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S AINT P AUL’S C HURCH Anglican Province of America T'! S-(.(# %/ #'! L%.* '+#' /(00!* #'! 1'%0! 1%.0*, +00!0)(+ Wisdom i. 7 P!"#!$%&# commonly called W'(#&)"*+, + + + Sunday, May 23, A.D. 2021 1 Dear Friends, Welcome to Saint Paul’s Church, a parish in the Anglican Province of America. If this is your 2rst time worshipping in an Anglican parish, then there are two things I wish to share: First, everything about our worship is patterned after heaven. 3e basic architecture of our building, the songs we sing, the reverent order of the service, and especially the celebration of the Holy Communion; all are a participation in the realities which are found in heaven. As you will hear in the liturgy, we gather together to lift up our hearts to worship Almighty God in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Second, the Bible is our foundation for worship. Holy Scripture reveals to us what heaven is really like and what worship is found there. Our liturgy 4ows from Holy Scripture and is saturated with it. I’m con2dent you will never 2nd a more biblical worship service than the one which you are about to participate. 3e entire liturgy for this Sunday is contained in this booklet. All of the words for the congregation to say are printed in bold type. Instructions and service notes are printed in italics. All of the hymn numbers correspond to the hymnal in the pew. Please 2ll out a WELCOME CARD in the pew rack and drop it in the o5ering plate so we have a record of your attendance, and do not hesitate to make an usher aware of how we can serve you. Restrooms are located both in the parish hall and by the administrative o6ces. Welcome in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, 3e Rev’d Brian W. Old2eld, Rector Children at Saint Paul’s Church. Children of all ages are welcomed and encouraged to pray with their parents in the service as we worship in the real presence of Jesus Christ as one united and inseparable Body of believers. Parents are the 2rst teachers of their children and have the privilege to train their children to worship God with joyful reverence. On Sundays we also o5er nursery care in the parish hall (at 10 AM) as well as comfortable seating if you need to step out to comfort a distressed child. Changing stations are located in the parish hall restrooms. Please feel free to ask an usher for directions. See our pamphlet on teaching children to be worshipers! Receiving Holy Communion at Saint Paul’s Church. Visitors who are baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and already admitted to Communion in their own churches are invited to receive the Sacrament in faith, repentance, and charity. To receive a Blessing, non- communicants are invited to kneel at the altar rail and cross their arms over their chest. 2 PRAYERS OF PREPARATION For the Spirit of Prayer. ALMIGHTY God, who pourest out on all who desire it, the spirit of grace and O of supplication; Deliver us, when we draw nigh to thee, from coldness of heart and wanderings of mind, that with stedfast thoughts and kindled a5ections, we may worship thee in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer from the Nashotah Manual HEAVENLY Father, clothe me with the wedding garment, even the graces of my blessed O Saviour, for then am I sure to be a welcome guest at 3y table, when I shall go thither in the likeness of 3y own well-beloved Son. 3rough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer from the Liturgy of Saint James GOD the Father, who in 3y great and ine5able love to man didst send 3y Son into O the world, to bring back the wandering sheep, turn not away 3y face from us when approach this 3y tremendous and unbloody Sacri2ce; for we trust not to our righteousness, but to 3y gracious compassion, whereby 3ou dost redeem our race. 3rough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer Adapted from the Old Sarum Rite E BESEECH Thee, O L%.*, that this Holy Communion may be unto us a guide Wand provision for our journey unto the haven of everlasting Salvation. May it be to us comfort in sorrow, strength in trial, patience in difficulty, medicine in sickness, delight in prosperity, and love in all things. By these most Holy Mysteries, which we would receive, grant us right faith, firm hope, and perfect charity, purification of desire, gladness of mind, ardent love of Thee, and a due remembrance of the Passion of Thy Beloved S%", with grace to keep our lives full of grace and virtue. And in the hour of our departure grant that we may receive this great Mystery with true faith, sure hope, and sincere charity unto Everlasting Life. Amen. 7 !e Old Sarum Rite (from Salisbury, England) is the medieval English Liturgy from which our Book of Common Prayer descends. !ese prayers come to us from a tradition of faithful Christians who proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ in England, just as we proclaim that very same Gospel in Brevard County, Florida today. 3 ANTE!COMMUNION T"# P$%&#''(%)*+ H,-) #107 Hail thee, festival day! . .(Salve Festa Dies) V. 3e Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. V. Let us pray. ¶ !e People kneel. T"# C%++#&. for P/$(., LMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no Asecrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen. T"# I).$%(. Wisdom 1. Spiritus Domini. T'! Spirit of the Lord hath 2lled the whole world, alleluia: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. (Ps. 68) Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him 4ee before him. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. 3e Spirit of the Lord (etc.) T"# S/--*$, of the L*0 Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith. HOU shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all Tthy mind. 3is is the 2rst and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, 3ou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. (St. Matthew 22:37-40) T"# N()#1%+2 K,$(# #710. (Healey Willan) ¶ Each line is sung thrice. All. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. 4 T"# G+%$(* in E3&#+'(' #713. .(Healey Willan) ¶ All stand and sing the Gloria In Excelsis. LORY be to God on high, and on earth peace, good will towards men. We praise Gthee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. !ou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. !ou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy + Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen. T"# C%++#&. of the D*, V. 3e Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. V. Let us pray. ¶ !e People kneel. GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by sending to O them the light of thy Holy Spirit; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. ¶ All may be seated. T"# L#''%) . .Joel 2:28-32 Lector. Here beginneth the 2889 verse of the 2:; chapter of the Book of Joel. ND it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all 4esh; and your Asons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and 2re, and pillars of smoke. 31 3e sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the L%.* come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the L%.* shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the L%.* hath said, and in the remnant whom the L%.* shall call.” 5 Lector. Here endeth the Lesson. Answer. !anks be to God. Psalm 145. Domine, in virtute tua. WILL magnify thee, O God, my King; * and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever. I 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee; * and praise thy Name for ever and ever.
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