Details of our Sunday Service

December 14, 2025​​

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​​First Reader: Fred Buckland

Second Reader: Marilee Marshall

Guest Soloist: Martin Gomes

Organist: Rashaan Rori Allwood

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Prelude:​​

Prelude on Hymn 498

Improvisation: Rashaan Rori Allwood​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Hymn 498:

How Firm a Foundation

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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 465: 

Dear Shepherd, You Are Love Divine

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Notices

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Solo: 

Christ My Refuge

Words: Mary Baker Eddy

Composer: Frederic W. Root

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​​​​​​​​GOD the PRESERVER of MAN​​​​​​​

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GOLDEN TEXT

Psalms 107:1 (to :), 29

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: . . . He maketh the storm

a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

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RESPONSIVE READING

Isaiah 54:11, 13; 42:5 (to 1st ;), 6; Matthew 14:14; 8:23–27

Isa. 54:11  O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

13  And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

42:5  Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out;

6  I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

Matt. 14:14. And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

8:23  And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.

24  And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

25  And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.

26  And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

27  But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

 

Offertory:

In wunnigklichem schertzen,

Composers: Anonymous, Buxheimer Orgelbuch

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Hymn 474:

Father, We Your Loving Children

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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 from Dieu Parmi Nous

Composer: Olivier Messiaen

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