Weekly Worship Material

Order of Service for June 15th, 2025

Trinity Sunday

Father’s Day

 

WE GATHER TO PRAISE GOD

 

GATHERING MUSIC

            

PRELUDE

 

In the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 

Who calls us to be the church 

And to celebrate God’s presence, 

Let us worship.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE LAND:

This land—Treaty 3 ¾, and Treaty 4 Territory—
is the land of the Anishinabek, the Attawandaron, and the Metis and Inuit.

We stand on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy -The Six Nations,
peoples.
We give thanks for their stewardship, for teaching us to care for all creation, and we acknowledge our place as guests upon this earth- living in respect for it.

 

INTROIT 

 

CALL TO WORSHIP: 

 

One


Does not Wisdom call? 

Does not Understanding raise her voice?


She cries out at crossroads, at city gates, 

calling all people—calling us:


“To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all who live.”
(Prov. 8:1–4)

 

All


We come, O Wisdom, open our ears to your voice;


shape our hearts to hear your Word.

 

One
“God created me at the beginning of his work…
beside him, like a master worker, and I was daily his delight.”
(Prov. 8:22, 30)

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All


Source of all creation, we marvel at your handiwork—
Father, Son, and Spirit—united in love,
who formed the mountains, the seas, and humanity itself.

 

One


On this day when we honour earthly fathers,


we are reminded of your paternal care—


you, the First Voice of Wisdom,


who instructs, protects, and delights in your children.

 

All


Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:


you are our first teachers, 

our guiding examples,


our ever-present comfort and strength.

 

One


So let us shape a space for the Three:


the Spirit as breath of life,


the Son as wisdom incarnate,


the Father as source and creator—


and in this union, find our calling,
our example, and our delight.

 

All


Let us worship the One who is Father, Son, and Spirit—


three persons, one God, 

whose Wisdom calls us,


who made us, 

and who delights in us. Amen.

 

PASSING OF THE PEACE:

We are called to prepare ourselves to worship and offerings: to pray for those we’ve hurt, and those who have hurt us; to confess what which we need to confess, and to receive God’s forgiveness; and then to be reconciled, one with another, as a symbol of our new life in Christ. 

 

The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you… And also with you.

 

*OPENING HYMN: VU #484 God, the All-Holy

 

            ♫1       God, the All Holy, Maker and Mother,

                        gladly we gather, bringing in prayer

                        old hurts for healing, new hopes for holding,

                        giving, receiving loving and care.

 

2         Spirit, All-Seeing, knitting and blending

                        joy in desiring, friendship and ease,

                        make our belonging loyal and lasting,

                        so that our pledging freshens and frees.

 

            3         Christ, All-Completing, Nature enfolding,

                        evil exhausting in love’s embrace,

                        weaving and mending, make every ending

                        God’s new beginning glowing with grace.

 

~Children are welcomed to the front of the Sanctuary 

for Children’s Time following the hymn~

 

CHILDREN’S TIME: 

 

 

LORD’S PRAYER:

Abba with us,

hallowed be your name, 

your kingdom come, 

your 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 the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours 

forever and ever. AMEN.

 

PSALM: Psalm 8 (Read Responsively)

 

1 O Lord, our Sovereign,
   how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.
2     Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
   to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
   the moon and the stars that you have established;
4 what are humans that you are mindful of them,
   mortals that you care for them?

5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God
   and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
   you have put all things under their feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
   and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
   whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord, our Sovereign,
   how majestic is your name in all the earth!

 

MUSICAL OFFERING

 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION & ASSURANCE OF GRACE: 

When we join in confession
It is not to air guilt or to shame ourselves or others in defeat. 
It is to acknowledge many things:
The shame that weighs on our hearts, 
that God is eager to lighten. 
The thoughts or behaviours we would like to improve in ourselves and the world. 
Our trust in God
  to guide us, teach us, 
and our trust in God’s stubborn love. 

It is an act of truth to show God where we are vulnerable- 

   Our wounds or our trust. 

 

Let us put our hand in God’s

   And offer up ourselves to God’s challenge

   Of a love beyond all telling of it. 

 

It’s Father’s Day and Trinity Sunday- 

     Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, 
Parent, Child, and Wisdom

 

All:

We confess that our relationship with the men in our lives
haven’t all been easy.

All with ups and downs, 
  some mostly great, or mostly not great, 
  Some are pretty easy, while others are quite complicated. 

 

We confess there are challenges for some with naming God as Father.

Yet, for others, they find safety and refuge in You as the ideal Father they long for. 

For some, absence is better than presence, 

   For others, presence is better than nothing.

