SERVICE FOR THE LORD'S DAY First Presbyterian Church

Tallahassee, Florida

The Third Sunday after Pentecost

June 21, 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 Chromhorne en taille François Couperin

*Prayer of the Day

Teach us, good Lord,

to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost;

to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest;

to labor and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do your will;

through Jesus Chist our Lord, who lives and reigns with you

in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

*Hymn 679 bulletin, p. 5 Let the Whole Creation Cry SALZBURG

*Prayer of Confession

O Lord our God,

you call us to proclaim the gospel,

but we remain silent in the presence of evil.

You call us to be reconciled to you and one another,

but we are content to live in separation.

You call us to seek the good of all,

but we fail to resist the powers of oppression.

You call us to fight pretensions and injustice,

but we sit idly by, endangering the lives of people far and near.

Forgive us, O Lord.

Reconcile us to you by the power of your Spirit,

and give us the courage and strength

to be reconciled to others;

through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Savior.

Silence is kept.

*Kyrie Eleison Hal H. Hopson

Congregational responses are in bold print.

The tenth verse of the

Gloria of Couperin’s

(1668-1733) second

organ Mass, pub. 1690,

portraying the text,

“Lord God, Lamb of

God, Son of the Father.”

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: Hal H. Hopson (b.

1933), Musical Setting of

the Service for the Lord’s

Day © 2013 Birnamwood

Publications (admin.

Morningstar Music

Publishers, Inc.) Used by

permission. Reprinted

under OneLicense.net

#A-711109.

*Declaration of Forgiveness

*Gloria in Excelsis Hal H. Hopson

*The Peace

The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

And also with you.

THE WORD

Prayer for Illumination

First Lesson Genesis 21:8-21

Psalm 86, No. 844 bulletin, p. 6 Incline Your Ear, O Lord to Me DANBY

Second Lesson Romans 6:1b-11

*Gradual Hymn 246 bulletin, p. 7 Christ Is Alive! TRURO

Gospel Reading Matthew 10:24-39

Sermon

*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.

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).

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.

Various forms of the

Apostles’ Creed were

used from the second

century onward.

Announcements

Prayers of the People

THE EUCHARIST

Offertory

Hymn 493 sung by the Choir Now There Is No Male or Female OMNI DIE (TRIER)

*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.

SENDING

*Blessing

*Hymn 450 bulletin, p. 9 Be Thou My Vision SLANE

*Charge

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

Thanks be to God. Alleluia!

*Voluntary Dialogue sur les Grands jeux François Couperin

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona nobis pacem. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world: grant us peace.

Eucharist means

“Thanksgiving.”

Bulletin, page 8

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.

The third verse of the

Agnus Dei of Couperin’s

second organ Mass, pub.

1690.

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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: office@oldfirstchurch.org website: www.oldfirstchurch.org

SERVING IN THE LITURGY

Presider and Preacher Brant S. Copeland

Readers Timothy Hoekman

Daniel Hoekman

Carla Connors

Charge-givers Thatcher and Wilson Nalls

Cantor Rachel Hillman

Choral Scholars Levi Gerke

Rachel Hillman

Jon Mathes

Allison Stokes

Organist & Choirmaster Michael Corzine

Videographer Carl Morse

Charge-givers Thatcher Nalls

Wilson Nalls

Announcements

The Offertory Hymn was sung and recorded by the four choral scholars, each from his/her own home, via the Apple Acapella

application.

Our sister Madee Schestopol died Thursday, June 18. A memorial service will be held at Culley’s Funeral Home and live-streamed

through Culley’s website. The date of the service has not been set at this time.

Gifts to First Presbyterian Church may be online through the church website www.oldfirstchurch.org or by using this link. Gifts

may also made by texting GIVE to 850 583 7776.

The mailing address of the church is 110 North Adams Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32301

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Text and music: Public

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Text: Michael Morgan (b. 1948), 1995, © 2010 admin. Congregational Ministries Publishing, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); used by permission. Music: DANBY, English folk melody harm. Arthur Hutchings (1906-1989), 1981 © 1969 ICEL

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Text: Brian Wren (b.

1936), 1968 © 1975,

Hope Publishing Co., rev.

1995; reprinted under

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Music: anonymous; Public

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Text: Lynette Miller (b. 1943), © 1986 Music: anonymous

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Text: Irish poem trans.

Mary Byrne (1880-1931),

1905; versified by Eleanor

Hull (1860-1935), 1912,

alt.

Music: SLANE, Irish ballad

harm. David Evans (1874-

1948), © 1927 Oxford

University Press.

V. 4 harm. and descant:

Richard Webster (b. 1952) © 2004