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SERVICE FOR THE LORD'S DAY First Presbyterian Church
Tallahassee, Florida
The Seventh Sunday of Easter
The Sunday after the Ascension
May 24, 2020
You are Invited to print this bulletin, or view it in a split screen on your computer.
Use it to help you take part in this “virtual” service of Lord’s Day worship.
The video of this service will be posted on our YouTube site: FPCTallahassee.
A link will also be posted on our website: www.oldirstchurch.org.
GATHERING
Voluntary Prayer of Christ Ascending to His Father Olivier Messiaen
*Prayer of the Day: A Litany for the Ascension of the Lord
Clap your hands, all you peoples;
shout to God with songs of joy.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
God has gone up with a shout,
the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
God is ruler over all the earth;
the Lord reigns on a holy throne.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
God put this power to work in Christ,
raising him from the dead.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
God has highly exalted him,
giving him the name above all names.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
Glory to God in the highest.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Concluding Prayer
*Hymn 662 bulletin, p. 5 Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies RATISBON
Congregational responses are in bold print.
The inscription above the
final movement of
L’Ascension, 1934: “Father . . .
I have revealed Your name
to humanity. . . . Now I am
no longer in the world, but
they are in the world and I
come to you.”
(John 17:1, 6, 11)
*Prayer of Confession
Almighty God,
you have raised Jesus from death to life, and crowned him Lord of all.
We confess that we have not bowed before him, or acknowledged his rule
in our lives. We have gone along with the ways of the world, and failed
to give him glory.
Forgive us, and raise us from sin, that we may be your faithful people,
obeying the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ, who rules the world
and is head of the church, his body.
Silence is kept.
*Kyrie Eleison John Weaver
*Declaration of Forgiveness
*Gloria in Excelsis 583 sung twice in Latin Jacques Berthier
*The Peace
The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
And also with you.
THE WORD
Prayer for Illumination
First Lesson Acts 1:1-14
Psalm 47, No. 261 bulletin, p. 6 Peoples, Clap Your Hands! GENEVAN 47
Second Lesson 1 Peter 4:12–14; 5:6–11
*Gradual Hymn 492 bulletin, p. 7 You Belong to Christ YOU BELONG TO CHRIST
*Gospel Lesson John 17:1-11
Sermon
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The Prayer of
Confession and
Declaration of
Forgiveness are offered
from the baptismal font.
We believe that baptism
enacts and seals God’s
grace, offered freely to
all people.
Music: John Weaver ©
1990. All rights reserved;
used by permission of
the composer.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
(“Glory to God in the
Highest”) is a hymn of
praise developed from
Luke 2:14 (sung by the
angels to the shepherds
announcing Christ’s
birth).
Music: © 1979, 1981 Les
Presses de Taizé (admin.
GIA Publications, Inc.)
Reprinted under
OneLicense.net #A-
711109
The reader offers a
phrase to mark the end
of each reading, such as,
The Word of the Lord, or
Holy Wisdom, Holy Word.
The assembly responds,
Thanks be to God.
The hymn sung
immediately before the
reading of the Gospel is
called the Gradual, or
Gradual Hymn, which
refers to the step
(Latin gradus) from which
it was chanted in
medieval church practice.
After the reading of the
Gospel the reader says,
The Gospel of the Lord.
The assembly responds,
Praise be to you, O
Christ.
*Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles’ Creed Hymnal, Page 35 (front)
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord;
who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried;
he descended into hell;
the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and sitteth on the right hand
of God the Father Almighty;
from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
the holy catholic church;
the communion of saints;
the forgiveness of sins;
the resurrection of the body;
and the life everlasting. Amen. Announcements
Prayers of the People
THE EUCHARIST
Offertory
Anthem Most Glorious Lord of Life William H. Harris
Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day didst make thy triumph over death and sin,
And having harrowed hell, didst bring away captivity thence captive, us to win.
This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin, and grant that we for whom thou diddest die,
being with thy dear blood clean washed from sin, may live forever in felicity;
And that thy love we weighing worthily, may likewise love thee for the same again;
And for thy sake, that all like dear didst buy, with love may one another entertain.
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
*Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise . . .
*The Lord’s Prayer Hymnal, p. 35 (front)
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.
Various forms of the
Apostles’ Creed were
used from the second
century onward.
Eucharist means
“Thanksgiving.”
Text: “Most glorious
Lord... “ begins the
sonnet “Easter”
by Edmund Spenser
(c. 1552-99), which is the
68th poem in his sonnet
sequence Amoretti.
Music: Harris (1883-
1973), 1932
The Prayer of
Thanksgiving begins
with an exchange
between the minister and
people, called the Sursum
Corda, meaning “hearts
lifted.” This dialogue
dates to the 3rd century
or earlier.
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Brant S. Copeland, Pastor
Michael Corzine, Organist & Choirmaster
Christy Williams, Director of Christian Education
Dolores Ingraham, Emory Hingst, Leo Sandon, and Mary Vance, Parish Associates
First Presbyterian Church Phone 222-4504
110 North Adams Street Fax 222-2215
Tallahassee, FL 32301 www.facebook.com/oldfirstchurch
E-mail: [email protected] website: www.oldfirstchurch.org
SENDING
*Blessing
*Hymn 826 bulletin, p. 8 Lift High the Cross CRUCIFER
*Charge
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
Thanks be to God. Alleluia, Alleluia!
*Voluntary HERR JESU CHRIST, DICH ZU UND WEND, BWV 632 J. S. Bach
Lord Christ, reveal Thy holy face, and send the Spirit of Thy grace,
To fill our hearts with fervent zeal, to learn Thy truth, and do Thy will.
SERVING IN THE LITURGY
Presider and Preacher Brant S. Copeland
Readers Donnie Watts
Jamie Van Pelt
Monique Ellsworth
Cantor Allison Stokes
Choral Scholars Levi Gerke
Rachel Hillman
Jon Mathes
Allison Stokes
Organist & Choirmaster Michael Corzine
Videographer Carl Morse
Giving the Charge Celeste Diaz-Atkinson
Announcements
The anthem and closing hymn were sung and recorded by the four choral scholars, each from his/her own home, via the Apple
Acapella application. We are grateful to Marissa Hall for technical guidance/assistance in these projects.
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Text: Charles Wesley
(1707-1788), 1740
Music: RATISBON
Text and music public
domain
The candle by the
baptismal font is the
Paschal Candle.
It was lit from the new
fire kindled at the Easter
Vigil, and will burn for all
seven Sundays of
Eastertide, for baptisms,
and for funerals.
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Text: Joy F. Patterson (b. 1931) © 1990
Music: GENEVAN 47, attr.
Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510
-c. 1561); first pub. 1551
in the Genevan psalter;
harm. Claude Goudimel
(c. 1505-1572)
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Text: Anon., Evangelical Lutheran Worship, 2002 Music: YOU BELONG TO
CHRIST, Robert A. Hobby
(b. 1962) © 2003
Augsburg Fortress;
Reprinted under
OneLicense.net #A-
711109
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Text: George William Kitchin (1827-1912), rev. Michael Robert Newbolt (1874-1956); © 1974 Hope Publishing Co. Reprinted under OneLicense.net #A-711109. Music: CRUCIFER, Sydney Hugo Nicholson(1875-1947), 1916; Intro. by Roy H. Johnson (1934-2014)