ORDER OF WORSHIP For fathers who have been unable to be a source of strength, who have not
responded to the needs of their children, and have not sustained their families.
GATHERING
PRELUDE
WELCOME
CALL TO CELEBRATION
Come to God who gathers us in.
We come to God who nurtures us like a father.
Come to God whose arms are open and waiting.
We come to God who welcomes and forgives us.
Come to God who journeys with us.
We come to God who sees us as we really are
and loves us anyway.  God our Father, in your wisdom and love you made all things. Bless these men, that
Come, praise our loving nurturing God!  they may be strengthened as Christian fathers. Let the example of their faith and
+HYMN OF ADORATION “Lavish Love, Abundant Beauty”
Tune: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” TUMH No. 384
+OPENING PRAYER In Unison
Loving God, we come on this Father’s Day, reminded that you are the Father of us
all. You have been with us from our birth, guiding, nurturing and sustaining us.
You have called us to be your family, a people united through your son, Jesus Christ,
and through him you have revealed your love, a love that reaches out to us day by
day despite our failure to love you in return. Receive our thanks, for the fathers you
have given us, all they have meant to us, all they have given, and all they have done
in so many ways. Father God, we come now to worship you in spirit and in truth
today, in name Christ. Amen.
A LITANY
For fathers everywhere, who have given us life and love, that we may show them
respect and love.
Holy God, we thank you for our fathers.
For fathers who have lost a child through death, that their faith may give them hope,
and their family and friends support and console them
Holy God, we pray for our fathers that mourn.
For men who may or may not have children of their own, but act like a father to
someone in need of advice, support, nurturing, and love.
Holy God, we thank you for our father figures.
For step-fathers who have assumed that role with love and joy, who have loved the
children of another as their own, and created a new family.
Holy God, we thank you for step-fathers.
For adoptive fathers, who have heard the call of God to lovingly step forward for
those that need their care.
Holy God, thank you for adoptive fathers.
Holy God, have mercy on absentee fathers.
For fathers who struggle with temptation, violence, or addiction. For those who do
harm, and for those whom they have harmed.
Holy God, have mercy on fathers that struggle.
For new fathers, full of hope. For long-time fathers, full of wisdom. For the fathers
yet to be, and fathers soon to be.
Holy God, we thank you for all these kind of fathers.
For those that have shaped our lives without claim of family or kinship. For those
who have taught us, guided us, shaped us and molded us into servants of Christ our Lord.
Holy God, thank you for the fathers of our faith.
love shine forth. Grant that we, their sons and daughters, honor them always with a
spirit of profound respect. Grant this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!
RESPONSE SONG “I Am A Child of God”
Tune: Now Thank We All Our God” TUMH No.102
I thank God for all fathers and all the world around me,
the seen and unseen things and promised things that will be.
Through worship, trust, and prayer, may we reflect God’s will.
Let love be seen in us as we God’s word fulfill.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Prayer Song: “Father, I Adore You” TFWS No. 2038
Father, I adore you, lay my life before you; how I love you. (2X)
-----INTERCESSORY PRAYER-----
Response Song: “Hear Our Prayer, O Lord”
Hear our prayer, O Lord! Hear our prayer, O Lord!
Incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace. Amen.
PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION - Liturgist
Prepare our hearts, O God, to accept your Word. Silence in us any voices but your
own, so that we may hear your Word and also do it; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE LESSON
Old Testament Reading: Hosea 11:1-4
+New Testament Reading: Ephesians 6:1-4
+Response Song: “Wonderful Words of Life” TUMH No. 600
Refrain: Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
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A REFLECTION OF THE ROLE OF A FATHER
CATHED
A TRIBUTE TO ALL FATHERS THE UNITED
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-----GIVING OF TITHES, PLEDGES, AND GIFTS TO THE LORD-----
+DOXOLOGY
+OFFERTORY PRAYER
HYMN OF CONSECRATION “Faith of Our Fathers” TUMH No.710 “The imprint of a father
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION remains forever on the
+RESPONSE SONG “Faith of Our Fathers” TUMH No.710 life of the child.”
+BENEDICTION
+THREEFOLD AMEN
GO AND SERVE
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+ - At this sign the people will please stand as able. Thank you!
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WELCOME to CATHEDRAL-THE UNITED METHOIDST CHURCH of Davao City on this
Father’s Sunday! We are delighted to have you in worship with us. If you are
visiting from out of town, we bid you welcome and God-speed on your journey.

FATHER’
Should you be from Davao City, and have no church home, we invite you to make
CTHEDRAL your church home.

THIRDS
For FLOWER DONORS, please drop your donations in the offering basket.
Thank you very much! SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Birthday & Wedding Anniversary for the Week
June 18 – Flora Rabago June 23 – Febe Perasol
SUNDAY 18 JUNE 2023
8:30 AM / 10:30 AM
22 – Chad Alexander Arnaiz - Sarah Jane Alterado
 Lavish love, abundant beauty,

Lavish love, abundant beauty,

gracious gifts for heart and hand,
life that fills the soul and senses—
all burst forth at Your command.
Lord, our Lord, Eternal Father,
great Creator, God and Friend,
boundless pow’r gave full expression
to Your love which knows no end.

Who am I that You should love me,

meet my ev’ry need from birth?
Why invest Yourself so fully
in a creature made of earth?
In Your loving heart You planned me,
fashioned me with greatest care;
thru’ my soul You breathed Your Spirit,
planted Your own image there.

I am Yours, Eternal Father,

all my body, mind and heart.
take and use me to Your glory,
form Yourself in ev’ry part.
Lord, Your love brings joy and gladness
flowing forth within my soul.
May my very breath and being
rise to You, their source and goal