Introit:                                

Peace Like a River with Grant Us Peace/Down by the Riverside

Grant Us Peace by Michael Scott

Traditional folk songs
Arranged by Jay Rouse and Camp Kirkland

Elena Walter, soloist

Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra

Grant Us Peace by Michael Scott
© 1990 Studio PR/CPP/Belwin, Inc.
Traditional Folk Songs
Arranged by Jay Rouse and Camp Kirkland
© 2002 PraiseGathering Music

Call to Worship    

Cathedral of Hope, we gather today to worship our God and to recall the promise of freedom on which this country was built.

We celebrate the opportunities offered to us by this land,

We remember those who in all times and places have been true and brave,

And we pray for peace and that justice may prevail throughout this world.

So rise, Church of God, in body and spirit, and lift your voices to the God of every nation! 

**Processional Hymn:  

This Is My Song 

This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is,
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes a dreams as true and high as mine.

My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are ev’rywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their and for mine.

This is my pray’r, O God of earth’s dominions:
Your justice come; on earth your will be done.
Let Christ’s example raise us all to service;
and hearts united learn to live as one. 
O hear my pray’r, O God of all the nations,
myself I give you, let your will be done.

Words and Music by Twila Paris
© 1999 Ariose Music, Mountain Spring Music

Welcome and Life of the Church   

Sacrament of Holy Baptism (10 a.m.)    

**Sharing of the Peace

Modern Lesson: Believer’s Hymn for the Republic 

Our Modern Lesson is the poem “Believer’s Hymn for the Republic” by former Youth National Poet Laureate of the United States, Amanda Gorman. Hear these words:

12 score and 3 years ago, to be exact,

Our founders dared to declare

The world's most revolutionary act:

A pact sworn for liberty and equality.

Out of many, was born one people;

A teeming nation made of nations,

At its very foundation a dream
For life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Today, we gather so that our Founders’ words do not go diminished.
But also so that the work does not go unfinished.
For it’s not just in a declaration of independence
But the everyday declaration of its descendants
That make a people equal.

It is our right and our role
To remember these words scratched on a scroll,
So we may live them and heal our nation whole.
We roll up our sleeves, we believe in the dream,
And these American stories, in the glory of the struggle,
For it is from our struggle that comes our nation’s strength,
For the lengths that we fight for what is right
Is the fullest measure of our country’s might.

And while we cannot shake or cast aside our past,
Every day we write the future.
Together we sign it,
Together we declare it, we share it,
For this truth marches on inside each of us:

Americans know one another by our love of liberty.
When in fact, we are liberated by our love for one another.
We understand that a house divided cannot stand.
So let us make a pact to be the country that acts
As compassionate as we are courageous.

In the declaration’s pages, we write a new order for the ages,
Where out of many, we are one,
Bright as a sun, and bold as an eagle,
A nation of all people, by all people, for all people.

Let this fourth of July
Move forth our cry to redeem the dream.
As we remember those words forever ignited
That we the people have so long heard and recited.
That we are right to stand
But are revolutionary when we stand united.

May God bless the hearing of these new words. Amen.

Gradual                                                 

When You Speak to Me

Choir:  When you speak to me, when I take the time to listen
there is peace to cover any pain.
When you speak to me, when you place your word inside me, I am filled and I am strong again.
There is an answer to every question: the answer is you.

ALL:     And the heavens open when you speak to me,
Pouring light into my waiting heart;
and the music fills an ocean silently, quietly,
when you speak to me.

**And the heavens open when you speak to me,
Pouring light into my waiting heart;
and the music fills an ocean silently, quietly,
when you speak to me; when you speak to me.       

Words and Music by Twila Paris
© 1999 Ariose Music, Mountain Spring Music

**Scripture Lesson: Acts 2:42-47  

One: Our Scripture Lesson is from the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Hear these words:

They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day God added to their number those who were being saved.

One: This is the Word of God for the People of God

All:    Thanks be to God. Amen.

