ST.PAUL’SEPISCOPALCHURCH Sunday, November 22, 2020 Sunday,
“• Christ the King • Last Sunday after Pentecost: St. Paul Kansas City Vestments
Chasuble Priest Stole The56” wideReign by 50” long of Christ 5” wide by 55” long with shaped neckline HOLY EUCHARIST: RITE TWO . 10:00 AM
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Today is “Reign of Christ” or “Christ the King” Sunday--the Last Sunday in Pentecost, and the Last Sunday of the Church’s liturgical year. Next week we will reset the Church’s clock as we mark the beginning of a new Christian year with Advent. Advent invites Christians to let go of their conventional understanding of time to enter into God’s time as we begin the sacred story of God made man in Jesus the Christ once again. The first Sunday of Advent is “New Year’s Day” according to Christian sacred time, and our cycle of lectionary readings will also begin anew. We will move from Lectionary Year “A” centered on the Gospel of Matthew to Year “B” with a focus on Mark’s gospel. Today our worship service will also be a special “Instructed Eucharist.” It is my desire that as we end this liturgical year and enter a new cycle, those of you new to the Episcopal Church will gain a greater understanding of what it is that we do each week in worship. It is also my hope that those of you who have been worshiping using the Book of Common Prayer and attending an Episcopal Church for many years might gain a new insight into some aspect of our rich liturgical tradition. In the Eucharistic Liturgy or service of Holy Communion worship is a present experience-- we believe that Christ and all the saints are here with us at this moment, we believe that what was once true is still true, that what happened long ago continues and is continuing to take place. Our service is organized into two actions in which Christ re-presents himself and we are reminded of who we are: 1) In the Liturgy of the Word (the first part of the service through the Peace) Christ is the living Word in the Gospel; and 2) in the Liturgy of the Table Christ is present in the Sacrament of bread and wine during the Great Thanksgiving at the Communion. As we enter into worship today, I invite you to notice the pattern of call and response that characterizes the Liturgy of the Word. This part of our service can be traced back to the synagogue services of Jesus’ day. Such services began with the greeting chanted or entoned, followed by readings from the scriptures and preaching by the rabbis, and included the singing of Psalms and lamentations. Today we model the shape of this liturgy. We sit to listen to God’s Word from scripture in our lessons, we stand and respond to God’s Word with songs of praise, a psalm, and with the prayers of the people. In a larger sense the entire time we gather in worship on Sunday is an opportunity to hear God’s Word in order to receive and respond to God during the week. Our entire life is intended as a response to God’s call. In the Episcopal Church our scripture readings are not selected by individuals but rather, the larger Church chooses each week based on a lectionary that has been developed over many years. Listen to today’s readings to hear how the Church helps us to understand the “Reign of Christ,” the many different ways to perceive Jesus, and to envision how he will reign forever and ever. In addition, listen to the words and styles of the hymns that we select. Each week the hymns are chosen carefully because they reflect our corporate response to the Word of God heard in Scripture, in the Sermon, and received through the experience of worship. The hymns also re-present the theological themes and images found in scripture or specific to the liturgical season. Thus, their selection is critical for a total worship experience. 1 Liturgy of the Word
The Liturgy of the Word or Service of the Word Also called the ante-communion, or the synaxis (meeting)--from the Jewish synagogue service. The visual focal point during this part of the worship service is the lectern and pulpit. The action is focused on listening to God through the scriptures & responding with praise, psalms & prayers. In this part of our service we seek to meet God in the ancient text which is just as alive now as it was 2,000 years ago. Because it is alive, it can seep into our beings and dwell within us, animating us to be God’s messengers to a world sorely in need of good news. WELCOME The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk We carry the cross into and out of church services as part of our normal processions to remind ourselves that when we are in worship, we are participating in a transformative action. Worshiping God changes us, transforms us into more active servants, more loving people. And the cross is a symbol of that transformation (just as Jesus transformed the cross--a symbol of fear, Rome’s domination and control into a symbol of freedom, love, hope, and salvation).
The people stand. HYMN AT THE PROCESSION “Crown him with many crowns” pages 13-14 We begin worship with a hymn of praise-- opening our lives to God the Creator who made and loves us.
