Sean - Sayville Congregational Church



521779515350300Sayville Congregational United Church of ChristSeptember 20, 2020Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Liturgist WelcomeAnnouncementsOffertory AnnouncementsIn your own words, please welcome everyone in the sanctuary and watching from over the Internet.Remind folks that should they have an offering they would like to leave, the offertory plates are at in the front and back of the sanctuary, where they can drop them off.Usher The Bell is RungSean Prelude?Liturgist Call to Worship Building upon Ps. 118:24 Friends, you are invited to remain seated or to rise for this morning’s Call to Worship. You are also invited to pray silently or gently and softly from behind your mask. Now, please join us…“This is the day that God has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it!”The day that God has made,for this time and all time for us, all of us. Really. All of e, let us worship this day with all God has made.Liturgist Friends, you are now invited to be seated or remain seated, as we listen to Sean sing this morning’s opening hymn, “Come, My People” from our Sing! Prayer and Praise Hymnal #12.Sean Opening HymnCome, My PeopleSing! Prayer and Praise #12Liturgist Once more, you are invited to remain seated or to rise for our Unison Prayer. You are also invited to pray silently or gently and softly from behind your mask. Let us pray…Unison PrayerBuilt upon “At Blackwater Pond” Mary OliverAt Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settledafter a night of rain.I dip my cupped hands. I drinka long time. It tasteslike stone, leaves, fire. It falls coldinto my body, waking the bones. I hear themdeep inside me, whisperingoh what is this beautiful thingthat just happened?It is being together. A beautiful thing, too.That’s what it is!Linda Assurance of God’s LoveIn your own words, please assure those gathered that this is a place of love that is shared with all. God’s love is around us always, always there and a comfort, even in the midst of many challenges.“As a reflection of that love from within and around us, let us offer one another a sign of the peace that Jesus offered his disciples and to us each day.”While making the heart sign with the hands, we say: “May the Peace of the Risen Christ be with you [pause] and also with you.”Linda Passing of the PeaceLiturgist First ReadingExodus 16:2-15(Excerpt)They began to complain against Moses and Aaron there in the wilderness. The people of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by YHWH ’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat next to pots of meat and ate our bread till we were filled! But now you have brought the whole community out into this wilderness to die of hunger!” Then YHWH said to Moses, “Look, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people will go out and gather a day’s portion every day… Sean Musical Praise Liturgist Gospel Reading Matthew 20:1-16“The kindom of heaven is like the owner of an estate who went out at dawn to hire workers for the vineyard. After reaching an agreement with them for the usual daily wage, the owner sent them out to the vineyard. “About mid-morning, the owner came out and saw others standing around the marketplace without work, and said to them, ‘You go along to my vineyard and I will pay you whatever is fair.’ At that they left. “Around noon and again in the mid-afternoon, the owner came out and did the same. Finally, going out late in the afternoon, the owner found still others standing around and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’ “‘No one has hired us,’ they replied. “ The owner said, ‘You go to my vineyard, too.’ “When evening came, the owner said to the overseer, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, but begin with the last group and end with the first.’ When those hired late in the afternoon came up, they received a full day’s pay, and when the first group appeared they assumed they would get more. Yet they all received the same daily wage.“Thereupon they complained to the owner, ‘This last group did only an hour’s work, but you’ve put them on the same basis as those who worked a full day in the scorching heat.’“‘My friends,’ said the owner to those who voiced this complaint, ‘I do you no injustice. You agreed on the usual wage, didn’t you? Take your pay and go home. I intend to give this worker who was hired last the same pay as you. I’m free to do as I please with my money, aren’t I? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ “Thus the last will be first and the first will be last.”Linda ProvocationLiturgist Friends, you are now invited to remain seated, as we listen to Sean sing our Church Covenant, displayed on the projected slides.Sean The Church CovenantLinda A Time for Prayer In your own words or something like these: “At this time we take a moment to remember all the prayers, the joys, the concerns that you bring with you this morning. We invite those at present and watching at home to be silent for a moment and lift your prayers to God…”After a pause, “Let us pray the prayer that Jesus taught the disciples, praying this prayer as you learned it.” Please quietly recite the Lord’s Prayer into the microphone.Please to your seat.Liturgist Now, please remain seated, as we listen to Sean sing this morning’s closing hymn, “In the Midst of New Dimensions” from the New Century Hymnal #391.Sean HymnIn The Midst of New Dimensions NCH #391Linda Benediction and Sending ForthPlease offer a blessing in your own words or using these: “Friends, go in peace to love and serve God and one another. May your bring “Acts of Love” wherever you go. Amen.”Usher Ringing of the BellSean Postlude ................
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