CRCDS 2021 Baccalaureate Service Program

2021 Baccalaureate Service May 21 6:00pm (EDT)

2021 Baccalaureate ORDER OF SERVICE Prelude

"Be Thou My Vision"

Call to Worship (Lighting of the Candle) Invocation

Lynda J. Myers

Hilary J. Scarsella, Ph,D, Assistant Professor of Ethics Director Gender, Sexual and Racial Justice

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 12: 12 - 31

Rev. Marco D. McNeil

Invitation to Reflection

Mark Brummitt, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Assistant Dean of Students

Reflections from the Class of 2021 Hymn

"We've Come This Far By Faith"

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Celebration of Holy Eucharist

See pages 4 - 6 The Rev’d. Melanie A. Duguid-May, Ph.D. Professor of Theology

Charge to the Graduates Sending Prayer

Doxology

Rev. Angela D. Sims, Ph.D. CRCDS President Deborah J. Rogers, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs

2021 Baccalaureate Service of Communion Celebrant: Come, Jesus, stay with us for the day is ending.

With friend, with stranger, with young and old, be among us this evening.

We offer our thanks and praise to God, joining that great cloud of witnesses surrounding us.

Come close to us, Jesus, that we may come close to you and one another.

Forgive us that we may forgive one another.

Renew us so that, where we have failed, we may begin again.

The People: Amen.

“Laudate Dominum” (Taize) Among friends, gathered around a table, Jesus took bread, and, having blessed it, he broke the bread and gave it to those who followed him, saying, “This is my body which is given for you.” In the same way Jesus took wine, and, having given thanks for it, he gave it to those who followed him, saying, “This cup is the cup of the new covenant with God.” “Do this for the remembrance of me. Await the day of my coming.”

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So now, following Jesus’ example, we take this bread and this wine; the ordinary things of the earth through which God is present to us and blesses us. And, as Jesus offered thanks for the gifts of this good earth, we now pray: The People: Blessed are you, O God, for you bring forth bread from the earth.

The People: Blessed are you, O God, for you ripen the fruit of the vine.

We thank you for the many people throughout the ages who have followed your way of life joyfully: for those who have offered up their very lives, so that your life abundant may become manifest.

We thank you for those who chose the way of Jesus. In the midst of trial, they held out hope; in the midst of hatred, they kindled love; in the midst of persecutions, they witnessed to your power; in the midst of despair, they clung to your promise.

We thank you, O God, for the truth they passed on to us: that life goes beyond death, because life is called to life, not death; that life blossoms into fullest flower in those who nurture life here on earth; in those who defend its rights, protect its dignity, insist on justice for the sake of restitution and reconciliation.

We offer you this bread and wine to nourish us. And so with all our sisters and brothers and friends and family and all the saints who touched us with your fire, whose lives are woven with our own, who challenge us to change the world with them; together with all who are behind us and before us and beside us, we praise you with our hearts and minds and bodies for your great faithfulness.

2021 Baccalaureate The People: For we have come this far by faith.

Now as we do what you did in that upstairs room, breathe your Spirit upon us and upon this bread and wine, that they may become heaven’s food and drink for us, nourishing and replenishing and making us whole that we may be your body on earth, The People: The gifts of God for the people of God. Alleluia! Alleluia!

2021 Baccalaureate Congratulations Class of 2021 School for Christian Leadership Kieran W. Andrews

Timothy Brown Graduate Certificate Studies Recipient Gregory Kremer Master of Divinity Graduates James Jufer Lynda Jean Myers Master of Arts Graduate Zhongya Shao Doctor of Ministry Graduates Lewis J. Dixon

Carolyn Ann Peeler

Randall E. McCaskill, Jr.

Michael Wesley Rogers

Marco D. McNeil

Dustin Berlack Sullivan

Nancy Ellen Meehan Yao

JaCon Canese Washington

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