Our services

Welcome ! We meet at 11:00 and have tea of coffee after the service.

Services

Sunday 3 March 2019
Welcome to the Scots Kirk Paris
If you are visiting, know that you are welcome and please take the greetings of the Scots Kirk Paris back home. If you are settling in Paris, may you find a home here. Please sign the “visitor’s book” on the entrance table and join us for refreshments after the service. Mobile phone switched off…?

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Today we celebrate Communion – God’s meal of grace given to all of us.

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Today marks Transfiguration Sunday and the final Sunday before Lent, where we reflect on
the identity of Jesus and the disciples encountering Jesus as He truly is – the Son of God.
This week we also mark International Women’s Day, which is celebrated annually across the world on 8 March. International Women’s Day is a time to: celebrate acts of courage and conviction by women who have played an extraordinary role in their communities and in the world.

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Presbytery Meeting
In two weeks we host the Presbytery meeting. This is the Presbytery for International Charges of the Church of Scotland. Let us receive them with hospitality and a great welcome! We have a POTLUCK LUNCH on Sunday 10 March to which we are all intvited. Please have a look at the lists on the notice board to see where you could help.
Thanks!

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7 April 2019
On this Sunday (a month after the Presbytery meeting) we plan to have the formal “inauguration” of the wooden cross which has just been put up in the stairway. This wooden cross comes from the previous church building and was donated by George Watson College in Edinburgh. On this Sunday we will have some guests here. The present head master of George Watson College will also attend this event.

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Call to Worship
We gather to celebrate Your loving presence,
and to be strengthened to live the life
You have given us.

Hymn 198 Let us build a house where love can dwell

1. Let us build a house where love can dwell
and all can safely live,
a place where saints and children tell
how hearts learn to forgive.
Built of hopes and dreams and visions;
rock of faith and vault of grace;
here the love of all shall end divisions:
All are welcome, all are welcome,
all are welcome in this place.

2. Let us build a house where prophets speak,
and words are strong and true,
where all God’s children dare to seek
to dream God’s reign anew.
Here the cross shall stand as witness
and as symbol of God’s grace;
here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:
All are welcome, all are welcome…
all are welcome in this place

3. Let us build a house where love is found
in water, wine and wheat:
a banquet hall on holy ground
where peace and justice meet.
Here the love of God through Jesus
is revealed in time and space;
as we share in Christ the feast that frees us:
All are welcome; all are welcome…
all are welcome in this place
4. Let us build a house where hands will reach
beyond the wood and stone
to heal and strengthen, serve and teach,
and live the word they’ve known.
Here the outcast and the stranger
bear the image of love’s face;
let us bring an end to fear and danger:
All are welcome; all are welcome…
all are welcome in this place

5. Let us build a house where all are named,
their songs and visions heard
and loved and treasured, taught and claimed
as words within the word.
Built of tears and cries and laughter,
prayers of faith and songs of grace;
let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:
All are welcome…
all are welcome…
all are welcome in this place

Prayer

Hymn 775 In the Lord I’ll be ever thankful
In the Lord I’ll be ever thankful - In the Lord I will rejoice
Look to God, do not be afraid Lift up your voices, the Lord is near.
Lift up your voices, the Lord is near.
Reading: Exodus 34:29-35; Luke 9:28-36
Exodus 34:29-35   When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord . When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to them. Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai. When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. But whenever he entered the Lord ’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord .

Luke 9:28-36    About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.) While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.” When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. The disciples kept this to themselves and did not tell anyone at that time what they had seen.

Sermon
A community which is witness to a different Presence

The Sacrament of the Holy Communion

Invitation
Prayer
Hymn 775 Jesus remember me
Jesus remember me - when you come into your Kingdom
Jesus remember me when you come into your Kingdom

Communion

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Share the Peace

Offering
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

Welcome and Intimations
Hymn 336 Christ is our light

1 Christ is our light! the bright and morning star
covering with radiance all from near and far.
Christ be our light, shine on, shine on we pray
into our hearts, into our world today.
2 Christ is our love! baptized that we may know
the love of God among us, swooping low.
Christ be our love, bring us to turn our face
and see in you the light of heaven's embrace.
3 Christ is our joy! transforming wedding guest!
Through water turned to wine the feast was blessed.
Christ be our joy; your glory let us see,
as your disciples did in Galilee.

Benediction
Ubi caritas
Ubi caritas et amor
Ubi caritas Deus ibi est
où est l’amour - et charité
où est l’amour - Dieu lui-même est là
Where there is love, selfless love
where there is love, there is God our Lord
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On Sale for Church Funds:
"The Tartan Pimpernel" by the Rev Donald Caskie
Scots Kirk tea towels & notelets
and the Scots Kirk Recipe Book.

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Contact
17 rue Bayard, Paris 75006
Minister: Rev Jan Steyn
Tel. 01 48 78 47 94
Session clerk: Dorothy Mure
Pianist: Mr Paul Snelgrove
e-mail: scotskirkparis@orange.fr
Web-site: www.scotskirkparis.com
Facebook page: ScotsKirkParis
Amis: https://amisskp.wixsite.com/amisskp

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Announcements

A warm welcome to visitors worshipping with us today.

We will be pleased if you can join us upstairs for some tea or coffee after the Service. We ask you to take the greetings of the Scots Kirk back home with you to your own Church.

Each week we collect items for the Missionnaires de la Charité who work with homeless men in Paris. There is a list of items required throughout the year above the basket in the hallway.

FOR SALE for Church funds: “The Tartan Pimpernel” by the Rev Donald Caskie, former Minister of the Scots Kirk:
and Scots Kirk tea-towels, postcards, and notelets.

Contact: Tel: 0148784794 E-mail: scotskirkparis AT orange.fr