14.01.26 Ordinary 3A Bilingual

Songs/Cantos:  Digo "Si', oh Dios (Donna Peña)
Todo se hace para gloria de Dios (Cameroon) 
Prayer/Oración
Song/Canto:  Return again (Shlomo Carlebach) 
Welcome/Bienvenido
Milestones/Aconticimientos 
Song/Canto:  God grant them many years/Dios muchos años dales (Russian polychronia) MfL
Moment with Immanuel's Healing Center

Healing Center staff members Myra Tapia and Pablo Prince led guided prayer/meditations utilizing yoga techniques and singing bowl.

The Peace/La Paz
Canto:  Shalom chaverim (Israeli traditional/Hebrew traditional, Spanish source unknown, English EM) *
Benediction/Bendición
Postlude/Posludio

*seasonal for Ordinary Time

Forces:
Soprano cantor
Tenor cantor
Tenor cantor/guitar/percussion
Tenor cantor/bass guitar/percussion 
Piano
Organ
Percussion

26 de enero de 2014 + January 26, 2014

Adorando Todos/as Juntos/as + All Together Worship

Song of Worship and Praise +

Canto de Adoración y Alabanza

Digo “Sí,” O Dios

Uno/a:  Al Dios de la eternidad, digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Uno/a:  Al Dios que me escucha, digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Al Dios de los oprimidos, digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Al Dios de la justicia, digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Digo “Si,” O Dios, en tiempos malos, en tiempos buenos,

Digo “Si,” O Dios a todo lo que hablas. 

One:  I’m a servant of the Lord, I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

One:  I’m a worker in the fields: I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

One:  Every day the choice is mine: I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

One:  In my words and in my deeds: I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

I say “yes”, my God, in all the good times, through the bad times;

I say “yes”, my God, to every word you speak.

Uno/a:  Por el sueño que tengo hoy, digo “Sí, O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Uno/a:  Para sanar a los que están sufriendo, digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Uno/a:  Para amar a mis enemigos, digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Uno/a:  Por la paz en los gobiernos, digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Todos/as:  Digo “Sí,” O Dios.

Digo “Si,” O Dios, en tiempos malos, en tiempos buenos,

Digo “Si,” O Dios a todo lo que hablas. 

One:  If my conscience speaks to me: I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

One:  When my choices carry a cost: I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

One:  If I go against the tide: I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

One:  When I am what you made me to be: I say “yes”, my God.

All:  I say “yes”, my God.

I say “yes”, my God, in all the good times, through the bad times;

I say “yes”, my God, to every word you speak.

Todo se hace para gloria de Dios + All we do is for the glory of God

Todo se hace para gloria de Dios ¡amén! ¡amén!

Siempre y cuando nos dirija su amor.

/////¡Amén!/////

Todo se hace para gloria de Dios ¡amén! ¡amén!

All our lives are for the glory of God.  Amen!  Amen!

Now and always in the way of God’s love.

/////Amen!/////

All our lives are for the glory of God.  Amen!  Amen!

Este culto es para gloria de dios ¡amén! ¡amén!

Siempre y cuando nos dirija su amor.

/////¡Amén!/////

Este culto es para gloria de dios ¡amén! ¡amén!

All our gifts are for the glory of God.  Amen!  Amen!

Now and always in the way of God’s love.

/////Amen!/////

All our gifts are for the glory of God.  Amen!  Amen!

Todo el mundo es para gloria de Dios ¡amén1! ¡amén!

Siempre y cuando nos dirija su amor.

/////¡Amén!/////

Todo el mundo es para gloria de Dios ¡amén! ¡amén!

Prayer + Oración

Song + Canto

Return again + Volvamos hoy

//Return again, return again, return to the home of your soul.//

//Return to who you are, return to what you are, return to where you are born and reborn again.//

//Vuelve otra vez, vuelve otra vez, al hogar de tu corazón.//

//Vuelve a quien eres, vuelve a lo que eres, vuelve a donde eres nacido otra vez.//

//Return again, return again, return to the home of your soul.//

Welcome and Milestones +

Bienvenida y Acontecimientos

God grant them many years + Dios muchos años dales

A Moment with The Healing Center +

Un momento con El Centro de Bienestar

The Peace + La Paz

One + Uno/a:  The peace of Christ be with you all.

All + Todos/as:  And also with you.

Uno/a + One:  La paz de Cristo esté con ustedes.

Todos/as + All:  Y con tu espíritu.

Song + Canto

Shalom chaverim

Shalom chaverim, shalom chaverim.  Shalom, shalom.

Lehitraot, lehitraot, shalom, shalom.

La paz de Dios contigo esté.  Shalom, shalom.

La paz de Dios contigo esté.  Shalom, shalom.

Shalom, my friends, shalom, my friends, shalom, shalom.

The peace of God be with you all, shalom, shalom.

