06/10/2026
Another week is moving quickly but at St. Paul's UMC West Deptford we will pause to gather together for Holy Communion. A time for faith restoration and an escape from the world’s hate.
Our doors open at 645am … Communion service at 7am.
Service of Holy Communion JUNE 10, 2026
Pastoral Invitation and Welcome – The Table of the Lord is open to any person of faith who chooses to connect with God knowing their need for forgiveness and restoration. These are moments for prayer, thought and reconnection with God’s love so let us make our confession together. We pause amidst a troubled world and our personal schedules that can overwhelm us to reconnect with God.
Prayer of Confession - Gracious and forgiving God, You always love us, yet we do not always act like we love You. Our self-delusions and self-justifications run deep. Too many times we trust in our own ability and decision-making. Too many times we fail to live as grateful disciples of Jesus Christ. Forgive us for our blindness, willfulness, and pride. Set us back on Your path of grace, witness, and service. We pray this humbly in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Silent Prayer of Confession
Words of Assurance
Psalm of the Day Psalm 119: 41-48 - “LORD, let your faithful love come to me— let your salvation come to me according to your promise— so I can have a response for those who mock me because I have trusted in your word! Please don’t take your true word out of my mouth, because I have waited for your rules. I will always keep your Instruction, always and forever! I will walk around in wide-open spaces, because I have pursued your precepts. I will talk about your laws before rulers with no shame whatsoever. I will rejoice in your commandments because I love them. I will lift up my hands to your commandments because I love them, and I will contemplate all your statutes.”
GOOD NEWS READING
MATTHEW 12: 1-8 - At that time Jesus went through the wheat fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry so they were picking heads of wheat and eating them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are breaking the Sabbath law.”
3 But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those with him were hungry? 4 He went into God’s house and broke the law by eating the bread of the presence, which only the priests were allowed to eat. 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple treat the Sabbath as any other day and are still innocent? 6 But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what this means, I want mercy and not sacrifice,[a] you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent. 8 The Human One[b] is Lord of the Sabbath.”
THE PEACE of the DAY –
The Great Thanksgiving The Lord be with you. And, also with you.
Lift up your hearts and experience the Holy.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Together we give praise and thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
We worship You our God acknowledging that it is right and a good and joyful thing always to honor You God Almighty every day. Jesus taught us that Your love is for ALL of humanity not just those who claim they are solely Yours. We are told to love ALL of humanity like Jesus did. We have no other gods before You, our God.
We come to You, our God, sensing Your love but also Your directives that we run away from evil condemning evil in all its forms. We search for the Light of Christ that has always existed so that we can join with the Holy Spirit walking in Your path doing justice in this life we live. We desperately want to walk humbly in love with You our God.
Jesus came to teach us how to live. He taught us Your expectations that we care for the poor amongst us and that we use all of our resources to bandage the hurting in the world. Jesus demonstrated what it means to love our neighbors and clearly answered those who doubted Him with the clarification we need to remember in our lives.
We come to Your Table in need of Your rescue. We need Your forgiveness and seek Your Salvation. We come knowing our need to worship and obey You as a means of showing our love for You, our God. And, so, with all your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise Your name and join their unending hymn:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of Your glory! Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!
Jesus came to Jerusalem for the Passover remembering how You rescued Your people from Egypt. He gathered His disciples with Him to share in the Seder meal. At that meal He took bread; and after thanking You, Jesus broke the bread, and shared the bread with his disciples, and said, "Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. When you gather together eat the bread and remember me.”
After supper he took the cup of wine; and after he had given thanks to You, He shared the cup with those around Him and said, "Drink this, all of you: This is my Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, remember me.”
O God, when we find our quiet places, we pray that You will restore our souls so that we can sense Your love. Allow this meal to give us Your peace as we give ourselves to You our God with thanksgiving. Together we proclaim the mystery of our faith:
Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
Loving God pour out Your Holy Spirit into each person worshiping with us this day. Bless us and renew our faith through Your Table and let Your Spirit be our guide in the days to come.
God, no human can limit You and we pray in these moments that You will bless the elements we each hold in front of us with the power of this Your Table. Transform them for us so that we will be the body and blood of Jesus Christ together with those who follow Jesus’ teaching in this world. This is Your meal created out of love for each of us as we pause on our personal holy ground and in this Your holy church.
By Your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world. Let Your Spirit shine Christ’s light through our daily life’s example in our words, our social media, and through our actions until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at His heavenly banquet.
Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit on the Holy Ground we each are on, all honor and glory is yours, Almighty God, now and forever.
Amen.
LORD’s PRAYER – 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen"
EATING THE BREAD -
THE SHARING of the CUP –
Dismissal with Blessing
