Ubc Liturgy Stuff
October 11, 2020
Below, you’ll find the song lyrics and scripture readings for the live stream on October 11 (in the order they are needed). Also you can find UbcKids Sunday School Videos here.
Mother
is there a hair on my head you haven’t numbered yet, you haven’t numbered yet
in the night, crying in the cold is there a pain of mine
you haven’t called your own? Mother Comfort, Mother Known
though our minds so well ignore your grace you bring it just the same
you bring it just the same
we reside in your self-giving love
but you’ve somehow found enough for the space that we take up
Mother Wisdom, Mother Love Mother Comfort, Mother Enough
through life and death, that cradled set beginning and the end,
Beginning and the End,
you are a shield, a beacon of defense
and our weaknesses align as you gather us i
Mother Warrior, Mother Age to Age
Mother Wisdom, Mother Grace
Mother Comfort, Mother Love-That-Can’t-Be-Bought Mother Faithful, Mother God
Call to Worship
we have gathered to worship
the God who pursues
who keeps coming after us and drawing us back into the collision of grace
to enter the story of God
and find each and every one of us already belong
that the Spirit of God might transform our hearts and minds
forming us more fully in the way of Christ
and propelling us to proclaim God’s law of love.
Amen
A Poem For Hispanic Heritage Month
Not Tonight But Tomorrow (1978) by Miguel Algarín
Not tonight but tomorrow
when the light turns the peach
tree green and the Earth sprouts
its young leaves looking to repeat
the magical mystery tour of
photosynthetic conversion of light
and moisture into life—
Not tonight but tomorrow
when my body will have shed
its fear of turning old and soft
will I turn my speeding mind
into the tunnels of your psyche
to melt the calcium that constipates
your synapses into a lubricating powder—
Not tonight but tomorrow
when the Universe moves on
beyond the field of action
that is the Earth to me and you
will I discover the interplanetary clues
that signal the roots of my moment to you—
Not tonight but tomorrow
will I throw my feelings into
New York streets to stew
in the violence and despair
of our planet—
Not tonight but tomorrow
will the Earth turn green again.
Soft Gentle Brilliant
It's the quiet wind on the water
And the thundering stars up in the sky
The scorching forest fire
And a complex human eye
It's the sound of waves collapsing
Or a newborn's waking cry
The way new seeds float to the ground
Right where the old flowers die
I know you're there
I know you're watching
Though I don't feel you
And I don't live like I want to
You still care
Though Lord I'm prone to wander
I'm hardly listening
It's the red bird's stunning feathers
Or a horses unmatched strength
The way the rockies tower
And the canyons loom at length
There's one-hundred tiny feet
Under a hundred centipede legs
The sun and the moon twirl in a dance
Determining the days
I know you're there
I know you're watching
Though I don't feel you
And I don't live like I want to
You still care
Though Lord I'm prone to wander
I'm hardly listening
It's the way we're warned of winter
By the bloody autumn leaves
How all the ground is connected
By the roots under the trees
Through the violence of human nature
The earth is whispering
Soft, gentle, and Brilliant
Is my maker's love for me
Old Testament Reading
Today’s Old Testament reading, and Josh’s sermon text, is Exodus 32:1-14
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." Aaron said to them, "Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a festival to the LORD." They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel. The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!' “The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation." But Moses implored the LORD his God, and said, "O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, 'It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, 'I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'" And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.
This is the word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
New Testament Reading
Today’s New Testament reading is Matthew 22:1-14
Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.' But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.' Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests. "But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?' And he was speechless.
Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen."
This is the word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
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There
before there were mountains to crumble
before there were seas to rise
before there was pain, the loss and the weight
You were there
although our fear is rising
although our fire has gone out
although our hearts are worried and fraught
You are there
i’ve got a problem, i’ve made a drug
of worrying over what is yet to come
it’s clouding my vision,
strangling my love away
after the sun stops burning
after the stars have gone out
after the world ceases to turn
You’ll be there
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise him all creatures here below
Praise him above, ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Amen
Benediction
As we approach this week
May we love God
Embrace Beauty
and Live Life to the fullest
Amen