Blessing + Bendición

Postlude + Posludio

14.01.26 Ordinary 3A Reflection

But whether small or great, and no matter what the stage or grade of life, the call rings up the curtain, always, on a mystery of transfiguration – a rite, or moment, of spiritual passage, which, when complete, amounts to a dying and a birth. The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

~Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces

14.01.26 Ordinary 3A English

Hymn:  O for a thousand tongues to sing (Charles Wesley / AZMON, Carl G. Gläser) * 

Call to Worship
Song:  Christ, be our light (Bernadette Farrell)
Prayer of Confession
Song of Praise:  The storm is passing over (Charles Albert Tindley) *

Prayer of the Day

Sh'ma Israel (Tsvika Pik)

Reading from Hebrew Scripture:  Isaiah 9:1-4

Alleluia (Arabic troparion, adapted by EM)

Gospel Reading: Matthew 4:12-23
Sermon
Hymn:  I want to walk as a child of the light (Kathleen Thomerson /HOUSTON, Kathleen Thomerson)  
Affirmation of Faith
Prayer Song:  There's a light in the darkness (Beth Nielson Chapman) * 
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
Announcements
Offerings (regular and food)
Song:  You walk along our shoreline (Sylvia Dunstan / THE SALLEY GARDENS, English traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Songs:  City of God (Daniel Schutte)
We are called (David Haas) 

*seasonal for Ordinary Time

Forces:
Soprano
Organ/Piano

January 26, 2014

3^rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Please stand, all who are able.

Hymn

O for a thousand tongues to sing

my great Redeemer’s praise,

the glories ever echoing

the triumphs of God’s grace.

My gracious Savior and my God,

assist me to proclaim,

to spread through all the earth abroad

the honors of your name.

Jesus! the name that calms our fears,

that bids our sorrows cease

is music in the sinner’s ears,

is life, and health, and peace!

Glory to God, and love and praise

be ever, ever given

by all the saints in every age,

the church in earth and heaven.

Call to Worship

One:  How we long to understand, O God,

the simple logic of Light;

All:  The power of a single glow to dispel darkness;

the capacity of a single spark to create warmth;

the immense energy in a single drop of sunlight.

One:  It’s a simple logic, this message you speak:

the light shines in the darkness,

and the darkness cannot overcome it;

We praise you for the light,

and for it’s simple resistance to darkness;

We praise you for the radiance

that never ceases to stream into us and our world,

All:  And we praise you for the tinder that you have placed within us

that waits patiently and quietly

for us to allow a single ember into our hearts

so that we might be set ablaze with You.

Amen.

Please be seated

Song

1.  Longing for light, we wait in darkness.

Longing for truth, we turn to you.

Make us your own, your holy people,

light for the world to see.

Christ, be our light! 

Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness.

Christ, be our light!

Shine in your church gathered today.

2. Longing for peace, our world is troubled.

Longing for hope, many despair.

Your word alone has power to save us.

Make us your living voice.

Christ, be our light! 

Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness.

Christ, be our light!

Shine in your church gathered today.

3. Longing for food, many are hungry.

Longing for water, many still thirst.

Make us your bread, broken for others,

shared until all are fed.

Christ, be our light! 

Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness.

Christ, be our light!

Shine in your church gathered today.

4. Longing for shelter, many are homeless.

Longing for warmth, many are cold.

Make us your building, sheltering others,

walls made of living stone.

Christ, be our light! 

Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness.

Christ, be our light!

Shine in your church gathered today.

5. Many the gifts, many the people,

many the hearts that year to belong.

Let us be servants to one another,

making your kingdom come.

Christ, be our light! 

Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness.

Christ, be our light!

Shine in your church gathered today.

Prayer of Confession

One:  God of Presence and Light,

We like to imagine that we are bold and strong,

that there is nothing that can frighten us

But, we are not strangers to trembling,

Our doubt leaves us feeling alone and afraid,

and our hiding brings much rejection to You and to others.

All:  Forgive us, Lord, and help us.

One:  Our self-centredness leaves us feeling deprived and poor,

and our grabbing results in great need.

All:  Forgive us, Lord, and help us.

One:  Our sort-sightedness leaves us uncertain and insecure

and our lack of listening divides and separates.

All:  Forgive us, Lord, and help us.

One:  Somewhere inside of us we do believe,

we do trust and we do love;

The simple gifts of worship and love that we offer now are tokens of this faith;

signs of our thanksgiving

and of our longing to be more bold in following You.

All:  May our gifts and our lives be Your instruments

of healing and comfort;

For the sake of all in our world who grieve, all who despair,

and all who live in want and hatred.

In Jesus’ Name.

Amen.

Please stand, all who are able.

Song of Praise

Have courage my soul, and let us journey on,

though the night is dark and I am far from home.

Thanks be to God the morning light appears.

//The storm is passing over, the storm is passing over,

the storm is passing over, hallelu.//

//Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallellujah,

the storm is passing over, the storm is passing over,

the storm is passing over, hallelu.//

Prayer of the Day

NOT ON PPT

The darkness loves to parade itself, God,

to draw our attention and steal our energy,

with fearful threats

and dire prophecies of doom;

and we all too easily give it just what it seeks.

