Meghan Davis Talks Sacrifice

Morning Worship

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Friday, November 17, 2006

Montgomery Chapel

Welcome

*Call to Worship

We gather to worship God.

We have come seeking comfort, inspiration, community, and insight.

We have come to open ourselves to the power of God’s presence in our midst.

We have come to offer up the seasons and the turnings of our lives,

and to ask God’s help in our learning and our growing.

God has created this beautiful earth, all that grows, all that lives upon it.

Thanks be to God.

God has given us breath to live and spirit to sing.

Thanks be to God.

God has gathered us into a community of care and worship.

Let us worship God with love, thanksgiving, and praise.

*Hymn VU # 479 Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession

Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you, in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry. In your mercy forgive what we have been, help us to amend what we are, and direct what we shall be; that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways; through Jesus Christ. Amen

Assurance of Pardon

God is the love that over and around us lies; the grace that is totally unearned; and the healing that makes us whole. Give thanks to God: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Amen.

*Passing of the Peace

As God has given us peace through Christ, let us pass the peace of Christ to each other.

The peace of Christ be with you.

And also with you.

Prayer of Illumination

Scripture Reading Mark 12:38-13:2

Communion Meditation Ms. Meghan Davis

Sacrament of Holy Communion

Invitation To The Lord’s Table

The Great Prayer Of Thanksgiving

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them up to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Eternal Life-Giver, holy Wisdom, source of our being, and goal of all our longing, we praise you and give you thanks because you have created us, women and men, together in your image to cherish your world and seek your face. Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with the heavenly choirs and with all the faithful of every time and place, who forever sing to the glory of your name:

Divided and disfigured by sin, while we were yet helpless, you emptied yourself of power, and took upon you our unprotected flesh. You lived among us displaying your intention for the wholeness of all of humanity. You labored with us upon the cross, and have brought us forth into the hope of resurrection. Great is the mystery of faith:

Therefore, as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we are proclaiming Christ’s death until he comes. In the body broken and blood poured out, we restore to memory and hope the broken and unremembered victims of tyranny and sin; and we long for the bread of tomorrow and the wine of the age to come. Come then, life-giving Spirit of our God, brood over these bodily things, and make us one body with Christ; that we may labor with creation to be delivered from its bondage to decay into the glorious liberty of all the children of God.

The Lord’s Prayer

Eternal Spirit, Earth-Maker, Pain-Bearer, Life-Giver, Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, Loving God in whom is heaven. The hallowing of your name echo through the universe! The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world! Your heavenly will be done by all created beings! Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth. With the bread we need for today, feed us. In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us. In times of temptation and test, strengthen us. From trials too great to endure, spare us. From the grip of all that is evil, free us. For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever. Amen.

Words Of Institution

*Communion of the People

*Prayer After Communion

*Charge & Benediction

Participants in Worship:

Ms. Meghan Davis, Senior/Intern, Preacher

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain, Co-Celebrant

Mr. Derrick Weston, Liturgist

Dr. Dan Hoggatt, Musician

Communion Servers:

Ms. Dorothy Crockett

Mr. Jae Guen Lee

Ms. Mary Richardson

Ms. Karen Wells

Mr. Aric Clark

Resources: The call to worship, the prayer of confession, and assurance of pardon are adapted from Celebrate God’s Presence (United Church of Canada 2000).

COMMUNITY OFFERING

The baskets in the narthex are for receiving the offering of the seminary community. At the end of the semester, what has been offered and collected will be donated to a local charity.