13Th Sunday After Pentecost – 22Nd August 2021
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St John the Divine Silence is kept. Eucharist service Remember, Lord, your compassion and love, for they are everlasting. 13th Sunday after Pentecost Lord, have mercy 22nd August 2021 Lord, have mercy Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions, WELCOME! but think on me in your goodness, O Lord, Welcome to our worship and community life at St John according to your steadfast love. the Divine, and to our live-streamed service, linked Christ, have mercy from our parish website: www.stjohndivine.org.au Christ, have mercy O keep my soul and deliver me; Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. let me not be put to shame, Blessed be God’s kingdom, now and for ever. for I have put my trust in you. Lord, have mercy Sentence Lord, have mercy Jesus said, ‘Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.’ May the God of love and power John 6.56 forgive you and free you from your sins, heal and strengthen you by his Spirit, Hymn: From heaven you came, helpless babe and raise you to new life in Christ our Lord. Amen. Graham Kendrick (b.1950) - tune: Servant King © The Australian Hymn Book Company Pty Ltd, 1999, GLORIA AND COLLECT CCL No 632290 Glory to God in the highest, 1. From heaven you came, helpless babe, and peace to God's people on earth. entered our world, your glory veiled; Lord God, heavenly King, not to be served, but to serve, almighty God and Father, and give your life that we might live. we worship you, we give you thanks, This is our God, the Servant King, we praise you for your glory. he calls us now to follow him, Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, to bring our lives as a daily offering Lord God, Lamb of God, of worship to the Servant King. you take away the sin of the world: 2. There in the garden of tears, have mercy on us; my heavy load he chose to bear; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: his heart with sorrow was torn, receive our prayer. ‘Yet not my will but yours’, he said. For you alone are the Holy One, This is our God, the Servant King, you alone are the Lord, he calls us now to follow him, you alone are the Most High to bring our lives as a daily offering Jesus Christ, of worship to the Servant King. with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. 3. Come see his hands and his feet, the scars that speak of sacrifice, Let us pray. hands that flung stars into space Everliving God, to cruel nails surrendered. your Son, Jesus Christ, gave himself as living bread This is our God, the Servant King, for the life of the world: he calls us now to follow him, give us such a knowledge of his presence to bring our lives as a daily offering that we may be strengthened and sustained of worship to the Servant King. by his risen life to serve you continually; through Jesus Christ our Lord, 4. So let us learn how to serve who lives and reigns with you in unity with the Holy and in our lives enthrone him; Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. each other’s needs to prefer, for it is Christ we’re serving. THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD This is our God, the Servant King, The Lord be with you. he calls us now to follow him, And also with you. to bring our lives as a daily offering Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to of worship to the Servant King. St John 6.51–58 PRAYERS OF PENITENCE Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ My sisters and brothers, Jesus said: ‘I am the living bread that came down from as we prepare to celebrate the presence of Christ heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and in word and sacrament, the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my let us call to mind and confess our sins. flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, Slaves ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ So Jesus Slaves, be obeying your masters according-to the flesh said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no to Christ— not by way of eye-service as people- life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; from the soul, serving with good-will as to the Lord and for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. not to people, knowing that each one, if he does Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, anything good, will receive this back from the Lord, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live whether slave or free. because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live Masters: because of me. This is the bread that came down from And masters, be doing the same things to them, giving- heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they up the threatening, knowing that both their Master and died. But the one who eats this bread will live for ever.’ yours is in the heavens, and there is no respect-of- This is the Gospel of the Lord, persons with Him. praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. May your word live in us, and bear much fruit to your glory. A reading from the letter to the Ephesians 5.18c, 20 - 6.9 (DLNT*) (* Disciples’ Literal New Testament, published by Wycliffe Bible Translators) Be filled with the Spirit … giving-thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God Sermon and Father, subjecting yourselves to one another in Hymn: Happy the home that welcomes you, Lord Jesus reverence of Christ— Karl J P Spitta (1801-59), tr. Honor M Thwaites (1914-93) alt. tune: Welwyn - © The Australian Hymn Book Company Pty Ltd, Wives 1999, CCL No 632290 wives— to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Because a husband is the head of his wife as also Christ is the 1. Happy the home that welcomes you, Lord Jesus, head of the church, He being the Savior of the body. truest of friends, most honoured guest of all, Nevertheless, as the church is subject to Christ, in this where hearts and eyes are bright with joy manner also let the wives be to their husbands in to greet you, everything. your lightest wishes eager to fulfil. Husbands 2. Happy the home where man and wife together Husbands, be loving your wives just-as Christ also loved are of one mind believing in your love: the church and handed Himself over for her in order that through love and pain, prosperity and hardship, He might sanctify her, having cleansed her with the through good and evil days your care they prove. washing of water by the word, in order that He might 3. Happy the home, O loving Friend of children, present the church to Himself as glorious— not having where they are giv’n to you with hands of prayer, spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she might where at your feet they early learn to listen be holy and without-blemish. In this manner, husbands to your own words, and thank you for your care. ought also to be loving their wives as their own bodies. The one loving his wife is loving himself. For no one ever 4. Happy the home where work is done hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it, to please you, just as Christ also does the church, because we are in tasks both great and small, that you may see body-parts of His body. “For this cause a man shall your servants doing all as you would wish them leave-behind his father and mother and shall be joined to as members of your household, glad and free. his wife, and the two will be one flesh” [Gen 2:24]. This 5. Happy the home that knows your healing comfort, mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to where, unforgotten, every joy you share, Christ and with reference to the church. Nevertheless, until they all, their work on earth completed, you also individually, let each in this manner be loving his come to your Father’s house to meet you there. wife as himself. And let the wife see that she be respecting her husband. THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Children Let us pray for the world and for the Church. Children, be obeying your parents in the Lord, for this is Response: right. “Be honoring your father and mother”— which is Lord, in your mercy, the first commandment with a promise— “in order that it hear our prayer. may be well with you and you may be long-lived upon the earth” [Deut 5:16]. Almighty God, you have promised to hear our prayers. Grant that what we have asked in faith Fathers we may by your grace receive, And fathers, do not be provoking your children to anger, through Jesus Christ our Lord.