ACCLAMATION The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk An ancient greeting: Presider Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. People And blessed be God’s Kingdom, now and forever. Amen SONG OF PRAISE “Gloria | Glory to God” Bob Hurd All sing refrain first in Spanish then in English. All sing verses. The Gloria helps us to remember that we worship because God’s very being draws praise from us and our fundamental nature as children of God includes the instinct to worship. When we come together on Sundays, that instinct plays out because God’s love causes us to desire to praise. As St. Paul instructs: “rejoice always” (1 Th 5). Gloria a Dios en el cielo, y en la tierra paz Glory to God in the highest, glory to God, a los hombres que ama el Señor. and on earth peace to people of good will. 1. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. 2. Lord Jesus Christ, Only begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. 3. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Amen. Estribillo (en español y inglés) | Refrain (Spanish & English) 2 SALUTATION The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk Presider The Lord be with you. People And also with you. Presider Let us Pray. THE COLLECT FOR THE DAY A prayer that collects, or gathers together, our thoughts for this particular day in the church year. Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. A COLLECT FOR VISION . MISSION + COLLABORATION A collect prayer that gathers together, our vision for mission and ministry. O Holy God, you breathe your life-giving Spirit into our vision of a Center for Ministry, Mission and Outreach at St. Paul’s. We pray for our Episcopal partners and our many community partners who join us in mission and to spread the Gospel. Show us the people to whom we should go and the path we should travel; inclusive of those from all nations, tribes and languages as we are called. Help us to understand the deep longings of their hearts. Enable us to feed them in body, mind and spirit through the living presence of Jesus Christ our Savior, in whose power we set forth and in whose name we pray. Amen.
The people are seated for the reading of the lessons. THE FIRST READING Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 Elvis Spearman, lector The first reading comes from the Old Testament (or from Acts during Eastertide). Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land. I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord GOD. I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice. Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken. Lector The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. 3 THE PSALM Psalm 95:1-7 pages 15-16 The people respond to the reading with a Canticle or one of 150 psalms (the hymnal to the ancient Hebrews).
THE SECOND READING Ephesians 1:15-23 Elvis Spearman, lector The second reading is from the New Testament (usually part of a letter also called an epistle written to a church or a person). I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Lector The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
The people stand to sing the hymn, turn to face the Gospel book & remain standing for the Gospel reading. GRADUAL HYMN Mauricio Centeno y José Córdova “Aleluya | Alleluia” Misa Latino Americana
Estribillo Refrain
Ale, aleluya, aleluya, aleluya. Alle, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia Ale, aleluya, aleluya, aleluya. Alle, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Estrofa | Tiempo Ordinario Verse | Ordinary Time
Dichosos, los que tienen Blessed are they un corazón noble y generoso, who have kept the word conservan la palabra with a generous heart y producen mucho fruto. and yield a harvest through perseverance.
4 THE HOLY GOSPEL Matthew 25.31-46 Deacon Gail Reynolds A passage from one of the four gospels recounting Jesus’ life and teaching. We bring the Gospel into the midst of the people to read as an example for what the Gospel calls us to do; that is, to bring the Good News (which is what “Gospel” means) out into the world through our proclamation, our service, and our love. Gospeller The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. People Glory to you, Lord Christ. Jesus said, “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’” Gospeller The Gospel of the Lord People Praise to you, Lord Christ
HOMILY The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk Christ comes to us, we believe, as the words of scripture are read and as they are explored in the sermon. The sermon takes what we have heard in the scriptures and proclaims its meaning for this congregation of Christians, in this place for this day. The task of the sermon is to connect the Christ we meet here with Christ who is meeting us at our breakfast table, in the morning newspaper, in our work places, and walking the city streets. The sermon shows that the Word of God is still alive by taking passages from the Bible, which have been set for nearly 2,000 years, combining new interpretation & new interactions between us and the Word with the breath of the Holy Spirit to create a life-giving engagement with God’s Word.
