Details of our Sunday Service

January 11, 2026

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​​First Reader: Fred Buckland

Second Reader: Marilee Marshall

Guest Soloist: Martin Gomes

Organist: Rashaan Rori Allwood

 

Prelude:

Prelude on Hymn 472

Improvisation: Rashaan Rori Allwood

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Hymn 472: 

Father, You Are Very Near Us,

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Scriptural Selection

Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

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Prayer

Silent prayer 

Followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy

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Our Father which art in heaven,     

Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,

Hallowed be Thy name.     

Adorable One.

Thy kingdom come.     

Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.     

Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

Give us this day our daily bread;     

Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.     

And Love is reflected in love;

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;     

And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.     

For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.

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From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.16, line 26

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Hymn 531: 

My One Desire, Dear Lord, With You To Walk;

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Notices

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Tenets of the Mother Church​​​​​​

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Offertory:

Offertoire sur les grands jeux

​​Composer: François Couperin

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Solo: 

Feed My Sheep

Words: Mary Baker Eddy

​​Composer: Frederic W. Root

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Subject: Sacrament

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GOLDEN TEXT

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Psalms 51:10, 12 (to ;)

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. . . .

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;

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RESPONSIVE READING

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Mark 1:4–8

John 3:27 A, 28 I said, 31, 34–36 (to :)

Mark 1:4  John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

5  And there went out unto him all the land of Judæa, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

6  And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

7  And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

8  I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

John 3:27  . . . A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

28  . . . I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

31  He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

34  For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

35  The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

36  He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:

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Silent Communion followed by the Lord's Prayer​​​

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Hymn 445:

Be Thou, O God, Exalted High;​​​​​​

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Scientific Statement of Being

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 9

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Correlative Scripture

I John 3:1–3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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Benediction

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Postlude:

Toccata in C, BWV 564

Composer: J. S. Bach

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