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===Sunday, August 4, 2024===
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
  
===The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time===
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Fourth Sunday in Advent
  
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
  
====Opening Prayer Song Hymn====
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====Opening Song====
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"Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel"
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"Only in God"
 
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====Lighting of the Advent Candles====
  
=We Hear God's Word=
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4th Advent Sunday
  
====First Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1-15====
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Reader 1: Today we light four candles- the first Candle is called HOPE and it is a reminder that God's promises are true.
A reading by JoySophia via text chat
 
  
"First Reading 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a
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Reader 2: The second Candle is called PEACE, God's gentle loving peace for our lives.
  
When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son.
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Reader 3: The third Candle is called JOY, because of God's absolute presence in our lives.
  
But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD, and the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor. 2The rich man had very many flocks and herds; but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. He brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his meagre fare, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him. Now there came a traveller to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared that for the guest who had come to him." Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die; he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."
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Reader 4: The fourth Candle is called LOVE, because of God's great love for us.
  
Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul; I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added as much more. Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the LORD: I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this very sun. For you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD."
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All Readers: Come, all is ready. Let the light of these candles, called HOPE, PEACE, JOY, and LOVE, bring brightness to your spirits.
  
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[The first , second (purple), third (pink), and fourth (purple) Advent Candles are lighted]
  
====Second Scripture====
 
"Psalm 51"
 
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====First Scripture Reading====
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''Romans 1:1–7''
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====Third Scripture====
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=We Hear God's Word=
"Ephesians 4:1-16"
 
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====Fourth Scripture====
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====Gospel Reading====
"John 6:24-35"
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''Matthew 1:18-25''
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=We Respond in Prayer=
 
=We Respond in Prayer=
 
  
 
====Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession====
 
====Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession====
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====The Lord's Prayer====
 
====The Lord's Prayer====
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.   
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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.  Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.  Amen.
 
 
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.  
 
   
 
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,  
 
 
 
for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.   
 
 
 
Amen.
 
 
 
=We Go in God's Name=
 
 
 
  
====Closing Song: Thank You For Today  ====
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===Closing Prayer===
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"Advent Doxology"
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=We Go in Peace=
  
 
====Passing of the Peace====
 
====Passing of the Peace====
  
====Fellowship====
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====Fellowship & Conversation====

Latest revision as of 17:23, 21 December 2025

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Fourth Sunday in Advent

We Gather in God's Name

Opening Song

"Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel"


Lighting of the Advent Candles

4th Advent Sunday

Reader 1: Today we light four candles- the first Candle is called HOPE and it is a reminder that God's promises are true.

Reader 2: The second Candle is called PEACE, God's gentle loving peace for our lives.

Reader 3: The third Candle is called JOY, because of God's absolute presence in our lives.

Reader 4: The fourth Candle is called LOVE, because of God's great love for us.

All Readers: Come, all is ready. Let the light of these candles, called HOPE, PEACE, JOY, and LOVE, bring brightness to your spirits.

[The first , second (purple), third (pink), and fourth (purple) Advent Candles are lighted]


First Scripture Reading

Romans 1:1–7

We Hear God's Word

Gospel Reading

Matthew 1:18-25

We Respond in Prayer

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

Please stand when offering a prayer, so others will know you have the floor.

The Lord's Prayer

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. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

Closing Prayer

"Advent Doxology"

We Go in Peace

Passing of the Peace

Fellowship & Conversation