THE NICENE CREED BCP 358 The words of the Creed link us to all of the followers of Jesus Christ that have gone before us. Whenever we say these words, we echo the billions of people who have said them before, setting ourselves in the tradition of our forebears who transmitted the faith to us & linking us with the great cloud of witnesses that supports us during our worship. The church has survived because of this transmission of tradition. This common affirmation of faith states what we as a church believe, even as our individual understandings may grow and change over the years. 5 THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE: Form VI BCP 392 While the entire service is prayer, in the middle--reminding us of the centrality of prayer in our lives--we find “The Prayers of the People,” dedicated to God working in very specific facets of our lives & in the life of the world. The Prayers of the People follow a prescribed formula. We pray for “The Universal Church, its members, & its mission; the Nation & all in authority; the welfare of the world; the concerns of the local community; those who suffer, those in any trouble; & the departed.” In each of these categories, we invite God to be present and to be at work. You may remain standing or kneel as you prefer.
THE CONFESSION BCP 393 We examine our consciences, ask for & accept forgiveness from God, & then take in the nourishment offered through communion so that we can be strengthened to follow Christ more closely in our lives. This is no substitute for our private confession to God of our self-centeredness & brokenness. It is our corporate acknowledgment that our lives have not been worthy of all that has been done for us. When we confess during the service, we also confess our complicity in all of the big sins of the world that we are part of simply because we exist in a system that is broken. The more we confess this corporate sin, the more readily we are able to see the brokenness in the system that consists of: injustice, domination, disparity, fear, apathy.
THE PEACE The Peace is an ancient liturgical act, dating from the church’s earliest celebrations of communion. It invites us to express our unity with one another in Christ. It is not intended to be an interruption of the service, but rather a formal act of worship in which we acknowledge Christ in those all around us. It is also a sacramental sign of our reconciliation with one another, which is a pre-requisite for gathering around the Table of the Lord (Matt. 5.24). [“Leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift]. Presider The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And also with you. The people greet one another with a sign of God’s peace and then are seated.
ANNOUNCEMENTS The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk
THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk
6 Liturgy of the Table
The Liturgy of the Table or Service of the Table Is also called the anaphora (Greek: “offering”) or the Eucharist (Greek: “thanksgiving”). The visual focal point during this second part of the worship service has two images: an altar (suggesting an offering of sacrifice in thanks for the gift of Christ’s saving love and power in his death and resurrection) or holy table (the image of a meal, as a family gathered at the dinner table to enjoy one another’s company and to feel bound together by a common past and kinship--“one bread-one body”). THE OFFERTORY Music at the Offertory: “Hymn to Christ the King” pages 17-18 all sing Our gifts of money are collected, and bread and wine are brought forward. The money is the tangible sign of our daily work; it represents the first fruits of our labor. We give back to God in gratitude for what God has already blessed us with. The bread and wine are the products of both God’s bounty in nature and the work of human labor. All of them placed on the altar are symbols of our offering all of our lives to Christ. All of our offerings to God are really our giving to God what is already God’s. The people remain seated while an offering is collected to support the work of sharing God’s love with the world. The four-fold shape: Theologian Gregory Dix noted that Jesus’ four actions are now done by the church: 1) Jesus took bread, 2) blessed it (=gave thanks for it), 3) broke it , and 4) gave it to his disciples (Matt. 26.26; Mark 14.22; Luke 22.19; John 6.11). Each shape is marked with a word/sound and a physical action.
Presentation of the Gifts “Doxology” Hymnal #380 v. 3 The people stand to sing and remain standing. 1) Took the bread: Sound: The people sing together Action: The bread and wine are brought forward, and the people symbolically, with them. Signs of our life and labor are brought forward, and the people,symbolically with them.
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk Eucharistic Prayer 2) Blessed the bread (eucharisto/eucharist - “thank you” in Greek): Sound: The presider invites the people into prayer, & voices the prayer on their behalf. Action: The people pray. They may stand, sit, or kneel. They may raise hands or fold them.
THE SALUTATION (greeting) The sursum corda (opening dialogue): Presider The Lord be with you. People And also with you! Presider Lift up your hearts! People We lift them to the Lord.
Invitation & agreement to pray: Presider Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. People It is right to give our thanks and praise.
