Sunday, November 13, 2022
Worship Service
11:00 a.m.
“I Call Your Name”
Service conducted by Srimati Karuna, Minister
All are welcome.
Sunday Bulletin
As human beings it is natural for us to offer a name for every object and every being in the universe of our experience. We call by name our loved ones, just as we offer a prayer and seek blessings each time we utter the name of God.
Bismillaah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem … “In the name of God, the infinitely Compassionate and Merciful. Praise be to God, Lord of all the worlds. The Compassionate, the Merciful. Ruler on the Day of Reckoning. You alone do we worship, and You alone do we ask for help. Guide us on the straight path, the path of those who have received your grace; not the path of those who have brought down wrath, nor of those who wander astray. Amen.”
—Al-Fatiha of Qur’an
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up. When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” God said: “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them? God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.”
—Exodus 3
“The singing of Ramdhun is the most important part of our congregational prayer. The millions may find it difficult to correctly recite and understand the Gita verses and the Arabic and Zend Avesta prayers, but everybody can join in chanting Ramanama or God’s name. It is as simple as it is effective. Only, it must proceed from the heart. Its simplicity lies in its greatness and universality. I am here to testify that when it is sung in tune to the accompaniment of tal, the triple accord of the voice, the accompaniment and thought creates an atmosphere of ineffable sweetness and strength which no words can describe.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
”Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.”
—The Lord’s Prayer
Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti
”Truth is One though we call it by various names.”
—Rig Veda