2nd Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, California

2nd Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, California We offer a welcoming place for spiritual contemplation, community, and fellowship.

Christian Science is way of life: a system of spiritual healing founded on the Bible’s universal truths, using prayer and study of the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (these books comprise the church's pastor) and other writings by Eddy for spiritual growth, healing, & inspiration. Learn more ://christianscience.com/
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09/06/2026

1 John 3:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he[a] is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. 3 And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

08/31/2026

Father-Mother God, All-in-all,
Reassuring me every day,
You encourage me on my way.
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.

REFRAIN
Father-Mother God, All-in-all,
You protect me each step of the way.
I am safe in Love every day,
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.

You will guide me by day and night.
I go forth with no doubt or fear,
For I feel Your love with me here,
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.

REFRAIN
Now I find, as never before,
I’m devoted to serving You,
Your pure goodness fills me anew,
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.

REFRAIN
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 473:1–4)

08/30/2026

Is. 55:12. . . ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

From the responsive reading in this week's Bible Lesson on Man.

08/20/2026

From sense to Soul my pathway lies before me,
From mist and shadow into Truth’s clear day;
The dawn of all things real is breaking o’er me,
My heart is singing: I have found the way.

I reach Mind’s open door, and at its portal
I know that where I stand is holy ground;
I feel the calm and joy of things immortal,
The loveliness of Love is all around.

The way leads upward and its goal draws nearer,
Thought soars enraptured, fetterless and free;
The vision infinite to me grows clearer,
I touch the fringes of eternity.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 64:1–3)

08/16/2026

Hymn 64
Violet Hay, words
George Dyson, music

From sense to Soul my pathway lies before me,
From mist and shadow into Truth’s clear day;
The dawn of all things real is breaking o’er me,
My heart is singing: I have found the way.

I reach Mind’s open door, and at its portal
I know that where I stand is holy ground;
I feel the calm and joy of things immortal,
The loveliness of Love is all around.

The way leads upward and its goal draws nearer,
Thought soars enraptured, fetterless and free;
The vision infinite to me grows clearer,
I touch the fringes of eternity.

A classic hymn for the Bible lesson subject "Soul"

08/09/2026

Hymn 391
Charles H. Barlow, words
William Knapp, music

Why search the future and the past?
Why do ye look with tearful eyes
And seek far off for paradise?
Before your feet Life’s pearl is cast.

As deathless as His spirit free,
The Perfect lives and works today
As in the ancient prophets’ lay,
Where there’s an open eye to see.

Of all that was and is to come
The present holds the Mind and Cause;
For God lives in eternal laws,
And here today upholds His throne.

Then rise and greet the signs that prove
Unreal the ages’ long lament;
The “one far-off divine event”
Is now, and that event is Love.

1st hymn at The Mother Church this morning
8/9/26

08/02/2026

3 ... Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
4 ... thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

(Jeremiah 31:3 Yea, 4 2nd thou)

08/02/2026

Hymn 139
Minny M. H. Ayers, words
Henry Carey, music

I walk with Love along the way,
And O, it is a holy day;
No more I suffer cruel fear,
I feel God’s presence with me here;
The joy that none can take away
Is mine; I walk with Love today.

Who walks with Love along the way,
Shall talk with Love and Love obey;
God’s healing truth is free to all,
Our Father answers every call;
’Tis He dispels the clouds of gray
That all may walk with Love today.

Come, walk with Love along the way,
Let childlike trust be yours today;
Uplift your thought, with courage go,
Give of your heart’s rich overflow,
And peace shall crown your joy-filled day.
Come, walk with Love along the way.

Another loved hymn in The Mother Church's service on Love today

08/02/2026

In Heavenly Love Abiding

In heavenly Love abiding,
No change my heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding,
For nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me,
My heart may low be laid;
But God is round about me,
And can I be dismayed?

Wherever He may guide me,
No want shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me,
And nothing can I lack.
His wisdom ever waketh,
His sight is never dim;
He knows the way He taketh,
And I will walk with Him.

Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o'er me,
Where darkest clouds have been.
My hope I cannot measure,
My path in life is free;
My Father has my treasure,
And He will walk with me.

Words by Anna L. Waring
Music is a Traditional Irish Air, Arranged by Richard Donovan

Solo from The Mother Church today, August 2, 2026.
Also Hymn 148 in The Christian Science Hymnal, a perennial favorite

08/02/2026

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: ...
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
(I Corinthians 13:4–8 (to :), 13)

From the scriptural selection from The Mother Church today, Bible Lesson subject Love

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