 

We confess that often in the name of equity, 

We are tempted to seize the power and privilege of Other-

Trusting the grass is greener there. 

But we end up dismissing another’s humanity as we deem them undeserving of the privilege we might envy. 

 

We struggle to understand “Other” 
  and in many ways fail men and boys 
  whether by imposing binary categories and boundaries 
  or failing to understand how they work and allow them to be. 

 

Our overreaction can crush the imperative of otherness within the beauty of creation. 

 

May we celebrate our differences,

   The needs of our bodies, 

     Hearts and minds. 

 

May we see how our expectations and perspectives may need to adjust. 

 

May our hearts not harden but blossom in trust of otherness. 

 

And may we laugh in the fullness of joy and appreciation for the beautiful kaleidoscope of God’s creation. 

 

Invitation to Faith

Feel this gift:
You are forgiven, loved, held by the Wisdom who rejoiced at your creation—and the grace that stands with you now.
May this Father’s Day and Trinity Sunday remind us:
God’s loving call includes us—imperfect, beloved—as part of the story of divine Wisdom, love, and hope.

 

All:
 Thanks be to God. Amen.

 

*CREED: 

 

We are not alone,
    we live in God’s world.

We believe in God:
    who has created and is creating,
    who has come in Jesus,
       the Word made flesh,
       to reconcile and make new,
    who works in us and others
       by the Spirit.

We trust in God.

We are called to be the Church:
    to celebrate God’s presence,
    to live with respect in Creation,
    to love and serve others,
    to seek justice and resist evil,
    to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
       our judge and our hope.

In life, in death, in life beyond death,
    God is with us.
We are not alone.

Thanks be to God.

 

*HYMN: VU #240 Praise, My Soul, the God of Heaven

 

♫1       Praise my soul, the God of heaven,

            glad of heart your carols raise;

            Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,

            who, like me, should sing God’s praise.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 

            Praise the Maker all your days!

 

2         Praise God for the grace and favour

            shown our forebears in distress;

            God is still the same forever,

            slow to chide and swift to bless.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

            Sing our Maker’s faithfulness!

 

3         Like a loving parent caring,

            God knows well our feeble frame;

            gladly all our burdens bearing,

            still to countless years the same.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

            All within me, praise God’s name!

 

4         Frail as summer’s flower we flourish;

            blows the wind and it is gone;

            but, while mortals rise and perish,

            God endures unchanging on.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

            Praise the high eternal one.

 

5          Angels, teach us adoration,

            you behold God face to face;

            sun and moon and all creation,

            dwellers all in time and space.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

            Praise with us the God of grace!

            

 

OFFERING:

            INVITATION TO INVEST IN GOD’S MISSION:

“Called by God, as disciples of Jesus, The United Church of Canada seeks to be a bold, connected, evolving church of diverse, courageous, hope-filled communities united in deep spirituality, inspiring worship, and daring justice.”

 

            OFFERTORY

 

            *DOXOLOGY: VU #542

 

♫       We give you but your own, 

what e'er the gift may be,
all that we have is yours alone, 
we give it gratefully.

           

PRAYER:

“We send forth our offerings in blessing and thanksgiving that they may serve God’s Holy mission that has this church. May we walk humbly in your way.”

 

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION:

God, YOUR WORD IS THE LAMP TO OUR FEET, AND A LIGHT TO OUR PATH. GIVE US GRACE TO RECEIVE YOUR TRUTH IN FAITH AND LOVE. May it be so.

 

SCRIPTURE READING: Romans 5:1–5

 

Results of Justification

5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access[b] to this grace in which we stand, and we[c] boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we[d] also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.                       The Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.

 

MESSAGE: “A Light on the Edge”

 

*CLOSING HYMN: VU #420 Go to the World

 

♫1       Go to the world! Go into all the earth.

            Go preach the cross where Christ renews life’s worth,

            baptising as the sign of our rebirth.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

 

2         Go to the world! Go into every place.

            Go live the Word of God’s redeeming grace.

            As servant Church, you follow Christ’s own way.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

 

3         Go to the world! Go struggle, bless and pray;

            the nights of tears give way to joyous day.

            As servant Church, you follow Christ’s own way.

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

 

4         Go to the world! Go as the ones I send,

            for I am with you ‘til the age shall end,

            when all the hosts of glory cry “Amen!”

            Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

 

*COMMISSIONING:

 

*SUNG RESPONSE:

 

♫        The Lord bless you, and keep you:

The Lord make his face shine upon you, 

and be gracious unto you:

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, 

and give you peace.  

 

POSTLUDE