**Gloria

Glory to God  

Glory to God on high and peace to all on earth.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Glory to Jesus Christ, the Lamb upon the throne.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Praise to the Holy Spirit,
who comforts us now and forevermore, Alleluia.
Praise the Creator, and Praise to Jesus Christ.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Amen. Amen!

Words adapted from the Latin Mass by Steven Couch
Music: Festival Canticle by Richard Hillert
© 1975, 1988 Richard Hillert/Oregon Catholic Press

Sermon                                               

The Miracle of Sharing

Offering Call   

Offertory                                                       

Hymn to the New Age

Words and Music by Lee Hoiby
Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra

Through the long night we have come. The sun is bright, the wars are done.
We will unite. We will be one. A new light has begun.

Smile, heaven, on our loving land. Shine blessings on our fair kingdom.
Enrich our time to come, with growing love, with joy abundant
and long prosperous days.
God’s blessings are renewed again. The face of freedom is revealed in sunlight.
Now sing in praise of life, with poems praise, with voices praise,
with drums, with trumpets praise.

God’s loving kingdom come to us. The gift of life and the gift of freedom.
Now shall peace reign, truth be revealed, and all wounds be healed.

So was it ever meant to be, resplendent hope of humankind:
to follow with the dove, the way of peace, the way of love.
So shall it be. So shall it be. So shall it ever be.

Words and Music: Lee Hoiby
© 1981 Schott Music Corporation

Communion       

Words of Institution      

Prayer of Consecration   

Let us pray.

Holy God, we thank you for these gifts of grape and grain, and pray that you would pour out your Holy Spirit on these elements and on us gathered here. Strengthen us through this feast of grace, and, by sharing this feast, may each of us know the presence of the living Christ. By your Spirit, make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world. Amen. 

Invitation 

Music during Communion

The Potter’s Hand

Beautiful Lord, wonderful Savior,
I know for sure all of my days are held in your hand,
crafted into your perfect plan
You gently call me into your presence,
guiding me by your Holy Spirit.
Teach me, dear Lord, to live all of my life through your eyes.

I’m captured by your holy calling.
Set me apart, I know you’re calling me to yourself.
Lead me, Lord, I pray.

Take me, mold me, use me, fill me,
I give my life to the Potter’s hand.
Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside me,
I give my life to the Potter’s hand.

The Potter’s hand.

Words and Music by Darlene Zschech
© 1997 Darlene Zschech/Hillsong Publishing 
 

Change My Heart, O God

Change my heart, O God, make it ever true.
Change my heart, O God, may I be like you.

You are the Potter, I am the clay;
Mold me and make me, this is what I pray.

Change my heart, O God, make it ever true.
Change my heart, O God, may I be like you.

Words and Music: Eddie Espinosa 
© 1982 Mercy Publishing

   How Great Thou Art

O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder
consider all the worlds thy hands have made,

I see the stars; I hear the rolling thunder,
thy pow’r throughout the universe displayed.

**Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee;
How great thou art! How great thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee;
How great thou art! How great thou art!

Words: Stuart K. Hine
Music: Swedish Folk Song, adapted by Stuart K. Hine
© 1949, 1953 The Stuart Hine Trust

**Prayer of Thanksgiving          

**Recessional Hymn:                                                                        

O God, We Thank You for This Land

O God, we thank you for this land and for the good on which we stand:
for people down through history who sought to make us kind and free,
for immigrants from every place who built this land with strength and grace.

We thank you, God, for people here who work to counter hate and fear;
who work for justice for the poor; who seek to bring an end to war;
who love the water, land and air and work for your creation’s care.

We thank you, too, for those who pause to see and challenge unjust laws;
for those whose vision leads the way to bring a gentler, nobler day;
for those who answer your great call to value, love and welcome all.

As we give thanks for this our land, may we, with others, take a stand:
may we a justice-vigil keep, and never let our conscience sleep;
for silence is complicity, and all are bound till all are free.

Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette © 2019; Used by Permission
Music: John Bacchus Dykes, 1861

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**Benediction   

Postlude for Dismissal

Flowers on the chancel are given in honor and memory of Ramiro Carbajal, Joe Carbajal's dad who passed away on

June 29, 2026 from your Cathedral of Hope family.