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Sunday, September 16, 2012
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Sunday, November 30th, 2025
  
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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1st Sunday in Advent
  
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
  
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====Opening Prayer====
  
====Opening Sentences====
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====Lighting of the Advent Candles====
  
Leader: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
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Reader 1: Today we light one candle - the Candle called HOPE, as a reminder that God's promises are true.
 
'''People:  Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.'''
 
  
Leader: They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.
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Reader 2: We place our hope in God.
  
'''People:  Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.'''
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Reader 3: We place our lives in God's care.
  
Leader: In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
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Reader 4: Come, all is ready. Let the light of this one candle, called HOPE, bring brightness to your spirits.
 
 
'''People: It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.'''
 
 
 
All:  It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
 
 
 
 
====Opening Prayer====
 
  
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=We Hear God's Word=
  
=We Hear God's Word=
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====Opening Song====
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-idI-xwdHc Click here to view the video at YouTube.com]
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*David Crowder, "Come Awake"
  
====Old Testament Scripture Reflection====
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====Scripture Reading====
''Proverbs 1:20-33''
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''Jeremiah 33:14-16''
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<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=574SWe2IM9w</embedvideo>
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=574SWe2IM9w Click here to view the video at YouTube.com]
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*[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2033:14-16 Read the passage at biblegateway.com]
  
====New Testament Scripture Reflection====
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====Advent Meditation====
''James 3:1-12''
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=We Respond in Prayer=
 
=We Respond in Prayer=
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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.
 
  
 
===Closing Prayer===
 
===Closing Prayer===
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Christmas Doxology
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<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jruTamMeEvM&list=RDjruTamMeEvM</embedvideo>
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jruTamMeEvM&list=RDjruTamMeEvM Click here to view the video at YouTube.com]
  
 
=We Go in Peace=
 
=We Go in Peace=
  
 
====Passing of the Peace====
 
====Passing of the Peace====
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====Fellowship & Conversation====

Latest revision as of 17:23, 30 November 2025

Sunday, November 30th, 2025

1st Sunday in Advent

We Gather in God's Name

Opening Prayer

Lighting of the Advent Candles

Reader 1: Today we light one candle - the Candle called HOPE, as a reminder that God's promises are true.

Reader 2: We place our hope in God.

Reader 3: We place our lives in God's care.

Reader 4: Come, all is ready. Let the light of this one candle, called HOPE, bring brightness to your spirits.

We Hear God's Word

Opening Song

Scripture Reading

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Advent Meditation

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

Christmas Doxology

We Go in Peace

Passing of the Peace

Fellowship & Conversation