St. Peter s Episcopal Church Pentecost P.O. Box 464 Lewes, DE 19958 (302) 645-8479 www.stpeterslewes.org
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St. Peter s Episcopal Church Lewes, Delaware Pentecost through September 3, 2017, 10:15 a.m., Holy Eucharist OPENING WELCOME Celebrant: OPENING SONG It is the tradition of this service to participate joyfully in singing. Often beforehand, the music group may practice a new song for you to learn. Many upbeat songs include percussion, and we invite members of the congregation to take a percussion instrument to help with the rhythm and joyful sound. Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And blessed be God s kingdom, now and for ever. Amen. THE COLLECT OF THE DAY Celebrant: Celebrant: THE LESSON The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. (The Priest will read the Collect of the Day.) Amen. Reader: A reading from the Old or New Testament according to. After the lesson, the Reader says Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God s people. Thanks be to God. GRADUAL SONG Litany of the Word Benedette Farrell Please join the cantor in singing this prayerful chant. The cantor will start with a phrase such as: "Word of Comfort" and all sing "Alleluia" and the cantor will sing another phrase such as "Bring us Hope Now" and all sing "Maranatha" (which means Come, O Lord). GOSPEL Gospeller: Gospeller: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to. Glory to you, Lord Christ. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Christ. CONVERSATION All children and youth are invited to come up and sit on the carpet next to the priest to have the conversation. PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Loving Father, we praise you for the wonderful things which you have given us: for the beautiful sun, for the rain which makes things grow, for the sea and the sky, for the flowers and the birds and for all your gifts to us. Everything around us rejoices. Makes us also to rejoice, give us thankful hearts and keep us safe throughout the week ahead. AMEN. 1
Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Let us pray for our own needs and those of others. For all people who love and serve God. We thank you God. For everybody who makes Jesus real to others. We thank you God. For everyone who helps those who are sick or sad, and for all those who are brave and patient when things go wrong. We thank you God. For our health, strength and life itself. We thank you God. For our friends, our homes and our families. We thank you God. For our Church and all who serve you. We thank you God. For your forgiveness when we do bad things. We thank you God. We pray especially for those things in our hearts and minds. (The congregation is invited to name things that they are thankful for or things that they are worried about and like to pray for). CONCLUDING PRAYER Dear God, may we know you better and better so that we may love you more and more and serve you with all our hearts. May we help those in need; may they know that God is real and that God is love and may we be friends with you and friends with all your children. Please hear us Lord. Amen. CONFESSION OF SIN Celebrant: Celebrant: THE PEACE Celebrant: Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. Silence is kept. Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen. Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen. The peace of the Lord be always with you. And also with you. GREETING AND BLESSINGS FOR BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES 2
SONG OF THANKS COMMUNION All children and youth are invited to gather around the altar to be present in the Eucharistic prayers. We ask that no one touches the candles for safety purposes. Priest: All: Priest: All: Priest: All: The Lord be with you and also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give thanks and praise. Priest: Holy, Holy, Holy It is always right to give you thanks, God our Creator, loving and faithful, holy and strong. You made us and the whole universe, and filled your world with life. You sent your Son to live among us, Jesus our Savior, Mary's child. He suffered on the cross; he died to save us from our sins; he rose in glory from the dead. You send your Spirit to bring new life to the world, and clothe us with power from on high. And so we join the angels to celebrate and sing: Sing Hosanna Repeat each line after the Cantor Holy, Holy Holy Lord God, Power and Might Heaven, heaven and earth Are full of your glory Sing hosanna Sing hosanna Sing hosanna Sing alleluia Blessed Blessed is he Who comes in the name of the Lord Sing Hosanna Sing Hosanna Sing Hosanna Sing Alleluia Priest: Father, on the night before he died, Jesus shared a meal with his friends. He took the bread, and thanked you. He broke it, and gave it to them, saying: Take and eat; this is my body, given for you. Do this to remember me. 3
All: Priest: All: After the meal, Jesus took the cup of wine. He thanked you, and gave it to them, saying: Drink this, all of you. This is my blood, the new promise of God's unfailing love. Do this to remember me. Great is the mystery of our faith: Christ has died: Christ is risen: Christ will come again. Father, as we bring this bread and wine, and remember his death and resurrection, send your Holy Spirit, that we who share these gifts may be fed by Christ's body and his blood. Pour your Spirit on us that we may love one another, work for the healing of the earth, and share the good news of Jesus, as we wait for his coming in glory. For honor and praise belong to you, Father, with Jesus your Son, and the Holy Spirit: one God, for ever and ever. Amen. THE LORD S PRAYER It is our custom, for those who wish, to hold hands during this 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, for ever and ever. Amen. THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD After the bread is broken, please join the cantor in singing this prayerful song It is a round and you are welcome to sing it as such. FRACTION ANTHEM For Thy Gracious Blessing Traditional Celebrant: The Gifts of God for the People of God. Take them in remembrance that Christ died for you, and feed on him in your hearts by faith, with thanksgiving. The Distribution of Communion (All God s people are welcome to receive the Holy Sacrament including children. If it is difficult for you to leave your seat, please notify someone and the Sacrament will be brought to you.) COMMUNION SONG 4
