1. A brief look at the beautiful Rapphannock River on Sunday
2. “Shall We Gather at the River” – Opening Hymn
3. Romans reading – Chapter 8 verses 25 -39
4. Gospel and Sermon – Rev. Tom Hughes
5. “Seek ye First”
6. “Be Thou My Vision”
Videos
Videos, Pentecost 7, July 16, 2023
Rain before Church!
Larry Saylor – Prelude
Gospel Matthew -The Sower
The Sermon- Rev. Catherine Hicks – a Modern Parable
Offertory – Choir Trio – “Nearer, My God to Thee”
Videos, Pentecost 6, July 9, 2023
Gospel and Sermon – Rev. Catherine Hicks
Post Communion Prayer and Blessing
Closing Hymn – Lord of all hopefulness
Videos, Pentecost 4, June 25, 2023
1. Gospel
2. Sermon – Rev. Tom Hughes
3. Prayers – Morning Prayer – Cookie Davis
Videos, Pentecost 3, June 18, 2023
Prelude – We Shall Overcome
Opening Hymn – Go Down Moses
Sequence Hymn – Tis the Gift to Be Simple
Gospel and Sermon – Gospel and Sermon – Rev. Catherine Hicks
Fathers Day Prayer
Blessing
Videos, Easter 7, May 21, 2023
1. Gospel and Sermon – The Rev. Thomas Hughes
Some of Tom’s themes in his sermon follow. Life is a process. Jesus leaves this before us and we are called to become one of the people to glorify God because we are one of God’s people. This means we are called to a deeper conscious awareness of God in our lives, sorting out God’s presense in my life and God’s presents to me.
We begin to have a deeper awareness of the meaning of things and presence of God. This is how we glorify God in how we live. People see God moving through our lives, we show it and this is how they come to know God as well.
We live a life where evil doesn’t dominate our lives since it has no ultimate power. We live in the love of God which is the ultimate power that is permanent and that all will be well. Presence of God in your life opens up of understanding of God and gives you a sense of purpose and direction in life that the world can’t give you. We should live a life process of becoming more we were. The purposes of God that are already within us will be unfolded
2. Prayers of the People
3 UTO Introduction
Tenebrae Returned! April 5, 2023,
1. Background of the service Tenebrae is the opening of the Holy Week services for the church.
Unlike the other Easter services, Tenebrae doesn’t relate to a specific Holy Week event as Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter.
“Tenebrae” is Latin for shadows. The purpose of the service is to recreate the emotional aspects of the passion story. This is an unusual service with its own Liturgy. There is no music – the readings carry the service. And it’s not from the traditional Gospel readings.
It sets a mood and brings you through the Holy Week story through a set of “shadows”. The shadows move through the agony of last week- Betrayal, Agony of the Spirit, Denial, Accusation, Crucifixion, Death and Burial – symbolized by the lighted candles.
Each shadow generally has a reading from Luke, a Psalm and a hymn. The readings range from Lamentations in the Old Testament to commentary from St Augustine, and at last a reading from Hebrews, in which the theology of God’s saving grace through Jesus Christ is presented for our consideration. The Psalms dominate the service.
This service makes use of the power of light and sound to emphasize the darkness of death. 15 candles are lit and extinguished gradually throughout the service until one is left. The candles are snuffed out as Jesus life was. The candle in the end, the Christ candle, is taken away seemingly saying that evil won. However, dramatically a noise is heard at the end denoting the events of Good Friday and the Christ candle is brought back, a solitary light in the darkness for resurrection into which we depart, indicating that Christ has triumphed.
2. Bulletin
4. Service (begins at 10:11)
2. Gospel John 3:1-17
3. Sermon Lent 2, Rev. Catherine Hicks
4. Offertory
5. Communion Hymn