But, if we can just drag our gaze away

we discover that there is another reality;

that your light shines undimmed,

that your care is undiminished,

that your strength and protection

are unfailing.

And so, even in the midst of pain, suffering, evil

even when it seems your light is almost out,

we choose to remain under the shadow of your wings;

to trust in your salvation,

to speak your words,

and to dispel the darkness

by lighting the flame of faith again

in our hearts.

Amen.

Please be seated

Sh’ma Israel

Cantor, then all:

//Sh’ma Israel Adonai eloheinu, Adonai echad.//

Cantor:

Baruch shem k’vod, shem k’vod malchuto l’olam vaed.

Reading from Hebrew Scripture

Isaiah 9:1-4

NOT ON PPT

But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time God brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time God will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness—on them light has shined. You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder. For the yoke of their burden, and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.

Reader:  Hear what the Spirit is saying to you today.

All:  Thanks be to God.

Please stand, all who are able.

Alleluia

Gospel Reading

Matthew 4:12-23

NOT ON PPT

Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.” From that time Jesus began to proclaim, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him. As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.

Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Reader:  The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

All:  Thanks be to God!

Please be seated

Sermon

Please stand, all who are able.

Hymn

1.  I want to walk as a child of the light,

I want to follow Jesus.

God set the stars to give light to the world.

The star of my life is Jesus.

In Christ there is no darkness at all.

The night and day are both alike.

The Lamb is the light of the city of God.

Shine in my heart, Christ Jesus.

2.  I want to see the brightness of God.

I want to look at Jesus.

Clearn sun of righteousness, shine on my path,

and show me the way to follow.

In Christ there is no darkness at all.

The night and day are both alike.

The Lamb is the light of the city of God.

Shine in my heart, Christ Jesus.

3.  I’m looking for the coming of Christ.

I want to be with Jesus.

When we have run with patience the race,

we shall know the joy of Jesus.

In Christ there is no darkness at all.

The night and day are both alike.

The Lamb is the light of the city of God.

Shine in my heart, Christ Jesus.

Affirmation of Faith

We believe in Christ Jesus.

            all lovely and all loving,

            the very image of the invisible God.

We believe we are a called people,

            to share in the healing of salvation

            and celebrate the love of the invisible God.

We believe we are a sent people,

            called to love others as we are loved

            through the Spirit-power of the invisible God.

Amen.

Please be seated

Prayer Song

There’s a light, there’s a light in the darkness.

And the dark of the night cannot harm us.

We can trust not to fear for our comfort is near.

There’s a light, there’s a light in the darkness.

There is hope, there is hope in the darkness.

And the dark of the night cannot harm us.

We can trust not to fear for our comfort is near.

There is hope, there is hope in the darkness.

There is peace, there is peace in the darkness.

And the dark of the night cannot harm us.

We can trust not to fear for our comfort is near.

There is peace, there is peace in the darkness.

Silent Meditation

Prayers of the People

One: God of grace,

All:  hear our prayer.

News of the People

Not on ppt:

Welcome cards

Service concludes with bilingual celebration

Offerings

(regular and food)

Offertory Song

You walk along our shoreline

Elyse Willis

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Please stand, all who are able.

Hymn

Let us build the city of God.

May our tears be turned into dancing!

Jesus Christ, our light and our love,

has turned the night into day!

Awake from your slumber!

Arise from your sleep!

A new day is dawning

for all those who weep.

The people in darkness

have seen a great light.

The Lord of our longing

has conquered the night.

Let us build the city of God.

May our tears be turned into dancing!

Jesus Christ, our light and our love,

has turned the night into day!

We are daughters of morning;

we are sons of the day.

The one who has loved us

has brightened our way.

The God of all kindness

has called us to be

a light for the people

to set their hearts free.

Let us build the city of God.

May our tears be turned into dancing!

Jesus Christ, our light and our love,

has turned the night into day!

O comfort my people;

make gentle your words.

Proclaim to my city

the day of her birth.

O city of gladness,

now lift up your voice!

Proclaim the good tidings,

that all may rejoice!

Let us build the city of God.

May our tears be turned into dancing!

Jesus Christ, our light and our love,

has turned the night into day!

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1.  Come!  Live in the light!

Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!

We are called to be light for the kingdom,

to live in the freedom of the city of God!

We are called to act with justice,

we are called to love tenderly,

we are called to serve one another,

to walk humbly with God!

2.  Come!  Open your heart!

Show your mercy to all those in fear!

We are called to be hope for the hopeless

so all hatred and blindness will be no more!

We are called to act with justice,

we are called to love tenderly,

we are called to serve one another,

to walk humbly with God!

3.  Sing!  Sing a new song!

Sing of that great day when all will be one!

God will reign, and we’ll walk with each other

as sisters and brothers united in love!

We are called to act with justice,

we are called to love tenderly,

we are called to serve one another,

to walk humbly with God!