St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church THE FEAST OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE July 22, 2018 11:00 AM
OUR MISSION As a Lutheran community of faith, we continue our history of proclaiming Christ crucified through Word and Sacrament in joyful service to God and our neighbor. WELCOME TO ST. MATTHEW S LUTHERAN CHURCH We welcome all who worship with us today. We gather as the Body of Christ to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise to God. Ushers are available to answer any of your questions. The church is equipped with a hearing impaired system. If you need a listening device, it may be obtained from an usher. In the minutes prior to the beginning of each service, the doors to the nave are closed, and quiet is encouraged. Music is offered which prepares worshipers to receive God s gifts from His Hand the forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation. Everyone is asked to sign the Attendance Record found at the end of each pew or row of chairs. Please sign this record and pass it down to those beside you during the announcements. As it is returned, please note who is worshipping with you. The Attendance Record helps worshipers to put names and faces together. We make new friends in this way and grow in care for each other. Celebrating Holy Communion: We believe, teach, and confess Christ is truly present in the bread and wine. All baptized Christians, who share this belief, are invited to receive Jesus as He comes in the Holy Communion to forgive the sins of the penitent. Children and others who are not yet receiving the sacrament, or who choose not to commune with us, are invited to come forward for a blessing, crossing their arms over their chest. After receiving the host in your outstretched hands, please eat the host if you wish to drink from the first cup, the metal chalice. Please hold the host if you wish to dip your host in the second cup, the ceramic chalice. Those unable to drink wine are urged simply to touch their host to the outside of the cup prior to eating. The Altar Flowers are dedicated to the Glory of God and given by Jim and Sheila Whitmeyer in loving memory of David Adams, and by Patty Macino in loving memory of her husband, Al Macino. Brayden Michael Lupo will be received into Christ s Church by the Sacrament of Holy Baptism at today s service. He is the son of Mike and Kristin Lupo, brother of Peyton Kalous, and nephew of Ken and Colleen Johns. We welcome Brayden Michael to the body of Christ and to the St. Matthew s Church Family. WELCOME IN THE NAME OF JESUS! On this Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, we revisit the Easter gospel according to St. John. We remember that Mary is neither Jesus' fantasy wife, as in the mind of a third rate novelist, nor that rehabilitated fallen woman of popular legend. Rather Mary is, in the words of the Eastern Church, the apostle to the apostles. She comes to Easter faith only after the Risen Jesus reveals Himself to this one from whom He had cast seven demons (Luke 8:2). Like Mary Magdalene, we struggle with the limits of human reason and with the mind-boggling reality that Jesus is both truly God and truly human, crucified to take away the sins of the world and raised as Victorious Lord of death and Life! With joy, St. Mary Magdalene and the whole Church proclaim Christ the Resurrected. He is risen indeed! Alleluia! I will strive to Pray daily Worship weekly Read the Bible Serve at and beyond St. Matthew s Be in Relationship to encourage spiritual growth in others Give of my time, talents and resources Assisting Minister Suzanne Whitmarsh Lector Dave Davis Ushers Frank and Marti Felter Those Serving in Worship Communion Assistants Ana Maria Jackson, Kristi Wade, Lynette Farmer, Pr. Robert Weeks Greeters Judy Daniels, Max and Linda Banning Portions of today s liturgy and hymns are reprinted from Lutheran Service Book 2006 Concordia Publishing House, and Lutheran Book of Worship 1978 Augsburg Fortress. Used by permission of Concordia Publishing Liturgy license #000010164, Concordia Publishing Hymn license #100010164, Augsburg Fortress license #9245-L, Augsburg Fortress license #26780, and CCLI license #2014768. Eucharistic Prayer and Fraction reprinted by permission from A Little Book of Canons by Rod L. Ronneberg, STS, 1997 and 2010. 2 Acolyte Matthew Whitmarsh Crucifer Robert Shivers Altar Guild Margaret Ballantine, Judy Daniels
(*Please stand as you are able.) Silence for Meditation PRELUDE Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above Lloyd Larson WELCOME * THE CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Pastor: In the name of the Father, and of the Son +, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Pastor: Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another. (We are silent for a time of self-examination.) Pastor: Holy and gracious God, Congregation: I confess that I have sinned against you. Some of my sin I know -- the thoughts and words and deeds of which I am ashamed -- but some is known only to you. In the name of Jesus Christ I ask forgiveness. Deliver and restore me, that I may be at peace. Pastor: May almighty God have mercy on us and lead us, with our sins forgiven, to eternal life. * OPENING HYMN The Day of Resurrection Text; John of Damascus, c. 606-c. 754; tr. John Mason Neale, 1818-66, alt. Tune: Henry T. Smart, 1813-79; setting: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 * THE GREETING Pastor: The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Congregation: And also with you. 3
* THE HYMN OF PRAISE * THE SALUTATION Pastor: The Lord be with you. Congregation: And also with you. * THE PRAYER OF THE DAY Pastor: Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ restored Mary Magdalene to health of body and mind and called her to be a witness of his resurrection. Heal us now in body and mind and call us to serve you in the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Congregation: Amen. FIRST LESSON: Ruth 1:6-18 6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food. 7 So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. 8 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. 9 The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband! Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept. 10 And they said to her, No, we will return with you to your people. 11 But Naomi said, Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons, 13 would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me. 14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 15 And she said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law. 16 But Ruth said, Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you. 18 And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 4
