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St. Peter s Episcopal Church Lewes, Delaware Lenten Cycle through March 18, 2018, 10:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist OPENING WELCOME Celebrant: Celebrant It is the tradition of this service to participate in singing. Often beforehand, the music group may practice a new song for you to learn. Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And blessed be God s kingdom, now and for ever. Amen. Jesus said, The first commandment is this: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is the only Lord. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:29-31 Iona Community Before God, with the people of God, I confess to my brokenness: To the ways I wound my life, the lives of others and the life of the world May God forgive you, Christ renew you, and the Spirit enable you to grow in love. Amen. Before God, with the people of God, we confess to our brokenness: To the ways we wound our lives, the lives of others and the life of the world. May God forgive you, Christ renew you, and the spirit enable you to grow in love. Amen. CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION Celebrant: Celebrant: Celebrant: OPENING SONG 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 Cantor will announce
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. THE 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 Creator, 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. Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: Reader: THE PEACE Celebrant: 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. 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 for which they d like to pray) The celebrant adds a concluding Collect. The peace of the Lord be always with you. And also with you. GREETING AND BLESSINGS FOR BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES SONG OF THANKS 2
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING It is our tradition to stand as all children and youth are invited to gather around the altar to be present in the Eucharistic prayers. We ask that no one touch the candles for safety purposes. COMMUNION Priest: The Lord be with you All: and also with you. Priest: Lift up your hearts. All: We lift them to the Lord. Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. All: It is right to give thanks and praise. Priest: All: Priest: All: Priest: All: 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: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. 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. 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 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. 3
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 Take, O Take Me As I Am Iona Community 4
Celebrant: COMMUNION 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. (All God s people are welcome to receive the Holy Sacrament including children. If you do not wish to receive the Sacrament but would like a blessing, cross your arms over your chest and the priest will bless you. If it is difficult for you to leave your seat, please notify someone and the Sacrament will be brought to you.) COMMUNION SONG 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. Thanks be to God. LENT AND EASTER AT ST. PETER S Lenten Series. Our Annual Lenten series is held on Thursdays with weekly presentations and discussion following a soup and salad supper. As in years' past, it is held on Thursday evening beginning with a light soup/salad dinner at 5:30 pm, Program at 6, finishing up between 7 and 7:15 pm. February 22 (Micah 6:6-8) Do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God - The Rev. Ray Michener March 1 (Matthew 5:1-20) The Beatitudes - The Rev. Marianne Babness March 8 (Luke 10:25-37) The greatest commandments and the Good Samaritan - Canon Mark Harris March 15 (Acts 6:1-7) The election of Stephen as a deacon to serve - The Rev. Larry Hofer March 22 (Matthew 25:31-46) The parable of the sheep and the goats - The Rev. Carlyle Gill 5
Children's Time During the Lenten Series (See Dates Above). This Lent we will offer an opportunity for parents to attend the Lenten Series and enjoy the presentations. Bring the children to have dinner at 5:30 and then at 6 p.m., while the speaker is talking, the children will go downstairs to the SPY Room for some crafts or a movie. We d love to have your children join us on Thursday evenings from 6 to 7 p.m. All welcome! Last Supper. The Church School children will participate in the telling of the Last Supper with Father Mark on Palm Sunday, March 25 at 9:45 a.m. All children will meet downstairs to dress in their costumes and then join together in the Parish Hall. Church School Storytellers and Greeters are needed to help that day and parents are welcomed and encouraged to volunteer and assist as well. Stations of the Cross. Our SPY Explorers and Youth Group will participate in the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday at 7 p.m. in the church. Details to Follow Special Services for Holy Week and Easter PALM SUNDAY 5 p.m. Holy Eucharist on Saturday 8 & 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Choir on Sunday 9:45 a.m. The Last Supper service and feast with Fr. Mark (parish hall) MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK noon Holy Eucharist, Rite I TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK 6 p.m. Seder Passover (RSVP required--contact church office (40 people max)) WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK 7:30 p.m. Tenebrae Service MAUNDY THURSDAY 7 p.m. Stripping of the Altar; Eucharist 8 p.m. - 8 a.m. Friday - Vigil in the Garden GOOD FRIDAY Noon Good Friday Liturgy, Mass of the Pre-Sanctified 7 p.m. Stations of the Cross EASTER SATURDAY 7 p.m. Easter Vigil with Choir EASTER SUNDAY 8 & 10 a.m. Choral Eucharist 10 a.m. Choral Eucharist (church) 10 a.m. Family Eucharist (parish hall) Easter Egg Hunt will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the church yard. All children ages 1 through Grade 5 are invited to participate. Volunteers needed to help that day! Contact Lorri in the office. 6
COLLECTS AND GOSPEL READINGS February 18 (First Sunday in Lent) (Collect) Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find you mighty to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The Gospel (Mark 1:9-15) In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased. And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him. Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news. February 25 The Second Sunday in Lent (Collect) O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. The Gospel (Mark 8:31-38) Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things. He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. March 4 The Third Sunday in Lent (Collect) Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. The Gospel (John 2:13-22) The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, 7
Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father s house a marketplace! His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house will consume me. The Jews then said to him, What sign can you show us for doing this? Jesus answered them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews then said, This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days? But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. March 11 The Fourth Sunday in Lent (Collect) Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The Gospel (John 3:14-21) Jesus said, Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God. March 18 The Fifth Sunday in Lent (Collect) Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The Gospel (John 12:20-33) Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, Sir, we wish to see Jesus. Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say Father, save me from this hour? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name. Then a voice came from heaven, I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again. The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, An angel has spoken to him. Jesus answered, This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. 8
All You Works of God Worship Songs OneLicense A-709423 / LicenSing License #626853 9
Arise, Shine 10
Bread That Was Sown Weston Priory 11
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Every Time I Feel the Spirit 13
Father, I Adore You I Have Decided to Follow Jesus 14
I Want to Walk As A Child of the Light 15
If You Believe and I Believe 16
O Word of God Ricky Manalo Open My Heart Anna Hernandez 17
Taste and See 18
The Summons Kelvingrove 19
Way, Way, Way Weaving Round 20
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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 Dr. Sheila Bravo, Director of Alternative Worship sbravoross@aol.com Mr. Bob Reehorst, Sexton ST. PETER S EPISCOPAL CHURCH P.O. Box 464 Lewes, DE 19958 (302) 645-8479 www.stpeterslewes.org 22