Call to Worship
Presider: What does the Lord require of us,
Congregation: but to do justice,
love kindness,
and walk humbly with God?
Gathering Hymn
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
tune: Nicaea
(James Bacchus Dykes 1861)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns
around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea.
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity! Amen!
Call to Confession
Let us confess our sins,
for the Holy One delights in blessing
those who seek to walk with God.
(Psalm 15: 1-5)
Prayer of Confession
All: God, we have not done what is blameless and right,
nor spoken truth from the heart with love.
We do not keep your word,
and when we fail to show respect for one another,
our words and deeds cause pain.
Forgive us by the power of your mercy,
that we might stand in the goodness of Christ
and walk in the light of his love. Amen.
(Psalm 15: 2-4)
Declaration of Forgiveness
Sisters and brothers,
your sins are forgiven by the faith of Christ,
who chose love over hatred and forgiveness over blame.
Rejoice and be glad, for God’s mercy is great;
Jesus brings healing, justice, and peace.
(Micah 6:8; 1 Cor. 1:30; Matt. 5:12)
Anthem
Hymn After a Song of Wisdom
Charles Villiers Stanford 1910
O for a closer walk with God,
a calm and heavenly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
that leads me to the Lamb!
Return, O holy dove, return,
sweet messenger of rest;
I hate the sins that made thee mourn,
and drove thee from my breast.
So shall my walk be close with God,
calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road
that leads me to the Lamb.
Pastoral Prayer and Intercessions
Good and gracious God…
O God, on this day we offer special intercessions for…
Chautauqua Family Milestones: In Memoriam
Remembering some of the Chautauquans known to us who have died since the opening of the 147th Assembly Season on June 28, 2020.
TAPS
Aaron DuBois, Trumpeter, CHQ Music School Festival Orchestra
In July of 1862 during the “Peninsula Campaign” in Virginia, one of the simplest, yet most poignantly recognizable melodies in the world, the military bugle tribute known as “Taps” was first played by Union soldier Oliver Wilcox Norton, who grew up in Sherman, New York. It was written by Norton’s commanding officer, David Butterfield of the 83rd Pennsylvania Regiment out of Erie; during the Civil War this regiment suffered the second largest number of casualties of any regiment in the Union Army. Norton Memorial Hall on our grounds (our “opera house”) was dedicated on July 13, 1929, a gift from Oliver’s wife Lucy Coit Fanning Norton in memory of her husband and their daughter Ruth.
The Prayer Jesus taught
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
trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
Hymn
There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy
(Beecher John Zundel, 1870)
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
like the wideness of the sea;
there’s a kindness in God’s justice,
which is more than liberty.
There is no place where earth’s sorrows
are more felt than up in heaven;
there is no place where earth’s failings
have such kindly judgment given.
For the love of God is broader
than the measure of the mind;
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
If our love were but more faithful,
we should take God at their word;
and our life would be thanksgiving
for the goodness of the Lord.
There is grace enough for thousands
of new worlds as great as this;
There is room for fresh creations
in that upper home of bliss.
If our love were but more simple,
we should take God at their word;
And our lives would all be sunshine
in the sweetness of our Lord.
Frederick William Faber, 1854, altered
Offertory Remarks and Anthem
Offertory
John Ness Beck, 1987
With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
hall I come before Him with yearling calves?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my first-born for my transgressions,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man,
He has shown you what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice and to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?
-Micah 6:6-8
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise God all creatures here below,
Praise God above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Scripture Reading: Micah 6:6-8
Candy Maxwell
Sermon
The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson
Closing Hymn
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Hyfrydol Rowland Hugh Prichard, 1811
Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation,
enter every trembling heart.
Come, almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return, and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be alway blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray, and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
Finish then thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee:
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
-Micah 6:6-8
Benediction/Blessing
Benediction Response
Indra Hughes (2001)
Postlude
Final from Symphonie No. 1
Louis Vierne, 1899