PSALM 73:23-28 Nevertheless, I am contin- / ually with you;* you / hold my right hand. You guide me / with your counsel,* and afterward you will receive / me to glory. Whom have I in heav- / en but you?* And there is nothing on earth that I de- / sire besides you. My flesh and my / heart may fail,* but God is the strength of my heart and my por- / tion forever. For behold, those who are far from / you shall perish;* you put an end to everyone who is un- / faithful to you. But for me it is good / to be near God;* I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of / all your works. Glory to the Father, and / to the Son, * and to the / Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginn- / ing, is now, * and will be forev- / er. Amen. SECOND LESSON: Acts 13:26-33 26 Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. 27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, You are my Son, today I have begotten you. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. * THE ALLELUIA VERSE * THE GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Pastor: The HOLY GOSPEL according to St. John, the twentieth chapter. Congregation: Glory to you, O Lord. 5
HOLY GOSPEL: John 20:1-18 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him. 3 So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. 4 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went back to their homes. 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him. 14 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away. 16 Jesus said to her, Mary. She turned and said to him in Aramaic, Rabboni! (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, I have seen the Lord and that he had said these things to her. The Gospel of the Lord. * THE GOSPEL RESPONSE Congregation: Praise to you, O Christ. THE SERMON Church, Proclaim: Christ the Resurrected Pr. Zumwalt * THE HYMN OF THE DAY Christ is Alive! Let Christians Sing LBW 363 THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY BAPTISM LBW pg. 121 * PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH Assisting Minister: Lord, in your mercy. Congregation: Hear our prayers. ANNOUNCEMENTS * SHARING THE PEACE Pastor: The peace of the Lord be with you always. Congregation: And also with you. THE OFFERING My Shepherd Will Supply My Need Larson Suzanne Whitmarsh * THE DOXOLOGY Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heav nly host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. * THE OFFERTORY PRAYER Assisting Minister: Merciful Father, Congregation: all that we have is yours alone but for our work to sow and reap. Honor that participation as the fullness of our faith and love for an offering to extend your saving ministry. So likewise use the bread and wine we have merely prepared by our Lord s direction to make him real in us, he whose final testament we obey with joy to keep this feast of love. Through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 6
* THE GREAT THANKSGIVING Pastor: The Lord be with you. People: And also with you. Pastor: Lift up your hearts. People: We lift them to the Lord. Pastor: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. People: It is right to give him thanks and praise. Pastor: It is indeed right and salutary. we praise your name and join their unending hymn: * THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER Pastor: You are indeed holy.the mystery of faith: Congregation: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. Pastor: We offer to you...the heavens and the earth. Congregation: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Pastor: As we now gather...salvation and peace. Congregation: Pastor: Joining with all those who, in every time and place, have turned to you, we pray as Christ himself taught us: * 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; 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. * THE FRACTION Pastor: Alleluia! Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Congregation: Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia! 7
THE DISTRIBUTION (Please be seated. An usher will direct you to the altar rail.) DISTRIBUTION HYMNS For All the Faithful Women Text: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr., 1923-2007, alt. Tune: Finnish, 19th cent.; setting: Joseph Herl, b. 1959 8
Alleluia, Alleluia! Hearts to Heaven Text: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-85, sts. 1, 3; rev. Jubilate Hymns Ltd., st. 2 Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827; adapt. Edward Hodges, 1796-1867 * THE POST-COMMUNION BLESSING Pastor: May this the body and this the blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ strengthen you and keep you in His grace. Congregation: Amen. * THE POST-COMMUNION CANTICLE 9
THE POST-COMMUNION PRAYER Assisting Minister: Lord Jesus Christ, you fed the thousands in the wilderness lest they faint along the way; here you have now fed us bread and wine with yourself that we may live. Present our communion to the Father as our prayer to be united with the very saints who served you unto death on our behalf. We bless you now and evermore. Congregation: Amen. * THE BENEDICTION Pastor: Almighty God, Father, + Son, and Holy Spirit, bless you now and forever. Congregation: Amen. * CLOSING HYMN Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds At this time anyone desiring prayer for healing is invited to approach the altar rail. Text: Paul Z. Strodach, 1876-1947, alt. Tune: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Köhl, 1623; setting: Raplph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 10
* THE DISMISSAL Pastor: Go in peace. Serve the Lord! Congregation: Thanks be to God! POSTLUDE Psalm 19 Benedetto Marcello arr. Thomas Gieschen LESSONS for NEXT WEEK: 2 Kings 4:42-44; Psalm 145:10-18; Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-21 11
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