POST COMMUNION PRAYER Celebrant: THE BLESSING Let us pray. Eternal God, heavenly Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, and you have fed us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. Send us now into the world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve you with gladness and singleness of heart; through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Celebrant offers a blessing, the People respond Amen. CLOSING SONG THE DISMISSAL Leader: Let us go forth in the name of Christ. Alleluia, alleluia. Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia. COLLECTS Pentecost (June 4) Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Trinity Sunday (First Sunday after Pentecost) (June 11) Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Second Sunday after Pentecost (June 18) Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. 5
Third Sunday after Pentecost (June 25) O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your lovingkindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (July 2) Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (July 9) O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (July 16) O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (July 23) Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (July 30) O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. The Transfiguration (Ninth Sunday after Pentecost) (August 6) O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty; who with you, O Father, and you, O Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (August 13) Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 6
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (August 20) Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (August 27) Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (September 3) Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen. Alle, Alle, Alleluia Worship Songs OneLicense A-709423 / LicenSing License #626853 Richard Ho Lung Refrain: Alle, alle, alleluia, alle, alle, alleluia. Alle, alle, alleluia. Alle, alle, alle, alleluia. Father, Father, maker of the world. Father, Father, creator of the earth. Father, Father, speaker of the word. Make us, Father, break us, Father, mold us in your ways. Make us, Father, break us, Father, mold us in your ways. (Refrain) Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is the way. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is the truth. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is the life. Jesus is the way, he is the truth, he is the life. Jesus is the way, he is the truth, he is the life. (Refrain) Spirit, Spirit, come down on us, Lord. Spirit, Spirit, rain down on us, Lord. Spirit, Spirit, flood us with your pow'r. Fill us with the light of God, oh, fill us with your pow'r. Fill us with the light of God, oh, fill us with your pow'r. (Refrain) 7
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I Have Decided to Follow Jesus 11
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Peace Before Us 1. Peace before us, peace behind us, peace under our feet. Peace within us, peace over us, let all around us be peace. 2. Love before us, love behind us, love under our feet. Love within us, love over us, let all around us be love. 3. Light before us, light behind us, light under our feet. Light within us, light over us, let all around us be light. 4. Christ before us, Christ behind us, Christ under our feet. Christ within us, Christ over us, let all around us be Christ. 5. Alleluia. 6. Peace before us, peace behind us, peace under our feet. Peace within us, peace over us, let all around us be peace. Seek Ye First 13
They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love We Are Marching in the Light of God We are marching in the light of God We are marching in the light of God We are marching in the light of God We are marching in the light of God We are marching, marching, We are marching Oh We are marching in the light of God We are marching, marching, marching We are marching Oh, We are marching in the light of God We are living in the love of God We are living in the love of God We are living in the love of God We are living in the love of God We are living, living, We are living Oh We are living in the love of God We are living, living, We are living Oh We are living in the love of God 14
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PARISH CLERGY & STAFF The Reverend Jeffrey Austin Ross, Rector jross@stpeterslewes.org The Reverend Doug Culton, Rector Emeritus The Reverend Canon Mark Harris, Priest Associate poetmark1940@gmail.com The Reverend Carlyle Gill, Priest Associate jcarlylegill@yahoo.com The Reverend Larry Hofer, Priest Associate hofer09@gmail.com The Reverend Ray Michener, Priest Associate rmichener@aol.com Ms. Adele Fluharty, Parish Administrator afluharty@stpeterslewes.org Mr. T.J. Thomas, Minister of Music tthomas@stpeterslewes.org Ms. Lorri Camilleri, Family Minister lorri@stpeterslewes.org Mr. Bob Reehorst, Sexton Ms. Samantha Welch, Nursery Coordinator samanthawelch724@gmail.com ST. PETER S EPISCOPAL CHURCH P.O. Box 464 Lewes, DE 19958 (302) 645-8479 www.stpeterslewes.org 18