X. Mother's Day
(Mother's Day is observed the second Sunday in May)
(This service also commemorates Father's Day and the Home)
Instrumental Prelude
The White Carnation
It is suggested that a white carnation be worn by everyone. It is the memory flower, symbolic of motherhood; its whiteness stands for purity, its form for beauty, its fragrance for love, its universality for charity, its hardihood for fidelity.
Leader:
So here's to the white carnation,
Wear it on Mother's Day;
Flower that blooms for mother,
Winsome, gallant, and gay.
Flower of perfect sweetness,
Flower for hut and hall,
Here's to the white carnation,
And to mother our best of all.
Hymn No. 48 For the Beauty of the Earth (Standing)
For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
or
Hymn No. 182 Happy Home
O happy home, where thou art loved the dearest,
Thou loving friend and Saviour of our race,
And where among the guests there never cometh
One who can hold such high and honored place.
O happy home, where each one serves thee, lowly,
Whatever his appointed work may be,
Till every common task seems great and holy,
When it is done, Lord, as unto thee.
The 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors;
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
The glory, for ever. Amen.
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