Pine Street Presbyterian Church
in the City of Harrisbur g
Pine Street is a Welcoming Church, Glorifying God through Worship, Fellowship and Service in the World.
October 13, 2024
Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost
G ATHERING IN THE P RESENCE OF THE R ISEN C HRIST
PRAYER OF PREPARATION
Sovereign God, just as you are revealed, you are hidden, yet I am never abandoned. Give me a due sense of your presence, and when I feel you absent, move me to act in your stead. Amen.
VOLUNTARY There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy
Walter Pelz (Please use the opening voluntary as a time of silent meditation and preparation for worship.)
SALUTATION
One: The Lord will make a feast for all people. Many: and destroy the power of death forever.
INTROIT I Was Glad
Linda McKillop
Larry Visser
I was glad when they said unto me, I was glad when they said unto me, “Let us go, let us go to the house of the Lord.”
† Those able are invited to stand Bold text is read or sung by all
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: My God my God, why are you so far from the words of my groaning?
Many: In you our ancestors trusted. They trusted and you delivered them.
One: To you they cried and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
Many: On you I was cast from birth, and you lay me in the dust of death.
One: Be not far from me, O Lord. Deliver me and I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters.
Many: My help, in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you!
† HYMN 12 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise ST.
† PRAYER OF CONFESSION
O Lord, you are the maker of justice and the source of righteousness, the one who hears the cries of the suffering and who fills the hunger of the poor. Forgive us, O God, when we fail to reflect your loving justice: when we have food and food leftover, yet we do not share with any in need; when we have power for good and power for change, yet we use it only for our own self-preservation; when we have the words of the prophets before us, yet we cover our ears lest they make us uncomfortable. Forgive us, O Lord, and teach us to follow in your way.
† SILENCE FOR PERSONAL CONFESSION
† KYRIE
† ASSURANCE OF PARDON
One: Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
Many: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with us. Let us follow him. Amen.
DENIO
† GLORIA GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.
R EADING AND H EARING THE W ORD
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Lisa Milletics
FIRST LESSON Job 23:1-17
One: The Word of the Lord. Many: Thanks be to God.
Old Testament Page 471
† HYMN 210 Lord, Why Have You Forsaken Me (Psalm 22) DISTRESS
SECOND LESSON Hebrews 4:12-16
THIRD LESSON Mark 10: 17-31
New Testament Page 220
New Testament Page 46
SERMON “Serving Papers” The Rev. Seelman
† AFFIRMATION OF FAITH adapted from the Confession of 1967 9.32-33
The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for the church’s mission. His human life involves the church in the common life of all people. His service to men and women commits the church to work for every form of human well-being. His suffering makes the church sensitive to all human suffering so that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of persons in every kind of need. His crucifixion discloses to the church God’s judgment on the inhumanity that marks human relations, and the awful consequences of the church’s own complicity in injustice. In the power of the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the promise of God’s renewal of human life in society and of God’s victory over all wrong. The church follows this pattern in the form of its life and in the method of its action. So to live and serve is to confess Christ as Lord.
† THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Many: And also with you.
WELCOME
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THE OFFERING OF TITHES AND GIFTS TO GOD
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ANTHEM O for a Closer Walk C. V Stanford
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! Return! Return! I hate the sins that made thee mourn, that made thee mourn, and drove thee from my breast. So shall my walk be closer with God, calm and serene my frame; so purer light shall mark the road that leads me to the Lamb.
† PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Christ, all people here below; Praise Holy Spirit evermore; praise triune God, whom we adore. Amen.
† PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SEALING THE WORD
SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
One: The Lord be with you.
Many: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
Many: We lift them to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
Many: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
…raising the dead to life:
The prayer continues.
… an offering of praise:
INTERCESSION, SUPPLICATION, AND CONSECRATION
One: In your mercy, Many: Lord, hear our prayer.
… forever and forever.
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.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE BREAD AND CUP
One: The gifts of God for the people of God.
Many: Let us keep the feast.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
B EARING
AND F OLLOWING THE W ORD OF G OD
INTO THE W ORLD
† HYMN 459 O Word of God Incarnate
BENEDICTION
† CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Lift High the Cross CRUCIFER
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adore his sacred name. Come, Christians, follow where our Savior trod, the Lamb victorious, Christ, the Son of God. Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adore His sacred name.
VOLUNTARY Hymn to Joy
L EADING IN W ORSHIP T ODAY
The Rev. Stuart Seelman, Pastor Joseph Garrison, Minister of Music and Worship
Lisa Milletics, Lector
Linda McKillop, Liturgist
Benjamin Coles, Acolyte
The Chancel Choir
F LOWER D EDICATION
The flowers in the sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of my parents William and Evelyn Carson by Christine Filipovich, and in loving memory of our husband and father Dennis Filipovich by Christine and Elizabeth Filipovich.
MUNICH
Charles Callahan
DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Sunday, October 13 – 21st Sunday after Pentecost
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir warm up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship 11:30 am- Adult Forum
Friday, October 18
6:30 pm- 3rd in the Burg
Sunday, October 20 – 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
8:45 am- Sunday School
9:00 am- Choir warm up
9:00 am- Café Conversations
10:00 am- Worship 11:30 am- Adult Forum
C OPYRIGHT N OTICE
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Liturgy was reprinted and adapted with permission from Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word® Worship Companion copyright 2013.
Liturgy reprinted and adapted by permission from the Book of Common Worship, © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved.
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