January 27, 2019 Third Sunday of the Epiphany Our Chancel Flowers are Dedicated Anonymously to the Glory of God. Worship Assistants Ministers The People of Good Shepherd Presiding Minister Pastor Eric O. Olsen Assisting Minister (8:00 a.m.) Lisa Cacchioli Assisting Minister (8:00 a.m.) Bonnie McGowan Assisting Minister (10:15 a.m.) Marge Wenger Assisting Minister (10:15 a.m.) Quinn Broggy Lector (10:15 a.m.) Cathy Vollono Assisting Minister (6:00 p.m.) Lori DeFilippis Assisting Minister (6:00 p.m.) Kurt Langjahr Altar Care Anne Rickmeyer Flower Care Gisela Conforti Flower Care JoAnn Schulz-Dellacona Cantor Jose Garcia Cantor John Potocnik Cantor/Choir Director Caryn Yakacki Minister of Music Teresa Ratkowski Organist Christian Cang Cuesta Loving, Living & Sharing Christ Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and School 99 Central Park Rd., Plainview, NY 11803 Phone: 516.349.1966 Website: ourshepherdlives.org Email: church@ourshepherdlives.org Reverend Eric Olaf Olsen, Pastor Home Phone: 516-342-9501 Cell Phone: 716 352-0055 pastorolsen@aol.com Eric Faret, Seminarian Field Worker Teresa Ratkowski, School Director Cell Phone: 516-343-2763 E-mail: Teresa.Ratkowski@gsplainview.org Website: gsplainview.org Liturgy + Sundays at 8:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.* *2 nd, 4 th & 5 th Sunday Service of Healing with Holy Communion *Contemporary Worship with Meal at 5:00 p.m. on every 1 st Sunday *Taize at 6:00 p.m. on every 3 rd Sunday
A Warm Welcome to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and School We hope that your worship experience this morning is spiritually enriching and meaningful; we invite all to stay for fellowship in the narthex following the liturgy. Children are always welcome to join us at worship. If you have small children with you today who need a break, please feel free to utilize our Kids Corner in the Agape Room. We also provide religious coloring books and crayons that your children may wish to use during the liturgy. If you missed seeing them when you came in, they are in a basket in the rear of the chancel on the bell table. Your children are welcome to take the coloring book home after the liturgy. We would, however, like the crayons returned in the plastic bag to the basket in the back. As always there are age appropriate Little Lambs Activity Bags located on the stands in the narthex. Are you new to Good Shepherd? Our congregation is a member of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and our day school is a member of the Lutheran Schools Association. If you are looking for a church home/school we would be happy to share more information with you. At the entryway to the church you will find a guest book in which to leave your name and contact information. You may use the pew card for the same purpose and place it in the offering plate. We d be delighted to keep you informed about events and opportunities here at Good Shepherd and hope you will join us again. Restrooms are located off the narthex and a handicapped accessible restroom is located near the main entrance of the education building. Cell phones create a distraction during worship. If you are using your cell phone instead of the worship booklet, we ask that you check now to make sure it is in airplane mode. If you are not using it for this service, please turn it off while in the worship space. Our team of ushers is available throughout the service to be of any assistance you might need. Gluten-free hosts: all of our baked bread is gluten free.
