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Transfiguration Year C
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Transfiguration Year C LECTIONARY GENERATED LITURGY Transfiguration Sunday Year C Exodus 34: 29-35; Psalm 99; 2 Corinthians 3;12-4:2; Luke 9:28-36. Rec. text - NRSV. Hymns are from the Australian Hymn Book (AHB) or Together in Song (TIS) unless otherwise indicated. Worship Leader - normal type. Congregational responses - bold type. Permission is granted to churches to use this material in services of worship. This liturgy remains the property of Moira B. Laidlaw. Additional resources for Transfiguration C: All Together OK, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, South Australia, 1996; All Together Whatever, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, South Australia, 2001; All Together Everybody, Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, South Australia, 1991; Be Our Freedom, Lord, Terry C. Falla, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, South Australia, 1994; Australian Prayers , Bruce Prewer, Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, South Australia, 1983. CALL TO WORSHIP: Based on Psalm 99 Let us worship and praise God’s great and holy name. Response by choir or solo: TIS 58 REFRAIN: Be exalted, O God...” God - lover of justice and righteousness - we bow down before you. Response by choir or solo: TIS 58 REFRAIN: Be exalted, O God...” Hidden in a cloud, God spoke to people of old, but God speaks to us now in Jesus Christ. Response by choir or solo: TIS 58 REFRAIN: Be exalted, O God...” We worship and adore you, O God, and joyfully praise your holy name. All Together OK 325: “Sing to God with joy and gladness” TIS 117/AHB 37: “ The Lord Jehovah reigns” AHB 37 Alternate tune AHB12 TIS 596/AHB 515: “Fill my whole life, O Lord my God” TIS 52/AHB 115: “Let us sing to the God of salvation” PRAYER OF ADORATION AND PRAISE Great and holy God, ruler of all time and space, we worship you with awe and adoration - your holiness and your glory are beyond our imagining. The whole created universe proclaims your glory and majesty. Yet you have reached out to us in Jesus and have revealed in him your abundant love for all people. We adore you, O God, and we praise your holy name. Let this time of worship bring honour and glory to you, holy and merciful God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen TIS 718: Glory to the King of kings” All Together Whatever 431: Glory to God” Sung as 4 part round OLD TESTAMENT: Exodus 34: 29-35 EPISTLE: 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 SUGGESTED CHILDREN’S TALK Either invite a recently married couple - where in the wedding ceremony the bride wore a veil covering her face - perhaps you could have a former bride bring her veil and demonstrate how she covered her face with it, and speak about how it felt: (a) for the bridegroom when he lifted the veil from the bride’s face, and (b) for the bride, when this happened; or - invite people in the congregation to speak about that experience. Does a bridegroom not experience the bride’s face as ‘glowing’ as ‘radiant’ when the veil is lifted? Relate this to the Old Testament reading when Moses had to cover his face with a veil because it was so radiant after speaking with God. In the Epistle, Paul says that now we do not need to cover our faces with a veil. Our relationship with Jesus causes our faces to radiate the same love that was in him and we want to make that love visible in all we do and say. In our baptism, when we are given a candle it is with these words: “You belong to Christ, the light of the world” and we are invited to let our light shine before the world...the light of Jesus’ love. When we live like that, people recognise our radiance and joy and we certainly won’t wish to cover that up. TIS 675/ALL TOGETHER EVERYBODY 217: “Lord, the light of your love is shining” (Shine, Jesus, shine) TIS 165/AHB 110: “Praise our God, the great creator” PRAYER OF CONFESSION: Could be spoken by two voices Lord Jesus Christ, through the freedom of your Spirit, we can relate to you with unveiled faces - radiating your glory and your love not only through our words and our deeds, but through our expression and our disposition. We confess, however, that our attitudes can conceal rather than reveal you. If we conceal your love because our eyes are veiled through prejudice and intolerance, forgive us, Lord. Silent confession If we conceal your glory by reflecting our self-centredness, forgive us, Lord. Silent confession If we conceal your truth through our lack of credible witness, forgive us, Lord. Silent confession If we conceal your justice through our failure to empower those who are powerless, forgive us, Lord. Silent confession If we conceal your mercy through hard and unforgiving attitudes, forgive us, Lord. Silent confession If we conceal your compassion through our indifference to those in need, forgive us, Lord. Silent confession Lord Jesus Christ, help us to renounce any shameful attitudes of mind and heart so that we reveal your glory in and through all we do and say and are. This we pray in your name, and in the power and freedom of the Holy Spirit. Amen ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS The Apostle Paul writes: “All of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image...” (2 Corinthians 3:18) And - “ If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17) The good news therefore is this: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Thanks be to God! GOSPEL: Luke 9:28-36 SERMON TIS 234/AHB 390: “How good, Lord, to be here!” TIS 437/AHB 352: “Blessed Jesus, at your word, we are gathered all to hear you” TIS 575/AHB 489: “O Jesus, Saviour, grow in me” TIS 685: “Lord I come to you” (The power of your love) SUGGESTIONS FOR PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION: “Like a jewel in the heavens” - page 106 - Be our Freedom, Lord and “On Transfiguration Day” - page 44 - Australian Prayers THE LORD’S PRAYER OFFERING OFFERTORY PRAYER: We glorify you, O God, through these gifts and our lives. May they be used to reveal your glory in ways which proclaim Jesus as your chosen and beloved Son, and which show that we have indeed listened to him. Amen TIS 461/AHB 395: “God, your glory we have seen in your Son” TIS 547/AHB 455: “Be thou my vision” TIS 261: “Lord, you are the light of life to me” BENEDICTION Go into this week radiant with the holiness of God transfigured by the glory of Jesus Christ shining with the exuberance of the Holy Spirit THREEFOLD AMEN |