2025-10-26-Service
Summerlea United Church
225 50th Ave, Lachine, Québec, H8T2T7, Canada. 514-634-2651


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Sunday, October 26, 2025


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Introit:

Lord Prepare Me to Be a Sanctuary
(MV 18)

Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary
Pure and holy, tried and true
With thanksgiving, I'll be a living
Sanctuary for you.










Spirit of the living God
(VU 376, verse 1)

Spirit of the living God,
Fall afresh on me;
Spirit of the living God,
Fall afresh on me.
Melt me, mold me,
Fill me, use me;
Spirit of the living God,
Fall afresh on me.






Call to Worship

Come and worship, the God of all Creation!
Our God is worthy of our praise and adoration.
Come and worship, the God of all Forgiveness!
Our God is ready and willing to forgive us our
sins and transgressions.
Come and worship, the God of Love!
We worship you, O God,
with all our heart, soul, and mind.









Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above
(VU 216)

Sing praise to God who reigns above,
The God of all creation,
The God of power, the God of love,
The God of our salvation.
With healing balm my soul is filled
And every faithless murmur stilled:
To God all praise and glory.



What God's almighty power hath made
God's gracious mercy keepeth,
By morning glow or evening shade
God's watchful eye ne'er sleepeth;
Within the shelter of God's might,
Lo! all is just and all is right:
To God all praise and glory.

Our God is never far away,
But through all grief distressing,
An ever present help and stay,
Our peace and joy and blessing.
As with a mother's tender hand,
God gently leads the chosen band:
To God all praise and glory.


Thus, all my gladsome way along,
I sing aloud Thy praises,
That all may hear the grateful song
My voice unwearied raises.
Be joyful in your God, my heart!
Both soul and body take your part:
To God all praise and glory.


Prayer of Confession

Loving God, when we see ourselves as a cut above others,
Bring us down to earth.
Loving God, when we insist on our own way,
Enable us to understand what that means, to those close to us.
Loving God, when we ignore the crying needs around us,
Wake us up to respond to them.
Loving God, when we are full of our own self-importance,
Put a child in our midst.
Loving God, when we trumpet our own greatness,
Show us the path that leads to humility.






Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart
(VU 378)

Spirit of God, descend upon my heart,
wean it from sin, through all its pulses move.
Stoop to my weakness, strength to me impart
And make me love you as I ought to love.
I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,
No sudden rending of the veil of clay,
No angel visitant, no opening skies;
But take the dimness of my soul away.

 
Have you bid me love you, God and King,
love you with all our heart and strength and mind?
I see the cross- there teach my heart to cling.
O let me seek you and O let me find!
Teach me to feel that you are always nigh;
teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
teach me the patience of unceasing prayer.

 
Teach me to love you as your angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame:
the fullness of the heaven-descended Dove;
my heart an altar, and your love the flame.


Prayer for Illumination

Gracious God,
as we turn to your Word for us,
may the Spirit of God rest upon us.
Help us to be steadfast in our hearing,
in our speaking, in our believing,
and in our living.
Amen



Reading scripture reading this week is

Barbara C.



R. Praise is due to you,
O God, in Zion.

Psalm 65

The Voices United text is HERE.


Luke 18:9 - 14

The written text is HERE.


Come to my Heart
(VU 661)

Come to my heart, Lord Jesus;
Teach me to walk in your way.
Come to my heart, Lord Jesus;
Come to my heart today.
Give me the peace and joy
That only you can bring.
Come to my heart, Lord Jesus;
Give me a song to sing.



Fill me with love, Lord Jesus;
Teach me to walk in your way.
Fill me with love, Lord Jesus;
Fill me with love today.
Give me the peace and joy
That only you can bring.
Fill me with love, Lord Jesus;
Give me a song to sing.


Answer my prayer, Lord Jesus;
Teach me to walk in your way.
Answer my prayer, Lord Jesus;
Answer my prayer today.
Give me the peace and joy
That only you can bring.
Answer my prayer, Lord Jesus;
Give me a song to sing.


Tessa brings us her

Sunday Message

- The Anthem -
Lord, I stretch my hands to you;
No other help I know.
If you should leave me all alone,
Where, then, then, shall I go?
Oh, Lord, I give my soul to you.
I seek your care and love...

(By Jay Althouse)





Generous God, you have blessed us
with food and shelter;
family and friends;
and a willingness to give.
Accept and bless the gifts
that we bring before you,
and may you use them
to help those in need.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.










Forth in Your Name, O Christ
(VU 416)

Forth in your name, O Lord, we go,
Our daily labour to pursue, you, only you,
Resolved to know in all we think,
Or speak or do.



The task your wisdom has assigned here
Let us cheerfully fulfill,
In all our works your presence find,
And prove your good and perfect will.


You may we set at our right hand,
Whose eyes our inmost secrets view,
And labour on at your command
And offer all our works to you.

Help us to bear your easy yoke,
In every moment watch and pray,
And still to things eternal look,
And hasten to that glorious day.


Then with delight may we employ
All that your bounteous grace has given,
And run our earthly course with joy,
And closely walk with you to heaven.










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