Announcements Prelude 1 P a g e GATHERING The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God. Brief Order of Confession & Forgiveness P: Blessed be the holy Trinity, + one God, who forgives all our sin, whose mercy endures forever. C: Amen. P: God of all mercy and consolation, come to the help of your people, turning us from our sin to live for you alone. Give us the power of your Holy Spirit that we may confess our sin, receive your forgiveness, and grow into the fullness of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. C: Amen. P: Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another Gracious God, C: have mercy on us. We confess that we have turned from you and given ourselves into the power of sin. We are truly sorry and humbly repent. In your compassion forgive us our sins, known and unknown, things we have done and things we have failed to do. Turn us again to you, and uphold us by your Spirit, so that we may live and serve you in newness of life through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen. P: God, who is rich in mercy, loved us even when we were dead in sin, and made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved. In the name of + Jesus Christ, your sins are forgiven. Almighty God strengthen you with power through the Holy Spirit, that Christ may live in your hearts through faith. C: Amen. Entrance Hymn ELW#673, God, Whose Almighty Word
Apostolic Greeting P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. C: and also with you! Kyrie Canticle of Praise (sung to the tune of Ode to Joy ) Holy One we now acclaim you; Lord alone to you we call; Holy One in faith we name you, God most high yet near to all: Jesus Christ, with God the Spirit, in the Father s splendor bright. For the peace that we inherit, glory be to God on high! Prayer of the Day P: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you. P: Let us pray...blessed Lord God, you have caused the holy scriptures to be written for the nourishment of your people. Grant that we may hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that, comforted by your promises, we may embrace and forever hold fast to the hope of eternal life, through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. C: Amen. 2 P a g e
WORD God speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching, and song First Reading Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 1 All the people [of Israel] gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had given to Israel. 2 Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could hear with understanding. This was on the first day of the seventh month. 3 He read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up. 6 Then Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, lifting up their hands. Then they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. 8 So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. 9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law. 10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of them to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. L: The Word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God. Children s Sermon (10:15 a.m. service only) Antiphon (Sung By Choir) The teaching of the Lord revives the soul. 3 P a g e
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body Jews or Greeks, slaves or free and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot would say, Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear would say, Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many members, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; 24 whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, 25 that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31a But strive for the greater gifts. L: The Word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God. 4 P a g e
Gospel Acclamation Gospel Luke 4:14-21 P: The holy gospel according to Luke the 4 th Chapter C: Glory to you, O Lord. 14 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. 15 He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. 16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord s favor. 20 And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 Then he began to say to them, Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. P: The Gospel of the Lord. C: Praise to you, O Christ. Sermon Hymn of the Day ELW#239, Hark, the Glad Sound 5 P a g e
Nicene Creed We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son,* who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. 6 P a g e
The Prayers of the Church Each petition will end with Lord, in your mercy to which the congregation responds, hear our prayer. Peace P: The peace of Christ be with you always. C: And also with you. The Offering is received as the Lord s table is prepared. Choir Anthem "My Lord And I (traditional hymn) We re gonna walk this road to glory, children My Lord and I We re gonna walk and tell the story, children My Lord and I When I come to the river wide, the blessed Lord is gonna calm the tide We re gonna walk this road to glory, children My Lord and I We re gonna walk this road to glory, children My Lord and I We re gonna walk and tell the story, children My Lord and I Rain or shine, snow or sleet, blessed Lord, guide my feet We re gonna walk this road to glory, children My Lord and I 7 P a g e
Offertory (Stand) MEAL God feeds us with the presence of Jesus Christ Offering Hymn Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow Offertory Prayer A: Let us pray. C: Blessed are you, O God, maker of all things. Through your goodness you have blessed us with these gifts: our selves, our time, and our possessions. Use us, and what we have gathered, in feeding the world with your love, through the one who gave himself for us, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen. 8 P a g e
The Great Thanksgiving Proper Preface The preface appropriate to the day or occasion is sung or said. Sanctus 9 P a g e
A brief silence. Eucharistic Prayer (Responses only) P: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come, come again. P: Amen. Come Lord Jesus. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. P: Amen. Come Holy Spirit, Amen. Come, Holy Spirit. 10 P a g e
P: the One who lives in us and in whom we live, Jesus Christ. 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 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, Forever and ever. Amen. Period of silence 11 P a g e
Lamb of God Distribution Good Shepherd practices Eucharistic hospitality. All baptized Christians are welcomed at the Lord s Table believing that in the bread and wine we truly receive the Lord s precious body and blood for the forgiveness of sins, life and salvation. Hymn(s) During Distribution ELW#496, One Bread, One Body ELW#332, I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Blessing P: The body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ strengthen you and keep you in His grace. A: Amen 12 P a g e
Post-Communion Canticle 13 P a g e
Post-Communion Prayer A: God of abundance, with this bread of life and cup of salvation you have united us with Christ, making us one with all your people. Now send us forth in the power of your Spirit, that we may proclaim your redeeming love to the world and continue forever in the risen life of Jesus Christ, our Lord. C: Amen. Silence for reflection. Benediction P: The God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus. C: Amen. P: The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. P: The God of all grace + bless you now and forever. C: Amen. Sending Hymn ELW#866, We Are Marching in the Light Dismissal A: Go in peace. Serve the Lord. C: Thanks be to God. Postlude 14 P a g e