EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
- Motet: Whoever eats this bread will live forever.
- Hymn: How Clear is Our Vocation, Lord (Common Praise #466 – words below)
- Greeting, Land Acknowledgment & Collect of the Day
- First Reading: Amos 7:7-15
- Psalm 85:8-13; Lord, show us your mercy and love.
- Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 (reading in French)
- Hymn: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Common Praise #508 – words below)
- Gospel: Mark 6:14-29 (reading in the First Nations Version)
- Sermon: Gary van der Meer
- Prayers of the People: Erin Biggs
- Hymn: Blest Are the Pure in Heart (Common Praise #439 – words below)
- The Lord’s Prayer (sung)
- Doxology & Blessing
- Hymn: Be Thou My Vision (Common Praise #505 – words below)
- Dismissal
HOW CLEAR IS OUR VOCATION, LORD
How clear is our vocation, Lord,
When once we heed your call:
To live according to your word,
And daily learn, refreshed, restored
That you are Lord of all,
and will not let us fall.
But if, forgetful, we should find
Your yoke is hard to bear;
If worldly pressures fray the mind
And love itself cannot unwind
Its tangled skein of care
Our inward life repair.
We mark your saints, how they became
In hindrances more sure,
Whose joyful virtues put to shame
The casual way we wear your name
And by our faults obscure
Your power to cleanse and cure.
In what you give us, Lord, to do
Together or alone
In old routines or ventures new
May we not cease to look to you
The cross you hung upon
All you endeavoured done.
I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Come unto Me and rest;
lay down, thou weary one, lay down
thy head upon my breast.”
I came to Jesus as I was,
so weary, worn, and sad;
I found in Him a resting place,
and He has made me glad.
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Behold, I freely give
the living water, thirsty one;
stoop down, and drink, and live.”
I came to Jesus, and I drank
of that life-giving stream;
my thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
and now I live in him.
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“I am this dark world’s light;
look unto me, thy morn shall rise,
and all thy day be bright.”
I looked to Jesus, and I found
in Him my star, my sun;
and in that Light of life I’ll walk,
till travelling days are done.
BLEST ARE THE PURE IN HEART
Blest are the pure in heart,
for they shall see our God;
the secret of the Lord is theirs,
their soul is Christ's abode.
The Lord, who left the heavens
our life and peace to bring,
to dwell in lowliness with us,
our pattern and our King;
Still to the lowly soul
his presence doth impart,
and for his dwelling and his throne
chooseth the pure in heart.
Lord, we thy presence seek;
may ours this blessing be;
give us a pure and lowly heart,
a temple meet for thee.
BE THOU MY VISION
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me, save that thou art;
thou my best thought by day or by night
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
Be Thou my wisdom, and thou my true Word;
I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, thine own may I be,
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
Riches I heed not, nor the world’s empty praise,
Thou mine inheritance, now and always;
Thou and thou only the first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my treasure thou art.
High King of heaven, when victory is won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, bright heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.
