March 29, 2026
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Sunday, March 29
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
Gather around the Word
PRELUDE
Air Pour Les Trompettes
J. S. Bach, arr. Michael Allen
Stabat Mater Dolorosa
Giovanni Palestrina, arr. Eric Bell
Procession of the Nobles
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Keith Terret
INTROIT
Hosannah to the Son of David
G. Allen Smith
Hosannah to the Son of David, Hosannah! Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest, Hosannah to the Son of David, Hosannah!
*DOXOLOGY
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below; praise God above, ye heavenly host; Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good!
All: God’s steadfast love endures forever!
One: Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes
in the name of the Lord.
All: Hosanna in the highest heaven!
One: The Lord is our God, and has given us light;
All: Great is our God, and we give thanks
to the Lord.
One: Hosanna to the Son of David!
All: Hosanna! Save us, O God. Hosanna!
God’s steadfast love endures forever.
*HYMN 196
“ALL GLORY, LAUD AND HONOR”
All glory, laud, and honor to thee, Redeemer, King, to whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring!
Thou art the King of Israel, thou David’s royal Son, who in the Lord’s name comest, the King and blessed One.
The people of the Hebrews with palms before thee went; our praise and prayers and anthems before thee we present.
To thee, before thy passion, they sang their hymns of praise; to thee, now high exalted, our melody we raise.
Thou didst accept their praises; accept the prayers we bring, who in all good delightest, thou good and gracious King!
TIME WITH CHILDREN (9:30)
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God, we approach you with remorse, asking for healing and forgiveness. We have withheld from your people, our neighbors, and from your creation, our Earth, the care and tending they deserve.
We have rejected the cornerstone you sent to build a people of righteousness even here today.
Forgive our failings. Heal what we have broken, nurture what we have neglected, and lead us to your vision, so that we may know the peace of wholeness in you; in Jesus’ name. Amen.
EXTINGUISHING THE LENTEN CANDLE
KYRIE
HYMN 551
Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy;
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy;
Lord, have mercy upon us.
DECLARATION OF PARDON
One: Friends, believe the good news.
All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.
*SHARING THE PEACE OF CHRIST
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all.
All: And also with you.
We invite you to greet those around you, wishing them “peace” or “the peace of Christ,” and encourage those online to text or email someone to let them know you are thinking of them.
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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ANTHEM
Out of the Deep (from Requiem)
John Rutter
LISTENING FOR THE WORD
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING
PSALM 118: 1–2, 19–29
1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his steadfast love endures forever!
2 Let Israel say,
“His steadfast love endures forever.”
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness,
that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
20 This is the gate of the Lord;
the righteous shall enter through it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me
and have become my salvation.
22 The stone that the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone.
23 This is the Lord’s doing;
it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save us, we beseech you, O Lord!
26 Blessed is the one who comes
in the name of the Lord.
27 The Lord is God,
and he has given us light.
28 You are my God,
and I will give thanks to you;
you are my God; I will extol you.
29 O give thanks to the Lord,
for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever.
*GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. Amen.
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING
MATTHEW 21: 1–11
1 When they had come near Jerusalem
and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives,
Jesus sent two disciples,
2 saying to them,
“Go into the village ahead of you,
and immediately you will find a donkey tied
and a colt with her; untie them
and bring them to me.
3 If anyone says anything to you,
just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’
And he will send them immediately.”
4 This took place to fulfill
what had been spoken through the prophet:
5 “Tell the daughter of Zion,
Look, your king is coming to you,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
6 The disciples went
and did as Jesus had directed them;
7 they brought the donkey and the colt
and put their cloaks on them,
and he sat on them.
8 A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road,
and others cut branches from the trees
and spread them on the road.
9 The crowds that went ahead of him
and that followed were shouting,
“Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is the one who comes
in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
10 When he entered Jerusalem,
the whole city was in turmoil,
asking, “Who is this?”
11 The crowds were saying,
“This is the prophet Jesus
from Nazareth in Galilee.”
One: The Word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
BACH CANTATA #12
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
Johann Sebastian Bach
I. SINFONIA
II. CHORUS: Weeping, lamentation, worry, despair, anguish, and trouble are the Christian's bread of tears, that bear the marks of Jesus.
III. RECITATIVO: We must enter the Kingdom of God through much sorrow.
IV. ARIA: Cross and crown are bound together, struggle and reward are united. Christians have at all times their suffering and their enemy, yet their comforts are Christ's wounds.
V. ARIA: I follow after Christ, I will not let go of him in prosperity and hardship, in life and mortality. I kiss Christ's shame, I will embrace his cross. I follow after Christ, I will not let go of him.
VI. ARIA: Be faithful, all pain will yet be only a little thing. After the rain blessing blossoms, all storms pass away. Be faithful, be faithful!
VII. CHORALE: Jesus, my joy, my heart's pasture, Jesus, my treasure! Ah, how long, ah long has my heart suffered and longed for you! God's lamb, my bridegroom, besides you on earth nothing shall be dearer to me. What God does, is well done, I will cling to this. Along the harsh path trouble, death and misery may drive me. Yet God will, just like a father, hold me in his arms: therefore I let him alone rule.
RESPONDING TO THE WORD
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
THE LORD’S PRAYER (UNISON)
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom
and the power
and the glory forever.
Amen.
CALL TO OFFERING
OFFERTORY ANTHEM
O Justi (The mouth of the righteous)
Anton Bruckner
*OFFERTORY RESPONSE
HYMN 652, v. 1
A grateful heart is what I bring,
a song of praise, my offering.
Among the saints I lift my voice:
in you, O God, I will rejoice.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION (UNISON)
In gratitude for the hope and love Christ came into this world to proclaim, we bring these gifts seeking to make that hope and love better manifest in our world.
May God's will truly be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
BEARING THE WORD INTO THE WORLD
*HYMN 221
“O SACRED HEAD NOW WOUNDED”
O sacred head, now wounded,
with grief and shame weighed down;
now scornfully surrounded
with thorns, thine only crown;
O sacred head, what glory,
what bliss till now was thine!
Yet, though despised and gory,
I joy to call thee mine.
What thou, my Lord, hast suffered
was all for sinners’ gain:
mine, mine was the transgression,
but thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior!
’Tis I deserve thy place;
look on me with thy favor,
and grant to me thy grace.
What language shall I borrow
to thank thee, dearest friend,
for this thy dying sorrow,
thy pity without end?
O make me thine forever;
and should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never
outlive my love to thee.
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
*CHORAL BENEDICTION
Amen
John Rutter
POSTLUDE
Sonata Pian e forte
Giovanni Gabrielli, arr. Mark King
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