7 THE GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING recapitulates Salvation History in a Trinitarian form: Thanks to the first person of the Trinity: God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth. Presider It is truly right to glorify you, Father, and to give you thanks; for you alone are God, living and true, dwelling in light inaccessible from before time and for ever. Fountain of life and source of all goodness, you made all things and fill them with your blessing; you created them to rejoice in the splendor of your radiance. Countless throngs of angels stand before you to serve you night and day; and, beholding the glory of your presence, they offer you unceasing praise. Joining with them, and giving voice to every creature under heaven, we acclaim you, and glorify your Name, as we sing,
Presider & People Sanctus “Santo/Holy” Flor y Canto 3 #32 from Misa del Pueblo Inmigrante(revised) Bob Hurd Santo, Santo, Santo, Santo es el Señor, Dios del Universo. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest, hosanna en el cielo. Bendito el que viene en el nombre del Señor. Hosanna in the highest, hosanna en el cielo.
Now the people offer thanks for the gift of redemption, especially our redemption in Christ (God the Son):
Presider We acclaim you, holy Lord, glorious in power. Your mighty works reveal your wisdom and love. You formed us in your own image, giving the whole world into our care, so that, in obedience to you, our Creator, we might rule and serve all your creatures. When our disobedience took us far from you, you did not abandon us to the power of death. In your mercy you came to our help, so that in seeking you we might find you. Again and again you called us into covenant with you, and through the prophets you taught us to hope for salvation. Father, you loved the world so much that in the fullness of time you sent your only Son to be our Savior. Incarnate by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, he lived as one of us, yet without sin. To the poor he proclaimed the good news of salvation; to prisoners, freedom; to the sorrowful, joy. To fulfill your purpose he gave himself up to death; and, rising from the grave, destroyed death, and made the whole creation new.
People/Presider And, that we might live no longer for ourselves, but for him who died and rose for us, he sent the Holy Spirit, his own first gift for those who believe, to complete his work in the world, and to bring to fulfillment the sanctification of all. 8 While the verba domini, the “words of the Lord,” are not a prayer but an account from 1 Cor. 11, they are included as Scriptural basis for following Christ’s command to “do this.”
Presider When the hour had come for him to be glorified by you, his heavenly Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end; at supper with them he took bread, and when he had given thanks to you, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, “Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me.” After supper he took the cup of wine; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and said, “Drink this, all of you: This is my Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me.”
We have been recalling our salvation history as we give thanks to God for our creation and redemption. Now, having given thanks, we "remember" (anamnesis) specifically the mystery and salvific gift of Christ's life, death, and resurrection, and remembering, we "offer" (oblation, gift) our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving:
Presider Father, we now celebrate this memorial of our redemption. Recalling Christ's death and his descent among the dead, proclaiming his resurrection and ascension to your right hand, awaiting his coming in glory; and offering to you, from the gifts you have given us, this bread and this cup, we praise you and we bless you. People & Presider We praise you, we bless you, we give thanks to you, and we pray to you, Lord our God.
Now the epiclesis: the calling down of God the Holy Spirit to set apart, i.e., “make holy,” (sacra + ficio) these “holy things” and “holy people”:
Presider Lord, we pray that in your goodness and mercy your Holy Spirit may descend upon us, and upon these gifts, sanctifying them and showing them to be holy gifts for your holy people, the bread of life and the cup of salvation, the Body and Blood of your Son Jesus Christ. The prayer for unity is central in every communion: People & Presider Grant that all who share this bread and cup may become one body and one spirit, a living sacrifice in Christ, to the praise of your Name. The Trinitarian doxology ends the prayer: Presider Through Christ, and with Christ, and in Christ, all honor and glory are yours, Almighty God and Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever.
