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Join us online for worship on Sunday, May 30, 2021. The service will have magnificent music provided by Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music and Eric Plutz, University Organist.

The recorded service is available Sunday at 8am here Chapel Service . This service will remain archived after the premiere (along with concerts and other amazing programs), and we encourage you to return to them whenever you might find that to be helpful.

Please note this is a fully virtual event.

Guest preaching today is Alex Serna-Wallender, University Chaplain at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.

Summer Service Bulletin for Sunday, May 30, 2021

Invitatory: Amazing Grace arranged by Dale Wood (1923-2003)

Welcome & Introduction of Guest Preacher: Dean Boden

Call to Worship

Reading: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

Sermon: “Benediction” by Alex-Serna Wallender

Hymn: God Our Author and Creator (Jefferson)

God our Author and Creator, in whose life we find our own, make our daily witness greater, by our lives make your love known. Help us show how love embrace those whom fear and greed downtrod; in all yearning hearts and faces let us see a child of God.

Keep us faithful, Holy Spirit, help us bear the message true, that at last all lands may hear it: “God is love, Christ died for you. “Join our lives in mighty chorus till we come from every place, with all those who went before us, to the fullness of God’s grace.

Pastoral Prayer

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 evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayer for Princeton: O Eternal God, the source of life and light for all peoples, we pray you would endow this University with your grace and wisdom: give inspiration and understanding to those who teach and to those who learn; grant vision to its trustees and administrators; to all who work here and to all who bear her name give your guiding Spirit of sacrificial courage and loving service. Amen.

Benediction

Voluntary: Fugue in E-flat ("St. Anne"), BWV 552 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Today's Guest Preacher: Rev. Alex Serna-Wallender serves as the University Chaplain and Everett H. Jones Chair of Ministry at Trinity University. He is an alum of Trinity and Princeton Seminary and has previously had the joy of serving in the Office of Religious Life at Princeton, among other institutions.

The University Chapel is a welcoming community of faith. We gather to sing God's praises, to hear God's living Word, to seek justice, and to proclaim God's love for all people.

University Chapel Staff: The Rev. Alison L. Boden, Ph.D., Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel; The Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel; Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music; Eric Plutz, University Organist; Elizabeth Powers, Chapel Administrator; Edgar Gomez, Sexton; Lisa McGurr, Sexton

Calendar: All events are fully virtual and available online at chapel.princeton.edu. For additional info, please call 609-258-3047 or visit chapel.princeton.edu

Next Sunday, June 6, 2021, Summer Chapel Service. Our guest preacher will be Allen M. Wakabayashi, Chaplain of The Episcopal Church at Princeton, Princeton, NJ.

Summer Preacher Schedule Continues:

Sunday, June 13 - Rev. Yedea H. Walker, MDIV., JD, Princeton Theological Seminary, Itinerant Elder, AME Church, Director of Student Life Programs, Princeton, NJ

Sunday, June 20 - David Buschman, Baptist Chaplain & Chaplain for Athletes in Action at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Sunday, June 27 - Brian Lee, Clergy Candidate in the Mountain Sky Conference of the UMC, Denver, CO

Sunday, July 4 - Jenna Reed, Princeton Chapel PTS Seminary Intern 2019-20, St. Andrews, Scotland

Sunday, July 11 - Rev. Dr. Aqueelah Ligonde, PCUSA & Ministry Architects & Ministry Incubators Interim Pastor/Coach/Consultant in New York City, NY

Sunday, July 18 - Mark Elsdon, Executive Director at Pres House at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Sunday, July 25 - Rev. Julie Wilson, Missionary at the UMC General Board of Global Ministries, Winston-Salem, NC

Sunday, Aug 1 - Rev. Stanley A. Williams, III, Assistant Pastor at Zion Temple United Church of Christ, Durham, NC

Sunday, Aug 8 - Shannon Sullivan, Senior Pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church, Frederick, MD

Sunday, Aug 15 - Dwalunda Alexander, Preaching Associate at Greater Saint Stephen First Church, Fort Worth, TX

Sunday, Aug 22 - Hector Herrera III, Associate Pastor at Tokyo Union Church, Tokyo, Japan