. 683 4 Lord of All Hopefulness Text: Jan Struther, 1931 Music: David Schwoebel, 2008 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; Standing: a time to embrace, Hymn No. 157 and a time to refrain from embracing; I Danced in the Morning Text: Sydney Carter, 1963 Music: American Shaker melody; adapted, Sydney Carter, 1963 Standing: Hymn No. 798 All with Joyful Exultation: Psalm 30 Text: Refrain, Hal H. Hopson, 2008; Stanzas, Michael Morgan, 1999, rev. 2011 Music: Hasidic melody; arr., Evangelical Lutheran Worship, 2006 12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; 13 moreover, it is God s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil. Stand: Hymn No. 9 Remaining standing: The Play of the Godhead Text: Mary Louise Bringle, 2000 Music: William P. Rowan, 2000 Hymn No. 276 Sing a New Song Unto the Lord: Psalm 98 Text and Music: Daniel L. Schutte, 1972, alt. Seated: Hymn No. 378 We Wait the Peaceful Kingdom Text: Kathleen R. Moore 2010 Music: Hal H. Hopson, 1983
5 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; 7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. (SILENCE IS OBSERVED) 14 I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by. A Reading from Romans 8:18-25 Stand: Hymn No. 823 Shall Tribulation or Distress Text: Mary Louise Bringle, 2006 Music: Sally Ann Morris, 2006 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; 7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
6 14 I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by. A Reading from Romans 8: 31-39 Seated: Hymn No. 822 We Belong to God Text: Stanza 1, anon.; Eng. trans., Elise S. Eslinger, 1983 Stanzas 2-4, Roberto Escamilla, 1983; Eng. trans., George Lockwood, 1987 Music: Spanish melody; arr., Barbara C. Mink, 1988 A PRAYER attributed to St. Francis of Assisi: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. (read in unison by all) O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. Stand: Hymn No. 637 O Sing to the Lord Text: Brazilian folk song; trans., Spanish, 1982, and Engl., 1986, Gerhard M. Cartford Music: Brazilian folk melody; arr. Gerhard M. Cartford, 1982 THE BLESSING: Go in peace, singing, to love and serve the Lord! The people respond: THANKS BE TO GOD!
Freewill offering is received at the doors as we depart. dance as though no one is watching you love as though you have never been hurt before sing as though no one can hear you live as though heaven is on earth. -- Souza Narrator: Dottie McGrew Narration written by David J. Kienzle Organist & Director of Music: David J. Kienzle Lector: Geoffrey Darling INSTRUMENTALISTS: Dianne Williams, flute & Teresa Houston, clarinet & Scott Thomas, percussion FUTURE EVENTS IN THE CHRIST CHURCH MUSIC SERIES Apollo s Fire: A Celtic Christmas Wednesday, 9 December, 2015 @ 7:00 pm Tickets available this evening, from Christ Church office, website, and at the door. Christmas & Epiphany Madrigal Feast Firestone HS Choir Wednesday, the 6 th day of January, in the Year of Our Lord, Twenty-Sixteen In the Great Hall of Westminster at Christ Church; tickets available Dec. 1 st Choral Evensong for the Beginning of Lent Sunday, February 21, 2016 @ 4:00 pm (CPC Chancel Choir) Music of the 16th Century Tudors: Tallis, Byrd, Morely, and Gibbons Organ Recital and Silent Film Tom Trenney, organist Friday, 11 March, 2016 @ 7:30 pm Big Business starring Laurel and Hardy & One Week starring Buster Keaton Freewill donation will be received; Chancel Choir Concert with Orchestra Misa Cubana by José Maria Vitier Sunday, 17 April, 2016 @ 6:00 pm COMPLINE: Prayer at the Close of Day Sunday, May 15 7:30 p.m. organ music for Pentecost played by David J. Kienzle 8:00 chants, motets, and psalms