THE GREAT AMEN “AMEN”
While one person has spoken the prayer on behalf of the many, what makes it the prayer of the many is their affirmation at the end, their claiming of this prayer. The Hebrew shout, “so be it!” is an essential part of this prayer— for without this resounding AMEN!, the single prayer voiced by one can be mistaken as one person's prayer spoken before witnesses. If this is truly the prayer of the community, then the sign that makes it so is a sung, spoken or shouted AMEN! 9 And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say, THE LORD’S PRAYER BCP 364 Presider: And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say, All: 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 The Presider breaks the consecrated Bread. A period of silence is kept. Presider Alleluia. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; All Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia. 3. The fraction (breaking) of the loaf of bread in order that it may be shared/given to the people. Sound: Silence. The sound of bread breaking. There may be a short anthem. Action: The loaf of bread is broken, as the body of Christ was broken,as our lives are broken Fraction Anthem Agnus Dei “Lamb of God” Bob Hurd All : Cordero de Dios, que quitas el pecado del mundo, ten piedad de nosotros, ten piedad de nosotros. Lamb of God, you take way the sins of the world, have mercy on us, have mercy on us. Cordero de Dios, que quitas el pecado del mundo, Grant us peace, Grant us peace, Grant us peace THE INVITATION TO HOLY COMMUNION A spiritual communion is a personal devotional that anyone can pray at any time to express their desire to receive Holy Communion at that moment, but in which circumstances impede them from actually receiving Holy Communion. Presider: The Gifts of God for the People of God. A PRAYER FOR A SPIRITUAL COMMUNION My Jesus, I believe that you are truly present in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. I desire to offer you praise and thanksgiving as I proclaim your resurrection. I love you above all things, and long for you in my soul. Since I cannot receive you in the Sacrament of your Body and Blood, come spiritually into my heart. Cleanse and strengthen me. with your grace, Lord Jesus, and let me never be separated from you. May I live in you, and you in me, in this life and in the life to come. Amen.
4) The bread is shared/given (in spiritual communion the giving is only symbolic/spiritual in nature) Sound: The people sing together. Action: The people eat together. The symbolism is profound: We who are many are one body, for we all share one bread and one cup. We are the priestly people, the covenanted people, set apart from the world for God's holy use in love & service. The bread has been set apart for holy use. The orthodox liturgy says, “Holy things for holy people,” as they invite people to the table. This is at once the sign of our sanctification & the means by which we continually become more holy. The eating and drinking, then, create ("effect") what they represent ("signify")—and this, said Aquinas, is the meaning of “sacrament”: that which effects what it signifies, i.e., effecting by signifying. 10 AT THE COMMUNION Communion Hymns “Soon and Very Soon” page 19
POST COMMUNION PRAYER said by all In joyful response to the abundant fullness they have received, the people pray together: said by all 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.
From the first days of the Church, Communion always included those who could not be present in the gathered community, by carrying the Bread (and Cup) to those who were sick or shut-in. The sign of our oneness is sharing in the one loaf. With the 1979 BCP, we have reclaimed this central way to live as the whole Body of Christ, many members but one body. SENDING FORTH of the LAY EUCHARISTIC VISITOR Presider In the name of this congregation, we send you forth bearing these holy gifts, that those to whom you go may share with us in the communion of Christ's body and blood. People We who are many are one body, because we all share one bread, one cup. The people, reconstituted as the Body of Christ, prepare to bring the communion of the church into the world to love and serve.
THE BLESSING The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk The congregation stands as they are able Presider May God give you the grace never to sell yourself short, Grace to do something big for something good, Grace to remember that the world is too dangerous now for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. And the blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit be with you now and forever more. People Amen.
RECESSIONAL HYMN “Lead on, O King eternal” page 20 music leaders sing, others hum during corinavirus pandemic
THE DISMISSAL Deacon Gail Reynolds Presider Let us go forth into the world rejoicing in the power of the Spirit. People Thanks be to God.
POSTLUDE 11 Ministros . Ministers This Week Next Week Presider ...... The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk ...... The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk
Preacher ...... The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk ...... The Rev. Dixie Roberts Junk
Deacon ...... Deacon Gail Reynolds ...... Deacon Gail Reynolds
Lector ...... Elvis Spearman ...... JoLynne Martinez
Musicians ...... Luis Portillo ...... Luis Portillo
...... Fedra Cooper Barrera ...... Fedra Cooper Barrera
Altar Team ...... Small | Hill ...... Van Middlesworth | Steineger
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12 Crown Him with Many Crowns HYMN AT THECrown PROCESSION Him with Many Crowns / Al SalvadorGeorge Jesús J. Elvey “Al Salvador Jesús | Crown him with many crowns”
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