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9:1-6s The Fieenth Sunday aer Pentecost September 5, 2021 9 am 2 Welcome to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church The Tree of Life is Growing Here We are called to offer sanctuary in the city, to grow in God’s love, to seek the renewal of the world Welcome to this service of Holy Communion. We rejoice in this opportunity to gather together for worship and fellowship. Please help us to maintain a safe and welcoming environment by observing these guidelines: Please be seated in one of the marked spaces. When we exchange the peace, please maintain your distance. Please wear your mask throughout the service (except when receiving communion). Together with many communities in the Anglican communion, we begin a new liturgical season today, the “Season of Creation.” You may notice some new prayers and service music, developed by lay and clergy liturgists to highlight our responsibility to become ever more faithful stewards of the earth and its creatures. If you are interested in learning more about this or other liturgies, you might check out https://www.episcopalcommonprayer.org/, created by the Task Force on Prayer Book and Liturgical Revision. Children are always welcome to participate fully in worship, as they are able and interested. Busy boards, service guides, and books are available in a basket in the Narthex to help your child participate with you in worship. Our Minister to Children & Youth, Zoe, will be glad to help you nd the best options for your children. Safety Guidelines for Our Parish: Our Bishop continues to urge us to demonstrate care for our community and neighbors by wearing masks and maintaining social distance, even if we are vaccinated. We do so because not all are able to be vaccinated, some remain at risk, and in order not to create further division in our communities between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. If you would like to know more about our current practices, please contact [email protected]. cover art: Benedicite Mural, William Hole, 1901. St. Ninian's Church, Glasgow 3 FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST PROPER EIGHTEEN SEPTEMBER 5, 2021 Organ Voluntaries: Partite sopra la Aria della Folia da Espagna Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) Sonata in B-at Major Freixanet (18th Century) Allegro in D Major João de Sousa Carvalho (1745-1798) The Tolling of the Great Bell The People stand as they are comfortable at the ringing of the entrance bells. The Processional Hymn: 1 CHRISTE SANCTORUM The Acclamation Celebrant: Blessed be the one, holy, and living God. People: Glory to God forever and ever. All sing The Song of Praise KINGSFOLD 4 The Collect of the Day First Sunday of Creationtide Celebrant: God be with you. People: And also with you. Celebrant: Let us pray. Author of creation: In wisdom you brought forth all that is, to participate in your divine being, and to change, adapt, and grow in freedom. You make holy the matter and energy of the universe that it may delight you and give you praise. We thank you for gathering all creation into your heart by the energy of your Spirit and bringing it through death to resurrection glory; through the One in whom all things have their being, Jesus Christ, your Wisdom and your Word. Amen. The People sit. The First Reading James 2:1-10,14-17 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in ne clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the ne clothes and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while to the one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit at my feet,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court? Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you? You do well if you really fulll the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your ll,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. V. Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. R. Thanks be to God 5 The People remain seated to read the Gradual Psalm responsively by the half verse. The Gradual: Psalm 146 Lauda, anima mea All sing the Antiphon: 4 Happy are they who have the God of Jacob for their help! * whose hope is in the Lord their God; 5 Who made heaven and earth, the seas, and all that is in them; * who keeps his promise for ever; 6 Who gives justice to those who are oppressed, * and food to those who hunger. 7 The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind; * the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; 8 The Lord loves the righteous; the Lord cares for the stranger; * he sustains the orphan and widow, but frustrates the way of the wicked. 9 The Lord shall reign for ever, * your God, O Zion, throughout all generations. Hallelujah! Antiphon Silence is kept. The People stand as they are comfortable for the proclamation of the Gospel. The Sequence Healey Willan (1880-1968) All sing the Alleluias My heart trusteth in God, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. Alleluia. Sing aloud unto God, our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Alleluia. 6 Silence is kept. The People stand for the proclamation of the Gospel. The Holy Gospel Mark 7:24-37 V The Holy Gospel of Our Savior Jesus Christ ☩ according to Mark. R Glory to you, Lord Christ. Jesus set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed rst, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his ngers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.” V The Gospel of Our Savior. R Praise to you, Lord Christ. At the invitation of the preacher, the People sit The Sermon The Nicene Creed The People stand as they are comfortable to affirm the historic faith of the Church. We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucied under Pontius Pilate; he suered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.