Event details

Join us online for worship on Sunday, March 7, 2021. The service will have magnificent music provided by Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music and Eric Plutz, University Organist and soloist Sean Crites '22.

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 Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Mercer University. This is the third Sunday of the Lenten Season.  The bulletin for this service is below.

Bulletin for Sunday, March 7, 2021 – Third Sunday in Lent

Invitatory: Chorale Prelude on "In the Garden" by Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Welcome and Announcements: Dean Boden

Call to Worship: Dean Thames

Prayer of Confession:  Let us confess our sins to God. Almighty and everlasting God, always more ready to hear than we are to pray, always willing to give more than we either desire or deserve: pour upon us the abundance of your mercy; forgive what we have been, help us to amend what we are, and direct what we shall be; that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways, through Jesus Christ our Savior.  Amen.

Assurance of Forgiveness

Reading: Psalm 19 (Read by Thomas A. Hontz ’22)

The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims God’s handiwork. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard; yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

In the heavens God has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy, and like a strong man runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and nothing is hidden from its heat.

The law of God is perfect, reviving the soul; the decrees of God are sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of God are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of God is clear, enlightening the eyes; the fear of God is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of God are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb.

Moreover by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. But who can detect their errors? Clear me from hidden faults. Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O God, my rock and my redeemer.

Anthem: Steal Away (African-American Spiritual) arranged by Charles S. Brown

Reading: Exodus 20:8-11

Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days God made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore God blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.

Sermon: “Rest in a Restless Age” by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Hymn: In the Cross of Christ I Glory (Rathbun)

In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o’er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers ‘round its head sublime.

When the sun of bliss is beaming light and love upon my way, from the cross the radiance streaming adds more luster to the day.

Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, by the cross are sanctified; peace is there that knows no measure, joys that through all time abide.

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

Solo: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child from Cantata (African-American Spiritual)byJohn Daniels Carter and performed by Sean Crites ’22, soloist

Benediction

Voluntary: Ita Missa Est (from Missa Brevis) by Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

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; Alexandra Miller-Knaack, Seminarian Intern; Edgar Gomez, Sexton; Lisa McGurr, Sexton

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.

Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, public theologian, and ecumenical minister whose work focuses upon identifying and healing the individual and societal legacies of racial and gender oppression. She is the author of Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength (2014) and I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (2019).

Beyond the classroom, Dr. Chanequa spends most of her professional energy writing and ministering to clergy and faith-based activists. Her faith has been shaped by Methodist, Baptist, and evangelical social justice communities as well as by Buddhism and Islam. She was ordained by an independent fellowship that holds incarnational theology, community engagement, social justice, and prophetic witness as its core values. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Mercer University School of Theology.

Calendar: Today, March 7, 2021—Please join us for a virtual coffee hour this Sunday, March 7 at 10:00 am EST. We will be joined by our guest preacher for the day, Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Mercer University-McAfee School of Theology.  The link is https://princeton.zoom.us/j/92171840688?pwd=OTRxcGJPd0Yyb0Q2OFJ2b2ZJbFdEQT09 

Sunday, March 14 2021, University Chapel Worship Service.  The preacher will be Dean Boden.

For additional information, please visit chapel.princeton.edu or call 609-258-3047.